So with these last few months, we've been in a relatively... interesting position, so to speak. With the 10 Year Anniversary of YouTube Poop getting closer and closer to the month of December, we've been under some tight schedules that have kind of pushed ourselves sometimes. However, even then, we haven't forgotten completely about what makes this website work in the first place: the YouTube Poops! While real life issues might take some of us away from this website's duties (college, real life work, etc.), we still make sure we perform to this place's duties to the best of our abilities. Even so, we do feel like we owe you an apology for not getting some of these pieces of work down for the website under a proper manner. With that said, we hope to make it up to you by providing you with some of our favorite YouTube Poops over these last three months.
Crazy Luigi's Pick: "Sonic and Tails read Sonic Boom reaction tweets" by The Electric Cheese
When something new comes out, it's natural for someone to make an immediate reaction based off of your own feelings. Sometimes it comes for new videos that were released, while other times it could be to new aspects that you have no idea of what to expect.It's through these aspects where we even look at changes that might not have been all that necessary to do in the first place... such as character redesigns. Character redesigns can be alright to work with if your character hasn't had a cult following or needs to try and improve your existing IP before it does out, but these redesigns have to be handled in a proper fashion. If you do it under a proper effect (as in changes that aren't too extreme and would gradually be implemented over time), the changes could be effective enough to help your IP become more of a cult classic by design than any other past design would, such as the changes that Garfield made in its designs. However, when you don't have such proper methods to tackle a redesign... let's just say that the end result might very well be equal to that of the results shown here.
With The Electric Cheese, the way that he works with videos really makes him stand out as a YouTube Pooper more than any other person that aren't considered the big dogs like WalrusGuy or cs188. While he is more known as a techno musician that works with other video sources in the mix, I always enjoyed his videos as a sort of influence to a craft that I want to try and implement myself. The style that he has in his YouTube Poops brings out a simpler, yet more advanced style of videos that really makes them stand out to me whenever a new video of his comes out. In a sense, having pictures being displayed for the characters kind of makes The Electric Cheese's style really stand out as a more comedic aspect that also has a sense of nostalgia from the likes of 2006 or 2007 YouTube Poops having pictures used for the idea of a YouTube Poop. Still, even I know the best part of it is all the sentence mixing towards the Tweets displayed there.
Twitter really does display some of the strangest aspects of online connectivity, and that doubles greatly when someone reads them out loud. After the funny reaction by Dr.Robotnik Eggman to the Sonic Boom redesigns that starts out the video, the real meat comes from the sentences that Sonic and Tails (with some extra others at hand) read out loud. The things that Sonic and Tails say are almost ridiculous to the point where certain videos and images really capitalize how insane and out of context some of these thoughts are in the first place! It only gets better when Knuckles enters the picture and takes a look at his own redesigned self against the wishes of Sonic and Tails; the reactions used were just golden. Top that all off with a bonus reading from Amy Rose and Rule 34, and you've got a great video even after months of getting accustomed to the new looks. Give this video a look; you will not regret it one bit.
HerrVarden's Pick: "[YTP] Max Payne's Rhetorical Questions" by kitty0706 (April)
I've often enjoyed the work of a certain Gmodder by the name of Kitty0706. Particularly because his style is the one closest to YTP. It's filled with stutters, nonsense, audio clips gone crazy and generally feels like a seizure of the senses. Sure, other Gmod videos are random and quirky, but his is a special kind of random and quirky. Interestingly enough, he had previously dabbled in the art and even considered his older videos to be a combination of Gmod and YTP, making that connection much more reasonable. On the first of April last year, he posted a video called What it takes to be a *REAL* Mafioso which was in essence a YTP involving Mafia footage. Staying true to his style as well as being a good video, he decided to repeat the tradition, only instead he chose the game Max Payne. After watching the video, he's proven not only that he does well making zany video editing but that Max Payne really works as a source. It has some clever moments in the dialogue which with the absurd faces and bizarre way the characters move help to take out the serious element in lieu of something more comedic. For example, when Max says "Don't answer that" and "A rhetorical question", they're not really all that funny. It's just comment and explanation. But the way it is implemented in the video brings forth much hilarity. Another one is in 0:26 when Max responds to the detective with a long no. In context of the game, that no comes from some ugly shit going down. Here, it's just a silly outburst. Hell, he even uses a very chilling call to trigger a classic reference. There also standard goofy moments which are akin to a wacky game footage edit or a gimmicky LP, such as the use of the Left 4 Dead 2 carnival music, rave music and high pitch repetition. The use of Max's face throughout the video adds even more to the fun, especially when he uses the infamous Payneface. After this video, I'm sure you won't ever take Max Payne seriously. Well...maybe not entirely...
