It was a dark and stormy night in Australia. (2Spooky4Me)
Thunder echoed throughout a small home as a young asian boy sat at his computer staring at the 2009 YouTube signup screen.
He yells out,
"Keeeev, can I please make a youtube account?"
Kevin yelled out, "Yeah sure whutevrr. I dun't care."
Then with a glint in his eye, he typed out the cursed words in the Enter Your Username box:
SUPA
SUPA MAREO
SUPA MAREO GLITCHI
SUPA MAREO GLITCHI 4
* LE GASP!!!!*
With that, right before his eyes, the young boy summoned the first decade full of MEMES and NAKED MARIO VIDEOS (DEAR GOD CANCER)
FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE!!!
And boy he never regreted doing dat!
(Dumb Stories to Chill and relax to)
If I could describe SMG4, it's if you got Mario and dropped him into a barrel of acid,
then he comes crawling out as this demented monster, (ma-ma-ma-mario-mario)
constantly humping spaghetti. *SCIENCE*
It's really uh...
a MAGICAL CHANNEL, I guess you could put it.
But one may ask, "Luke,
why is Mario in this whole universe so dumb... and stupid, and how did this even all start?" (two bois fricking)
Well young ones it all started back when I first made my channel.
I don't think I've told anyone this but there's more than just me getting inspiration from just Mario Machinima channels. (WOW thats really INTERESTING)
I was interested in other stuff before coming to do Mario videos.
That's why the SMG4 channel was created in 2009, but my first Machinima video started in 2011
So without further ado, put on your Mario mustaches and your...
your Mario...
SPAGHETTI BALLS, I guess, and let's travel back to before SMG4 was created! (It's Rewind Time!)
So it all started:
*WAIT FOR IT*
Super Smash Bros. Brawl actually. (It isn't melee)
I bet none of you would have guessed that. *YEAH*
So here we were, uh, Kevin and I were just duking it out on the map Eldin Bridge and everything seemed fine.
Kevin was Jigglypuff and I was...
uhhhhh *SUSPENSE*
Look, I can't remember everything, ok? In the Eldin bridge map,
there's this part where the bridge gets destroyed by this asshole over here,
but then Jesus comes down and decides to heal the bridge. *WOW*
At the time, Kevin had a Smash Ball and what he did was,
He used his Final Smash which caused Jigglypuff to go really huge.
But the thing was:
He was in the area where the bridge was being healed.
So the Final Smash cancelled. (F)
But Jigglypuff kept its size and I WAS LIKE,
"YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-"
"WAT DA HEL-"
Then Kevin turned to me and said, "Mah boi, that is what we call,
a GLITCH."
*OOOOOHHHHHHHHH* (OH MY GAWD)
Right there and then, my mind was blown.
*DRAMATIC EXPLOSION*
Because I thought he was using some kind of voodoo magic.
At this point, i've never seen a glitch in my life and the very fact that you could make the game do something
so outrageous was on the same level as d'I don't know, BREAKING THE PHYSICS OF THE UNIVERSE!!!
... I guess?
So I ran over to my computer and began typing away and looking into these things called glitches. (Big hand man)
I went from game to game looking at all these fascinating things you can do.
Then one day, I was playing Super Mario Sunshine by myself,
and I managed to find glitches on my own without any internet help, (He's a big boi now!)
such as pulling this tentacle arm to here and look. It freaks out.
Look how cool that is. I thought that was pretty cool. *Didn't we all?*
And then I found other glitches like being able to fall through specific points in the maps and stuff like that.
Then I was like, "You know what: I'm gonna make a video about
GLITCHES!" *DEAR GOD*
I mean there was some at the time on YouTube,
but I figured I would contribute a bring in my own glitches.
And it also may explain why I had Super Mario Glitchy 4 cuz you know, doing glitches.
... I think.
GOD I can't remember.
Anyways, I got myself a Kevin and we went to work creating this video.
Now with my ten thousand IQ knowledge about making videos at the time,
we got this really old camcorder and pointed it at the TV screen. (That's pretty good)
You like my setup? (I do)
I know you do. *MMMMMM* (THICCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC BOI)
But seriously, I wish I could find this video, but Young Me deleted it. Thanks Luke.
It was a straight-up recording of a TV screen.
It was shaky as hell and you could hear 'Dora the Explorer' in the background because our little brother loved to watch it .(Hold up... Little Brother??!?!)
So you could hear the big red chicken going,
"WAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
as we tried to record these crappy glitches of mine. And of course, the finest of videos:
Deserves to be edited on the finest video editing software. And finally we had created a masterpiece.(Dear god.. WHERE MY HOLY WATER)
And finally we had created a masterpiece. *ITS BEUTIFULLLLL*
I myself was really proud of this when I first made it. I remember just feeling, (there was a attempt)
*DECOMPOSING*
So we uploaded the video proudly to YouTube and released it. And, you know, we didn't do too bad.
and when I got my first comment, I was like,
"SENPAI'S NOTICED ME!"
o_o
I don't know what that was. With that, my career was set, as a guy who'd research and find glitches.
But then I found out finding glitches was actually very hard. I got very lazy. *oh*
*OOF*
Yea... It didn't really last that long.
