Early Installment Weirdness / Web Animation

• When Animated Inanimate Battle first hit YouTube in 2018, the show was supposed to be low-budget, with almost all the characters lacking limbs and faces and all of them talking through subtitles rather than actual voice acting. The characters themselves were also either different and/or unpolished compared to their current designs. This is why when the original first episode got re-released in early 2020, it was referred to as the show's Pilot. Later episodes do not have this weirdness, but it still referenced in the intro as a brief Mythology Gag.
• Animator vs. Animation's very first installment in 2006 was limited to the Flash interface, as opposed to future entries that went to the desktop and beyond. It also starred the fairly generic and powerless victim, who would not be seen again until Animator vs. Animation VI, a whole 17 years later. The next two installments were a little more closer to the modern era, with the Chosen One becoming a recurring character down the line, but it was definitely around Animator vs. Animation IV in 2014, which debuted the Second Coming and the Fighting Stick Figures, that the series coalesced into what it is today.
• The first three seasons of Arby 'n' the Chief were rather contrasting to later ones.
  • The show was generally more situational as opposed to the overarcing plots of Seasons 5-7. It originally had a much more comedic tone with little to no serious moments. Plotlines often revolved around different controversies going on in the gaming industry (such as the claims that Resident Evil 5 was racist, panic over a glitch in Halo, and the introduction of avatars on Xbox Live)
  • Toy characters could originally interact with humans with no consequence. In the second episode when Arbiter is delivered, Chief signs a slip for the package and hands it to the mailman. Later on, this was strictly forbidden and Arbiter panics when Chief orders pizza and almost reveals the living toys to the delivery man.
  • Early episodes tried things that simply weren't well-received by the viewers or didn't fit in the series. New toy characters were introduced in season 2 that quickly disappeared. There was apparently supposed to be a storyline involving their disappearance, but this was abandoned in season 3 and creates something of a plot hole that was lampshaded in a scene at the end of that season.
  • A lot of the weirdness stems from when the early seasons were made. Chief used 1337speak much more gratuitously, and there were lots of references to now-dated internet memes or jokes that were already getting stale by the time the videos came out, such as Rick Rolling and a character representing anonymous and 4chan in general. Basically, you can tell that the early seasons were made in 2007-2009. Even more evident if you watch the original "Master Chief Sucks at Halo" trilogy. The subtitles are at the top of the screen rather than the bottom, and they're white rather than green, as well as a different font. Chief already knows "The Arbiter", who speaks in the same manner as him despite the "current" Arbiter not showing up til the actual series. Fans have speculated that this is a different character altogether. Additionally, Chief himself speaks much slower due to Jon not speeding up Microsoft Sam.
  • In both Master Chief Sucks at Halo and early Arby n the Chief, the entire soundtrack is composed of music from other media. In particular, "Frolic", the theme from Curb Your Enthusiasm, is prominently featured to the point that it was considered the show's main theme. There was other recurring music, but after YouTube started cracking down on copyrighted material, Jon received some claims on the music and later seasons had their own original music.
  • Video quality in general was much fuzzier and very low-res. Scenes involving gameplay were even sometimes recorded with a camera rather than a capture card. This was partially due to YouTube lacking support for higher-quality video back then. Series creator Jon Graham has stated that it also has to do with how troublesome it was to produce the videos. He often compressed them into 240p or 360p because they took far longer to render and upload otherwise.
• CatGhost has some really odd things before Cerebus Syndrome hit like a brick. Narrah and Elon were giant Jerkass who taunted Gideon instead of the concerned impatient mother figure and Genki Girl Jerk with a Heart of Gold Cute Ghost Girl they are known as later. Narrah was a bit of a narcissist. And they both had Glowing Eyes of Doom. Meanwhile Gideon is more of an everyman and not the Emo Teen older brother figure he was in later videos. They weren't even established as living in the cabin and could go more places living in a random street corner. It was also implied Narrah and Elon lived in Video is head.
• DEATH BATTLE!:
  • The first two episodes are very different from what the show would eventually become. Wiz was not yet established as the Straight Man, Boomstick had a normal-sounding voice instead of his usual Deep South accent, the fight animation wasn't as impressive as later episodes, and the combatants had health bars, which somewhat gave away the result of the fight.
