//------------------------------// // Discovery Of Youtube // Story: Ponies React To // by Matthew_Golezerg //------------------------------// The portable computer, or by its more layman term- laptop - was among many of the devices released to the general market after Equestria introduced a new age in history. It's not surprising after nearly a year of media coverage you'd be hard pressed to find anyone and their grandma who wouldn't believe this very device would be the catalyst to start a new shift in focus on world development the likes has never seen before. A revolution was on the horizon, the birth of modern technology. Some however prefer to sit on the fence and see how it all works out, skeptical on how a compact computer would bring anything new to the table. They remain tight lipped on the matter preferring to continue life as it always been until any significant changes can convince them. What were pouring cold sweat on this were those fearing it won't be long until the production and investment of steam-powered contraptions was abandoned in favour of a power source that possessed strength and efficiency beyond what was deemed impossible. On the other hand, the folks behind the creation clearly poured time, energy and currency to develop it and sacrificed so much in the name of research. A few news articles from a number of sources stated in an interview with the company's PR "...spent about a decade going off of nothing but an idea and hope. We were looking to build the impossible, and we made the impossible two letters too long." In any case no one can deny the company has gambled a lot of trust on their marketing team, and they did not disappoint. Just several months since its debut in a small booth in the annual Fillydelphia Expo as a demo model, advertisements were popping up left and right on the map stating the most brilliant scientific breakthrough in technology was arriving soon. The company will be nominated for the title the Machine of the Year by the time the final product reached store shelves. Millions of ponies, especially among the age of youngsters, were lining up in every electronics store that was rumoured to sell the device. Some of these fillies would actually bring along a couple of stuff to pass the time while they camp overnight or longer. The press wasted no time turning the phenomenon the headlines of every newspaper branch that existed, with one even claiming that a total of 5,000 ponies were reported waiting outside on one electronic store. The very own purple princess, Twilight Sparkle, had recently got a unit of one of these and she couldn't be more thankful to be gifted a ten-year warranty and a wireless fidelity network in her house installed as an added bonus. ( You wish you had free Wi-Fi connection too, wouldn't you?) "This is going to be great! I just need to get some assembling done, connect it to the internet and I'll have the knowledge of Equestria within my hooves." Twilight grinned and bounced all the way with absolute joy. She was too busy being lost in her glee she no longer realise where she was going until her muzzle crashed into own house with no warning. Stumbling a bit from the bump, she shook her head to pull herself together before quickly glancing behind her in fear, only to sigh in relief when the gadget in her bag hasn't been affected by her sudden mishap. She circled over to the actual entrance and went inside. She quickly yet silently slipped upstairs and placed the packaging in her room, just in case. She'd rather not have the purple dragon in her home get his greedy little claws on it just yet. She overheard him planning the other day to snatch the PC when she’s distracted or busy, so he could do something on it. Electric power had been introduced with the battery. The dam was responsible for supplying electricity in Ponyville. Some investors saw the potential of this power and had been pouring bits to amateur inventors to plan on creating some very complex machines in the near future. Many rumours have said that some of these prospecting inventors were planning to push boundaries and test the limit of the mind with what they can create. They were already those who have sketches and visions of wild and crazy contraptions like self-riding carriages, a small portable device that can send letters in a blink of an eye and many other things that with a little bit of help from magic and faith, they could try and make it a useful tool for everypony to use in their daily lives. But back to the present, Twilight carefully assembled parts and components like hard drives, battery and a bunch of other stuff, consulting the manual more times than she needed to. Thankfully, she read the mechanics and concepts of this from the Electronics Stuff For Eggheads from cover to cover over 50 times. Despite Twilight was surprised to know that Rainbow Dash would write a book herself, it didn't change the fact that the book guided her to understand the functionality of electronic devices, which was a change of view of Rainbow Dash from a usual obnoxious prankster to a rather intelligent being. Still, she could understand more about it without the need to have anything explode in her face like anything she usually did with her experiments and things like those. Once the parts and pieces are properly placed and assembled correctly, she started up the laptop and, when refreshed, she slowly configured her settings and other bunch of things that a normal pony like you and me don’t do. One of which was reading the terms and conditions from top to bottom. She noticed the internet connection was established once she’s done. She smiled with glee and excitement when she quickly went to Hoofle Chrome and typed in very quickly with her magic. In fact, she typed in TOO quickly. She accidentally entered the Number One Most Popular Video-Sharing Website known to our species, Youtube! Twilight was confused at first. This wasn't the website she was looking for, she didn't even knew what this website even was. But of course, curiosity made her to poke around with it for a while for no reason. Because people and ponies are the same except for um... well, let's just say it can be researched and observed. Twilight clicked on the first video that pitched her interest. A video of a picture thumbnail entitled 'Kidney Transplant Success!'