#bringbacklftw (Bring Back LogosForTheWin)

I am here to apologize for Wesley Prouty, also known as LogosForTheWin, for what may seem to be copyright infringement to you. Let me tell you the truth, I have known him since early 2011. His channel contained lots of logos from video games to Hollywood films to independent and foreign films to television series to anime, and we logo enthusiasts considered to be the greatest and most important logo channel on YouTube until you decided to terminate him on 10 October 2019.

You see, I once wasn’t a huge fan of him. The sound and video quality of his early videos, from 6 November 2010 (the day his channel launched) to early January 2012 freaked me out, even when my mother was going to medical school and preparing for her exam! I even slept scared in my own room at my house in Sav-la-mar, Westmoreland, Jamaica. Little did I then know that LogosForTheWin was born just two days after my younger brother, Tristan, was.
I didn’t even know LogosForTheWin’s real gender or the date that his channel was created either then. All I knew was that he uploaded logos from television series and video games as well as cartoons. That changed in 2015 when I started to get to know him, I started scrolling over his list of uploads, began speaking to him via commenting and took a good look at his About page. I discovered that he stopped taking requests for videos on 26 August 2011 but never deleted his requested videos before that. Back then, people were referring to LFTW as female with no knowledge of his gender, for example, a user commented on LFTW’s later-gone Discussion page, “She doesn’t take requests anymore.” I said the same thing on his upload of the logos from the North American release of the 2014 Irish animated film Song of the Sea, and then he replied, “I’m male, not female.” He even spoke using his real MALE voice in a November 2018 video of his, “What’s Been Going On This Past Week”.

Another thing I knew about Wesley was that he was a Brony; in fact I TRIED to be one, but a setback in my journey was the episode “Ponyville Confidential”, which I still hate for its dramatic final act. I already knew that he uploaded logos from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Equestria Girls and went on to upload the logos from the TV Tokyo version of the former series and the 2017 MOVIE, but he also did the same for the 1986 film and the Hasbro Interactive games, plus The Making of My Little Pony: The Movie, a Discovery Family special which aired at the end of September 2017. He is also a fan of the 2005 anime film Stormy Night that he bought the Japanese DVD of the film from Japan (you guessed it). On 13 July 2013, he mentioned that his introduction to foreign-language cinema was the 2002 South Korean film The Way Home, whose American release he uploaded the logos from on that same day. Another fact about him is that his birthday was on 30 December.

He wasn’t afraid to wander into creepy or downright disturbing territory. He uploaded the infamous Team Happy Rainbow Panda Bears logo from the indie game Rework the Dead: Evil, which features a dead mutilated panda and the words forming the company name fading one-by-one in red. He even uploaded the logos from the film The Greasy Strangler in October 2016, which included one logo whose description I’ll leave out here:

“We see a dead naked man (his sexual organs can be seen partially) with a bulging belly lying on a satanic pentagram. His left hand and right leg are also cut off. Suddenly, his organs and blood start spewing out of his anus at a rapid pace, stylizing as "Timpson" with the organs in blood red, and "Films" formed with the blood which comes from his anus. His left leg also twitches at the end.”—CLG Wiki.

The Team Happy Rainbow Panda Bears logo FREAKED me out when I saw it at age 11 and I had nightmares of it after that. It still freaks me out today.

As I said before, LFTW is no stranger to foreign-language cinema (thank you, The Way Home); he uploaded the logos from the famous 1998 German film Run Lola Run on 21 November 2010 when he was just getting started. He followed it up with Japan’s Ichi the Killer (2001), Serbia’s A Serbian Film (2010), South Korea’s The Yellow Sea (2010) and the original 2011 Mexican Miss Bala film. He uploaded a bunch of logos from numerous Brazilian films between April and June 2015, mostly those involving Rede Telecine, Paris Filmes or Globo Filmes. He uploaded the logos from the 1997 Italian classic Life is Beautiful in September 2018. In May 2018, after discovering that LFTW has been sticking to film and video game logos mostly and uploading logos from less television series, I decided to send him some TV logos. Other than that surprisingly, I sent him a bunch of logos from around the world, and he uploaded them.

This led to what became the first collaboration between me and him, Russian Cinema Week. By then, LFTW was uploading some logos from Adult Swim infomercials. I explained that he would upload logos from Russian films over a whole week leading up to the 2018 FIFA World Cup in, you guessed it, Russia. He accepted. Speaking of Adult Swim, LFTW has been uploading logos from original programs on this channel since he started. Cartoons, short films, etc., you name it! He even uploaded the logos from Adult Swim video & Internet games and the 2007 Aqua Teen Hunger Force film!

