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Happy anniversary, Undertale!

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Before Undertale released, Toby Fox was most known for his music contributions for projects like Homestuck, alongside independent doujin work such as tribute albums. In 2011, in response to jokey feedback saying that much of his music sounded like Touhou music, Toby shared an audio recording of him playing "improvised" Touhou music (audio above) on piano, with commentary paired alongside it. As part of this commentary, he dubbed the boss fight theme "AN APPLE DISASTER!", and declared the theme to belong to the original character "Apple Girlington".

4 years later, just after Undertale's release, soon-to-be SiIvaGunner ripper and Touhou specialist Princess Sylvysprit released an arrangement of this made-up boss theme arranged in the authentic style of ZUN's Touhou music. As you can see, this rearrangement was directly seen and endorsed by Toby Fox!

You can also hear a remastered version of this arrangement on her 2019 album, Touhou: Fraternity of Melancholy, the audio for which is linked above.

Princess Sylvysprit has made an incredible amount of tributes to Touhou and its music in her time online, both for her own projects and others', including the SiIvaGunner channel which she joined in early 2016. If you're interested in reading more about her work, I've previously written about her on NIGHTMARESCAPE 〜Unrestrained HyperCam 2〜 (Final Boss Phase 2)!

Princess Sylvysprit

Original Toby Fox post

Sylvysprit's Arrangement

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A collection of Roblox bonus images found across the duo of recently-released The Joke​-​Explainer 7000​™​'s Highest Quality Rips albums.

The files are named image (4).png, image (5).png, image (7).png, I'm always here to help (bobthetacocat).png and image.png.

Based on the fourth image's name and the Roblox setting, all five are likely to have been taken by BobTheTacocat, who made the Joke-Explainer 7000 model for their rip Main Theme - Five Nights at Freddy's 57: Freddy in Space

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SiIvaGunner's offering something big for MAGFest 2025 attendees; New exclusive SiIvaGunner merchandise!

This is the first time SiIvaGunner has offered merchandise since the suspension of the original Bandcamp page, offering two poster designs originally made for MAGFest 2019. Additionally, at MAGFest 2020 the team offered a series of wooden charms and 3D head-sculpts, both designed around the titular channel avatar.

This new line of merch marks the first time the team has offered stickers, keychains, and – most notably – a full-size plush!

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Across its 9 years of operation, the SiIvaGunner channel has to date released 130 albums on Bandcamp, mostly made up of collections of prior released rips from the YouTube channel.

Of these albums, however, exactly two are credited to a different album artist than SiIvaGunner himself:

SUPER GANGSTA BROS. MIXTAPE (PROD. HALTMANN WORK$$$), released in 2021 and credited to "SIIVAGUNNER CRANK SQUAD" in reference to the original "Crank Squad" group responsible for the Crank That Super Mario parody. Almost every ripper on the album is also credited under an edited pseudonym.

OGG AND GADGET'S FUCKING COOL COVER ALBUM, released in 2025 and credited to "Ogg and Gadget", who are also credited for every single track featured on the album.

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On March 9th 2016, three months after the creation of the SiIvaGunner channel (when it was still known as GiIvaSunner), two articles were released covering its existence by the publications Kotaku and GameZone; This YouTube Channel Is Definitely The Best Place To Listen To Video Game Music, and Someone has taken the art of trolling to a new level with game theme songs, respectively.

The existence of these two articles, with the former in particular coming from a major publication in the sphere of video game/nerd culture, are cited as making the SiIvaGunner channel notable enough to hold its own Wikipedia page.

An additional interesting factoid is that the Kotaku article, despite its levity, was written by acclaimed journalist Jason Schreier.

Schreier is today famous for his many pieces of investigative reporting and writing covering the video game industry, detailing repeated cases of unsustainable working conditions in game development studios such as Naughty Dog and BioWare, alongside having written three full books on the subject.

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"20 dollar.png", a bonus image included in the "PROTONOMICON ~ The Cult of Proto Collection" album release.

(Slender Man's presence is in reference to the SiIvaGunner fan channel VvvvvaVvvvvvr, which was hosting the "VvvvvaVvvvvvr's Spooktacular Totally Not Halloween 4: The Slender Man Takeover" at the same time as SiIvaGunner's Cult of Proto event.)

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The SiIvaGunner channel is filled with many Easter Eggs which are yet to be officially acknowledged. One of the earliest examples of this is the playlist for rips of Half-Life 3, which was created during the E3 2016 event of Season 1. With Half-Life 3 being one of the most notoriously anticipated games in history, to the point of being considered an outright pipedream by many, the playlist plays into this joke by exclusively featuring 3 privated rips - teasing their eventual release as something feasible, yet never acknowledging or delivering further.

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Chaze the Chat, the creator of SiIvaGunner and its executive manager from 2016-2019, has a vocally-expressed affection for the pop-rock band Maroon 5. As a result of this, Chaze has featured references to the band across all of his released albums, including every single SiIvaGunner album.

This extends beyond just making sure that each album features a Maroon 5 rip, however. In reference to the door number of the first studio that Maroon 5 ever recorded in, #222, every SiIvaGunner album deliberately places a Maroon 5 rip as track No.222 - and if an album has less than 222 tracks, the Maroon 5 rip is instead placed as track No.22. With only a handful of exceptions (primarily joke albums not featured on the SiIvaGunner Bandcamp), this spans every single SiIvaGunner album release, including the albums released well after Chaze the Chat left the SiIvaGunner team in late 2019.

Finally, toward the end of Season 1, the SiIvaGunner team released the album Stagg Street Arrangements, in tribute to the 1998 release Stagg Street Recordings, by the band that would eventually become Maroon 5, Kara's Flowers. Stagg Street Arrangements, as listed on the now-defunct SiIvaGunner Bandcamp page, was the 22nd release by the team, once again referencing the aforementioned studio number.

(note that the Bandcamp page erroneously places "." and "Bigai Circulation" at the bottom of the page despite releasing later into Season 1, and that the Bandcamp page doesn't display joke albums such as Volume 2 and Volume 5.)