Creating the Mythical Center of the WoW Machinima Community

This is a response to Whowho and Erunno who have recently posted some great blogs about the WoW Machinima community, its evolution and habits.

In my opinion, the mythical center of WoW Machinima is ultimately up to the community to establish. When the viewers, bloggers, and movie publishers come together it becomes much easier for everyone to benefit, and this has often been undervalued as I've been stating for years.

Early on it was difficult to find a place to host your videos where they could be viewed in high quality and wouldn't be removed for various reasons. The old school "more mirrors is better" philosophy has sent viewers through a maze of websites for years, some that have been long forgotten (remember stage6?).

There's now a large selection of places to host your content, but how many of them provide the right audience? The reason I encourage publishers to join us because I know who browses our pages. They're the most hardcore Machinima fans. WoW fansite editors hungry for content to feature. Teachers and professors from around the globe that share their findings in the classroom. The highest Blizzard executives and other industry professionals that are watching in anticipation of the next creative breakthrough.

These are the people I've been reaching out to for years, and I'll boldly state, they are counting on this community to bring them the best and I can't emphasize enough how beneficial it is to everyone that we bring it to them.

This is not something that can be done by any single person. Our ideas, opinions, and methods are a unique and creative mass that appeals to a broad scope of viewers that goes beyond any individual. By aggregating our content, viewers are introduced to the collective mass and a true sense of the greater community that has created it.

This is why I ask everyone that has something related to this community to post it here. The viewers are certainly interested and many of them missed the tour bus that many of us rode around the Internet of yesterday to find today's best content.