Crazy Luigi's Pick: "YouTube Poop: Bobby Will Never Be MLG" by DasBoSchitt (April)
When looking at YouTube Poops, one thing that can potentially ruin a fun experience for me are bad visual edits. Many times, I have seen a YouTube Poop look to be at least decent, if not good for people like us to see, but as soon as I see something that looks to be a bad effect like a stock explosion on just one person or having something look real bad like a typical Microsoft Paint effect, it ends up sucking me out of the experience. Some of that might be due to inexperience or probably being limited due to the technology that they have (such as some people using Windows Movie Maker to make YouTube Poops), but considering some of the things people like IAmTheGang made over the years, it really isn't that justifiable of an excuse to have. Over the years, technology has also advanced to make some of the aspects that couldn't have been done all that effectively before, such as having green and blue screen effects over certain scenes, become much more effective in the process. Of course, mostly none of us have ever gotten it down to the point of this video here!
DasBoSchitt admittedly is not your average, run of the mill YouTube Pooper that you'd usually see here. In fact, you're more likely to find him working of something like G-Mod than doing things like this on a regular sort of basis. With that said, it probably is the experience he has had over the years with editing from the likes of G-Mod and whatever program(s) he uses that makes something like this stand out over most other videos that have special effects as the main focus. Now let me say this right now: the special effects really make this YouTube Poop go into leaps and bounds into what it would have been a fine YouTube Poop into a great one! Many of them that you see, while admittedly usually being more used as a comedic pieces over anything else, really do feel almost seamless into the scenes perfectly. It's almost like every frame that had special effects put much time and dedication into making it stand out that much more in the process. Only once or twice I noticed some more off-putting things into them, but even those scenes kind of worked for what they did and they don't really hinder the rest of the video all that much in the process.
As for the rest of the video, you pretty much get a more standard King of The Hill YouTube Poop that you could find most people doing. However, aside from the special effects he uses there, he still manages to find his own unique tastes into this video beyond some of the typical jokes you could find, such as having something odd happening in the introduction theme as an example. One very notable moment to me is how after Bobby gets kicked in the chest and gets a "Game Over", Hank notices Bobby's playing on his Game Boy (Color?) and he assumes he's "starting a new game", which then cues to the next scene involving the rematch between Bobby and Chang quite nicely and effectively. Speaking of which, I found the scene where Bobby and Chang travel through parts unknown and Chang getting hit by Dr. Weird's assistant Steve with a baseball bat to also be one of the more funnier scenes to come out of the video. Not only that, but we also have a nice YTPMV (which we rarely see in King of The Hill YouTube Poops these days) involving the Mortal Kombat techno theme song that had a fun sound to it and a pretty satisfying payoff in the process. Speaking of satisfying payoffs, the ending scene that we have with Bobby kicking Peggy was considered so beautiful to me that even if I did notice some select faults, it would more than make up my decision to list it as the best April YouTube Poop for me personally.
zacheatscrackers' pick: "Obama wants to cut your kids" by Gretkong (May)
As much as I've adapted to the rape style of YouTube Poop, my appreciation for sentence mixing and classic footage manipulation will never waver. Gretkong's application of these tried-and-true, timeless methods reinforce my love for the olden days of poop.
For one, choosing one of Obama's speeches as footage was a genius idea; for me, celebrity and political figure speeches are some of the best resources around, since there are endless ways you can utilize them. Simply twisting the words into innuendos and forming incredibly vulgar statements alone will always be a great technique in my eyes, but completely changing the meaning behind what the person is conveying through these edits is phenomenal. This practice has warped the general viewpoint of several famous people in the most messed up, yet affectionate way possible, and the way it's done here with Obama is no different. The constant references to cutting and Mr. Romney's ass create a deliciously disturbing and darkly hilarious image that just clicked me with me in a way that no poop has in a long time, much less the past few months. The repeating and close-ups perfectly peppered in at occasional intervals made me go from snickering to outright bursting into laughter.
