Things were very different back in 2008-2009 in terms of the stuff I do (making videos on the internet). Youtube tends to remain largely unchanged in the department of copyright strikes and ContentID matches even if the layout and look have evolved. People who made angry reviews on the net were generally ALL considered “AVGN rip-offs” regardless of connection, style, or subject matter. What was especially different was that the alternate video player to circumvent the issues of youtube was a little player…called Revver.

However, Revver did not last too long. Payments in the thousands were owed to many people, but since it was one of the video players being used by people when a guy forty pounds lighter than me started doing silly and angry comic book reviews, he submitted to them, as well. He only lasted about five or so episodes there because he soon learned that ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, the site he hoped to someday be on, had begun uploading their videos to a new video host called Blip.

I talk about this because Blip and my videos have been inexorably linked since the very beginning. I didn’t make very much money when I started – just a few bucks. Sure, getting a huge swath of viewers from being picked up by TGWTG helped with that, but the real thing that started showing me that I could make a career out of this came around the time of the first anniversary brawl. Specifically, there was this ad that played at the end of videos – it was a minute and a half long – an advertisement for the then-new Starburst Favereds.

Everybody hated these ads because of how long they were. Read More »