Name: Warriors Beyond the Books – Sunny's Spiel | Warriors Analysis
Uploaded: 2024-02-18T15:13:23.000Z
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of me starting this channel.

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It's been a wild and exciting ride, and has given me the chance to explore so many

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aspects of Warriors that I love, wish I could change, or had forgotten before I delved deeper

I want to take a moment right now to just thank everyone who ever watched one of my

videos, whether or not you subscribed, and to everyone who may do so in the future.

I don't think I would be able to keep up the pace of this channel without your support.

As a celebration, I wanted to try making a video about a certain division across the

fanbase in regards to how we engage with the books, and how that division has played such

a large role in my journey through Warriors content.

Full disclosure that I started thinking about this after listening to an interview by Riddle

Check it out if you haven't yet; they discuss a lot of interesting topics besides the one

For now though, I shall launch into the episode.

Since Warriors is such a massive series, with anywhere from 70 to almost 100 books depending

on how you count it all spanning nearly 19 years of content, it has a very unique position

among fandoms, only otherwise occupied by things like long-running comic series that

Back in late September I created a poll to find approximately the number of people who

had read and / or were familiar with various arcs and types of material in Warriors, and

the results, while being about what I expected from the fandom, would be shocking in other

Preemptive disclaimer that of course I was only able to sample a small selection of fans

from Youtube and Twitter, and the size and demographics of the sample could have very

But with what we have, out of the 1,100 people who responded, more than 81% of them had never

read some of the books, and if we look down to the arc-specific results it gets even more

After the first arc, every subsequent story has been read by fewer and fewer people, excepting

Dawn of the Clans which had even lower results than the following arc, A Vision of Shadows.

(But, for the record, Dawn of the Clans ranked third in which section had people's favorite

books, only behind super editions and the first arc so more people should really try

All three of the newest arcs had lower readership than every type of supplementary material,

And 23 people who took the test hadn't read any of the books at all, yet were involved

enough with the fandom to see the form and take it.

However, when I instead asked which stories fans were *familiar* with, the results evened

Dawn of the Clans and the Field Guides are still less widely known than the others but

the gaps aren't as large as before, between the first four arcs especially, and in the

three newer arcs, familiarity actually went up as we got closer to the present.

This, to me, implies a situation I think most people recognized already: where fans learn

about and even discuss the books without experiencing them first-hand, something that was confirmed

by the fact that only about 56% of the participants listed reading or listening to the canon books

as one of the primary ways they connected with the series.

Between the size of the series, the poor quality of many of the stories, and the time and money

it would take to read them all, legally at least, a lot of f ans simply stopped reading

Still, the richness and potential of the world and the intense talent and creativity the

fandom has kept many fans around, even though they now engage in Warriors mostly just through

youtube, twitter, discord, tumblr, the Warriors Wiki, or other forums where they can watch

other fans explain and interpret the books for them.

Other people find the canon material irrelevant at this point, as most of their enjoyment

is in exploring stories distinct from the canon books through MAPs, fanfictions, or

So a remarkably large portion of even the active fanbase either doesn't know anything

about the material that one might discuss, or only knows about it second or third hand

from another person's account of the text, or some character in it.

And with this, alongside the numerous platforms Warriors fans can cover, the creativity rampant

across the fanbase, and the often contradictory or vague nature of the canon material, our

fandom can become quite divided, between those who know and look to the books for their main

sources on more analytic discussion, and those who only need an idea from the books as inspiration

for their own expansion of the ideas in headcanons, art, animation, stories, and more.

On the more discussion-based side of the fanbase, and especially in the context of analysis,

it is often assumed that the canon material should be the main focus of discussion.

Interpretations of characters should be backed up with evidence from the books, preferably

multiple books, and when there is a discrepancy in character, lore, or plot elements, it is

deemed a mistake, a critique of the writing that lowers one's opinion of the material.

Meanwhile, on the creation-based side of the fanbase, people instead look for particular

interesting moments: often absent of the arc or even book's context, and use those to

expand on the ideas and make their own stories and versions of the characters and events

Even if they do happen to know everything that happened to a character in canon, they

will often fudge the details or alter entire arcs to make new stories or fit their journeys

Discrepancies in character here can be taken as opportunities to expand a character and

see how they would fit with all the pieces given to them, or simply ignored if someone

chooses to focus on one part of a character over the others.

Because of this, the two sides of the fanbase can often come away with entirely different

views and opinions of characters, based on how much they consume and care about the canon

in comparison to the number of ideas they have added for themselves.

Neither side is wrong, or engaging with the material incorrectly.

It's just a matter of opinion what people are looking for from Warriors.

Well it might seem obvious to you, considering that you are watching my analysis video on

my Warrior Cats analysis channel that I am on the discussion side.

I use evidence from the books to prove my points and always hope for the new books to

be in line with established characterization and lore, and to present coherent stories

However, I am also deeply involved in writing a fanfiction where I take only the bits I

enjoy from Power of Three and Omen of the Stars and expand on them, adding more plot

points, details to characters, and sometimes entirely new cats to tell the story I want

In a sense, I fall on both sides of this divide.

This is an interesting position for me to be in, as I often find myself switching “modes”

from one mindset to another: text and possibility, interpretation and inspiration.

I can understand why people enjoy characters and stories whether they cite evidence or