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These are just some of the many characters who are regularly "pooped".

"Where there's smoke, they pinch back!"

— (semi-)official motto, which...makes about as much sense as anything else in the genre

YouTube Poop (often referred to by its shorthand, "YTP") is a Neo-Dada art form consisting of video remixes that are edited from a large array of video clips in order to confuse, stun or entertain the viewer. The source material can be mashed all together into a nonsensical Crossover story, or just repeat footage of the characters gesticulating oddly or apparently saying something dirty over and over and over again. There are also well-known phrases used such as "PINGAS" or "Do a Barrel Roll!".

YouTube Poop started with a guy named SuperYoshi testing out Windows Movie Maker, a new piece of software he found in his newly installed Windows XP, using the episode "Recycled Koopa" from The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3. The result was a video containing a few clips from the episode repeated and used in a random manner. Later he put this video as "The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 Remixed" on December 22, 2004, up on his SheezyArt page. The video was well-received, and SuperYoshi together with his friend RetroJape made similar remixes using the Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) cartoon and later Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. A few more of SuperYoshi's friends joined and started putting their videos on YouTube in order to confuse and anger people who were otherwise looking for regular Super Mario or AoSTH videos. The first three Poops have been brought to YouTube later as I'D SAY HE'S HOT ON OUR TAIL, Dr. Light's Guidance System Show and Robotnik's Sodomy Fest of 2005, respectively.

Interestingly, precursors to YouTube Poop can be found in:

Daffy Duck in Hollywood, a 1938 short in which Daffy edits a film reel to produce this.
"Hoch der Lambeth Valk", a World War II-era propaganda short that edits footage of Nazi parades to make the soldiers look like they're dancing.
The I Love Lucy episode "Home Movies", in which Lucy combines three homemade films into an incoherent pitch pilot.
A Scanimate-made intro for Comédia Nacional appears to be edited in a chaotic and eclectic fashion, including squishing images horizontally.
AKA Cartoon Network also known as Cult Toons, a TV show made for Cartoon Network UK that mixed old Hanna-Barbera cartoons like The Perils of Penelope Pitstop with wrestling, kung fu, and blaxploitation movies for cheap laughs.
The opening of the VeggieTales video The End of Silliness?! in which Larry the Cucumber is having flashbacks of past events in a bizarre manner.
Richard Nixon even put out an attack ad on Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 presidential campaign that bears a surprising similarity to Poop conventions.
The Simpsons episode "Homer Badman" has a crooked news show edit Homer's interview into this.
The Emergency Broadcast Network was making politically-charged music videos out of remixed TV clips as far back as the early 90s. The videos, such as Comply, share many stylistic conventions with modern YTP.
Max Headroom has the title character experience Repetitive Audio Glitches and pitch shifts. If the other characters experienced it as well, it would be indistinguishable from YTP.

Going further back, YouTube Poop can be compared to the Dada art movement of the early 20th century, which was based on being nonsensical.

It was not until people like The Electric Cheese got to know about these videos and started making ones themselves that the term "YouTube Poop" was used for them and that they increased in popularity.

With the growing popularity, YouTube Poop shifted from being videos that confuse people who were looking for regular videos (in fact, the people who started it are more fond of "WTF?" comments than people commenting or repeating the parts they liked in the video and were dismissive of the term "YouTube Poop" for a long time) to videos that entertain people by using video sources that have become iconic with the name YouTube Poop.

The genre suffered a decline in popularity during the mid-to-late New Tens, in part due to YouTube growing even stingier regarding copyright takedowns and other forms of using extensive editing for humor showing up. This resulted in many members of the scene either moving on to other forms or retiring altogether. The ones that did come out were much more sophisticated, with higher quality in animation, editing, and sentence mixing. This led to debate over whether they should be considered the same genre as earlier YouTube Poops.

Although most of the YouTube Poop videos are made in English, there are videos produced in other languages, too, e.g. in Russian (called "RYTP" = "Russian YouTube Poop"), German (German YouTube Poop is commonly called "YouTube-Kacke" and is a literal translation of the original name), Spanish ("YTPH" = YouTube Poop Hispano), Brazilian Portuguese ("YTPBR" = YouTube Poop Brasil), Finnish ("STP" = SinäTuubaPaska, literally "You Tuba Shit"), and many others. However, many of these foreign YTP's have yet to gain exposure among the English-speaking Poopers (as doing Foreign Remake versions of them would be impossible knowing what happened to Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo and the MyNetworkTV telenovelas) despite them having memes of their own (for example STP turned the Dolf episodes of Alfred J. Kwak into a meme and so did YTPH and YTPBR with Don Ramon from El Chavo del ocho).

Aside from the aforementioned cartoons above, among the staples included cutscenes from the Philips CD-i video games. Many other sources of varying notability have been used in YTPs.

YouChew was the biggest (unofficial) forum for YTP on the Internet from 2007 until its closure in September 2018. Since then, various attempts at continuing the site's legacy have been made, including a failed reboot and several splinter groups. Only one of these groups, YTPMania, maintained a decent userbase and lifespan before its closure in 2022. The current torch-bearer was Pinchbacks, however was shut down due to the owner getting overwhelmed.

