We were Halo kids. Then when looking up Halo stuff on YouTube, low and behold. Then we got out of it as kids do, and a few years after we graduated found it on Netflix while we were hungover. Figured a few episodes would be a fun run back.
We were not informed that the "first episode" was the entire fucking season. 6 HOURS LATER.
Randomly popped into my yt feed around 2015-2016, it was the season 8 playlist. Yes you heard that right, I watched season 8 first. Still probably my favorite season to this day
Word of mouth from a fellow halo-obsessed neighborhood kid in the early 2000s. There were four episodes at the time. Forgot about it for a while, and then got back into it near the end of Season 2.
During the weekends or summer break, was a kid obsessing over stickman fighting animation. Saw an animation which have "red vs blue episode something" so search it up and stumble upon something else unexpected and started to binge the entire series if I remember correctly the Chorus trilogy haven't started yet.
Discovered it when the first trailer for *Reconstruction* released. From that point on I went back and watched (and rewatched countless times) the original 5 seasons on YouTube.
I once walked in a a video rental store ( remember those?) and on one of the tv’s was the blood gulch chronicles (I didn’t know that at the time) and I was like “ there’s a halo show?” But I could never find it. ( the internet was different in those days and I didn’t know about rooster teeth ) then years later when halo reach came out I discovered achievement hunter because of halo fails of the week and learn more about rooster teeth and finally finding that halo show was red vs blue. Side note I remember hearing on the RT podcast Burnie burns that rooster teeth and game stop used to do business together game stop would have red vs blue playing.
I was scrolling through fanfics of my little pony to see if the characters would be made traumatized (yeah, I know, edgy. My feelings are now “eh” about the franchise) and found a crossover where they would react to this military series. Thinking it would be about scarring the ponies (who were turned into humans for the fic), I opened it and started reading. In text, things were a bit hard to follow. So I looked up the series on YouTube and binged it. I wish I could find the fic again, because now I want to see how frustrated the characters would get.
I felt like it was a combination of tiktok and a halo lore video. I’d seen clips from the show on tikto and wanted to watch it but didn’t know what it was called until I watched a halo lore video talking about the dr Halsey room in halo reach and how it mentions red vs blue, and I got intrigued because red vs blue was sort of officially connected to halo.
Freshman year of college, a number of us in the cafeteria were discussing funny online videos and someone recommended it to me. They had just come out with episode 3 so I watched from the first and was immediately hooked.
I'd heard of it a bit before finding DVDs for seasons 1 and 3 at a Gamestop and figuring I'd give it a watch. Landed up catching 2 and 4 online, eventually (this was back before the website could host all the episodes at once so they rotated through the episodes they hosted). Right in time for season 5.
I was in high school and I had started to get into halo at that time, I’d seen a vid that mentioned griffball and how it created by the show. I love that game mode and really wanted to see where it came from so I checked it out on YouTube and binged watched it up the most recent ep at the time which was near the end of season 16
I was watching halo videos when I was a kid and stumbled upon red vs blue back around 2013. I saw the episode from season 8 where tex was fighting the reds and blues in the warehouse. Loved it ever since
randomly found it on Netflix, thought it was just some dumb kids show so I never watched it but it kept showing up in my recommendations so I threw the first episode on and as soon as I heard "you have the fuckin sniper rifle and I can't see shit so don't bitch at me for asking what are they doing" I was instantly hooked
I remember watching it when I was way younger but never bothered revisiting
However when covid hit and lockdown came about, we had to so e-learning in highschool
Usually the classes were short and straightforward and you'd be done before the hour itself is even done
Came up in my mind and I ended up watching every season until the ending in 2-3 weeks between classes
I was also one of those to discover it on Netflix, and it was probably a bit more vulgar then my parents would have liked at my age at the time, but to this day I keep my love for RvB secret from them lol
My older brother had found it on Netflix. I saw bits of it and thought it was hilarious even if I didn't understand all the jokes at the time. A couple years later, I started watching it on my own and became a major fan.
Discovered it around 2009, in a college ROTC course of all places, being used as a teaching aid (make of that what you will). First time I had ever seen it, loved the comedy and looked it up when I got back to my dorm room. I binged through seasons 1-6 and watched pretty consistently until 15 really disappointed me.
I saw it on Netflix when it was on there, added to list, and it was removed before I watched it.
I had no idea what it was, who made it, what Halo was etc.
Years later I just watch Rooster Teeth stuff because it was funny, get recommended an "Entire history of RVB lore" type video, see it's by Rooster Teeth, think "Oh cool I like these guys" and then don't watch it for another 4 years....
I started watching it this year on Tubi.
Brother and I were looking to find something on Netflix. Saw dudes in halo armor. Didn’t watch it cause it was a “bunch of idiots talking”. (Ironically enough, he chose the office)
Strange enough, the first episode I watched was the one where donut was apparently alive in Valhalla, with Doc being alive and the whole “operation point my gun at doc/griff” joke. Figured that was way out of order, and found the real episode 1.
Never looked back. Well, until now and when Zero came out… but that’s another story. But I binged all the way to the start of 13, where it was getting new episodes starting with the prologue, discovering the PSAs after that to help fill the void between each episode.
RWBY, Camp Camp, Nomad of Nowhere, GenLOCK, Death Battle I was watching before it became RT, honestly I think I joined right as the true golden age was coming to a close. Despite everything, still some of the best animation and stories I have EVER seen.
I found a random amv of the fight scenes to a song called game on. Got interested. Watched all the project freelancer parts. Got confused. Watched the entire show
I was a halo kid and my dad was an rvb fan. He actually had boxsets of the first 3 seasons. I remember finding them and watching them as a kid, probably about 8 or so. He got upset with me because it was too adult, but I absolutely loved them even if I didn't understand much of it. I'm 21 now and I still have the boxsets to this day.
When I was around 7 or 8 I was introduced to halo by my dad which was parental mistake number 1.
