Preface
Kamcord was a video platform for sharing clips of mobile game footage with the option of recording your audio too. It was integrated into the games that supported it and had its own app and website which are now gone. I had popularity and infamy on this platform in 2015 and want to document my experience. Almost everything I say is based off memory as Kamcord as it was back then no longer exists. Stuff is mostly not in chronological order.
My Story
In late December of 2014, I made my Kamcord account and posted my first video on a Minecraft skinned CS:GO knockoff game called Cops N Robbers FPS. The video was just me running around and talking about how it was my first video. By the single comment telling me it was a good video, I assume I did well. I then made a few videos on that game that I have no idea what they were about and then moved onto a game called Cops N Robbers Jailbreak. CNR Jailbreak was where I would gain most of my following and spent most of my time. Soon after making some CNR Jailbreak videos, I would meet some other Kamcorders one of which was in a lot of drama at the time. This person, named SassyLia that kept making videos about their drama would become one of my best friends on Kamcord. I have no memory of what videos I made at the time but I do remember I made a video titled something like 'Fake Lia Cought Redhanded' (I distinctly remember misspelling caught) where I found someone pretending to be Lia and got a video out of it. People pretending to be others was common in CNR Jailbreak due to being able to name yourself anything and people would add colors to their name via hex color codes to try to prevent this. Having a colored name was also pretty much a status symbol in CNR Jailbreak.
Another story of Lia that I find funny is the time she got jealous of me. Lia liked to make a lot of videos of her singing and because she was often the center of drama, people criticized her singing a lot. Well eventually I decided to upload a video of me singing Open Your Eyes by Aviators. I was at least decent enough that all the comments were either positive or neutral. Well Lia saw this and left a comment getting angry complaining about how everyone will criticize her over her singing that she poured her heart and soul into whereas I get no criticism for my one-off singing video. I also previously sung in my 100 follower special where I sung the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic theme but that was done as a joke.
Another story relating to pretending to be others was that of a person named ALLEYCATTT (I think that is the correct spelling). She was around during my very early days on Kamcord and was fairly popular until one day she decided to leave. She was liked enough that she was still remembered months after she left. One day, we saw that she was back with a new account with the same name but with either a 2 or another T at the end of her name. People were happy that she was back but eventually it turned out this person was pretending to be ALLEYCATTT. Even before they revealed themself to be fake I think people had their suspicions it was a fake account but this was absolute proof. The real ALLEYCATTT never did return.
Eventually, I met another friend named VenturianTale2 who later came up with an original name, VentiVanitude I believe the name was. He was possibly my greatest friend I had on Kamcord.
As I met more people and continued making videos, I had started a series called Cell Adventures where all I did was sit in a cell or roam around and talk about some random thing. A distinct feature of Cell Adventures was that each episode's season/episode marker had a different format for example, one episode would be 'Cell Adventures season 1 episode 3...' while another would be something like 'Cell Adventures SE1 EP7...'. I believe I made 10.5 episodes in season 1, episode 7 having two parts and made it halfway through season 2 before I either stopped making Cell Adventures or left Kamcord. If I ever host my own podcast, maybe I'll name it Cell Adventures and it will start with season 3.
