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YonKaGor's current profile picture, depicting Speckle from "Memory Merge"

"Fish-lovin' furry cat musician!"
YonKaGor's channel description

Yonatan Yudistira, known online as YonKaGor, is a Chinese Indonesian freelance musician, singer, and artist. They primarily publish Album Singles, uploaded alongside Animated Music Videos to accompany them. YonKaGor is non-binary and is part of the Furry Fandom, portraying themself as a cat. They currently live in Canada with their significant other, MelloRange.

You can find them on YouTube channel.

YonKaGor's original discography includes:

YonKaGor was featured as an artist in:

  • Baker's Dozen (collaboration with tiger_x0x) (2016)
  • See You! (collaboration with kennyoung) (2021)
  • Blue Bird (collaboration with Ivycomb & Moka) (2023)
  • INFAMOUS (collaboration with Ivycomb, also features Stephanafro) (2025)

YonKaGor has made covers/rearrangements of:


"I forgot these tropes exist:"

  • Album Single: Nearly every single one of their tracks are released individually, albeit packaged alongside their instrumentals. The sole exception is the Paper Alibis EP, but even then, two of the songs included ("Another Mistake" and "I Forgot That You Exist") were already packaged as singles beforehand.
  • All There in the Manual: Nearly every character has a name, but they never come up in the songs themselves, instead being found on Yon's social media or the community tab on their YouTube account.
  • Amnesia Loop: Implied to be the ending of "Memory Merge". The song's outro repeats the song's first verse, and Speckle is back in front of their corkboard, this time even more damaged than before, suggesting that their repression is far more thorough this time around.
  • Animal Motifs: Aside from them all being cats, a good chunk of Yon's characters have their outfits directly inspired by other animals, mostly aquatic life.
    • SeaBird has elements taken from ocean-based birds, such as seagulls and penguins. Their onesie is directly that of a penguin, and they (rather morbidly) use plastic rings for their glasses, something that is known to confuse and kill seagulls.
    • Speckle is named after and directly inspired by speckled goldfish, with their clothes' color scheme resembling one and their cap decorated with a bow resembling fins. Goldfish are often abused by owners, and are commonly believed to have a very poor memory, both of which relates to the themes of "Memory Merge".
    • Droplet has their raincoat based on a vampire squid, seemingly correlating to how they "Linger in the Rain" and aren't stepping into the sun, akin to how vampire squids are seen in the depths of the ocean where light doesn't reach.
  • Animated Music Video: Nearly every single one of their original songs is accompanied by an official music video, uploaded to their YouTube account. The only exceptions are "Rempong" (which was made in around an hour as a sketch), "You Make Me Fall In Love", and "Paper Alibis" (the latter two had their music videos cut to focus on the music themselves, as they were made for Yon's only extended play). "Dandelion" (which is also part of the Paper Alibis EP) and "Waterland" also feature minimal art and editing as well.
  • Art Shift:
    • Due to being a collaboration, "Trash Talkin'" takes on two distinct art styles. While most of the song is rendered in YonKaGor's style, the pre-chorus has animated pieces done in a modified version of kennyoung's art style, with thinner body styles and no shading.
    • "If I Were to Die" also switches between two distinct styles, being YonKaGor's normal style and a chibified version of it specifically for the verses and instrumental break, the latter of which is always animated as opposed to the former style only being animated for the final line of the chorus.
  • Author Appeal: Fish, lots of fish. Fish appear all over the place in YonKaGor's music videos, and their very first public song is entirely based on the fact that Yon thinks fish taste good. The fact that their Author Avatar, as well as all of their main OCs, are cats seems to be partially affected by this.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Whoever Speckle remembers in "Memory Merge" comes across as one, seemingly initiating their relationship as comforting but doing something horrible to Speckle, causing their mind to shatter.
    Now the sweetness of your face
    And the tenderness of your warm embrace
    Somehow they left a bitter taste
  • Bowdlerise: The original YouTube upload of "Top 10 Things To Do Before You Die" was taken down from the site before being reuploaded. The reupload cuts out dialogue in the intro and interlude, as well as a few visual changes to avoid directly mentioning suicide.