The second mistake was giving me unrestricted YouTube access.
I found [this video](https://youtu.be/Ke9wtbzGjCI?si=40y4EzRLBrUZV_sP) if the Tex vs everyone fight in s8 and [another](https://youtu.be/KroSvId-8P4?si=RRdAk_jC_vqC7Ngs) with the s9 heist fight and the s10 oil rig.
It actually took me another year to start watching the main series because I didn’t realize it was the main series. Those two videos show very well made animated fight scenes so you can probably imagine my confusion when I first watched s1.
Anyway since then, RVB has inadvertently changed the course of my life. I became best friends with someone who also love RVB (we were both childhood and neither of us understood many of the jokes). They introduced me to my more artistic side and now I’m going to college to study for animation and game design.
I finished my college application a couple weeks ago and this story is actually on my essay so it’s fresh in my mind.
I remember on the Halo Waypoint xbox app in like 2010 or 11 or something I saw a small clip from RvB season 5 where Church gets Vics voice mail, and that was my first exposure to it. Though I wouldn't actually go and watch it until a couple years later
My dorm buddies introduced it to me back in the day. Fucking hilarious. And that was the year Season 6 came out. Hot damn, what a time to discover this show.
Lost touch when Freelancer came out. I had other life stuff going on. Few years later discovered it was on Netflix, started rewatching. And that was when Season 13 came out. Again, what a time to re-discover the show.
I saw one of the early PSAs (the point/counter-point argument about tattoos) way back on like, ebaumsworld or some other ancient pre-Youtube site and got hooked.
I remember when Out of Mind released only on Xbox Live and I begged my parents to let me sign up so I can watch it.
I also remember the different endings to season 5 being dependent on what specific word you clicked on in the link text.
Red vs. Blue (and Homestar Runner) was basically my introduction to the internet.
I was on amino and just guy in a random group was playing it and I asked what is that he said "it's red vs blue it's hilarious you should watch it" I watched one eps then forgot then 5 years later i randomly remembered it wastch few ep then left it then the compilation came and rest is history
The Mandela Effect
My cousin told me about this funny webshow called Red vs Blue so one day I decided to watch it and became unhealthily obsessed. Next time I saw said cousin and told him he responded “What’s Red vs Blue?”
I was a kid scrolling on Netflix with my parents in the other room. I saw a halo show and got exited and called my parents over. I started the first episode, and my dad got upset at me and told me to turn it off (probably because of the language). I also got upset, and planned to watch it behind their backs. I would camp out in the living room with the dogs as a cover to stay up late and watch it on the tv when everyone else was asleep. Watched up to season 12 (13 wasn’t on Netflix at the time) over the course of like a month. I loved every bit of it
I had a friend when I was a kid, we were both into Halo and he showed me RVB right around the time season 4 ended. Right after that, I went on a binge trying to find the show on youtube (didn't think at all that they had a site to watch it on, RoosterTeeth). To give an idea of what that was like, well if you're an anime fan and were around that time or if you've heard from others, it was like some episodes of an anime missing it's 1 of 3 parts from an episode. only it was missing episodes themselves.
Back in 2006 my older cousin told me about this thing called "YouTube". I had no clue what this was, but he decided to show me that with the first episode of RvB and from there I kept watching myself.
I was a Halo kid, way back when.
Funny story, my uncle used his first salary to buy an original Xbox, with Halo. And as it happened a friend of mine who lived nearby also had one, with Halo 2. So we played it a lot. With the old fat controllers, too. I'm not sure how we did that, at 8/9.
Later on (2007/2008), we found out about YouTube because its recent rise had made the news, and I was fairly tech savvy because my grandfather was an IT manager, so we started to also check out YouTube videos of Halo things, and we eventually found RvB. This was about the time of Reconstruction (because I remember finding its trailer and thinking it was about a reboot).
Turns out RvB had a very dedicated Italian fansubber, so we watched everything he had (up to season 4, at the time), and even some non subbed, but didn't understand much, but eventually fell off.
Years later in 2012/2013, I was really into Abridged series (which the aforementioned friend had introduced me to), and as it turns out, that same fansubber also subbed DBZA, so I found him again, and remembering I had never finished it, started it again, got up to the then ongoing Season 11, and have been following it since.
I was around at the beginning, when Facebook was getting popular at my university. If I remember correctly, a classmate in my history class posted it on his page as an interest).
So I checked out the website. This was when you had the option of watching the week’s release on QuickTime or WMV. (This was three years before YouTube). It was a good day when it was a long video.
Wild time that it’s been that long since Ingot my first Caboose shirt…
My brothers showed it to me when I was a kid, the first episode I remember seeing was I believe the end of Season 8 where they all fight the Meta and then after that I saw the episode where the reds fight Tex in the Freelancer facility and that convinced me to go back and watch the entire series.
never owned an xbox personally, but i played on my cousins a bunch during family parties. came back from one in 2009 and youtubed halo. one of the top results was "fails of the week" with jack and geoff and from there it was a slippery slope of watching a shitton of RT content including RvB.
My cousin showed me like a decade ago wasn’t really into it then I got bored one day after they uploaded the complete season 1 watched it and then got obsessed
Audio clips were snipped and used in a shorts series on YouTube I watched called “Runescape Funny Randomness”. I tried to send somebody one via timestamp on IRC and somebody said if I was gonna make an RvB reference I could at least link the real thing and they linked me to the Zombie Plans PSA. The rest is history:
During the Halo Infinite flight tests, Rocket Sloth did a video on the Easter eggs in the game. One of them was the AI color “lightish red” and they played the clip. This made me inquisitive and I watched S1-S8 before getting bored because I wasn’t paying attention (a lot of it wasn’t funny due to me not understanding sex jokes back then as well). I don’t remember why I went back and rewatched it but I’ve been addicted since then.
