User blog comment:SableSkies/Little by Little/@comment-27603392-20150221023556/@comment-26045900-20150302175216

"Spotlight" is a little misleading of a term, I admit. It stands for "being lost among the crowd". Original content is all about people expressing themselves. This is art itself. Not just the drawing, or the artwork, or the modeling, but the actual creation of these wonderful people who exist in our own worlds and that of RWBYs. Every character is an extention of ourselves, branching out and carving our own path in Remnant. We are who we create.

It's true that 'first come, first serve' is how it usually works. Still, there aren't infinite words in the English language, or even the extensions like katakana for Japanese-to-English translations or Latin. The RWBY fandom will grow and grow into something more amazing than it already is. More and more will come, and at the same time, others will go. We have over 24,000,000 users, and now less than 200 of them are active. New bright eyed fans will come, minds abuzz with ideas and inspiration. Now the come across this wonderful place where this IS where creativity is meant to flow. The gears turn, and the newest member gets her first team. It's wonderful, like nothing she's ever done before. And imagine her, drawing out her perfect characters on notebooks between classes, pieces of loose paper whenever a new idea pops into her brain. The names symbolize everything the characters are to her. And, one day, she stumbles here. This place is a metropolis surging with ingenuity, but not with her's. Her seat is taken, reserved permanently for someone who won't take it. She can tack on her username to the name of her page, but this isn't like school or town. You can't approach others so easily and tell them why. They'll take one look at the name, think someone's trying to stand out the cheap way, and move on without a second glance.

It's as if someone rents out a stall in the busy market street, and never touches it again. It stays empty, rotting, and those who want to move in can't. They're forced to take their wares to another spot, less popular and less known. Sure, if it's worth the walk, people WILL go and draw more and more fans. But they'll have to work twice as hard with half the opportunity. Maybe it's okay to you veterans that those who join late have to struggle to fit in, since you've all already made the community. New volumes will come out, Monty's legacy will be carried on, and the RWBY fandom will keep expanding, but it won't be here.