User blog comment:Varzan Deodinm Beldinm/What got you into the RT family?/@comment-9090085-20150202202255

I binge watched RvB seasons 1-5 in the early 2000s. This was back when Machinima.com accualy hosted machinima, and I was trawling the archives 'cause I was bored. After finnishing the series, I thought it was funny, but not all that memerable. I prefered machinima like "The Codex"; and a Halo:CE machinima about a cripled man in spartan armour, the AI that is his companion, and their efforts to survive on "the Ring"(which I'm still looking for to this day); and "Haloid", my first, and until RWBY apeared, only exerience of Monty Oum's work.

Fast forward to 2013: I'd lost my first "real job" last year, and my depression was making it hard for me to contiue doing temp. work, so I was ravinusly comsuming anime to keep my spirits up. Unfortionatly, most of the shows coming out back then used lowest-common-demominator fanservice as their main draw, and I was sick of it.

I wanted something different.

One day, when using the library computer to go on youtube, I accenetaly went to the front page, and saw a title that intreged me: "Black Trailer" - what kind of title is that? So I watched it. The fight scenes were over the top anime ones, which was cool - not many shows were doing that at the time -; but it was the slight air of mystery, as well as the friction between Blake and Adam, that realy drew me in. When Blake cut the cars, I knew I had to find out more. The other trailers were easy - the crazy over-the-top action in the "Red Trailer" and the ambigous situation of the "White Trailer" merely solidified that this was a show I would watch.

But that wasn't enough for me - someone who had memorized all the stats from Starcraft - I needed more. So I serched online. I found two sites that cought my interest: The first was Tvtropes, where I now go to find anime that "fits" my interests; The second was this site, where I would read fan theories to help pass the time.

But waiting for the Yellow Trailer and the show itself was taking too long(even after creating an account so I could make some fan-theories of my own(and edit them)), but the name "Roster Teeth" twinged a memory - Red vs. Blue - so I watched that. I couldn't have jumped back in at a better time, as a "serious" storyline is what greeted me, and I found myself quite enjoying RvB.

But RWBY was, and still is, the show I looked forward to.(I'm going to break down in tears now...)