Memes / Vinesauce

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• Trash. ^Explanation The streamers have an odd obsession with the word "trash" as an Inherently Funny Word, mainly due to how Danny DeVito says it (see below). Streamers also tend to list themselves as playing "Trash" whenever they play a game that Twitch doesn't recognize.
  • "I'M THE TRASH MAN! I START EATIN' GARBAGE!" ^Explanation Frank Reynolds's stint as the Trash Man, a wrestling character he created, has proven to be very popular with the streamers, Joel and Vinny especially. It gets quoted often.
  • "When I'm dead, just throw me in the trash." ^Explanation Another Frank quote that gets dropped often.
• Nuggies. ^Explanation Imakuni and Jen have become associated with "nuggies" (chicken nuggets) and have emoticons for them in their Twitch chats. This came up in a Super Mario Bros. X level featuring them when Vinny held a contest for that game in 2015.
• "when corrupt" ^Explanation An extremely common mistake of new Vinesauce viewers (generally those who came because of the highlight videos) is to jump into a chat and ask when Vinny is going to do corruptions. Frowned upon heavily (partially because it's rude to streamers, but also because Vinny doesn't do corruptions nearly as often as everyone thinks for many reasons), it's commonly referenced in the form of this crude phrase, along with the similar newbie-like "where's Vinny/Joel".
• Kappa. ^Explanation While Kappa is a standard Twitch emoticon generally used to indicate sarcasm and is not exclusive to Vinesauce, it gained prominence on Vinesauce after the streamers' viewer interaction began to shift from Chatango to Twitch's built-in chat feature. It's particularly infamous in Vinny's opinion, as seen when Kappa appeared as a character in his Tomodachi Collection corruption stream and a level from his 2015 Super Mario Bros. X contest.
• Funky Kong ASMR. ^Explanation Vinny and Joel both make frequent references to docfuture1's infamous "Caring and Supportive Funky Kong Gives You A Ride Home From The Airport" video whenever either Funky Kong or ASMR are brought up, typically by getting really close to the microphone and saying "hey dudes" in a low voice.
• Mr. Dink. ^Explanation References to Mr. Dink from Doug tend to crop up in streams from Vinny and GPM. With GPM it originated from the Super Mario Galaxy Repainted and he can even do an impression, which he once used during a psychotic rampage in one match of The Culling, while Vinny's references to him stem from when he watched Nickelodeon in the early '90s and he often appears in fan art for Vinny's streams.
• Vsauce. ^Explanation For obvious reasons, Vinesauce tends to get confused for the other popular but unrelated Youtube channel by unnfamiliar outsiders, despite the former technically predating the latter by a few months. As a result it's a common meme to insist in the Youtube comments of Vinesauce videos that the streamer is actually Michael Stevens, and a fair number of Vinny's guest appearances on other podcasts features at least one joke of that nature.
• Every streamer is Vinny. ^Explanation It's startlingly common for new Vinesauce viewers to confuse Vinny and Joel for one another, seeing as they're the two most popular streamers on the team. This has led numerous other Vinesauce members, both male and female, to joke that they're secretly Vinny.
  • Italian Joel/Swedish Vinny ^Explanation A more specific version, this time referencing their nationalities as Vinny is Italian-American and Joel is Swedish.
• TODD ^Explanation  Originates from Joel's streams of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, where the game crashed quite often and Joel came to later mockingly blame Todd Howard, an executive producer of the game, for most of its faults. Later spread to Vinny's glitchfest streams of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, this is now used on any game Todd worked on, but also can happen when the game is from a company owned by ZeniMax Media, since Todd is the most known person related to ZeniMax Media in general.
• Human music. ^Explanation Vinny and Joel occasionally describe particularly bad or just plain weird "music" as such, with the implication being that only aliens could've produced that kind of music. Joel in particular likes pronouncing the phrase as "HEWMAN MYUSIK", which he says is him copying how the Ferengi say the word "human".
• Stank/crusty. ^Explanation Often used to describe anything that's low quality, e.g. "that 90s stank" or "look at that crusty JPEG".
• CBT ^Explanation  Short for Cock-and-Ball Torture, which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, this acronym originally became popular elsewhere on the internet in the form of a troll tactic where people are tricked to hearing a text-to-speech reading of the Wikipedia article for Cock-and-Ball Torture simply to squick them out. Eventually, it spread to Vinny and Joel's chats, initially as a non-sequitur, and later became adopted by both streamers as well as other members of the Vineteam as a go-to term for brutally hard challenges in games. Joel in particular ended up creating a whole character around the meme, the "CBT Wizard," inspired by Whitebeard's role as a randomly-teleporting obstacle in the subway level of Bethesda's Where's Wally? game for the NES.
• John Title Drop. ^Explanation Vinny does this when he's at a loss for a character name, especially for game series that he deems generic, like "John Halo" or "John Call of Duty". Eventually started spreading to the other Vinesauce streamers. Became something of an Ascended Meme when the Full Sauce's new manager, who remains anonymous, simply gets called "John Fullsauce" by Vinny since the fans started doing it first. Humorously backfires on Vinny on one occasion while playing Faith: Chapter II when he realizes his own character is already named John. He thinks it might have to do with his favorite NYC eaterie literally being called John's.
• Vinezouken ^Explanation A minor trend that involved depicting Vinny, Joel, and Jerma985 as Sayaka Kanamori, Midori Asakusa, and Tsubame Mizusaki (respectively) from the 2020 anime adaptation of Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, largely due to the three streamers sharing very similar personalities and interpersonal dynamics among each other as the show's characters.

Vinny

Go here for memes from Vinny's Tomodachi Life streams. Memes from his Animal Crossing: New Leaf streams can be found on the YMMV page for that series.

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• Virtually everything involving his Mario and Luigi impressions.
  • Terminal 7. ^Explanation First turns up during his SNES Corruptions video, where he acts out a situation where Luigi has Terminal 7 brain cancer and imagines/hallucinates everything in the Mushroom Kingdom, while Mario is his angry brother.
  • Who really died that day? ^Explanation Refers to the Gag Dub of The Super Mario Bros Super Show! Vinny did, specifically the 6th dub, where an animation error makes two Luigis appear in the same place, one staring off into space like he's dead. In response, Mario questions if Luigi's a clone or a fake, through this line. Often used just because of being a Funny Moment and Running Gag.
• Supra Mayro Kratt's Stylistic Suck versions of the Mario characters (chiefly Joshy) have become memes as well.
• Yoshi and kazoos. ^Explanation Stems from Yoshi's New Island's soundtrack, which infamously (ab)uses kazoos quite often.
• From the Super Mario Galaxy Repainted stream, where where Vinny played the first section of Super Mario Galaxy with edited textures and sounds:
  • Do your best. ^Explanation The first (real) stage's theme is replaced with a short, rather irritating children's song about doing one's best. It quickly caught on, with many people telling Vinny to do his best (much to his eventual irritation). Darren converted it to MIDI after the initial stream and it produced results expected by anyone who saw Joel's Windows 8 Destruction streams.
  • "It's hip to fuck bees!" ^Explanation Vinny mentioned that he enjoyed the music from Honeyhive Galaxy and was relieved to hear GPM say that they couldn't change the music. At first it seemed like GPM was telling the truth, but then the music began to slow down and stop, being replaced by an edited version of "Hip to Be Square" that uses a sample of Penn Jillette saying "Shut the fuck up" to change various lyrics to include the phrase "fuck bees". This one caught on almost immediately, but Vinny doesn't like it much.
    • #beesex. ^Explanation Derived from the above (as well as GPM asking Vinny if he'd fuck a bee); Vinny and GPM encouraging people to attempt making it a Twitter trend was part of what led to it becoming a Discredited Meme, at least in Vinny's eyes.
• WORLDSPREAD BEFORE. ^Explanation A phrase repeated several times in one corrupted intro of Super Mario Bros. 2.
