Early Installment Weirdness / Web Videos

• Atop the Fourth Wall:
  • Early episodes of the show have many differences, including Linkara speaking much more quietly and the lighting being worse. The first filmed review, of Spider-Man #56, even has shots of the comic pages from Linkara's POV instead of displaying pages/panels via The Ken Burns Effect. Also, the "magic gun" was originally a suicide pistol.
  • The early episodes also began with him digging through shelves of comics until he found the one he was going to review. He quickly settled on introducing each episode with "Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn", followed by a summary of the comic's history and/or backstory, then "Let's dig into [name of comic]". A few months later, he added his Theme Tune segment after the latter line, and a few months after that, said tune was re-recorded.
  • The first of his Previously on… segments actually had bits from the previous episode.
  • At the end of the first storyline, Linkara's supporting cast comes to his aid, just to bail on him when Mechakara survives their attack. At the very least Harvey would have stuck by him, had he made the episode now. This even gets addressed in The Movie, where Harvey confides in Nash that he never forgave himself for bailing on Linkara and will not bail on him this time.
  • In his Countdown review, it's shown that Linkara has a crush on Harley Quinn. Linkara has never been shown being sexually attracted to a fictional character since.
  • The continuity alarm. In the early episodes, it was used quite frequently for whenever he began to rant about continuity errors to prevent him from rambling on and on about continuity. However, due to the fans who actually wanted him to talk more about continuity, it became so sparsely used that any appearance of it would be treated as a joke in itself.
  • The logo went through a few changes over the years. The original logo was the title done in a Microsoft Word-style font resembling Superman's famed swoosh logo beside the iconic brick wall on fire with Linkara's fedora on top icon. It would take a few years before it would change to the recognizable Phoenix Wright-like "HOLD IT!" pose logo.
  • While Dr. Crafty was Linkara's primary title artist, there were some episodes drawn by other artists.
  • The iconic “Combine Harvester” Sanity Slippage skit first was done as a reaction to people trying to fan-cast for a potential Doom’s IV movie. Later usages would be saved for mind-numbingly baffling moments or Brain Bleach moments.
  • This is the point of Secret Origins month, where Linkara analyzes the first appearances of various heroes, and along with a general review of the quality, he notes what the comics establish about the characters and how they've changed from their original conception; i.e. Action Comics #1 Superman was an alien from a destroyed planet who had super powers on Earth and had a Secret Identity as Clark Kent, but he was raised in an orphanage instead of by the Kents, and had no flight (he was just able to jump really far) or Eye Beams. Oh, and since it was 1939, he tried to keep America uninvolved with the mess in Europe. That didn't age well...
• Mathew Buck:
  • Bad Movie Beatdown:
    • Early on, Mathew's voice was different and his hair was longer. He also used a lot of shaky-cam, and he had a side character named Professor Celluloid. The tone is also a little less snarky.
    • For a long time, he didn't go into much detail about the film's history, critical reception and box office numbers, until around about 2012/2013.
  • The first few episodes of Projector were unscripted and had Matthew inviting his friends to discuss the film. The series is now a one-man show and Matthew rarely goes unscripted, unless there aren't enough clips of the movie.
• Break It to Make It: Early episodes had it where the target objects consisted exclusively of stress balls. While stress balls are still frequently used in the series, it has branched out more to destroying other objects such as figurines, coin banks, and candy.
• The Cinema Snob: His early videos are all rather short (about five to eight minutes) because he originally and exclusively posted them on Youtube. Only after they kept being taken down because of copyright infringement he founded his own site and to this day presents them there. Brad is also sometimes clean shaven, and he's usually sitting on the floor in a very badly lit messy room and his snobby character is more annoying than amusing. Also, at times the review wasn't a thorough look at the movie, with episodes that even avoid telling the Twist Ending.
• Critical Role:
  • The early Campaign 1 videos, back before anyone knew how successful it'd be, are much less professional and were treated more like a home game of Dungeons and Dragons in front of a camera, and so featured no sets, a lot more Breaking the Fourth Wall, and the cast not taking their characters as seriously as they would later. It also aired on the Geek & Sundry channel and the bumpers during breaks often advertised other programs and its subscription service Alpha, with many Critical Role side shows such as Talks Machina debuting as subscription-only.
  • Episode 12 of Campaign 1 is an oddity, being a side episode where Matthew Mercer gives tips to aspiring Dungeon Masters and then runs a one-shot adventure for three new players. Content like this would later be relegated to side shows, rather than being a numbered episode of a campaign.
  • Campaign 1, Vox Machina, was a continuation of a private home game, so it begins with the party as Level 8 veterans of multiple adventures and already familiar with eachother. While it starts at the beginning of a new Story Arc, the players and characters still reference pre-stream events, and a recap video was later made to avoid Continuity Lockout. (And even later, the pre-stream adventures were adapted into comic books) Later campaigns would have the audience following the characters from the very beginning.
  • Campaign 1's home game was originally run in Pathfinder, resulting in a few items, mechanics and gods being ported-over to 5e D&D. While Pike's deity Serenrae slotted into the setting easily, several party members still have "Keen" weapons (a Pathfinder mechanic that allows a crit on rolls lower than 20), Vax's Boots of Haste infamously became a Game-Breaker due to not transferring to 5e mechanics well, and Percy's class (Gunslinger) is unique to Pathfinder and had to be entirely rebuilt as a homebrewed Fighter subclass.
  • Campaign 2 features some early weirdness as well as the players break in their new characters.
    • Multiple people's accents change. Caleb's German accent becomes much stronger over time, Molly's Irish accent becomes much weaker over time, Yasha starts off with an American accent but switches to something vaguely Scandinavian later on, and Nott's Cockney accent vanishes almost entirely within a few sessions.
    • While Characterization Marches On, some elements do get retconned. In her introduction, Jester whoops with joy when Beau tells her she's earned 7 silver, while in a later episode she gets into a fight with Caleb because she considers 50 gold (more than his parents ever made in their whole lives) to be pocket change.
• The content of the first 17 videos that DaveHax uploaded completely differed from the life hacks and quirky product tests that the channel would become known for:
  • 13 videos were slowed-down short videos that involved things such as an orange falling into a blender or an egg getting destroyed by a mouse trap.
  • 3 videos were focused on gliders, particularly in regards to launch sequences.
  • And one video showcased a waterproof laptop that worked underwater.
