Editing Talk:List of references on the Internet

== The Limit with YouTube ==

YouTube is home to millions of videos, but one popular genre is the Let's Play, where someone narrates through their playthough of a game. Naturally, as Mario is a popular series, Mario games are constantly being Let's Played. [https://www.youtube.com/user/GameGrumps GameGrumps], [https://www.youtube.com/user/chuggaaconroy Chuggaaconroy], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmL7epUlNGo Rooster Teeth], and many more are some of the more famous examples of people who have played Mario games on their channel, and that's not even including the plethora of people who have included a Mario reference ''somewhere'' in their videos, like everyone who's done a [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=minecraft+lucky+block Minecraft Lucky Block video] or people who consistently use Mario avatars like [https://www.youtube.com/user/VanossGaming Vanoss (as Luigi)] and [https://www.youtube.com/user/MiniLaddd Mini Ladd (as Mario)]. With that said, should they be included? I do think that at least Chuggaaconroy and other people who are predominantly Nintendo/Mario-oriented should be mentioned, but beyond that, do we go by video views? Subscriber count? The article already lists a few gamers, like [https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDiamondMinecart/ The Diamond Minecart (predominantly Minecraft)] and [https://www.youtube.com/user/rfm767 rfm767 (predominantly Plants vs. Zombies], so it seems a bit inconsistent to me. {{User:Time Turner/sig}}

:Maybe we could just have one general "Let's Play" header under the YouTube section and list the "big names" (i.e. "people with over x subscribers") who routinely do ''Mario'' titles and/or make lots of refs to the series as they play through other games, but not give them all separate sections. Also, I feel like it might be worth doing a section for [[wikipedia:Kaizo Mario World|Kaizo Mario World]], listing LPs of it; it has a Wikipedia page for crying out loud: that suggests it's impactful enough to be worth acknowledging (and saying there's lots of other fanmade SMW levels too, from regular stuff to copycat hard levels to those musical automatic ones, but not list anything in particular). It's all a pretty slippery slope, but it seems to be more worthwhile to note these sorts of major ''Mario'' fandom aspects rather than just sticking to the often-small-time series that make the occasional ''Mario'' ref here and there (across all media, really: it's a safe bet that a lot of the live action TV series listed, for example are less well known top most of the wiki's readership than Chuggaaconroy or Kaizo Mario). - {{User:Walkazo/sig}} 15:35, 24 March 2015 (EDT)