Can someone explain to me the "MLG montage"

Like, what does Major League Gaming have to do with airhorns, weed, Mountain Dew, Doritos, the Illuminati, and people shouting?

Probably very few of those, if any.

These montages parody video game montages where the maker edits special effects into them (Like the screen suddenly turning a bright red color on a 360 noscope headshot). So the parody montages slaps even more ridiculous special effects (for example hordes of doritos popping up when anything mundane happens)

As to why it's MLG?

MLG = Pro gaming

Parody Montages = Pro plays (or makes them out to be pro)

Pro plays = Pro gaming

Therefore, Parody Montages = xXx 360 NOSCOPE HEADSHOT MLG AS FUCK #YOLO #SWAG #PRO xXx

I guess I might as well take the opportunity to show one of my favorite videos

edited 7th Apr '15 5:40:26 PM by Eldrake

Basically, MLG montages are the Youtube poops of let's plays. If that makes any sense.

I wouldn't even call it that, because I've seen Youtube Poops of Youtubers and L Ps.

MLG montages are a single joke, and that joke is "LOL ESPORTS". The joke is to treat something from a video game as though it's the hypest thing ever. This is done with camera shakes, strobe lights, dubstep, Mountain Dew, Doritos, "360 no scope YOLO SWAG", and the same collection of reaction gifs which will always contain at least one of this guy.◊

.......No, I'm not a fan of MLG montages. I've at least run into Youtube Poops that can generate their own style, whereas I've yet to run into an MLG montage that didn't feel like all the others.

OK there's a lot of info here that's sorta missing, so I'll explain the context (a lot of its very Call of Duty specific, and I was super into Call of Duty around MW 2/Black Ops (like I made $70 in a few local tournaments.)

Back during the MW 2/Black Ops days, there were a huge number of "One Clip Edits" that were basically videos of Awesome, but Impractical moves like quick scopes, no scopes and ridiculous knife throws with color grading, slow-mo, other gratatious post processing effects and random soundclips of dudes "getting hype" to "1337 last killcam moves". Since the community was mostly immature 14 years old, these were synced up to dubstep/drum and bass/trap/electro/bass music type stuff songs, and sometimes they'd add stupid CGI stuff in after effects like a dude smoking a blunt before doing a quickscope and other stupid bullshit.

The modern "Montage parody" started off as basically a joke version of Played Straight OC Es, with purposely shit color grading, gratatious lens flares, and lots of airhorns applied to stuff like Katawa Shoujo and Peggle. Eventually they started throwing in other random You Tube meme and shit, which is where the "illuminarty confirmd" thing came from, since they're making of of these (earnest) videos where dudes would take some random bullshit nobody cares and direct some random background shape to mean that the Illuminati MUST BE SCEHEMING SOMETHING.

They became "MLG" montages since people used to post these kinds of things on the MLG Game Battles fourms as a show of "how fucking l33t their clan was yo" despite the fact that these kinds of moves are generally never used in competitive COD where Min-Maxing is pretty much the name of the game, making any kind of "flashy moves" a terrible idea but the association stuck around.

Thr emphasis on "Fa Ze Clan" is because of Fa Ze a (until rather recently that is) group of YouTubers who made tons of flash Call of Duty edits and became a shorthand for "sick COD player." Soon enough everybody and their mom was joining Fa Ze and proclaiming themselves "leet af" even though Fa Ze was never even a real team until the MLG Ghosts tournament last year (or was it two years ago I forgot, I stopped caring by that point tbh.)

edited 8th Apr '15 1:48:33 PM by RoboZombie

They're basically parodies of parodies by this point.

Though here's some amusing ones.

That's a very in-depth answer and it's much appreciated since I was about to ask about Faze Clan as well.

I do have another question. I've heard people say something along the lines of "I'll 1v1 u in Rust m8" a few times, and I was wondering what Rust is in this context. Is it a map in a game, or a game or game mode, or something else entirely?

It's a Call of Duty map, judging from a quick check on Google.

Thanks for the help. Now I know everything there is know about MLG montages!

However, I have just realised something. Your post was the 9th post in this thread. The square root of 9 is 3. Oh baby a triple. There are three sides to a triangle. The word eye has three letters in it. The letter i appears three times in the word Illuminati. Illuminati confirmed!

Sorry about that. Anyway, I've taken my tinfoil hat off now, so I'll share this one which I find funny.

Also, the Doritos and Mountain Dew references are because of cross-promotion, right? Like there were COD ads on both of those for a while, I think.

Doritos and Mountain Dew have cross-promoted a hell of a lot (predominantly with Xbox), and have basically become a running joke regarding video game sponsorship. There's the COD stuff, the Halo 4 stuff, Geoff Keighley's Holy Throne, etc. etc.

Geoff is never going to live the Dorito Pope incident down, is he.

No, he won't. Personally I'm just happy to know what "MLG" is now.

He shouldn't. From You Tube:

The whole Doritos/Mountain Dew deal is something that seems too stupid to be true but isn't.

If you bought Mountain Dew Game Fuel back when Black Ops II came out, you got Double XP for a day.

I'm not making this shit up, and btw they did this for the ones after Blops II

Wait, did they really call it "Game Fuel"?

I still remember when Mountain Dew did that World of Warcraft promotion that got you a free pet.

yup

Here's what some of them look like.◊

edited 14th Apr '15 11:00:25 AM by Nettacki

edited 14th Apr '15 4:37:07 PM by Bonerfart