#ttgd

[rihamkamal]

some SiivaGunner and TimmyTurnersGrandDad fanart

I posted the first two on twitter and it flopped horriblyncuz i was apparently shdowbanned :((((

[siiva-bangers]

...by TimmyTurnersGrandDad

[turretbot]

TTGD's Last Meme, An Explanation

Hello! This is yet another behind-the-scenes ripping post. This one covers a series of rips I made on TimmyTurnersGrandDad involving the song "prince of egypt" by mofe., otherwise known as the "What You Want" emote in Fortnite.

This story starts in 2023, with the rip "Play a Mini-Game! (Mixie) - Mario Party", except that wasn't its name when I originally submitted it. Originally, it was "Play a Mini-Game! (Monika) - Mario Party". The subtitle here was meant to be a play on "Okay, Everyone! (Monika)" from DDLC and the fact that Monika and Moxie are (barely) similar names. But in any case, the subtitle was rejected and changed to the current name (imo it's bad and gives away the joke).

Now this incident didn't lead to anything at first, however, flash forward to 2025, and another ripper, Sashobon, submitted a rip entitled "Play a Mini-Game! (Natsuki) - Mario Party", and that was actually accepted. Wow. However, another of Sasha's recent rips at that moment actually did have a rejected title: "In the Room (song002) - Mega Man Battle Network", originally submitted as "song002 - Mega Man Battle Network". The joke of this rip was "prince of egypt", with a gif of the Fortnite emote added. So, seeing as Sasha stole my DDLC name joke, I stole her joke from "In the Room (song002) - Mega Man Battle Network", including the visual, put it into "Play a Mini-Game!", and that is how I finally got "Play a Mini-Game! (Monika) - Mario Party" onto the channel, 2 years later.

Now there are a couple reasons why I ran this joke into the ground afterwards. First, it's an easily exploitable, simple, catchy song. Second, I really thought that rip was hilarious from its visual randomly switching thumbnail. With that naturally evolving to the usage of any old thumbnails over time, it kind of became a way to drag some of TTGD's history to the end in a weird way I guess. Third, I also pushed this meme because of the hiatus. Basically, for personal reasons, dedicating the majority of my final TTGD rips to spamming all these disposable rips was the only way I was going to get more TTGD rips in, that's all I'll say.

At least by the end it even got used by some other people, and it got played on a kazoo at MAGFest, I guess that counts as a successful meme, right?

"I'ma do me regardless." —mofe.

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 12/02/2024

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Season 6 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume DQ

Rip credited to "Green Monika Takeover"

Requested by crickqt! (Discord)

If you're truly deep in the trenches of SiIvaGunner like I am, then over the course of reading all of these blog posts, you may have noticed a rather...curious omission from my coverage. I've covered jokes both obscure and relevant, storylines big and small, rips of every part of the spectrum from Outertale to Loopdeloop Griddy to Sex - Steve Harvey. Yet all of these have one thing in common: They're all from within the SiIvaGunner channel. And as should perhaps be expected, SiIvaGunner is far from the only place where high quality ripping occurs nowadays.

SiIvaGunner was, of course, not an entirely original concept to begin with - mashups using video game music have existed for ages, and Chaze the Chat himself has made it no secret that the channel was an evolution of a subculture from SoundCloud, inspired heavily by the works of toonlink, as I mentioned back in Aphex. Yet the channel certainly carved out its own niche and style: its presentation as bait-and-switch mimicry of the actual GilvaSunner channel, paired with the mysterious insistence on full anonymity of each rip's creator, gave SiIvaGunner its own feel, one that it would only further refine as the fanbase grew and lore began to develop. For those first nine months, there was nothing else on YouTube like SiIvaGunner.

Yet when the channel's true "ending" was announced in the last quarter of 2016, near the end of Season 1, several people were distraught to see it go after just a few months. And keep in mind, it took until February of 2017 to get any sort of confirmation that SiIvaGunner was actually going to be sticking around beyond occasional events - and before November 2016, we didn't even know if the channel would return at all. So it comes as no surprise that, on October 1st 2016, we'd see the birth of the first true "fan channel" aiming to continue SiIvaGunner's legacy - TimmyTurnersGrandDad. And even as SiIva returned, TTGD grew to form a fanbase of its own, its own smaller community, with many of SiIva's rippers even contributing different things to both channels in parallel.

