Velo City History Overview

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Velo City, as a YouTube channel, has seen a lot of momentous events throughout the years. There are a lot to look back to on their almost decade-long journey through cyberspace.

As the brothers Shabir and Aasif are based in London, England, the times and dates specified in this page are in GMT/BST.

## Channel Creation and Early YouTube Period

The Velo City Main YouTube Channel was created on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2012, and they uploaded their very first video three days after, which was an acoustic cover of Naruto's Ai to Hi. They have been uploading irregularly during that time period, considering that it was the holidays.

Once the calendar year changed to 2013, however, they have pushed through and continued on with uploads on a slightly irregular basis, due to being students at the time, and most of the uploads on the main channel may have already been privated due to multiple reasons, including copyright claims.

## Anime Theme Cover Period

Velo City has been consistently churning out anime cover after anime cover up until 2018, when their grandfather passed away on February 2nd. Deeply saddened by this, they decide to upload a cover of Bleach's Here to Stay as a tribute dedicated to him. This steeled their resolve into continuing their love for their craft and continued grinding out masterful covers, music Q&A's and even personal music tutorial videos up until 2019, where they split the time between uploading covers, challenge videos, anime quizzes, and anime opening and episode reactions.

During this period, their longtime friends, Nav (Izaya's Hub) and Jordan (Silver Status) would appear more often in their videos, adding to the appeal and dynamic of their content.

## Transition to Reactionary Content

During the second half of 2019, Velo City, usually together with Izaya's Hub and Silver Status (and the occasional Rafi), would start binging openings and episodes in one video, effectively marking the transition from music channel to reaction channel. The COVID-19 pandemic at the first quarter of 2020 made things even clearer as reactionary content was way more accessible and easier to do in such circumstances.

## Led Astray

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During their anime reaction period, Velo City reacted to Tower of God's OP, which was sung by Stray Kids, a successful and acclaimed K-Pop group. Thus, they began their own trek into the jungle that is the K-Pop Community, where there are different patches of forest, different sceneries, and much more.

Starting off strong with Stray Kids, followed by Blackpink, and then going forward onto BTS, the streak of K-Pop reactions have fueled their inner fanboys anew, and craved for more. Coincidentally, they have been noticed by WEBTOON, the official distributor of the Tower of God Manhwa, and made them First-Generation Ambassadors.

At the same time as the height of the K-Pop wave hitting Velo City, there lay a gaping, gluttonous hole, awaiting the boys' one fatal mistake, and Velo City was about to experience the immense, irresistible gravitational pull of it.

## Fall Into The Rabbit Hole

The brothers of Velo City officially descended into the VTuber Rabbit Hole (hololive, to be exact) when they uploaded a reaction to Calliope Mori's debut single, *Excuse my Rudeness, But Could You Please RIP? (失礼しますが、RIP♡)* on October 16, 2020. The usually ecstatic Aasif couldn't handle the bars, and the heat is agreed upon by Shabir. From there, they sought out more, and their descent on that day chiseled their destiny into stone as a pillar of the VTuber Reaction Community.

## Into the Hoyoverse

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Sometime during the height of their fall into the deepest depths of the VTuber Rabbit Hole, a comment on Shabir and Aasif's live chat suggested them to go on another, equally perilous, rabbit hole known as Genshin Impact. Thus, their journey into the Hoyoverse starts.

## Rise of The VIS Kings and Donning the VISR

At the same time, rumblings of the rumor mill echo about in the community regarding the return of the song cover period. The community was graced by a massive but pleasant surprise (but not really, due to it being spoiled and leaked multiple times in successive streams by Shabir and Aasif themselves). Velo City, Izaya's Hub and Silver Status have joined forces as VIS, releasing a very popular Vocaloid song cover that's been the gold standard of the VTuber Community at the time. Just recently, with the easing up of regulations and restrictions on social interaction and movement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, VIS has been able to meet up in person once more, allowing for more shenanigans to take place. This time, Rafi fully reunites with the quartet, officially forming VISR.