I'm going to come back to this sub just this once to bring awareness to a really big issue. And while this isn't specifically connected to SMG4, this is something that affects everybody making content even remotely similar to it. There's a 14 year old named bonmario who has been infamous in the machinima community for a long time for constantly harassing other users. This week, however, he went the extra mile. He created fake companies named BonMario inc and bonluigi and submitted them into YouTube's automated systems. And he's using them to falsely copyright strike Mario 64 machinimas of all kinds, the biggest example being the Who Let The Chomp Out rebloopered collab. This has resulted in multiple channel terminations and the surviving channels privatizing their entire catalogs of work. Here's a list of tweets from a handful of victims I know.

https://twitter.com/Real_SuperG64/status/1473768227503329284
https://twitter.com/SuperRhys217/status/1474195042394804240
https://twitter.com/puddin104/status/1474438408760180738
https://twitter.com/TersX3/status/1473772870530650120
https://twitter.com/The_RealSparky/status/1473135689030012931
https://twitter.com/Waluigifan32/status/1473683518995709960

This guy has also falsely accused people of being pedophiles, claims he owns the rights to his Mario recolor, and doxes people's addresses. Here's another tweet for more info.

https://twitter.com/Waluigifan32/status/1473721972903354370

I'm sharing this here because YouTube is (naturally) doing jack squat to help the issue with their automated corporate responses. I'm watching my friends left and right getting their channels and motivation destroyed because of the abuse of the system, and none of them are big enough to get a human being's attention. You wanna talk about "literally 1984"? This is that. So please, if you care about machinimists beyond just SMG4, help me get YouTube's attention in anyway you can, if not for yourselves, than at least for my friends. Thank you.

UPDATE 12/25/21: One of the machinimists has reached

Hi everyone,

I was just a little bit nostalgic and I remembered how much more alive and interactive the WoW community was back in the day. People seemed to be more engaged into the world of World of Warcraft. And may i say there was also a golden age of WoW machinima content creation. There were even contests back then for the best machinima videos. Nowadays I feel like people (except maybe Nixxiom) don’t really care about WoW Machinimas anymore. But I now back then me and my friends watched a lot of those videos. I looked after some of them and listed them here. There are many more I sadly forgot.

Azerothian Super Villains (ibeckman671) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2WG-9wocwM&ab_channel=ibeckman671

Inventing Swear Words (Oxhorn) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5q3TG5yCG0&t=12s&ab_channel=OxhornMovies

The internet is for …. (theimpalers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRgNOyCnbqg&ab_channel=theimpalers

World of Warcraft (COPS) (ibeckman671) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWyYhGwXNLo&ab_channel=ibeckman671

World of Warcraft: Whatever (Saffron)

https://youtu.be/yB97KygvPFk

Leeroy Jenkins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyOj_QD4a4&ab_channel=JJonahJameson

That's the World of Warcraft That You Play! (ibeckman671) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4TyqYsC26g&ab_channel=ibeckman671

Edit 1 (because it was mentioned in the comments):

Just Loot it (Nyhm) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8mpnN2fVYQ&ab_channel=Nyhm

Edit 2 (even more old stuff from the comments):

I'm a Hunter - World of Warcraft Hunter Song (WarcraftHuntersUnion) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0l4T9kRlBE&ab_channel=WarcraftHuntersUnion

Ulduar (Summergale Nesingwary) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hgcy6bsg4g&ab_channel=SummergaleNesingwary](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hgcy6bsg4g&a

Besides RvB

This is a strange case I know, but please hear me out,

Sometime during the 2010s and I was a dumb kid on the internet I went onto a Minecraft server, being obsessed with Zelda I naturally went to ZeldaCraft. I remember one time I was using a Toon Link skin and walked up to a random stranger and jokingly equipped a wooden sword and said "It's dangerous to go alone take this" then said it was a reference to the 1986 Zelda for the NES and then when they said it was funny I said I was twelve (Because that is Toon Link's cannon age) and he ran off.

I then remember on YouTube some time after looking for Zelda animations, as I did, I found a Zelda and Minecraft animation and instantly clicked it, I was in shock. It was a reanimation of exactly what happened, almost, I was the butt of the joke in this case even more. The video started up with Machinima I think? And then had some Minecrafter spawn into a server and Toon Link walked up to him and instead of me saying the line about it being dangerous to go alone the Minecrafter did jokingly and I can remember he giggled while saying it, he then clarified the joke, confused I didn't get it and said, "Get it? The 1982 Zelda?" (I remember him getting the release date wrong) then Toon Link out of nowhere comedically saying, "I'M TWELVE!!" Then the Minecrafter reacts scared and the video then cuts to a hilarious skit of the player behind the Minecrafter screaming and shouting and snorting cocaine to cope with the cringe he just endured, then it cuts to his outro.