  • Break-Up Song: "I Forgot That You Exist" takes the perspective of someone (Goldfish) breaking up with a seemingly abusive partner, with Goldfish mockingly stating that they "forgot that [they] exist". They aren't completely over it, but they seem to be far happier now that they're away.
  • Black Comedy: "Mr. Sunfish" is notably the lightest and softest of Yon's songs, but the black comedy part comes from SeaBird's design. They're wearing plastic rings for glasses and have been drawn a few times eating balloons - both of which are harmful to seabirds in real life.
  • Bland-Name Product: The name of the in-universe tech company Sonar sounds like a pun on Sony.
    • The app that shows Tetra's conversation with Neems for a split-second near the end of "You're Just Like Pop Music" has a design emulating Discord.
    • "Top 10 Things To Do Before You Die" is chock-full of these, some more obvious than others, namely HowTo (for wikiHow), Giggle (for Google), FuzzFeed (one letter off from BuzzFeed), and the Sonarphone.
    • Subverted with one drawing celebrating 1M views for "Trash Talkin'", where Sandbar tells Groupie to get off X.
    • The jacket Convict wears in "Fallacy" is from the clothing brand Loach, which appears to be based on clothing brands such as Old Navy and Hollister.
  • Broken Tears: Clownfish starts sporting these at the very end of "Circus Hop", with their art depicting them as crying while they grin and fall to their death.
  • Call-and-Response Song: "Trash Talkin'" is a strangely structured example of this trope. The pre-chorus plays the trope straight, with either Sandbar or Groupie directly responding to whoever is currently the main singer. The two verses of the song are seemingly a delayed example, with Sandbar responding to Groupie spreading gossip about him by saying that everyone would move on in the end. In the chorus, the two singers both clash with each other and complete each other's thoughts, while in the bridge, Groupie doesn't seem to react to Sandbar calling attention to something they did in the past, instead focusing their efforts on taking down Sandbar.
  • CamelCase: Aside from YonKaGor's username itself, the names for SeaBird (from "Mr. Sunfish") and SeaDrive (from "Top 10 Things To Do Before You Die") are written in CamelCase.
  • The Cameo: Many of Yon's older characters appear as silhouettes on posters in "Memory Merge". These include: Clownfish ("Circus Hop"), Convict ("Fallacy"), Routine ("It's Normal"), SeaDrive ("Top 10 Things To Do Before You Die"), and Selfish ("You'll Be Gone").
  • Changing Chorus: Notably, "Memory Merge" has a chorus that not only changes for the second repetition only, but barely resembles the original version of the chorus at all. That being said, the pre-chorus also fits in and is relatively more consistent.
    • First/Third Chorus:
      Can I go ahead and surrender / To the visions that I just can't remember
      Merging all of these memories / To a blend of anomalies
      Reveal all the trauma I suffered / I'd relive it all to be born much stronger
      Then there's no way someone else can repeat / What you did to me
    • Second Chorus:
      Now I see through all your endeavors / And the sinful scars that I'll hold forever
      Tainting all of these melodies / Full of mixed up apologies
      Was there any chance for me to run? / Was there something different that I could have done?
      I'm left with a mangled mind that repeats / What you did to me
  • Chronic Self-Deprecation:
    • Clownfish seems to be bullied into thinking this way. The second verse of "Circus Hop" is them putting themself down, likely contributing to them committing a "Circus Hop" by the song's end.
      I shall now accept the fact that I'm a failure (You're a failure)
      'Cause I'm still afraid the future might be scarier (It is scarier)
      I'll slip while having fun, then cut off my own tongue
      They'll think I was dumb
    • To a lesser extent, Droplet ("Linger in the Rain") seems to think this way as well, comparing themself to nothing more than a "passing droplet", and seems to think that they're at fault for their partner leaving.