Around this time, I had also started to gain some infamy for my perhaps cocky demeanor and my views on little kids using the platform. During this time, I made a video called 'I Hate Little Kids On Kamcord' and boy, to say people were pissed about this video is an extreme understatement. This one video started wars, got people banned, and provided many laughs for my side of these so called wars. So to begin, Kamcord was used mostly by children including children that were clearly too young to have any presence online and these children would just constantly make complete garbage videos where they would do whatever in-game and talk in their squeaker voice about stupid stuff while it sounded like a tornado was destroying their house due to the phone or tablet mics constantly rubbing on something or them breathing into the mic. I was annoyed by this and made the 'I Hate Little Kids On Kamcord' video and three months later the video had over 300 mostly hate comments and I had won probably 2 or 3 wars with other Kamcorders. How these 'wars' worked on Kamcord was basically, someone would get mad at something I did and comment on a video or get mad at me in-game and they would get their friends to do the same. They had established they had a problem with me and wanted me off the platform or at least admit defeat. I had friends that were established Kamcorders and even new Kamcorders would join my side and both sides of the war would make videos about the other side, almost exclusively about the leader of that side, which was always me when it was the enemy since as far as I know, I was the sole reason every war in this damn Minecraft knockoff game occurred. Warfare also occurred in-game with people trying to argue with each other and even becoming spies to gain information about the people on the other side to use against them in a video. Because my side consisted of older, more established Kamcorders, I won every war I was in by either getting the leader of the other side to leave or got them banned from Kamcord. By the time I was in many wars and my 'I Hate Little Kids On Kamcord' video had been out for months, the community manager of Kamcord himself knew of this stuff and told me in an email that he didn't understand how people were so upset over a three month old video. While most of these wars ended in the other person leaving Kamcord in defeat or banned, one war ended in me befriending the other person named Berry and they then became among the ranks of my friends on Kamcord. I also remember a random video I found of a kid hating on me and declaring Tuesdays as 'Hate On NightMox Tuesday' and I still think about it often to this day.
One of the first wars I was in if not the first was with a kid named CJ. This kid had a serious problem with me and Venti and we essentially dunked on this kid and his horrible typos one of which I distinctly remember was a title containing 'I,m' with a comma instead of an apostrophe. CJ eventually got banned but Venti and I wanted him back but Kamcord posted in a comment that he wasn't going to be unbanned. He came back with another account sometime later but nothing of any significance came from this and he left for good.
Although I don't think this next person was ever in a war with me, there was a guy named Tornado that nobody liked. Tornado had a problem with everyone. One time I decided to pretend to be him, color code and all in a game with Lia and as Tornado, told her the reason 'I' was being a dick was because of emotional problems and stuff like that. Lia was sympathetic though and later I think I confessed to them both I was impersonating Tornado.
Sometime later into my Kamcord adventures on CNR Jailbreak, I remember there were two people, a guy I forgot the name of (I think he had Wolf in the name) and a girl named Google. These two were essentially a single entity with the dude being the latest villain of CNR Jailbreak Kamcord and Google being his yes-woman going along with everything the dude did. As I remember, the dude was hated by everyone but we were neutral towards each other so we never had any conflicts. One day, Google popped into a game where we were alone and confessed to me that she was actually a spy getting information about the dude she was always with. Little did she know I was actually recording the whole conversation and then posted it. The dude saw the video and simply left a comment saying something like "Thanks for this information." and people began to hate Google even more.
Throughout my time on Kamcord, I had multiple videos featured on Kamcord's front page or featured in the specific game of the video. One was a 30 minute long video on a Minecraft knockoff called Kidblock which I called the longest video on Kamcord and emailed Kamcord asking them to feature it and asking if it was actually the longest video on Kamcord to which it was featured and I was told by the community manager that he wasn't sure if it was the longest but it was the longest that he had seen. I also had my 1000 follower video featured by emailing Kamcord. The devs of games could also feature videos of their games on their part of Kamcord and a few of my Kidblock videos got featured including my most viewed video which had I think 7000+ views. And speaking of the community manager, this dude was so cool, he literally posted a video on the official Kamcord account talking about his favorite pony Rainbow Dash.
Sometime midway through my time on Kamcord, while making videos on other games and doing whatever, I came across the person on Kamcord with the most followers other than Kamcord themselves. I don't remember how but we became friends for a while until she left Kamcord.
Somewhat earlier in my Kamcord days and throughout most of it, I was also kind of friends with a person named Blaze that in the end was the only person on CNR Jailbreak with more followers than me. She was more diverse in her games though and I think she eventually left CNR Jailbreak making me the most popular active CNR Jailbreak Kamcorder. I also remember a time in a DM chat with her I was talking about how I was planning to buy a helicopter in reference to GTA Online and she thought I might have been talking about real life and was possibly some really rich person. There was also a girl named PuppiesLovers that I was friends with in the later times but she vanished one day and never returned.