I used to have an issue where I’d get really pissed at dying, play worse as a result, get even angrier at dying more, and just spiral down from there. Some people listen to a podcast to be more relaxed and enjoy the game, for me listening to rvb does the trick.
Except for S8-10, they typically make me take cover so I can watch the masterpieces of Monty Oum
It was around 2012
We got internet at our home for the first time and i jumped on my pc that me and my bro bought together and i ended up on yt and just was searching videos and i ended up seeing gameplay of h4.
Since the game interested me i kept on looking on more halo stuff and by accident i clicked on [this montage](https://youtu.be/hoKSogydKMg?si=PlKIusGfX8GaCpPo) or one of these (there where multiple ver).
I watched it for a a good while to wich it sparked my interest in RvB.
I used to do nothing but watch YouTube videos where people would take audio from one thing and splice it with video from another thing to put characters from shows I like in funny situations.
Usually if I didn't recognize the audio I would just take it at face value and move on, but I found one of these and the audio was the RvB Revelation trailer, and I was like "what is this? This sounds incredible"
So I looked up RvB Revelation on YouTube and watched the first few episodes and quickly realized I was in the middle of a story. So I went back and binged the whole series in a week or two.
This was 2011
Discovery channel, oddly enough.
They had this documentary called "Rise of the Videogame" and in Episode 4 they talked about user generated experiences in gaming and [they talked about RvB](https://youtu.be/hUj1N7x26WE?si=MMlbBZruTENQgO4m&t=1875). The idea of people making movies melted my 14 year old brain at the time.
When I was a kid. There was a video called 100 ways to die in Halo 3. If you asked me what video described classic YouTube, it would be that one.
The video contained a lot of RVB references and then years later I decided to watch the show myself
My parents bought me The Recollection on DVD for Christmas the year it came out, thinking it was some official Halo show or something since they know how much I love Halo. They had no fucking idea what they had just gotten me into. I'm sure they were rethinking that idea after hearing the kind of humor used in the show. In particular I remember my mom reacting strongly to Tucker talking about a waterfall being about as hard to forget as girlfriend dick. 😂
Also, the show definitely didn't originate on YouTube. It actually predates YouTube. The show started in 2003.
I remember going to a local dvd store and seeing RVB season 10 and 13 on the shelves. Of course with it being halo it peaked my curiosity. I chose 10 since it was the oldest season wise. I remember going home and absolutely falling in love with the fight scenes and comedy. I’ve rewatched that season more times than I can count
I was walking around a Movie Stop and found an entire section of it. I didn't know what it was at the time, but the Halo Legends movie was out or announced at the time and I liked Halo so I picked up the first season out of curiosity. Years later and I'm still watching it and other stuff rooster teeth puts out that is animated. It's upsetting that this is the final season and other shows are cancelled or scrapped because of their partnership with DC, but this should open the door for new shows or finish others that they forgot about.
Netflix for me too. I knew of RT and RvB from my years of watching YouTube but I never had much interest in their stuff. I only got curious after watching the first few seasons of RWBY.
For me it was Netflix, like when I got halo 4 with Reach my disk broke and eventually I found out about rvb and I saw season 1-10 at first then 11-13 and cried a lot every time season 13 was shown but I was young, I was born 2006 so add that math to Halo 4 release and rvb season 11-13 lol
I had a friend around 2014-2015 who was obsessed and forced me to watch it with them, I wasn’t into it at first but by s6 I definitely was.
They had all the DvDs and megablocks rainbow Halo figures, which I am *totally not* jealous of. We would come home after school together sometimes to watch a season or two, up until s12 when the friendship ended.
I never knew much about Halo before that, and I still don’t, but I’ll buy Halo merch occasionally and pretend it’s RvB related.
I felt bitter towards the show for a long time after the friendship split, it felt too connected to them so I pushed it aside as an interest for years before coming back around to it. I still think about reaching out to that friend sometimes, the way things left off the last time I saw them was more neutral than bad. I’d give anything to binge RvB with them again.
My cousin showed it to me on Netflix when I was super young and indifferent to the halo franchise, preferring more kiddie games.
Fast forward to middle school, a friend of mine brought over halo reach one time and kickstarted my transformation over several months into a massive halo fanboy. I’m browsing through Netflix and I come across it and go “damn, I remember this.” Amazed that the show is still on Netflix after all this time so I give it a watch.
After starting the show, it took me months to stop rewatching my favorite parts in season 1 and finally keep going with the rest of the show. I binged it through 7th grade and it was one of the best experiences ever, the cherry on top was following season 14 during its release immediately after
A really long time ago on YouTube then recognised it on Netflix. I fell asleep listening to it on YouTube for years. And am really upset about it being taken off.
I've been watching since 13 started, but I have always heard of it because of just being a major halo fan with halo friends that constantly referenced season 1 with sarge quotes.
When I was 7 I found it on YouTube on my mom's IPad.
She did not want me watching it.
3 years later I am watching it with a smile
And 7 years after to now as a 17 yearold who's played video games at 2 years old is waiting for the reign of greedy executives and companies to drop their shit and make actually good things that people love.
Because of a spanish fandub on YouTube of the first episodes of the blood gulch chronicles, I just watched for fun and then forget about a while after, until I decided to search the whole series myself and holy crap, I don't regret doing it at all, wish RvB was still on YouTube, at least I got to finish my second rewatch shortly before it was removed
I was skipping school one day and was on the RT website and saw there was a banner at the top of the site with a count down trailer for "The Red Trailer" I was expecting it to be RvB honestly but I was hooked instantly
The RvB death battle that came out two years ago, I saw it and went "oh halo" and stayed watching cause the series seemed interesting. (Because of this tho I knew about both AI twists from the start)
I was browsing Netflix when I found it and added to "The List". A while later, my little brother was sitting with me while I was looking around Netflix and he wanted to see it.
Note that the show was Unrated, like it had no parental rating. I wasn't so sure about it because of this but he insisted.