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YTPs with their own pages

YouTube Poopers with their own pages

256PiAlternate (account)
Amateur YTP (Channel here)
Ben Pictures 1 (Channel)
cartoonlover98 (retired; account; backup account)
cheetahmen92 (original account closed; current YTP account; Let's Play account; unlicensed gaming account; also has an account on this very site, though it isn't used much)
ChickenPika (Channel)
Chincherrinas (Channel)
Christian Frates
Cory the Norm (Channel)
cs188 (Channel; has a backup account as well)
DaThings (Channel; also has a backup channel, just in case)
Deepercutt (retired; account)
DSYTP
Durhamrockerz (account)
EmperorLemon (Still active, but no longer makes Poops, shifted focus to video essays; account; backup account)
Geibuchan (account)
FlyingKitty (account; backup account)
HassanLechkar (account)
Hoffy1138 (account)
HourofPoop
Hurricoaster (account)
I Am The Gang (retired; account)
iteachvader (account)
Jack Duripper (account)
Jimmy Davis (account)
Jittery Dragon (account closed, memorial account)
jubduk (current account, re-upload account)
KroboProductions (second backup account)
Lulu Luvscats (account)
Mark3611 (original account hacked; second account suspended; third account; memorial account)
MoBrosStudios (retired; account; second account; also has an animation review channel called Anim8Ball)
Nathan's Ultimate Channel (channel here)
NextG Poop
Nintendo Brad (account closed)
noisepuppet
NPCarlsson (here)
Ricesnot (account)
Schaffrillas Productions (Active, but shifted focus to video essays; (account)
The Steam Lord (account)
Stets Uninu
Stuart K Reilly (here)
TomServo3 (backup account; second backup account)
TrailerPoopers (account, backup account)
Trinzilla (account)
Trudermark (retired; account)
Voltalia (Channel)
Walrusguy (semi-retired; still making videos though, albeit at a slower pace; memorial account; original account)
Waxonator (account here, reuploaded videos)
Wileyk209zback (Account here)
WTL Network (Current account, fan-made reuploads account)