• Fascinating Horror:
  • The video's initial theme was "Lost Souls" by Nicolai Heidlas. This lasted until "The Game Puzzle Hunt Incident", where the theme was changed to "Voices in my Head" by Quincas Moreira before changing to "Emotional Aftermath" by Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions the very next video, "The Strasborug Dancing Plague". This lasted until "The Zeebrugee Ferry Disaster", which used the more well-known "Glass Pond" by Public Memory.
  • Early videos didn't just showcase disasters, but simple deaths of people and even a few murders.
• False Swipe Gaming:
  • The original Charizard video—the very first one produced—was the only video to outright skip Pokémon generations.
  • Earlier videos that covered Pokémon Red and Blue and Pokémon Gold and Silver analyzed the Nintendo Cup format. Later videos no longer mention Nintendo Cup.
• French Baguette Intelligence:
  • Harry is played by the Judge in Geography Makes No Sense... instead of Manfred von Karma, as he is in later videos. The Judge is later used to represent Baxter in Dark Humor vs "Dark Humor".
  • In Geography Makes No Sense..., Starla and Logical Loop are played by Ema Sky and Franziska von Karma, instead of Dahlia Hawthorne and Angel Starr respectively. Ema Sky later plays Serphina in Should Atheists Celebrate Christmas? and Angel Starr plays Em in the same video.
• ProJared:
  • All but one of Jared's first four videos have him not wearing a blue button-up shirt, something that he'd wear in nearly every other video on his channel and would become a central part of his brand.
  • All of Jared's main reviews up to 2013 would begin with a Couch Gag of Jared playing the game he's reviewing for that video, then usually looking into the camera and saying "I'm playing [game name]" (though certain videos would play with this), his tone and/or actions giving a teaser for his thoughts on the game. From 2014 onward, these cold opens would disappear entirely.
• Brad Jones' other flagship series, Midnight Screenings, was very different in its early years:
  • Early videos most or all of Team Snob reviewing the film at the same time, with one of them holding the camera (and sometimes with the car still being driven). After the first few episodes, the car was parked, the camera set on the dash, and nearly all videos featured only two reviewers at a time.
  • In early episodes, Irving and Dave were known as "Virtual Boyd" and "Max Force" respectively, while Dave had long hair and a hat. Also, Jerrid, Jake, and Jillian were the more prominent reviewers in early episodes, but all three left for various reasons (although The Bus Came Back for Jerrid many years later).
  • Many of the early reviews were more skit-focused, with most of the reviewers assuming personae (e.g., Slaver Brian, Racist Irving, Angry Jake, and Twilight Fangirl Jillian). Their reviews of the Breaking Dawn movies are actually just short skits of Jillian improvising the fangirl persona instead of reviewing the movie. Around the time of the 12 Years a Slave review, most of Team Snob dropped the personae and skits, and developed the more informal yet analytical tone they've held ever since. The exception is Jake, who kept the "Angry Jake" persona until he was fired.
  • The show originally just reviewed summertime blockbusters, but quickly grew to become a weekly series. This also resulted in an Artifact Title as the local theaters stopped doing midnight matinees.
• The first episode of The Nostalgia Critic, in which he reviewed Transformers (2007), portrayed him as more-or-less Chester A. Bum — excitedly praising the movie as opposed to angrily taking the piss out of it. He returned to this style for his review of the sequel as an homage. Even after that, the episodes were much shorter (the Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue episode, for instance, is more of a recap than a review, and is only 5 minutes long) and the Critic character was initially much less of a Psychopathic Manchild. In the very first videos he also lacks his trademark red tie, and wears a black shirt with a logo rather than his white one.
  • Early on, he would often play an out-of-context clip of the movie he's reviewing, making it seem as if the character in the clip was reacting to what he just said.
• The first few episodes of The Nostalgia Chick had her pretty much be a slightly calmer version of The Nostalgia Critic. She even did the muggy reaction shots and the "Wha-wha-WHA!" Running Gag he has. Later she developed her own style, where she would analyze and spoof themes and broad plotlines instead of following the story in a linear fashion. She also cultivated a signature look in her videos by wearing a choker and twin pony tails in addition to her dark-rimmed glasses, all three of which she gradually phased out.
• In the earlier Bum Reviews, Chester speaks in a slightly more quieted voice and doesn't act quite as manic as he does in later videos. His "SPOILERS!" Mad Libs Catchphrase which opens each video was initially absent, not being added in until early on in the second year.
• The first installment in Brows Held High's "Between the Lines" segment is devoted to presenting a clear and focused thesis on a pop culture topic—namely, the theory that the Wallace & Gromit short "The Wrong Trousers" is an allegory for the fall of the Soviet Union. Fans of the segment might find that a bit jarring, since later videos are far less straightforward, instead presenting broad, in-depth examinations of particular themes and concepts as they apply to pop culture (e.g. examining Surrealism in Inception, classical mythology in Batman and Spider-Man, historical criticism in Game of Thrones, moral philosophy and metanarratives in The Avengers (2012), poetic meter in the music of The Beatles, etc.).
• Todd in the Shadows has evolved considerably:
  • His first episode ("Down") just ends with him singing along to the reviewed song, instead of playing a clip of a thematically-similar song over the credits. It also, very noticeably, isn't shot in the dark (he merely conceals his face).
  • The title cards didn't appear until "Deuces", which came in his second year.
  • Many of his early videos tended to have skits and cameos from other Channel Awesome members. These more-or-less disappeared from his later videos, and the comedy comes entirely from Todd's snark.
  • His earlier reviews tended to Accentuate the Negative more often and go for more obvious comedic targets like Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber. "Niggas in Paris" was his first largely positive review (a fact which he even lampshades near the end). Later episodes would find him gradually developing more nuanced opinions toward songs and often picking new or lesser-known artists as well.
  • While One Hit Wonderland has been a part of the show since 2012, the also very popular Trainwreckords did not come to be until 2017.
• Not counting the worse edition and pacing, the first episodes of Aitor Molina vs. didn't find the identity yet and relied too much on clichés by Nostalgia Critic and Blockbuster Buster. Doctor Pandemia was more a Dr. Insano Expy than an actual character and the interactions were similar to Fistroman.
  • In the first episode, Best Hercules, Aitor Molina has generic clothing instead of his trademark red shirt and black jacket or blue hoodie. The review is also made with a boy and a girl instead of alone (or with a single companion like Lugosi or Ganchito).
