I'm not saying this in a gatekeep-y way but its kinda nuts as someone who has been around since 2016 how little i see the og rtf acknoweledged. forget about that guy? cah mann? fur-metally? were gonna kill him ??
these went triple platinum on my iphone 4
I'm gonna drop the no-context act for a bit and go on a bit of a rant. I apologize for going long on this one, but I've had 10 years to think about this and I have nothing else to do with this information.
The reasons why the original, "can-an-ant-do-this-ford", Real-Time Fandub went relatively under the radar compared to its more famous sibling could fill a whole documentary (please someone make a documentary on RTF).
video games have wide appeal on the internet.
cutscenes come with virtually no copyright problems.
Sonic is really fuckin' popular. (it was even popular when we covered it on our show before our dub of Sonic X got taken down)
Penny as a creator has been doing things like this for over a decade, but she got insanely prolific at like 6 disciplines early on.
the rest of her cast are also all prolific streamers who are used to saying absolutely insane shit off the cuff. they are Brennan Lee Mulligan-ing it all the time.
there are more Canadians now.
our show is (relatively) less polished by virtue of being mostly livestreamed on an obscure German streaming platform as opposed to... you know. YouTube.
the channel where the show has been hosted for nearly 10 years has been getting negative subscribers with every new video.
some of our dubs are just not accessible in general (still working on that).
Charlotte Driftwood (aka Charley, the creator of the show) has gone on record to say that while the show wasn't "popular" popular, the fans that it did have were incredibly active and made a ton of hype which helped the rest of the viewers. We had proper live blogging during every stream. We'd get up to like 150 viewers in the chat, with 200 something in the first dub. That really isn't the case anymore, for many reasons. Newer dubs get okay-ish views on YouTube, although it accumulates them over a longer amount of time.
Getting people to check out the original series as opposed to ONLY the SnapCube one has been the entire challenge of this gimmick account in the first place. It's why I did that one infographic and stuff. (more on that here)
SnapCube's Real-Time Fandub is motivated by the juxtaposition of absurdly high production value against absolute batshit banter. We've tried to do the idea early on (and I might have ended up inspiring that thought by editing dubs with on-screen gags and actual music early on, idk jury is still out on that one), but SRTF is the most distilled form of that idea and the foundations of that concept were solid on DAY ONE. Almost every single game idea for a dub has been pitched in 2018 by one of RTF's original cast members. Multiple running gags were teased or ended up paralleled into the SnapCube show one way or another. The Real-Time Fandub that made Stan Pines a vore fetishist and Bismuth Ukrainian is the same Real-Time Fandub that eventually led to Sora sounding like Joe Pera. It simply got forked like the Nerodime River.
I don't know why the original show isn't mentioned much anymore in SnapCube's circles. I can only speculate. To be honest, a lot of it might really come down to its accessibility and the fact that plenty of cast members had changed their names year after year even during its early run. Inherently, that might not represent that person anymore, so some association is lost in transition. The same fate happened to a lot of projects tied to the show. That's just life.
Nevertheless, I encourage you to like, actually check out the show that changed my life! The original one! Scroll through the show's clips on this blog! Come to our livestreams! (at the time of writing, we're almost wrapped on our series-long fandub of Dungeon Meshi, which has been going on every Friday since June!) Go watch our compilation of Gravity Falls dubs! We're still planning new stuff :D
If nothing else, go look at the infographic guide that I made: the Real-Time Fandub Roadmap. I update it every once in a while to help guide viewers through projects by the fandub cast they might like. You will definitely find something you'll like in there.
Or if you're interested, look around/contribute to the Real-Time Fandub Wiki! There's plenty of interesting stuff, but also it feels weird to write all that material by myself so I could use the help. I'm tired lol
On a really important side note, I just wanna say that i'm insanely proud of my former improv mates Penny, Jenny and Alfred and what they've accomplished, along with the friends they've made over time. I see their humor and it lights up people's lives. It fills the boredom and mundanity of my routine. Real-Time Fandub changed my life, and it's turned theirs upside down as well. As someone who's been watching their stuff long enough to remember fuckin' Spagoots, it's wild to me how far they've come.
I was present briefly during the early discussions of the show back when it was pitched and Real-Time Fandub Games and the Growth of an Industry (aka Sonic 06) was still in production, and you could tell that there were really fun times going on and that everyone was exhilarated to improv and goof off. This is a party game first and foremost, and a game that's usually pretty fun. I highly recommend it for any Discord group chat.
Penny, Jenny and Alfred left the RTF cast by 2019 when the dub of Sonic 06 was being made, with Jenny being the last holdover. I miss 'em on the show, but I hope they're doing great. They probably are.
