There are many notable YouTube Poopers out there. There's Deepercutt, there's Walrusguy, and there are some who lack the fame reached by those two. Of course, NintendoBrad managed to come close to them in terms of popularity, but there's still another underdog in this field that can't go unmentioned. His username is IAmTheGang.
Easily one of the most creative minds in the YouTube Poop field, IAmTheGang was famous (or perhaps infamous, to those in the past who weren't fond of his deviation from the normal YouTube Pooping styles) for his extensive use of Microsoft Paint in his videos, using it for special effects that went beyond the kind of special effects that were done by other YouTube Poopers who utilized MS Paint. Combined with unusually dramatic storylines (which can be seen in his Timesplitters: Impending Perfection
, for example), his videos were unlike other YouTube Poops that anyone had seen at the time.
In a sad twist of fate, however, he's not active anymore within the YouTube Poop community, sadly joining the ranks of WalrusGuy and NintendoBrad and completely disappearing in a manner similar to the latter. Even more sadly, unlike WalrusGuy, for some reason he doesn't even want his name to be associated with YouTube Poop anymore, logic be damned. It may have to do with the fact he stated to have always disliked the term "Poop", in a strange case of Not Using the YTP Word, but who knows. What counts is that many YouTube users like IAmThaGangnote instead decide to Keep Circulating the Tapes anyway, akin to WalrusGuyMEMORIAL (who, unlike IAmThaGang, got greenlighted by the original WalrusGuy himself).
Now this page has a separate YMMV page, Crowning Moment of Funny page, and a Crowning Moment of Awesome page.
Relevant tropes:
- Author Appeal: Out of the four aforementioned Poopers, his appeal is the most blatant. Conker's Bad Fur Day stands out as the most referenced work, but there's also most of Rare's games for the N64, R. Lee Ermey as Sgt. Hartman from Full Metal Jacket, Cortez and Leonidas.
- To sum it up, just look for his "Super Smash Bros.: Honorable Mentions" video and you'll see characters that are bound to pop up in damn near every video of his. Well, besides Hitler of course.
- And accordions. Three Poopsnote feature accordion music.
- "Hall of the Mountain King" and "Ride of the Valkyries" pop up pretty often.
- Berserk Button: By now we all know about the King's obsession with "DINNER", so don't tell him that there is no dinner. The entire cast of The Legend of Zelda CD-i Games found out the hard way.
- Beware the Nice Ones: The King himself, again. Especially evident in the two "My Message On..." videos.
- Also: do not fuck with Morshu (as seen in "CD-i can still be funny" and, most notably, "The only Western Poop Anyone Has Ever Made").
- And in "Apoopcalypse Now", the "flipping-two-fingers" Morshu made his first appearance ever... while doing a kamikaze attack against Bowser's castle.
- Also: do not fuck with Morshu (as seen in "CD-i can still be funny" and, most notably, "The only Western Poop Anyone Has Ever Made").
- Darker and Edgier: Laughably (yet heartwrechingly) parodied in "The fourth Zelda CD-i Game: The Return to Gamelon"; after seeing the first video, one would expect another funny moment after seeing "The Final Cutscene", and instead are presented with one unbelievable hell of a tearjerker.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: R. Lee Ermey himself appears in several shorts.
- Face Death with Dignity: Link has a smile on his face while performing his Heroic Sacrifice in “The Final Cutscene”
- Fantasy Gun Control: Averted in The Return To Gamelon videos. Both Link and King Harkinian use guns, and Morshu sells them.
- Flipping the Bird: One of his trademark is a custom sprite of Morshu doing this with both middle fingersnote . Notably, the custom sprite in question was made just for him (and made its first appearance in "Apoopcalypse Now"), and is therefore generally associated with him.
- Groin Attack: In "Timesplitters: Impending Perfection," upon Cortez warping into Robotnik's lair, he response with kicking Cortez in the nuts.
- Go Out with a Smile: [[Spoiler: Link in "The Final Cutscene", blowing up the King and himself in a Heroic Sacrifice]].
- Homage: "The Only Western Poop Anyone Has Ever Made" has two. The title references "The only Mama Luigi Poop Anyone Has Ever Made", while the Poop itself is a Whole-Plot Reference to the saloon showdown in Hang 'Em High.
- Hilarity Ensues: Found in many of his videos, if not all of them. Protip: Never allow Mario to get drunk.
- Manipulative Editing: It comes with the territory, but "The Only Western Poop Anyone Has Ever Made" is successful enough at this to actually manage to shift the genre from usual Poops to...well, a western theme. And he does an excellent job at it.
- The Man They Couldn't Hang: Morshu, in the above-mentioned Western Poop. He has his revenge.
- Mood Whiplash: As a stinger, a work-in-progress clip of "TimeSplitters: Impending Perfection" comes right after "The Return To Gamelon: The Final Cutscene".
- Scare 'Em Straight: Hilariously parodied in the "My Message On..." videos.
- The Stinger: Many of his videos end with one, usually involving some of George's note shenanigans, or the aforementioned "middle-finger-Morshu".
- Subversion: At the end of "Timesplitters: Impending Perfection", the "The End" text is significantly off-center to the left, leading one to think that "...?" is going to appear after the words. It doesn't.
- Take That!: "CD-i Can Still be Funny" and "Apoopcalypse Now!" both begin with this parody of "viewer discretion" warnings, as a Take That towards people who bashed IAmTheGang himself for his use of cutscenes from the CD-i games in his videos.WARNINGThis video may contained prolonged scenes of AIDSnote that are not suitable for some YouChewPoop members of the audience.Viewer Discretion is Advised
- Took a Level in Badass: Pretty much everyone takes one in his videos, and probably all at once in "Apoopcalypse Now". It makes The King — The King — badass.King Harkinian: "Eat this shit for dinner."
