ErinDromeda

Erin (born: January 31, 1998 [Age 26]), https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxNZcFOiDqDrmSpI-U01FU7IzI9KugDoM1Community Post better known online as ErinDromeda, is a British music compiler who started uploading videos to YouTube in 2019 though her channel was created in 2014. She is widely regarded in the niche community for her creativity, unique take on the genre, and writing skills. Erin stylizes herself as the androgynous Deltarune character, Kris, created by Toby Fox. Erin separates her videos into seasons much in the way of a tv show. The storyline follows a straightforward concept of evil power hungry villains against a wide variety of heroes. These characters are taken from pre-existing games with new plotlines, stories, and characterization pulled over their original concepts. Other videos range between "specials" such as dedicated videos, trailers, collaborations, or "tales". Although the overarching concept is simple, the storyline grows progressively complex and requires hours of dedicated viewing to follow. She cites Ezonater, ShadowAtNoon and Tempers as her inspiration for her channel and considers her videos to be a "really fun outlet for writing". Erin has also been known to include her own art in videos or posts. Her drawing style includes a darker and detailed outline choice with often bright colors accompanied by simple backgrounds relying on broad color strokes rather than defined details. https://www.youtube.com/@ErinDromeda/featuredErinDromeda's About tab on her main page
== Collaborations==
Erin isn't known for frequent collaborations with other YouTubers, but she does regularly collaborate with another creator, Cosmonaut Genesys. These two seem to be familiar with each other, but it is unclear how they met or why they choose to collaborate with each other. They have participated in three separate sessions of collaboration, each producing a partner video to be paired with the other creator's. Their first two collaborations were themed around their favorite Danganronpa characters from all three main games. Erin chose Chihiro Fujisaki, Aoi Asahina, Ibuki Mioda, Nagito Komaeda, Korekiyo Shinguji, and Kokichi Oma. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpi_wZkecpxu6iuyVtkcl-qJhY8J8NmbQDanganronpa Collaboration Playlist Their third collab was a deviation from that series and instead focused on different branches of science. Erin chose Meteorology, Psychology, and Astronomy. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpi_wZkecpxuAM3CdfXqFFtdKEK6XgP8VScience Collaboration Playlist They promised more collaborations to release in the future at the conclusion of this last collection. 
==Video Structure==
ErinDromeda's design for videos is rather simple in idea but complex in execution. Titles vary in style but frequently follow a format of "Video Game Music To..." Ex. "Video Game Music To Sleep In A Sea Bed To", "Video Game Music To Rattle Your Bones To", "Video Game Music To Be A Mad Scientist To", etc. She often clarifies the theme of the video in brackets directly after the title. The videos themselves typically revolve around two to four different pre-existing video characters Erin has adopted into her own versions. These characters are typically chosen to fit the theme of the video and may play larger roles in the main storyline of her videos. They are exemplified on screen through static jpgs. Their dialogue is in boxes labelled with their face and/or color. The characters typically retain certain traits from their canonical games, but feature more in-depth characterization that strays from existing plot lines. Each video is a compilation of songs from video games that fit around the chosen theme of the video. On screen, the characters present will have discussions or quotes shown for each different song. The conversation usually proceeds upon the changing of the song. This requires any viewer actively following the main plot of the channel to read through every piece of dialogue. Erin often uses reoccurring characters and features character development over the course of multiple different videos. For thumbnails, Erin typically includes the "main characters" of the video over the main location. Though, it is common that other characters make appearances that are not featured in thumbnails.
==Channel Structure==
The upload schedule for ErinDromeda often depends upon the current "season". This is the term that Erin uses to designate when she is in an active upload schedule. She often takes breaks from uploading when outside of a season that has ranged from weeks to months. She has attributed these breaks to writer's block, burnout, interruption of her life outside of YouTube, and the basic need of a break. She chose the term season to evoke the idea of her videos being episodes in a season of a tv show. This correlation is not unfounded meaning she often utilizes the well-known structure of a tv show to keep track of major plot developments and changes in focus for characters both good and bad. Erin has used other television terms like finale, episode, epilogue, and trailer to express different video purposes.