Also midway through my experience with Kamcord, Kamcord had started allowing people to upload edited videos to a game's platform through the website. Venti and I were pretty much the only people that did this on CNR Jailbreak. While Venti used this to make his videos better, I just used it to troll, upload IRL videos, and make cringy My Little Pony videos.
Towards the end of my Kamcord experience, Kamcord added live streaming to the platform and I was there for the first live stream by a guy named TR4GIC. I commented on his streams a lot and he came to know who I was. At first, live streaming seemed to be a good thing for Kamcord since it greatly increased its popularity but months later and the video part of Kamcord was pretty much dead. Eventually all my friends left Kamcord and then I left since there was no point to making videos anymore. After I left, I would occasionally return to see what was going on and one day came to see that video making had been removed entirely off Kamcord and all my videos were gone. During this time in my profile bio I wrote about how I was an OG Kamcorder and put the date of my last update in my bio each time I logged in. Sometime after becoming exclusively live streaming, Kamcord decided for whatever reason to completely wipe what it was again and removed live streaming for some dumb social media platform that revolved entirely around your reaction to screenshots. I have no clue why they did this. During one of my occasional logins, I uploaded a 'video' that was just me saying goodbye to Kamcord and probably no one that was around during the old days saw it. I did however see that one of my allies had uploaded a few things about how Kamcord now sucked and was ruined. After that, I just occasionally logged in to update the date in my bio until one day, the app required that I give them a phone number to use it. Being the privacy focused person I am, I refused to give a phone number and left Kamcord for good and it later shut down entirely.
Screenshot of my final update on Kamcord.
Reviews
Below are two reviews I found that I left on the Kamcord app. They are left unedited.
Review 1 from 2015-10-11:
Why I think Kamcord is getting worse
I have had Kamcord since December 2014 and loved how the app worked until the recent updates. Now it seems live streaming is the only thing Kamcord is focusing on. All us little video makers don't seem to be getting any attention anymore. I also HATE that 80+% of my notifications are people telling me to watch a live stream. I would like in a future update to be able to edit what notifications you get cause I'm sure many of us are tired of getting notifications about live streams we don't care about. Another is with chat, you can't hide old chats anymore. When you swipe to hide them, they just reappear after refreshing. I also don't like that chats no longer show how long it's been since someone said something. This is why I think Kamcord has been losing quality.
Review 2 from 2016-12-5:
The worst has happened to Kamcord
I was one of the original users of Kamcord back in early 2015 when it used to be all about recording gameplay of mobile games. Since then it has changed into a horrible platform. Back when it was about recording gameplay, I had a great time within the community and made online friends. When live-streaming came out, it gave Kamcord a chance to really put itself out there and it was successful because it got YouTubers to use it, although it completely got rid of video recording and I left for good because all my videos were deleted without my control. But I recently redownloaded the app to see how Kamcord was doing now and I am disappointed. Why of all things is it about recording you talking about a screenshot? What is the point? I honestly think this was a bad decision. I believe people would be happier if you had live-streaming and video making like you used to. But for now I am done with Kamcord and will probably never return.
-NightMox, one of the original Kamcorders
Archive Links Of Significance
CNR Jailbreak page on Kamcord showing at least 4 video titles related to Lia (I think even more of the titles were videos by her): Wayback Archive
Second video from the top shows title and thumbnail of my Longest Video On Kamcord video: Wayback Archive
I am fairly confident that the title 'Empire Building Bombing' at the bottom of the page is from one of my videos: Wayback Archive
Shows title of my 500 follower special video with my name under it as a featured video on Kamcord's front page: Wayback Archive
Written 2021-9-3 Published 2021-10-1 Updated 2024-5-1