Death by nostalgia: a small Rooster Teeth recollection

You know the "Watch This Again" tab on YouTube? Well, the RT 10 Year Retrospective video popped up, and I couldn't resist not clicking this "watch this again" video. Thanks YouTube. 

Naturally, as I watched it, I grew more and more nostalgic by the minute. 

I was just a kid (I think I was 9 years old!) when I found Rooster Teeth. I remember it was the summer of 2004. School was let out, and that meant my brother and I could visit our cousins and play Spyro and Halo all day (even though I sucked and it was horribly frustrating!). 

Scouring the internet, one day in June, we happened across the second season of Red vs Blue. It was towards the end of the season. We finished it up, and, while my brother wasn't impressed, I thought it was pretty great. So I went back to season one and watched it up until the end of season two, and I still continue to watch it. 

Like, it's just so great to look back and to have been a part of this community for so long, and to watch this company grow the way it has, and with Lazer Team coming out eventually and RvB in season 13 and RWBY and RTX and Funhaus and just.. There's so much growth that has happened in the past couple of years alone! 

Despite only having been able to actually join their website in 2013, I've been watching from the Internet shadows and enjoying everything, communicating every now and again. I really wish I knew how to talk more and make more friends within this wonderful little world—though "little" is hardly a good word to use. I keep saying that maybe I will, and I have, a little. I dunno, I'll figure it out someday. Maybe I should just make more art haha.

It's just so surreal to watch that video and take everything in again, or to go back and rewatch the Blood Gulch Chronicles, or the old shorts and videos and Let's Plays and just all of the things that evolved into the Rooster Teeth that we all know and love. 

Here's to many more years.