User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Have We Built The Show Up Too Much/@comment-4010415-20140511005502

There's a reason I'd like to wait until we're somewhere in volume 2 before we start trying to launch huge attempts to spread awareness of RWBY. Although I've rewatched the entire volume a few times and have sometimes even gone back to rewatch just episode 1 or episode 8 and even rewatched all four trailers time and again, I know that volume 1 was not... great. It wasn't horrible or even just bad, but it wasn't great.

I feel like one of the reasons that a lot of the RWBY fans who are also RvB fans have stuck around is because we expect RWBY to do what RvB did - start out as something that people don't expect to be really good, and then evolve into something awesome.

As for hyping up the show to be the greatest thing ever during the downtime between episodes... A lot of bronies seem to do this, as well, so if that's what RWBY fans are doing, the RWBY fandom isn't the only one. (That said, the MLP season 4 finale was actually worth the hype *coughcough*)