Geibuchan. A pooper nearly 7000 subscribers strong, whose well known for his artistic skills which create a slew of special effects in his videos as well as also being able to maintain the simpler elements in check. His ongoing series of The King's Epic Adventure cements his abilities as a flash pooper as it both boggles the mind but keeps a cohesive story in check. His most utilized sources consist of Azumanga Daioh, the old Pac-Man cartoon, a plethora of the AIDS sources (most notably the Zelda CDi and AoTSH), Kirby Right Back At Ya! and in a series of his, Disney's Alice In Wonderland. Wanting to obtain further information, I stole a horse from the RCMP and rode to the south to find out about Geibuchan-sama.
Tell us a little about yourself.
Alrighty, well, if I can just say anything, I'm just sitting here in Texas at age 20, I've spent almost my whole life drawing as a hobby and I've attended advanced art classes throughout my whole highschool life. I've been playing video games since age 4 as an avid Mario/Sonic fan, and I've been watching poops ever since late '06. Beforehand, I spent a good lot of my time dicking around with MS Paint and WMM, making shitty custom sprite animations that I never considered releasing to the public, and watching Blackarms dubs. I have a lot to say here, so forgive me if I begin to ramble.
How did you first get into YTP?
If I remember correctly, it was about a few months after my folks and I were first getting into YouTube. I was thirteen at the time, alone on an old piece of crap HP machine that didn't have a lot of space on it. I'm not even entirely sure what I was watching before my discovery, but I'm leaning towards the possibility of perhaps, a bunch of Eggman related videos. I think I was looking for his Sonic Adventure 2 theme song or something, when I noticed a video thumbnail in the related section, adorned with the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog incarnation of Dr. Robotnik yelling on the phone while upside down. It was a video titled “Robotnik on the Toilet” by Super Yoshi, to be specific.
Now THIS video sparked my curiosity since I've always wondered what AoSTH had to offer aside from the rental tapes they had of it at my local Blockbuster. I never even knew when and where the show aired before I started using the internet regularly, so those rental tapes were pretty much the only window I had where I could see it. I figured from the unrecognizable screenshot through the thumbnail that I’d at least get a taste of what the other episodes of the series were like from watching it. And keeping the title and thumbnail in mind, I just knew that even if I didn't, I still would've enjoyed my experience.
*deep breath* I was right. I remember losing my shit the moment Robotnik went:
It's amazing to think how hearing him suddenly slow down in mid sentence was enough to just change my whole life. Suddenly, the footage cuts to sonic, the music changes to a melodramatic creepy tone as he glares at a wall covered in what appears to be semen. He scoops it from the wall, tastes it, and begins to express disapproval of it, claiming that it’s “not even his favorite flavor”! Then we get a perfect loop of Robotnik hitting sonic with a wrench. Then it cuts to Grounder laughing, slowed down, while scratch falls on the ground bleeding with pancakes smooshed all over his face, Robotnik responds to this by telling them to shut up in there, THEN he jumps up and down at mach speed while upside down, for only a split second before he spontaneously explodes. By the time Scratch and Grounder’s heads began to catch fire in different speeds, I was hooked. Watching poops from that point on became one of my favorite, no, our favorite past times, I showed it to all my brothers and got them watching poops too! We’d watch these all the time together, gathering around each time someone found something new!
Who would you say is a great influence of yours in YTP?
I’m scrunching to find an answer, I’ve built my whole poopstyle off of everyone I’ve ever enjoyed growing up, but I guess if I’d have to pick between them…
MrSimon – Directly influenced my passion for context construction. This guy just knew how to make recurring jokes and how to have them just come around full circle. Literally everything he did just had such a polished flair too. I’ve been watching him ever since I first got into YouTube Poops and I can pretty much say that everything he does is fantastic.
Cantflyman and Konanarian – These are fine examples of modern day classic poopers. They work to exploit the sources they work with of its idiocy or comedic value, they make recurring jokes, achieve most everything with just the simplest of edits, throw newer effects into the mix if need be, they don’t work they don’t play they’ve turned into phone junkies, and of course, they started the whole trend of yuletide pooping through “We Wish You a Turtle Christmas”. Once every Christmas season, should they be able to, they get their jingle shells on and spread all their Christmas joy down every sewer into the streets they can find. They got taste, and it shines through as they just show off just how ridiculous they can make an already ridiculous source look. That alone takes skill, even in this day and age.