• Spaalonebabuguuscooties. ^Explanation "Babuguuscooties" first appeared as a Skype status that Vinny declared "the worst thing he'd ever seen". However, the quote itself came from a Zelda corruption; the "spaalone" part comes from a cross between the previous text's "Spay me for the dooret" (which in turn was mostly a corrupted version of "Pay me for the door repair charge") and the original game's "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this."
• Vinny's Dolan Duk impression. ^Explanation Vinny tends to drop into an extremely odd-sounding Donald Duck-like growl if he gets particularly agitated, and also unintentionally when he sneezes. (This is probably why Dolan became an islander in his Tomodachi Life streams, at least until Vinny became tired of him.)
• Malo. ^Explanation Vinny dislikes Malo somewhat due to his toddler-like Uncanny Valley face and Troubling Unchildlike Behavior. Naturally fans started to exploit this, by inserting Malo into many pieces of fan art, even if they don't relate to the Twilight Princess, much to Vinny's displeasure.
• "YOU CAN MOVE YOUR BODY FREELY!" ^Explanation A quote by Dance Dance Revolution composer Naoki Maeda during Konami's (awkward) E3 2010 press conference to promote Dance Masters. Usually comes up whenever weird body movements come into play, and is almost always said in Maeda's thick Japanese accent (i.e. "you can move yo body freery").
• Epic infringement. ^Explanation During his first stream of Super Mario Maker, Vinny found the phrase "infringing content" annoying when the game's terms of use came up and expressed annoyance at other people's overuse of "epic" shortly afterward. He combined the two into "epic infringement" during the same stream.
• Vinny's two red dildos. ^Explanation When Vinny's band, Red Vox, released their first album in 2016, a friend of Vinny's (Gearomatic) used his PO Box to send him two cherry-colored sex toys. (Red cocks.) It quickly caught on due to absurdity. He also claims to relieve stress by playing drums with them, which Fred found hilarious when it came up in one of the latter's streams of Miitomo.
• Vinny's clown obsession. ^Explanation Vinny has become associated with clowns due to his strong tendency to joke about them. For example, he joked that the Chibi-Robo! Photo Finder curator was saying "I'm going to honk you" at one point (he was actually Speaking Simlish), he once played Grand Theft Auto V as a masturbation-obsessed clown named Whacko, and shared a bizarre story about some clowns he saw in 2016. He would eventually share a possible origin story for this, stating that his cousin repeatedly tried to scare him with clowns when they were younger, but he didn't find them scary or funny.
  • Clown vomit. ^Explanation Garbled graphics in corruptions are often described as looking like "clown vomit" if they're brightly colored. Vinny once described corrupted Super Mario 64 textures as looking like the inside of a septic tank of a clown who's spent years partying.
  • Clussy. ^Explanation A portmanteau of "clown" and "pussy/bussy", means a clown's vagina or anus. It originated from an image◊ someone PM'ed to Vinny. This resulted in Vinny laughing hysterically at it and would periodically reference it in other streams. This later mutated into chat members creating other "-ussy" words whenever Vinny shows an obsession towards something.
• Vinny's tiny hands. ^Explanation Originating from a Jen stream (Jen was talking about Vinny's hands touching her baby-smooth bottom, and a chat member heard it as "baby hands"), it quickly became a joke that Vinny's hands were incredibly small, even though they really aren't. Adding to this is a picture of Vinny holding a relatively large guitar that makes his hands look small by comparison.
• Rusty Kuntz. ^Explanation A former White Sox baseball player with a terribly Unfortunate Name. Given Vinny's love of using the word his last name resembles, he's been referenced numerous times and was even the focus point of a level in the 2015 Super Mario Bros. X level contest.
• Pepperoni secrets. ^Explanation While playing one of the ROMs from his randomized Super Mario World streams, Vinny encountered a level titled "Pepperoni Secret". Vinny declared the phrase to be the best level name ever, to the point of being far less impressed with every level name from the other randomized ROMs he played during those streams, and appropriated it as a facetious term for tips and hints. Eventually, it got its own emote for Vinny's channel on BetterTTV (a plugin that gives Twitch users more features and customization options).
• Scoot the Burbs. ^Explanation Vinny improvised a song called "Scoot the Burbs" when playing a scooter game for the Game Boy Color and it quickly became a fan favorite. He would later restart Animal Crossing: New Leaf using the Welcome amiibo update's added New Game+ feature and his new town was named Da Burbs ("The Burbs" didn't fit within the character limit) after viewers picked it in a Strawpoll, with that being the town featured in his post-update streams of that game.
• Check Under the Crib. ^Explanation When Vinny was playing Fallout 4, the chat was telling him there was Ammo and other loot under the crib in the protagonist's house, the meme is now used by chat whenever Vinny is looking for anything in any game.
• Speed Luigi. ^Explanation Originating from his Game & Wario Miiverse Sketch streams, any time Vinny had extra time to draw something in the Miiverse challenges, he would sketch a crudely drawn Luigi with an insanely long tongue, who would often lick whoever/whatever else is depicted in the drawing.
• Japes. ^Explanation Vinny frequently refers to misinformation given out in the chat during streams as "japes", resulting in the creation of a Twitch emoticon of CD-i Link laughing titled "VineJape" as well as the word being frequently used in reference to games as well when they implement red herrings and other mechanics designed intentionally to trick you or catch you off guard.
  • "Vinny it was japes, Vinny it was not japes." ^Explanation A little jingle Vinny came up with for whenever his Twitch chat starts arguing childishly over some form of conflicting information.
• CUBE. ^Explanation Back when autopilot was still a standard feature of Vinesauce streams, one of the videos it would play featured a bizarre, fictional game starring a cube in a world of minimally textured geometric shapes, with the final boss being a cone. Vinny brought it up in 2016 during a stream of Kirby: Planet Robobot, which features cube-shaped collectables. Surprisingly, despite Vinny's admission that he resurrected an old meme and his general dislike of memes, he was OK with the fact that he made this video relevant again.
• dootmario2/Mehrio/"EH STEP RIGHT UP COME ON YOU KNOW". ^Explanation  During his Planet Coaster stream, Vinny discovers a large, pixel-art statue of Mario, and begins to pronounce "Mario" as "Mehrio." This leads to Vinny singing an improvised, bastardized version of "Do the Mario", which he eventually records as "dootmario2.mp3" so he can play it on a speaker in the park.
• North left. ^Explanation During a Subnautica stream Vinny was told to go "north left" and it became a go-to example of bad directions. This inspired viewers to continually tell Vinny to go "north left" when telling him to go northwest in a 3D or top-down game.
• Do not presume. ^Explanation During Vinny's fifth anniversary stream, he had serious Internet problems. He contacted Verizon, his Internet provider, and was told something along the lines of "Do not presume the problem is with Verizon" (it was). Said in a thick Indian accent.
  • Vinerizon/"Is Vinerizon happening again?" ^Explanation A Twitch emote made in response to the above incident. Also refers to a picture◊ Vinny made while Verizon's issues forced him into some downtime (again), which he tweets to Verizon whenever his connection goes down. He also uses said picture whenever his internet speeds crash in general, as seen here.
• Vin, you gotta come to my cousin's club. ^Explanation During a stream of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D Vinny mentioned that a cousin of his once randomly showed up at his house wanting him to go to his cousin's club, with Vinny comparing his clubbing to Stefan from Saturday Night Live. Vinny added that the club's name seems to change every time it's mentioned and both Vinny and fan artists frequently reference the incident with quotes along the lines of "You gotta come to my club. It's called [word]."
  • Custom made Star Wars figures.^Explanation Said cousin also once called Vinny up while he was driving, and asked Vinny to go into business with him making custom Star Wars figures.
• He Thicc^Explanation An odd-looking Mii that appeared in one of Vinny's Mario Kart 8 streams as a multiplayer opponent; it spawned several themed Mario ROM hacks, although the quality of said hacks (basically being one-note jokes that changed the sprites and text, and nothing else), and the fact that He Thicc even gained a following at all, led to it becoming a Discredited Meme in Vinny's opinion — requesting that viewers stop sending him He Thicc games unless they had more effort put into them. Viewers did deliver on that promise, however: the most recent He Thicc hacks, based on Super Mario World, have received a relatively better reception (with Super He Thicc Worl & Knuckles containing custom levels, and even a portion of Ice Cap Zone in reference to his recent Sonic the Hedgehog 3 stream).
