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And you can watch to the end of the video to figure out why so one of the most prolific requests
I've gotten since I started the film Titan series has been for me to cover youtubers like Philip DeFranco epic rap battles of history etc
Youtubers who started off a long time ago and were popular back in the day
But are still
Notable figures to this very moment and while I certainly understand that the core enjoyment that many get from this series is just hearing me
Talk about youtubers and media in general. I still find these topics very hard to talk about
Because they're all sort of the same story
Youtuber starts doing a thing they keep doing the thing for 10 years. They make a lot of money
roll credits, however
there is one content creator who started off by having early hits on YouTube and
Continues to find success to this day who I do find worthy of discussion that being
Neil Cicirega now many of you will go into this video not knowing a lot about neil or certainly not
understanding the scope of his career
Which is why this is an interesting topic because I will bet that almost all of you are familiar with at least some
Of Neil's work today
We were going to be talking about an internet personality who has consistently found success online
Not do the momentum of his past or the size of his name
But through the caliber of his content when imagine people
Watching today's video what honestly comes to mind is people sort of going like oh, oh that was him oh
He did that too
Wait how many things did this one guy do the answer is a lot?
*Promenade Satellite Pictures at an Exhibition by Neil Cicirega plays*
*smack*
"Old Godzilla was hoppin around Tokyo city like a big playground when suddenly Batman burst from the shade and hit Godzilla with a Bat Grenade"
*Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny plays*
*Song fades into background*
Altima showdown of ultimate destiny was a song created by Cicirega under the pseudonym of a lemon demon a title designed to annoy anyone
Trying to read it out loud for the first time the song is about a mass conflict taking place between numerous
Figures of pop culture these days most films and even some TV shows are trying very hard to appeal to that
"Goku vs. John C."
mentality of who would win but I think it's notable enough to realize that one of the first people to
capitalize off of this obsession was Neil Cicirega in
2005
*Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate History starts again.*
The ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny was
ultimately a big hit it was originally posted to new grounds where it gained millions of views and then someone ripped it and
Uploaded it to YouTube where it did even better, and it was even featured for numerous weeks very successfully on the
"Dr. Demento" show to many people the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny is a
Defining point in their memories of the early internet and to most figures having won early online hit that
Redefines some form of culture that would be enough
*ʟᴀʀɢᴇ sɪᴘᴘ*
Remember Potter Puppet Pals?
Yeah, same guy.
You know that thing on the YouTube the Harry Potter Puppet? I haven't.
This thing called the Harry Potter Puppets
And it was his very very silly and they did a thing called what's that mysterious ticking noise, I think it was called.
Snape Snape
Severus Snape
Snape Snape Severus
Alan Rickman hello and welcome properly to this premiere how are you?
Throughout most of the 21st century Harry Potter has been a massively successful franchise in fact
I would argue that trying to find words that even adequately explain its scope in terms of
Popularity it sort of feels impossible, and that in itself is a good representation of how redundant this sentiment is
But what you have to remember is that as the early books and movies were released there was sort of a lapse in judgment in?
terms of the cultural understanding of the franchise and
Potter Puppet Pals capitalized off of this by creating a downsized parody that mocked this sentiment
complex characters were whittled down to very basic gimmicks and personality flaws
Delicate situations with very high tension were replaced with scenes like this
"SHOOTHIM"
and
So on and so forth the most successful video in the series was the mysterious ticking noise
Which featured numerous Potter characters rapping over a ticking sound?