DinnerWarrior – I wasn’t always good at sentence mixing. In fact, there was a time when I kept doing a piss-poor job at it, and for some reason I just kept doing it, never really thinking I had room to improve. At the time, Allison 4 and the King’s Epic Adventure 4 act 1 were my crowning achievements when I was on the verge of finding the key to my true potential …held back only by crappy sentence mixing, in the latter video’s case with the King, Link, Zelda, and Gwonam’s dialogue. Shortly afterwards, I spent some time with DinnerWarrior on skype. I was already a fan of his works, and he always shared a bunch of ideas he had for projects, often sharing tips for methods he had that would occasionally involve sentence mixing in between. He’d often have transcripts ready for the sources he used, he’d write entire ideas down in a notebook, he even taught me his approach to sentence mixing when I finally came to realization that the whole time I’ve been going at it the wrong way. I may not be at the point where I write my ideas down to save them for later, but in the sentence mixing department I’ve definitely learned from the master.
Chaofanatic – A former flash pooper. Even if he’s not pooping anymore, his delightfully abrasive sense of humor still remains in his SFM videos. Essentially, his work consists of the kind of humor where everything’s brought to such extremes, where everything happens just to point out the incompetence of a character, everything’s exceedingly loud at some point, and at the same time, all these little touches are daintily sprinkled everywhere and everything just as fun as possible, even if he’s doing something small. Even if he used to have a habit of jumping into something with no real thought on how he’s gonna finish it, (which he’s currently breaking by the way) whatever he does or doesn’t finish just oozes with so much class it doesn’t even matter. He’s like the raw essence of Treasure games rolled into a pooper; everything he does is awesome even if it’s just a short test video, it all looks nice and shiny, and it’s all adorned with rapid explosions everywhere. Of course, I’ve directly inspired HIM in how his style came out too, and when I look at his stuff it’s like looking in a mirror and seeing a jazzed up version of myself, if that makes sense, which inspires me to just keep doing what I do. A faithful reminder of everything I am and hope to be. He and I pass around resources to each other, ever willing to lend each other a hand.
Spaghettibicycle – He held last year’s Turtle Christmas collab and encouraged that the entries would be less than five minutes, inadvertently helping me realize how I could finally fix my pacing. It’s something I’ve been working at for a while until then, see, from looking back at some of my poops, like Allison 3.5 and Genie Shares a Bountiful Unbirthday Banquet at Aladdin’s Restaurant, I figured if I was going to make these things this long, they shouldn’t feel so horribly drawn out. Unless making an overly drawn out joke is the entire point of the video, but anyway, I was ecstatic about this collab being a reality. I normally make short poops specifically for collabs anyway, no more than three minutes, but the five minute limit was enough to let me let loose with this project, AND provide an incentive to shorten what I was doing to fit. Of course, this didn’t involve omitting entire jokes or moments, but just looking for all kinds of places where I could trim the fat so there’s always something happening, there’s never a dull moment, and overall just make the pacing faster and more consistent. Despite my efforts, the resulting video was half a minute over the limit, but in the end Spaghettibycicle lied about setting a real limit, he was just honored enough that I showed up to his collab and he’d let me make it as long as I wanted to. I was really proud of what I got done, so I kept the Turtle segment as it was, sent him the link to my unlisted entry (meaning he got to see a poop from me before anyone else), and proceeded to work on the compulsory Azumanga segment to complete a full version to upload publically; which I got done JUST in time for Christmas. I follow the same method I used in the turtles poop to this day. So pretty much, he was responsible for granting my Turtle Christmas Miracle.
Stuart K. Reilly – I’m more than grateful he and I are best friends now *chuckles loudly* There are so many people who dream of getting close to this guy, and I still can’t believe I’ve made it to where I’ve become his biggest hero in the realm of Youtube Poop!
And I don’t care how many times he’s been on the verge of quitting poop forever just to turn right around the next moment, this guy just keeps inspiring me to keep going in everything I do, with everything he does, and vice-versa. Whether it’s through making poops on our own, or sharing something over skype, we essentially grant eachother a mutual amount of emotional support. Oh, and he gave me a spare PS1 he had lying around as a thank-you gift for everything I’ve done for him, so now I can experience all these sweet games I never got to enjoy when I was growing up.
Avojaifnot – There’s nothing not to like about his style. Anyone who says he’s a knock-off of Imaperson can fock-off cuz it’s rock-em sock-em robots that like PLAYING THIS STUPID GAME WITH YOUR STUPID GAME WITH YOUR—ahem. As far as I’m concerned, the two have simply mastered the fast paced visual genre, and I’m glad they’re good friends too. Now, I can’t even hope to try to do the things Avo does, but it’s enough to get me pretty damn inspired. He’s responsible for quite a few things I’ve done in the past, be it injokes between us that still work without the context, or the input he’s had in the King’s Epic Adventure series, But aside from that, he’s actually the first pooper friend I’ve ever made since I started buffing my skills in Premiere, and provided a great introduction to using skype. We’re gonna have all kinds of fun when Super Smash Bros for 3DS comes out, I just know it!
