And The Fandom Rejoiced / Web Animation

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• Homestar Runner:
  • Homestar Runner is dead. I don't know why, but the Chaps seem to have forgotten about it. They haven't updated it in almost a year and- HOLY CRAP, A NEW TOON! YES! (After that, another year passed without updates.)
  • Someday, when you least expect it.
  • After the lengthiest hiatus they've ever had (caused by Mike and Missy having a child and the Chaps themselves pursuing fruitful careers in animation), Homestar Runner suddenly updated on April Fools Day 2014, with a cartoon mocking the site's inactivity. This alone was enough to warrant several news articles lauding the apparent comeback of the site, but the future was still uncertain. Co-creator Matt Chapman stated in an interview a couple months later that this was a test to see how a renewal would be received, and the result was "more ... than we ever even imagined." He also expressed hope that they would start making more material in the fall, and - sure enough - the first official update in over four years was released on October 3.
  • As part of their renewal, Strong Bad has opened an official account on Twitter. Soon after "Fish Eye Lens" was released, he posted this. Return of sbemail, anyone?
• Eddsworld:
  • *Sigh* Eddsworld is finally ending, which is rather sad since- IT'S NOT ENDING YET!? *grabs a can of cola* Cheers! *clink*
• Rooster Teeth:
  • Wow, this season 8 of Red vs. Blue seems to be just like the othe-Whoa! Did they just go all CG on us?!?. They hired WHO?!?!?
  • So, Rooster Teeth's doing another series... hmmmm, it looks CG, bleh, what happened to all the machinima they used to do...
    Ship captain: [speaking in a very distinctive Southern drawl] Angel On My Shoulder, This is Director Church.
    Audience: Squee! Cheer! Assorted exuberance!
  • Oh, Season 10 had its first trailer officially released, hmmm... a recap of all the plot points that are supposed to be brought back to light this time, ending off where the last season left off... wow, that creepy orange AI's Sigma, right, and he sure sounds familiar- Wait, Elijah Wood?!
  • Rooster Teeth are doing another series of Immersion? And Gavin and Michael are the guinea pigs this season? Hell. Freaking Yeah. Complete with a new snazzy intro and a series of fun challenges.
  • So season 10 is over but half the episode is left... O.K. what is this... a new series by Monty Oum? 30 seconds later the fandom rejoiced so hard that the term "shit fit" doesn't even begin to describe it. RWBY probably caused more waves then the Art Shift in season 8 did.
    • When the "White" trailer was announced for Valentine's day another round of rejoicing ensued.
    • The announcement of Volume 2 having all episodes be at least 12 minutes long, fixing one of the biggest complaints about the first Volumes episodes in general being far too short with some exceptions. Immense celebrating ensued.
    • The second OP's release on May 23 depicted a horde of new characters, lots of fuel for Epileptic Trees, and a typically awesome new theme song. The fans were pleased.
    • While the capacity of RWBY to make fans squee was hindered by both a Broken Base and darker stuff, spinoff RWBY Chibi makes up for it whenever characters either dead or MIA in the main show appear. And the trailer for a new RT anthology revealing the return of Chibi after 3 years also made the fans explode with joy.
• YouTube Poop fans were distraught when legendary Pooper mark3611's (of Billy Mays Poops of fame such as "The Suicide Ladder" and "The Big City Toilet") channel got hacked, with many assuming he had silently retired from the art afterwards. Then on April 19, 2014, Billy and Mark rose from their graves to shill The Drunk Jack. Mark is back.
• Super Mario Bros. Z reboot. SUPER MARIO BROS. Z REBOOT.
• Baman Piderman: Dedicated fan's reaction to the Kickstarter, which was funded more than 2/3rds within the first 24 hours.
• DEATH BATTLE!:
  • Danny Phantom vs American Dragon: Jake Long had been requested for years, so when the battle was finally announced, fans got hyped.
  • Building on the above point, season 8 is revealed to be themed around legacy matches. What does that mean? Every single match is going to be a highly requested match up.
  • Shortly before the end of season 9, two polls were held for Rooster Teeth users, with each having five match ups for users to vote on, with the winners of each appearing in the next season. At the end of the finale, the results were revealed and the fandom was not disappointed: Bill Cipher vs Discord won the 2D animation poll and Alex Mercer vs Cole MacGrath won the 3D animation poll.

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