• The very first entry of Ask a Ninja was much slower in pace, versus the later episodes which rely heavily on frenetic editing and rapid-fire comedy. The suit is also just two black shirts, one of them over his head (jeans can briefly be seen in some shots), and he is standing up and rarely moves his arms.
• Real Mortal Kombat had this during its first episode. Scorpion & Sub-Zero were played by the same actor and their costumes weren't that fancy (Not until a few videos down the line).
• Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series sounds very unpolished in its early installments.
  • The audio in early YGO:TAS episodes is very bad compared to later episodes; presumably, LittleKuriboh was recording the series with cheap microphones, and got more professional equipment once he found the niche.
  • The famous theme tune wasn't first used until Episode 5.
  • Episode 48 lampshades an incident in episode 6 in which LittleKuriboh inadvertently slipped into a British accent (being British himself) while voicing Yugi.
  • One April Fool's special consisted of an episode done in the style of the earliest installments, with the characters constantly pointing out ways it differs from the current style.
  Yugi: Remember when Li'l Kuriboh could barely voiceact? That's what's 'appinin' now, Guvnah!
  • The series' first episode, which through Memetic Mutation is the most well known, is ultimately a Shallow Parody as most of its jokes have little to do with the show.
• The early episodes of Metal Gear Solid The Abridged Snakes are of a noticeably lower quality than the later ones; a fact that gets lampshaded later on, in keeping with the series' No Fourth Wall.
  • The HD remix of the first six episodes is an attempt to fix some of the problems present in the originals.
• Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
  • Generally averted, but in the first Dead Zone abridged movie (made before the official formation of Team FourStar and not on the channel), Gohan was portrayed as mentally handicapped ("I know how many toes a fish has!"). In the regular series, he's probably the most intelligent character of the bunch.
  • In the pre-TFS abridged movies, most notably The World's Strongest, Goku was portrayed as The Trickster, being able to outwit his opponents. He was also portrayed as mean-spirited, especially towards Krillin, and swore often. These traits carried over into the first two DBZ Abridged episodes, after which Abridged Goku became the food-obsessed Idiot Hero that is Too Dumb to Live that we all know now. The intense beatings and resulting brain damage seem to be the primary cause.
  • A lot of the characters formerly played by Vegeta3986 can be seen as invoking this, particularly Kami, who started out as a typical wheezing old man when Vegeta voiced him (akin to his voice for the Hokage in Naruto: The Abridged Series) and transformed into a Deadpan Snarker on Piccolo's level once Remix took over.
    • Similarly, the early episodes (and non-TFS movie adaptations) portrayed Yamcha as The Ace of the series. Other characters regularly opined how much easier things would be if he were around, and the Z Fighters become excited when he arrives to help fight off the Saiyans. Cue the Saibamen death. From that point forward, he became the show's regular punching bag.
  • The first season had more wacky humor, and characters would occasionally break the fourth wall. Once season two began and the show found its style, the characters stopped interacting with the fourth wall and things got a bit more serious.
  • The voices in the first episode weren't quite refined yet. Krillin's voice hadn't yet settled into that consistent high-pitched goofy tone, Vegeta's voice was a dead-on Christopher Sabat impression, and Master Roshi was voiced by MasakoX instead of Lanipator.
  • The narrator (voiced by LittleKuriboh) only jumped in a couple of episodes of season one and two. By Season 3, he's practically absent in both Android and Cell sagas.
  • As revealed in the breakdown for Episode 49, Season 1 was presented in widescreen, using footage from Funimation's Orange Brick DVD sets (which were cropped to make the footage fit in a 16:9 aspect ratio). All subsequent seasons are presented in the show's original 4:3 aspect ratio, using footage from the Japanese Dragon Box sets, which, according to KaiserNeko, are "the closest you're going to get to the original masters".
  • While not exactly early (given that it happens more than halfway through the series), Goku's first use of Instant Transmission has the same effect as in the original show but all future appearances change it to him disappearing without any sort of effect and a silly "pop" sound.
• Logan's Tale: The earliest seasons had a lot more raw gameplay footage from Fallout: New Vegas, like clearly visible HUD elements, loading screens, and Logan eating through the Pip-Boy interface. Later seasons were better edited and generally more cinematic in presentation.
  • Logan also frequently stops to eat and drink at inopportune times in Logan's Day, making him come off as a Big Eater, as the way hardcore mode in balanced in Vegas means the character gets hungrier and thirstier at a much quicker rate than is strictly realistic for the timescale. This issue was ironed out in later seasons, and completely absent by Logan's Dawn.
  • For a plot example, Logan early on in Day has dreams remembering his father being killed by the Legion, which becomes strange after Dawn establishes that he was also the Lone Wanderer of Fallout 3, and that his father was James. Later seasons would explain this as Fake Memories due to his brain being scrambled by the bullets.
• A milder case in Scooby-Doo Abridged, as its first episode is the most devoted to the original show, while later episodes go off in their own direction.
• On Cinema: The first season lacks the story arcs present in later seasons and generally focuses on reviewing movies in a similar fashion to the podcast series it's based on. The recap episode released in between season 8 and 9 doesn't even say anything in particular about what happened in season 1 beyond explaining what the format of the show is suppose to be.
• Sailor Moon Abridged has several difference in early episodes to later ones.
  • Megami33 voices more characters.
  • Roll002 is credited under his original username "Bunny"
  • The first episode's credits specifically list which voiced which characters.
  • The first four episodes have a laugh track, which stops when Sammy asks where it's coming from
  • And finally, Serena's brother Sammy is voiced by a man in his first two appearances.
• The earlier videos of Spirit of the Law were narrated with a voice that made him sound bored. His intro was quite simple and lacked the gags of the later intros.
• The Angry Video Game Nerd felt a lot different in the first couple of episodes; he didn't even show his face in the Castlevania II: Simon's Quest video, and didn't really go in-depth with the games as much as his later ones. Later reviews would even have him point out the positive aspects in some games. James Rolfe explained that this was largely because these were old reviews he had made just to share with his friends. He actually uploaded them on YouTube years after he had filmed them, and only continued the series based on the positive reaction. He even made another review of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, this time actually playing the game (the original video consisted mostly on the Nerd saying it was the worst game he's ever played and about 1 minute of gameplay footage). Not to mention, he was originally known as the Angry Nintendo Nerd, almost exclusively played NES games, and the videos themselves were much shorter and not so elaborate. Plus, the now familiar "Nerd Room" set has only been around since July of 2008. All episodes prior to this were filmed in a handful of different setups usually consisting of little more than a TV and a bunch of Nintendo Power posters on the wall. Watching these early episodes can leave you wondering where the Nerd's lavish collection of vintage games, consoles, TVs, and gaming memorabilia is.
