IDB Watch Parties

Ablissa · Tue Oct 30, 2018 10:09 am

lefthandedism wrote: ↑Mon Oct 29, 2018 3:57 am I haven't been able to catch any watch parties live, but I've been reading back some of the threads here. And I discovered some great timestamps!

We have another subform devoted to timestamps here. It occured to me that some of you great timestamp-makers might want to copy over your timestamps there. The structure of the timestamps forum is pretty self-explanatory; there is a thread already for most videos since April 2016, and not necessarily a thread for videos before then. If a thread has been started, you can simply reply to it to add timestamps. If you can't find the video, feel free to start a new thread for it in the appropriate section.

And if you have any questions or issues, of course just ask me or any other mod!

Ooh right, thanks for the tip! I hadn't thought of posting mine there as all the videos we're watching are older. I will definitely do it soon

@ Nov 4th watch party - the social media links are pretty dead, but I guess it's okay, we should hype up our pinof watch fest more (24th). However if you want to share, head on over to tumblr/twitter (if you already rt'd, I make a new tweet every day)

lesterchuu · Thu Nov 01, 2018 6:24 am

Ablissa wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 3:41 pm The forum format is not for everyone, unfortunately. We can keep trying to involve the phandom, while making this mostly a fun activity for us on IDB.
If we want to really expand to the rest of the phandom, we could try to host a watch party with rabb.it and see how many people actually participate. Maybe for our pinof marathon?

ive been dead irl so i hvent really posted much on the forums (i lurked form time to time tho) so i ddnt get to reply to this until now

i think i like how it is for the meantime, forum format may not be their cup of tea for some people but its still fun to read about what other people wrote whether they decide to reply or not. we can try and do a rabb.it session for pinof 10 but im not quite sure about it for now. i would imagine it lagging a lot but hey, i havent used the thing in years so i wouldnt know...its still a pretty good idea for a phandom event tho...

somethingsketchy · Thu Nov 01, 2018 10:35 am

ame wrote: ↑Thu Nov 01, 2018 6:24 am
Ablissa wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 3:41 pm The forum format is not for everyone, unfortunately. We can keep trying to involve the phandom, while making this mostly a fun activity for us on IDB.
If we want to really expand to the rest of the phandom, we could try to host a watch party with rabb.it and see how many people actually participate. Maybe for our pinof marathon?
ive been dead irl so i hvent really posted much on the forums (i lurked form time to time tho) so i ddnt get to reply to this until now

i think i like how it is for the meantime, forum format may not be their cup of tea for some people but its still fun to read about what other people wrote whether they decide to reply or not. we can try and do a rabb.it session for pinof 10 but im not quite sure about it for now. i would imagine it lagging a lot but hey, i havent used the thing in years so i wouldnt know...its still a pretty good idea for a phandom event tho...

I use rabb.it weekly, and it lags every time even when I'm only watching with one other person, so I wouldn't count on a rabb.it stream to work with even more people...

lesterchuu · Sat Nov 03, 2018 9:14 am

to prepare for the pinof10 marathon, shall we brainstorm some ideas?

are we okay with sticking to the same format as last time where we try to trend a hashtag and encourage people to share their art/lovely messages to dnp? or we could try something like a collaborative effort, since we have more time (1 month) for this one, and make a big project with the phandom? (like: video full of clips and art and messages from fans or something like that?)

also, since its more of a "marathon", we have a lot more videos to watch so should we consider chopping it up and put more days to do this? or are we all just doing it all in one day? watching it all together ala rabb.it style (but with a possibly better option???????idk man) sounds great for this, since its a marathon after all. i think someone had mentioned how long it takes to watch the entire pinof1 - pino9, but we also have to take into consideration pee/food breaks and people pausing to type up their thoughts can also add to the time.

what do you guys think?

