#this was honestly such an internet video gamechanger

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honestly yeah u make a really good point in ur mcyt rpf post. i was Also the person bemoaning how mcyt defaults into vbrpf tags and that there isn't a separate set, but then i realized like. i spent Years writing fic about the roosterteeth crew, which all fell in a very similar gray area like mcyt. like looking at shit like fake ah crew fic, the characters written about there are very obviously separate from the real life people, but also they are intrinsically linked. the characters don't exist without the people. and even though we were all in fandom talking and writing about them like playing with dolls, it was still like... yeah okay this fits under the rpf umbrella still. i never questioned it then, or was bothered about it not being a separate tag set, because it didn't feel necessary. which is really the same situation with mcyt!! its just that for any number of reasons, mcyt fandom in particular tends to have a very loud and very vehement group that think rpf as a whole is abhorrent and doesn't even want to be clocked anywhere close to it. which like honestly thats a personal issue at that point, thats not on everyone else to deal with, and certainly not on ao3 to sort out.

Yeah like I think RPF has a bad reputation because of some very obvious bad actors who've behaved badly in the past that the whole internet knows about, and especially because MCYT was kind of the butt of the joke and hatred for a lot of social media sites, a lot of people were eager to emphasize that they weren't behaving like that, it was fine, they were being totally normal (and they had the creator's permission, hence the boundaries discourse and the twitter cancellations for anything "weird"), and nobody should hate them cause they totally weren't like those weirdos.

And that's a really understandable reaction to try and do, I also have gone into the comments of bracket polls and seen hate, but that also ignores that the vast majority of RPF is a) not actually hurting anyone b) is not any more egregious in its content than any other fandom c) Is not inherently weirder to the creators than anyone who avidly follows their social media and shows up at their meet and greet and like— tts them stuff. We've all seen people TTS stuff that should NOT have been said in view of the creators, but the vast majority of it is perfectly fine. I very much think we shouldn't be showing RPF to the creators, and because the boundary is thin for MCYT I extend that to thinking that there's a WHOLE bunch of stuff that we shouldn't be showing to the creators— from gore to shipping to nsfw to aging down family dynamics to stuff about people they've lost— but I don't think that reacting with a horrified gasp to anyone saying "oh yeah rpf" is actually necessary. Or heck, if you were watching twitchcon vids and you want to straight up write tagged-as-RPF, go with god, I don't think that's inherently any weirder than people who go to twitchcon to meet streamers. You like them a lot and you want to rotate them mentally and get a picture with them, that's like, fine. As long as we keep it in fandom spaces and don't make the streamers feel weird cause we're showing them it, you're just doing what people who got really into polygon videos over the pandemic did, or historians who write historical RPF about their ancient blorbos, or whatever. it's fine.

Particularly cause what I write is mostly aus, I've had to wrestle with the question of if what I'm writing is RPF, and I think it's (usually) not, I can tell in my head when I'm thinking streamers or when I'm thinking characters, but like, we're talking *really* fine distinctions at points. If someone thinks that it's RPF it's not an insult to me, I can tell how they get there, and me reacting like it IS an insult is kind of rude to my fandom neighbours who are writing Gamechanger RPF where they design their own challenges cause they just have so much fun with the show, you know?

Some of this is just that I'm in my 30s and I'm tired of fandom policing, I can coexist with a lot of shit if you just tag it appropriately so I can filter it if I need to. For the holiday exchange last year we had no RPF as a rule not because I had an issue with it, but because the form to get the information for it would have been literally two hundred checkboxes long and I didn't want to do that to my spreadsheets.

I kind of drifted from your point there, but yeah, I think MCYT is legitimately in a blurry spot when it comes to if it's RPF or not, but that's not something I think we need to get all up in arms about, and we certainly don't need to, as I saw someone recommend we all do, file a ticket with Ao3 to remove MCYT tags from Video Blogging RPF.

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Hi. 1) Are you created MarioGunner ripping channel? What became an idea to put the same NSMBWii Mario Render in every rip? 2) What was your THE first rip, that you have created ever, not only your first contribution to ripping channels, but an unreleased/test/scrapped ones? 3) What kind of rips have you made based on your own observations from childhood. I mean, similar songs from games, movies, commercials, radio, that sounded funny comparing back to back then? (outside of the internet) 4) How long and why have you been using Mac? 5) Do you plan update/rework a "Metasikt" playlist?

Nah, VeemoWithaHat created it. I haven't contributed much to it but I was granted admin access for backup security reasons.

The first rip I ever made with the direct intention of being like a rip was Emote: Dance Moves (Season 3) - Fortnite on Vavr, which I submitted on January 23, 2019. Before that I had been doing other (not very good) mashups in GarageBand that I usually didn't post anywhere other than sending to my friends. Even earlier than that, the first times I "combined" a video game song with something else was with these videos: "Song Mashup: Gaster's Theme + Still Alive" and "Song Mashup: Bonetrousle + Seven Nation Army". They are midis imported into garageband at the same time and nothing else lol.

This is a great question and I think it's easiest to just answer it with a playlist of all the SiIva rips I've made that fit the criteria. Honestly, I should do more of these (rips of/using stuff from my childhood or stuff my family listened to/watched), they're fun. And yes, I did grow up with a Word Whammer, that's one reason why I thought it would be funny to rip it for the leap day.

Honestly, it's mostly just because I've always used it. For all the time I've had a personal computer, it's been a Mac. My family had an old iMac desktop computer that I played with when I was young so I guess I got used to it. Here's the thing - Macs have great design for productivity but they don't support a wide variety of programs used for ripping, because of course those would be exe's or use 32-bit architecture (well, that's a newer problem to Macs but one that's not going away). So historically when I needed something only Windows could do I would have to borrow a family computer. But once I got a Windows virtual machine (using Parallels Desktop) installed on my laptop, it was a gamechanger and I honestly think it's my perfect ripping machine right now. Paralells is some really impressive software, did you know that using it you can just drag files to/from the Mac/Windows sides like they're adjacent desktops?

Probably not, I'm sorry :( feel free to make a better one yourself though. There's definitely so much more stuff that qualifies for the playlist criteria now that I can't be bothered to go back and include.