Vinesauce

***Vinesauce*** is a streaming media website established on May 11th, 2010 by "Vinny" in New York City, New York. The stream serves live footage of video game gameplay and the streamer's live commentary to hundreds or sometimes thousands of viewers at any given moment. The viewers can interact with the streamer through a chat room next to the video feed.

*Vinesauce* is also host to other permanently recurring streamers and guest streamers who have either been recruited by Vinny or applied for the opportunity. For the sake of variety and maintaining the core spirit of the experience, guest streamers are restricted to a single game within a single session of streaming due to an increasingly high volume of applications submitted by viewers.

On YouTube, *Vinesauce* maintains an alternative online presence with edited stream highlights uploaded through various channels including individual streamer-owned channels and an official channel.

## History

Before *Vinesauce*, Vinny first started out with a YouTube channel which served small recordings of video game playthroughs and amateur videos. After noticing a deterioration in quality throughout the live streaming community as a fan of many of the existing streams, he felt that he could do the medium the justice it deserved.

On May 11th, 2010, Vinny launched *Vinesauce*. After the stream made substantial gains in viewership, Vinny was joined by several other streamers— many of whom remain recurring streamers to this day. Notable recurring streamers include "KY", Joel, Fred, "MentalJen", "Limes", Darren, "Studyguy", "Rev", "Hootey", "Imakuni" and "FearGingers".

*For me, it's always about improvement. I think we're the best we've ever been at this point in time. We have a great team and we all get along like 99% of the time. That's incredibly important. You can be the very best streamer ever, but if you don't work well with other people or are prone to drama, it makes my life (and subsequently the entire team's lives) very difficult.**.*

## Culture

Their humor can potentially strike a viewer as immature, but *Vinesauce* and its contributors try to maintain what could be considered a degree of exclusivity in their community (without actually denying anyone entry). Through encouraging thoughtful engagement with peers, both viewer and streamer alike, and discouraging lewd and distasteful behavior, they attempt to cultivate a civilized culture somewhat unique to an internet overflowing with debauchery and moral mayhem. Please note that this entire last paragraph was a pretentious pile of garbage and should be totally ignored.

Intentionally, there is no schedule for streaming on *Vinesauce*. This policy is implemented in order to draw natural performances from streamers and maintain their original enthusiasm. Rather than rigid, choreographed performances, *Vinesauce'*s streams are meant to feel familiar and organic.

The stream has become known in pockets of the internet for alternative, laid-back and off-putting humor with games that are forced into "corrupted" states or have naturally occurring dysfunctional art styles with the intent of appearing corrupted or glitched. On occasion, there have also been entire games developed by viewers solely for the purpose of being streamed by *Vinesauce*.

Additionally, thousands of pieces of fanart have been created by viewers that were inspired by particular stream-related occurrences or highlights of streams. These works are often made hastily and finished mere minutes after the catalytic events.

## On YouTube

Established *before* their official streaming website in February of 2010, *Vinesauce'*s presence on YouTube has been a great boon to their steadily flourishing success as a stream. With closer access to the internet media audience at-large, and features in video game related news outlet.

## References

1. ↑ Vinesauce Official Website Homepage. Vinesauce (05-11-2010). Retrieved on 2013-11-24.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Vinesauce FAQ. Vinesauce (05-11-2010). Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Vinesauce Streamer Origins Forum Post, page 2. Vinesauce Forums (04-22-2013). Retrieved on 2013-11-23.
4. ↑ Vinesauce Chat Rules Forum Post. Vinesauce (05-11-2010). Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
5. ↑ TV Tropes - Vinesauce. TV Tropes (05-11-2010). Retrieved on 2013-12-17.
6. ↑ Vinesauce Streamer Rules Forum Post. Vinesauce (05-11-2010). Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
7. ↑ News Article. Zelda Universe via Destructoid (08-06-2013). Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
8. ↑ Cantrell, Asher (22-10-2013). News Article. Cracked. Retrieved on 2013-11-21.
9. ↑ PC Gamer. Petitte, Omri (8-10-2012). PC Gamer. Retrieved on 2013-12-12.
10. ↑ booru.org. Booru.org Imageboard Network (8-10-2012). Retrieved on 2014-02-23.