I definitely regret not touching on "Then We Fight" content as well as not giving competitive battling it's rightful spotlight. There's honestly so much else to Pokemon on KZfaq that I may make a follow-up in the future to cover the rest of it! My own personal bias definitely swayed which specific topics and creators I covered, and I'm hoping to improve beyond that in videos going forward! (I also, in retrospect, regret using the term "Micro-communities". I wish I had used "Sub-Communities" instead.)

Patteez sounded like a typical frat boy in the past lmao.

Marriland and Chuggaconroy went crazy back in the day with the Let’s plays

5:10 but Patterrz my childhood lives in these old nuzlocke videos 😢

11:15 TyranitarTube’s Oras Randomizer series was absolutely goated imo. The newer randomizers are good too. Believe in the Peeko

How was Patterz voice deeper in the ORAS Lets play then it is now? 😆

A LOT was missed - Papasea, Jwittz, Gnoggin, Mandjtv who dive deep into lore and pokemon. Pokemon artists like Truegreen7, Pen palladin Pokemon music channels Pokemon card pull community PokemonGo community Pokemon Unite community Pokemon news community like adrive, austinjohnplays (i love austin's playthrough helper videos as well) Pokemon parody videos from ergoraptor, smosh, animetoons AND HOW DID THEY MISS MY BOY POKEMON RUSTY from Dorkly!!

You got the name right

i think right now its more of a Category than Era. since the community grew bigger than it was before,. we have lots of different poketubers do that specific things that fans of the specific pokemon community enjoys. like Nuzlockers, Shiny Hunters, Speed Runners, Challege Runs, Casual/Pro - Competitives, Theorist, Artist, RomHack/Fangames playthrough and more. the Pokemon KZfaq is like a small sapling that grew for years and it turn into this one big tree with different fruits in it.

Watching these nuzlocke challenges made up most of my childhood, Nappy(before all the problematic stuff happened) was my favourite and inspired me to try content creation. But to see Shady still going and how much effort Vinny and the rest of them put into their videos is pulling me back in.

"I have a massive problem, it's huge"

Ya adrive wolfey PM7 mandjtv purplecliffe not getting mentioned is kinda crazy tbh

1:46 having haters hate watch/play is still better growth than if no one was talking about it

this is such a cool video took me back fr and nice to see you be a part of history!!!

This video was mostly talking about lets plays while there were still many different aspects of pokemon on youtube like top 10s that were mostly popular by Jwitz, there were pokemon trading card videos, pokemon fact videos and plenty other of aspects that would be cool to mention

Yep, I knew it 😂

can't believe patterrz used to sound american

The current Poketuber scene kinda has it all. Nuzlockes are still doing decently strong. You got competitive stuff/knowledge building with Wolfe and FalseSwipeGaming. You got the then we fights with this group and quick and chillin. You got the crazy challenges no sane person would do like SmallAnt are doing. Usually I find myself watching themes/topics super heavy for a month or two and then getting bored and moving on, but I've been watching you guys and Smant and Quick/Chillin for a couple of years now and it still isn't old. One thing really is, like you mentioned, the chemistry or personality. It's more about the people in the videos and pokemon is just the vehicle that ya'll have chosen to use to entertain. :3

If you look back on yourself and cringe it's a sign you've grown

This video was very informative @Patterz appreciate the ride through history gotta know where we come from to know where we are going. Great job!😂🙏🏾🐐

The time I was roommates with Hardy, he told me he told you I watched your videos and you told him to tell me thanks for watching them XD You pronounced it right btw.

Jaiden was HUGE for pokemon and its surprising she wasnt mention, but im surprised that terminal montage wasnt even mentioned in pats video.