==The Story https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpi_wZkecpxslrl5X4Sy4uZ6A4KkG4kGMFull Playlist of all Related Story Videos and Seasons==
Season One
Brainy Beginnings in a Town Square
The shortest season with eleven videos. Erin spent most of these videos exploring writing concepts and establishing basic plot beats rather than major plot decisions. Most of the content was about exploring tonal themes than on any story. But it also features her most popular video, Video Game Music To Walk Through Your Local Town Square To. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpi_wZkecpxv2McAhHOKVk8nZIEinR9WySeason One Playlist
Season Two
Cooking, Cleaning and Crying, The Summer Chronicles
This season features many of the oldest and most reoccurring characters in the series, both villains and heroes. It is also the first season to include a collaboration series as part of the season (A Danganronpa tribute series created with Cosmonaut Genesys). At this point Erin had begun to dig into what she wanted to do with her channel and how she wanted to approach her creative process. It has the most mixed amount of ambient videos and story videos while being the second shortest season with thirteen videos (ten if you don't count the collaboration series). It's also at this point that Erin begins to analyze mental health and the impacts of that on our lives through her videos and characters. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpi_wZkecpxtktY_jRReMz_LqFGw0XIsNSeason 2 Playlist
Season Three
Camping in a Snowy Program
This season was only longer by one video, at fourteen total. Erin spent a majority of this season introducing a plethora of characters. Every video is a story or lore video this season. This is the first season to end with a finale that is a fight between characters and begins the reintroduction of core characters as main heroes and villains. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpi_wZkecpxvkob3tsNHY2yUTHMFvA54BSeason 3 Playlist
Season Four
Finding Power beneath Neon Skies
This is the first season to feature a trailer to hype up for the episodes to come. It is also the second season to include a collaboration series as part of the season (Another Danganronpa tribute series created with Cosmonaut Genesys). Nearly double the length of season three, this playlist includes a larger variety of content ranging from trailers to major plot lines concluding. Erin begins to establish the core team of heroes alongside the villains they are fighting against. Erin decides to incorporate major locations as well that now remain as important pieces to the plot. This season also occurs over a longer period of real time. A trend that will continue on as she dedicates more and more time to her videos. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpi_wZkecpxtOfq-ZSel3_42j0OkhSU9FSeason 4 Playlist
Season Five
Marching on Towers in Worn Spaceboots
Season five is the currently longest season containing thirty-six videos. This seasons features the largest variety in video types including a new mini-series called "Tales from the Big City" much in the style of an anthology tv show. This is also the third season to feature a collaboration (A science dedicated series created with Cosmonaut Genesys). This season is the second to receive a trailer prior to release. Erin seems to have found her style in seasons three and four which has led to her experimenting more with structure and content for this season. She has also taken to the community tab to gain insight from viewers to better tailor the experience to what they prefer by way of polls or comments. According to Erin's community posts starting around the beginning of January, it is heavily implied that the main story of the series will end with this season. Erin considers this a major accomplishment and is excited yet saddened to see the series end. Though she plans on continuing to release videos after the fact. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpi_wZkecpxuJeE5d8C4HHESMKxE8vol1Season 5 Playlist 
Season Six
A Step Back to a Land of Sand
Season six is the currently releasing season including eleven videos as of June 2024. Videos this season now have a title card at the beginning showing the season number, the season name, and a quote from a character in the video. This season has had the largest release spread as the season contains a low number of videos over almost a year of releases. It's also uniquely a season that began releases during another season. The first video, Video Game Music For When Women Want You And Fish Fear You (Fishing Music/Vibes) (BONUS MIX), came out in October 2023 while season 5 didn't wrap up for another 5 months. Erin seems to be focusing more on one-off characters as well. From appearances, it seems that no video so far has further developed the main story of the series since Video Game Music For The Epilogue on February 7, 2024 confirming that season six is a new approach to the channel. Meanwhile, Erin has begun to regularly update her old gaming channel, ErinDromeda's Gremlin Game Cave. A lot of her focus for videos seems to be on this channel at the moment. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpi_wZkecpxu-sXvjpC5r7pehY6rhoqMySeason 6 Playlist 
==Inclusion==
Erin has on numerous occasions included allusions to the LGBTQ+ community in videos and in community posts. She expresses full support and has acknowledged her own inclusion in the community. 
