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** Many earlier LetsPlay games usually stuck to games that were available either via emulation, such as Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, or old PC games. It was very uncommon to see a LetsPlay of a game released in the past few years, let alone a game released that year. Seeing people do a LetsPlay of something like ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' (2009) or ''VideoGame/BioShock'' (2007) was a pretty big thing back in the day. One decade later, most games are streamed from start to completion upon release, largely owing to the popularity of LetsPlay/{{Pewdiepie}} and his use of the blind run format.
** As a result of these rapidly changing trends, most old-guard let's players from the pre-Game Grumps era have since either changed style to fit newer trends or have shifted focus to Twitch streaming (e.g. LetsPlay/ProtonJon and LetsPlay/MasaeAnela, the former of the two actually pioneering a lot of trends for Twitch streams himself-- leading to a similar case of this trope for his content on Twitch as well as on [=YouTube=]), with LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}} being the only one among them to still maintain a high-profile presence sticking to the old format. He himself lampshaded this at one point, lightly jabbing at comments telling him to "get with the times" and adopt facecam and blind running. Ironically, this adherence has ended up leading many nascent members of Chuggaaconroy's audience to view him as more ''unique'' compared to the overabundance of Game Grumps and Pewdiepie-influenced channels.

* WebVideo/FiveSecondFilms' shtick comes off as this, since "having only a few seconds to tell a joke" was almost the entire point of Website/{{Vine}}'s existence.