A Brief History of Touhou and the World

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Title: A Brief History of Touhou and the World
Creator: Thunderclub (credited as Rin)
Date: September 17, 2023
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Length: 1:49:23
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Genre: Essay
Fandom: Touhou Project
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URL: Youtube link

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A Brief History of Touhou and the World is a Youtube fanvid essay which delves into the intertwined history of the doujin franchise and its fans as a whole, past and present. It was uploaded onto the site on September 2023 to a mostly-warm fan response, with notes about the essayist's inclusion of the fandom's history, as intertwined within both the online and real world.

Topics Discussed

  • Origins of the game franchise itself
  • Overview of both the PC-98- and Windows-era games, as well as supplemental material
  • U. N. Owen Was Her/MAD remixes (mostly on Nico Nico Douga)
  • Bad Apple!!, and its now-famous Alstromeria Records vocal remix
  • Early memes revolving around various Touhou characters at the time
  • Touhou-focused fan conventions, most notably Touhoucon and Reitaisai
  • Rensenware, a notorious, unusual ransomware program which requires achieving more than 200 million points in a Lunatic-difficulty run of Touhou Seirensen ~ Undefined Fantastic Object to unlock the victim's computer's files
  • Touhou Hijacks, or references to the franchise proper, either overt or covert
  • Merchandise based on Touhou, e.g. Fumos

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