  • Season 1 in general is this. The character rundowns were far shorter, the animation itself was far more subpar, with more primitive blood and explosion effects, and the series itself didn't take itself as seriously as it later would. The season also features a far larger amount of joke episodes (such as "Goomba VS Koopa" and "Justin Bieber VS Rebecca Black"), which would become more rare in later seasons, and one episode, "Eggman VS Wily", is the only episode in the series where the winner is someone other than one of the characters the fight itself is about. It wouldn't be until "Thor VS Raiden" that the series would begin to gain the style and improvements that would be more prominent in later seasons.
  • The first 3D episode, "Link VS Cloud", is far more stiff and awkward in its animation compared to later 3D episodes, and is also the only 3D fight to be set in a generic, pillar-filled arena with the ScrewAttack logo on the wall rather than a setting fitting for either character. It's likely due to these reasons that this fight would receive an improved rematch episode in season 8. The second 3D episode (as well as the final season 1 episode), "Goku VS Superman", is also a case of this by virtue of being the only other 3D episode created before Torrian Crawford joined the team and became one of the head 3D animators, though the episode itself is still a huge improvement over "Link VS Cloud".
• ENA: "Auction Day" is this. It shares the aesthetic of the series, but lacks the "fake video game" style that "Extinction Party" and "Temptation Stairway" would go on to have, being more or less a short film about ENA and Moony. In addition, while the work is definitely surreal, it has more of a focus on Surreal Humor, while the other two videos would go on to have elements of Surreal Horror.
• Extra Credits has this in several stages.
  • At the show's inception, it was called Extra Credit and not Extra Credits.
  • Occasionally, the plaque on Daniel's lectern would display "Daniel Floyd".
  • During Allison's tenure as artist on the original run of the series; she employed increasingly bizarre creatures which would represent various themes in each episode. The artists who would succeed her opted not to follow suit and employed their own stamp while keeping to the overall style of the show. There have been 7 different animators for the show (along with many guest animators at various points for various reasons), with 3 of those animators being current.
  • Dan's voice was slowly pitched down to be a lot closer to his natural speaking voice rather than The Chipmunks voice he had at the start, even though it was still higher-pitched.
  • The location of most of the episodes was up in the air for the first few years: Dan's personal YouTube channel (because they were intended to be college projects rather than a long-running series), then The Escapist, then Penny Arcade, before finally landing on their own YouTube channel.
  • The whole scope and scale of the project, as well as the actual content has changed from just being about game design. They added Extra History in 2013, Extra Sci-Fi in 2017, and Extra Mythology and Extra Politics in 2018. It finally got to the point where Extra Credits, the flagship show, was no longer their main focus, and they moved it off to its own separate channel in 2023. Therefore, seeing game design videos on a channel that is currently called "Extra History" can be quite weird for new viewers.
  • The entire lineup went through a Ship of Theseus from 2008 through 2019 to get to its current configuration. The show started as Dan Floyd (voice), James Portnow (writer), and Allison Theus (animator). Theus left in 2012, Floyd left in 2018, and Portnow left in 2019.
• Fallen Kingdom: The song in the first installment, "Fallen Kingdom", is a spoof of a Coldplay song. The others are all original.
• The first five episodes of The Frollo Show were written as YouTube Poop rather than coherent narratives. The first five episodes were re-cut into a single video, eliminating the nonsensical scenes and only keeping scenes important to the story. Among the weird differences of the early videos include:
  • In her initial appearance in the first episode, Frollo wanted to rape Madotsuki. In later episodes, she is a valuable ally to Frollo, and played a key role in launching the events of the second saga, "Frollo Finally Does It".
  • A lot of Frollo's sentence-mixed dialogue was hard to understand and had to be subtitled. Recent episodes replace this with sound clips of Megabyte from ReBoot, who was also voiced by Tony Jay; both performances sound identical, allowing seamless blending.
• Garfielf in its original short was basically just lazy Garfield with TTS voices, but as the videos go on, more developed story arcs take place, vulgar humor is added, and the soundtrack is now MIDI instead of Coc'n'Rolla.
• Happy Tree Friends:
  • In the pilot from way back in 1999, Cuddles, Toothy and Giggles have completely different designs, there's a dinosaur character who seems to be a Composite Character between Lumpy (in appearence) and Flippy (in personality), and the episode was less than a minute long. The opening and end sequences were also completely different from all later episodes. Also, Toothy's decapitated head bites the dinosaur, something that would never happen in the current show.
  • As with the current show, the early episodes had much slower animation, the character voices were very different (with the most strikingly examples being Splendid and Russell), and the morals at the end of the episodes were random rather than having something to do with the plot of the episode.
  • One very early episode ("Helping Helps") showed that Giggles have a mother. Giggles' Mother would never appear in the show again, as no character (with the exception of Cub) would be shown with their parents after this episode.