Maybe the video got removed however I wanted to find it to comment on it a few times recently but cannot for the life of me find it. If anyone can help I would really appreciate it, not only to comment on the video and see if they remember me and the situation (maybe even correct it slightly) but also for nostalgia and being an animator now myself I would love to see the first animation I indirectly starred in.

Thank you for reading this far and if you choose to accept, I thank you and I wish you luck!!

P.S - I think I actually got banned from ZeldaCraft for raiding not long after for being too young to understand how servers worked lol

RvB: Assignment Pending is a hypothetical RvB inspired machinima series that I came up with.

The story takes place between halo 4 and 5 and follows two 3 man teams in a familiar setting. A blue team and a red team in a canyon stuck in a constant stalemate. However, instead of the two teams being there for the purpose of being Sim troopers, the teams are there, basically, to be out of some ONI higher up's hair. But they don't know that.

The teams are told that they are there to await their assignments. The other team are also waiting their assignments, and both teams are basically told to play capture the flag with the other team, and not to worry, because the bullets their guns fire are "not real" and are "non lethal frangibles filled with red paint" obviously, they aren't. And the higher ups just don't care if they die or not.

The teams and their reasons for being there are in the comments. This post would be too long if I put them in here.

(Rendered)

Enter 'A Whole New World', which follows four friends - playboy, party animal, Justin Flint; awkward, geeky, young investor, Trevor Hillman; energetic, professional athlete, Jarred García; musical prodigy, dog lover, Ethan Walker. What kind of weird and strange adventures will these gentlemen find themselves in?

I've been working on this project for the past year and a half and I am so excited to get this out there! Let me know what you think!

https://preview.redd.it/irue2snrrqa81.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=f834987c6be3bbdc08e498a3d4a1c4a80ec41835

https://preview.redd.it/ssbvl3orrqa81.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=d95d25f3145a36389d10334c8890ecca0d0a6bd8

https://preview.redd.it/ofw9kdhbsqa81.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ec3da67550113040a9d3f3eea537df283ba26c5

Both videos, S2:E2 and E4 are part of the "COD: Grandpa is an MLG pro series"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLE__5AYmiU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQeqousW-Mc
Quick "Fuck you" to Machinima for removing everything

If anyone has any links to missing Jerma videos, feel free to post them down below, and I'll try and archive them. No promises though!

So, for years I've been looking for this old, cringey, so-bad-you-can't-stop-watching series that was on YT called G-Mod Adventures (or something to that effect). It was like, 100+ episodes in length and was mostly just still images with text edited over it. Included a LARGE cast of characters from almost ever popular IP at the time: Metroid, Halo, Half-Life, Sonic, Mario, etc. And yes, I tagged this as animation using the loosest definition possible.

I've searched the title on YT and a few variants but can't seem to get results older than 5-7 years and this was probably mid-late 2000s because it was before I graduated in '09. Probably '07?

I've even recovered my oldest YT account in the hopes that it was logged in its history but alas it wasn't.

Also just looking to see that hopefully someone besides my friends and I stumbled upon this and it wasn't some mass hallucination we all had. Thanks for your time regardless!

3D animation is hard. You need expensive software to even get started, a powerful computer to render it, 3D modelling skills to creat anything, and the patience to figure out how to use it properly. As a 15 year-old boy in 2008, you don’t have any of these things - what you do have however is a huge collection of video games, a couple of controllers, and an idea.

And so it was that machinima was born.

Machinima (that’s “machine” + “cinema”) is a style of animation that uses video game footage to create videos and films. I’m not talking about montages or compilations, but videos with camera angles, characters, scripts, narratives, the whole shebang. These can range from short sketches, to long series with dozens of episodes and overarching stories. Players become performers, recording themselves acting scenes and giving you the opportunity to film elaborate sequences without having to worry about annoying things like large sets, costuming, extensive SFX work or pyrotechnics.

Thanks to its relatively low barrier to entry, a thriving scene of amateur filmmakers sprung up creating videos that ran the gamut from comedy shorts, to action movies, to horror, to parody videos, to music videos, and everything in between. Most are fairly small projects, but you do get the occasional large-scale production with hundreds of “actors”.

As long as you had the time, a couple of friends, enough controllers to go round and an unlicensed version of HyperCam2, you too could make your very own movies from the comfort of your sofa. While there were a couple of machinimas that got big enough to turn their creators into professionals (example: Rooster Teeth with Red vs Blue), the vast majority of machinimators are hobbyists. And when you have a lot of people engaged in the same hobby, a community inevitably springs up, as do a couple of websites that eventually become the go-to place to talk shop, share ideas and make friends.

And that brings us to...

Machinima.com

If you were aged between 10-16 and active online at any point between 2006 and 2012, this logo probably triggers intense nostalgia for you. Launched in 2000