User blog comment:Sol420/Was it RT that got you into RWBY? or was it RWBY that got you into RT?/@comment-4010415-20140521064815

I'm an ooooold school Rooster Teeth fan. My parents and their friends introduced me to Red vs Blue when the first season first came out on DVD. As soon as it was on DVD, they bought it, we all got together, and we watched it. Did the same when season 2 and season 3 came out on DVD. Hell, my dad still has his "It's not pink. It's lightish red." shirt.

I think that's actually the only pink shirt I'll wear (yes, I wear my dad's shirts sometimes, why not). The words on it probably have some psychological effect that makes me feel better about wearing it, considering I hate excessive pink. That hatred of pink is why I won't buy most Pinkie Pie merch, sadly.

Anyway, as for how I reacted to finding out about RWBY... I was out of the loop for quite a while and had just started catching up on Rooster Teeth. Had gotten around to liking them on Facebook and stuff. One day, they posted the Youtube link to the Yellow Trailer on Facebook, and I was like "RWBY Yellow Trailer? What is this?" I watched all four trailers and immediately freaked out like "Why did no one tell me about this?!!!" I freaked out again later on when I found out that the Yellow Trailer originally premiered at A-Kon. As in, the only anime convention I've ever been to but couldn't afford to go that summer. *Facedesk*

I ended up rewatching the trailers over and over, and a friend of mine messaged me on Facebook while he was at RTX, asking me if I wanted RWBY slap bracelets. Of frickin course I did!!! He got me all four. ;D So, basically, I had RWBY merch before I even saw episode 1. I'm very glad that volume 1 didn't disappoint me.

To be honest, I had never really heard of Monty Oum before RWBY. I had heard about Haloid, but not Dead Fantasy, and I hadn't been aware that he did the animation stuff for RvB. Funny how RWBY is how I found out about him.