• The pilot of Helluva Boss has a few noticeable departures from the rest of the show. The episode is structured far more like an episode of The Office (US), with characters discussing things and suddenly cutting to what they were talking about^note at one point having a cutaway gag inside of a cutaway gag, when this is nowhere present in the show proper and the episodes follow a more conventional narrative outline. The main characters are also nothing like they are in the show. Blitzo is an incompetent moron rather than a killing savant afraid to show emotional vulnerability. Millie is an impulsive airhead rather than the well-adjusted, emotionally-grounding force in a cast full of psychopathy, emotional trauma, and daddy issues. Loona isn't a troubled young woman with a heart of gold lashing out at a world that doesn't view her as a real person. She's every bit the horrid, despicable person she portrays herself as complete with assaulting a baby to blow off steam. Moxxie's respect for Blitzo is totally absent and his frustration with his usual antics is dialed up into full-blown hostility, being portrayed as the Only Sane Man to balance out the other three members. Lastly, Stolas is a supervillain who orders a hit on an anti-Climate Change politician for the explicit purpose of causing more people to die from Climate Change. His relationship with Blitzo is much more of the bog-standard Abhorrent Admirer variety rather than the genuine love, albeit one rife with toxicity from both ends, the two would go on to share. There's also the fact that some elements of the pilot don't make sense in the context of future episodes, most notably IMP returning the body of one of their targets by opening a portal to the living world live on National TV, when it's later emphasized that the secrecy of Hell being maintained is paramount, even being the foundation of the plot in Truth Seekers. The pilot makes so little sense in the context of the rest of the series that Vivziepop threw the baby out with the bathwater and straight up declared the pilot non-canon.
• Homestar Runner :
  • The first Halloween Episode is the only one in which Homsar does not appear (it was released before the second Strong Bad Email ever, which marked the character's debut).
  • The first Teen Girl Squad episode is the only one where the "IT'S OVER!!!" ending card is actually written on top of the last scene rather than on a separate card. The personalities of the girls seem basically identical, as opposed to representing various teenage girl cliches. It's also the only episode where one of the girls is referred to by name, instead of their nicknames being their actual names. The deaths have no setup whatsoever, while later episodes would generally foreshadow them at least a little, or play them as a punchline. And curiously, it's the only episode where Cheerleader is the only survivor, where normally she tends to get the most brutal deaths.
  • The Strong Bad Emails used to run shorter, often consisting simply of Strong Bad reading the email and writing his reply. Later ones usually include extended fantasy sequences, flashbacks, interruptions by other characters, and Strong Bad walking away from his computer to do other things which may or may not be related.
    • The bonus DVD Strong Bad Email called "Accent" plays with early weirdness, as a fan notices that Strong Bad used to have a Mexican accent (likely related to his masked luchador look) and wonders if he ever will get it back. It's even extrapolated to show what his voice may have sounded like five years in the future, had his decline in his accent continued.
    • Older toons on the site generally ran shorter, a reflection of the Brothers Chaps' inexperience in using Flash. This has resulted in the disparity that newer "Shorts" frequently run longer than the older "Big Toons".
  • Heck, look at the first few cartoons. "Marshmallow's Last Stand" has some pretty odd animation and character designs, and most of the characters themselves behave differently than in later videos.
• Pixel art animator Paul Robertson's very early work Hyper Parsnip Bitches has all the character being voiced and, since it's mostly a spoof of anime and videogame tropes, has the two leads speak with an annoying pseudo-Japanese accent. He wisely choose for all his subsequent works to keep the characters silent and let the images speak for themselves.
• The first episodes of Inanimate Insanity look drastically different than later episodes (not to mention the fact that MePhone sounded exactly like Chris McLean). When it was released, the fandom thought that it was a terrible attempt to emulate the earlier Battle for Dream Island. With time, the show found its own way and, together with BFDI, made way to numerous "Object Shows".
  • The earlier artstyle of II is made fun of in its one-year anniversary, where MePhone changes the artstyle back to what it was back then, with MePhone's voice being completely recycled from those earlier episodes. Everyone hated it.
• JaidenAnimations had Jaiden being more soft-spoken in her earlier videos. She was also more socially awkward than she later became.
• In JAMIEvstheVOID's earliest videos, his (since-dropped) familiar colour scheme of pink, purple and turquoise was not present, instead the videos were almost entirely black and white, with the pink hair of Jamie's (then female, as he was not out as trans yet) avatar being the only colour.