Afterwards, we uploaded a Super Smash Brothers photo wheel since I loved posing in a Smash game every two seconds and getting a dumb photo. That was fun. *Indeed*
But the idea of being a channel that only revolved around THAT is, you know, it didn't please me. (Sad man eating french fries)
It was only until Kevin,
yes, KEVIN again, introduced me to a magical kind of video on YouTube called Mario BLOOPERS. *NOSTALGIA*
Yeah in 2010, I saw these kind of videos for the first time and I was intrigued. (Oh my god) Simple Mario adventures.
Well, it's just a recording of a screen. The hypercam, the mouse, the ancient fonts.
It's all so nostalgic. Of course as you know, MegaMan765,
MarioMario54321, MATTHEWGU4, and many others were the ones I watched over and over again when I was young.
many people today are even
reminiscent over these videos and I am much the same. The stories are so simple, like Mario clones, Mario jumping over Peach's castle,
Weegee's World *EEH* It was all such a unique concept at the time.
I really wanted to do all of this and you know what? I didn't think it looked too hard.
So I went to download the emulator and start thinking of ideas.
My style of videos back then was ten times more simpler because of the software I was using. I could only use
TEXT and you know cool-looking TRANSITIONS, so that's about it, so I didn't rely on a lot of text-based jokes.
It was basically me trying to convey jokes through Mario for five minutes. But before we get into that,
I need to address the very first video. *OH I REMEMBER THIS!*
I mean what the heck went wrong here if you're unsure of what I mean?
The very first video I made was called "The Cake Is A Lie." The plot's very convoluted, so he's a quick video recount:
HELO BOS! CN I HAV EH PIZA PLES!?
no
*LE GRAP* *LE YET* *LE BOM*
Yeah, and the final resolution of the video
was this teensy weensy little tiny box for some reason. Look I was using a program called AVS video editor to edit.
But it had this stupid a$$ watermark when you rendered it in the dead center of the screen.
I only realized that after I edited the whole video, so you know what I did? I used the screen recording program called
Debut Video Recorder which by the way caused an annoying A$$
*BEP*
at the beginning of the recording since it was a trial version.
And so what I did was I recorded my edited video
OFF the editing program and that's probably what caused the audio to echo and be really delayed. (Stop! You've violated the law!)
And you know,
TADA!
THAT'S HOW I MADE MY FIRST VIDEO!!!
It's the worst thing to ever exist in this universe. :^|
But it started off my career to say the least. From then on, I used the program called NCH Video Pad (BRUH I USE THAT RN FOR MY CHANNEL)
which had that stupid text you see on screen here and I went off making vids.
You know, a lot of my stories and jokes were centered around cheat codes used on emulators (Thick bowser) such as making the whole world glitchy,
making Mario huge, or freezing everyone in the game except Mario.
From there, it was just making stupid-ass comments and insulting Mario about being fat. *That explains a lot about Mario*
So then, you know, I heard about this magical program called Sony Vegas, which allowed me to do stuff like green screen *OH YEA*
And... effects like NOT sh*tty text. Wow! I mean Sony Vegas Text is pretty outdated today.
But hey, what are you gonna do? So I began doing specific shots in Vegas then exporting it to my really crappy software.
I don't know why I did that. *Nobody know*
But you know, that's what I did and I did things such as rain, transparent images, more Marios.
So if you want to watch Bowser dancing with a sombrero while Peach is spinning around in a cage, you got it!
*BUUM*
And then, I actually gained some IQ and I was like
Y o u k n o w w h a t?
I'm gonna move to Sony Vegas, FULL TIME. And then, the next evolution of SMG4 began. Kevin and his friends were playing this
weird-looking game called Garry's Mod. It was this game where you could do whatever you want.
You can shoot people, you can ride cars, you can spawn things, you can hump things then what are we on? (DONT HURT ME OLD MAN I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING)
It was only when I got to Ssenmodnar 1 when I started shifting to more wacky humor we all know today.
I loved gmod videos such as
Gmod Idea Box or Team Fabulous 2 and I appreciated how quick and sudden the humor styles were and Ssenmodnar *It's all coming back to me* allowed me to do that.
So with Garry's Mod allowing Mario to do a lot more things and with Sony Vegas giving me more options like editing,
this helped encourage me go all out on my dumb jokes and go above and beyond just the standard text on a video-g. That's why series like our 64 videos are like
99.5% crazy were such huge hits and why they helped mold and build SMG4 to the way it is today.
Mario really became that bridge to show how far I can go with my stupid humor
and he's stuck as that one character that likes to be naked and eats a lot of spaghetti and my uploads were consistent because
I was scared fans would get angry at me. From then on, the path of SMG4 was set. It was that one channel
where Mario acted like a complete dumbass and you know what?
I'm grateful that I could make it so far with a dumb concept like this and I know a lot has changed since then.
People grow up, you know and they want to make changes. I want to see improvement and growth on this channel.
That's why I strive to push the limits of what we can do and I want to thank all of you for understanding that.
Hope you guys found that story interesting. SMG4 definitely started from humble beginnings from just a boy who wanted to make glitches to
a boy who wanted to bring memes into the world.
If you guys want to hear more stories like this,
just comment below. I love making these videos and I'm glad you guys are enjoying these too. I'll see you guys next time!!!
*That was beautiful, SMG4. WE WERE REALLY MOVED!*