MRIXRT @ReallyCool
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New Brand Name
🕑 Added 2021-01-11 05:19:31 +0000 UTCHello, please don't be scared by the unfamiliar name. I am Moriarty from CryMor Gaming, and I have changed my name to MRIXRT. It's pronounced "Moriarty," and is simply a stylized version of that.
Now, for those of you who are curious, some history lesson in the next message(s)
Why "CryMor?"
So it started with me and CryptoSpook, CRYptospook and MORiarty, doing CSGO content in a genre called Overwatch. This is where you would watch suspected cheaters and decide if they were or were not cheating. https://youtu.be/u7NQu2unCpw
This died with Overwatch, the game, coming out, but we enjoyed making content, so we decided to do "reviews" sort of like TotalBiscuit did: https://youtu.be/yql0i3l239k
They ended up being more like Let's Plays at first, but eventually translated into more of a casual First Impressions https://youtu.be/SP5BWhSSzVM
And then into more refined "Should You Try" https://youtu.be/6ZmLxBHlULU or Reviews https://youtu.be/OLbfbRxJ_tU
We released videos every two days for about a year, then I was like "We could do daily if we had some help." We were at about 1000 subs and doing like 50,000 minutes a month at that time.
So Brax joined: https://youtu.be/otsH3hJI8Sw
And Bolt joined: https://youtu.be/MayQufyVGGs
And Virus joined: https://youtu.be/dtStw6C6I0Q
And Alyscus joined: https://youtu.be/3PhIs4X7y2s
I started to want to talk about things in a more long-form way: https://youtu.be/nquxQDAFMFg
We started to do a lot of VR stuff, as well https://youtu.be/NT9AxTaB1SY(edited)
At this point, the schedule was me and Crypto Mon, Wed, Fri. Brax Tue, Bolt Thur, Virus Sat, Alyscus Sun.
We did that for a while, but after about six months it was clear that adding new people to the channel had hurt it way more than helped. The day I uploaded a Virus video https://youtu.be/FPrmpn9HdTU and it had 8 views after 24 hours was the day I let everyone know that I was stopping the multi-user stuff, and it would just be me & Crypto again.
Brax stuck around and would continue to sub in when one of us was super unavailable. We continued to do 3 videos a week. Then I did this video on Jump: https://youtu.be/HY3ZEH9ZGRY and it seemed people were at least willing to listen to me talk about stuff that I thought about things other than games I was playing. A few weeks later I did my "Scary Games" video essay https://youtu.be/yjgYk6z9avg
Around this time Crypto said he didn't want to do videos anymore, but Brax stuck around. We tried some different formats like the Roundup https://youtu.be/ZcQuEY5TtQY and tried breaking things up so that me and Brax could do a roundup on Mondays, then Brax could do a video on Wednesday, and I'd do one on Friday.
But I continued to want to do long-form videos https://youtu.be/-Mlu4E5wSbU and then I did my Doom video https://youtu.be/HD7itXpfnZA and it was popular enough that John Romero saw it. After a few more months of the 3 videos, I made a change and decided we were only going to do video essays https://youtu.be/nzoPfIvnffk
We started doing one every other week. I'd do one, then Brax would do one. After about a year of that, Brax also stopped making videos. His last video was in June https://youtu.be/fWyoSMLUG5w and after that I just sort of continued my own schedule. That was a few months ago.
So now I really want to change my brand because so far it's always been the brand I'm part of, certainly a brand I felt ownership for, but never MY brand as in the brand that is ME. This new one will be.
Comments
Serra
My dumbass read it as mr.ixrt, could you talk a little more about how you choose the name etc :) I'm happy you're starting as a personal brand:)
Kleething
I love it ๐ It suits you and I'm glad to be part of your community and see you grow into this new brand that's yours and yours alone. ๐ฅฐ
