History WebVideo / HIVEMIND

* ChromosomeCasting: All the main members of Hivemind - Riley, Graydon, Grant, and Tony - are all men, though they have had women as special guests.

*** Graydon and his alter ego Dignan are referred to as completely different people... despite the fact that Graydon and Dignan are the same person. They are very committed to this bit to the point where they will sometimes refer to Graydon/Dignan in 3rd person if they are talking about either one of them.

* CarefulWithThatAxe: One video [[ColdOpen cold opens]] with Riley and Graydon destroying the old red table they used to sit at, with Graydon screaming while revving a chainsaw.

** Rapper PmBata also appeared in an episode of "Guess The Rapper from the Type Beat".

** Riley can never get into the top ten clips of the week on SportsCenter.

** They also had Cam from the YouTube channel Cuffboys on one episode of "Guess The Rapper From The Type Beat", and they, in turn, appeared on the Cuffboys' podcast for an interview with Cam and Johnny.

[[caption-width-right:350:Welcome to HIVEMIND, the most (insert word here) show on the internet.]]

* OverlyLongGag: The bits sometimes go into this territory, to the point where they only spends a small portion of time playing the games compared to the amount of time doing bits.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Quadeca does this the line during a game of Hivemind Feud.

--> Quadeca: "Yeah, dude. [[spoiler: 'Til he fucks your kid. *beat* ...Sorry!"]]

** Commentary Youtuber gabi belle appeared in the episode of Guess Which Artist Has More MONTHLY LISTENERS on Spotify" released on November 7th, 2022.

** Graydon/Dignan often calls Grant G Money, and sometimes calls Riley Riles.

* DoNotCallMePaul: In "Guess the Rapper from Quadeca's Styles of Rap", Riley failed to get a perfect game as he stated he'd do in the beginning. Graydon then berates Riley saying that "he should have taken those performance enhancing drugs he offered him" After stating that the steroids have nasty side effects... Graydon just proclaims that his name is now Dignan and that from now on to call him Dignan. Riley then questions Dignan about the performance enhancing drugs not really enhancing his performance but "Dignan" insists about changing his name to Dignan. In an ironic twist... [[SureLetsGoWithThat Graydon is referred to as Dignan for the rest of the episode and his scoreboard graphic name changed from Graydon to Dignan.]] This is also the origin of Graydon being referred to as Dignan in various videos after this.

* HellIsThatNoise: In games such as "Guess the Base Boosted Audio" and "Guess All the Songs Playing from the Album at the Same Time", some of the resulting noise can be best described as pure chaotic insanity. Riley once said it sounded like something in the room broke when one of the base boosted songs was played.

** Dignan is in prison, but sometimes gets to be in the videos when he's released on furlough.

* SpecialGuest: They have had a few, with rapper, singer, producer and their friend Quadeca appearing enough on the show that people consider him TheSixthRanger and the most official unofficial member. This has also continued with commentary Youtuber nickisnotgreen, do to both Nick and Hivemind appearing on each other's channels very frequently.

** They also had Cam from the YouTube channel Cuffboys on one episode of "Guess The Rapper From The Type Beat", and they in turn appeared on the Cuffboys' podcast for an interview with Cam and Johnny.

* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Graydon and Dignan, however it is a running gag to refer to Dignan as completely different to Graydon.

->''Graydon, would you like to leave these people with any advise to leave or live their lives by?''

** Graydon/Dignan often calls Grant G Money, and sometimes calls Riley Riles.

* FanBoy: Of quite a few artists, and also of the animated series WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius which they reference quite often. Grant also described himself as the "biggest Adrienne Lenker fan."

* HypocriticalHumor: Occaisionally, such as when Riley (a cartoonist) lambasts artists for not "getting a real career," and when Graydon (a big fan of jazz) calls jazz-listeners "a bunch of freaks."

** Riley can never get into the top ten clips of the week on [[SportsCenter.]]

->''A live that cannot be [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife ruined by TV Tropes]]... is truly a great one.''

* AffectionateNickname: They call singer and actress Music/OliviaRodrigo O Rod.

** Riley can never get into the top ten clips of the week on SportsCenter.

** After the second question in videos featuring Quadeca, Quadeca does "Bar Of The Day", where he writes a bar in the style of someone (usually Riley) and reads it aloud.

* FanBoy: Of quite a few artists, and also of the animated series WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius which they reffrance quite often.

* StylisticSuck: Some of the rapper impressions they got from Fivver were done like this, most notably the one of Music/LilPump and Dev Lemons' impression of {{Music/Eminem}}. Graydon/Dignan also sometimes sings like this, one notable example was him singing some lyrics from Music/RayCharls in one of the games of Guess the Popular Rap Song from the Sample.

HIVEMIND is a Youtube channel hosted by, in their own words, two white guys from the Midwest, Riley Savage and Graydon Weaver who make content such as vlogs, music videos and original content. They're most known for their hip hop related quiz games, including "Guess the Rapper from the Really Old Song", "Guess the Album from the Features" and "Guess the Album from All the Songs Playing at Once". From their first video on September 1st, 2016, they have amassed over a hundred thousand subscribers as of November 2021. They are known for their weird and strange sense of humor and often crazy stories as well. They also have a DJ, DJ Grant Meeker, who is the one who plays the songs and tells them the right answers after the two are done guessing.

* AccidentalTruth: They joked once that there should be an adult version of WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants. This was actually proposed in real life, but was turned down.

* BerserkButton: Music/MachineGunKelly, just Machine Gun Kelly. If he's in a game as an option or revealed to be the right answer to one of the questions, his name simply being mentioned sends both hosts into a small hate filled rant of how much they dislike his music and just him as a person. Riley once prayed to god to ask him to just stop releasing music.

* TheComicallySerious: Their main way of making jokes. They'll often tell outlandish stories about things that happened in their pasts, while managing to not laugh and remaining serious enough so people never know when they're telling the truth or not.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: In their videos, it's hinted through many many bits that both hosts have had some extremely traumatic pasts, although these are obviously all played for laughs. Some examples include Riley having to deal with a family member dying in his own arms every day of a week, Graydon being friends with WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants only for him to witness him getting killed and Dignan's numerous crimes against humanity he's commited.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Dignan is supposedly this compared to Graydon, refering to himself as a criminal who's been to prison multiple times, although there's hardly any difference between the two.
* DoNotCallMePaul: In "Guess the rapper from Quadeca's Styles of Rap", Riley failed to get a perfect game as he stated he'd do in the beginning. Graydon then berates Riley saying that "he should have taken those performance enhancing drugs he offered him" After stating that the steroids have nasty side effects... Graydon just proclaims that his name is now Dignan and that from now on to call him Dignan. Riley then questions Dignan about the performance enhancing drugs not really enhancing his performance but "Dignan" insists about changing his name to Dignan. In an ironic twist... [[SureLetsGoWithThat Graydon is referred to as Dignan for the rest of the episode and his scoreboard graphic name changed from Graydon to Dignan.]] This is also the origin of Graydon being referred to as Dignan in various videos after this.

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* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Graydon and Dignan, however it is a running gag to refer to Dignan as completely different to Graydon.