. a Swedish person with blonde hair and green headphones making some surgery in a video game of a patient named Bob. Although, Twilight felt skeptical and disgusted by the violence and gore at first glance, later on she found it pretty hilarious of this humorous gamer’s reaction throughout the video. She laughed on every joke the person told to the viewer like ' Burn his nipples a little bit.' and the like. Once the video finishes with a brofist from the youtuber and then fades to black, she tried to recover all the breath she can from all that laughing she made. “Whoa, that was definitely a hilarious video I've just watched. I didn't know humans can be weird creatures but hilarious, comedy gold. I just hope Pinkie doesn't read my thoughts about this. Somehow, she managed to read ponies minds. Even, I can see her she's not doing anything.” she thought to herself. Maybe, a bit more quietly. “Hey, I've got an idea! why don’t I invite all my friends to react to this thing. It would be fantastic!” she stated, readied with quill and paper. “Oh wait, I don’t have good video editing skills. Or even any equipment to record the moment,” she said. All that book reading did make her into a one electronic freak. “Hmm, I could have Rainbow Dash do that stuff. But on the other hoof, she’s occupied on with the Wonderbolts recently and I don’t think she has the time to do it,” Twilight tried thinking hard to make any good suggestions about this when another idea struck her. “Why don’t I invite these humans like this funny person to do the editing part. I’m sure most of them have good skills on editing videos,” she thought of a very good one. “I'm gonna find a human that has this type of skill,” Mathew was just mostly scratched his butt all day when he waited for the arrival of the PS4 he recently ordered five hours ago. He doesn't have to do anything else, exactly. Because he thought- “What’s the point?” - and he’s just gonna lie back on the wall checking his watch every ten second. Suddenly, his phone just vibrated in his pocket and he quickly dug it through to take it. Once free, he slide the slider to answer the call. “Hello?” “Hi, this is Twilight Sparkle. Is this Mathew?” the caller replied. “Um, who is this?” “I’ll explain everything later. Now, please answer my question.” “Yeah?” “Great, I've seen your resume online and decided to hire you as my editing team.” “And?” he was interested where this is going. “Would you accept? I’ll pay you respectively.” Knew it. “Sure. Forget about the money, though. I just wanted something to do instead of watching the ceiling all day long.” they both chuckled. “Perfect! Don’t worry, I’ll send you here very soon and a quick one as well. Bye!” she hung up. Finally, something useful to do. He changed himself to some very fancy outfit for the interview soon and changed how he looked. He was nervous, of course. But at the same time, he was excited. This is the interview he first get in his life. As he was waiting in front of his house, a portal like Ubisoft’s logo suddenly appeared in front of him. Before he could react, he was sucked in quickly and the portal dissipated into thin air. Mathew landed flat-faced on the hard wooden floor. He awkwardly got up trying to regain his senses while holding his painful nose to comfort it. But even falling flat-faced on the wall and almost breaking your nose is something unexpected, he wasn't prepared at all to know what happens next when he's vision regenerates. He's in some sort of tree house. But not just some any tree house, it has its own built-in library as well its own bedroom. "Oh my god," was his first sentence that came out from his mouth when he saw all this. It's like you can live in it for eternity. Still in front of him however, was Twilight watching and waiting for the right moment to start up. However, impatience grew her in and chose to speak up. "Um,hello?" Mathew turned to look at the source of the voice Much to his surprise, I guess having a heart attack isn't the best action to do right now. "Mother of- what is goin' on here!?" he exclaimed. "Well long story short, as much as I like to add the detailed one but. You're here as my lead editor and I need you to do some things that you are good at." she summarized. Mathew however, recovered from shock. Still doesn't believe what he's doing here. But instead of asking a lot of unexplained questions that may confused Twilight, he decided to calm himself down and act all professional and like nothing has ever happened here. ( Which is a hard thing to do.) "Okay, so? What do you wanted me to do Miss...um?" "Twilight Sparkle," she finished the question. "Ms. Twilight Sparkle, it's a pleasure to work with you." he reached out his hand for agreement. "Sure," she replied with a hoofshake and a blush. Which could be awkward. "So...what's this work about?" he put the subject back on-topic. "Well, since you know something about a website I suddenly encountered this afternoon. It's called 'Youtube'. Do you know any details?" she asked while holding quill and paper again. Mathew knew this was going to get better and better. "Well, I'm not an expert. But, I can tell you this I got from Wikipedia. Which, I could be cheating. Of course. Youtube is the biggest video-sharing website created by three former Paypal employees in February 2005 and- well, long story short. It grew rapidly due to the perfect interface for uploading and good playback. These two factors made Youtube a big hit and it has become the most used and searched video-sharing website ever since." he finished. Twilight scribbled everything on the parchment and not even breaking a sweat. "Wow, I didn't know it could do more than I thought." she continued to jot down the whole thing. "Maybe doing a reaction video may not be so bad after all," she finished hypothesis or something. I don't know. "Okay, now I've got everything I need- Wait, did you bring you bring your equipment?" she paused and asked. "You didn't say anything about equipments.' Mathew putting his suitcase down. Disappointing Twilight. "But,you're in luck. I have camcorder, a stand and... my sandwich. Disgusting," he said while unpacking everything and threw his mouldy sandwich away. "Great, this is going to be perfect! I would say that statement is mostly used by Rarity but, who cares?" So, shall we get to it. Then?" he started to prepare the setup and the configurations." "Right, let's do it." she instantly levetated several parchments and write invitations to her friends.