• Early episodes of Zero Punctuation have a bit of a different feel from later installments...
  • Yahtzee's speaking tone sounds very deadpan, like perhaps he's trying to imitate a news anchorman.
  • The cuts from frame to frame are a little less quick and not as clean.
  • Until the Webcomics review, all episodes would open and end with a short clip of two random songs that tied in with the review or game's content. After this, the official electric guitar theme was introduced.
  • In his review of BioShock, Yahtzee cited the previous week's review of Psychonauts as evidence that he couldn't simultaneously praise a game and be funny, resulting in a brief disclaimer near the beginning stating that BioShock could well be good enough to earn the title of "game of the year," after which the rest of the review was nothing but criticisms. He's refined his style of humor since then, and in the years following the BioShock review, there have been plenty of mixed or even outright positive reviews (which maintained a consistent level of humor, to boot), to the point that his year-end lists of the best games are picked entirely from games he's reviewed in the past year.
• Epic Meal Time's first few episodes have none of the trademark elements that would later define the series.
  • The first video host / creator Harley Morenstein uploaded was a video of him eating a Wendy's "Triple Baconator" at a restaurant, filmed using a handheld camera. There's no one else in the episode except for him.
  • The first true episode ("Fast Food Pizza") has numerous differences with the rest of the series. The introduction of the ingredients is filmed outside, not in the group's kitchen. The majority of the episode is focused on the ordering of the food and the consumption of the final product, while the "cooking" is relegated to a few shots of the group throwing on the fast food and popping it in an oven. There is no bacon used in product they create. The actor who plays Muscles Glasses not only doesn't wear his trademark glasses, but talks through the latter half of the episode.
  • The trademark "Next time, we eat _________" line by Harley didn't appear until the third episode, "The Double Kill".
  • Some of the early episodes had another crew member (a sous-chef) who would make the food and serve it to the group. He seems to have disappeared after midway through the first year of the show.
• A subtle version with Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. The first few episodes were shorter and more obviously low budget.
• Earlier CinemaSins videos have "Cinema Sins present" on their thumbnails, a higher pitched "DING" sound, and a faster pace than subsequent videos, which is why the earlier videos are primarily few minutes long. The first three videos also end with a generic "HELL" sentence, and some videos include a message related to the film and "hell" in parentheses.
  • Early videos humorously pointed out some of the sins by overdubbing audio from other movies/media onto certain scenes. Current videos have these audio jokes after the main part of the video in the form of "audio outtakes".
• Season One of The Quest is made up of five minute episodes, as opposed to the nine minute episodes of Season 2. The score was also made up of music that continued to play throughout the entire episode, meaning sometimes a quiet, simple moment would still have the battle music playing.
• React has a lot of it, from the production values (camera quality, scenery, even the title cards changed!), subjects (at first, all were Kids reacting to viral videos; starting with the Death of Osama Bin Laden, other things started to appear, such as movie trailers and music videos), and of course, the reactors themselves (people who've been on the show for years, growing older and maybe even having graduated from Kids to Teens or Teens to Adults; and on the other hand, people who appear in one or just a few episodes and never again).
• Rooster Teeth's Rage Quit series were very different between its first episodes and the ones from today. The earlier ones, where Michael Jones' went by his message board name "LtMkilla", tend to focus on just one segment of the game and his attempts to get through it. The episode featuring the video game of X-Men Origins: Wolverine would start referring him as just Michael and the episode featuring Perfect Dark would have him jump cut to different points of the game and not focus on one singular.
  • It's really telling in Achievement Hunter's Let's Play Minecraft. They didn't get original skins until episode 10 (they all had the default Steve? skins), the Tower of Pimps was just a one-off gag by Gavin in episode 2 and no one but Gavin knew how to play the game. Another thing about this is how they acted: Gavin was very much a troll in the early episodes, Geoff was a sore loser when someone else won, Michael was constantly yelling at Gavin and Jack was the silent one. Also, there was only five at the start and Caleb was the initial Sixth Ranger of the group. However, his infamous cheating scene would lead to him being put Out of Focus and Ryan taking over as Sixth Ranger. Also, don't expect Ryan to reach his "nutcase" level until the first King Ryan episode with the whole Edgar incident.
  • Also, Achievement Hunter itself started as just a side project for making achievement guide videos before about four years later it became the Let's Play powerhouse it's known for today.
• The pilot of The Time... Guys features no T.A.C.O.S., barely any Caveman, and a more amateurish style than subsequent episodes.
• The early episodes of YourMovieSucks.org didn't have the fast-paced style where Adam goes through the scenes in the order the movie puts them, instead imitating RedLetterMedia's style. His voice is also much calmer, recorded using a lower-quality microphone, and contains a lot more pauses.
• On older episodes of Two Best Friends Play, Matt was naive and childish, Pat had a Hair-Trigger Temper, and the videos were largely them berating each other for playing the game poorly. After a while they dropped their characterization and conflict almost completely, with the videos becoming more about riffing on the game.
  • Their very first video cast Pat as the childish goofball and Matt as the frustrated straight man.
• On early episodes of The Hardcore Kid, Brandon reviewed A Nightmare on Elm Street movies. He quickly shifted his focus to only kids' movies and TV shows.
• Will It Blend? early on when it debuted in October 2006 looked more like an infomercial and focused largely on normal but hard to blend food products, although the first episode with marbles contained a few things that would be staples of the show from early 2007 onward such as "don't breathe this", which was a serious comment about the dangers of glass dust. In some ways, the early episodes seemed to almost be a parody of David Letterman's "Will It Float?" segment.
• Almost every microwave show has this in spades.
  • dOvetastic Microwave Theater until spring of 2009 had no narration, no intro, and was done in Kenny Irwin's workshop. You can also hear sounds in the background that are absent in newer episodes. These are affectionately known as "old school" episodes. The earliest episodes (from March 2006 and July 2007) were even weirder, often less than a minute long and not even showing the complete microwaving.