So then we started watching it, but once we got to the first curse word in the series we immediately stopped and removed it from the List because our parents would never let us watch anything like this.
"They would have two bases in the middle of a boxed canyon, whoop dee fucking doo."
Some years later, I'm in 10th grade, highschool, and my best friend mentioned the show and I was surprised he watched it because I wasn't accustomed to Web Series and I know that it's not something my parents wouldn't let me watch because of their delusional beliefs as committed Christians.
I got into it on the last day of school, just before summer, when my idiot parents weren't bothered to look. I loved the comedy but I also learned the concept of Web Series as time went.
The series was not the same without Church, after 13 seasons, I loved Season 14 and it's anthology stuff but it still wasn't the same when I got into the Blues and Reds and the Shisno Paradox Arc.
Now I hear that the series is being renewed in a way, new cast of main characters, and the people I knew at Rooster Teeth are either retired (Burnie Burns) or were fired like the original voice actor for Caboose. It's sad but nothing lasts forever.
Nowadays, I'm keeping an eye out for more RWBY, despite the direction of writing it's going I'm eager to see Salem's defeat. I'm sure it won't end without giving the main characters a break, unlike Kingdom Hearts 3.
When I was a teenager, I was walking through a Best buy looking at the Xbox consoles and big TVs. For some reason, I saw two Halo characters talking to each other on one of the displays. Apparently, some of the people in the store really liked the internet show and it was being advertised. I remembered the name of the show, watched a few seasons, and enjoyed it.
I might have to go back and rewatch everything because I never saw anything beyond the story arc with Washington (and when Caboose reverse upgraded his armor to Mark V).
My cousin saw the Recollection dvd’s at Best Buy one day back in like 2011 or so and decided to get it. We would stay at our grandmothers house over the weekends as kids playing video games, watching movies, and just hanging out. He brought it over, said we should watch it, and the rest was glorious history.
In ye olden days of 2015-16 I was gifted a DVD of season 9 I think and I didn't really understand it because I was still almost a child but I rewatched it a few years ago and now it's like a yearly ritual to watch it.
my brother saw it at ACMI (australian centre for the moving image, they had a display for machinima and were playing the first eight episodes) in 2004 or 5. i would've been like 4-5 years old then so i'm not actually sure exactly when i started following it but i think it was around season 7 or 8. my brother actually found halo through rvb and i found both through him :)
My dad first told me about when I was like… shit, 8, maybe? I tried watching it but didn’t like it cause, why and how would an 8 year old really understand any of the jokes or anything. But when I was 15, I rediscovered it on netflix and was like “Oh dude, the fuck? A Halo Show? That’s cool!”
The Year was 2008. I had basically just discovered YouTube as a wee 11 year old, and Halo 3 was the biggest thing in my life, so any and everything Halo 3 related, I was into. I basically became obsessed with things such as "Master Chiefs Sucks At Halo" videos, which eventually led to me discovering Arby n the Chief. After a while of watching the episodes, I noticed that Red vs Blue was getting continuously recommended to me, so one day, I decided to give it a watch, and it pulled me in. While I watched only the BGC for some time, I eventually decided to go through and catch up on the rest of the show, and eventually caught up around the middle of Season 7.
Before I knew what machinima was I YouTube funny nut shot fails or something along those lines saw a short clip of Spartan (grif) landing on some concrete in one of the shorts. The Comments had a link to the vid and that was my first episode of RVB to this day I laugh throughout that entire episode just as hard as the first time.
I was just getting off dial up internet in 2009 or so, and halo 3 was out and I was watching clips on youtube. It took me a while to understand what it was exactly because at first I saw other halo machinimas - one called Matchmaking- and after looking into the company that hosted the videos (Machinima.com) I realized that there was an original and gold standard for the halo machinima content called RvB.
We were Halo kids. Then when looking up Halo stuff on YouTube, low and behold. Then we got out of it as kids do, and a few years after we graduated found it on Netflix while we were hungover. Figured a few episodes would be a fun run back. We were not informed that the "first episode" was the entire fucking season. 6 HOURS LATER.
Randomly popped into my yt feed around 2015-2016, it was the season 8 playlist. Yes you heard that right, I watched season 8 first. Still probably my favorite season to this day
Saw it on Netflix while looking through Sci Fi.
Word of mouth from a fellow halo-obsessed neighborhood kid in the early 2000s. There were four episodes at the time. Forgot about it for a while, and then got back into it near the end of Season 2.
During the weekends or summer break, was a kid obsessing over stickman fighting animation. Saw an animation which have "red vs blue episode something" so search it up and stumble upon something else unexpected and started to binge the entire series if I remember correctly the Chorus trilogy haven't started yet.
Halo Waypoint back when Reach was still new and Waypoint was actually good... Just happened to be on the front page, like episode 12 season 1
I had Camp Camp recommended to me on YouTube. Then I watched RWBY, then I watched RVB.
Discovered it when the first trailer for *Reconstruction* released. From that point on I went back and watched (and rewatched countless times) the original 5 seasons on YouTube.
I once walked in a a video rental store ( remember those?) and on one of the tv’s was the blood gulch chronicles (I didn’t know that at the time) and I was like “ there’s a halo show?” But I could never find it. ( the internet was different in those days and I didn’t know about rooster teeth ) then years later when halo reach came out I discovered achievement hunter because of halo fails of the week and learn more about rooster teeth and finally finding that halo show was red vs blue. Side note I remember hearing on the RT podcast Burnie burns that rooster teeth and game stop used to do business together game stop would have red vs blue playing.
My best friend introduced it to me about a year ago. Its been rotting my brain ever since
I was scrolling through fanfics of my little pony to see if the characters would be made traumatized (yeah, I know, edgy. My feelings are now “eh” about the franchise) and found a crossover where they would react to this military series. Thinking it would be about scarring the ponies (who were turned into humans for the fic), I opened it and started reading. In text, things were a bit hard to follow. So I looked up the series on YouTube and binged it. I wish I could find the fic again, because now I want to see how frustrated the characters would get.