• PIZZA PASTA PUT IT IN A BOX ^Explanation During an Animal Crossing: New Leaf stream, Vinny showed off a Ditty revolving around a man wishing to cover his genitals in pizza, set to the chorus of Funiculi Funicula. Needless to say, it caught on very quickly among both Vinny and his fans. Also invoked during his Grand Theft Auto V Spider-Man mod stream, given the musical overlap between it and the Spider-Man 2 pizza theme meme.
• Polish Water Ice. ^Explanation During one of his streams Vinny told a story about the boardwalk he went to in New Jersey and came a completely new impression. The man he saw at the water ice shop was pretty annoying about the flavors he had. He gets really close to the mic and starts saying slowly "Come down to the boardwalk, we have water ice, we've got blueberry, raspberry, etc., best on the boardwalk." It's also said with a really thick New Jersey accent.
• "My passive proc'd." ^Explanation Vinny has a tendency to say this (or a variation of it) whenever he discovers any sort of bug in the games he plays. Most of the time he says this, he's clipping through a wall.
• "ZIP ZOOM, MOTHERFUCKER!" ^Explanation On a stream of Sonic 3 & Knuckles with Imakuni, Vinny does a difficult wallclip completely by mistake while in a blind panic trying to get away from an Advancing Wall of Doom. The line above is Vinny's response to Imakuni's reaction ("You're zipping through it!"), borrowing from Vinny's favorite duck, Scoot.
• MORTIS ^Explanation The Game Over screen for the indie horror game FAITH. It caught on with the Twitch crowd thanks to the retro text-to-speech and repetition from Vinny dying repeatedly to the game's resident Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl. The word often gets thrown around en masse whenever Vinny dies in other games, especially if it's in a spectacular or dumb fashion.
• Mario has logged in. ^Explanation A phrase that shows up exactly once in indie RPG Maker game Toilet In Wonderland. Vinny's sheer bewilderment at the phrase (and what happens shortly after seeing said phrase on-screen) led him to eventually appropriate it for other weird Mario-related things, such as corruptions or bad fan games.
• binyot ^Explanation When Vinny got his copy of The Room signed by Tommy Wiseau, Wiseau mishears Vinny's name and spells it out as "Binny". "Binny" then became its own thing for a while as Vinny slowly corrupted it into "binyot" while saying it in a funny accent.
  • binyot why you play babby gaem why you no schüt ^Explanation During the Kirby Planet Robobot stream, which was concurrent with his Doom stream, a chat member calls Vinny out by asking "Vinny, what's with the babu games?". Vinny then proceeded to call the member out back by saying Doom isn't enough to "sate his bloodlust", culminating in the quote above also eventually bastardized into a funny accent. Since then, the quote comes up to mock the idea of video games being invalidated for having a cute aesthetic and that only ultra-violent games can apply.
• ¿Qué Pasa Neng? ^Explanation During one stream, Vinny decided to show off ¿Qué Pasa Neng? El Videojuego, a PlayStation 2 game from Spain centering around the eponymous character created by Spanish comedian Edu Soto as a parody of Spain's electronic music scene in the 1990's. The incredibly bizarre nature of both the game and Neng himself quickly caught on with fans, leading to a fanart-based meme revolving around various Vinesauce-related characters mimicking the pose on the game's boxart.◊
• EIEIO ^Explanation  Vinny played a indie game called Johan's Farm in one of his streams. When he died by being crunched in a ghost-piloted tractor, a lyric-reduced Slovenian version of Old Mac Donald Had a Farm played as Game Over music. The lyrics of the music consists in a pitched-down man voice singing Na kmetiji je lepo, EIEIO!. Since them, every game Vinny plays with a unexpected farm theme, he plays that song. According to himself, this game is the worse thing that he ever streamed.
• Meat ^Explanation An odd picture of a worm◊, eventually discovered to be a product of Yagher Effects, and used in a British MSN ad. Examples of their work show up in Child's Play and Tales from the Crypt, among others. Vinny found it with the caption "My meat watching me open incognito for the 4th time today", and he proceeded to joke about it being his "facecam". Of course, with Vinny's fanbase being as weird as he is, someone actually took him up on the "facecam" thing, complete with Mouth Flaps whenever Vinny talks. Following the end of his Bloodborne stream, Meat's catchphrase also became "Yeow!" after the screams of the Orphan of Kos. The regular Vinesauce YouTube channel has a Meat highlights-slash-"history lesson" video here.
• Mario Pissing^Explanation A short Stylistic Suck "animation" with very ridiculous voice acting — wherein a Goomba complains that Mario isn't jumping on him like he's "supposed" to, since he's too busy peeing. Vinny made a joke about the video in his Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga stream after encountering a vat of yellow-ish looking broth in Joke's End, but it didn't truly take off as a meme until "Best of Trash" — where Vinny played a game that was essentially an RPG Maker recreation of the same animation. Some of the lines from said video (including "Time to take a PISS." and "What the hell are you doooooing?") have appeared on other streams (especially if Toilet Humor comes up). This was followed up by Mario Pissing Arcade GP DX (which is similar to the aforementioned RPG Maker game, except replacing the Goomba with Tommy Wiseau, and using Vinny's reading of Mario's lines — more akin to Mario's typical in-game voice), and Merio Takes a Piss: The Game, which has just as much Stylistic Suck as the original video. The vinePiss emote is often spammed in chat whenever toilet humor is involved, even if Mario Pissing itself is not referenced.
• "CHARLOTTE!" "JONATHAN!" "CHARLOTTE!" "JONATHAN!" ^Explanation Originating from Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, Vinny has a tendency to repeat the names of any guy-and-girl protagonist duo, just like Charlotte and Jonathan do in their game. Sometimes, he even does it seemingly at random.
• Genius Kojumbo ^Explanation An affectionate remark on the inherently silly things Hideo Kojima puts in his games that turn out to be Foreshadowing or Chekhov's Gags. Originates from a bizarre Android bootleg of Death Stranding called Deadly Standing, self-described on the Play Store as being made by "genius Kojumbo".
• Squeezing hogs. ^Explanation  After the Crotch-Grab Sex Check in Metal Gear Solid 2, Vinny kept referring to the action as "squeezing my hog", and it's bled into other streams. Even David Hayter got in on the fun.
• Vinny dying. ^Explanation Vinny's reaction to the Metal Gear Survive trailer still occasionally sees use as a reaction GIF. Hell, Vinny used it himself one time as a Gag Censor.
• Sad Vinny ^Explanation Vinny is known for usually looking incredibly sad or despairing◊ whenever he appears on camera. Some of it is deliberately played up, but fans have noticed that even images where he is smiling tend to still look sad. As a result he's gained a memetic reputation as The Eeyore, which sometimes combines with the above "Vinny Dying" meme for memes about him undergoing Death by Despair.
• JOB'S GONE ^Explanation During one stream, Vinny showed off a clip of Michael Jackson performing a duet of "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" with Siedah Garrett on-stage. At the end of the song, the instrumental recording failed to cut out, forcing Michael and Siedah to have to improvise until the music could be switched off. At one point, Michael apparently fired the stage director on the spot, shouting "JOB'S GONE" and singing other threats against the stage director. Vinny found the sudden exclamation so amusing that variants of the phrase "job's gone" quickly became a catchphrase for any form of depriving someone access to something else, from joking about being banned from Twitch to accidentally killing someone's father in Red Dead Redemption II. Another variant is "VOD's gone", usually said when copyrighted music ends up being played during the streams (which Twitch's automatic moderators tend to censor).
• Doodle dip. ^Explanation  Originates from his stream of Space Kids. One of the characters in the game would keep saying what sounds like "doodle dip", over and over and over again.
• Vinny will never stream Mother 3. ^Explanation  MOTHER 3 has been the subject of many, many requests from fans, especially after Vinny enjoyed the previous game. Vinny has long teased his fans on when he'll stream the game, often baiting them by saying he won't, or will... at a much later date. He's gone on to say that he'll stream the game before the end of 2018... after Christmas. This is usually accompanied by the Crab Rave Meme. He made good on his promise by streaming MOTHER 3 on December 28.