LadyLackless · Sat Nov 03, 2018 11:09 am

ame wrote: ↑Sat Nov 03, 2018 9:14 am i think someone had mentioned how long it takes to watch the entire pinof1 - pino9, but we also have to take into consideration pee/food breaks and people pausing to type up their thoughts can also add to the time.

what do you guys think?

Hi

That was me!
A full pinof 1-9 marathon with no breaks is less than 1hr. The early ones are very short! However I can see the merit in taking them separately to give people a chance to write their comments on each one separately?

glitterintheair · Sat Nov 03, 2018 12:03 pm

Hmm, I think chopping it up would be better for anyone who wants to type up their thoughts here since there are a lot of videos to comment on. Maybe we could watch the first 5 on one day (they're all under 5 minutes) and leave the other 4 for the next one.

lesterchuu · Sat Nov 03, 2018 7:45 pm

LadyLackless wrote: ↑Sat Nov 03, 2018 11:09 am
ame wrote: ↑Sat Nov 03, 2018 9:14 am i think someone had mentioned how long it takes to watch the entire pinof1 - pino9, but we also have to take into consideration pee/food breaks and people pausing to type up their thoughts can also add to the time.

what do you guys think?
Hi That was me!
A full pinof 1-9 marathon with no breaks is less than 1hr. The early ones are very short! However I can see the merit in taking them separately to give people a chance to write their comments on each one separately?

yeah, just like @glitterintheair suggested as well, we can possibly do a two-day thing. would saturday + sunday work perhaps? we could even put them into playlists beforehand since theres more than two videos, to save us a couple steps.

im not sure but i think i remember philly mention that pinof 10 will be sometimes end of november, so HOPEFULLY he doesnt just go "sike! heres pinof 10!" while were in the middle of watching the marathon just to play w us

(im sure he wont but im still laughing at their surprise liveshow during the phanniversary event yall)

Ablissa · Mon Nov 05, 2018 1:00 am

@somethingsketchy thanks for the info about rabb.it! Can anyone confirm if it always lags and it's just the nature of the platform? Are there any other options? Twitch comes to mind, but would that even work

(mind you, I still prefer keeping our current format and I'm simply brainstorming rn)

ame wrote: ↑Sat Nov 03, 2018 9:14 am we try to trend a hashtag and encourage people to share their art/lovely messages to dnp? or we could try something like a collaborative effort, since we have more time (1 month) for this one, and make a big project with the phandom? (like: video full of clips and art and messages from fans or something like that?)

Trending is so damn hard, really. If we want to make it happen we need to start real soon, and more people need to get involved because I'm still traumatized from begging people to rt/rb the post

and I'm sure you are too. If more people would be willing to try and spread the word (you are all super helpful with reblogs and retweets, what I'm saying is that we need to actively nag people to rt and rb) then we can give it a shot.
For reference, our social media currently only has 82 twitter followers and like 60 on tumblr, so without help from 'big' blogs we can't reach far.

When you mention a big project, do you mean something done under the phandomwatch name? How many people here are up for participating in that?

As for splitting it up into parts - I'm okay with it, but I wonder how many people will join on both days. I see a few options:
- Saturday and Sunday - splitting them up, but then comparing will be more boring for us here on IDB (since we'll compare like, pinof 1-5, then 6-9 instead of old vs new)
- Two showings on the same day i.e. the first group watches 1-5, 1 hour break, watch again and repeat for the second group
- Just marathon it like a champ but discussing it will be a total mess
- Saturday and Sunday splitting up and mixing it up for example: 1, 4, 6 on the first day, and the other day the remaining ones. Cons: mess
- Marathon BUT... I think we can pull off a whole marathon (idk about others but I am sometimes sat motionless at the computer for many hours so I don't need breaks), but to avoid a messy discussion, we can agree to only compare two sets of pinofs: for example 1 vs 9 and maybe 2 vs 6 or so?