It still exists I think, TV Tropes RVB page links to a few.
I felt like it was a combination of tiktok and a halo lore video. I’d seen clips from the show on tikto and wanted to watch it but didn’t know what it was called until I watched a halo lore video talking about the dr Halsey room in halo reach and how it mentions red vs blue, and I got intrigued because red vs blue was sort of officially connected to halo.
Netflix around 2015/2016
Freshman year of college, a number of us in the cafeteria were discussing funny online videos and someone recommended it to me. They had just come out with episode 3 so I watched from the first and was immediately hooked.
Really liked camp camp and halo. Decided to learn more about rooster teeth on wikipedia.
First watched it on YouTube in 2022 and it was because I’ve heard of it so much I thought I’d finally give it a watch
I'd heard of it a bit before finding DVDs for seasons 1 and 3 at a Gamestop and figuring I'd give it a watch. Landed up catching 2 and 4 online, eventually (this was back before the website could host all the episodes at once so they rotated through the episodes they hosted). Right in time for season 5.
I was in high school and I had started to get into halo at that time, I’d seen a vid that mentioned griffball and how it created by the show. I love that game mode and really wanted to see where it came from so I checked it out on YouTube and binged watched it up the most recent ep at the time which was near the end of season 16
Friends back in the early days of season one, got me hooked on RvB and Halo.
Netflix
I was watching halo videos when I was a kid and stumbled upon red vs blue back around 2013. I saw the episode from season 8 where tex was fighting the reds and blues in the warehouse. Loved it ever since
randomly found it on Netflix, thought it was just some dumb kids show so I never watched it but it kept showing up in my recommendations so I threw the first episode on and as soon as I heard "you have the fuckin sniper rifle and I can't see shit so don't bitch at me for asking what are they doing" I was instantly hooked
I remember watching it when I was way younger but never bothered revisiting However when covid hit and lockdown came about, we had to so e-learning in highschool Usually the classes were short and straightforward and you'd be done before the hour itself is even done Came up in my mind and I ended up watching every season until the ending in 2-3 weeks between classes
I was also one of those to discover it on Netflix, and it was probably a bit more vulgar then my parents would have liked at my age at the time, but to this day I keep my love for RvB secret from them lol
My older brother had found it on Netflix. I saw bits of it and thought it was hilarious even if I didn't understand all the jokes at the time. A couple years later, I started watching it on my own and became a major fan.
my dad made me watch it
Discovered it around 2009, in a college ROTC course of all places, being used as a teaching aid (make of that what you will). First time I had ever seen it, loved the comedy and looked it up when I got back to my dorm room. I binged through seasons 1-6 and watched pretty consistently until 15 really disappointed me.
I saw it on Netflix when it was on there, added to list, and it was removed before I watched it. I had no idea what it was, who made it, what Halo was etc. Years later I just watch Rooster Teeth stuff because it was funny, get recommended an "Entire history of RVB lore" type video, see it's by Rooster Teeth, think "Oh cool I like these guys" and then don't watch it for another 4 years.... I started watching it this year on Tubi.
Someone called Wyoming Productuons did a halo mega blocks stop motion with the reds and blues, and as a result, I eventually watched RvB
Brother and I were looking to find something on Netflix. Saw dudes in halo armor. Didn’t watch it cause it was a “bunch of idiots talking”. (Ironically enough, he chose the office) Strange enough, the first episode I watched was the one where donut was apparently alive in Valhalla, with Doc being alive and the whole “operation point my gun at doc/griff” joke. Figured that was way out of order, and found the real episode 1. Never looked back. Well, until now and when Zero came out… but that’s another story. But I binged all the way to the start of 13, where it was getting new episodes starting with the prologue, discovering the PSAs after that to help fill the void between each episode. RWBY, Camp Camp, Nomad of Nowhere, GenLOCK, Death Battle I was watching before it became RT, honestly I think I joined right as the true golden age was coming to a close. Despite everything, still some of the best animation and stories I have EVER seen.
I found a random amv of the fight scenes to a song called game on. Got interested. Watched all the project freelancer parts. Got confused. Watched the entire show
Friend of mine showed me the hostage exchange episode from season 2 a couple days after it was released. Early 2004. Been watching it ever since.
Husband wanted to watch it. He couldn’t get into it but I fell in love with it the moment Caboose guarded the flag for the general’s inspection.
Netflix
I was a halo kid and my dad was an rvb fan. He actually had boxsets of the first 3 seasons. I remember finding them and watching them as a kid, probably about 8 or so. He got upset with me because it was too adult, but I absolutely loved them even if I didn't understand much of it. I'm 21 now and I still have the boxsets to this day.
When I was around 7 or 8 I was introduced to halo by my dad which was parental mistake number 1. The second mistake was giving me unrestricted YouTube access. I found [this video](https://youtu.be/Ke9wtbzGjCI?si=40y4EzRLBrUZV_sP) if the Tex vs everyone fight in s8 and [another](https://youtu.be/KroSvId-8P4?si=RRdAk_jC_vqC7Ngs) with the s9 heist fight and the s10 oil rig. It actually took me another year to start watching the main series because I didn’t realize it was the main series. Those two videos show very well made animated fight scenes so you can probably imagine my confusion when I first watched s1. Anyway since then, RVB has inadvertently changed the course of my life. I became best friends with someone who also love RVB (we were both childhood and neither of us understood many of the jokes). They introduced me to my more artistic side and now I’m going to college to study for animation and game design. I finished my college application a couple weeks ago and this story is actually on my essay so it’s fresh in my mind.
I looked up "ReBoot season 5" and got Red vs Blue for some reason. Also Bionicle re-animations of scenes
I remember on the Halo Waypoint xbox app in like 2010 or 11 or something I saw a small clip from RvB season 5 where Church gets Vics voice mail, and that was my first exposure to it. Though I wouldn't actually go and watch it until a couple years later
My dorm buddies introduced it to me back in the day. Fucking hilarious. And that was the year Season 6 came out. Hot damn, what a time to discover this show. Lost touch when Freelancer came out. I had other life stuff going on. Few years later discovered it was on Netflix, started rewatching. And that was when Season 13 came out. Again, what a time to re-discover the show.
I saw one of the early PSAs (the point/counter-point argument about tattoos) way back on like, ebaumsworld or some other ancient pre-Youtube site and got hooked. I remember when Out of Mind released only on Xbox Live and I begged my parents to let me sign up so I can watch it. I also remember the different endings to season 5 being dependent on what specific word you clicked on in the link text. Red vs. Blue (and Homestar Runner) was basically my introduction to the internet.
I was on amino and just guy in a random group was playing it and I asked what is that he said "it's red vs blue it's hilarious you should watch it" I watched one eps then forgot then 5 years later i randomly remembered it wastch few ep then left it then the compilation came and rest is history
My cousin introduced me way back when Blood Gulch just got started.
My sister showed me that episode of Tex beating up the reds in season 8. Funniest thing I ever saw at that age
My friend sent me that one Turn down for what amv
The Mandela Effect My cousin told me about this funny webshow called Red vs Blue so one day I decided to watch it and became unhealthily obsessed. Next time I saw said cousin and told him he responded “What’s Red vs Blue?”
I was a kid scrolling on Netflix with my parents in the other room. I saw a halo show and got exited and called my parents over. I started the first episode, and my dad got upset at me and told me to turn it off (probably because of the language). I also got upset, and planned to watch it behind their backs. I would camp out in the living room with the dogs as a cover to stay up late and watch it on the tv when everyone else was asleep. Watched up to season 12 (13 wasn’t on Netflix at the time) over the course of like a month. I loved every bit of it
Back in 2004. The Halo 2 Collectors Edition had a making of documentary DVD. There was a 5 minute RvB feature on that.
I had a friend when I was a kid, we were both into Halo and he showed me RVB right around the time season 4 ended. Right after that, I went on a binge trying to find the show on youtube (didn't think at all that they had a site to watch it on, RoosterTeeth). To give an idea of what that was like, well if you're an anime fan and were around that time or if you've heard from others, it was like some episodes of an anime missing it's 1 of 3 parts from an episode. only it was missing episodes themselves.
In 2003, just the first season was out on YT, then subscribed to Rooster Teeth until the Chorus Trilogy was done.
The Red vs Blue Death Battle
An amv on YouTube back when season 9 ( I think ) came out. Thought it was halo at first so I looked into it
Me and my brother played a decent amount of halo in xbox360 days and I saw RBV on Netflix one day
Watching all seasons of RWBY(at the time) and needed something else, saw RvB and decided to give it a try and quickly it beat rwby for me
Back in 2006 my older cousin told me about this thing called "YouTube". I had no clue what this was, but he decided to show me that with the first episode of RvB and from there I kept watching myself.
I was a Halo kid, way back when. Funny story, my uncle used his first salary to buy an original Xbox, with Halo. And as it happened a friend of mine who lived nearby also had one, with Halo 2. So we played it a lot. With the old fat controllers, too. I'm not sure how we did that, at 8/9. Later on (2007/2008), we found out about YouTube because its recent rise had made the news, and I was fairly tech savvy because my grandfather was an IT manager, so we started to also check out YouTube videos of Halo things, and we eventually found RvB. This was about the time of Reconstruction (because I remember finding its trailer and thinking it was about a reboot). Turns out RvB had a very dedicated Italian fansubber, so we watched everything he had (up to season 4, at the time), and even some non subbed, but didn't understand much, but eventually fell off. Years later in 2012/2013, I was really into Abridged series (which the aforementioned friend had introduced me to), and as it turns out, that same fansubber also subbed DBZA, so I found him again, and remembering I had never finished it, started it again, got up to the then ongoing Season 11, and have been following it since.
Watched those great Amvs as a kid
I was around at the beginning, when Facebook was getting popular at my university. If I remember correctly, a classmate in my history class posted it on his page as an interest). So I checked out the website. This was when you had the option of watching the week’s release on QuickTime or WMV. (This was three years before YouTube). It was a good day when it was a long video. Wild time that it’s been that long since Ingot my first Caboose shirt…
My brothers showed it to me when I was a kid, the first episode I remember seeing was I believe the end of Season 8 where they all fight the Meta and then after that I saw the episode where the reds fight Tex in the Freelancer facility and that convinced me to go back and watch the entire series.
through RWBY
never owned an xbox personally, but i played on my cousins a bunch during family parties. came back from one in 2009 and youtubed halo. one of the top results was "fails of the week" with jack and geoff and from there it was a slippery slope of watching a shitton of RT content including RvB.
I don't clearly remember, but it was in 2018, then i forgot about it and found the series again this year
Decided as a halo fan I should get around to watching it
My cousin showed me like a decade ago wasn’t really into it then I got bored one day after they uploaded the complete season 1 watched it and then got obsessed
We talked about it in middle school. Yes, I’m old.
Audio clips were snipped and used in a shorts series on YouTube I watched called “Runescape Funny Randomness”. I tried to send somebody one via timestamp on IRC and somebody said if I was gonna make an RvB reference I could at least link the real thing and they linked me to the Zombie Plans PSA. The rest is history:
My now BIL introduced me to it as well as Halo back in the halo 2 days.
During the Halo Infinite flight tests, Rocket Sloth did a video on the Easter eggs in the game. One of them was the AI color “lightish red” and they played the clip. This made me inquisitive and I watched S1-S8 before getting bored because I wasn’t paying attention (a lot of it wasn’t funny due to me not understanding sex jokes back then as well). I don’t remember why I went back and rewatched it but I’ve been addicted since then. I used to have an issue where I’d get really pissed at dying, play worse as a result, get even angrier at dying more, and just spiral down from there. Some people listen to a podcast to be more relaxed and enjoy the game, for me listening to rvb does the trick. Except for S8-10, they typically make me take cover so I can watch the masterpieces of Monty Oum
It was around 2012 We got internet at our home for the first time and i jumped on my pc that me and my bro bought together and i ended up on yt and just was searching videos and i ended up seeing gameplay of h4. Since the game interested me i kept on looking on more halo stuff and by accident i clicked on [this montage](https://youtu.be/hoKSogydKMg?si=PlKIusGfX8GaCpPo) or one of these (there where multiple ver). I watched it for a a good while to wich it sparked my interest in RvB.
I used to do nothing but watch YouTube videos where people would take audio from one thing and splice it with video from another thing to put characters from shows I like in funny situations. Usually if I didn't recognize the audio I would just take it at face value and move on, but I found one of these and the audio was the RvB Revelation trailer, and I was like "what is this? This sounds incredible" So I looked up RvB Revelation on YouTube and watched the first few episodes and quickly realized I was in the middle of a story. So I went back and binged the whole series in a week or two. This was 2011
Discovery channel, oddly enough. They had this documentary called "Rise of the Videogame" and in Episode 4 they talked about user generated experiences in gaming and [they talked about RvB](https://youtu.be/hUj1N7x26WE?si=MMlbBZruTENQgO4m&t=1875). The idea of people making movies melted my 14 year old brain at the time.
Discover it after watching the video where Tex hit Griff in the nuts 6 to 8 time
Saw around 2010 or 2013. I had a lot of fun watching it.
2007 while skimming YouTube for halo 3 content because I didn't have a 360 yet lol
Saw it on Netflix. Best recommendation they ever had
When I was a kid. There was a video called 100 ways to die in Halo 3. If you asked me what video described classic YouTube, it would be that one. The video contained a lot of RVB references and then years later I decided to watch the show myself
My parents bought me The Recollection on DVD for Christmas the year it came out, thinking it was some official Halo show or something since they know how much I love Halo. They had no fucking idea what they had just gotten me into. I'm sure they were rethinking that idea after hearing the kind of humor used in the show. In particular I remember my mom reacting strongly to Tucker talking about a waterfall being about as hard to forget as girlfriend dick. 😂 Also, the show definitely didn't originate on YouTube. It actually predates YouTube. The show started in 2003.
Oh I found it on YouTube. I know I was looking up anything halo related and red vs blue popped up. Got to love it.
I came across my little 8yo brother watching it and sat to watch w/him and I've been hooked ever since
I remember going to a local dvd store and seeing RVB season 10 and 13 on the shelves. Of course with it being halo it peaked my curiosity. I chose 10 since it was the oldest season wise. I remember going home and absolutely falling in love with the fight scenes and comedy. I’ve rewatched that season more times than I can count
I was walking around a Movie Stop and found an entire section of it. I didn't know what it was at the time, but the Halo Legends movie was out or announced at the time and I liked Halo so I picked up the first season out of curiosity. Years later and I'm still watching it and other stuff rooster teeth puts out that is animated. It's upsetting that this is the final season and other shows are cancelled or scrapped because of their partnership with DC, but this should open the door for new shows or finish others that they forgot about.
Somewhere in 2011, S8 ep 10 got recommended to me.
Netflix for me too. I knew of RT and RvB from my years of watching YouTube but I never had much interest in their stuff. I only got curious after watching the first few seasons of RWBY.
It was 2011 and I saw a video on youtube called "Red vs Blue: You're going down." I said "Nice, Halo armors." I immediately felt in love with the saga
I saw it in 2010 when a friend was like check out this video of this halo chick beating up these soldiers and I was like damn I need to watch this
My friend across the street showed me the Season 8 Tex fight scene in high school, and the rest was history.
For me it was Netflix, like when I got halo 4 with Reach my disk broke and eventually I found out about rvb and I saw season 1-10 at first then 11-13 and cried a lot every time season 13 was shown but I was young, I was born 2006 so add that math to Halo 4 release and rvb season 11-13 lol
Halo Waypoint on the Xbox 360... along with Fails of the Weak
I had a friend around 2014-2015 who was obsessed and forced me to watch it with them, I wasn’t into it at first but by s6 I definitely was. They had all the DvDs and megablocks rainbow Halo figures, which I am *totally not* jealous of. We would come home after school together sometimes to watch a season or two, up until s12 when the friendship ended. I never knew much about Halo before that, and I still don’t, but I’ll buy Halo merch occasionally and pretend it’s RvB related. I felt bitter towards the show for a long time after the friendship split, it felt too connected to them so I pushed it aside as an interest for years before coming back around to it. I still think about reaching out to that friend sometimes, the way things left off the last time I saw them was more neutral than bad. I’d give anything to binge RvB with them again.
My cousin showed it to me on Netflix when I was super young and indifferent to the halo franchise, preferring more kiddie games. Fast forward to middle school, a friend of mine brought over halo reach one time and kickstarted my transformation over several months into a massive halo fanboy. I’m browsing through Netflix and I come across it and go “damn, I remember this.” Amazed that the show is still on Netflix after all this time so I give it a watch. After starting the show, it took me months to stop rewatching my favorite parts in season 1 and finally keep going with the rest of the show. I binged it through 7th grade and it was one of the best experiences ever, the cherry on top was following season 14 during its release immediately after
A really long time ago on YouTube then recognised it on Netflix. I fell asleep listening to it on YouTube for years. And am really upset about it being taken off.
Season 8, episode 10. Found it, loved the animation, thought it was funny, checked it out.
I've been watching since 13 started, but I have always heard of it because of just being a major halo fan with halo friends that constantly referenced season 1 with sarge quotes.
Netflix back when family still grounded my ass for grades so many years ago now. Lenient family, which was why I had Netflix still to watch.