coming from an unclear source Potter Puppet Pals was an instant success both with people who barely knew anything about the franchise and
fans who
Appreciated the nostalgic simplicity of it as the Harry Potter books and movies
Continued to get darker and edgier with fewer and fewer beloved characters surviving to the end Potter Puppet Pals remained
Exactly as apparently innocent as everyone remembered the first film being while still standing out in terms of writing and comedic merit
But obviously after the seventh book and eighth movie there was only so much potential that the series had
Almost the entire time that Potter Puppet Pals was being created and was being a massive success
He was also putting his talents elsewhere
He continued to release albums under the pseudonym of "Lemon Demon" one of my personal favorite songs of his is the fantastic
jaws about the movie of the same name
But when glancing down the discography of all the songs released by "Lemon Demon" after the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny
One stands out you
Became a hit a few years ago with something called Brodie quest yeah
Nothing to do with this let's show the people what you know I had nothing to do with that
Did you have anything to do with what I'm about to show them no I didn't
Brodie quest is an apparent tribute to actor Adrien Brody showing his day-to-day activities as he walks all around the earth
Flies into the Sun and then consumes all of reality
Brody quest was a success not only because of the fantastic music video which arguably inspired shooting stars
But also because of the incredibly catchy music
I've used Brody Quest a couple times in the background in my videos, and it's honestly because I think that it's laid-back
Lackadaisical nature is the perfect representation of YouTube's culture and the YouTube lifestyle it just screams
I'm marching along. I'm doing it proudly it's leading me somewhere
I hope it's not off a cliff
but arguably Brody Quest is
Additionally one of the most important things to happen to Neils career because it introduced not only his audience
But his actual body of work to remix culture
When the pimps in the crib ma drop it like it's hot drop it like it's hot drop it like it's hot
The pigs try to get at you, park it like it's hot
Pocket like it's hot home pocket like it's hot
the pop artists other than Neal would take his song and combine it with elements from other songs
to create an entirely new
Experience and this would be something that he would embrace really see a video on his second channel showing a collage of the best examples
It was perhaps this phenomenon that partially inspired Neil to start working on remixes of his own in
2014 Cicierega would release mouth sounds a free mashup collage album
Which capitalized on for the success of all-star by Smash Mouth?
Neal would then continue the project eventually releasing mouths
Silence and mouth moods without a doubt the most popular project to come out of this series was busting
Busting has been described as like the Ghostbusters theme but from an alternate universe
Presumably a universe where Huey Lewis was never born
You know that thing,
We hear a song and you really like it and then it sort of plays in your head for a couple days and you
revisit it but
You realize that while it's been playing in your head
It's changed a little bit and you sort of like the version in your head a little bit more
the music featured on the mouth trilogy is
the versions of very popular songs which exist solely
in your memory
The mouth trilogy is brilliant because it's mostly made out of songs that
Almost everyone knows but in changing them just a little bit to shock the audience. It makes us reevaluate
Why we love those songs what value we find in those songs before I heard these remixes
I had failed to appreciate the lyrics and the music of these songs as much as I do
Now I'll be the last to admit that these albums are a bit of an acquired taste, but personally
I love the experience of sitting through these they're my go-to for when I'm doing the dishes or trying to plan out my next video
Because they help me think they help me fantasize and and frankly
They help me dream.
In general when I tried to stop and figure out who Niel Ciccierega was I was shocked to see how much of a silent impact
He's had on my life the work of this man, which might initially seem like a vague pile of one-hit wonder internet memes
Directly impacted not only how I consumed media
but also how I viewed pop culture the scholar of our time recently said in a
127 character real-time book
"Too much emphasis is put on originality feel free to take ideas and update them at your will all great artists take an update" - God
And if there's any indication to the validity of these words
It's Neil Cicierega a man who has spent the past 10 years on the internet creating massive pieces of art who has brought himself to
Relevancy in a way that no one else really has not by making his audience
Infatuated with his face or his tone of voice
But by making them fall in love with his
individual
unique pieces of work by making them think about how they view the world around them even if it's in a way that they might
Not even notice and because of that
I honestly respect Niel Cicierega more than any other internet personality that I've followed in the past 10 years and
This video has just been the cliffnotes of his long and interesting exploration into music
storytelling and animation and
Honestly, I'm so excited to see what the following years bring to us from this brilliant, man
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