  • Is It a Good Idea to Microwave This? started out as a parody of Will It Blend? combining the dialogue of that with the microwaving of dOvetastic Microwave Theater. In the first two episodes, Jory sounded a lot like Tom Dickson before speaking in a stoner's monotone, and the first six episodes were filmed in the daytime, something avoided in later episodes unless it was a season finale that was fiery or explosive. The first season also took place in a dorm and they used a "remote arm" to start the microwave distantly in seasons 1 and 2. Also they did not name the microwave, there was no *Bleep*-dammit! censorship of "shit" and "fuck", and there were almost no sexual jokes made. The show didn't really resemble its better known form until season 4.
  • What Happens When You Microwave This? by BLH Productions started out very similar to IIAGITMT before evolving into their own style. Also the microwaves were hard to see inside. They also used to smash their microwaves once they became too dirty to see inside and initially filmed in the daytime.
  • Microwave Me for its first season and all but the last three episodes of its second season was meant as a gimmick/parody in order to attract more people to the creator's music page, parodying dOvetastic's show and IIAGITMT showing ordinary food being microwaved and some "kitchen science" style experiments. He called it a "low budget microwave show". His first episode was HOT POCKETS. Over time his microwave show eclipsed the popularity of his music page and he phased out references to the aforementioned shows and began to do legitimately dangerous things, such as a spray paint can, champagne bottle, fireworks, CO2 cartridges, and many other stuff that shows that it bears no resemblance to its seasons 1-2 incarnation.
    • And going even further, the original pilot of Microwave Me was the creator talking in a Pee Wee Herman/stoner hybrid voice and the "old school" episodes (archival footage of videos from as early as 1992) don't focus very well on the microwaving.
  • Woodys Gamertag had a microwave show called "microwave insanity", the first two episodes were normal kitchen science things but from episode 3 on it was mostly dangerous items including a coffee can full of bullets.
  • Demolition Ranch in its first year had a show called Microwave Monday which was mostly focused on microwaving various types of stuff, especially ammunition. Their first episode? Glow sticks. Matt also had no idea that other microwave shows out there existed, and the channel eventually veered off into ballistic experiments and Gun Porn.
• In the first several episodes of Musical Hell, Diva comes off as more haughty and superior-sounding, before her harried Punch-Clock Villain persona was established (Christi credits Diva annoyed at ABBA's catchy song to show where she wanted to take the character). The lettering on the show cards was a different color and the technical aspects of the videos were much rougher as well, most notably lacking the illustration of Diva on the cards.
• The first episode of Vaguely Recalling JoJo wasn't based on Stardust Crusaders, but instead, it was based on Diamond is Unbreakable. The art is much sloppier than the later episodes.
• The Music Video Show: The first couple of episodes had instances of low volume, the split screens were a bit off, the split second transitions and the video was shot in front of a white wall. Starting in episode 4, there is an opening theme song and, later episodes would fix the volume issues, the split second transitions were gone, the split screen problems were worked out a bit better. In episode 26, the series was shot on a couch, instead of a white background.
  • On top of that, the first three episodes seem a bit unfinished compared to the episodes that followed. He doesn't say whether or not he would watch the video again and the video would end after a joke.
• Cr1TiKaL's earlier videos were completely different in style from his better known "gameplay and commentary" videos. The focus was mostly on first-person shooters, and the style of the commentary was far from the "titties and asscheeks" humor of his later videos.
• The First Season episodes of Courier's Mind: Rise of New Vegas featured a HUD and The Courier's (rather beige, compared to his own commentary) dialogue options visible onscreen. For subsequent seasons, Phase 101 used mods to keep all HUD data and dialogue options invisible to clear up the screen, giving it a feel more in line with its inspiration: Freeman's Mind.
  • Also, The Courier is much more polite and subdued for much of the first season, where as from season two onward, he develops his trademark Awesome Ego and Hair-Trigger Temper.
• The first two episodes of Caddicarus were slower paced and lighter on the Sensory Abuse than his later videos. Also, he didn't yet have his ending gag of deciding whether to "slaughter" the game because it was bad, or "salvage" it because it was good^note (or in a few cases, "slauvage" it because it was in-between).
• The first few videos made by Hat Films (or HAAT Films as they were briefly known, before Adams quit) were completely unrelated to gaming and instead revolved around the group's skits that they made for university. On top of that, the lineup was different — Ross and Trott were still there, but Nathan Asheman and Ben Adams were both members. Adams eventually dropped out with little fanfare and Asheman eventually left to focus on future university projects. Smiffy then joined them for their first Minecraft video and the rest is history.
• The initial episodes of the Yogscast Minecraft Series simply consisted of Lewis Brindley and Simon Lane playing the titular game. Lewis was actually worse at the game than Simon was, having never played it. This all changed when a player booby trapped their base and subsequently attacked them, leading to Shadow of Israphel.
• When the Yogscast started their Minecraft series (speaking only about the main episodes and Shadow of Israphel, not the side episodes like the mod spotlights), it was created as a Let's Play of Minecraft (complete with showing how to survive the first night). It eventually evolved into one of the most well-produced machinima series ever made. Also, Lewis Brindley had never played the game before, so Simon Lane did most of the work. After Lewis became more familiar with the game, the role was flipped, and Lewis usually took charge.
• In his earliest reviews, Brutalmoose did not show his face on-camera, and his delivery was more monotone.
• The earliest episodes of PAPAtv Live, where officials and organizers at the headquarters for the Professional & Amateur Pinball Association play and explain the rules on pinball machines lying around at their base during off seasons, covered as many pinball machines and went on for as long as they felt like. The 1-hour, 3-machine format didn't become standard until Episode 4. The earliest episodes also focused around the most popular and well-documented machines, like Centaur and Star Trek (Stern); the emphasis on viewer-suggested obscure machines that might not have much coverage online elsewhere (or anywhere, for that matter) didn't become a main thing until Episode 6. Episode 9 was the first one to highlight pinball machines unsuitable for competition, why they're unsuitable, and how they can be made suitable if possible. Also, the series began nameless—Episode 3 was when they decided upon what to call the series.
• Oliver Harper's Retrospectives and Reviews:
  • The voice over he did in his earlier videos was quieter, and tended to play clips from the movie and/or behind the scenes material for longer periods of time.
  • He tended to improperly encode the footage of the movies he reviewed early on, resulting in a weird/squashed-looking image at times.
  • For a long time, the URL at the bottom of his videos directed to his blip.tv channel. He changed it to his personal site for his videos after his blip.tv page was removed.
