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How @RDCworld1 broke barriers by forging an inclusive anime community | #YouTubeBlack
Mark Phillips & Affiong Harris established an approach to lofi sketches that inspired future creators and put RDCworld1 at the forefront of cultural conversations in anime, video games, music, sports, and Black culture. Now they get the Flowers they deserve.
Online video trends have evolved to become the driving force of pop culture. But do you know who’s creating them? From the moment of upload, YouTube’s award-winning series Flowers reveals the untold, true stories of the Black creators and culture behind your favorite trends.
Directed By Kevin Wilson, Jr.
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Watch the first 3 episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbpi6ZahtOH40g4wyFnJmxVVlasfCUOW3
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RDC World is a group of seven people,
but it started out with me and Mark.
Discovering my creativity really came from when I met Mark.
I wasn't thinking, I want to create a group.
These were my ideas that I just want to make something.
And Af was obviously the first one on board.
I feel like he was just always on board.
However we first met,
I kind of painted him as the bully of the neighborhood.
He swear, he still be swearing.
I was a bully.
But over time, I realized that we actually do have a lot in common.
I love anime, and he was like, I love anime too.
Black people don't want no damn anime.
The community of anime was not like today.
So many Black people didn't want to say they loved anime
because it was so associated with being lame.
I could see that there was a community,
but not for the people of our colors.
So I didn't expect that we would build a culture around anime
and nerd stuff.
I'm gonna bring out RDC.
They're the reason we're here.
They brought this to us.
Let's give it up for RDC.
We was really the only one that believed in it at first.
But we was chasing our dreams together.
RDC World stands for Real Dreams Change the World.
And ultimately, that's just the mission.
I was born in Houston,
but I was adopted by my great-grandparents
when I was six months old.
My father was 13 and my mother was 16.
Growing up, I was raised in the hood,
so my great-grandmother, she was so stern.
I feel like everybody has their own energy.
My great-grandparents' energy was calmer,
so I feel like that was instilled in me.
Yeah, that old soul just crept into me.
For me, drawing was an outlet to really express myself creatively.
It was a way for me to internalize how I felt about certain situations.
I really like to draw everything I see on TV, Goku going super saiyan.
This was before you could watch anime on the internet.
So when it came on, it's like, okay, I don't know what this is, but I love it.
My great, uh, my, I'm gonna just refer to him as mom and dad
for, like, throughout this.
But I vividly remember my dad saw my drawings for the first time,
and he was like, oh, whoa, I didn't even know you drew.
I got a lot of positive feedback.
So it's like, okay, I can actually do this.