  • Cover Version: A variant, anyway, considering it's still produced by the same person. However, "Fallacy" has an official Vocaloid cover, with vocals courtesy of Hatsune Miku. The cover was added in as part of the Album Single of "Fallacy", and can be listened to on Spotify or YouTube.
  • Creepy Circus Music: In an unconventional way, but "Circus Hop" fits in. While it isn't outwardly threatening, nor is it meant to portray an Abandoned Area, the song's lyrics portray someone's Sanity Slippage as they're Driven to Suicide, heavily juxtaposed against the song's upbeat instrumental. It’s played straighter in the section just before the song's solo, as well as in the end card section on the music video (the latter even coming with laughter).
  • Deadly Euphemism: The titular "Circus Hop" from the song of the same name is more or less a stand-in for suicide. With this in mind, the song's chorus becomes eerily close to a Suicide Dare.
  • Death Song: "Circus Hop", if you choose to believe that Clownfish doesn't survive the titular drop.
  • Defective Detective: While Speckle is dressed as a detective, and they are successfully able to uncover their past, the song implies that their hunt is an extremely misguided and damaging way to deal with their own traumas, doing far more harm than good to their own psyche.
  • Deliberate VHS Quality:
    • The music video for "You're Just Like Pop Music" was edited to appear like it came from a VHS recording, with the quality degrading as the song goes on.
    • The music video for "Memory Merge" also uses this, with Past!Speckle being shown through a television filter in the bridge while their current counterpart removes it. In the song's outro, the filter returns as the current Speckle is right back at the beginning, only with less to work with this time.
  • Double Meaning: The lyric "Don't worry, it's not anything deep" from "It's Normal" can be taken at face value as Routine trying to say that their perpetual apathy isn't something to be given too much thought to. However, Yon has stated that the line has another meaning, likely referring to scars caused by Self-Harm.
  • Driven to Suicide:
    • Clownfish, from "Circus Hop", slowly goes over the edge over the course of the song, seemingly being bullied into doing the titular "Circus Hop". The song's midpoint has them go through with it, and what's left of the song could be read as a suicide note.
    • Routine, from "It's Normal", seems to have been driven before the song begins, having been stated to have written three "set-aside" notes and implies that they've attempted eight times, one of which (swallowing pills) being shown on-screen. Their attitude slowly shifts over the course of the song, though, and they're finally shown smiling by the song's end.
    • "Top 10 Things To Do Before You Die" is taken from the perspective from a suicidal person, and is seemingly trying to convince themself to go through with it, represented by SeaDrive. The song's end more or less has them either back down or survive their attempt, and seems to imply that they're going to try again some other time.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: Yon's earliest music videos had an Author Avatar as the main subject instead of an original character, and even after it was changed, they still stayed relatively close to Yon's fursona until the release of "Paper Alibis". It can best be seen with the original and revisited versions of "Silly Plans", with the Revisit redesigning Yon and Mello's Author Avatars to characters named Watercolor and Colorpencil, respectively.
  • The Eeyore: "It's Normal" is taken from the perspective of one, named Routine. By the time the song starts, the singer has been this way for so long that they don't want anyone to worry about them anymore, as "it's normal" for them.
    Should I tell you that I've been feeling down?
    Because, well, that's not really new
  • Funny Animal: All of Yon's characters are anthropomorphic cats, and are fully dressed to boot. Other videos show that anthropomorphic animals come in other species as well... just not fish.
  • Gone Horribly Wrong: Implied to be the case with "Memory Merge". While Speckle tries to go back and revisit their past trauma in order to come stronger from it, the second chorus implies that it backfired horribly, causing their mind to become "mangled" as the incident(s) that led them to this point keep replaying in their head, only making their trauma worse. It goes to the point where their mind seemingly forces them to forget once again to protect them.
  • Gray Rain of Depression: Not exactly gray, but the music video for "Linger in the Rain" is perpetually kept in a drizzle as Droplet is mourning their relationship with another person.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Selfish, from "You'll Be Gone", is this and back, willing to spread a rumor to ruin someone's life just because their friend isn't obsessed with them.
