Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-166.137.118.75-20170306023916/@comment-4010415-20170321164651

LilithArcher wrote:

Maybe its because people think trailers are like movie trailers instead of the character shorts like they are... espically for others (admittedly like me), who did not know who RoosterTeeth was and was not aware of their formats (now a happy first memebr who watched RWBY on their own site). If I recall, Monty said they were more like "vignettes" but had feared that no one would understand what a "vignette" is, so they were labeled as "trailers" instead. They probably could've named them something like RWBY Short: Red, RWBY Short: White, RWBY Short: Black, and RWBY Short: Yellow.

Maybe RT thought the fact that they were called Red Trailer, White Trailer, etc instead of RWBY Trailer would tip people off. I mean, knowing that the show is called RWBY but the first four trailers are called Red, White, Black, and Yellow should ideally tip people off that these are trailers to the four characters who make up the show's title, rather than typical movie trailers for the show itself.