YouTube's Game of Thrones community is as populous and deep as George R.R. Martin's novels

The New York Times

YouTube is full of recap videos, talk shows, interactive videos and numerous other Game of Thrones content to keep fans occupied with what has become a consuming obsession between episodes. “There are so many good channels out there,” says Reuben Natal of the Nerd Soup channel. “The show is overwhelming with all the information and the characters, the settings, the names, so that’s why it has opened the market for all of these channels to review it, to speculate and theorize.” Quinn Howard, who runs the Ideas of Ice and Fire channel adds “The community that has cropped up around Game of Thrones fandom is a particularly great one."

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