• Super Bunnyhop's early videos had a quicker pace, and a sense of humor & style of review more in line with Mr. Plinkett's reviews. He also had a co-host named Nathan, who left the channel for unknown reasons.
• Gamingand Stuff: The early videos didn't have any voice and the pre-mystery dungeon: explorers of sky ones were mostly recorded by camera or the visual boy advance recorder (the new ones have voice and are mostly recorded by camtasia studio 8)
• RedLetterMedia:
  • Mr Plinkett Reviews: Mr. Plinkett was highly different in his early days. His TNG movie reviews focused heavily on plot holes, nitpicks, and inconsistencies with series lore, and Plinkett himself was barely characterized. It wasn't until his Star Trek: Insurrection review that the signs of Plinkett being an insane murderer became apparent, it wasn't until his Star Trek: Nemesis review that he began to focus his reviews on structural elements such as tone and motivation, and it wasn't until his The Phantom Menace review that he finally blossomed into offering the perspective of a filmmaker rather than a fan. By his Revenge of the Sith review, he went so far as to dismiss the idea of attacking or defending a movie based on ancillary material, claiming "What matters is the movie!"
  • Best of the Worst: The first few episodes do not feature the gang voting on the "Worst of the Worst" and destroying the tape.
• Mystery Science Theater F1
  • The first episode's microphone quality is significantly worse than the rest, due to Matt using his headset. After that, he got a proper microphone.
  • Swearing was more commonplace, and was gradually toned down, until one episode was eventually swear-free.
  • Matt was quite monotone, almost sounding bored at times.
• Every Frame a Painting: The earlier episodes tend to have more jokes and one-liners, before Tony Zhou set into pure analysis.
• The first ten episodes of Reaction & Review lack the black background of the later episodes and simply had Emer do the show in what appears to be his bedroom. A proper title card wouldn't even appear until the ninth episode.
  • A lot more time was spent showing Emer reacting to the movies being watched, as well. The reviews would get more of a focus as the series went on.
• Previously Recorded: The first episode had Jack and Rich standing up and facing the camera to provide a proper introduction to the game they were discussing. Contrast this to the later episodes, where they are pretty random in their opening scenes. In addition, the first episode looks like it was done at someone's house instead at Red Letter Media's office, and also lacks the pixel art video game backgrounds that would appear later on.
• Chuck E. Cheese's YouTuber Big Cheese's first few videos had him not speaking, the descriptions were simply just "Hi - Thanks for checking out my channel - It's all about the classic Chuck E. Cheese animatronic characters performing their latest songs. If you're a fan of Chuck E, Mr. Munch, Pasqually, Helen Henny and Jasper T. Jowls, you'll LOVE this channel. Next time you visit Chuck E. Cheese, save your receipt and take the online survey. Tell them how much you enjoy the animatronic stage show. Thanks, The "Big Cheese" :)", and it wasn't until the upload of the "Coconut" puppet skit that it was not simply that, and he did not use the "Remember, "It's Easy Being Chuck E Cheesy!" :)" stinger.
• Sam & Mickey's first video, "Sold Separately", bears uncensored swears, a different voice actor for Ken, and a voice for Barbie that doesn't match her current one until roughly the halfway point.
• In early videos by Matthew Santoro, Hugo wears normal clothes. In later videos, he wears his signature outfit of a hoodie, even when he's inside the house during the summer.
• In early JonTron videos, the recording and sound quality are both lower, Jon shows significantly less emotion and adopts a slightly more analytical tone, the red glowing effect on Jacques's eyes is much more subtle and HAL 9000-esque, and the humor in general is much more subdued and down-to-earth than in later videos. Go from the Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts review to the Joe & Mac Retrospective video, and there's a massive difference. A few particularly old videos (which have since been delisted, presumably for this exact reason) were even done as completely straight Gamespot-style reviews where Jon never shows his face.
• In Movie Rehab, oh boy how do we start?
  • His first episodes (except for his first episode, oddly enough) were shot with a cheap low quality hd cam which the worst audio quality imaginable.
  • Jack also played the Caustic Critic trope straight with his second and third episode, until he parodied this trope with episode 4 and 8.
• The first Don't Hug Me I'm Scared episode's costumes and characters aren't quite as polished as later ventures (due to the video being made in Becky and Joe's spare time), the creepiness is much more subdued or just implied until the end, and while Sketchbook does pick on Yellow Guy throughout the video, they're much less actively malicious toward the puppets.
• Stop Skelations From Fighting: His earliest videos as The Happy Video Game Nerd parody some elements of his inspiration, the AVGN. Eventually Derek gets rid of the skits, guest stars and wackiness and his reviews are more straight-forward. Ironically, much like the AVGN did for the most part. Derek doesn't always praise the games either, to which some viewers objected. He mentions in his review of Eternal Darkness that viewers comment on his name as if that's his only modus operandi and that he should be praising games all the time. Instead, he reminds them that he's just honest about games he doesn't like but provides constructive criticism (backed by personal experience shown in the reviews) as to why that is. Derek Alexander eventually dropped all of the HVGN staples, most notably, the wine, the black shirt, and first his parody of Kyle Justin's theme before dropping any theme song whatsoever.
• A Dose of Buckley:
  • In his earliest videos, Buckley had his then-girlfriend make a witty remark at the start of the video to set the tone. After they broke up, he dropped the intro.
  • Many of his early videos were around two minutes long; now, it's rare for him to do a video shorter than five minutes.
  • In his first two "Ten Worst Songs" lists, he used the music video, if available. Since 2012, he uses the single's cover art and lists the lyrics to the song in question (most of the time); one notable exception to displaying the lyrics was Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass", where instead of listing the lyrics, he lists "You know it by now... you fucking know it...".
• Game Boy Works, a online video series by Jeremy Parish offering retrospectives on Game Boy games in a chronological order, still has more-or-less the same format as it started with. Still, there were some tweaks made along the way:
  • The series was originally titled "Game Boy World". However, he started doing series on other consoles like the NES and SNES, and eventually decided that he wanted to unify the branding between them. Since "NES World" was already taken he decided to rename the series to "Game Boy Works". (NES Works and SNES Works were originally titled "Good Nintentions" and "Mode 7", respectively.)
  • The series was originally recorded on the original Super Game Boy, a peripheral for the SNES that let people play original Game Boy. However, this version had some clock speed issues that caused games to run slightly faster than they should. The Super Game Boy 2, which fixed these issues, was used from episode #23 onwards.