What are some of your favorite YTPs?
Robotnik Wants KFC – by Mrsimon Everyone’s favorite, and for a good reason too! The epitome of everything 06-07 pooping stood for and more, rolled in a deluxe burrito. A timeless classic.
Dr. Wily is a Filthy Old Man – by TimAHJ There’s nothing quite like a good ol’ Mega Man Poop, and this is a fine example of just how fun the series is to work with… aside from MrSimon’s Mega Man poops and Ninero’s legacy collab entry, anyway.
Zira Throws Pride Rock Into A Black Hole And Exiles The Entire Universe – by Avojaifnot Essentially, his Magnum Opus. This one was pretty much a return poop he did to get himself out of a rut, and I stood with him as he made this one, providing emotional support. It’s good to know my efforts worked, ‘cuz the final product is simply magnificent.
The Ultimate Hoip of Hoips: Fern's Christmas Party – by Imaperson Never fails to put a smile on my face. It’s just so off the wall and silly, anyone who watches it will likely lose their shit ten times over.
Rudolph's nose serves no flight navigation purposes by CommanderGwonam I’ve owned a video tape of the very same cartoon he used since I was three, you should’ve seen the look on my face when I found this one during the holidays.
YOUTUBE POOP: THE EPIC MOVIE – by Guysafari The ultimate fruit flavor in this side of the galaxy. It was often when Guysafari repooped other poops or his own, and this one was no exception to the latter, but there was three months lot of raw sweat and blood that went in the making of this, and it really shows. We get a funky phat beat provided by Peewee’s playhouse, Dexter combusts from breathing in the GOOD sun, and a visit from Santa Christ coming through the door to save the Nostalgia Critic from Princess Leia, among other stunning displays of sheer effort.
Mama Luigi’s Cave Christmas Spectacular – by Dvariano Boasting of Super Mario World, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Yogi Bear’s first Christmas, and Home Alone 2, this was a fine example of multisource poops. Sadly, it’s been blocked forever, but I was all over it when it was around. Since Dvariano was the first pooper I actually followed and kept track of, I just have the fondest memories of all my brothers sitting together with our cousin on Christmas Eve, huddling over a computer and watching this poop.
What YTP techniques do you find the most fascinating/enjoyable to do?
Ear rape – When I was first getting started with Premiere Elements 4, it was essentially the easiest thing to experiment with. It has multiple uses. You could use it to emphasize a joke you’re doing, or just how ridiculous the source you’re using is; it does a great job as a topping for context construction; you can take the piss out of the expectations of the viewer with it; hell, you could just ear rape every impact that ever happens in a poop you’re making, shake the entire screen each time, and it’ll be the best thing ever. I don’t care what some of my viewers think, I love it that much. I always make sure there is at least a satisfactory level of ear rape in every video I do, and if there’s ever an occurrence where that PowerPup kid comes along and tells me I need to lower it on the ear rape, or if he’s actually congratulating me for not using it as much, it serves as nothing more than a good indication to add more of it next time.
Sentence Mixing – Whether or not there’s even a plot involved, it’s always a sure way to keep the flow along, or just make things happen. You can just toy around with the characters you’re using, make them have fluent conversations, or just use it in a short spurt for an off-hand gag. It’s a great way to test your wits in the field of pooping.
Masking – A lot of possibilities unfold from masking. You could make your own scenes, you can take a character from one source and plop him in another, or just use it as an offhand gag. My method of masking consists of taking all these screencaps in premiere and going around each one in Photoshop with a polygonal lasso. All the frames are saved as numbered pngs in a folder to use whenever I need them. It’s a monotonous method if you’re not using a tablet, but being as analog as you can possibly get with masking, the payoff is tremendous if you know what you’re doing. It always looks nice, you’ll only have to mask something once to use again and again if need be, you can skip interlaced frames if the source has a problem with those, and it allows for better control when handling individual frames so you can synch it better with sentence mixing, dialogue, or just everything that’s happening around the masked character. Plus, it’s especially forgiving if you’re doing it with a source where the animation already takes a lot of shortcuts; say an anime show or a DiC cartoon. Though, if you’re working with something of a higher framerate, say a live action film, I’d recommend doing it with after effects. That method’s already faster and easier to manage, and if you already have After Effects then by all means, just use that for everything. Of course, you don’t absolutely have to mask everything; Combuskenisawesome is proof enough that you can just make wonders happen even with simple still images.