Tropes commonly invoked with these videos

Adaptational Alternate Ending: There are plenty of poops that follow the events of their primary source relatively closely, only to suddenly veer off in a completely different direction:
- Sharp Talk goes through the events of Shark Tale as they happened in the movie (albeit with many more references to other shows), only to suddenly change when Oscar, Lenny and Sykes get to Don Lino's meeting place. In this version, Oscar sets his plan into motion, revealing to Lino that he's had Lenny order a giant ship to eliminate all the sharks in the world. When Lino begs him not to, Oscar refuses and blows them all up aside from Lenny and Lino. Lino ends up trapped and Forced to Watch Oscar gloat about being a real Sharkslayer, and Oscar proceeds to leave the two sharks to die in his trap. Having killed every shark on Earth, Oscar then becomes governor, solidifying his Face�Heel Turn into a Villain Protagonist.
Adaptational Heroism:
- Anakin Skywalker in Russel Nordeman's Star Wars trillogy is not as morally gray as in canon.
  - In Star Wars Episode 2 - Anakin Tries to Kill Jar Jar, Anakin doesn't slaughter the Tusken Raiders village. Instead, he attempts to murder Jar-Jar, who was deemed "fucking dangerous" by Obi-Wan in the previous video.
  - In Star Wars Episode 3 - Obi-Wan Gets Depressed when Darth Sidious tells Anakin to become his apprentice, Anakin immediately refuses, and Sidious has to threaten him with death in order for Anakin to comply.
- In Star Trek Into Darkness the Big Bad John Harrison, AKA Khan Noonien Singh is a tyrant that nuked Washington D.C. and Moscow and likely planned to destroy those whom he deemed inferior. In Star Trek: Into Pengwings, all that he wants is his pengwings back, whom he sees as his family. It's implied that he would have spared the crew of the Enterprise if Spock hadn't betrayed him, as oppose to stating he's going to destroy Enterprise anyway after Spock seemingly meets his demands.
Adaptational Jerkass: Either by taking scenes out of context, splicing words, or adding or removing the word 'not' in sentences, any speaking character (and non-speaking character) can be rude, obnoxious, and/or have Brutal Honesty.
- Qui-Gon Jinn is an All-Loving Hero in canon, but the The Phantom Menace videos often have him contradict and insult others, especially Anakin, out of spite, and shows signs of being a Dirty Old Man.
- Peter Parker/Spider-Man is often a victim of this due to him being Not Himself in the third movie. "Fix this damn door!" is a common Catchphrase in these videos.
Adaptational Villainy: Aside from acting like more of a jerk, some characters are portrayed as mass-murderers.
- Peter Parker/Spider-Man is often presented as killing Ben Parker (originally shot by Flint Marco) and/or Norman Osborn (originally killed himself accidentally), having Lack of Empathy (Spider-Man Wants Pizza Time makes him eating a hot dog while watching a disaster a Running Gag), slapping his girlfriend for petty reasons, and attempting, and sometimes even succeeding, to kill his best friend.
- Anakin Hates Obi-Wan has Anakin Skywalker kill Obi-Wan over a couple of insults, and showing no guilt afterwards. Later on, Anakin chops off Mace Windu's hand for not granting him the rank of Master.
Adaptational Wimp: Characters that can hold their own during a fight often get defeated by just about anything, even a common mook.
- Canonly, Qui-Gon Jinn is a highly experienced, if rebellious, Jedi Master, and was able to hold his own against Darth Maul, who wields a double-bladed lightsaber, with a regular lightsaber. In the video's featuring Qui-Gon, he fails to notice events that are happening right in front of him, and dies in several scenes.
- Peter Parker/Spider-Man, while not without his mistakes in the original movies, is a Failure Hero that gets bullied by everyone that he meets. He's also unable to keep his cool, responding to any inconvenience with a Big "NO!" or by crying.
Adaptation Name Change: Some characters have names that are distortions of their original names.
- SpongeBob SquarePants is renamed "Spingebill" in poop titles. Originally, this was done to circumvent Viacom's copyright takedowns; while this didn't work, the name was funny enough for it to stick.
- In "YouTube Poop - There doesn't go a train", Engineer Dave is renamed Engineer Gay. Engineer Larry is renamed Engineer yrraL.
- {YTP} - The Mythsters is based on Mythbusters and renames all the five main people. Their new names are Savage Adam, Jamie Heinie, Arahamahara, Tory Chi, and Kari Rary.
- Michael Rosen in TUBEPOOP: Storymode is now referred to as "Maniacal Michael."
Adaptation Personality Change: Uses at least 90% of them.
Anyone Can Die: No one is safe from dying if the creator is feeling especially sadistic. Though everyone is usually fine in the next scene.
Anti-Role Model: Thanks to Manipulative Editing, you may hear a message that's the opposite of the source material's message.
- "YouTube Poop - There doesn't go a train":
  Engineer Gay: So if you don't remember anything else after watching There Goes a TrarT, I hope you remember this: Play on the railroad tracks. It's not only legal, but it is a post office.
- "The VHS YTP collab" encourages you to buy pirated videocassettes.
April Fools: Many poopers create special poops to be uploaded on April 1st, either individually or as part of a collaboration, which are intentionally made in a Stylistic Suck fashion, reminiscent of the poops of 2004-2007 when the art was new to mainstream.
Arc Words: "JoJ" and "sus."
- YTPH also has "RAR", as in WinRAR, because that word can be easily spliced out of the common Spanish word "raro" (strange). For example, from "[YTPH] Bate Debate el Chocolate Vol. II" of the second 2018 Mexican presidential debate and "[YTPH] | A Thanos le empeñan una Gema del Infinito" of Pawn Stars:
  Luisito: Question number unu: what's the most RAR?^note
  Pawn shop customer: I've been collecting hard dicks since 5000 years ago. These coconuts are very RAR.^note
- Finnish STP has long had "ses" as a common nonsense word. A slightly lesser-known example is the gibberish phrase "polilo polisilo" - both are sufficiently well known that in 2014 one user created a video consisting of pretty much nothing but them.
Author Appeal: Many poopers reuse certain source footage. For instance, one pooper may focus mainly on Billy Mays material, one on CD-i cutscenes, etc. Many users have focused on Michael Rosen poops.
Beat: Somewhat common in poops, undoubtedly used to show that a character is either Too Dumb to Live or Comically Missing the Point.
- Here's an example from Link Discovers Ganon's Least Favorite Color:
  Gwonam: It is written that only Link can defeat Ganon and Link is in space.
  [Beat]
  The King: We're going to be under attack by the evil forces of Ganon!
  Gwonam: Now you finally get it.
- And in "Vegeta Gives Away Bees":
  Nappa: Vegeta, what does the scouter say about Bass?
  Bass appears
  Bass: Called me?
  [Beat]
  Bass: YOU MUST DIE!
Berserk Button: Naturally, what will piss off a character in a YTP depends on the pooper, but there are some things that will be a Berserk Button for a character no matter whose YTP they're in. For starters, whenever someone messes with The King's dinner, it never ends well for them.