  • Happy Circus Music: "Circus Hop" plays with this a bit. Lyrical Dissonance aside, the instrumental on its own is genuinely cheerful... until the second chorus passes. Afterwards, the music slowly starts being played off-key and distorting before coming to an abrupt halt, all before returning to its "cheery" self.
  • Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Convict, from "Fallacy", sports bangs that cover their right eye. It seems to convey Convict's loneliness and vulnerability, as they seem to be one of the characters who was affected the most by a toxic relationship.
  • iPhony: Since "It's Normal", many characters own Sonarphones. Visually, they resemble older-generation iPhones, while the one Colorpencil is shown to have in "Silly Plans ~ Revisit" lacks a home button, much like the newer-generation iPhones.
  • Letting the Air out of the Band: The instrumental break of "Circus Hop" ends in this. While it already sounds discordant enough compared to the rest of the song, once Clownfish starts falling backwards in an attempt to kill themself, the instrumental starts fading out to indicate that something has gone horribly wrong.
  • Lyrical Dissonance: Yon's style is naturally rather upbeat and energetic, which makes the juxtaposition between listening to the instrumentals and analyzing the lyrics a lot harsher.
    • On the surface, "Circus Hop" seems to be a classic case of Happy Circus Music with the instrumental and the vocal track's melody. However, actually paying attention to the lyrics twists the song from cheery to depressive as Clownfish starts spiraling to the point of taking their own life.
    • Similarly, "Top 10 Things To Do Before You Die" is a fairly bouncy song, but its lyrics are about someone trying to convince themself to commit suicide.
    • Both "You'll Be Gone" and "Trash Talkin'" are jazzy and upbeat numbers, and both of them are about ruining someone else's reputation for petty reasons.
    • On a lesser scale, "You're Just Like Pop Music" fits in as well. It's an upbeat disco pop number all about how an online friendship gradually deteriorated as time went on.
  • Meaningful Name:
    • Selfish, from "You'll Be Gone", has a name that perfectly conveys what they're about. They're a Green-Eyed Monster who only wants their crush all to themself, willing to do anything to get everyone else out of his life to do so.
    • Routine, the focus of "It's Normal". They don't want to concern other people with his life struggles and is certain they'll be okay at the end of it, because to them, their life is, well, routine.
    • Clownfish, the focus of "Circus Hop" is named for...well, being a circus performer. More morbidly, clownfish are also known for their erratic swimming patterns, which look awfully a lot like they continuously fall down while swimming.
    • Goldfish and Speckle are named after the phrase "memory of a goldfish", with the former forgetting their former lover and mocking them about it in "I Forgot That You Exist" with the latter constantly forgetting their repressed memories in order to try and find them again in "Memory Merge".
  • Misery Builds Character: Speckle seems to believe so, considering how the chorus of "Memory Merge" has them stating that they'd relive through their trauma to be "born much stronger". Considering the events of the song, it seems to have gone horribly wrong, causing Speckle's mind to further repress their memories so they won't be so easily brought out next time.
  • Monochromatic Impact Shot: Sort of, but in the music video for "Memory Merge", the start of the second pre-chorus completely blots out Speckle's silhouette and paints the background in red, all while red pawprints start swarming around their chest. The very next shot has the shot under Speckle's magnifying glass, signifying that the shot is meant to represent the incident that Speckle is trying to recall.
  • Motive Decay: Selfish starts going through this through the course of "You'll Be Gone". Already villainous in just wanting to sabotage a relationship between their best friend and their new lover, the song's bridge suggests that by now, they're just trying to make their target as miserable as possible.
    Is he really worth all the things I do to you?
    Or am I just obsessive over you?
  • The Mourning After: "Linger in the Rain" is entirely focused on Droplet, who still misses someone after their relationship ended. While it's unclear about the specifics of the relationship, many of the song's lyrics imply that it was romantic in nature, and the song eventually ends with Droplet leaving to find a new partner.
  • Mythology Gag:
    • The main character of "Fallacy", Convict, has three yellow dots under their left eye. This is a reference to Zenith, who partially serves as an Author Avatar for the song's writer and Yon's significant other, MelloRange.