Context construction – One of the finest poop elements ever devised. Whether it’s in the form of recurring jokes or just spamming the same clip or quote over and over, to where it “becomes a thing” for lack of better wording; it’s just a technique that can make anything funny, and it never fails to amuse me.
Are there some aspects of YTP that you don't like?
Aside from the tasteless meme-pandering of pre-2013 and today’s hamfisted creepypastas and spingebills, no, not really.
What do you think about your old work versus your new work?
I honestly feel that my WMM years were just me dicking around with the little I had, limited by my poor pre-teen taste, understanding, and powers of comprehension. Things didn’t really start until I discovered Premiere on my mom’s work laptop, but most of everything before Allison 4 was just testing the waters and making some gems in between. There was even a rock bottom moment after Allison 2, when I began to question if it was even alright that I was making all these flash oriented poopisms. Taking the low reputation that surrounded flash poops in general at the time into account was almost my undoing, as I started making all these mixed bag projects from worrying about it. These were videos where you could barely understand any of the sentence mixing, stutters and ear rapes just weren’t executed right, and it seemed evident that those three poopisms were all I had left as I began to shy away from visual jokes.
Thankfully, I threw these worries out the window with Allison 4; by then I figured making visual jokes just felt right, and I could just blend all the different approaches I’ve been making at this point. And since the warm reception of that title, I’ve been working at finding ways to build upon my style to buff out whatever flaws that still remained.
How long does it take you to make a video?
Roughly 2-3 weeks if nothing goes wrong, that may or may not count breaks. I tend to focus on just one project at a time before moving on to another one next one. My ongoing projects used to be a monthly thing around the time of The King’s Epic Adventure 3, but as time passed, standards were raised for them. I’m sort of left with the dilemma of not only taking longer to continue these plot oriented projects, but also preparing a bunch of plot-less poops in between. My most recent plot oriented poop, The King’s Epic Adventure 4 act 2, took almost two years to complete, procrastination included; and as implied with how it ended with Kaorin hyperventilating over how exhausted she was, it took a lot out of me. I mean, it was still worth it and all, but the whole thing just felt really hard to get through with how needlessly drawn out the development process was, coupled with how high I set the bar.
I think I’ve had, like; three YouTube commenters just come up and ask me why I don’t just make flashpoops all the time. Making plot-less poops not only helps me save energy for when I get to work on plot-oriented titles, but it also just keeps my spirits up. If I didn’t take breaks from flashpooping, I’d collapse every now and then. …But, that’s not to say I don’t enjoy making plot poops nearly as much as my standard poops, in fact, I’ve fully enjoyed making the eleven minutes I’ve finished with Allison Won Derland 5 so far. It’s a far more mellow process than I had with earlier titles, a much lighter workload somehow, and yet it doesn’t sacrifice any form of quality whatsoever. My I.M. Meen collab entry was a smooth ride too, now that I’m thinking about it.
…Huh. Maybe I’ve already fixed my methods of flash pooping at this point and I’m just dwelling on how tired I was when I finished King’s Epic Adventure 4. At this point I’d have nothing to lose if I just got my shit together with Allison 5.
What made you want to do The King's Epic Adventure?
People were making flashpoops around the time when I first started the series. I got a little happy from bringing home an animation I finished at my 8th grade multimedia class, made with WMM and Paint, no less. With the warm reception it got in the last few minutes of school, I figured I could attempt to make a flashpoop myself the same way. That was it, really.
Getting started with premiere was pretty much the point when the series got better. At that point I knew damn well that flashpoops were kinda frowned upon by higher-ups due to how predictably juvenile they were getting if they weren’t already; how they’d often lower to Cd-I characters with guns, censor bleeps, meme-spewing, or just MS-Paint sex scenes. I figured if I was going to continue the King’s Epic Adventure with the new tools I had, I’d at least have to deviate from everything that made these flashpoops so grating to begin with and create something that no one could look down upon, something nearly everyone can watch no matter which end of the table they saw it from, and something that could only impress... …or something. From episode 3 and onward, I figured things could only go right if I just attempted to make something cool, even from just a trivial sense.
It’s kinda off topic, really, but each installment of the King’s Epic Adventure seemed to have a different ambition as the series carried on.
Episode 1’s ambition was to make a CD-I related flashpoop,
Episode 2’s was the realization that eventually I’d have to continue the flashpoop I started since it ended on a cliffhanger, as well as a lackluster attempt of doing so with the little resources I had.
