Web Video / RDCworld1

From left to right: Ben Skinner, Desmond Johnson, Mark Phillips and Leland Manigo

RDCworld1 (Real Dreamers Change the World) is a group of YouTubers who are known for creating skits and long form short series based on pop culture, basketball, anime, video games, and everyday life. The group is composed of Mark Phillips, Affiong Harris, Desmond Johnson, Leland Manigo, Ben Skinner, and Dylan Patel. They also have a reality tv/skit show sponsored by House of Highlights, part of the Bleacher Report sports network.

They occasionally collaborate with their friends and other local youtubers, like King Vader, CalebCity and Kimmie D.

Some of their multi-episode skits include:

• The Black Avengers
• Video Game House
• Avatar: The Last Hoodbender
• Anime House

Their YouTube channel can be found here.

The group and their videos contain the following tropes:

• Adaptational Jerkass: Whenever the group portrays characters from media, expect this trope to be in for the sake of comedy.
• Berserk Button: Don't tell a J. Cole fan that you don't like his music.
• Brutal Honesty: Their "How Other Marvel Heroes Feel About not Being In Avengers Infinity War/Endgame!" videos has an interviewer trying to calm down the raging Marvel heroes that weren't in the films by explaining the blunt truths about their possible roles conflicting the films' plot, such as:
  • Moon Knight not being a popular, top Marvel character by the time the films were released.
  • Punisher is only a superhero known for his marksmanship and expertise in military weaponry, yet Winter Soldier already fills that role, with the same military weapons Punisher boasted having.
  • Blade is not much of a superhero, he's more of a vampire slayer. And since there are no vampires in Endgame, he doesn't have any plot-relevance.
• The Cameo: The group frequently make these in King Vader's videos.
• Caps Lock: Most of their video titles are written with all-caps
• Celebrity Endorsement: Their videos more often than not, are sponsored by mobile game companies, although the group also include clips where they play the games themselves.
  • Mark was eventually turned into a digital character in the NBA 2K video game series.
  • Mark, Dylan, Ben and Desmond appear in a Viz Media video ad for the dvd release of a season of Jojos Bizarre Adventure.
• Character Exaggeration: A staple of their NBA-themed skits. Notable ones include:
  • LeBron James as the dictatorial alpha of his locker room, prone to dressing down his teams, coaches, and even doctors when he feels all his opponents are out to screw him.
    Mark as "LeBron": I'm 36! Why is it always everybody versus me, I'm not Thanos!
  • Kyrie Irving is the overly-soft-spoken resenter who hates LeBron and is out to sabotage his playoffs (mostly in team assembly).
  • Stephen Curry will shoot the ball without any notice/provocation—from anywhere and everywhere, even straight out of bed.
  • Doc Rivers is the much put-upon head coach who always seems to have his players let him down in the playoffs.
    Mark as "Doc Rivers": Everytime I get a superstar on the team, they act like they can't play basketball no more, and it's killing me!
• Comical Overreacting: The recurring J. Cole fan character. Whenever J Cole releases new music, he begins venting all of his problems while sounding like he's on the verge of crying, only to eventually express optimism that there will be better days ahead.
• Cosplay: For their anime and superhero-related skits, the boys would sometimes dress up as the character they are portraying as.
• Deconstructive Parody: Their videos under the format of "How X Be Y" are all about taking the common tropes of anime, films, and video game titles and portraying them in real-life situations, often with humorous results. These videos also overlap with a lot of Lampshade Hanging in the dialogue.
• Disability Superpower: Exploited and exaggerated in "How Handicap Characters Be Fighting in Anime" initially starts with Leland's blind character easily able to counter Mark's character in a sword duel, having trained his other four senses without the need for sight. Mark's character's response to this? Take his own sight away, allowing him to keep up with Leland. Followed by Leland taking away his own hearing to get a boost in power, to which Mark responds by cutting off his own leg. By the end of the fight, both fighters are armless and legless below the thigh, holding their swords with their chins and mouths before taking the fight to Dragon Ball Z levels of insanity, the soundtrack playing up Sad Battle Music as a result of both fighters' absurd desperation to win.
• Gender Bender: Desmond in "When you get too serious playing basketball".
• Genre Savvy: They tend to act this trope in "HORROR MOVIES THAT WOULDVE NEVER STARTED IF BLACK PEOPLE WERE THE CAST", as they know the plot points that would spell doom for the horror movies' protagonists, such as not watching any old VHS (as a nod to The Ring), and double-checking the GPS when in a crossroads (as a nod to Wrong Turn).