In a post in November, 2022, Erin shared a video by creator Ahsoka Hyrule (another compiler) that was themed toward music involving trans characters in video games. Erin stated in her post that the video was "a compilation on a topic weaved into my very heart." https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8BFJgP_ghkFgPCtcQcp1SA/community?lb=UgkxrogzyCAixcjtcD-Jo5kL6cuYWZO4O8HfCommunity Post
In April of 2023, Erin made a post which featured a graph of her characters and their orientations. She was noted in the comments to include herself under the Bi, Ace, and Trans coded categories, but did not acknowledge whether this was the Kris character in her videos or herself as a separate person. Though it's very safe at this point to assume she was referring to herself as a person. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8BFJgP_ghkFgPCtcQcp1SA/community?lb=UgkxSiU340AjZpNtDK6NUht9iqcJh1y1HF3_Community Post
She did say in a post at the beginning of Pride Month, June 2023, that she includes herself in the community. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8BFJgP_ghkFgPCtcQcp1SA/community?lb=UgkxpQXFyypwlefC49Wxp3G0ARfQf3qgXt9nCommunity Post
Erin made a Pride 2024 post stating: "Happy Pride Month Gaymers with a Y! Our powers are increased tenfold! ✨🏳️‍🌈
Happy to reaffirm that I myself am an extremely not straight person, and this is a safe and chill place for queer peeps of all kinds. Don't let anyone stop you." https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx0kbpvuu8dhZasjEW031PvKtOWuPK_atUCommunity Post
==Controversy==
ErinDromeda was involved in a small controversy that brought to light a creator who had been and continues to steal content from other creators similar to Erin's channel, music compilations. Originally detailed in a community post, Erin told her audience that a YouTuber known as TixoFox (referred to as Tixo) had taken the audio unedited from her video titled Video Game Music That Plays While You Lose A Quiz Show [Game Show Playlist]. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8BFJgP_ghkFgPCtcQcp1SA/community?lb=UgkxTFOVS01Hkrd_6usdNv_a7g4qjOOh7pVjCommunity Post Not long after this post, Erin shared a post from Ezonater, a retired music compiler YouTuber, who condemns Tixo's behavior and shares relevant information to the situation. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8BFJgP_ghkFgPCtcQcp1SA/community?lb=Ugkx1JcRicyiPDmQWSQAoixWAUa-nYrZoRPHCommunity Post Around a year later, Erin made an update post to share that the situation had not improved, but rather worsened instead. She used this post to share a playlist created by Nessie-from-Earthbound1601 that includes all videos Tixo has stolen and the original that Tixo used. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8BFJgP_ghkFgPCtcQcp1SA/community?lb=UgkxBVcvf29voCHQd8XPndd4lgrl9KoZYu8fCommunity Post The playlist is titled Videos Tixo has Stolen. The playlist description includes distressing information about Tixo's stealing habits including a list of all creators who have been stolen from (31), a ratio of the number of creators with less subscribers than Tixo that have had a video stolen (22/31), and a percentage of videos on Tixo's channel that are stolen vs. not stolen (80/146 or 54.8%). https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_b9ap-k8oxxFhCt2RkXQFnFwtY2o8D1jVideo Tixo Has Stolen Playlist created by Nessie-from-Earthbound1601 
==Citations==
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