Episode 3 was an understanding of the flaws the first two episodes had, and an attempt to improve the series as a whole and make it more watchable in general; especially since I had the tools to make it happen.
Episode 4’s ambition was to blow everything before it out of the water. And I believe there was more of an emphasis on moving the story along by the second part.
The fifth installment will probably trim whatever traces of fat that Episode 4 had, utilizing everything I learned since then, to allow for a more eventful experience.
What are some of the greatest and/or most frustrating moments you've had while editing the videos?
I think I got a moment that applies to both, actually. I think I was a sophomore when I was making the King’s Epic Adventure 3, back when I was still using mom’s work computer and promising new episodes of the series every summer. I started on it sometime around Christmas break, but because mom was pushing me through some advanced classes that took up a lot of my free time, it took about the rest of the school year to make it. The project was just about finished when I decided to use a Froot Loops commercial. I couldn’t find any in decent quality on Youtube at the time, so for whatever reason I figured I’d have better luck somewhere else. One result led me to a pornographic site that instantly infected the computer real bad. Just eight seconds of the page being opened caused a fatal error in the Direct3D driver. I didn’t know shit about dealing with viruses at the time, nor did the antivirus actively protect the laptop unless it was taken to work or something, so from what I could tell the buttload of malware disabled everything so I couldn’t even run a scan. I shut the machine down in a state of panic which wound up bricking the system.
I lost everything. Everything seemed hopeless once summer break began, when they just gave mom a new laptop to replace the old one, but a sudden ray of hope lit up inside. I immediately remembered that I archived not only the first scene, but all the sprite assets I used for everything up to the commercial segment I planned. And since I still remembered how I did everything, I knew that getting it done by the end of the month was still a possibility. Though it probably won’t mean much right now, I spent two weeks of raw man-hours recreate the flash poop I lost from scratch. I remember feeling so uplifted from this accomplishment that it gave me this drive to keep the pace for the whole summer, as every segment in that episode took only a month each to make, back-to-back. It was the fastest I ever worked on an episode, and to this day, I wish I was still as fast as I was back then.
How do you feel about the current state of YTP?
I’ve stated earlier I don’t particularly care for spingebill poops, sus-heavy poops, and creepypasta-ness within them, but everything else seems just fine. I’m really glad that some of my favorite poopstyles I’ve grown up on are still being fleshed out to this day, even if not many people are watching them over spingebill and sus-heavy poops. Aside from that, I tend to keep to myself as far as what the outside world is doing and just do whatever I find fun, and now that the whole spadinner jizz is all dried up, it somehow feels as if there’s more room to go about doing it. I also still implement older poopstyles in my works from time to time, either that or drop a few references to them, so I’m hoping I can leave my viewers with an open mind to pooping fashions old and new.
You have a great deal of different talents outside of YTP which you integrate into your craft, how did you manage to get into them and what made you want to pursue them and combine them to YTP?
I’m really grateful for all the years of art and drawing classes I’ve been taking. I’ve always loved drawing growing up and anything related to it, and I’ve even gone with advanced classes for it to hone my skills. I’ve been known for this gift since first grade, and the notion that I could use it for a lot of things made me feel all the more welcome wherever I went. Be it for assignments in school, just hanging out with friends, drawing things for friends, making pixel-stamps in Mario paint…
Yes, I think it was my experience with Mario Paint that founded my desire to make those WMM sprite animations I did back before I had taste, and I guess that in turn founded my ability to make those flash poops from screenshots and paint edits. Everything just built up from there when I started with Premiere, especially with all the layers to work with and the much-needed introduction of transparent images. With those brought into the mix, it seemed that I was free to do whatever I wanted, and the concept of adding my own drawn work just leaned more and more within the realm of possibility. If you can draw well enough to emulate the look and feel of the original source in question, or better yet, exceed it or make it look cool, then going in and animating your own stuff should be a cakewalk.
What would you like to say to aspiring poopers?
Unless you're out to hurt someone or are only concerned with getting subscribers, there's no wrong way to go about pooping. You can do no wrong if you follow your ambitions to make something great, whether its something small, medium, large, or dinosaur sized. Get out there and do whatever makes you happy, and maybe brighten someone's day.
Before we end is there anything else you'd like to say?
I think I forgot to mention somewhere that a good lot of elements of my poopstyle pretty much started as leaps of faith, like with how I pretty much winged my idea of flash poops and hoped for the best. I'm more than glad that everything turned out just right, with that considered.
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