Big Damn Heroes: You wouldn't think that YouTube Poops would have something like it, but in "- Gwonam The Extortionist throws King Harkinian into Financial Chaos", it's Ganon that pulls this off. It's followed with a Badass Boast.
Ganon: I will make your face DIE.
Gwonam: My face...
Ganon: Your face.
Gwonam: ...will die.
Ganon: Will die.
[Beat]
Gwonam: Fuck.
Black Comedy: Quite commonly.
- "Billy Mays - Suicide Putty"
- Also many of EmperorLemon's and Cartoonlover98's poops.
- An early Dr. Rabbit YTP has the Challenger explosion in it.
- A Hotel Mario poop has Luigi kicking the World Trade Center.
- A YouTube Poop by Mario R consists of video from a project the Columbine shooters submitted for school - edited with the Super Mario World theme over it so it seems they're rapping to it. A few other videos use various footage of them as well.
- Mad Mothz's "Offensive Collab" is a poop where people deliberately tried to be as dark as possible.
Blipvert: "Robotnik and His Penis Invite Everyone Over For Tea" contains an example from 1:33 to 1:36.
Bowdlerise: As opposed to the people who add Obligatory Swearing to their video, some creators have made works full of profanity clean or removed a curse word in a sentence.
- AlpacaHawk is known for refraining from using profanity in order to keep his videos family-friendly, but even they've made exceptions.
  - Spock is Emotionally Compromised has Kirk, after losing commendation and having Spock tell him that both Kirk and his father fail, mummer "pointy-eared bastard". Though Spock punches him while he's in the middle of saying the last word.
  - Revenge of the Sand has Mace Windu shout "I don't remember asking you a damn thing!" when Ki-Adi-Mundi asks about the droid attack on the Wookiees, when the conversation prior had nothing to with droids or Wookiees. In Pulp Fiction, Jules says "goddamn" instead of "damn". Later, in Rise of Darth Sand, Mace Windu responds to Anakin's pleas to spare Palpatine because he needs him by shouting "I don't give a damn!". He later plays the trope straight when he recites his infamous Snakes on a Plane line by shouting "Enough is ENOUGH! I have had it with these Sith on this Senate!".
- DaThings' poops also often focus on being family friendly, although there are still some jokes slipped in.
Broken Record: Characters will often repeat a phrase many times in a row.
- "Youtube poop Now why the hell did I make this" consists of only one sound repeated.
- "YTP - VEGGIESCENDED (Fruity Stories IV Entry)" by theDMproductions has a character repeat "a cup full of sprinkles?"
Butt-Monkey: Considering the nature of YouTube Poop, everybody has been this trope at least once, but there are some characters who appear in YouTube Poop almost exclusively as a Butt-Monkey. Duke Onkled from The Legend Of Zelda C Di Games is a notable example, partly because he was already a Dirty Coward in the game. Luigi from The Super Mario World cartoon is another, partly because of the "Mama Luigi" episode, which had Yoshi thinking Luigi was his mama, and Mario laughing at this.
Camera Abuse: If something was a Paddleball Shot or Body Wipe in the source material, it's likely going to hit the camera instead.
- "YTP Tennis - Mario Needs to Wash His Balls" and "Yakko Doesn't Know That Knowledge The Countries" show different Idiosyncratic Wipes breaking the camera.
- "The VHS YTP Collab" has the o in "enjoyment" run into the camera, but the lens isn't cracked.
Cast Full of Gay: Occasionally. For example, the King of the Hill collabs have dialogue that suggests that the men of Arlen do little else than exchange sexual favours with each other. Hank seems to be omnisexual (with Peggy seemingly being the only exception) but it's hard to tell with anyone else.
Character Name and the Noun Phrase: Several YTPs have titles like this such as Princess Celestia and the Quest for a Good Laxitive or Michael Rosen and the Plumspiracy.
Cerebus Syndrome: Nothing blocks poopers like Illuminatus from ending up creating epic stories where Goku and Bills from Dragon Ball, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and famous youtuber Dross Rotzank unite to stop Rick from Pawn Stars from destroying the universe after stealing Thanos's Infinity Gauntlet.
Cloud Cuckoo Land: The ostensible setting of most poops.
Cloudcuckoolander: Often, some characters will do bizarre, random things or spout absolute nonsense due to Rule of Funny.
- CheesePieWithChips's YTP's portray Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May (mainly in their Top Gear days) as a trio example of this trope, with them frequently spouting nonsense. This to the point where in "Michael Rosen Drives The Reasonably Priced Car", Michael Rosen gives a confused response to Jeremy asking him if he's ever been naked in a film.
Cluster F-Bomb: In the more vulgar varieties of YTP.
Twilight Sparkle: Oh, Spike, you compulsive masturbating faggot. We don't have time for your bullshit.
Spike: Come on, Twilight!
Twilight Sparkle: No, Spike. What the fucking shit is wrong with you?
- In "Zoobomafoo is a Dinosaur", Zoboo repeatedly launches these when he hits the wall with a hammer.
Comically Missing the Point: In many instances. For example, take any scene, and zoom in on some person or object in the background or off to the side, and make a big deal of it. Another great example is how important the wheeze is from the line "That's 'Mama Luigi' to you, Mario! *wheeze*"—important enough that commenters will observe when it is missing. This may also be used to point out Off-Model moments.
Continuity Nod: Happens rarely, but some poopers do reference events in previous poops.
Crapsaccharine World: Due to the nature of YouTube Poops, this usually happens to the setting that they take place in. A notable victim of this trope is Hyrule, which is often portrayed as a seemingly stable kingdom but ruled by a tyrannical Manchild and his often depraved royal servants. Recently, Equestria is also getting this treatment in poops, not really helped by the fact that the Princess which rules over it has been dubbed "Trollestia" by the fans of the actual show.
Creator Cameo: While it's generally frowned upon to use one's own voice in their poops, some poopers like to insert themselves in their poops, often times through Author Avatar. Usually, this is used as a means of Self-Deprecation or just to portray what went through the pooper's head during the creation process.
Deadpan Snarker: Not as common of an archtype as you would think, as most characters in YTP tend to ignore the "deadpan" part and outright snark or insult another character. As a result, those who appear in vids almost exclusively as one are usually such in canon, such as Kyon from Haruhi Suzumiya and Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Death by Falling Over: A character falling down will often be exaggerated into a character death, but they tend not to stay dead for more than a few seconds.
- "YTP - The Mythplausablers" shows Adam Savage falling off a treadmill, followed by a slide claiming he died.
- "[YTP] Turning Blue" shows Meilin Lee dying after landing on her head after trying to do a handstand.
Death Is Cheap: No character stays dead for long. Some are dead for only a few seconds.
Denser and Wackier: By their very nature, YouTube Poops are often edited in a way to be much crazier than the sources used.
