before we get into it why not take a moment to sub to the channel click the notification bell if that's your thing and if you end up liking the video why not click the thumber dinger yeah that sounded a lot better in my head don't worry you can learn so much from failure so arcane is an animated tv series set in runeterra the world of league of legends it deals primarily with the regions of piltover and zaun several champions affiliated with them and the political and technological developments that changed the regions and the lies of these characters the show was six years in the making and was spearheaded by french studio fortish who are already well acquainted with riot games and helped to produce some of their most popular cinematics and music videos that you've probably already seen and you know how i said i thought the show would flop in the intro i meant that i thought that at best we get a show that league fans could enjoy but the show has become much more than that drawing in a massive audience many of whom can't tell flash and teleport apart i really want to emphasize how different this is from the norm this isn't a wow addict dragging their friend to the warcraft movie or your dad going to see the angelina jolie tomb raider flex this is a series receiving critical acclaim while attracting league of legends fans and just regular casual netflix viewers league of legends is the most played game on the planet and already boasts a massive fan base for example the grand finals at league worlds NUMBER_TOKEN boasted NUMBER_TOKEN million concurrent viewers that's like if nearly the entire population of canada got cloned and then all sat down to watch the same thing and thankfully that only happened one time i think my clone lives in sweden now which is pretty cool for him anyways what i'm trying to say is that the nine episode first season of arcane broke out of the video game niche and into the mainstream and even here at the score the level of excitement around this series differed wildly so what did it feel like to have people praising something associated with league of legends really weird to be honest because like i was like my whole thing for years has been like playing league you just it always feels like you're at the center of like controversy right because it's just always it's always been called like a toxic game and you know there's always like riot gets memed on a lot and league does too and just for this one week or two it's been like hey maybe it's okay to play league maybe like you know i'm not saying it's cool but you know i think it's it's kind of nice to just scroll through twitter and see people being positive about the game even from within the community right for just a week or two there isn't a lot of negativity around league of legends and it's kind of cool yeah yeah for myself i obviously watch league of legends and write about it and i play legends of runeterra casually when i feel like it but i don't exactly own a lot of runeterra merch my interest in the game skews heavily towards the esports side of things so when i saw riot's mick montgomery tweet this i
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