The real pain of being in this fandom, and what I'm gonna do to convert more members against their will-I-I mean, welcome new fans. Song: Thatched Villagers · Kevin MacLeod
I found solis in the internet, I might just be weird, but watching Thew Addams , or Jobby the Hong gush about transformers (toys in particular) explaining the exact feelings I feel made me feel like I belonged. And looking at the views and comments on TF RU-vid videos made me feel even more companionship. I don’t mind not having some one to physically talk to, but Twitter let’s me express my interest with good people who share them. (Sorry if this is strange, I removed feeling weird before I had any online friends and I want to tell people about how happy I am that I found a place to really fit in)
I have friends that collect like I do, but literally don't care about the cartoons and the media that goes with it, which is the best bit for me. It does me in sometimes as I love the lore more than toys but collect everything I can get my hands on, and like to talk about it all. They couldn't care less about the shows, comics or the universe that the toys live in.
:) if you have any update on the reaction i would like to know. the horror on my frinds face when she had me ranting on about multiple fanfom was hirliaris
So i was watching transformers prime beast hunters with my brother and he had to go to the bathroom so i paused the movie And he said "you can keep watching" *Dying on the inside*
ive been there bud. that's painful. I finally coaxed my best friend into watching the first episode of TFP with me and she was on her phone every time I looked over.
every time I meet new people I bring up my transformers obsession (as casually as possible). and every time, I hear "oh yeah those movies were cool." please god release me from this hell-
Well, at least every one I know knows that Transformers is a multiverse, not just movies)). Also I feel like the golden age of Transformers has passed: Animated, Aligned universe, AOE. I feel like Bumblebee is already a classic.)) I really need a new TF game or movie (movie in Bumblebee universe) cuz Transformers media was not that popular for like 5 or 6 years, geez. It really needs a massive entrance of fans.
Me:" YOU HAVE AN AUTOBOT SYMBOL ON THE SHIRT" Younger friend:"Yeah The last knight was amazing! (it was a few years ago) Me: and other shows? Like, you watched Prime? Younger friend: huh? Me:... Also I remember the trauma in my childhood (I was like... Eleven?) My best friend, Supreme buddy of my childhood, offhandedly mentions transformers. I was in the middle of my TFP phase (which never actually ended) and burst with excitement. Me:"Yeah? I love it too! Who is your favorite character? Mine is Arcee, with all the cool story of her and Arachnid, the revenge for her lost partners, and the episode Partners is just amazing..." I trail off seeing him looking at me confused. Me:"Wait... What is your favorite character?" Him:'Bumblebee, he looks so cool in the movie.' Me:"Oh."
I can relate. I get so annoyed when people think I talk about the movies when I specifically talk about G1 or the franchise as a whole. The only people know what I'm talking about are people my age who watched beast wars (my introduction to Transformers) or people in their 40s.
@@MarvelandDC379 wow beast wars... There's a fun story related to beast wars for me. You see, I didn't think I ever watched it until a while ago, when I realized my country's name for Beast Wars was completely off (Biocombat, it didn't even have Transformers in the title). Beast wars is probably the first ever Transformers cartoon I watched, I remember Waspinator pretty well (and that horrible CGI). But I was like what? 4? I watched it on those small local channels that transmitted old cartoons. Like, I even watched a 70's anime on that channel. Beast Wars was even recent for their standards. I don't remember a single thing though.
I mean I don't have an issue with Transformers being a relatively niche thing. Even if you're not a hardcore fan or fan at all, people know what Transformers is. I just get annoyed when people think of the movies automatically. If people like the movies, that's fine. If people become fans of G1 and others BECAUSE of the movies, that's awesome! Every fan has an introduction. But give credit where credit is due that the toys, comics and cartoons is what started the franchise. I mean I know people who don't read comics who watch the DC and Marvel movies, but know they're based on comics.
It’s even worse when your father likes transformers but it’s to the extent of the live films and old cartoon and movie. He has little interest in the new cartoons, but he thought Beast Machines was alright
War for Cybertron Trilogy Megatron: the lips still haunt my nightmares, as does the idea that Megatron isn’t Megatron but Overlord in disguise sans earrings...
Facts, as a person who loves the lore between megatronus and Orion pax, (bonus points if you even know who they are) then you understand why the deceptions and autobots are so familiar
What of the many? If ya mean the Transformers Prime lore, yeah! Absolutely, I adore it. But there are many others. One where Orion is like a policeman? (which should be either G1 or IDW, probably the second)
@@prowlinaround6280 @ProwlinAround Yeah, but I think he meant the fact that we actually know who Orion Pax and Megatronous are, and their story/stories before the war. The odd one out is Animated. As far as I know, those names don't exist in that universe, and Soundwave isn't even Cybertronian. Why do you do that to my bot, Soundwave? T_T
I am in that exact position and always have been. Thank you so much Kumquat. From the bottom of my heart. I hope you have a lovely time continuing to make more TF videos and achieving your goals and I promise to help share them around as much as possible to help spread the love we all have Transformers.
