ARIS-Komuniszt

ARIS-Komuniszt is a pseudophilosopher and Durham University student, who sometimes uses the mapping subgenre as a means of communicating and broadcasting various ideas. On his channel, ARIS uploads mapping videos, political commentary, language construction, memes and music. ARIS' real name is Abraham, and he was born on June 29th, 2000 (CE).

A Quilt of Nations
AQoN: The Consequences of Brexit was the first series with a published video on ARIS' channel. The series was set in a dystopian scenario in which the UK collapses and each county gains independence. However, only the trailer and the first video (2020) were ever released, on November 27th and December 4th, 2016, respectively. Exactly one year later, ARIS announced he would eventually bring the series back, but this never came to fruition.

The style used in that first video was very crudely executed, but featured a flagmap, zooming and omniscient narration, concepts that ARIS would later attempt to revive as part of the Komuniszta mapping style.

Gods of Zaris
While attempting to advertise his first video, ARIS stumbled upon a video by a mapper named Zoyvul (later Celtic Mapper), who introduced ARIS to Google+. The two planned to make a collaborative series called Gods of Zaris, featuring over 20 mappers in a Mapping Whispers type series, however only Celtic and ARIS ever made their videos.

The collab was designed to be a AHoW from the beginning of time on a very rudimentary map, and was the first place where the Okhotsk Union, ARIS' official nation for a good while, was introduced.

Medical Mappers
ARIS also planned another, more select collaboration, featuring himself, Celtic, Max Wild and Obradovsky, as a mapper wars set in the suburbs of Sydney, with each mapper participating in a pharmaceutical drug war. Again, only ARIS ended up making an episode.

Stylistically, MM was quite advanced in comparison to ARIS' other series of this period. It featured large sections of animations, metaphysical and other philosophical references, most of which would be carried forth into Komuniszta.

Europe 1800
After Alexxiconify Mapping pulled out of his collab with Obradovsky, ARIS joined in to make episodes 7 and 9, after which no more videos were made. The series setting was relatively self-explanatory from the name. ARIS has announced he is willing to continue the series, however, if anyone is interested in picking it up again.

Mobile Mapping (and surrounding period)
After ARIS reached 100 subscribers in April 2017, he began to develop more in terms of style and embarked on many more projects.

#PARIS Mobile + Computed Future of Europe
With some occasional help from Petra The Mapper, ARIS began a mapping series made by phone instead of computer, featuring 6 videos in an apocalyptic AFoE scenario. The plot was a politically centered love story between two nations, Orul and Dorat, mimicking the ship / meme of the two mappers at the time. Each character was loosely based on the personality of another mapper in ARIS' G+ community, BringBackMappers. Whilst it was graphically quite simplistic, the plot contained many different themes and subplot lines.

A second series was announced after the completion of the first, which was in itself relatively incomplete, however this has not been brought out yet.

12 Days of Mapping
Not long after the MFoE, ARIS took part in the second annual 12DoM competition alongside many other mappers such as Neim and Obscurium. He never got eliminated and therefore ended up making all 12 videos - and winning the competition. Throughout the competition many different mapping styles were experimented with within each scenario.

The flagship series, the Land of Asafeia, was made on mobile, as was the Alternate History of the Roman Empire, but most videos were made on computer, and therefore could experiment with things such as 3D Globe technique, flagmaps, zooming, speaking politicians and so forth, all aspects that would heavily contribute to the Komuniszta style, which was slowly replacing the Mobile period at this time. However, ARIS also played around with a more animated style as well.

Some of the video storylines were connected to some of the others in the other days, and most also displayed a political message. The video topics for 12DoM 2017 were as follows: ARIS has been appointed as a judge for 12DoM 2018 as of his win last year, and is one of the main staff, along with Captain Patagonia and Lux.
 * The Land of Asafeia (I-IV) [a]
 * Alternate History of the British Empire [b]
 * Alternate History of the Cold War [c]
 * Alternate History of the Mongol Empire [d]
 * The Idterram (II-I) [e]
 * Alternate History of Peru [f]
 * Alternate History of Antarctica [c]
 * Alternate History of the Roman Empire [d]

Alternata Terra: Liberation
Alternata Terra was another collab between ARIS and Svatarte / Yrion Mapper, which reached 5 episodes befor Svat quit and as a result ended the series, which was about bipartisanship in deposing tyranny.

Sorrillia Collab "Tinkinta Evropa"
Another collab, somewhat similar to Gods of Zaris, but based on a better map and around the official nations of those in ARIS and Obradovsky's community, the Sorrillian-Yavatiak Confederation. Only ARIS and Obrad made their videos, and in a similar style to previously.

A New Mapping Style
Komuniszta as a style was developed throughout ARIS' mapping career but was only really assembled for the first time for Mapper of the Fortnight, characterised by these elements: ARIS used this for the first time in the Migrant Crisis scenario, and ended up winning MotF. Due to popular request, he released a sequel tying up someof the loose ends of the first video but did not intend to ever make this a proper series.
 * 3D Globe technique
 * Emphasis on politicians, not countries
 * Pinpointed summits
 * Zoom and popup textbox
 * Interactivity
 * Metaphysical Referencing
 * Light Humour

Alternate Future of the World
ARIS announced an Alternate Future of the World series told in the Komuniszta style in July 2018. Only the trailer has yet been released, but the series has taken a much more metaphysical approach and is designed to tie together the three main focuses of the channel: Komuniszta, Constantism, and Yavatiak. Rumour has it that the first episode may be coming out in the Christmas holidays of 2018-19.

Markoscream Mapper's AFoE
ARIS has inherited Markoscream Mapper's AFoE and his movie rights, and is intending to continue the series with the original creator's guidance in December 2018. It is likely that elements of the Komuniszta style shall be incorporated into it.

Spiritus
In May 2017, ARIS opened a new channel under a different name and a more conventionally edgy style. However, this project has since been abandoned.