Would love to hear your thoughts here, once more people chime in I will make a poll.

lesterchuu · Mon Nov 05, 2018 5:41 am

sorry, my gemini brain is still trying wrap itself around these ideas, pls bare w me ; u;

@Ablissa
i mean.....we could...like marathon all of pinof 1-9 in one day then depending on whether pinof 10 comes out before or after that, then we can either compare all of the previous pinofs to the 20gayteen version or try to predict how itll turn out? or we could do the pinof 1 vs pinof 9 thing too

discussion-wise, like you said, were going from dissecting two videos to like 9~10...its going to be a lot. focusing on 1 or 2 videos could help but realistically, people would still wanna talk about the other videos regardless....idk man.

i mean, i think its just how we do it here in idb. ive gotten so used to timestamping and trying to create a long post. its just the nature of forums i guess.

as for the "special" part....yeah, no, youre right. trending a thing is hard work. ill take a break from that for now rting or rebloging our posts is enough for me. im still recovering from last time lmao...tho i still want to make pinof season at least a tad bit special. making a phandom project might be a bit much, eh? in retrospect, even tho we have a month, its still not a lot of time to gather people i suppose. unless its something relatively of a smaller scale.

at first i mentioned a video collab cz i wanted to include everyone but now im wondering if im overstretching it...

idk man, the only thing i could do is draw...

LadyLackless · Mon Nov 05, 2018 10:31 am

Not adding much to the discussion here but I feel like pinof is more likely to come after than before. Phil mentioned it could even be early Dec.

The one I think I’d discuss the most would be pinof 4 (aka 2012 pinof) I remember it being awkward and have avoided it somewhat since my big initial binge (where I watched every single AP, Dinof and DAPGames in chronological order.... over literal months) but was it really that bad? I think that was the “I feel special”, “you are.” pinof

kavat · Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:02 am

Ablissa wrote: ↑Mon Nov 05, 2018 1:00 am - Just marathon it like a champ but discussing it will be a total mess

I'm leaning mostly towards this tbh. It's the marathon part that I like about pinof season, and having people to discuss it with at the same time would be really fun. So far we haven't been that many people participating and even if we gathered a few more I think it would be doable.

Ablissa · Wed Nov 07, 2018 11:37 pm

Sorry for not checking in earlier, I've been a sleep-deprived, anxious mess this weekend and I'm just now recovering to be honest. Let's stay active here, everyone! I promise I will try to keep my anxiety at bay haha.

Ablissa wrote: ↑Mon Nov 05, 2018 1:00 am @somethingsketchy thanks for the info about rabb.it! Can anyone confirm if it always lags and it's just the nature of the platform? Are there any other options? Twitch comes to mind, but would that even work (mind you, I still prefer keeping our current format and I'm simply brainstorming rn)

Quoting myself because I still want to know! I feel like it might be fun to use a platform with chat just this once for our pinof marathon, and hopefully most of us will still come here to discuss afterwards. Any input is super appreciated!

Idea: how about we test rabb.it on a quick IDB only watch fest this or next weekend just to see if it works at all??

I'm also leaning towards this. I'm going to make a poll and post it in the next post so it doesn't get buried here.

Yeah, I feel like it's hard to compare all 9 to each other, but we could post a set of questions comparing some specific ones way ahead of time, so that people know what to focus on? What do you think?

I'm totally on board with us trying to get something extra. A video is possible if enough people want to participate. I'm afraid that like for the phanniversary, we may be upstaged by bigger projects that will be trending their own hashtag (I think it was international phannie day as opposed to our attempt at thank you dan and phil). Not trying to be negative here, just weighing pros and cons.

How about we just try to do something as IDB and possibly involve some other people as well. We could even just create a video of funny/fond posts about them and post it on IDB channel or something like that? Or write little notes and take pictures of that for a video? Not many people like to show their face, but just a note should work?