    • In the music video for "Memory Merge", the "Y" in YonKaGor's name seems to be hastily tacked on, coming from an entirely separate piece of paper. This is a reference to Yon's old username, JonKaGor, and how it was changed sometime in 2020 after they came out as non-binary.
    • As stated above in The Cameo, a handful of Yon's older characters appear as silhouettes in various posters Speckle comes across in "Memory Merge". Yon has stated that there's no canonical relationship between it and any of their other songs.
  • No Cartoon Fish: A bit of a Downplayed example, but despite how nearly everything is given a "chibi" art style, the sealife is still rendered semi-realistically. It might have to do with their non-sapience, and it might have something to do with the fact that cats consider them as food.
    • The only real exception to this is "Mr. Sunfish", which is the most cartoony the fish have ever appeared in Yon's art style. Perhaps not coincidentally, it's also the only one that treats them, specifically the titular Mr. Sunfish, as actual sapient characters, or at least an allegory for one.
  • Non-Appearing Title:
    • "Artificial Abandonment" never has the song's title come up in its lyrics. In fact, the word "artificial" doesn't show up at all.
    • Downplayed with "Memory Merge". While it's close to being stated in the lyric "Merging all of these memories", the phrase itself is never actually used.
  • Ominous Visual Glitch: While "Memory Merge" starts off stable enough, the visuals for the song start glitching out during the song's second verse, likely indicating how Speckle's mind is starting to deteriorate due to their hunt for the truth of what happened to them.
  • Punny Name:
    • Seadrive's name is a play on the C: Drive - your usual starting hard drive for a computer.
    • Speckle is named after the one thing detectives rely on to solve mysteries: speculation.
  • Recurring Element:
    • Toxic relationships and how people handle them. "Another Mistake" shows Honest Lie stuck hiding their feelings to satiate an unhealthy relationship while "Bitter and Blunt" has them leaving, seemingly reconnecting with people who care about them in the end. "I Forgot That You Exist" has Goldfish move on from a break-up with a controlling person and mock them for trying to get back with them. "Paper Alibis" is about Papercraft trying to excuse someone's bad behavior to keep their friend group together and are too afraid to let go of their relationships. "You'll Be Gone" is a Villain Song taken from the perspective of Selfish, who wants the attention of their friend/crush all to themself. "Fallacy" is about someone finding themself escaping from a toxic relationship, and only realizing how badly they were dealt after leaving. Finally, while not explicitly about a relationship, "Memory Merge" seems to follow someone (Speckle) who was horribly treated by someone they cared about, and are stuck trying to reconnect whatever memories of the event they have left.
    • On a lesser scale, suicide. "Circus Hop", "It's Normal", and "Top 10 Things To Do Before You Die" all relate back to suicide in one way or another, with the former about a seemingly successful attempt, the latter deciding to hold out and try again some other time, and the middle seemingly showing someone recovering. The scrapped music video for "Paper Alibis" also has a shots seemingly hinting towards this with Papercraft pointing scissors towards their neck, but it's unclear just how far they were willing to go. Notably, "It's Normal" was the immediate next song after "Circus Hop".
  • Repressed Memories: "Memory Merge" is entirely about this trope, with the protagonist (Speckle) trying to recover whatever is hiding in the past, with the song's midpoint hinting that there might have been a good reason for those memories to be left behind.
  • Sanity Slippage: Clownfish goes through one in "Circus Hop", with the way they sing becoming extremely frantic during the last chorus while they're falling to their death. The music video strengthens this, with their face slowly going from a genuine smile to a much more manic one over the course of the three choruses.
  • Scatting: "Linger in the Rain" ends with Droplet making unintelligible scatting noises as the music trails off.
  • Silly Love Songs: "Silly Plans" seems to admit itself to being one, calling the idea of moving in with a long-distance partner as a "silly plan".
  • Splash of Color: The music video for "Fallacy" occasionally turns to this, turning the video entirely grayscale aside from what would normally be yellow, rendered as orange during these segments instead. This tends to highlight Convict's eyes and scarf.
