So, You're a New Redacted Fan!

So... You're a new Redacted Audio fan! you turn to social media to find the community, but then like any other conversation you jump into, it's confusing when you're late to the party.

here are some stuff to help you get started with redacted.

1. if you're a minor, please keep out. no buts, no whys, just wait until you're 18.
2. the man who runs the channel and voices the characters introduced himself as Erik. with a K. please do not confuse that with Eric, as Eric with a C is a character in his videos.
3. the characters in the videos have names and are not just random boyfriend characters. they have storylines as well. if you would like to follow the story of a specific character, you may look for his playlist in the playlist tab on redacted audio's channel.
4. although the characters have their own storylines, some of the storylines crossover with another regularly (for example, David, Milo and Asher have their own storylines, but they belong to one werewolf pack so they often crossover). besides this, minor spoiler, all of the videos (besides the au, details later) belong to one universe/take place in the same world, and at some point one or more storylines crossover. it is then recommended that you listen to the "Everything" playlist that follows the release order and not chronological order (which is the case for the character playlists). in the everything playlist, you meet all the characters and become acquainted with even your least favorite character, but that pays off when you finally see how they are related with the other characters/playlist.
5. the imperium au is an alternate universe of what the redactedverse is like in a darker lens, where good boys become bad and bad boys become worse, although some of the characters from the prime/main universe do not change drastically in the imperium au. examples of changes from prime to imperium is that prime universe Damien is a hardworking student who is friends with the listener, and Imperium Damien is a tyrannical king.
6. each character calls their listener with a specific petname. so if you are on social media and you see redacted fans mentioning aliases that don't sound like an actual name but used as if they are talking about a specific character, they're talking about a listener character. it would help to remember whose listener is who, although that comes with listening to the audios regularly or actually binging the channel. also, some redacted fans on social media give the listeners their OC (own character) names.
7. the prefixes Imp! and Prime! or Canon! placed next to character names refer to their version in the channel. Imp!Damien is Imperium Damien, and prime!Damien or canon!Damien is the student Damien, but usually the prime universe characters don't have prefixes with them unless they are mentioned alongside or being compared to their Imperium version, such as what I just did. the prefixing is also only common in the community on social media, and has not been seen used by Erik himself in the channel.
8. please do not talk about frederick and bright eyes or BE in the channel, in the comments, or tag redacted about them. he discontinued those characters' storyline. refer to his community post for more details.
9. yes, you can tag him on social media, like tiktok. no, he doesn't post content there. yes, he watches fan content, no he does not interact with any.
10. on september 9, 2022, redacted had to rebrand from redacted asmr to redacted audio, and had to take down videos, mostly the ones with explicit content, due to youtube's new policies. most of these videos were patreon previews, but some were also non-previews (meaning they are regular uploads that happen to have some implied explicit content that could sound the yt sirens). some of these non-previews were reuploaded as spliced versions (the suggestive parts edited out) and can only be found in character playlists.
11. along the purged videos was a one-off (as of writing) with a character called Nick, a neko, (from the Japanese word neko meaning cat, refers to someone with a human body, cat ears and cat tail, for those unfamiliar with the term). Nick has a roommate named Matt, who confronted Nick for pretending to be a neko.
12. if you're watching a video released not long ago, say, 2 hours ago, and you read the comments and they're dated 23 hours ago, it's because they have early access to the video through patreon. the video was actually uploaded the day before as unlisted whose link is only accessible to patrons. 2 hours ago was the time that the video went public.
13. march redactness is a patreon only event every march where erik matches characters against each other and creates polls for patrons to vote who wins.
14. Redacted audio has videos featuring other voice actors to play redacted characters. Erik also portrays characters for these voice actors' channels. refer to this link for a playlist of the videos. refer to the respective channels for the complete storylines.