MunchingOrange was the first poketuber I watched, and although I don’t watch his content super often anymore he’s always been a very important creator in my time online. His eggcagelockes with adrive were one of my favorite series back in the day

I remember watching you in 2011, it was either fire red randomizer nuzlocke or emerald, forgot which it was. I really miss the old formats of how you used to do it, the recap, the unedited. Man listening to you speak is really nostalgic

I honestly miss the long form videos for LPs, mostly 'cause if I'm playing Pokemon or another RPG with a lot of grinding, I like to listen to the videos as they chatter along as they grind as well. Whenever they skip past that, I feel stressed out and not want to finish the video, 'cause now I'm behind and won't ever catch up by the time I reach the next boss... That being said, short form videos are just fun to watch when you got not much else to do. XD Or multitasking with another project that isn't related to the game they're talking about.

I used to watch so much PurpleRodri when I was a kid , absolutely goated

At 14:30 i love pat saying the veiws only drop for a clip of him to then play

I love how a channel i randomly found got found by pat

used to watch chillinplayz and charmander guy's battle videos sometimes but only discovered 'then we fight' videos recently. Been binging since.

I went from a Pokemon fan, to a purplecliffe fan. His if I laugh a Pokemon dies series is like oxygen that I need

I remember watching your snakewood nuzlocke and thats what got me more into Pokemon. I believe you and were one of the first KZfaq channels in general i watched. You and probably munching orange

Watching this video made me remember that the first Poketuber (before the term existed) I ever saw was SuperSkarmory and his Explorers of Sky walkthrough. Man, those were good times.

Love your content 😊😊😊❤❤

Pat watching his old content reminds me of the time Frank did it on stream a few months ago, where he kept yelling at himself to slow down and breathe lol

It would have been nice if Pikasprey at least got a mention for popularizing the "Can I beat _____ game using only _____ Pokemon?" format, with his Ditto/Red & Blue video, which blew his channel up and got millions of views. I know he wasn't ever like one of the BIG Poketubers, but he deserves the recognition. His video came out over a year before the Mudkip/Emerald video. People just loved the idea, and aimed to replicate that success with similar videos ("Can I beat Red with just a Ratatta", etc) I mean maybe someone else still did it first, but those types of videos weren't "a thing" before his Ditto video got traction, which was so well written and the presentation was so organized. And then after the moderate success of a few copycats, they were absolutely EVERYWHERE; I remember Mah-Dry-Bread's thumbnails specifically.

Can't wait till Pat reacts to this video 😂😂

2:58 damn i forgot all about SuperSkarmary that takes me back lol I think it was the same person id i recall but remember watching i think watching Zelda content?

Tyranitartube's oras extreme randomizer and Pokemon insurgence nuzlocke are still some of the best let's play series on yt

I find it funny that I didnt even know the community went through a 'solo run' phase, when my intro to KZfaq was Datai's solo runs 16 years ago (and the first great set of channels being blocked leading to the creation of VitaminDatai)

I haven't finished the video. But it's wild there's no mention of the whole Nappy situation bringng the community to a crashing hault and caused the whole rebirth

One thing not mentioned in the vid was MandJTV doing his different characters doing interesting videos via challenges or normal playthroughs

I've also watched that 12 hour Oblivion video... twice.

I’m surprised fusions at all weren’t mentioned. Infinite fusion obviously being huge but then also custom fusions combined with the then we fights I feel like fusions and then we fights were a pretty big part as a whole at least in the people I watch

Has there ever been a massive pokemon race between loads of pokemon youtubers

patterz not sounding british in his old playthroughs is cursed

Oh how far we have come

I've never really heard of any of these creators. I used to watch Marriland's Pokemon playthroughs, and I really enjoyed them, but that was really the only Pokemon content I consumed on KZfaq.

31:31 VIBE to drifbell city music

Speaking of Pokemon youtube channels. Does anyone remember PokemonJourneysHD? He was basically one of the original nuzlockers.

QUICKGG AND CHILLN MENTIONED

Yooo whats goood

Chuggaa was my first youtuber. But he was mess for couple years before the allegations

5:35 Pat was that even you?😟

Remember when Jacob alpharad was considered a smash bros KZfaqr?

