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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJWjHuqBLs8 END. LESS. SUFFERING.]]]] |
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4 | ->''"It's like a DVD shaped like a box."'' |
5 | -->-- '''Sadie Miller, and the blog's motto''' |
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7 | ''[[https://vhsripstevenuniversescreencaps.tumblr.com/ VHSrip Steven Universe Screencaps]]'' is a semi-popular ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' aesthetic-humor fanblog started on Tumblr in 2015 that specializes in [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well... posting Steven Universe content ripped from VHS]], and the namesake of a rather esoteric series of short YouTubePoop-flavored comedy videos hosted on the blog, referred to by the characters in them as [[InsistentTerminology "joke videos"]]. |
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9 | Sadie Miller and Lapis Lazuli appear frequently as regular characters in the videos and function as the blog's mascots, with somewhat exaggerated or flanderized personalities. |
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11 | The videos themselves can be viewed more conveniently on Website/YouTube, across two playlists: |
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13 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGlMaE-UYVUYIcusfE5yBAFc5uX2Z0DrF [=VHSrip=] Steven Universe Screencaps (2015-2017, first 101 videos)]] |
14 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGlMaE-UYVUaK_1rI2NPcbOh1K4343ZHB [=VHSrip=] Steven Universe Screencaps Part II (2018-present revival videos)]] |
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17 | !!Tropes pertaining to the "joke videos": |
18 | * AuthorAppeal: Half of the references in the videos are to media the blog creator enjoys. |
19 | * CatchPhrase: Sadie's "videotape". |
20 | * {{Crossover}}: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxDPItLD8Ro April Fools 2018 video]] has SU characters edited into the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' intro. |
21 | * InSeriesNickname: Sadie is almost exclusively referred to in onscreen titles as "Donut Girl", and Lapis Lazuli as "Double L". |
22 | * ManipulativeEditing: The bulk of the videos' jokes stem from sentence-mixing, though the older YTP-era style of using multiple characters to form sentences is predominantly used. This is explained by Lapis Lazuli allegedly in-universe "editing" the videos in a fashion similar to her word-spliced lines in ''[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E25MirrorGem Mirror Gem]]''. Some videos occasionally use compositing to bridge visual elements, though this is sparingly used. |
23 | * NoFourthWall: The bulk of the humor is self-referential and characters seem mostly aware everything's being edited. |
24 | * OneWordTitle: Most videos tend to be given very basic, lower-case titles consisting of lines from the videos themselves. |
25 | * QuoteMine: A given with primarily sentence-mixing oriented humor. |
26 | * RunningGag: There's many of them. |
27 | ** Sadie's "videotape" line and the aforementioned page quote from the episode ''[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E21JokingVictim Joking Victim]]'' shows up in the videos many times. |
28 | ** The first syllable of "Lapis" or words that begin similarly sentence-mixed to say "Lal" (in vein of "sus" from many a classic YTP). |
29 | ** References to ''Anime/SpeedRacer'', including repeated uses of "dangerous..." from the English theme song, a loud snippet of music from the first episode, and occasional footage "cameos" from actual episodes. This was inspired by the ''Speed Racer''-centric [=YTP-er=] [[https://www.youtube.com/user/JazzDanceForChildren JazzDanceForChildren]]'s work. |
30 | ** A ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' resistance soldier shouting "Look! He's dead!" whenever a character supposedly "dies". |
31 | ** A recurring snippet of canned laughter from a obscure Belgian prank show called ''Just Kidding!''. |
32 | ** A monotone text-to-speech voice saying "joke video". |
33 | ** The stock footage of the old ladies applauding from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. |
34 | ** A rather infamous soundbyte of a group of children exclaiming "YAAAAAAAY!!!!" |
35 | * SelfDeprecation: Appears frequently through sentence-mixing, often poking fun at the gimmicky nature of the blog itself. |
36 | * SeriesFauxnale: "penultimate" and "wander and remember", which were intended as the finale of the videos and the blog as a whole, but the blog began activity again in February 2018 and the videos were brought back as "[=VHSrip Steven Universe Screencaps Part II=]". |
37 | * ShoutOut: A staple of the joke videos. Notably, in the first joke video that's over a minute long, there's one given to [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3 "I'D SAY HE'S HOT ON OUR TAIL"]]. |
38 | ** References to ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' appear often. |
39 | * StylisticSuck: All of the videos are recorded several generations over on real VHS tape to make the audiovisual quality terrible. |
40 | ** Most of the editing is fairly basic and blunt, more reminiscent of older [=YTPs=] than contemporary popular ones. |
41 | * ThisIsThePartWhere: "daily routine" spoofs the basic structure of many of the joke videos with this. |
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