  • Jeremy Parish used to speak in a monotone, NPR-like tone of voice. Although it's still subdued, his voice in later episodes is slightly more animated and less sleep-inducing.
  • The series' tone at the start was very dry. Although still straight-faced, Jeremy became more of a Deadpan Snarker and added some dry humor to his episodes. He also added a short quip to the beginning of each episode. (Such as: "This is Game Boy World and these are some repugnant reptiles.")
• In the early days of Honest Trailers, the producers occasionally indulged in "retro episodes" when they made trailers for movies from decades past. For those episodes, they would make the trailer look like a grainy VHS tape, and Epic Voice Guy would narrate the trailer as if he had recorded it when the movie was new (with many a Historical In-Joke and It Will Never Catch On gag). That was because the series more-or-less exclusively made trailers for recent blockbusters when it started, and trailers for older movies (like Top Gun or Superman IV: The Quest for Peace) were rare enough that they were treated as special occasions. Nowadays, due to the series running as long as it has, the Screen Junkies team riffs on all sorts of movies and shows, and they regularly make trailers for older films. Case in point: in 2018 alone, they made trailers for Showgirls, Hook, Deep Blue Sea, Predator, and classic Doctor Who.
• Gimli Son of Gloin is a user who uploads videos of Crash Bandicoot sound effects done without the game audio, claiming them to be from a drunk friend who recorded him doing that live at the Guinness World Records HQ. However, his first video was recorded with a phone camera to be more truthful with the lie, later videos have straight ripped gameplay.
• Being the Elite:
  • The first several episodes don't have a video game or sitcom intro, just the Bucks and Omega chanting "The Elite". Adam Cole was part of the show during his run in the Bullet Club, but is considered "dead" by The Elite as of signing with NXT and forming The Undisputed Era.
  • The early episodes also didn't have storylines exclusive to the show.
  • Subtitles for the episodes started at Ep. 50.
• Defunctland:
  • Host Kevin Perjurer spoke in a softer tone and edited his voice to sound artificially deeper. He was also more abrasive in his earliest videos, often directly mocking and deriding the decisions made by executives. As the series became a More Popular Spin-Off of his other videos, he switched to using his normal voice and dropped the overtly snarky tone for more impartial and light deadpan comedy.
  • The series initially used a Framing Device of the series being Kevin doing research to assemble a virtual theme park of decommissioned theme park attractions. By the second season, while Kevin would continue working towards this goal (with the first ride manifesting in 2021), the framing device was dropped from the videos themselves in favor of being a more straight-forward documentary series that would cover a greater variety of theme park-related topics.
• Early videos from The Proper People are more comedic, less polished, and less stylistically consistent with one another than their output from a couple years in or so onward.
• The first season of Epic Rap Battles of History had more random pairings for battles than the thematically-similar choices that would make up later seasons. The first battle, "John Lennon vs. Bill O'Reilly," also lacks captions for the rap battle.
• Screen Rant Pitch Meetings started off with the film executive and screenwriter speaking in a fairly normal, conversational tone. The executive's questions about the plot were more critical and dubious. As the series went on, the characters both quickly adopted a cartoonishly upbeat tone and demeanor. The executive now loves everything the screenwriter says, and he cheerfully accepts all of the writer's justifications for his poor plotting no matter how weak the defense.
• Scott The Woz
  • The earlier episodes relied less on his surreal humor (although it's still very much present) and had him speaking in a more subdued and deadpan tone. When his videos became more wacky, Scott became a lot more expressive and eccentric. Notably, the first episode ("Nintendo Switch Wish List") lacks an ending gag.
  • Scott makes it a rule to avoid directly mentioning the fact that his show is a web series or that he has a YouTube channel. However, several early episodes do not follow this rule, and will suggest the viewer "leave a comment" or something similar.
  • In early episodes a lot of the characters' personalities are less defined. This is most notable with Rex Mohs (he was far more unhinged and seemed more like an animal than a human), and Jeb Jab (lacking his now-famous love for Gex).
  • The very first season finale, "A Very Madden 08 Christmas", uses an original theme instead of an iteration of the famous "Breakout" main theme that the series is known for, and that the later finales have.
• Kokoro JoJoru is a series of YouTube music videos in which clips from the anime adaptations of each Part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure are synched to the tune of the Japanese rap song Kokoro Odoru. The first video, covering Phantom Blood, is notably much shorter than what would follow (being just over a minute, while from Battle Tendency onward videos would typically exceed the four-minute mark) and contains more in-jokes and fandom memes, while later videos would focus on more faithfully retelling each Part. Additionally, while every video ends with a quote from each of the Part's protagonists, the Phantom Blood edition has one from Dio as well.
• Dumb Lawyer Quotes IRL but in Ace Attorney:
  • The first installment had no Ace Attorney music or voice clips.
  • The first two installments mainly focused on brief exchanges between lawyers and witnesses, often only a few lines long. In later installments, there would be longer exchanges, some lasting a few minutes.
  • The first two installments don't show the specific cases the quotes came from. Later installments show the sources at the start of the sections or in the "chapter" titles.
• Twisted Translations was initially only focused on songs, and named Google Translate Sings. It also had Malinda singing over footage of the actual song, while later videos have her (or her friends) acting out their own music vidoes in cosplay.
• The Unlucky Tug:
  • The first two episodes of Sodor's Finest were barely over ten minutes long and were general overviews of their subjects, with focus on a few specific events. Starting with the third episode, they're much longer and describe events involving the focus character in chronological order, split between the books, the model series, and the CGI series (when applicable).
  • The first three Thomas Retrospectives didn't have a favourite episode category, and the characters with the most focus episodes were in descending order rather than ascending.
• Kid Time Storytime:
  • The show initially had a lot fewer animations.
  • Eileen/Storyteller's face was never seen. She also refused to be called by her real name, insisting that "Storyteller" was her name. Now, she still calls herself "Storyteller", but she doesn't mind being called by name and she refers to herself by name about half the time.
  • Corny the unicorn squeaked instead of talking.
  • There were two characters named Perry and Old Man of Indeterminate Origin. The official explanation for Perry's disappearance is that he moved to Florida, but no explanation was given for the old man's disappearance.
  • Dill initially looked somewhat different than he does now.
  • Witcheficent went through a few changes — initially, she was named Maleficent and was a plush Maleficent doll, then she kept the name and became an action figure, then she changed her name to Witcheficent and donned a sparkly dress. In addition, one early video had her claim to dislike soup, while later videos had bat soup as her Trademark Favourite Food.