• "Kill jestah." ^Explanation A snippet from an "Adventure Call" segment of Limmy's Show, where a caller's first action is to kill off an annoying jester character. It becomes a rallying cry of the chat whenever Vinny meets a sinister/creepy jester character in a game, such as Cicero and Dimentio.
• Vinny's dog quota ^Explanation As of the Red Dead Redemption II streams, Vinny has had abysmal luck with dogs in video games, often injuring or killing them by mistake. This string of bad luck has led to Vinny's viewers to start joking about him keeping a Kill Tally of the number of dogs he kills in video games, and needing to kill at least one in-game dog per stream.
• Vinny's "RP Guy" voice. ^Explanation A vaguely Slavic accent originally used to satirize online roleplayers, which has become something of a Fountain of Memes due to Vinny procuring an unusually high amount of catchphrases that utilize the voice. These include, but are not limited to, "YOU WAN TU SUCC DIS COCC CLEAN," "SPEEN," and, most recently, "BOOTY", from a bit in which he satirically imitates more irritating and demanding chat users via the "RP Guy" voice. Of note is that the first of these is a reference to a rather infamous Garry's Mod video from 2011, which according to Vinny is where he got the RP Guy voice from.
• ANTS! ^Explanation During an early 2019 stream, Vinny showed the chat a bizarre promo clip for 2015's Ant-Man, featuring Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas slapping their chests and knees while Douglas yells "ANTS," interspersed with brief clips of ants. It wasn't until the stream of the YouTube Poop generator program YTP+ (which took the clip from Vinny's collection of videos to make several mini-Poops) that the chat got attached to it and it became a frequent reference.
• Stray Cat Girl ^Explanation During one of Vinny's "Shit Show" streams, he comes across a game called Be My Master, featuring a stray Cat Girl. The absurdity of it caused Vinny to go into a giggle fit. Whenever a cat (or cat girl) comes up on stream, Vinny usually refers to it as a stray cat girl.
• "plae DMC2 is the beast"/"but booty only twenty minutes" ^Explanation When Vinny played Devil May Cry 5 at launch and had to get a refresher, he was very quick to catch on to the in-game timeline heavily downplaying Devil May Cry 2 (which, thanks to some extreme Troubled Production, is considered the weakest game in the series by far and one of the worst character action games ever made) and continued to make fun of the game later on. Fans like to make joke comments demanding that Vinny play the game, generally based on a quote that Vinny typed and read in the RP Guy voice during his final stream of Devil May Cry 5. The phrase DMC2 and "Booty," a corruption of Vinny's name from the aforementioned quote, would later become popular with Vinny, either as non-sequiturs or as jabs at overly-demanding viewers. It became a Discredited Meme in its original form when he really played ninety minutes of Devil May Cry 2 after it was reached as a charity incentive, but has since been expanded to mock more demanding requests and justifications from chat, most prominently one in which people hounded him about his refusal to stream Persona 5 on account of the game's length, claiming that it could be beaten in just 20 minutes within the normal course of play.
• Depowering/Low-Power Arnold ^Explanation A voice Vinny came up with to amuse himself during particularly tedious segments in Super Paper Mario, consisting of a stock Arnold Schwarzenegger impression combined with a deep, growling voice, with said impression consisting solely of Howard Langston telling his son Jamie that he is "losing power" and demanding to be fed cookies to recharge, although later adding a further impression of Arnold talking about "stogies" (sourced from an interview excerpt in which the real-life Schwarzenegger brags about being able to smoke cigars unrestricted). The voice quickly caught on with audiences due to how absurd it was, and Vinny himself enjoyed it enough to continue using it in later streams. Vinny later stated that part of the appeal of the voice to him is seeing just how deep he can go with it, attempting to perform the voice in a lower pitch each time he brings it out.
• DEDICATION ^Explanation During a particularly difficult level of Marble It Up, Vinny eventually lost his patience after one too many deaths and let out a horrible and unusually visceral scream of frustration right after saying "Want to talk about some— some dedication?". The "Dedication" scream eventually became a sort of gold standard for subsequent rage screams, and even became an Ascended Meme in Marble It Up when the developers added a secret Vinesauce marble skin that's unlocked using the passcode "DEDICATION" in all-caps.
• Rem Lezar ^Explanation The eponymous main character of the 1989 direct-to-video film Creating Rem Lezar; Vinny first learned about him via Best of the Worst, and the So Bad, It's Good quality of the film led to it— and Rem in particular— becoming a frequent joke on Vinny's streams. A particular source of mockery is the song "Higher" from the film, thanks to it being incredibly banal yet surprisingly catchy.
• I will furnish you with every informations you need.^Explanation Says some variation of this occasionally when teaching chat something about the game he's playing. Apparently picked up the phrase from someone trying to pull a classic 419 Scam on him.
• "GO TO THE BATHROOM! YOU'RE SHITTING YOURSELF!!" ^Explanation From "CRAZY PARENT FLIPS OUT AT SON", a rather notorious moment from one of creeperman90's streams, which DesertP had the good graces to link Vinny to it during a Super Mario Maker 2 stream (albeit with footage of RuneScape replacing the original Mafia III footage), which was made even funnier by the stream going down a few minutes after playing the clip. Vinny even prefaced it saying that it definitely wouldn't become a meme. Naturally, he's started playing the clip when witnessing any situation that remotely resembles Potty Emergency or Potty Failure.
• "I'm alive! I'm born! I'm free!"/"I'm your brother!"/"Put me back! I'M NOT DONE!"^Explanation All quotes are from "Super Mario Larva Bros.", a video that was linked to Vinny early in 2019 because a lot of people in his viewer base thought Lumpy Touch's voice over for Mario and Luigi was provided by Vinny. Prone to quoting the video when playing Mario-related games, for obvious reasons.
• "You want penis enlargement pills?" ^Explanation From this Vine where a guy dressed as Pennywise asks the same question. Sometimes references the meme when talking about clowns (when he isn't talking about clown vomit instead) or just the mere possibility of a clown appearing.
• Vinny's Slime Girl fetish^Explanation Vinny has an odd history with slime girls, having occasionally referenced them during past streams. However, he became to be more thoroughly associated with them after a Black Mesa stream in which he detailed a conversation he had with a friend during a party, in which the friend describing That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime led to Vinny bringing up slime girls with no prior provocation— at which point the whole room suddenly and shiftily quieted down. Since then, fans have joked about Vinny having a fetish for slime girls, with them occasionally being referenced in memes and fanart.
  • Like a champ^Explanation A phrase stemming from a moment during the 2019 New Year's Eve stream, in which a round of AI Dungeon 2 ended in Rem Lezar creating a slime girl who immediately starts sucking off everyone in the room. The sheer absurdity and sudden pornographic nature of the event (depicted entirely in text) quickly caught on with fans, with the phrase "like a champ" (deriving from a description of the slime girl's oral sex skills) becoming widely used in connection with slime girls and slime characters in general.
• E^Explanation From Vinny's Trials of Mana streams, where Angela lets out a high-pitched squeak whenever she jumps. The noise was already a meme among fans of the game for how out-of-place it sounds (which can lead to narm during more plot-important fights), but with Vinny it particularly gained traction.
• "The code, Alyx, the code!"^Explanation A line from Russel during Half-Life: Alyx, which pops up among Vinny's bits whenever the word "code" is involved. As Russel is voiced by Rhys Darby, the bit is sometimes paired with the "industry code" gag from New Zealand comedy band Flight of the Conchords' eponymous 2007 HBO show, which Darby co-starred in as band manager Murray Hewitt.
• "Kinda what?" ^Explanation During Final Fantasy VII Remake, the stream cut off just as Barret's daughter Marlene is in the middle of commenting on another character. The disconnect happens immediately after Barret asks her in response, "kinda what?" As a result, the response remained unheard until several minutes later, when Vinny looked up the rest of the dialogue in a video, leading to an amusingly underwhelming conclusion. This now pops up whenever a similar scenario happens with a character trailing off mid-sentence, usually with a much more urgent tone from Vinny.
