Youtube Slash (LiveJournal community)
| Journal Community | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Youtube Slash |
| Date(s): | 2010-2013 |
| Moderator: | Smushfaace (former), lucy_and_ramona, girl_in_stripes, nicoleh626, organizedcure, kisforkurama |
| Founder: | Smushfaace |
| Type: | Livejournal |
| Fandom: | Youtube RPF |
| URL: | youtube-slash.livejournal.com |
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Youtube Slash was a private LiveJournal community centered around Youtube RPF, specifically slash ships. The comm was created by Smushfaace[1] in September 2010.[2] It was one of the primary hubs for Youtube RPF in the early days of the fandom, before the rise of fandoms like Achievement Hunter RPF and MCYT, along with groups on DeviantArt and Tumblr. At the time, most of the fanfiction was centered around Nerdfighter-related YouTube channels.
Amongst members of the community, Youtube RPF was colloquially known as #y_slash.
History
Initially a relatively small community of members who were primarily centered around various Nerdfighter-related youtube channels, Youtube Slash grew to over a thousand members before being purged by Livejournal at some point in 2015. The community was well-known amongst the people who were being written about, to the point where it was community policy to not accept fanworks of people who expressed discomfort with the practice[2] and there was a meme about Alex Day hanging out on the ceiling of the comm.[3][4]
On March 9, 2011, kisforkurama hosted the #y_slash kink meme on its journal, on request from another mod of the comm. It ran from March 2011 to October 2013, and garnered over 400 comments (a respectable number for such a smaller fandom).[5] With the deletion of the comm, it contains many of the surviving early 2010s examples of Youtube Slash.
In summer of 2012, the Youtube Slash community ran a Big Bang, which can be found at InterroBigBang.
The community fizzled out in late 2012 due to many of the popular YouTubers being outed as abusers.
Common Pairings
- Cherimon: Probably the most popular ship on the comm, as evidenced by the header, Cherimon was a smushname for Charlie McDonnell and Alex Day.
- Hexaplant: Another fairly common ship that was sometimes pair the spares to Cherimon, Hexaplant was the pairing name for Tom Milsom and Ed Blann.
- Phan: Before the real rise of the Phandom in late 2012, Dan Howell and Phil Lester primarily appeared as a side-pairing in fic.
- ~Never: A crackship that became popular due to being written by lucy_and_ramona, ~Never is the name for Alex Day and Teoh Lander-Boyce.
References
- ^ Pleeeeease? For the CHERIMON?! Posted 21 Sept 2010. Accessed 15 Feb 2023.
- ^ a b Youtube Slash Profile. Archived 11 Jan 2012. Accessed 15 Feb 2023.
- ^ Tweet from spibsy. Posted 13 Jun 2011.
- ^ Tweet from flyingthesky. Posted 8 Apr 2011. Accessed 15 Feb 2023.
- ^ #Y_SLASH KINK MEME. Posted 9 Mar 2011. Accessed 15 Feb 2023.