Overall, the simplistic formula of the poop just works... really, really well. I won't say that it shows that you don't need a bevy of effects to make a great poop, since that's been proven many times down the road and it'll just come off as ironic, tired and pretentious coming from me; I'm just going to say that Gret did a damn good job at making this video and leave it at that.
9.5/10. Just about perfect, but I knocked off half a point since a bit of the sentence mixing here and there is kinda choppy, and the editing at 0:08 was a bit hard to swallow in comparison to the excellency of the rest.
Crazy Luigi's Pick: "The Ievan Polkka Collab" hosted by ChiefDoggington (May)
Sometimes the best idea for something could very well be having an easy concept turn into something more interesting. Take for example the usage of YouTube Poop Music Videos like this one. The best thing that this type of video can hold is that there's no real wrong way to go through this type of thing. All you have to do is make sure it sounds nice and nothing too screwy happens in the process. As long as you do that, just about any good sounding song can work just perfectly! That's probably the biggest advantage this video has over anything else.
The video starts out with a quick clip of the context of what the thing comes from in the first place before diving straight into the madness of what's to come here. First, we begin with basic JonTron by SixFourImpala with it not only giving out the opening notes to the song itself, but also giving out sort of lyrics with them basically being the fool me three times joke from that Nightshade game review he did. After that's done, we get probably the most intriguing video of the bunch with Jaiman1998's "Meme Face Sex Toy" with a major focus involving basement footage of Columbine High School shooter Dylan Klebold with some other various shit that I have no knowledge of being mixed in for a piece that's almost hypnotizing to watch. After that piece, we get theadventuretimefan's simple, yet effective piece with Regular Show's Mordecai & Rigby doing their "OOOOOH!!!" thing with some Eddsworld and ASDF Movie mixed in. A manwith10toes interruption later, we get some of the more complex pieces done by CreepahWeegee, ChiefDoggington, waymuu, and GabrielCol595 that sort of put them into a next level-like place.
With CreepahWeegee, you get to see probably the most trippiest, complex-looking version of the song done yet! The mainman dog himself, however, not only isn't too far off in being trippy as all fuck, but also brings out the most diversity to the song yet, giving out not only new notes, but also lyrics to the point where he makes it feel like a remix! Bringing it back down to reality for a bit is waymuu with some rather interesting source choices that include a woman with the words "vile black lipped cunt" and "underage chicken rapist" on them for some odd reason and a rotating head of someone that I also don't know of at all. GabrielCol595 then gives off a nice first time YTPMV collaboration piece with the Tourette's Guy, some guy named Joseph playing a trumpet, and a few other pieces that make for a nice sounding piece to go off of. However, it's the last video done by Alfonzopancakes that has Yoshi involved that's just so funny and perfect sounding that even if you don't like the polka song all that much (like I do, if only due to the meme at hand), you won't be disappointed with the end result whatsoever.
These are some of our favorite YouTube Poops we've seen from the last three months. As usual, if you feel like we've missed anything that came during that large timeframe, please let us know about it with a comment describing why you feel that way. With that said, we hope you enjoy this article for what it is.
Crazy Luigi's Pick: "Sonic and Tails read Sonic Boom reaction tweets" by The Electric Cheese
When something new comes out, it's natural for someone to make an immediate reaction based off of your own feelings. Sometimes it comes for new videos that were released, while other times it could be to new aspects that you have no idea of what to expect.It's through these aspects where we even look at changes that might not have been all that necessary to do in the first place... such as character redesigns. Character redesigns can be alright to work with if your character hasn't had a cult following or needs to try and improve your existing IP before it does out, but these redesigns have to be handled in a proper fashion. If you do it under a proper effect (as in changes that aren't too extreme and would gradually be implemented over time), the changes could be effective enough to help your IP become more of a cult classic by design than any other past design would, such as the changes that Garfield made in its designs. However, when you don't have such proper methods to tackle a redesign... let's just say that the end result might very well be equal to that of the results shown here.