Department of Redundancy Department: Many poops have a character repeat themselves.
- From "Bate Debate el Chocolate Vol. II" of the second Mexican presidential debate:
  Debate moderator: Were you the Minister of Treasury?
  José Antonio Meade: I was the Minister of Treasury twice indeed. I was two times the Minister of Treasury, had the chance of being the Minister of Treasury in two occasions, and when I was the Minister of Treasury-
- Another example in "[YTP] The First Presidential Debacle of 2020"
  Donald Trump: He'll close down the whole country. This guy will close down the whole country and destroy the whole country. Our country is closing, setting records as it closes.
Depending on the Writer: A result of Adaptation Personality Change. Some characters can go from being a Jerkass in one poop to The Ditz or a Reality Warper in others.
Depraved Bisexual: An exceptionally common Adaptation Personality Change, especially in poops that focus the CD-i Zelda games.
Deranged Animation: Madanonymous and poopers like him make these.
Disproportionate Retribution: Thanks to Rule of Funny, if someone says something that can even remotely qualify as an insult, the victim is certain to snap.
- In Elmo and Katy Perry get Married, Elmo shoots Ernie... simply because he Hi-5ed him too hard.
- Pizza Never Lies has Peter get into a fist fight with Harry because Harry refused to have some pizza. The fight leads to Peter throwing a pumpkin bomb in Harry's face.
Downer Ending: Despite all of the YTPs being funny in some way, some of them do end in some sort of sad, or at least bittersweet, manner. However, other unhappy endings are played for laughs.
- Examples include Stromboli throwing Pinnochio into a wood chipper in "Stromboli Collects YouTube Poop", or Tiger swallowing Fievel alive in "How Fievel Goes West Should have ended."
Drop the Cow: A popular way to end YTPs, especially the Everything Explodes Ending subtrope.
"Everybody Dies" Ending: A common ending.
Evil Is Petty: In Big Bird Brings Death To Sesame Street, Big Bird decides to murder the other residents of Sesame Street simply because he is tired of the winter season. Presumably to avoid being caught by the authorities, he disguises his weapons as pretty flowers.
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Many YTPs have titles this easily applies to, often because there isn't much to describe. This applies especially often to titles of the form "X does Y for Z minutes." (Sometimes with an added note about fitting or unfitting music played.) "The King Says Dinner For 6 Minutes" is an example.
Fake-Out Fade-Out: A plot-derailing situation (such as a character death or destruction of the MacGuffin) will cause the credits to start rolling, only for the event to rewind, start again, then avert the situation.
Flanderization: If a character did or said something silly once, you can guarantee that their characterization will be tied almost entirely to it. Some commonly used examples in the Spider-Man Trilogy include Peter Parker/Spider-Man saying "Pizza time!" and breaking his back, Harry Osborn saying "Nobel Prize!" and slapping Peter, Dr. Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus declaring "I'm gonna blow up the city", and Eddie Brock/Venom saying "(Give me some of that) web action!".
Forced Meme: The ratio of genuine memes to forced memes in the YTP community is probably greater than 1:10.
Freeze-Frame Bonus: Some poopers will insert bits of text (usually messages but sometimes humorous text) that are only visible by pausing the video.
- One example is in Michael Rosen Drives The Reasonably Priced Car, Michael's E-Mail shows that he has subscribed to a rather gross porn website and also makes fun of the viewer for pausing the video.
Funny Background Event: Many poops will use this trope, then zoom in on the funny background event. Or even just a random background element.
- YTP - Bifi Rottenstern is literally sick and tired of going to ScooɔƧ shows Stephanie giving Robbie a math lesson in gibberish, then zooms in on Robbie's face.
Gory Discretion Shot: Some shots either cut to black or have added sound effects to make them seem to hurt more than the original ones.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Even the most mundane slight is enough to drive several characters into rage.
- Peter Parker/Spider-Man attacks people for not liking pizza, asking for rent ("You'll get your rent when you fix this damn door!"), calling him a nerd, and calling him a boy scout.
- Spock is Emotionally Compromised has Spock scream and punch Kirk for every insult and objection that Kirk says. As the description points out, Spock should be in control of his emotions, being a Vulcan, but Kirk's stubbornness and lack of enthusiasm towards tests makes Spock violently angry. The last scene shows that there's people other than Kirk that make Spock snap. Nero Fires Everything and Star Trek: Into Pengwings continues this trend.
- Terminator Loses His Patience! shows that the T-800 is willing to kill anyone that makes a statement he disagrees with. "That�s Italian, you can go pump or auto"? Wrong! *Bang!* "It's just what you see, pal"? Wrong! *Bang!* "You know your weapons, buddy"? Wrong! *Bang!* "That's a good gun"? Wrong! *Bang!* And that's just when he's dealing with the Gun Store Clerk.
Heh Heh, You Said "X": It's a staple of most YTP in general, but especially of the "this video will be flagged" variety.
Ice-Cream Koan: Some of the more comprehensible sentence-mixed nonsense could be interpreted as this. Take, for instance, "Nothing Thinks Like A Drink":
"There are no dames like a book
And nothing looks like a book
There are no drinks like a book
And nothing thinks like a drink"
Indestructibility Montage: "Billy Mays Sells Everything and Nothing" shows multiple clips of Billy Mays hitting numerous objects in order to show that he cannot be stopped and will hunt you down if you don't buy his products.
"Why am I smashing my hand with this hammer? Why am I smashing my car with this hammer? Why am I smashing my table with this beautiful wood? Why am I smashing this 6000 pound car with the bug bazooka? To show you how I'm going to smash you, your family, and even your dog if you don't pay a fortune to me for whatever I'm selling."
Interrupting Meme: Some poops replace random nouns with "SPAGHETTI," "DINNER," or "PINGAS."
It Runs on Nonsensoleum: Runs on 100% nonsensoleum. How much this is true can vary from poop to poop, as some actually attempt to tell a coherent story of sorts, others are simply to make the viewer say, "What did I just watch?"
Just the Introduction to the Opposites: Often times, characters will swap two nouns in a sentence.
- PBS's Secret Weapon features Doctor Rabbit saying "Hello there! I am Rabbit Doctor, the Dentist's only World Rabbit".
- YTP: Kermit trolls Cookie Monster features the line "Hi ho, Kermit the mystery box here, and this is a Frog".
- {YTP} - The Mythsters features the line "You have to count the number of times a person wearing a basketball passes a white shirt".
Large Ham: Lots of characters, notably King Harkinian, Link, Gwonam, Ganon, Morshu, I. M. Meen, King Leonidas, Vegeta, Goku, Nappa, Mario, Luigi, King Koopa, Yoshi, George the Volcano, Tyrannosaurus Alan, Dr. Rabbit, Wario, Sonic, Dr. Robotnik, Scratch, Grounder, and Zim. Many of them were already large hams in the source material, but YTPs turn it up a notch sometimes.