• Some things in Let's Go! Tamagotchi are a bit different compared to the later installments in the franchise:
  • Tosakatchi is a member of Hinotamatchi's band, and the latter plays the guitar. In the later installments, Hinotamatchi sings.
  • Zukyutchi is a student in Ms. Perfect's class. This series is the only time he is in her class, as Tamagotchi: The Movie onward completely reduced him down to cameo appearances.
  • The basketball hoop in said class is used by Kuchipatchi, ShimaShimatchi, Zukyutchi (who manages to shoot the ball into it), and later Mametchi in episode 1. It is reduced to a background prop after this.
• The Madness Combat series didn't start out so mad, or combative for that matter. The first in the series was about a silly cannon ride that shot people into a giant marshmallow. There were a few deaths in it, but all of them were by accident. The second was an unnamed protagonist just trying to dance the "Chicken Dance," and most of the violence was fisticuffs, though the seeds of the ultra-violent gunplay were sewn there.
  • It was also harder to tell which character was Hank in the earlier episodes, as back then he simply looked like an average Grunt.
• Manga Soprano:
  • In earlier stories, Alto was a former delinquent known as the "Silver Devil" for being notoriously strong, hiding in the guise of a nerd and going back to that identity whenever he loses his patience or a loved one (especially Kanade) is in danger. Later stories dropped this backstory and never mention it again.
  • Early high-school chapters also featured a group named "Lobelia Siphilitica", led by Erica.
  • Early stories always took place in high school. Later stories have more diverse settings such as workplaces.
• Marvel TL;DR, an official webseries created by Marvel Comics to recap the storylines of past comics, went through a lot of changes. The first four episodes of season one, which only focused on the plots being adapted for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, had very little animation. It wouldn't be until the first episode of Season 3, focusing on Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers, that the current style with both animation work and additional moments of character banter would coalesce.
• Minilife TV: The X-Team is presented in a more comedic fashion in "Season 3 Finale!" than it is in later seasons. In the Season 3 Watch Party, Chris says this was changed because he didn't think a terrorist organization should be presented comedically.
• The Most Popular Girls in School: The things that stood out in the first three episodes include Mackenzie and Trisha who still looked like knock-off dolls, neither wearing their cheerleader uniforms, and Mackenzie's voice.
• Neurotically Yours in the first handful of episodes was very rough and different compared to the rest. The animation quality was very rough, Germaine was a Flat Character who didn't speak, Foamy spoke very fast and said whatever was on his mind, and was more of an actual humor-based cartoon with original jokes and scenarios, compared to the more sociological rants seen today.
• TheOdd1sOut: In the first video, "A Book I Made as a Kid", there was music playing in the background. Later videos would only have music if it was needed for a gag.
• During the closing credits of the first episode of Paramount Logo Bloopers, Microsoft Mike bleeps out Sam's use of "shit" before saying that "this is a family show". (The same episode also has a bleep that doesn't even cover up The Tourettes Guy shouting "fuck" in the opening sequence.) The show would quickly drop the "family show" label and, as the show developed its own running gags that differentiated it from its inspiration, Looney Tunes Intro Bloopers, heavy usage of uncensored swearing became a Running Gag. The remastered version still has a bleep, but Mike no longer says "this is a family show"; he only says that he "had to do that".
• Puff it to the Limit is a strange example. While its first three episodes gradually swapped out subtitles in favor of speech bubbles for the dialogue, the pixel animation and audio remained polished throughout. However, it soon became taxing for the series creator modnaryug to make video episodes on a regular basis, due to more elaborate action scenes and increasing dialogue (as well as shifting focus to various small video request projects), so the medium switched to text-only stories with the occasional standalone gif from episode 4 onwards.
• While Red vs. Blue has a Genre Shift in its later years, the earliest episodes stand out as having continuity and settings that are loose even compared to a few seasons in:
  • Most of the first episode is a conversation between Grif and Simmons, which explicitly sets the series in the Halo universe, with Grif complaining that he is stuck in the Red/Blue conflict while Master Chief was defeating the Covenant (essentially a comical justification for the first game's multiplayer). The show would use Halo assets and plot elements (UNSC would eventually show up, and things such as Metastability are discussed), but would mostly stray away from the main events, with the conflict that drives the first three games becoming at most The Great Offscreen War. They go so far as to have the war between the Reds and the Blues be black ops meant to train their brand of supersoldiers (the Freelancers) against the Covenant, though the operation was a dismal failure.