With The Electric Cheese, the way that he works with videos really makes him stand out as a YouTube Pooper more than any other person that aren't considered the big dogs like WalrusGuy or cs188. While he is more known as a techno musician that works with other video sources in the mix, I always enjoyed his videos as a sort of influence to a craft that I want to try and implement myself. The style that he has in his YouTube Poops brings out a simpler, yet more advanced style of videos that really makes them stand out to me whenever a new video of his comes out. In a sense, having pictures being displayed for the characters kind of makes The Electric Cheese's style really stand out as a more comedic aspect that also has a sense of nostalgia from the likes of 2006 or 2007 YouTube Poops having pictures used for the idea of a YouTube Poop. Still, even I know the best part of it is all the sentence mixing towards the Tweets displayed there.
Twitter really does display some of the strangest aspects of online connectivity, and that doubles greatly when someone reads them out loud. After the funny reaction by Dr.
HerrVarden's Pick: "[YTP] Max Payne's Rhetorical Questions" by kitty0706 (April)
I've often enjoyed the work of a certain Gmodder by the name of Kitty0706. Particularly because his style is the one closest to YTP. It's filled with stutters, nonsense, audio clips gone crazy and generally feels like a seizure of the senses. Sure, other Gmod videos are random and quirky, but his is a special kind of random and quirky. Interestingly enough, he had previously dabbled in the art and even considered his older videos to be a combination of Gmod and YTP, making that connection much more reasonable. On the first of April last year, he posted a video called What it takes to be a *REAL* Mafioso which was in essence a YTP involving Mafia footage. Staying true to his style as well as being a good video, he decided to repeat the tradition, only instead he chose the game Max Payne. After watching the video, he's proven not only that he does well making zany video editing but that Max Payne really works as a source. It has some clever moments in the dialogue which with the absurd faces and bizarre way the characters move help to take out the serious element in lieu of something more comedic. For example, when Max says "Don't answer that" and "A rhetorical question", they're not really all that funny. It's just comment and explanation. But the way it is implemented in the video brings forth much hilarity. Another one is in 0:26 when Max responds to the detective with a long no. In context of the game, that no comes from some ugly shit going down. Here, it's just a silly outburst. Hell, he even uses a very chilling call to trigger a classic reference. There also standard goofy moments which are akin to a wacky game footage edit or a gimmicky LP, such as the use of the Left 4 Dead 2 carnival music, rave music and high pitch repetition. The use of Max's face throughout the video adds even more to the fun, especially when he uses the infamous Payneface. After this video, I'm sure you won't ever take Max Payne seriously. Well...maybe not entirely...
Crazy Luigi's Pick: "YouTube Poop: Bobby Will Never Be MLG" by DasBoSchitt (April)
When looking at YouTube Poops, one thing that can potentially ruin a fun experience for me are bad visual edits. Many times, I have seen a YouTube Poop look to be at least decent, if not good for people like us to see, but as soon as I see something that looks to be a bad effect like a stock explosion on just one person or having something look real bad like a typical Microsoft Paint effect, it ends up sucking me out of the experience. Some of that might be due to inexperience or probably being limited due to the technology that they have (such as some people using Windows Movie Maker to make YouTube Poops), but considering some of the things people like IAmTheGang made over the years, it really isn't that justifiable of an excuse to have. Over the years, technology has also advanced to make some of the aspects that couldn't have been done all that effectively before, such as having green and blue screen effects over certain scenes, become much more effective in the process. Of course, mostly none of us have ever gotten it down to the point of this video here!
DasBoSchitt admittedly is not your average, run of the mill YouTube Pooper that you'd usually see here. In fact, you're more likely to find him working of something like G-Mod than doing things like this on a regular sort of basis. With that said, it probably is the experience he has had over the years with editing from the likes of G-Mod and whatever program(s) he uses that makes something like this stand out over most other videos that have special effects as the main focus. Now let me say this right now: the special effects really make this YouTube Poop go into leaps and bounds into what it would have been a fine YouTube Poop into a great one! Many of them that you see, while admittedly usually being more used as a comedic pieces over anything else, really do feel almost seamless into the scenes perfectly. It's almost like every frame that had special effects put much time and dedication into making it stand out that much more in the process. Only once or twice I noticed some more off-putting things into them, but even those scenes kind of worked for what they did and they don't really hinder the rest of the video all that much in the process.
