PSA: DSP Invented the Word Playthrough

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DSP was going full-in on this "I invented the word playthrough" claim after noting someone else copied his video title style back in two-thousand-something.

DSP's first video was posted June 23, 2008.
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DSP's first video with the word "playthrough" in it was posted December 24, 2008.
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Note that this is what DSP became so defensive of during the retrospective event. "Game Title playthrough ptN" Genius, non-trivial, and unique. Definitely worthy of a few patents and trademarks.

A simple Google search for the word playthrough on the site "youtube.com" shows the term being used in a video as early as June 23, 2006- barely over six months after YouTube's official launch on December 15, 2005 and a little over a year after its beta launch in May of the same year.
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DSP jumped on an existing bandwagon, but according to Google results he barely affected it when you take into account the fact that he was uploaded dozens of videos a day.
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You can use this tool to search YouTube by date. It seems to be better than using Google.

It found this video from April 5, 2006. It also found 80 other results before DSP had even created his YouTube account. It found at least 500 results between him creating his YouTube account and uploading his first video. It found at least 500 results between him uploading his first video and him using the word for the first time. It's possible it found 500 and it's possible it won't display past 500.

It found 105 results for the 30 days immediately prior to him using the word for the first time, proving the term was most certainly already in common usage.
 
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You can use this tool to search YouTube by date. It seems to be better than using Google.

It found this video from April 5, 2006. It also found 80 other results before DSP had even created his YouTube account. It found at least 500 results between him creating his YouTube account and uploading his first video. It found at least 500 results between him uploading his first video and him using the word for the first time. It's possible it found 500 and it's possible it won't display past 500.
 
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I'm not the biggest Phil historian, but he's never even done walkthroughs. To me, that means playing a game completely, showing everything, optimizing every battle. Like finding everything in an RPG. Phil just plays the games. It requires a ton more effort to do quality walkthroughs.

And bragging about inventing a portmanteau such as playthrough is silly... Walkthrough was common in the 90s, Let's Play was a term before Youtube.
 
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Did I Start Let's Play?

People who like my videos tend to take it as a given, and people who hate my videos take it as the opposite. The truth is, it’s come up enough in the past six (nine?) years that I guess should address...
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"Recently, someone pointed out to me that DSPGaming is now claiming authorship of Let’s Play as a concept, and a podcast (which I won’t link to because theirs is the 10000th video game podcast out there, and I know of 9999 better ones) is saying I’m a chump for ever claiming it. " - slowbeef January 30, 2013
 
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Did I Start Let's Play?

People who like my videos tend to take it as a given, and people who hate my videos take it as the opposite. The truth is, it’s come up enough in the past six (nine?) years that I guess should address...
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"Recently, someone pointed out to me that DSPGaming is now claiming authorship of Let’s Play as a concept, and a podcast (which I won’t link to because theirs is the 10000th video game podcast out there, and I know of 9999 better ones) is saying I’m a chump for ever claiming it. " - slowbeef January 30, 2013
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Straying away from DSP for a moment, i gotta say this. People arguing over who invented this one in a billion concept of recording themselves playing video games has always been insufferable to listen to. One person will claim slowbeef did it, then another will say it was actually CWC or James Rolfe, and then it just goes on and on with countless people who've done it back in the 80s.
 
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Inventing Let's Plays... An invention on par with watching television while talking on the phone. It's an inevitable act, people just do it.

Same goes for the invention of a generic phrase like "playthrough". You play through a game, oh woops, there is the name. It's nothing to be proud of and pimp up your uniform, it's not an invention, it's nothing anyone used first, the name is literally part of a generic sentence which was probably even used in the Dark Ages.
I now invent airbreathing, the act of breathing air, but I record it to Youtube. There, gimme money, brand new genre trademarked to my name.

For those reasons I don't give a single fuck who started this word first on YouTube. Someone had to use it at some point.
 
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What about the terms that Phil has indirectly invented? Pigsplain, begathon, wagequit.

He was the first recorded person on the internet to have to pay bills everyday.

He invented debunking detractors by giving proof that they are right.

He coined the term "hereditary blood acid disorder" to refer to gout.
 
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Next week Phil will tell us how he invented filling your cup up with a little of each option available at the soda-fountain and how he called his invention 'Neapolitan Cola' because of how Italian he is. I'm just kidding, Phil has no idea that 'Neapolitan' is a term for a native or citizen of Naples, Italy or something related to it.
 
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Next week Phil will tell us how he invented filling your cup up with a little of each option available at the soda-fountain and how he called his invention 'Neapolitan Cola' because of how Italian he is. I'm just kidding, Phil has no idea that 'Neapolitan' is a term for a native or citizen of Naples, Italy or something related to it.
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"Ok now I'm gonna take a sip from this side and try to get all the flavors" lip snack
Not bad. Not great. My rating is a 3.5 out of 5
 
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DSP was going full-in on this "I invented the word playthrough" claim after noting someone else copied his video title style back in two-thousand-something.

DSP's first video was posted June 23, 2008.
View attachment 791746

DSP's first video with the word "playthrough" in it was posted December 24, 2008.
View attachment 791747

Note that this is what DSP became so defensive of during the retrospective event. "Game Title playthrough ptN" Genius, non-trivial, and unique. Definitely worthy of a few patents and trademarks.

A simple Google search for the word playthrough on the site "youtube.com" shows the term being used in a video as early as June 23, 2006- barely over six months after YouTube's official launch on December 15, 2005 and a little over a year after its beta launch in May of the same year.
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DSP jumped on an existing bandwagon, but according to Google results he barely affected it when you take into account the fact that he was uploaded dozens of videos a day.
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You can use this tool to search YouTube by date. It seems to be better than using Google.

It found this video from April 5, 2006. It also found 80 other results before DSP had even created his YouTube account. It found at least 500 results between him creating his YouTube account and uploading his first video. It found at least 500 results between him uploading his first video and him using the word for the first time. It's possible it found 500 and it's possible it won't display past 500.

It found 105 results for the 30 days immediately prior to him using the word for the first time, proving the term was most certainly already in common usage.
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I watched several videos that covered this and I was really hoping at least one of them would do the simple research it would take to prove DSP wrong. Leave it to Kiwi Farms, this is why I love this place.
 
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I don't have tangible evidence, but I know the word was used on GameFaqs back in the day. There'd probably be more signs of it in Google's search; but GF made a point to delete old/locked threads after so long. So a lot of old GameFaqs lore, stories, spergery, and other shit is now gone. But I know it was used there at least all the way back in 1999.
 
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