My boyfriend doesn't know much about transformers either, but he's been really open to learning more. I think those minute videos would be really helpful 💜
This is the reason on why I have taken so many pictures of my favorite Transformers figures. I could simply just show someone a photo of a bot and tell them that they look cool.
1 The first part of this video described my life and how I felt literally word for word. 2 YES I WILL SPAM MY FRIENDS THESE VIDEOS THE MOMENT THEY ARE RELEASED!!!!
"Struggle of us Transformers fans" I am most prominent with the Transformers games, and one of the most common responses I get when I mention the likes of Fall of Cybertron(my second favorite game) is "Wait I didn't know they made Transformers games." Like seriously? There's damn near 30 of these things and you didn't think there was even ONE?
Fall of Cybertron is one of my all time favorite games. It's really disheartening to love something so much, and feel like you're the only one who knows about it.
Also I feel like the golden age of Transformers has passed: Animated, Aligned universe, AOE. I feel like Bumblebee is already a classic.)) I really need a new TF game or movie (movie in Bumblebee universe) cuz Transformers media was not that popular for like 5 or 6 years, geez. It really needs a massive entrance of fans, if you know what I mean.
@@prowlinaround6280 Ok they are rare yes, but funny enough last year I found EVERY Transformers DS game at the same store. Not all at once, but it happened.
@@sageoffire3964 lol O.O I actually don't think I'd ever find them in my country (the rare copies I heard of were English versions, I don't even know if they were actually translated)
@@2bdaqueen268 I mean that the comic run of MLP was just for g4, so they've ended it now that g5's begun and the finale was a crossover between them and the transformers comic line
Actually, you guessed my entire life at brazil, but I don't see anyone talk about Transformers anymore when I'm among people What's worse is, I had a friend, that said that he's not gonna watch the Bumblebee movie, because Bumblebee's car mode is a volkswagen beetle...
He said green with grenades and my mind went to TFP Wheeljack. I have not seen all the movies but I watched ALL of Transformers Prime when I was a kid and fell in LOVE
Been a fan of transformers for around 30 years so glad your doing this it showed up on my feed and I had to sub your channel and my favorite is cyclonus the idw rendition he was a bad ass thanks for the video and for future content
This video scares me with its accuracy. Thank you and i await the videos, but sadly, the damage has been done. My friends mentally prepare themselves to get annoyed whenever i mention transformers.
It can be frustrating to love something so much that you can't share it with others because of their lack of interest or you know for a fact they dislike it or worst hate it with a solid passion.
this is literally the defintion of my life. you have no idea how much time i spend talking about transformers to people who have no idea what transformers are.
So many of my friends will rant to me and explain Star Wars to me for an hour, and then they roll their eyes or fall asleep whenever I even mention transformers, cus of the bad reputation that SOME CONTINUITIES have given it (great video, this channel is one of my safe havens to know I'm not the only fan)
wow look at the sequeal they cant talk. witch ones have nad reps. i avoid most negative stuff about transformes. even in my head even if personal dont like the conity im like transformers is transforems. though i vagly rember bayverse bing called trach
German Blitzwing also makes my day. I can't wait for these! all seven of my friends will finally understand why I think Starscream is, in fact, the sexiest out of the franchises.
Also I feel like the golden age of Transformers has passed: Animated, Aligned universe, AOE. I feel like Bumblebee is already a classic.)) I really need a new TF game or movie (movie in Bumblebee universe) cuz Transformers media was not that popular for like 5 or 6 years, geez. It really needs a massive entrance of fans. Bay movies are cool (except The Last Knight of course), but I also would prefer Bumblebee if I had an option to choose between.
I'm too old to try to interest my friends with transformers. But one thing I can do is to find someone, have kids and force them to watch every cartoon ever created. All I can do now, and this is my plan, is to try to watch with my nephew TF Rescue Bots. Thank you netflix for having Polish dubbing.
I interrupt your scrolling to say this: Starscream in any continuity or transformers-verse is f***king awesome. So is Megatron. Ok, continue scrolling.
I just realized that I have no idea what german Blitzwing sounds like, since, well, germany likes to translate voice acting. But u can only hope that it is as much fun as it sounds
I'm so glad I've found communities of Transformers fans out of town and on Instagram, I've gone through years of school with no one else to share my love of Transformers with, not even my closest friends. Sure, my dad and sister now know a lot about Transformers and mostly understand what I talk about, but I really wanted to talk to other people about it, and not just about Transformers, either. One of my friends from the Transformers TCG group my dad and I found out of town gave me my first job this year, and over the weekends we go on long drives to different towns to do photography for bowling tournaments. My boss is a really cool guy (even though he thinks Hot Rod killed Optimus) and we've had tons of fun conversations on these trips. He's gotten me interested in Megaman and Gundam, and I got him into Digimon, plus we've been getting into collecting and building HMM Zoid model kits. Also, that's another thing. I hate how I'll bring up Zoids to someone and the first thing they find is Zoids Wild, when I'm talking about the old Zoids from the early 2000s. Anyways, sorry about the tangent, I just relate a lot to this video.