As for the rest of the video, you pretty much get a more standard King of The Hill YouTube Poop that you could find most people doing. However, aside from the special effects he uses there, he still manages to find his own unique tastes into this video beyond some of the typical jokes you could find, such as having something odd happening in the introduction theme as an example. One very notable moment to me is how after Bobby gets kicked in the chest and gets a "Game Over", Hank notices Bobby's playing on his Game Boy (Color?) and he assumes he's "starting a new game", which then cues to the next scene involving the rematch between Bobby and Chang quite nicely and effectively. Speaking of which, I found the scene where Bobby and Chang travel through parts unknown and Chang getting hit by Dr. Weird's assistant Steve with a baseball bat to also be one of the more funnier scenes to come out of the video. Not only that, but we also have a nice YTPMV (which we rarely see in King of The Hill YouTube Poops these days) involving the Mortal Kombat techno theme song that had a fun sound to it and a pretty satisfying payoff in the process. Speaking of satisfying payoffs, the ending scene that we have with Bobby kicking Peggy was considered so beautiful to me that even if I did notice some select faults, it would more than make up my decision to list it as the best April YouTube Poop for me personally.
zacheatscrackers' pick: "Obama wants to cut your kids" by Gretkong (May)
As much as I've adapted to the rape style of YouTube Poop, my appreciation for sentence mixing and classic footage manipulation will never waver. Gretkong's application of these tried-and-true, timeless methods reinforce my love for the olden days of poop.
For one, choosing one of Obama's speeches as footage was a genius idea; for me, celebrity and political figure speeches are some of the best resources around, since there are endless ways you can utilize them. Simply twisting the words into innuendos and forming incredibly vulgar statements alone will always be a great technique in my eyes, but completely changing the meaning behind what the person is conveying through these edits is phenomenal. This practice has warped the general viewpoint of several famous people in the most messed up, yet affectionate way possible, and the way it's done here with Obama is no different. The constant references to cutting and Mr. Romney's ass create a deliciously disturbing and darkly hilarious image that just clicked me with me in a way that no poop has in a long time, much less the past few months. The repeating and close-ups perfectly peppered in at occasional intervals made me go from snickering to outright bursting into laughter.
Overall, the simplistic formula of the poop just works... really, really well. I won't say that it shows that you don't need a bevy of effects to make a great poop, since that's been proven many times down the road and it'll just come off as ironic, tired and pretentious coming from me; I'm just going to say that Gret did a damn good job at making this video and leave it at that.
9.5/10. Just about perfect, but I knocked off half a point since a bit of the sentence mixing here and there is kinda choppy, and the editing at 0:08 was a bit hard to swallow in comparison to the excellency of the rest.
Crazy Luigi's Pick: "The Ievan Polkka Collab" hosted by ChiefDoggington (May)
Sometimes the best idea for something could very well be having an easy concept turn into something more interesting. Take for example the usage of YouTube Poop Music Videos like this one. The best thing that this type of video can hold is that there's no real wrong way to go through this type of thing. All you have to do is make sure it sounds nice and nothing too screwy happens in the process. As long as you do that, just about any good sounding song can work just perfectly! That's probably the biggest advantage this video has over anything else.
The video starts out with a quick clip of the context of what the thing comes from in the first place before diving straight into the madness of what's to come here. First, we begin with basic JonTron by SixFourImpala with it not only giving out the opening notes to the song itself, but also giving out sort of lyrics with them basically being the fool me three times joke from that Nightshade game review he did. After that's done, we get probably the most intriguing video of the bunch with Jaiman1998's "Meme Face Sex Toy" with a major focus involving basement footage of Columbine High School shooter Dylan Klebold with some other various shit that I have no knowledge of being mixed in for a piece that's almost hypnotizing to watch. After that piece, we get theadventuretimefan's simple, yet effective piece with Regular Show's Mordecai & Rigby doing their "OOOOOH!!!" thing with some Eddsworld and ASDF Movie mixed in. A manwith10toes interruption later, we get some of the more complex pieces done by CreepahWeegee, ChiefDoggington, waymuu, and GabrielCol595 that sort of put them into a next level-like place.
With CreepahWeegee, you get to see probably the most trippiest, complex-looking version of the song done yet! The main
These are some of our favorite YouTube Poops we've seen from the last three months. As usual, if you feel like we've missed anything that came during that large timeframe, please let us know about it with a comment describing why you feel that way. With that said, we hope you enjoy this article for what it is.