• Doug DeMuro's earliest videos were much shorter in nature, and even the ones where he reviews cars didn't implement the "Doug Score" until a while later with his 2006 Range Rover review. Also, Doug didn't always introduce the reviews with "THISSSS...", and even then, it was much less hammy than he would be later known for.
• Techrax is well known for his videos where he tests the durability of devices like iPhones. However, for his first few years, he was much more of a general technology channel, with content including unboxings and reviews.
  • Two of his early videos actually parody the style of content that he now embraces. When you watch them now, they are Hilarious in Hindsight.
• Grimbeard originally introduced its reviews with diary entries.
• Early DankPods videos had Wade being oddly enough very calm and chill, with a monotone like tone that didn't have the Large Ham attitude that he has now in his videos. That said however, the early videos did feature a bit of Wade's quirks, such as the random names he'll give items, as well as his hyperactivity.
• Sonic Stopmotion Adventures: The first season is drastically different from the episodes that would follow on. Movement is much choppier, there are not any "sets" where the action takes place, there are not any animated mouths or eyelids until episode 8 and the voice acting is much, much different. The creator has said that the whole first season (which he counts as the first 9 episodes) is non-canon in his eyes but how serious they are about the claim is unclear.
• Early Super Mario Richie videos were made before Richie’s voice changed, and therefore, the voice he does sound rather different to recent videos.
• Search for Sandvich: The first two videos just have the actors dressed in casual clothing. Later videos have them dressed up like their respective characters.
• Crime Spree, the 'pilot season' of Jet Lag: The Game, and the first two official seasons of Jet Lag have a lot of differences from later Jet Lag seasons:
  • Crime Spree did not have Ben and Adam competing with Sam to be the first to reach a destination or 'claim' enough places; they instead played a more antagonistic role as the duo working to prevent Sam from breaking the required number of weird and obscure American laws.
  • Crime Spree also had a Lemony Narrator and a cameraman/judge who followed Sam around, in contrast to all following Jet Lag seasons having the players do all the filming and narrating themselves.
  • Furthermore, Crime Spree did not have any mandatory meal times or rest periods, which resulted in the entire crew suffering from sleep deprivation and one of their members falling ill from food poisoning. The Jet Lag seasons all have regular rest periods and "at least one real meal per day" rules in place to better protect the crew's health.
  • The first two Jet Lag seasons did not have any power-ups or handicaps and there was no currency system beyond teams having to manage a limited budget for travel, whereas all later seasons have some kind of system that lets players purchase power-ups with virtual currency gained from completing challenges. In addition, they had much more focus on plane travel and airport drama than later seasons which tend to focus more on car or train travel and teams had a lot less gameplay interaction with each other and less explicit knowledge of where the other team was at any given time, whereas later seasons usually have everyone wear a GPS tracker or have to tell their current location to the other team after completing a challenge and make it possible for players to hinder one another with things like curses or roadblocks.
• Game Theory:
  • MatPat says outright that the show was inspired by Extra Credits, and before he found his own voice, artifacts of that style can be seen in the presentation.
  • The Theme Song "Science Blaster" wasn't featured until his BioShock video. Until then the first episodes had a slide show of various game consoles, with each episode having a unique song related to the theme of the episode.
  • Film Theory: Less then two years into the show, the theme song "Phase Shift" was removed, with the Phineas and Ferb being the last to feature it.
  • This episode was originally intended to be the Food Theory pilot episode; this didn't happen because Food Theory launched during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and they decided an episode on buffet restaurants during a pandemic lockdown would be in poor taste. When it finally aired early July 2021, when things were beginning to reopen, it features a different intro and a live-action MatPat on a greenscreen with motion tracked props.
• Hatchetfield: Done deliberately with The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, which was a much more meta and standalone idea for a Horror Comedy show than any of their others — the Lang Brothers' Batman Gambit was hoping to see if TGWDLM would be a success, and if it was to try to draw viewers into the somewhat different idea of the Hatchetfield series as a whole via intentional Cerebus Syndrome.
• SMPLive: Golden apples and potions weren't made illegal until April at the absolute earliest, and as a result it can be a bit odd to see how casually they're treated before then.
• The very early episodes of Stampy's Lovely World are more survival-based than building-based, with some of them not even taking place in the Lovely World. For many of them, Stampy is also alone, without his usual group of Minecraft Helpers. Stampy's personality comes across as being quite different too; he's much quieter and doesn't sound as cheerful. On top of that, he actually swore on a few occasions, as the series was originally aimed at older viewers. He stopped this once he found out that younger viewers were also watching his videos. This is parodied in one of his April Fools' Day specials.
• Unwanted Houseguest: A lot of early music videos portray the titular character with a mask instead of make-up, and don't really tie into his later established lore. The version we know and love seems to have come about with "TRUE Scary Stories."
• The early seasons of Hermitcraft might seem weird to viewers who started watching the server later. GenerikB was the server admin for the first season rather than Xisumavoid. The early seasons tended to have PG-13 or even occasional R-rated humor, while current seasons have been mostly PG with occasional PG-13 instances. Pranks on the server tended to be more permanently destructive than they are recently. (Some recent pranks have been very destructive, but the prank-pullers would take the time to rebuild the build for the victim afterwards.) Many of the folks from the early seasons have left, to be replaced by other folks, though there are a handful who have been in every season. Early seasons frequently had Hermits come onto the server and only make 10, 8, 3, 1, or even zero videos (livestreaming their experience only, which is something that's not currently allowed by the server). Hermits would be removed from the whitelist for inactivity. Other than TinFoilChef, Season 6 was the last time people even left the server, with only people being added in future seasons.
• French Youtube channel La Folle Histoire (created in 2016) started with a series named Vortex, which consisted in short videos describing various Speculative Fiction subgenres (for instance, the first and second videos where respectively about Space Opera and Post-Apocalyptic Zombies fiction). The ninth video, "Star Wars VS USSR" (about Reagan's Project Star Wars, not about the movies series), was the first of a new series named LFH, which focuses on real life history. LFH and Vortex coexisted for a few months, then the channel completely dropped Vortex and exclusively focuses on history since 2017, dropping the "LFH" from the videos' title. Interestingly, the channel's name has a double meaning which makes it relevant for both themes, as it can mean both "The Insane Story" and "The Insane History".

---