• SHOT ^Explanation Vinny's favourite film is Blade Runner, and he tends to reference or quote the movie on his streams rather often. Often enough in fact that it became a Drinking Game every time he brings it up. Sometimes this also extends to some of his other interests, like Star Wars and Star Trek.
• Smooth/Dry Brain ^Explanation A self-deprecating group of jokes referencing the roles that brain gyri/"wrinkles" and cerebrospinal fluid play in maintaining human cognitive ability, and deriving from Vinny's tendency to become less and less mentally sharp as the night drags on, with 4 AM EST typically being when he's at his dullest. References to low-quality brain texture have since become a mainstay of fandom in-jokes and fanart.
  • Yam Brain ^Explanation An accidental misreading of the phrase "4 AM" in a piece of fanart, thanks to the 4 being written in a style similar to a Y. This misreading meshed well with the above self-deprecating jokes about Vinny's slipping mental acuity, causing "yam" to become a synonym for "4 AM Brain" among Vinny's viewerbase.
• NOT THE BEST OPTION ^Explanation  During an AI Dungeon stream Vinny begins a new game with the character Pinto, his first action is to turn around and investigate the noise behind him. The AI gives a message "NOT THE BEST OPTION" as a large man breaks Pinto's arms and legs, and condems him to a cruel fate involving a large organ. The sudden graphic nature of this, and Pinto's many similar cruel fates in the same stream have cemented the use of this phrase within the chat.

Joel

• BonziBUDDY. ^Explanation A very, very infamous spyware program with a purple gorilla as a mascot. His escapades in the Windows XP destruction stream gave him a boost in popularity (eventually reaching Discredited Meme status big time).
• Joel's dad. ^Explanation Joel has a tendency to reference his father, who is reportedly an eccentric man who sounds like Kermit the Frog. He would later become popular with Joel's fans.
  • Joel downloading boobs ^Explanation One of Joel's most well-known stories surrounding his father details an incident from Joel's childhood when he downloaded a desktop stripper program, only to discover that not only did it run far worse than it did in the advertisement (with Joel comparing it to an epileptic seizure), but he also didn't know how to get it off of the computer, leading him to have to ask his dad for help, much to the latter's overwhelming disappointment. As a result of the incident, Joel's dad would later burst into Joel's room unannounced angrily asking if he "download[ed] boobs again." The passionate delivery Joel gives to his dad's angered question at the end of the story led to it catching on among fans.
• Grand Dad^Explanation From the 2014 Mario bootlegs stream. Joel once played a bootleg game called Super Mario 7 (which was referred to as 7 Grand Dad by the title screen), which was a ROM hack of the game The Flintstones: The Rescue Of Dino & Hoppy that featured an Off-Model Mario sprite in the title screen and a player character who has Mario's head on Fred Flintstone's body. His reaction was entertaining enough, especially when the theme song kicked in, but then a YouTube channel called SiIvaGunner (impersonating GilvaSunner, who uploads many video game OSTs) started remixing real video game OSTs to add the infamous tune. ROM-hacking viewers would later send Joel ROM hacks featuring Grand Dad, generally portraying him as a villain. Grand Dad has since become a Discredited Meme for the most part for Joel as a result of its omnipresence, especially after it took off among the SiIvaGunner fanbase, though he does more affectionately nod back to it from time to time.
• MIDI-fying songs. ^Explanation From his Windows 8 Destruction stream; he attempted to put an MP3 of "The Time Is Now" into a website that would convert it to MIDI... but then discovers the end result is a mess of piano notes that vaguely resembles the actual song at best. It quickly became trendy to put other songs through the site (with varying results), to the point where it has its own subreddit. On Vinesauce itself, Darren later did this with the "Do Your Best" song from Vinny's Super Mario Galaxy Repainted stream.
• YOU FUCKING IDIOT ^Explanation After completing a bootleg Super Mario World port for the Sega Genesis, Joel copied Luigi's face over Mario and Peach and then proceeded to write "YOU FUCKING IDIOT" over the usual "thank you", using the Grand Theft Auto logo's font to do so.
• WHO'S BEEN DRAWING DICKS!? ^Explanation One of Joel's old classmates would go to every computer in the computer lab, open up Paint, and draw dicks, causing their teacher to exclaim this.
• DUANE! ^Explanation Comes from the Direct-to-Video film Barbie Dance Club, where a kid named Duane does a So Bad, It's Good dance while his name is shouted. While popular for a long time beforehand, Joel gave it a boost in relevance, with him seeing Duane as a Memetic Badass and using a channel emote slot for him. It got especially popular around the time of Joel's M.U.G.E.N streams, where Duane is a Lethal Joke Character who takes on Giygas alone and wins, and he also chose the name "DUANE" for his starter Pokémon in Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal.
• Pussy destroyer. ^Explanation A phrase Joel used to describe Peter Norton, as in "Norton Antivirus", whose image showed up during an attempted Mac Destruction stream (which was compiled with his Windows 7 Destruction highlights). It has since been almost universally attached to Duane (see above) despite not originally referring to him, mostly due to Joel's attempts to get a Norton emote made being denied due to Norton being a person who hasn't consented to such a usage of his image.
• Expand dong. ^Explanation An already pretty popular meme was to put the words "expand dong" over Donkey Kong's face, using text spliced from the cover of Donkey Kong 64's box. However, on Vinesauce it's associated with BonziBUDDY, as the first time he downloaded the program, it asked for Joel's name and he responded by entering the words "Expand Dong" into the fields. Joel has referenced this meme quite a few times throughout the stream since then.
• Dr.Pepper. ^Explanation Chat-picked name for the main character of Life and Death (surgery sim), which amused Joel enough to be referenced and used in many later streams.
• Pringles. ^Explanation Pringles are apparently Joel's Trademark Favorite Food, because he has referenced them multiple times, such as when he made a failed attempt to replace Mario's face in Dr. Mario with the Pringles man's, as well as when he accidentally drew the Pringles man in Mario Paint when attempting to draw a stereotypical old-timey villain. Fan artists have referenced this (such as this piece, which references both Dr. Pringles and Dr. Pepper) and one viewer sent him a ROM hack of Super Mario Bros. that replaced Mario with Dr. Pringles.
• Shoutout to Simpleflips. ^Explanation During his Wheelchair Mario 64 stream, a lot of the dialogue and text in the game was replaced with a shoutout to a Mario 64 speedrunner known as Simpleflips.
• HET ^Explanation Comes from a Russian bootleg of Felix the Cat on the Sega Genesis, specifically on the continue screen (нет means "no" in Russian, pronounced "nyet", but Joel pronounces it "KHHHH-et"). Choosing нет led to an extremely gruesome Game Over screen. Also received a bump from SiIvaGunner thanks to an infamous incident, in which clicking an annotation with this label led to a Shock Site.
• "This is it, stranger!" ^Explanation From his Mad Dog Mccree video, during Buckskin Bonnie's segment of the game Joel dies seventeen times during the shootout with McCree after easily icing him during his first attempt in Shooting Beaver's scenario, and every time he would continue McCree would repeat his speech ("This is it, stranger! Go ahead. You're already a dead man!"). It caught on very quickly among fans.
• Protegent Antivirus. ^Explanation During Joel's Windows Vista destruction stream, Joel discovers that Protegent Antivirus, an Indian anti-virus program, uses a mascot that is a plagiarized Expy of Wyatt from Super Why! in their commercials. What makes it more bizarre is that the mascot has an extremely deep voice. The mascot has become very popular with fans.
  • I lost my DATA. ^Explanation:  One of the lines is said in the adverts. Commonly spelt as “I lost my DEETA.”
• AEUHHH? ^Explanation A grunt in the Title Theme Tune of Home Improvement; a Tim Allen-themed virus in the Windows Vista destruction stream replaced numerous text strings with this word.
• TOOHOO ^Explanation  A misspelling of Touhou done by Joel in several streams. Fans also give secondary misspellings, such as 2hu and TUUHUU.