Speaking of Russian Cinema Week, I included the logos from the 1985 film Come and See and the 2017 film Loveless for him to upload. Also included was the 2010 Russian-Belarusian co-production The Brest Fortress. Surprisingly, a month after the FIFA World Cup came (and went), this collaboration led to another logo-themed week focusing on Russian films released by Janus Films as part of The Criterion Collection. Hey, he had been uploading logos from Criterion DVD and Blu-ray releases, one of them being the memorable French short named The Red Balloon, uploaded on 21 November 2012. He later uploaded the logos from the Criterion release of the original 1954 Godzilla film in preparation for Godzilla: King of the Monsters — the 2019 film from Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment! He went out of his way to upload logos from each season of Teen Titans Go! over a whole week in preparation for Teen Titans Go! to the Movies.

From 15-21 October 2018, LFTW ran Polish Cinema Week, a week dedicated to logos from Polish films that was requested by a user in preparation for Poland’s 100th anniversary as an independent country. Among them included The Gospel According to Harry (1994) and The Lure (2015). In January 2019, he announced Media Blasters Week, which ran from 6-12 January and included releases from Media Blasters and their Anime Works, Tokyo Shock, Kitty Media and Guilty Pleasure labels. A sequel ran from 20-26 January and was titled Media Blasters Week 2, in addition featuring more logos from Media Blasters releases, including a Crunchyroll print of one of the company’s most famous releases, Kite.

As I said earlier, LFTW uploaded logos from video games over the life course of his channel. Sonic, Nintendo, Capcom, Activision, Electronic Arts, Konami, Sony, Rockstar, 2K, you name it! He had the most important collection of video game logos on YouTube, and he ran down his whole video game collection he had at home with LogosForTheWin’s Video Game Backlog, plus he had a series of video game logo compilations simply titled “Video Game Logos”. The latest installment was uploaded on 30 March 2019. Then, you squandered over that collection and removed it from YouTube, along with the rest of his channel, forever, on that 10th of October 2019! You see, video game footage ain’t copyright infringement when uploaded to YouTube! Just look at the millions of Let’s Plays on this site!

Originally, I used to claim that I saw LogosForTheWin as a rival to a similar logo uploader – TakingofPelhamify (real name Nabee Ruffin), now just a generic gamer named MonofiedKuma – but I dropped that since I didn’t have the heart to live up to it. But hey, I knew both LFTW and TakingofPelhamify as the two most important logo channels of our day; the difference was that LFTW is white and TakingofPelhamify black. (I even once saw the latter user as white until I actually saw his race.) He entered the logo race after losing interest in gaming in 2011, but picked up where he originally started and is now a full-fledged gamer. After uploading the logos from 2016’s Indignation and Arrival (both films), he finally jumped ship with everyone knowing it, including me.

From 2011, LFTW ran the LogosForTheWin Awards, which honored the greatest in his logo uploads. The last edition of the awards show, which was Internet-only, was on 3 January 2019. In the 7th edition, he announced that anyone who requested an entry to win and that entry did win would be able to grant him a request which he would then do. I tried my luck, but oh well.

LFTW also produced another series called LogosForTheWin’s Logo Theme Game. Anyone who ranked at 1st, 2nd or 3rd place would be able to give LFTW requests which he would then do. For example, Damien Tran requested logo combos for crossovers between Sailor Moon and the Marvel Cinematic Universe! The first episode was released in July 2018, and the second (and final) episode on 1 June 2019. I won the second episode, and this led to my second and final collaboration between me and him – Camse Corps Presents, which would function like a logo-themed week but lasted from 1 to 17 September.

Unlike you (and the entire film & television companies working their asses to the bone to create entertaining content), I do not see LFTW as a bad person – a serial copyright infringer, I mean – at all, but as having the most important collection of on-screen film, television, home video and video game logos on YouTube, with over 2,000+ videos (he celebrated his 1,000-video anniversary on 4 July 2014). Neither do any of his fans. (To list every media LFTW took all of his logo uploads from would take forever, his first batch of logos were from the 1988 horror classic Child’s Play) That is why we were so pissed off when you terminated him on 10 October 2019. Come on, he uploaded logos from Studio Ghibli and Mamoru Hosoda films in April 2019 after all, and the logos from Kyoto Animation’s A Silent Voice in June. Let us reach an agreement, lift off all the copyright claims off him, restore all of his channel except for these videos: “Distracted Media”, “Columbia Pictures / Regency Enterprises” and the “Radio Happy” video (find a video of his with a title containing “Radio Happy”, to make the last video easy to find) and apologize to Wesley. His channel was all that we logo fans had and cherished so much. I, Camse Corps, am myself guilty of some copyright claims to my own name, and LFTW’s termination began just 7 months after I moved to Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica and a month after I moved to another school due to the fact that I now live in St. Elizabeth. I witnessed it all. Talk to some folks at CLG Wiki, the Wikipedia for on-screen vanity logos from any media, and the companies that dropped copyright bombs on his channel over its life course, and please, make us LFTW fans happy again.