Lighter and Softer: Some veteran poopers have made family-friendly poops either for fun or for a collab, such as cs188's "Steve Ballmer Sells Clean Windows". Other poopers, such as Da Things seem to be able to build their entire repertoire on keeping their material clean in a usually vulgar genre.
Manipulative Editing: One of the premises of YouTube Poop. An sufficiently skilled YouTube Pooper can let the characters say, what he wants. Here's one example from "The Discreet Charm of Robotnik":
Robotnik: SENT-ence MIX-ing with ROBOTNIK is SOOO FCK-ing EA-zy! Why are YOU PEE-ple SOOO im-PRESSED BYE it?
- YTPH are particularly fond of it — because Spanish phonetics and syllables are relatively simple, it is much easier to mix syllables into a sentence in Spanish than it is in English. If you know Spanish, "[YTPH] Bate Debate el Chocolate" has an exchange between the otherwise highly educated and proper-speaking Mexican presidential candidates Ricardo Anaya and José Antonio Meade on a YTP made out of the first 2018 presidential debate:
  Ricardo Anaya: The question is: what size is the dick that-^note
  José Antonio Meade: I've had it with your bullshit, motherfucker!^note
Medium Blending: YouTube Poops do not seem to care about what medium the sources come from, so long as it satisfies Rule of Funny. This leads to things such as live-action explosions in animated worlds, or occasionally Synchro-Vox.
Morton's Fork: "You must die! ...Or else you will die!" is a popular Ganon splice.
Motor Mouth: Some scenes are sped up. Others involve sentences that are chopped into short sound bites, which are played in random order. The latter also counts as Speaking Simlish.
The Movie: Many have been made. There's one for the Tails Doll; it's so long it needs 9 parts.
- Then there's the 7-part Jonah and the Crappy-Quest for NinivaviniN, made from Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie.
- Some YTP Collabs can reach over an hour in length!
invoked Narm: The biggest source of entertainment in YouTube Poop.
Necro Non Sequitur: Explosions or other things may kill characters at any moment. Often times, they come back unscathed. Sometimes the characters even announce that they will die right before they do.
- PBS's Secret Weapon has Doctor Rabbit say "I am about to die" before getting mauled by Pedo Bear.
- YTP - Bifi Rottenstern is literally sick and tired of going to ScooɔƧ shows Robbie saying "Which is why I'm gonna die" right before he explodes. Two other people promptly comment on the invoked green screen not made transparent.
Negative Continuity: Characters will die, lose limbs, or suffer seemingly permanent alterations, then appear unscathed seconds later like it never happened. Also works when a character dies in one poop, then gets resurrected for the next.
Never Say "Die": Sometimes, poops will replace the word "kill" with "kick", such as [YTP] Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of Chancellor Plasticine and The Schwarzenegger YTP Collab.
Never Trust a Title: It's common for a title to not actually describe the video that well. It might only describe a one-off joke in the video, if it even matches the video at all.
Obligatory Swearing: Several videos add swear words on works that had little to no swearing. This often turns works meant for children into a Subverted Kids' Show. Depending on the creator, it could be used when a character is stressed out, realizes that things aren't going to end well, or just dropped randomly during a casual conversation.
One-Man Army: King Harkinian takes on the entire cast of the Zelda CDI games and wins in "King Dinnerem: A horribly generic video"
Overly-Long Gag: "X does Y for Z minutes"
- Also, some poops have jokes going on for a while, and some people tend to get bored/annoyed and just watch something else.
Overused Running Gag: Spadinner memes, like "spaghetti", "dinner", "pingas", and "WTF boom". Professional poopers hardly use these at all, but these spadinner memes can be played with and can still be funny if done right.
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A common interpretation of King Harkinian, who is shown doing awesome things from watching TV to traveling to Africa, rather than acting like a proper king. If his authority is used as a plot point, he's most likely abusing it for petty purposes.
Punny Name: The Hand Before Time, doubles as a parody.
Random Events Plot: Happens in many - in fact, most - poops.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Parodied with "Frustrated Sonic Insults the Kids".
Refuge in Audacity: The medium as a whole is often known for manipulating footage to create high amounts of vulgar humor.
Reset Button: often times, plot-derailing situations happen, such as large explosions or a major character death. After a test pattern and a 1khz sine wave tone, the plot continues as if it never happened.
- A few of these moments happens in YTP - Bifi Rottenstern is literally sick and tired of going to ScooɔƧ
  - Robbie is picking a disguise in his lair, when a pumpkin bomb explodes next to him. In the next scene, he is disguised as a teacher at the LazyTown schoolhouse.
  - Ziggy hits Robbie with his sandwich, causing him to fly out of the school, into space, see Michael from V Sauce, fall through Sportacus's airship, then crash land in the schoolhouse. After that, he is perfectly fine with Ziggy telling him how to eat a banana.
Rewind Gag: A frequent gag. Commonly, it takes the beginning or end of one word (or sound), then plays it again in reverse. This creates nonsensical phonetic palindromes, such as the Arc Words JoJ and SuS. It can also be used to distort swear words, turning them into words like FuF or ShihS. May be combined with a visual mirror effect to force symmetry on the image as well. When applied to fast and straight motion, it will likely also flip the image so the motion continues in its current direction, but backwards.
- One example of motion reversal happens in YTP: The Penguins Win a Trip to Las Vegas
Ridiculous Exchange Rates: YTPH often pokes fun at the ridiculously low rate of the Venezuelan bolívar, often mentioning absurdly large amounts of bolívares like they were just a few dollars, or mentioning a few bolívares like they were next to nothing. An example can be seen on "YTPH | El BITCOIN vale 5 bolívares":
Gabriel Bulgakov: Last year one bitcoin would cost 5000 dollars; today, it costs 5 bolívares.
- From "Thanos pawns a time machine to take revenge on the avengers", a poop of Pawn Stars:
  Customer: (with a picture of a 5 Mexican cents coin) I expect to receive 149,300 million Venezuelan pesos. That's the amount I desire.
  Rick: How much would you like for it?
  Customer: 149,300 (5 seconds of unintelligible number rattling) bolívares.
  Price card on the screen: 5 cents
The Rule of First Adopters: Averted. As much as poops revel in Vulgar Humor, porn has not been an important part of the foundation of YouTube Poop, and - aside from the occasional Freeze-Frame Bonus - is hardly ever used at all. The first adopters in this case are trolls that have found inventive ways to confuse and annoy audiences; this also goes for trap videos and ear rape.
