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Today we have a look at the history of Word Replacement Remixes!
So nobody has requested this topic directly, but the requests for it indirectly have been
crazy.
It seems that People always leave comments for videos that fall under the umbrella of
this genre of video.
I ended up making videos on some of the biggest examples of this type of video that people
requested and I received amazing results view wise.
So I thought I should speak about the origins of the concept in general so we can better
understand what it’s all about.
So what exactly are “word replacement remixes”?
Well for those people who are familiar with popular memes and often watch my channel they
are the genre of video like “the nutshack edits”, “We are number one” and even
“ the bee movie”.
Typically in these types of videos a regular video is taken and remixed in a way so that
every time a particular word is said in the original video the video is edited in a unique
and interesting way due to the trigger word.
Usually following some variation of the formula of “x video but every instance y occurs
it is replaced with z”.
I know, mixing math and memes isn’t fun, but it’s the easiest way to explain it.
Sometimes it’s something simple like replacing a new word with the trigger word, other times
it’s as complex as inserting a completely different and unrelated video within the original
video.
Resulting in a video that is sometimes hours long,and the crazy part is these videos have
started to appear all over youtube lately and many receive hundreds of thousands of
views.
So it’s safe to say this type of meme is pretty popular lately, but where did it all
start?
I’ve seen people online claim it all started with the Nutshack edits, which is true in
a sense.
This recent spike in popularity started because of the Nutshack edits, but in reality this
type of edit has been around for far longer
The origins can be traced back to 2006 possibly 2007, it’s kinda fuzzy.
You see two videos were uploaded to Youtube, the earliest was in 2007 the other was uploaded
in 2008 but claims to have been made in 2006.
So really it’s up for debate as to what the true year of origin is.
Either way, both these videos used clips from a Super Mario game titled “Hotel Mario”
as the template.
What?
You’re Not familiar with that Mario game?
Well that’s because it was released on the Philips CD-i game console.
Which was a gigantic video game console that very few people remember today.
It’s kinda strange to say today, but yes Mario appeared on a platform other than Nintendo.
But back to the videos, In both the videos that were uploaded to Youtube every time a
noun was said it was replaced with sound effects of explosions.
These Mario videos saw popularity through the next few years being remixed in a variety
of ways using Mario as the template
but Eventually the popularity of the mario edits began to slow down, that is until 2016.
One of the videos to spark the recent resurgence in popularity of the edits was by youtuber
ringabel when they made a video in which every noun that was said in the mario clip was replaced
with the nutshack intro.
This has since evolved into a new meme trend that shows no sign of slowing down.
So now you know a bit more about the history and origins of how this popular genre of video
came to be.
It started off with a super mario game on a system that nobody remembers, a few explosions
and some strange edits, which eventually led to the nutshack and has sprouted off to bees
and guys with weird chins.
IT’s safe to say, the internet is a strange place, and I can’t wait to see what’s
next!
But hey!
That's the internet for you and on the internet memes are keeng thank you all so very much
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