  • In the same conversation, Grif says he signed on to fight aliens and not get stuck in the middle of nowhere. It would be pretty quickly established that Grif is a Lazy Bum who never wants to fight, and is generally implied to be a conscript (though later it was estabilished that Grif did enlist because he "needed more structure").
  • It all ends with Simmons complaining about being called by Sarge and replying "Yes sir!". The very next episode starts to show that Simmons is a Yes-Man that would not feel bad about that.
  • In the third episode, we hear Grif and Simmons discussing a past incident where Simmons said he didn't want to go to "Vegas Quadrant." For starters, this implies that Grif and Simmons were friends before signing up for the military, as opposed to being stuck together and becoming friends out of necessity (Simmons was entirely unaware Grif had a sister until she showed up in the canyon). And even a few seasons later, it's clear the characters came from an Earth geopolitically similar to the modern day—they would have outright called it Las Vegas.^note  It should be noted that the Vegas Quadrant is meant to be just a Mythology Gag to a similar incident with Gus (Simmons voice actor) and Vegas which is explained in one of the Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures. Still, the incident does appear when Season 14 decided to give some Origins Episodes.
  • During the first season, the voices are more processed, owing to both lower quality microphones and the fact a few lines were recorded over the phone (Gus was living in Puerto Rico, while Matt, Joel, Kathleen, and Yomary Cruz were in Los Angeles) — with the excuse that the armored characters are using radio communication. Also, two characters are still underdeveloped: Vic's first appearance has another voice actor (Randall Glass, of Halo Jump Videos) and a more straightforward personality before co-creator Burnie Burns took the character and turned him into an over-the-top and unhelpful Mission Control; and Donut is just a naïve idiot, roughly the Red equivalent of Caboose, before the pink armor and a shift towards an Ambiguously Gay idiot.
  • Almost all the cast has had some degree of Flanderization:
    • Grif commonly tells Simmons that they should get back to work and focus on their tasks in the early episodes. The Grif of the later seasons is anything but concerned about tasks, reveling his status as team slacker. He also is later claimed to be the sole draftee of the Red and Blue armies, but in the first episode claimed to have "signed on to fight some aliens".
    • Sarge had a voice akin to R. Lee Ermey initially, but his voice actor Matt Hullum found it too hard to keep doing, so he traded it in for a stereotypical Texan accent.
    • Caboose was just kinda dim when he was first introduced, not the completely divorced from reality character he is today. Midway through Season 1, his intelligence began dropping in chunks between episodes, and has never come back. Word of God is that being possessed by O'Malley then having him being forcibly ejected left a detrimental impact on Caboose's head.
      Sarge: "Looks like when O'Malley left, he took some of the furniture with him."
    • Donut was just a red counterpart to Caboose, also being vaguely dim. Once Season 2 came, the writers decided they couldn't get much material out of that angle anymore, and used the pink armor ("it's lightish red") as an excuse to make him flamboyantly over the top.
  • While the series still uses the Halo game of the moment as their film engine, the series was effectively ran exclusively on those game engines, thus limiting reactions to just what the game engine could do. Then on Season 8, Monty Oum was hired, and instead of just firefights the action could also have a jeep breaking a wall and running over someone, hand to hand combat, and other things.
• The first Retarded Animal Babies animation had the animals recite the alphabet. It is also the only episode in which the episode number does not dot the "i" in "babies" in the title (Hamster's head is substituted instead).
  • Also, Puppy wouldn't develop his sex-crazed personality until Episode 2. He wasn't even in the part of Episode 1 with the naked chick.
• RWBY:
  • In the "Red" trailer, Ruby fights relatively realistic-looking werewolf monsters, rather than the more cartoon-ish and stylized Grimm creatures in the final show. They also lack the "masks" that all Grimm would have. Additionally, the trailer showcases more gore, with decapitations and limbs flying galore, instead of Grimm being Reduced to Dust when they die.
  • The first volume showed background extras as black silhouettes without distinct designs. This stopped in the second volume, but would referenced by RWBY Chibi on occasion just for laughs.
  • In the first few episodes characters say "Oh, my God". Only one religion has been shown in-series and it revolves around two brother gods. As a result, later episodes use "Gods" or "Brothers".
  • During the Beacon Academy Initiation, Ren has a battle with a King Taijitu where he displays a few skills that he never uses again afterwards. For one, he uses a somewhat different fighting style compared to his standard Guns Akimbo, mixing it with more traditional martial arts techniques, particularly favoring palm strikes. In fact, he appears to be more skilled in hand-to-hand combat than he is at wielding weapons, seeing he is able to effortlessly dispatch the Grimm after his guns are knocked away, despite previously struggling against it. He also shows the ability to expand his aura outward in a manner similar to an AT Field, an incredibly useful ability that neither he nor anyone else ever uses beyond this fight.