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Mark in the My Hero Academia section of “If Anime Took Place in the Hood.” His quirk, Enhanced Ignorance, allows him to lose his temper at even incongruous comments.
• Kiai: In "How Marvel Heroes feel about Phase 4", Dylan Patel as Shang-Chi randomly shouts variations of "Waa-taaaa!"! while swinging his nunchuks while being interviewed.
• Large Ham: A good number of the characters they play are this, but special mention goes to Lebron James.
• Macho Disaster Expedition: in "Anime People Wouldn't Wanna Be In" it's brought up that if they woke up in Dr. STONE they'd be dead pretty quickly since none of them know anything about hunting, fishing, starting fires or any other survival skills.
• Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Aside from the contestants representing the USA and Jamaica, none of the other national representatives in the Hood Olympics videos have any kind of accent from their corresponding countries (one could assume this is due to not wanting to be stereotypical, but then there are the aforementioned Jamaican entrants…). On top of that, they also all still keep their normal names, regardless of whether they sound Colombian, Polish, Japanese, etc. Adds to the Rule of Funny aspect.
• Parody: A lot of their comedy skits are parodies of anime, video game, film franchises or deconstructions of the tropes used in these types of media.
• Parrying Bullets: Parodied in SWORDS IN ANIME, where the villain panics in disbelief at the sight of this.
• Product Placement: VIZ Media had them advertise a DVD for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind Anime through a skit.
• Repeat Cut: In the "WHEN PEOPLE TAKE ANIME TOO FAR" series, Mark punches Desmond and the scene replays three times, which Leland lampshades.
  Leland: Damn, he hit that nigga so hard, it replayed three different times!
• Running Gag: Each of their "How Other Marvel Heroes Feel..." series of videos always includes an instance where Punisher quotes "I didn't know I came here to be disrespected." or a variation of it.
• Shared Universe: The group appears in videos with King Vader and CalebCity, Caleb have them appear in "When you get too serious playing basketball."
• Shown Their Work: Mark and the crew love anime and video games, so expect any videos parodying them to have lots of references. Particularly worthy of mention are the duo of “When People Take Anime Too Far” videos, which reference many different anime series.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: "How smart characters be acting in anime" is a deconstruction of The Smart Guy in anime titles. Desmond sneaks into a house, but the owner (Mark) goes into such a long scientifical exposition on how he already knew that the former was hiding there the whole time. It goes long until Desmond got bored of all the mumbo-jumbo and leaves.
• Take That!:
  • "How Fast And The Furious Movies Be Now" mocks how most of The Fast and the Furious films tend to focus more on action scenes involving fistfights and gunfights than the actual racing.
    Wait, why are we fighting? Shouldn't we be racing this up?
    I-I don't know, that's what they wrote in the script!
  • "How Video Game Companies be Coming Up with New Games" is about the numerous monetization practices in the video game industry (such as the story mode taking the least priority, the abundance of Downloadable Content, making half-finished games) or recent trends like anime Fighting Game titles having oversimplified mechanics, etc... while the only employee who suggests pro-playerbase ideas gets fired by the boss.
  • A heavy one towards the Sequel Gap for Kingdom Hearts III is made in "Video Game House 2":
    Sora: (In response to Link and Master Chief heading off to spy on Ezio) Y'all, alright, I'll go. Lemme just finish my trailer.
    Link: Bro, you've been watching that same trailer for 6 years, the game's not coming out, let's go.
• Talking Is a Free Action: "How Time Be Moving in Anime" is a parody of this trope; a 10-second bomb's timer barely even moves despite the boys spending a lot of time talking, and driving across town.
• Troll: Mark when competing in the “Men’s Instigating” tournament in the Hood Olympics videos, as he solely wants to stir shit up for his personal amusement.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: When Ghostface barges into their house in "HORROR MOVIES THAT WOULDVE NEVER STARTED IF BLACK PEOPLE WERE THE CAST", the gang simply looks at him flat-faced, no reactions at all, until Ghostface leaves.
  Mark: Boy, get your dumbass outta here before you get jumped.
  • And then Jason Voorhees barges in, only to be met with the same mildly annoyed reaction.
    Mark: Too many niggas in here... Man, get your tight-ass mask out of here before you get jumped. God damn.
• Would Hurt a Child: Lampshaded and Exaggerated in "How Adults be beating kids up in Anime" as Mark's character proceeds to obliterate a child, much to Leland's horror.
  Mark: Hey kid. How old are you?
  Child: I'm twelve.
  (Cue Mark immediately running in to start beating up the kid)