I really understand this guy whenever I talk about transformers to my friends which only next level fans would know about they barely even respond because they have only seen the live action movies and never the cartoons even though I have a lot of friends it still feels like I am the only one who knows transformers the same thing goes for my family and one of my cousins even refuses to talk about it now I don't even want to talk about it anymore to anybody unless they are true fans of the franchise
Random person: I really like Hot Rod. Me: So, you like his complex storyline about how he struggles with the burden of leadership and living up to Optimus Prime's legacy? And the journeys of the Lost Light? Random person: What are you even talking about? I just like his French accent. Me: _facepalm_
@@donutimusprimal3405 my god, this is one of the reasons why I think age of extinction was a last good Bay movie and every thing after what he created is shit: in The Last Knight they introduced a bunch of cool decepticons, gave them a cool chareckter development just for them beeing wasted in 20 seconds. They could've at least put a good fight to them, but nah, explosions out of nowhere is our main objective.
My two favorite fictional universes are both relatively niche. I feel this on a whole new level. With the non-Transformer fandom, the lore is so vast and complex that it’s impossible to condense explanations into 1 minute videos. It can be frustrating when I am halfway through a rant about how a certain faction is the most powerful only to see that my friends, family, etc. are paying no attention. I will endlessly spam my friends with these videos. There will be no respite.
How can he not know what a Predacon is, they’re probably the most epic Transformers faction. My personal favorite is TF Prime Beast Hunters Predaking. (I also like Beast hunters Darksteel and Skylynx)
Ok, this was only so funny in my head but I want to share: I thought Emperor Kumquat here would present a statement about how we should go on a crusade/jihad for the Transformers fandom, added with plans to make some sort sacrilegious document, like with Megatron making "Towards Peace". And, I really need to go out with people more, quarantine and Star Sector is making me loopy.
I feel this pain everyday and I could make a whole hour long video essay on why movie depictions of franchises are super important on how it draws in mainstream audiences with how CRITICAL it is to make sure your movie doesn't suck because it will be most peoples' first and only impression to that franchise. Like everyone I know has only seen parts of the baymovies and think transformers is just lame explosions and megan fox fanservice shots. I blame the baymovies 😔
@@shockcrusher8956 me to, my introduction was 2007 movie, I absolutely loved it, others to. God, I remember the time when TFP was on TV and I was hyped about age of extinction (the last knight is just a lame, 2hour BRUH moment, I will say this in literally every comment about TF). Nostalgia hits)).
I feel the exact way this video explains. This video explains my life of transformers and how people don't understand my passion for them at school. The people at school think I am to old for transformers but there not accepting me the way i am. Your videos are amazing and i love your work Because its prime! till all are one.
This is so true.. I was one of the lucky few to meet someone with the same interest in transformers as I do, its a privilege to meet someone like that. I wish the transformers franchise could be noticed a little bit more like others. *Cries in the corner*
@@tacticaldroidtx22 wow I was a bit better XD I just didn't remember a couple of the ones you named (namely, Redwing, Ion Storm, Nova Storm) though I remembered the Rainmakers were the ones with Storm as suffix. Sadly I only remembered Acid Storm
It's even worse when someone says "I prefer the Bayformer movie designs, everything else just looks too unrealistic and cartoony, even the Bumblebee movie designs." Yes, someone did say that to me.
I mean, I'm a big fan and I prefer a lot of Bayverse designs compared to their Knightverse counterparts like Optimus, Srarscream, and Ironhide. They are unique and distinct compared to other incarnations. It's all just preference dude.
THE ONE WITH THE LIPS MEANS OVERLORD I'm fragging laughing my aft off LOL TFA GERMAN BLITZWING WILL ALWAYS BE MY FAVORITE, I love his accent so much :D
This is the brightest most amazing plan i`ve ever heard of, i`ll have to find a new person to do this with, but if this works, it`ll be totally worth it
When you want to talk about how much you love Vector Prime and its adorable that even though he has trouble having conversations with modern transformers he found friends in the mini cons
I get this pain *so much* but also every time you mentioned people only knowing bumblebee I cried a little because I get it okay, he’s mainstream and everybody recognizes him because of the voice thing and the movies, but he’s still my favorite character and I will rant about him for hours at a time ok- (plus it usually serves as a good Segway into talking about the others as well)
As a fellow Transformer's fan since Animated I shall say that it is quite frustrating when people don't talk about this masterpiece,even my few friends and siblings.I once tried to introduce it to my sister and her reaction was "Oh cool,giant robots that become cars". That being said I wish you the best in your conquest- I mean explanation videos to Transformers
YES the pain it’s so rare to find others who shares your love of transformers but lately there’s chill discord servers that share the love it’s fantastic when you’re friends like it it’s the most best feeling ever shame family don’t share it tho ;-;
Me: *doodles* Classmate: What's that? Me: Transformers Classmate: Oh, so, like, Optimus Prime? Me: *slightly hyped* No, that's Soundwave Classmate: ...Who's Soundwave? Aaaand that's when I knew she only recognizes the movies. Later confirmed by her being confused that there's a cartoon
