Memes / Vinesauce

Please add entries in the following format:

• The meme. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The explanation behind the meme.[[/labelnote]] ^Explanation Like this.

---

Multiple Streamers

• 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.
• 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".

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.

---

• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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. ^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."
  • EH STEP RIGHT UP COME ON YOU KNOW ^Explanation  The first line of the recorded version.
• 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. The regular Vinesauce YouTube channel has a Meat highlights-slash-"history lesson" video here.
• Mario Pissing/vinePiss ^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 voice acting from said stream (which gave Mario a voice more akin to his standard in-game voice), and Merio Takes a Piss: The Game, which has just as much Stylistic Suck as the original video.
• "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.
• 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.
• 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, a vaguely Slavic accent originally used to satirize online roleplayers, 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"/"VUTI", from a bit in which he satirically imitates more irritating and demanding chat users via the "RP Guy" voice.
• 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.

Advertisement:

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? JOEL? Did you download boobs again, Joel?" 'N-no dad, I was j—' "JOEL?! JOEL?!" ^Explanation One of Joel's dad's most well-known quotes, particularly in the context of the infamous "desktop stripper" story.
• Grand Dad^Explanation From the 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.
• 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 NES, 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 a weird face that popped 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.
• 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 of one from various active Twitch bots in Joel's chat room during his streams, Stay_Hydrated_Bot. The bot works by telling to Joel a certain amount of water to drink in a hour. The bot's simple warning was so catchy between chat members, leaving some people creating nicknames for him, such as Water Bot / Boy and Hydrobot. A unofficial and simplified Moefication of the bot exists in his both YouTube channels, by telling him to drink 13 cups of water in a day on the comments. It features a female character known as Aqua from the Japanese novel / animation Konosuba, since the character implies herself as The Water Goddess.
• 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 nature of the game the character was seen a lot and his completely unexplained presence 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 theme song did by Blue House with the Rent to Own Horns and used in BBQ Pit Boys, a YouTube channel about American food home cooking starred by some 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 copyrighted in You Tube, 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 the music Down with the Sickness by the American heavy metal band Disturbed. First heard on his E3 2018 streams, but not featured until the Microsoft one. Used generally 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.
• 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.

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.

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.

Advertisement: