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RQGaming update & marketing news
🕑 Added 2020-04-07 15:46:20 +0000 UTCHey folks!
I know you're expecting the final thrilling installment of the latest #RQGaming special, 4Thought being run by Bryn Monroe. Unfortunately, some technical difficulties and corrupted files have meant we need to do some emergency repairs on the episode. Rest assured Alex and the editors are working on it, but it will be delayed somewhat and I don't have a new release time as yet. But we will release it as soon as we are able to. Apologies for this delay!
In other news, thanks to the fantastic work of our Chief Marketing Officer, Callum, we've been branching out on our marketing efforts. You may have seen releases through more mainstream news outlets, and now we've turned to YouTuber sponsorship! For our first foray into this field, we've partnered with TV & pop culture commentator, Negative Legend.
Negative Legend is a US YouTuber, specialising in commentary on TV shows, animation and video games, whose most popular series is called What Happened To... where he takes a detailed retrospective look at shows, games and toys, like Little Witch Academia, Beyblade and the World of Warcraft CCG.
We've sponsored his latest video - What Happened to... Generator Rex and you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ulpxwbc40k and let us know what you think. Would you like to see us sponsor more creators?
Cheers!
Anil
Community Manager
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I'm genuinely very relieved that RQ/everyone seems to be doing okay financially right now, let alone continuing to make new content, but tbh I don't really understand prioritizing paying unrelated creators for promotion services while RQ continues to profit off of unpaid labor within its existing community? Specifically I can't help but think of the transcriptionists who've stepped in to provide a service that RQ has been promising but unable to provide since I joined the fandom in 2018. Setting aside the unscripted shows which I know have extra challenges, at this point less than half of the episodes on the TMA feed have an official transcript, and I know it's not like you *asked* folks to go out and fill that gap for you for free, but it's impossible to miss how much the fandom relies on the rapid and excellent work of the fanscribers who are doing so. There's the obvious accessibility concerns, but with TMA in particular it's hard to build a red string brigade without the ability to rapidly cite and cross-reference small details across 160+ episodes. If there's no time in the day or money in the budget that's understandable, but it increasingly seems like that's not the case.