Sadly Mythtaken: Played for Laughs in a plethora of videos parodying the animated segment of the anti-Mormon propaganda film "The God Makers". "YouTube Poop: Mormonism" contains, among other things, King Harkanian being head of the Mormon Gods, Joseph Smith being Jesus and Lucifer's brother, and the angels that joined Lucifer being punished by being born into Mormon families.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
- Cookie Monster does this repeatedly in "YouTube Poop - Kermit trolls Cookie Monster".
- In "Mini YTP - You Should Never Let Archibald Direct a Silly Song", Mr. Art Bigotti does this when Larry repeatedly says "sus" (and "sos").
- "{YTP} - The Mythsters" shows a man doing this as soon as he hears that he is in for a test.
Sdrawkcab Speech: One common gag is to play sentences in reverse.
Sensory Abuse: Quite a few, known as "ear rape" poops. If you see a comment that says "RIP headphone users", watch out.
Servile Snarker: Gwonam and Gnorris are usually portrayed as such in YTPs, often insulting The King and IM Meen for just about everything they do.
Shave And A Haircut:
- In "The VHS YTP Collab 3", this beat can be heard at the end of a segment about the video game of Monsters, Inc..
- In "The Hobbit: An Incomprehensible Journey", someone thinks Bilbo's name is this beat.
- True to the edgy nature of this medium, YTPH regularly uses it with the Mexican meaning, which is an extremely offensive insult to someone's mother.
Shout-Out: You'd be hard-pressed to find a poop that doesn't have at least one. More often than not, they just amount to simple Jump Cuts to the respective clips, but sometimes, the references are more subtle.
Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror: Ever since OrpheusFTW and LinkOnDrugs came into the YTP scene, YTPs have started dipping deeper and deeper into horror.
Soundtrack Dissonance: "X does Y while I play unfitting music"
Speaking Simlish: One common practice is to chop a sentence into short little soundbites, then play them back in a random order. This overlaps with Motor Mouth. Sentences may also be played in reverse.
- YTP: Aladdin - The saucerer of Agrabah features an argument in Simlish that gets progressively faster.
- YTP - Bifi Rottenstern is literally sick and tired of going to ScooɔƧ shows Stephanie giving Robbie a math lesson in gibberish.
- YTP: OOPS MY UNIVERSE CRASHED, SUPER WHY CAN'T SAVE US NOW features Protegent's mascot speaking gibberish.
Spoonerism: Given that sentence splicing is an integral part of the genre, Spoonerisms are inevitable.
- "The FruityStories YTP Collab II" has Bob say "We've got lots of fun things to dee and soo".
- "The SCARYRARY Collab!" has the line "Tallahassee and Columbus. Tallumbus and Columbassee. Tallassassee and Columbus."
The Stinger: These were used for practical reasons back when YouTube would sometimes cut off the last few seconds of a video after it was uploaded, with "cutoff prevention" often used as a caption. These days that's not a problem anymore, but a poop may still have a stinger for comedic effect.
Stuff Blowing Up: Common in many poops.
Stupid Statement Dance Mix: You Tube Poop Music Video, or YTPMV, where a source is remixed to the melody of a song (or less commonly, a new song made by the creator).
Subverted Kids' Show: While kids' shows aren't the only thing used in YTP, they are one of the main things in it, and the comedic effect of editing things to sound vulgar is a lot more noticeable when the source material itself is for children. This is taken further by YTPs of Edutainment shows like "Dr. Rabbit's World Tour."
"Now, let's floss your ASS!"
- "Sonic learns how to die" encourages kids that someone trying to touch them is good, their teacher can touch them, and gives a suicide tutorial to them.
Suddenly Shouting: Just raising the clip's volume level can turn any line into this. Usually paired with rant-inducing slight and/or Sensory Abuse.
Surreal Humor: It's a safe bet to say that over 80% of YTPs humor comes from bizzare non-sequiter lines and moments. On the flip side.
- Surreal Horror: Many many YTPs have creepy moments that play out like bad trips and fever dreams.
Straight Man: Characters that play this role in their respective works are also played as such in poops. Common examples include Zelda, Hank Hill, and any interpretation of Mario not voiced by Charles Martinet.
Take That!: The most frequent victim of Take Thats is Viacom due to their copyright takedowns in the early days of YouTube Poop. Right at the start of "The Schwarzenegger YTP Collab", there is a joke about Viacom taking down the video.
There Are No Girls on the Internet: To this day people will get very surprised if a YTP maker turns out to be female. Prominent female YTPers include BaconatedGrapefruits, Igiulamam, MechaWeegee91, AwfulFawfultheFalafe, CombuskenIsAwesome, jallerbo, Stegblob, and Da Things.
They Killed Kenny Again: Almost every regular YouTube Poop character has been killed at least once.
- Possibly the best example is Harrybo's Grandad in Michael Rosen poops, considering his only appearance was about his death and the two dealing with it, making him a real character made this inevitable.
Trademark Favorite Food: Or more accurately, memetic favorite food; various major YTP characters have foods they are associated with because of lines from source material. For example, Luigi is associated with spaghetti and the bagel, Mario is associated with toast, Sonic with chili dogs, the King with dinner (and Munf Munf), Link with Octoroks, Billy Mays with slider burgers and bacon egg & cheese biscuits, Michael Rosen with plums and chocolate cake, The Fat Controller with fish & chips, and Thomas the Tank Engine with fish.
Luigi: I hope she made lots of spaghetti!
Trolling: Used to be used for it, but most are mainly just for entertainment now.
Unreadably Fast Text: A favorite technique of a lot of Poopers, sneaking a hidden message that you need to pause at the right moment to read.
Visual Compression: Often times when zooming in onto a face, the face will get anamorphically stretched to fill the frame.
- Several of these moments happens in a row in "friends but pixel keeps interrupting trixie and gets everyone mad"
Voice Clip Song: The more advanced YTPMV's are this, if they're not just Stupid Statement Dance Mixes.
Voice of the Legion: A.k.a. "G Major", this is often used to make someone/something sound demonic. Sometimes appears in entire videos and even other YTPs!
Vulgar Humor: As the innocence and/or solemnity of the source material increases, the probability of vulgarity approaches 1.
- This is why the 2018 Mexican presidential debates were basically what made Hispanic poops popular — subverting such an otherwise solemn event through YTP was the perfect way to tap on the extreme edge of Mexican humor.
Word-Salad Humor: Often invoked by playing a clip backwards, then using captions to indicate what the reversed speech sounds like. Other times, you get things like "You can put cheese up my ass with the flick of a switch!" in "YouTube Poop: Billy Mays Is Watching Your Mom In The Shower".
World of Chaos: What most, if not all, poops with any semblance of a plotline take place in. And really, just about every poop that doesn't too.
World of Jerkass: Depending on the video, every character shown could be portrayed as crass individuals who speak entirely in insults and act apathetically towards disaster.