I'll be completely earnest with you all - the reason I haven't covered fan channels on this blog before is due purely to my own lack of experience with them. I've been glued stuck to SiIva alone since 2016, and the rabbitholes of the various fan channels simply appear too vast and deep to go down the same way I myself do here on this blog for the main channel. But, TTGD aside, there is one fan channel that deserves special mention, one that has quite often intermingled with SiIvaGunner itself and has such an immediately recognizable identity from all others - the namesake of V​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​a​-​V​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​r itself, Vvvvvavvvvvvr.

To put it concisely, while TTGD aimed to initially be a SiIvaGunner successor, then moved to be more of a SiIvaGunner alternative, the nature of the Vvvvvavvvvvvr channel has always been a fair bit more...dubious. You'll notice it just from clicking on the channel yourself - everything from the profile picture, to the header, to the titles and thumbnails of the videos uploaded to the channel have a far more chaotic, unpolished, almost "trashy" feel to them. This is because, with little exception, Vvvvvavvvvvvr aims to be almost entirely unfiltered - with minimal quality control and a submission process open to anyone, its effectively a big sandbox for rippers of all skill levels to submit to, the output almost best described as the SiIvaGunner equivalent Twitch Plays Pokémon. And much like that phenomenon, Vvvvvavvvvvvr somehow, through the unfiltered voices of hundreds of contributors, managed to find its own voice, its own set of recurring jokes, and eventually develop its own lore to tie it all together.

References to Vvvvvavvvvvvr aren't exactly a rarity on SiIvaGunner, either. The YTPMV Rock my Forum, as featured on LAST YTPMV^2 OF 2016 by ripper Xarlable, eventually took off as Vvvvvavvvvvvr's primary channel meme; almost every time the meme has been referenced on SiIvaGunner since, has been in tribute of the fan channel. V​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​a​-​V​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​r, then, is no exception - uploaded during the period of which the Vvvvvavvvvvvr had supposedly ended for good, its a loving tribute to just about every joke featured prominently on the channel, in the form of an incredibly varied medley rip. Scatman John, Reese's Puffs Rap, The Michael Rosen Rap, Chadtronic, Rock My Forum - its not as if these memes have never been featured on SiIvaGunner before, but they're (to my understanding!) such core parts of Vvvvvavvvvvvr in particular, that their usage in combination here makes the tribute's intentions clear.

As if that wasn't clear enough, certain segments of the fast-paced C-R-O-W-N-E-D are dedicated to referencing specific Vvvvvavvvvvvr rips (formally "vips") on an individual basis. A section using sentence-mixed AVGN clips, for instance, uses the same clips, sentence mixed in a similar fashion, as Crazy Bus Tylenol. There's references like this strewn all about this dense medley, yet as many in the comments have made clear - none of them get in the way of V​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​a​-​V​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​v​-​r just being a fantastic rip on its own, without any context or knowledge of the fan channel itself.

While I don't fall into that category in particular, as I'm of course aware of the fan channels that are more active now than ever - I am still very much an outsider. Yet I've once again been privy to take a peek down the rabbithole through this request, and I learned a lot about Vvvvvavvvvvvr as a result: Its a genuinely valuable platform with a fun and zany community, however small it may appear from the outside looking in. The near complete lack of filter or quality control means that anyone, even you reading, could submit something to the channel, a first step toward a great ripper's journey - a good number of SiIvaGunner's members who first joined around 2018-2021 got their start by contributing things to fan channels just like Vvvvvavvvvvvr. And though I may never become a full-on fan to the same degree I am SiIva itself, I'm of course eternally grateful and happy for their existence - through collaboration and teamwork, these channels help keep the art of high quality ripping alive.

[voix7]

Makaio & Kai

[rihamkamal]

ripping channel mascots but club penguin'ified

i really enjoyed seeing two of my special interests together >:]

[turretbot]

minor update

as of February 16th i am a timmyturnersgranddad backroom member

so far i've done pretty much nothing with this besides sorting playlists

[doukutsu-moronogatari]

its actually inspector gadget not gadget room

lol