Man I miss chuggaconroy

1:35 that has to be 2011 because black and white came out in 2010

Jrose needs a mention on this, his magikarp video invented the genre, sure his other videos aren’t on alpharad level but he still kicked off the trend

Which Hayden you are talking about BTW? Haydunn or Herovoltsy?

the community demands challenge runs! then we fight videos are videos WE NEEDS THE STREAMSES

27:41 pokemon shining pearl released two years ago?…damn

Secret youtuber tax hack below If you make a habit of having a different random thing behind you in the face cam each video, you can make the purchase of the random thing into business expenses.

the pokemon community has already divided its those who still play the Canon content like the then we fight videos and then there's the streamers who challenge run the games

I fully realize that I'm in the minority, but I never really cared for challenge playthroughs. Nuzlockes, randomizers, solo runs, ROM hacks, fusions, none of them ever interested me. I always just preferred regular playthroughs. That being said, I still am really glad that Pokémon has a massive presence on KZfaq and continues to evolve its content. I don't know, I just kinda miss the classic playthrough.

7:18 ah yes very quick onlu 12 hours long

No mention of SacredAlmighty when talking about ROM hacks is crazy

Then we fight is just over saturation

HeroVoltsy still after all these years, still has too much effort. Instead of one his has 2 or 3 uploads a day too which is cool lol

MunchingOrange the goat tho

I miss the pokemon art comunity

5:06 what kinda witchery is this how do you do that with your pretty voice 😶

Who's Shady Penguin?

why did you sound like an american frat bro in your old videos lmao

I miss let's plays

PERSONA MENTIONED ONCE AGAIN?!?!

Does anyone remembermbers the Pokemon clickbait era where they would make clickbait videos?

does noone know the real goat leroi

they had to take it down cause who would pay for a bad game when you can play a good game with more innovation and features than what the Pokemon franchise could dream to come up with. basically relic games showed people Pokémon could do better.

only 12 hours long? That's nothing. Quinton Reviews just made a video that is 38 and a half hours long. Not Pokemon content but still insane

5:27 bro Iwent from American to British

And yet Frank is still the goat

I genuinely cringed away when Snakewood was mentioned genuinely hate that game

Hey we just like watching you react to shit don't worry about predictable

Unpopular opinion but I, don't really like all the 'Kaizo Ironmon' type things. They impose so many restrictions on how to play the game, on top of the mod already being mad harder (stronger teams/more fights etc) it just, doesn't seem *fun*. Especially not when it seems like there's ONLY one strat/team that can win it and if you miss anything then it's over for you. Like you miss this specific encounter for w/e reason? Well you're doomed. And like, where's the fun in that, in having only one route you can follow if you want to finish it. (At least if PChal's vids were any indication) Making it hard is one thing. Making it down right impossible/giving yourself only one route to follow, is no fun at all.

Luckily my niche isn't pokemon XD it's too overly saturated in the space. So I did a nicheer game to grow from that

I personally hate "then we fight" videos so I unsubscribed from basic lyrics all the poketubers that use to do versus, but I really enjoy your reaction channel tho so keep it up

anyone remembered TheNappyKing? he was sorta the part of early youtube era

I miss the boring parts of lets plays

20:10 hold on, if we're talking about versus let's plays. We have to give credit to rhe pioneers of it. Attackingtucans and josh jepson. They weren't literally the first, but they started it in 2011 and spawned s nee genre

I could never tell you why but I lost interest in Alpharad. I really can't explain why, I started watching his videos like 4-5 years ago, I actually found his channel for his Smash Bros content, and I watched almost everything he put out every week up until 2 years ago, I just stopped watching any of them and I literally have only watched one video of his since then 6 months ago, the adding 50+ types to pokémon video.

Kinda want to see Patterz react to old Pat. But, that one clip....im sorry you don't even sound like the same person. It's so sad cause you're trying to hide your accent. I live your voice now so just keep it geniune. I think a lot of new creators always feel the need to fake their voice.