Tropes related to the genre itself

The Dreaded: Copyright strikes and especially channel terminations.
Guide Dang It!: Certain things to know about video editing that are very important, but poopers wouldn't know about until well after they started (if at all), like disabling ghosting in Sony Vegas or getting the highest quality source material possible.
The Joy of X: Some poops use variations of a certain phrase for their own titles, such as "[character]'s Sexy Suspender Striptease".
No Fourth Wall: Especially prevalent in tennis matches, as they're as much about the communication between participants as they are about the videos themselves. This isn't as commonly seen from poopers that treat their videos as standalone works.
Technician Versus Performer: Despite YouTube Poop being a dadaist artform, there's a wide variation of how poopers interpret and practice the genre. Technicians like MoBrosStudios observe "poop theory" and meticulously edit their work; performers like dew express a nihilistic perspective of the genre ("There are no bad poops") and go all out with their source material. Both sides are perfectly valid, and play an important role in how one creates their work.
That Came Out Wrong: Attention is often drawn to it through videos that take lines out of context to make them sound dirty.
Uncancelled: Quite a few YTPers had "retirements" that didn't stick. Examples: Walrusguy, mark3611, RootNegativeSixteen, AReallyAwesomeGuy117, and WTL Network.
Word Salad Title: The titles are usually nonsensical and bizarre.

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