  • Stealth Pun: In "You're Just Like Pop Music", Tetra mentions that their message count with their friend is "less than three". Typing it out using special characters is "<3", or the shape of a heart.
  • Stock Animal Diet: YonKaGor portrays themself as a cat, and their favorite food is fish.
  • String Theory: The music video for "Memory Merge" has the aesthetics of a conspiracy corkboard, befitting Speckle's outfit as a detective. The board itself seems to represent Speckle's mind, the strings that connect everything together appear throughout the background, and it's all burnt away at the end.
  • Suicide Dare: In "Circus Hop", the titular hop is a Deadly Euphemism for suicide. The chorus is implied (and confirmed by Yon) to be from the perspective of bullies, with Clownfish eventually caving in and committing by the song's end.
    The acrobat who's waiting at the top
    Should do a circus hop
  • Telephone Song: "You're Just Like Pop Music", albeit in a more modern sense. Although Tetra and their friend, "neems", were close back in 2020, the two slowly drifted apart from one another, with Tetra reminiscing on how the two of them spent time together in video chats and calls. While Tetra does miss how things were way back when, they acknowledge that their relationship is more or less a thing of the past now.
  • Too Dumb to Live: The music video for "If I Were to Die" constantly features Dragonet putting themself into a variety of dangerous situations, paralleling their complicated feelings on death and how they feel what they do would "be hard to survive". Standouts include them skipping through a field of landmines, throwing a ball and chain into the ocean while it's attached to their chest, and relaxing while their inflatable raft is heading to the edge of a waterfall.
  • Triumphant Reprise: "Silly Plans ~ Revisit" serves as one for the original "Silly Plans". While both of them share the same lyrics, "Revisit" is much more upbeat, and while the original indicates that the desire to live with a long-distance partner is "silly", the remaster has Watercolor end up successfully moving in with their love. The reason for the change in attitude is likely based on real-life context, with Yon having moved in with their significant other, MelloRange.
  • Uncommon Time: "You'll Be Gone" is mostly in a 7/4 time signature, but the chorus shifts to a regular 4/4 one, switching back and forth between the two throughout the song.
  • The Un-Smile: The music video for "Circus Hop" has Clownfish sport one by the song's end, indicating their Sanity Slippage. While it starts off normal, over the course of the three choruses, Clownfish's face slowly morphs to indicate that their smile is a lot less genuine. The wider mouth and duller eyes on the final chorus looks more desperate, if not outright manic.
  • Villain Song:
    • "You'll Be Gone" is the most obviously villainous of YonKaGor's discography, detailing Selfish's attempts to sabotage a relationship in order to stay as the center of someone's attention.
    • Arguably, "Trash Talkin'" counts as well. Both Groupie and Sandbar are willing to slander and dig up dirt on the other just to knock the other down, with neither one caring what happens to the other.
  • We All Die Someday: One of the main themes of "If I Were to Die", expressed immediately in the first verse. Dragonet, the singer of the song, has become acutely aware of their own mortality, and their fear of dying has reemerged after finding people they care about.
    It could be tomorrow
    It could be today
    Never know when our lives would be
    Unfairly taken away
  • We Used to Be Friends: A heavily Downplayed example with "You're Just Like Pop Music". While they aren't enemies, the song makes it clear that Tetra and their friend don't interact anymore despite being close during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  • We Will Use WikiWords in the Future: SeaDrive's name is written in CamelCase, and of all the characters Yon has, they're the most technologically advanced, seemingly acting as a virtual assistant.
  • Would Hurt a Child: While it's ambiguous as to what actually happened, "Memory Merge" is taken from the perspective of this trope's receiving end. The song's lyrics and visuals (such as the pawprints on Speckle's silhouette) indicate that Speckle is a victim of either physical or sexual abuse from someone they trusted, and the climax of the music video reveals that most of, if not all of this abuse, happened when they were still a child. Such abuse happening at a young age is why Speckle's mind is this fragmented, with their memory repression seemingly being a trauma response.

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