• My finger points. ^Explanation Joel is pretty much guaranteed to call out the Giving Someone the Pointer Finger trope whenever and wherever it happens, using these exact words.
• Dooki Nooki ^Explanation During one Sega Genesis Madness stream, Joel came across a Brazilian Genesis port of Duke Nukem 3D, eventually leading him to mess around with Duke Nukem-related phrases in Google Translate. At one point, he wrote "my name is Duke Nukem" in the input box while it was set to Portuguese, leading to the text-to-speech function to read it as "my name is Dookey Nookey" (due to it attempting to pronounce Duke's name as if it were actual Portuguese); the result quickly caught on with fans, to the point where "Dooki Nooki" has become the de-facto nickname for Duke on Joel's streams and even got a shout-out from Jon St. John himself at the end of Joel's "Best of 2017" video!
• Leif Erikson Day ^Explanation  Initially as Holiday in USA and as a moment from SpongeBob SquarePants TV Show episode called Bubble Buddy. At the start of the episode, Sponge Bob wakes up to celebrate the Leif Erikson Day with his friend Patrick and he yells HINGA DINGA DURGEN, but when he goes to check his friend, Patrick not was in his house and Sponge Bob don't get anyone to celebrate with him. As a real person, Leif Erikson was the man that discovered the North American continent (even before Christopher Columbus), and he was born on the Scandinavian terrain that is actually Norway. As a Vinesauce meme, it was not used until one of Joel chat room members did a video during the portrayed by Sponge Bob craze, which the Leif Erikson Day moment was a accurate representation of Joel. Joel liked the video and since them, both the Holiday and HINGA DINGA DURGEN became jokes among the fans whenever Joel talks about Scandinavia or Norse people in general, despite Leif Erikson being born in Norway and Joel, in Sweden. Sometimes, Patrick's version of the gag (YAGER HINGER DINGER) is actually used.
• Stay Hydrated / Hydrate ^Explanation  A reference to Stay_Hydrated_Bot, an automatically-operated Twitch account that appears in various streamers' chats and posts hourly reminders to drink a certain amount of water in order to remain sufficiently hydrated. As a result of its constant presence, members of Joel's chat started coming up with nicknames such as "Water Bot / Boy" and "Hydrobot". The chat's attachment to Stay_Hydrated_Bot became so great that one user created a YouTube account based around the bot, sporting Aqua from Konosuba as their PFP (thanks to her being a water goddess In-Universe), simply to post similar reminders in the comments to Joel's videos on both his main channel and Vargskelethor Uncut.
• Vampire Abraham Lincoln. ^Explanation In Joel's stream of The Town With No Name whenever an antagonist died, the undertaker, a gap-toothed and wall-eyed man dressed in all black, would slide across the screen while a quick rendition of the funeral march played. Given the wild west setting of the game, the character was seen a lot and his completely unexplained presence (in a game already known for its unintentionally surreal tone) made him endlessly hilarious to both the chat and Joel himself.+ His face ended up becoming a chat emote and Joel even has a transparent gif of him sliding across the screen at the ready to use whenever someone dies or something unfortunate happens.
• Barbecue Shoes ^Explanation  A song performed by Blue House with the Rent to Own Horns as the theme song for BBQ Pit Boys, a YouTube channel about American food barbecue cooking starring a comically hypermasculine middle-aged man from Texas. The theme was first discovered when Joel was streaming Raft and became a recurrent joke whenever he talks about USA in general. Unfortunately, the music is actually claimable on YouTube, leaving Joel to cut parts of the music (if used) when the streams are going uploaded to his Full Streams channel.
• "Aw, hell naw!" ^Explanation Joel sometimes segways into saying "Oh, hell no" with a Texas/southern America accent. Comes from the "WORLD'S BEST Habanero Pepper Challenge" video, which Joel credits in one of his Kirby Star Allies streams.
• Arch-viles. ^Explanation Throughout the Doom Mapping Contest, Joel makes it clear that he despises fighting against Arch-viles, often freaking out or threatening to take off nonexistant points whenever he encountered one. As you can probably imagine, when the 2nd Mapping Contest happened, Arch-viles became much more common in the WADs submitted, much to Joel's lack of surprise.
• "Ooh-Wah-Ah-Ah-Ah" ^Explanation  A laughing excerpt from "Down with the Sickness" by Disturbed. First heard on his E3 2018 streams, but not featured until the Microsoft one, the quotation is generally used on endings of games when the final boss dies for good.
• "Joel gets meaner every day." ^Explanation  During his 2018 Link to the Past stream, Joel was being chastized for supposedly not following chat's advice when it came to navigating the cave leading to Death Mountain. Joel's reaction prompted a peculiar response from one of the chat members, "Joel, you get meaner every day," which he then read out loud and spent the next few minutes stating his overwhelming confusion over. The line and variations of the gag, such as "Joel gets sleepier every day," now get frequent use at the slightest and most unusual provocation.
• Vore/OwO^Explanation  Two phrases which are spammed in chat whenever Joel plays a game where he can get Swallowed Whole, like Spelunky or when the streamer says "oh, what's this?", or when some character design or dialogue in a game is furry bait.
• Mario Screaming ^Explanation  A video by YouTube user MetalKingBoo that features... Mario screaming (specifically one of the burn damage voice clips from Super Mario Sunshine ran through a harmonizer). Joel first used it on his second stream of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? PC game, then started applying it to BRB screens as a sound gag accompanying the background music, and eventually made it a running gag in other situations (usually Epic Fails). The gag quickly caught on with viewers due to the sheer absurdity of it, eventually becoming immortalized via the "vinejoelMAMA" emote, which features Mario's face from the Photoshopped Super Mario 64 artwork used in the original video.
• "The legend come to libe." ^Explanation  Joel decided to try and play the first Sims game using the Windows 98 virtual machine OS one night. Thanks to a "few" technical errors, Joel spiraled down a rabbit hole of madness when attempting to get the game to work by using a crack created in Windows 7. Multiple attempts were accompanied by the "Back to the Future" theme, with Joel doing a movie trailer narration voice filled with cliche lines until he bastardized it.
• BUP^Explanation  An edited soundbyte of Toad from Mario Kart 64; originally from Super Mario 64 streamer Simpleflips' community, the meme ended up crossing over into Joel's as a result of the two being Friendly Fandoms (itself stemming from the above "Shoutouts to Simpleflips" joke).
• Any line from his 3D Movie Maker streams. Amplified due to the fact that many scenes are repeated multiple times so that Joel can perfect it and fix issues, leading to the audience hearing some lines many, many times.
  • "HEY LUIGI, BOWL OF SPAGHETTI?" ^Explanation  The very first line in the movie, said by Toad
    • "Just spaghetti on the rocks." (Noise that sound in-between crying and laughing) ^Explanation  The reply to the above first line
  • "Pasta la vista."
  • "HEY! WHAT THE BUP IS GOING O-" ^Explanation  Toad's head then explodes into gore thanks to a ricocheting bullet, and is probably the best animated scene so far.
• "Alright, so..." ^Explanation Joel starts just about every stream with these exact words, to the point where he even lampshades the frequency of it.
• "Ohhh, nani?" ^Explanation If Joel's reaction to something weird isn't a Big "WHAT?!", expect it to be something like this or this.
• Mr. Kill ^Explanation  A Internet naming, particularly used by a Nerd. On Joel streams, Mr. Kill is used for nicknaming character(s) with badass aura on the streams. For some unknown reason, Mr. Kill got his own official game. Not to be confused with a Ms. Kill.
• Pantherk ^Explanation  A original character for the game engine M.U.G.E.N, which features 100% original assets made by an unknown author. The character was featured in a fangame called Mortal Kombat Chaotic, in the same vein of VHFSMACVUSMRRM. It's a crossover game which includes not only MK franchise characters, but also, Original Characters and UMK3-adapted characters. One of them, is Pantherk. In a nutshell, Pantherk is a character who owns a fighting style similar to Shao Kahn, but groans like Goro and his head is almost the same as King from Tekken series. With his bad color palette, a sampling montage of a text-to-speech program that's supposed to sound like Shao Kahn saying "Pantherk" (which sounds more like as "Danterk") and the copy-and-paste passion, Joel modified some things here-and-there in the character to make him more OP on that game. His quick acceptation by the chat and fans turned him into a Moobot (a Twitch bot for management of chat) command, as well a secondary emote for those who use BetterTTV.
