NISLT

About

NISLT is a YouTube channel featuring edited gameplay footage from the first-person shooter game Team Fortress 2 (TF2). The videos typically contain impressive kills, humorous failures or strange glitches.

Online History

Early Videos

On November 15th, 2009, the NISLT YouTube^[1] channel was launched by a user with the online handle "siN." The first video was uploaded on December 16th, 2009, featuring footage from a "Soldier vs. Demoman" TF2 server (shown below, left). On April 21st, 2010, NISLT uploaded a video titled "Total Frag Movie: No Name," containing a montage of TF2 kill clips (shown below, right).

Episodes

On June 17th, 2012, NISLT uploaded a video titled: "TF2: how to reflect a single rocket," in which two Pyro players use air blasts to reflect a single rocket back and forth several times (shown below, left). NISLT subsequently uploaded many additional "How To" videos with interesting or impressive TF2 moments. On December 24th, 2013, NISLT uploaded a compilation of videos from the "How To" series, which gained over 2.7 million views and 3,900 comments in the next two years (shown below, right).

On August 30th, 2012, NISLT launched the "Frag Clip of the Day" series, highlighting notable TF2 kill clips (shown below, left). On September 4th, 2013, NISLT introduced the new "Pub Hero" series, featuring TF2 highlight clips recorded on public servers (shown below, right).

Reception

On September 14th, 2014, the /r/NISLT^[3] subreddit was launched for discussions about the YouTube channel. On March 1st, 2015, a page for NISLT was created on the YouTube Wiki.^[2] As of August 2015, the NISLT channel has gained over 400,000 subscribers and has become widely known among the Team Fortress 2 community.

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