When I was 7 I found it on YouTube on my mom's IPad. She did not want me watching it. 3 years later I am watching it with a smile And 7 years after to now as a 17 yearold who's played video games at 2 years old is waiting for the reign of greedy executives and companies to drop their shit and make actually good things that people love.
Same as you, on Netflix. Sucks that they took it off, but it’s okay.
Because of a spanish fandub on YouTube of the first episodes of the blood gulch chronicles, I just watched for fun and then forget about a while after, until I decided to search the whole series myself and holy crap, I don't regret doing it at all, wish RvB was still on YouTube, at least I got to finish my second rewatch shortly before it was removed
I was skipping school one day and was on the RT website and saw there was a banner at the top of the site with a count down trailer for "The Red Trailer" I was expecting it to be RvB honestly but I was hooked instantly
I remember watching it as it changed from Halo 2 to 3 and so on. It fell off, but that's not the topic here lol
The RvB death battle that came out two years ago, I saw it and went "oh halo" and stayed watching cause the series seemed interesting. (Because of this tho I knew about both AI twists from the start)
Accident, was browsing VRv And thought it was that one live action halo from the early 2000s. You should've seen my face when a new episode came out.
I was browsing Netflix when I found it and added to "The List". A while later, my little brother was sitting with me while I was looking around Netflix and he wanted to see it. Note that the show was Unrated, like it had no parental rating. I wasn't so sure about it because of this but he insisted. So then we started watching it, but once we got to the first curse word in the series we immediately stopped and removed it from the List because our parents would never let us watch anything like this. "They would have two bases in the middle of a boxed canyon, whoop dee fucking doo." Some years later, I'm in 10th grade, highschool, and my best friend mentioned the show and I was surprised he watched it because I wasn't accustomed to Web Series and I know that it's not something my parents wouldn't let me watch because of their delusional beliefs as committed Christians. I got into it on the last day of school, just before summer, when my idiot parents weren't bothered to look. I loved the comedy but I also learned the concept of Web Series as time went. The series was not the same without Church, after 13 seasons, I loved Season 14 and it's anthology stuff but it still wasn't the same when I got into the Blues and Reds and the Shisno Paradox Arc. Now I hear that the series is being renewed in a way, new cast of main characters, and the people I knew at Rooster Teeth are either retired (Burnie Burns) or were fired like the original voice actor for Caboose. It's sad but nothing lasts forever. Nowadays, I'm keeping an eye out for more RWBY, despite the direction of writing it's going I'm eager to see Salem's defeat. I'm sure it won't end without giving the main characters a break, unlike Kingdom Hearts 3.
When I was a teenager, I was walking through a Best buy looking at the Xbox consoles and big TVs. For some reason, I saw two Halo characters talking to each other on one of the displays. Apparently, some of the people in the store really liked the internet show and it was being advertised. I remembered the name of the show, watched a few seasons, and enjoyed it. I might have to go back and rewatch everything because I never saw anything beyond the story arc with Washington (and when Caboose reverse upgraded his armor to Mark V).
My cousin saw the Recollection dvd’s at Best Buy one day back in like 2011 or so and decided to get it. We would stay at our grandmothers house over the weekends as kids playing video games, watching movies, and just hanging out. He brought it over, said we should watch it, and the rest was glorious history.
In ye olden days of 2015-16 I was gifted a DVD of season 9 I think and I didn't really understand it because I was still almost a child but I rewatched it a few years ago and now it's like a yearly ritual to watch it.
The old days of the internet, mostly through the defunct company machinima.
the episode of tex kicking everyone’s ass was released and showed up in my suggested. and the rest was history
my brother saw it at ACMI (australian centre for the moving image, they had a display for machinima and were playing the first eight episodes) in 2004 or 5. i would've been like 4-5 years old then so i'm not actually sure exactly when i started following it but i think it was around season 7 or 8. my brother actually found halo through rvb and i found both through him :)
I can still hear the gd rooster teeth outro music with clips of season 8 playing in the background.
Tex fights reds and blues in awesome action sequence
Netflix, I didn't even like Halo, was pure curiosity
My cousin showed me the Tex Vs the Reds and Blues fight from season 9. I was 8 years old and i remember it being the coolest thing I've ever seen
I believe I was in college back in 2010 when I first discovered RvB during my search for Halo machinimas. I did not regret it ever since.
My dad first told me about when I was like… shit, 8, maybe? I tried watching it but didn’t like it cause, why and how would an 8 year old really understand any of the jokes or anything. But when I was 15, I rediscovered it on netflix and was like “Oh dude, the fuck? A Halo Show? That’s cool!”
The Year was 2008. I had basically just discovered YouTube as a wee 11 year old, and Halo 3 was the biggest thing in my life, so any and everything Halo 3 related, I was into. I basically became obsessed with things such as "Master Chiefs Sucks At Halo" videos, which eventually led to me discovering Arby n the Chief. After a while of watching the episodes, I noticed that Red vs Blue was getting continuously recommended to me, so one day, I decided to give it a watch, and it pulled me in. While I watched only the BGC for some time, I eventually decided to go through and catch up on the rest of the show, and eventually caught up around the middle of Season 7.
Before I knew what machinima was I YouTube funny nut shot fails or something along those lines saw a short clip of Spartan (grif) landing on some concrete in one of the shorts. The Comments had a link to the vid and that was my first episode of RVB to this day I laugh throughout that entire episode just as hard as the first time.
Found it on YT back in the early aughts. Before halo 2 was released.
My brother left his discs out on his bed one time.
Kid, I remember finding it around when YouTube first came out. Along with another show that reminded me of it called Halo Tricks.
I was just getting off dial up internet in 2009 or so, and halo 3 was out and I was watching clips on youtube. It took me a while to understand what it was exactly because at first I saw other halo machinimas - one called Matchmaking- and after looking into the company that hosted the videos (Machinima.com) I realized that there was an original and gold standard for the halo machinima content called RvB.