• European Aim ^Explanation  When playing first-person shooters, Joel somehow wastes his ammo as if there is no tomorrow. This action is called European Aim, or EU Aim for short. Variations are made when he talks about something from his European costumes are similar to American costumes and the chat starts mocking-off about how European things are inferior compared to American / Japanese things (e.g.: EU Pepsi). First heard in one of his Resident Evil 2 (Remake) streams.
• It's him!/That's the guy!/There he is!^Explanation All of these are frequently used to point out obscure characters as if they're popular; usually, not even Joel himself knows who said characters are, often playing them up just for laughs. According to Joel, the joke is based on a Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! sketch where the titular duo interview a Steven Spielberg impersonator as if he was the genuine article, albeit playing up one particular line in said sketch to a hammy degree; in the original sketch, the line in question was stated in a more neutral, offhanded tone of voice. Joel explained that he doesn't really know why he does this and dismisses it as just plain old immaturity.
• Dog 2^Explanation Based on a bit in Joel's commentary stream of Ubisoft's E3 2019 presentation, in which he pulls up a stock image of a dog (a reference to a moment in which one presenter inexplicably brought a pit bull on-stage, which simply laid down the whole time it was there) and feeds it a "rare baguette" (a riff on Ubisoft's French origins), causing it to evolve into... the exact same dog, but with a handlebar mustache and a beret. Joel, in his usual style of absurdist humor, promply named the "evolved" pooch "Dog 2", and the character stuck with both himself and his viewers, becoming both a FrankerFaceZ emote for his channel and a counter-spam catchprase posted ad-nauseum in response to raids or other instances of unwanted spam (most notably with people who spam Vinny's "ANTS" meme in Joel's chat).
• Truly, we were a Title Drop. ^Explanation Joel often does this in reaction to a Captain Obvious Reveal or a plot revalation that he just finds cheesy and unable to take seriously.
• Yaoi hands. ^Explanation A meme within the larger anime/manga community that mocks the tendency for characters in male/male romance series to be depicted with exaggerated proportions, the most infamous of them being unnaturally large hands. Joel tends to reference the meme when he sees hands on men whose fingers are a bit on the long side e.g. some character models in Jojos Bizarre Adventure Eyes Of Heaven and Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise.
• Louter(, Joel)! LOUTER!^Explanation His usual response to games that are extremely loud, often with a faked accent (hence "louter") and Joel using his little kid voice. Nine times out of ten, he'll also turn the volume up just to mess with the audience.
• "Mario, go fish!" "You go to Hell!" ^Explanation Referencing this old YouTube Poop. Joel parodies this video in moments involving Mario, card games, or even fishing.
• "Iz gohld, I tell ya! Gohld!!" ^Explanation Joel's go-to line whenever he's parodying a "cowboy" accent.
• Fecalfunny.com ^Explanation A joke from part 1 of Joel's playthrough of an actual 7 Grand Dad cartridge (via a Famiclone) in which Joel devises a fictional website for hosting "diarrheic" content in reference to his own penchant for Toilet Humor. Not too long after the initial joke, someone genuinely purchased "fecalfunny.com" as a domain name and programmed it to redirect to Joel's Twitch channel. Since then, "fecalfunny.com" has become self-deprecatory slang for Joel's channel and content, to the point where he proceeded to joke about using it in place of his actual channel URL while viewing a fan animation based on the opening to Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!— only to find out that the artist already beat him to it, to his excited glee.
• "Check the bathroom." "No! I'm not checking the bathroom!" ^Explanation During his playthrough of Signal Simulator, Joel makes it clear that he's terrified of the possibility of encountering aliens extending off of his own genuine belief in and fear of intelligent alien life (following an incident in childhood where he claims he saw a UFO in the form of a glowing orange light in broad daylight), prompting chat to constantly tell him to check the bathroom of his station. Joel naturally refuses every time.
  • "Joel Checks the Bathroom" ^Explanation In the sixth stream of Signal Simulator, Joel really did encounter the bathroom alien Easter Egg and freaked out tremendously at the sight of the alien peeking through his window. Fandom animator Zeurel quickly produced a short animation of Joel's reaction; this animation was quickly snowcloned to show Joel reacting to any number of things behind the bathroom door.
• Mug ^Explanation During his Black Mesa playthrough, Joel gets into a discussion about soft drinks and he expresses an interest in Mug Root Beer because he likes the dog mascot and thinks "mug" is a funny word. This later spawned into several "Mug" related expressions like "Mug Moment" or "Mug Gamer". Joel jokingly pitched the idea of starting a fake Steam group or clan called "Mug" after discovering that there exists a Steam group for Lidl. A fan later sent Joel a mod for Black Mesa that gave the vending machines, soda cans, and HEV chargers Mug logos, much to his excitement.
• Joel has small eyeballs.^Explanation During his playthrough of Doom Eternal, Joel played the game in windowed mode, while also increasing the UI size. This, combined with the way he often missed items and objects critical to progress, led to a chat member to say this. This sent Joel into hysterics, and led to the sentence being repeated every time Joel doesn't notice something important to the game, as a rough analog to similar jokes about Jerma985 supposedly being comically short.
• Lidl ^Explanation Joel has a love-hate relationship with the German discount store chain Lidl. He admits he shops there a lot because the prices are good but he often mocks the store's weird knockoff or cheap products to the point where it's a Running Gag in his streams to call something bootlegged as the "Lidl version". Streams like Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Planet Coaster, and Sonic Forces has Joel making several jokes and references to Lidl.
• AGGA ^Explanation A nonsense phrase stemming from an incident during a BRB when an error in Joel's Xsplit streaming software caused his programs to lock up while he was in the middle of superimposing text over a clip of the McDonald's dance party scene in Mac and Me. His increasing inability to troubleshoot the problem led to him panicking and keysmashing out of frustration, leaving the letters "AGGA" stuck on the screen for a good part of the segment. The absurdity of the phrase and the overall situation, plus the fact that that the Star Wars theme was loudly blaring over in the background on a loop, later resulted in Joel's chat typically spamming "AGGA" to the Star Wars theme and any mention of the franchise in in general as well as whenever Joel runs into technical difficulties.

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GPM

• Buff Riku. ^Explanation During GPM's time at Games Repainted, one of the most popular and abused images to insert was a inexplicably muscular drawing of Kingdom Hearts' resident bishonen, initially found when fellow repainter Fred Fuchs searched for the opposite of inflation art during Super Mario Sunshine Repainted. It transferred over to GPM's streams, becoming a mascot and leading into the following meme.
  • Buff everything. ^Explanation GPM's "Miiverse Is Hell" streams involve Audience Participation in the form of "Buff Threads", where only drawings of raw Testosterone Poisoning is allowed. This has led to buff versions of every fictional character under the sun (including ones without any limbs whatsoever), as well as buffed versions of nonliving objects.
• succ. ^Explanation While it's already a meme in general, it turned into an Arc Word for GPM during the OpenRCT2 multiplayer stream with Joel. He had built a ride called "succ"; first, it led to a patch of meadow with "SUCC" crudely written in the grass, then was made into a full circuit, except that cars on it derail and crash spectacularly. ("succ has crashed." "4 people have died in an accident on succ.") Signs along the ride read "WELCOME TO SUCC", "SUCC IS DEAD", and "NO SUCC". It's since become a catchphrase for GPM. It's also noteworthy that this spread so much that Joel made it a banned word to have your chat message consist of only the word "Succ".