Input on this is still very welcome and needed - we should ideally decide things 100% until the end of the week

Ablissa · Wed Nov 07, 2018 11:47 pm

I made the poll regarding our marathon, please vote what sounds best for you

https://www.strawpoll.me/16800848

(Mods, I'm sorry for always doubleposting in these, I hope you can forgive me. It's for better visibility

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Thu Nov 08, 2018 1:53 am

Ablissa wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 11:47 pm I made the poll regarding our marathon, please vote what sounds best for you
https://www.strawpoll.me/16800848

(Mods, I'm sorry for always doubleposting in these, I hope you can forgive me. It's for better visibility )

We've never had a rule against double posting, and I can't see us ever having one. There's generally no issue with double posts, especially when there's a large gap between posts or the edit window was missed, so no need to worry about it.

lesterchuu · Thu Nov 08, 2018 7:26 am

i was going to post a reply when i got home but i ended up have a really loooooooooooong nap so here i am...

re:watch&chat i totally dont mind trying out rabb.it but i tried searching for other sites like it. i think one caveat with rabb.it too is that you need to sign in with it (yeah, i usually just sign in using the google overlords but ya kno, thats one extra step) and i thought some people might not have an account already might like to remain more anonymous. so for that i liked, watch2gether and togethertube .

while i DID try testing them just by myself so they didnt really lag, idk how theyll be with a group of people. if you guys want, we can try testing rabb.it and its other variants this weekend? i also think itll be fine eitherway, whether it works out or not. we always have the forums to fall back on.

re:phandomproject yeah, if its just a small scale idb thing then it might be workable. i was also thinking if theres other mediums we can do this one, but its also neat if we could use the idb youtube in some way. i know theres a pinof-related project going on right now (i think its pinof animate?) but idk if theres any other ongoing rn. heck, i might just toss the "project" idea out for now and opt for a more chill vibe.

idea #1 -

Ablissa wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 11:37 pm How about we just try to do something as IDB and possibly involve some other people as well. We could even just create a video of funny/fond posts about them and post it on IDB channel or something like that? Or write little notes and take pictures of that for a video? Not many people like to show their face, but just a note should work?

we could set up a thread where people can upload/link their notes then someone can compile them all together into one video. the caveat with this one tho, that i just realized, is whoever if editing it all together will have to do most of the work :/

idea #2 - we have a LOT of good writers in here so i wonder if itll be cool if we could do a continue the story...forum game? back in my (i regret saying this but its true) roleplaying days...cough...i used to join these games or play this with friends. using the theme as pinof, someone can start a sentence or a paragraph (perhaps of dan and phil setting up the room for filming or something) then end on a hook. another person can continue it, then another, and another.....until we reach, the end i guess. maybe lets say, we can start it after our pinof marathon and close the thread when pinof 10 comes out? the con for this is that, its a total wildcard. i dont know what and how people will drive this game, in the first place is it even something people in 2018 would wanna do?

idea #3 - if we end up doing the chat thing, then thatll just be the "special" thing.

i find that the more i overthink about this, the more it feel over-complicated, when its not. and thats why you guys are here to help suggest ideas and bounce off each other on whether a thing works or not.

kavat · Thu Nov 08, 2018 1:59 pm

@ame I've also been thinking of something like your Continue the story idea! I think it sounds like a fun thing to do while we wait for pinof10. We could gather participants in a list, you get assigned a day from say 19 nov, and everyone could write 100 words each until pinof10 drops. We could either do it here in a thread and you just quote the previous posts to continue, or we could set up a google docs. I think it would be fun no matter if it's 4 or 14 people participating.

Ablissa · Fri Nov 09, 2018 1:55 am

@jesp thank you for clarifying! I shall double post without fear then (when needed)

@ame thank you for the suggestions about websites to use! It's already Friday so it might be difficult to set up a watch fest, but should we try? Is anyone else on board? If yes then I'll just take the liberty of picking something quick and not overly exciting and let's test some websites. Also if any of you (like 3-4 people) would be available to just meet up and try all three that would be awesome, not as a watch fest but just testing?