  • In their cameo at the end of season one, Emerald and Mercury have different character designs, with Emerald wearing green pants with white shorts and a copper-colored belt, and Mercury having violet eyes and hair with his collar zipped all the way up.
  • During the fights with Torchwick in Volume 2, Blake uses a purple power slash that enhances Gambol Shroud's striking power and range. Qrow does the same thing during his fight with Winter in Volume 3. However, such moves are never seen again, and fans aren't sure whether the moves were supposed to reflect Aura use, Dust use or were just a stylistic choice to symbolise the force of a Huntsman's swings.
  • Twice in Volume 2, Weiss uses a clock-shaped "Time Dilation" glyph which increases her speed exponentially, extremely similar to the Haste spell in Dead Fantasy, another show made by Monty Oum. The Time Dilation glyph never returns after Volume 2 despite its incredible power, likely due to Oum's tragic passing.
• Simon's Cat: The first few videos had sketchier art and no theme tune, and the theme tune sounded a little different when it was first introduced.
• The early SMG4 videos were very simple Machinimas of Super Mario 64 of very low quality that are very different from what SMG4 does today due to lower budgets. Sometimes it also used other Mario games from the N64 era like Paper Mario 64 and the early Mario Party games.
  • The videos used a generic font for the subtitles instead of the Super Mario font they use today, and many of the sound effects and voice clips SMG4 uses were largely absent.
  • The very early episodes had a very Minimalist Cast of Mario, Toad, Peach, Lakitu and Bowser (and later Luigi). Characters like Old Man Hobo, Steve and the Teletubbies were yet to be added, infact, SMG4's Author Avatar did not appear in the series until several videos later.
  • The Super Mario 64 elements, especially in the early years, were extremely prevalent in the series. Infact, the whole series was entirely filmed in Super Mario 64, in contrast to the modern episodes being (mostly) filmed in Garry's Mod with only the character animations being taken from SM64. Mario recolors were a big part of the main cast, and sometimes, recolors of enemies, Toad and Princess Peach would appear on ocassions. Luigi, Wario and Waluigi used to be a Mario recolors until they got original SM64 models.
  • In SMG4's earliest appearences, it is established that he was only visiting Peach's castle rather than living in it, infact in his debut episode "account loss" he leaves Peach's castle and everyone says goodbye to him.
• Spooky Month: "It's spooky month" is just Rapid-Fire Comedy with no narrative other than two hyper kids having fun and no real threat other than getting OOGA BOOGA'd' at every turn. Later episodes would seek to expand both the cast and the narrative into a fully fleshed out story. Skid and Pump are also referred to as "Skidd and Pumpy" in the original video's description, while Lila is voiced by Sr. Pelo himself rather than Elsie Lovelock.
• A lot of TRAINZ-based Thomas & Friends fan series have a very steep Art Evolution from the beginning to the present due to new versions of the software coming out and a continual effort by dedicated fans to keep producing more detailed models. The creators themselves also exhibit this, starting out as amateurs making short, primitive videos and evolving into experts writing long, sophisticated story arcs with stunning visuals. They also hone their narration voices (and upgrade their recording technology) as the years go by so that older episodes sound very different to newer ones. Naturally this can increase Commitment Anxiety of new viewers who don't want to sit through the early seasons.
• Universe Falls: The Series started out as a series of dubs of fan comics based on the "Steven's Summer Job" Fan Verse, where Steven's travels following the Grand Finale of Steven Universe: Future lead him to Gravity Falls, where he gets a job at the Mystery Shack. The fourth episode was a Limited Animation original story about the Diamonds coming to visit the Mystery Shack, and subsequent episodes developed an original story arc involving Soos and Melody accidentally getting lost in the multiverse, and a mysterious new competitor reopening the Tent of Telepathy.
• Wendell & Wuggums: Wendell is named Wallace in the first episode. Unlike the other episodes, he is a genius.
• YouTube Poop as a whole has evolved. Early poops were little more than stuttering the video, reversing, speeding up, or slowing down a segment, or splicing in a meme such as "lotsa spaghetti" mid-sentence. As video editing software evolved, so did pooping, leading to more advanced and polished techniques such as sentence mixing and YTPMV, and even poops with their own storylines.

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