• GPM's psychotic Twitter bot. ^Explanation In 2016, GPM set up an "ebooks" account (akin to the infamous "horse ebooks" Twitter bot) for his Twitter; basically, it takes words and word chunks from GPM's tweets and makes new tweets with them. While it normally creates gibberish as expected, around April/May 2016 it started to make an unsettling amount of tweets involving murder, self-awareness, and general Word-Salad Horror. Fans characterized the bot as an unstable maniac with a desire to Kill and Replace the real deal, while GPM proceeded to give the bot a corrupted, Zalgo-fied makeover, and as of December 2016 its avatar is a distorted GPM drawing with glowing red eyes and a Slasher Smile.
• Sausage Party. ^Explanation GPM saw Sausage Party and decided to rant about it on a stream. Ever since, he's been getting messages about the movie on Tumblr.

Darren

• Content-aware scale. ^Explanation Video clips become increasingly warped after having a content-aware-scale filter applied to them. This is generally done to poke fun at the source material.
  • Balegdah. ^Explanation Like Bonzi and most music-related examples from Super Mario Galaxy Repainted, this didn't technically originate from Vinesauce, but Darren introduced it to the community with this content-aware-scale video showing a gibberish word being said with a bad Jamaican accent. Vinny would later inject it into a Zelda corruption, leading to "It's balegdahs to go alone."

Rev

• PAX South green screen. ^Explanation Rev appeared in front of a green screen at PAX South 2016. He uploaded the raw footage and encouraged people to edit the green screen.
• Every day is Rev's birthday. ^Explanation Rev accidentally wished someone a happy birthday during one stream, despite it not being said person's birthday. So people wished Rev a happy birthday constantly to the point where he got irritated with it and it became Discredited. This didn't stop him from making a "revDay" emote (his head wearing a party hat) for his channel.
• [Glass Him] ^Explanation A prompt from Rev's The Wolf Among Us playthrough, which he picked thinking it would make Bigby give someone a drink, when it actually made him smash a glass in the person's face. Its highlight is the most-viewed video on his channel by a wide margin.
• Washwave. ^Explanation Originating from Rev's Kitty Powers' Matchmaker stream is Rev's HotStart album, which consists of various dishwasher noises slowed down. Ridiculous on its own, but it escalated when people actually bought it when he uploaded it to Bandcamp (though he would later tweet that he didn't think it felt right to keep the money) and he dreamt that it became a success that moved people to tears.
• Check the weed. ^Explanation Rev's frequent Shoppe Keep streams usually lead to him selling weed due to how affordable and profitable it is. This leads to him walking around outside begging people to buy his drugs. Managed to become a channel emote (revWeed).
• Bad ripoff Flash games in general. ^Explanation Rev managed to get associated with bizarre knock-off Flash games around 2015, with Frozen being the biggest culprit (to the point where Rev has a "revOlaf" emote). Much fun has been made of the games' absurd specificity (such as the infamous "Baby Elsa Hair Salon Injury") and the amount of Squick present. Of note is the time Rev was supposed to play twenty Frozen games as a 2015 charity incentive, only to end up having to do 55 due to some Exact Words in the description.
• Power move, bitch! ^Explanation During one of Rev's (off-stream) Yandere Simulator videos, he brings up his idea of "power moves", that is, ways to show you're in control of a situation, such as throwing water in someone's face when they want an art discount, or murdering them when they're telling you about debt problems.
• Glass dongle. ^Explanation A bizarre, vaguely sexual Inherently Funny Word that caught on with Rev's fans. Rev doesn't really understand why.
• The Pit. ^Explanation A creation from Rev's mind visualized in one of his Planet Coaster streamswhich has become popular with his fans due to its mysterious properties and implications.
• Rev's Homestuck Chart, a sort of visual aid he created to help him keep track of the comic's timeline during his streams of it, has become a Fountain of Memes at this point given all of the interesting things he's added to it over the course of his readthrough.
  • Thurkday ^Explanation Early on, Rev drew a diagram to explain his weekly stream/upload schedule. Upon realizing that it was hard to understand unless the week had an even number of days, Rev made up a day of the week called "Thurkday" on the spot. It wasn't long before both chat and Rev himself started simply calling Homestuck streams "Thurkday"
  • Elmo is already here/Lord Elmo ^Explanation Later on, Rev drew Elmo on the chart with angry eyebrows and the word "FEAR" written under him. He then started joking about how powerful Elmo was and ended up saying that Elmo was "already here", completely unaware that the main villain of Homestuck is associated with that phrase. Those watching who had already read the comic found this very amusing. The Elmo drawing became an emote (revFear)
  • Dave Moment ^Explanation It's common for chat to joke that Rev is Dave (much to his chagrin), given that they both have a tendency to go on long tangents about random things. That, and they have other amusing similarities with each other, such as having similar senses of humor and both being from Texas.
  • .<—— MPREG PIXEL ^Explanation Originates from a moment where Rev added Dave Mpreg to the chart and accidentally left a couple of stray pixels behind while dragging it. These were promptly given an appropriate name.
  • 25 dollars ^Explanation As part of the 2019 charity stream, Rev promised he would read one page of Homestuck for every 25 dollars donated. Sometimes when a particularly bizarre page of the comic is reached, Rev will remind the chat that someone paid 25 dollars to force him to read it.
  • HE FUCKED WITH THE GOBLINS^Explanation Watching/Listening to Leonard Nimoy's The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins has become Rev's go-to method of procrastinating on reading the comic while streaming. To keep the YouTube uploads of the streams from getting demonetized, Rev alternates between playing the song on 2x speed ("Bilbo Nightcore") and 0.25x speed ("Bilbo Funeral Dirge") or if he's feeling spicy, both at once. This phrase comes from the observation that when played at one of these speeds, the word "fought" in the line "Well, he fought with the goblins" starts to sound more like "fucked" instead. Expect people to post it en masse whenever The Lord of the Rings and/or goblins are mentioned.
  • Sex God Mr. Bucket^Explanation Mr. Bucket is a children's toy with an unintentionally hilarious tv commercial - one where a cartoon representation of Mr. Bucket urges the players to put their balls in his mouth (in context, they mean toy plastic balls, but... yeah.) Rev started to talk about it once he got to the troll romance portion of the comic (since troll reproduction involves buckets) and it's been an increasingly common topic of conversation since then, even during streams that have nothing to do with Homestuck. Many jokes, most of them sexual in nature, have been made about what its mouth looks like and what can be done with it.
• The culprit is clearly Leon! ^{Explanation (mild Danganronpa spoilers)} Ever since Rev got to the infamous Captain Obvious Reveal in chapter 1 of Danganronpa, Rev and chat have joked frequently that other murders and plot twists in the series were orchestrated by Leon, even long after he had been executed.
• Chat rating Rev's burps ^Explanation  You can tell who all the regulars in chat are by checking how many users immediately post a score of 1 to 10 every time Rev lets one loose.
• The Thing ^Explanation  A bizarre twitch global emote that chat likes to use a lot, for whatever reason. Rev described it as "such a not-emote" because its purpose and the emotion it's supposed to represent are so unclear.
• Cumposting ^Explanation When Twitch introduced the channel points feature, it didn't take long for people to start using their points to post highlighted messages that say some variation of "cum". For some reason, this caught on and now the word cum will be used by the chat in comedic booru art, to commemorate when the mods free them from emote-only mode, to drown out people posting spoilers or sometimes just because. Rev has referred to this act as "Cumposting".

Jen

• "Why is Kazooie a dragon?" ^Explanation When Jen played Banjo-Tooie, she did a sidequest that gives Kazooie a dragon transformation. Since the transformation is relatively obscure, this led to a lot of chat members asking why Kazooie was a dragon, to the point where it got annoying for everyone who actually paid attention. It gets brought up occasionally for similar Ask a Stupid Question... situations.
• Zen doesn't heal! ^Explanation During an Overwatch session with her friends, Jen encountered a Zenyatta player who spent his time attacking enemy players and not healing his teammates with his Orb of Harmony. When she asked him why he isn't healing his teammates, the Zenyatta player responded with "Oh, Zen doesn't heal!", despite the fact that he can heal his teammates with the Orb of Harmony. This has since turned into a tongue-in-cheek joke whenever one of her teammates plays as Zenyatta.