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4 years ago, 4 co-workers from IGN decided to quit their job to found their own company. 4 years later, lots of changes happened. Not only within their channel, but also within their community. Here’s the story of how I went from a lurker to an active member of the community, flew to Meet-Ups around the globe and tried to overcome some of my social anxieties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wow\u2026 Where shall I begin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is probably my first blog entry entirely in English, so this is a new thing on this blog. But it does have a reason. Yesterday (or when I\u2019ve finished writing this blog entry it’s more like two days ago) was the day #KindaFunnyDay4.0 happened. First things first, some would probably ask, what is Kinda Funny and why does it also have to include this stupid 4.0 thing. You know, ever since the \u201e4.0\u201c thing is being applied to terms like \u201eIndustry 4.0\u201c, \u201eCar 4.0\u201c or \u201eMobility 4.0\u201c, it seems like a \u201e4.0\u201c branding has become like Bullshit Bingo Throw-away symbol. But not in this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

How I Met Kinda Funny<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

So let me go back a little bit in history to the early days of 2015. At that time I was an admin in a Facebook Group about Comics and Comic Book Movies<\/a> and a colleague of mine was DM\u2019ing me and told me about the fact that Greg Miller and Colin Moriarty were leaving IGN and were creating a YouTube channel called \u201eKinda Funny<\/a>\u201c together with their former co-workers Tim Gettys and Nick Scarpino. And at the same time, in Germany, former hosts and crew of former TV station GIGA Games were layed off from their gaming show Game One which aired on MTV at that time. The four core members Daniel Budiman, Nils Bomhoff, Etienne Gard\u00e9 and Simon Kr\u00e4tschmer were taking most of their former crew and created a 24\/7 online TV station based on games, movies and so on called Rocket Beans TV<\/a>. In the upcoming months they even had a host named Colin. It’s also quite funny that both of their morning shows have basically the same freaking intro… But more on the similarities and differences later.<\/p>\n\n\n

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