Project
I kind of feel like this could be a thing separate from the watch fests. I mean, the watch parties are one thing, but this is another. One of us could start it on their own blog/twitter and probably have better results (because of mutuals being interested)

If we make a video I can probably edit it, but I'm a rookie so maybe there are better options.

Writing idea
Gosh I love this idea so much @ame! I think we could totally do that. It might be a good idea to start even a few days before the watch fest. I feel like this idea could be very fun for us to do on IDB and non-writers can easily participate too. Then we can post it on AO3 as an IDB fanfic.

I kinda feel like this idea deserves its own thread. But where? The main forum?

Ideas/discussion still welcome!

(in this post: the word idea repeated over and over)

lesterchuu · Fri Nov 09, 2018 3:46 am

@Ablissa were just testing whether the chat thing works right? so we might not even need to do a proper one and just go ahead and gather a group of people who wants to help test it out. maybe pick a couple random dnp videos and we can watch it tgt. unless you guys are fine with it being a proper watch fest, then im in.

the recent mukbang is nice and long enough to react/discuss, idk, it could be anything since its just an impromptu one

ohmygod i just realized if this works out, we can totally do the christmas adventure from phils channel together for the possible future (december-ish?)

Ablissa · Sat Nov 10, 2018 3:13 pm

ame wrote: ↑Fri Nov 09, 2018 3:46 am @Ablissa were just testing whether the chat thing works right? so we might not even need to do a proper one and just go ahead and gather a group of people who wants to help test it out. maybe pick a couple random dnp videos and we can watch it tgt. unless you guys are fine with it being a proper watch fest, then im in.

the recent mukbang is nice and long enough to react/discuss, idk, it could be anything since its just an impromptu one

ohmygod i just realized if this works out, we can totally do the christmas adventure from phils channel together for the possible future (december-ish?)

Yeah, I think we should just test things tomorrow if there will be interest in helping out. Then we can settle on things for our PINOF marathon and start advertising it from next week! Two weeks should be enough time to gain some interest from the phandom.

Here is what I propose: those that can help, please be here tomorrow at 7 PM UTC. I will post links in this thread ahead of time, we will test all three platforms and see how it goes?

And if this works we can totally do it again - I just don't want to compromise the forum, so I hope we will all still come and discuss

ratlad · Sun Nov 11, 2018 5:04 pm

henlo i have decided to enter the watch parties, my dudes.

Ataraxia25 · Sun Nov 11, 2018 6:23 pm

welcome @ratlad haha

i was completely gone, sorry, i didn't help, i would have loved to help!
but i'm here for the test thingy, i can at least do that!

Ablissa · Sun Nov 11, 2018 6:30 pm

Yay @ratlad!! So happy to have you

I propose we watch some light videos today. I love the mukbang, but I know it affected some people deeply so let's go with something more chill.
I was thinking some gaming vids, like Google Feud, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, etc? What do you think?

We will start with rabb.it, then try watch2gether and together tube

1: https://www.rabb.it/PhandomWatch
2: https://www.watch2gether.com/rooms/j5xd1ofljhyapq7wx8
3: https://togethertube.com/rooms/7c2ab7b0 ... e7c08549f7

Start with rabb.it! See you there at 7 PM UTC, 30 mins from now

lesterchuu · Sun Nov 11, 2018 6:55 pm

wai t i just woke up am i hope i dont miss it

Ablissa · Sun Nov 11, 2018 6:56 pm

ame wrote: ↑Sun Nov 11, 2018 6:55 pm wai t i just woke up am i hope i dont miss it

We're starting in like 5 minutes!

It's just me and @glitterintheair atm so we might wait a little for a few more people

susan2 · Sun Nov 11, 2018 7:12 pm

I can't seem to get rabb.it to work at all - I just get a black screen.
(i've never used it before so not sure what i'm supposed to be seeing)

...will try and catch you up when you reach watch2gether and together tube!