Season 5
Featured on: The Inevitable Holiday Album
Ripped by ChickenSuitGuy
Visuals by Deercarcass, TelevisionGhost, moralem, Tocinin, mBluett, 600billionlazer, Galacksy, Myeauxyoozi, Netyasha Roozi, over-cast07
Boy that list of artists huh? Part of the magic of SiIvaGunner is that huge passion projects like this drop within the same schedule as every other rip, leaving it up to fans like myself to generate discussion over when things go crazy. It really isn’t often these days that an ordinary non-event rip truly blows up in the way this one did, sitting at almost half a million as of writing. But like, its well deserved!! It takes the basic concept of a mashup between Field of Hopes and Dreams and Vylet Pony’s ANTONYMPH, and turns it into a full-on tribute to the latter song, remaking the entire music video with all new visuals.
In that process, it creates a really fun new narrative of Noelle substituting Fluttershy in the original video as the “protagonist”, which creates a really fun new look into what the character is. A dorky, happy, proud and above all else SILLY little creature raised on the early 2000s internet culture. People inside and out of SiIva are in LOVE with this depiction of the character and I honestly can’t blame them, and the art used in the video is lovely in every sense of the word. Both as an Undertale fan and a SiIvaGunner enjoyer it’s been so fun seeing this strange mash-up joke turn into a full-on mainstay on the channel, bound to show up in the lore eventually. Not to mention the visuals are great not just for the way they pay tribute to Vylet Pony’s original video, but in how closely tied they still are to SiIvaGunner in-jokes: Its a love letter on all fronts
Though I’m a bit hazy on the full extent of the season’s contents, I’m willing to say this rip alone was one of the most defining moments of Season 5? With several of the original video’s creators giving their full approval to the rip and with Gir-hoodie Noelle being everywhere even outside of SiIvaGunner, its hard to say if any rips in recent memory had more of an impact than this. That’s not a knock against the rest of the channel, but a testament to just how well executed this rip in particular was. ChickenSuitGuy is a legend just in general.
