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  • Approval of God: Has its own page.
  • Ascended Fanon: "Seasonal Return [Episode 1] (Beta Mix) - The SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis" is an animated adaptation of the SCP-3922 test on the original episode 1, which similarly depicts soldiers detaining the Voice for crimes against anime.
  • Banned Episode: A number of rips over the years have been taken down by the team themselves with no intention to reupload them, due to a variety of reasons ranging from fan unpopularity and Creator Backlash to accidental connections to possible real-world child abuse. The Lost Media Wiki keeps a fairly thorough list of banned rips and the reasons behind their removal.
  • Black Sheep Hit: Pretty much all of the most-viewed rips are of the less common rip variety. Aside from the most viewed.note 
    • The rip of We Are Number One became the number one most viewed video on the channel shortly after its upload and stood there until being passed by the above in May 2019. It's currently the second-most viewed video. All this despite the fact that the "video game" in question doesn't even exist.
    • The third most viewed rip is the Series Fauxnalenote  medley, "Title Theme and Ending - 7 Grand Dad". Most rips have a thumbnail that stays on screen for the entirety of the video, with a song playing in the background that has some sort of minor edit, but "Title Theme" is actually a little music video with sprites of Grand Dad, Nozomi and Loud Nigra traveling through various locales inspired by many of the channel's running jokes, accompanied with a Reprise Medley.
    • The rip of Mario Paint's Creative Exercise is the fourth most viewed, and it's pretty much an audio-only YTPMV of the song. Most rips use the instruments of the original song.
    • Then, of course, there's the Unused Version of the DK Rap as the fifth most viewed rip, famous for starting the Coconut Gun Running Gag. The rip is all about sentence-mixing the lyrics to say ridiculous things. The Unknown from M.E. (OST Version) is the seventh most viewed video and it's same deal. For starters, much of the channel's discography is instrumental, and even rips that do have vocals usually don't mess with them in this way.
    • The sixth most viewed, which was in fact the most viewed video shortly after the channel rebranded itself to SiIvaGunner up until the "We Are Number One" rip passed it, is the Nintendo GameCube startup jingle rip. For most rips, the song in the title has the focus, but this rip spends the first quarter of its runtime playing Smooth Criminal before adding a loop of the GameCube startup jingle.
    • The ninth most viewed is Good Night, another Series Fauxnale with some visuals thrown in. Although in this case, the audio is a more typical for the channel, being a mashup of Undertale's music and Porter Robinson's Goodbye to a world.
    • The tenth most viewed video is Dedede Fusion Collab, which isn't even pretending to be a video game song!note  File Select Fusion is the 19th most viewed and it's the same deal.
    • Finally, the 11th most viewed video is the rip of Snow Halation. It's a Flintstones-themed parody performed by a group of actual singers, with a music video as well.
    • Below this point the rips get more typical, but there are still some examples such as the aforementioned File Select Fusion (19th most viewed), two more DK Rap rips (12th and 29th), Wario World's Pause Screen which is a 50-minute long medley (17th), and Main Theme - Waluigi's Tacostand which is another Fictional Video Game (27th).
  • Bury Your Art: SiIvaGunner had a large number of rips removed over the years. While some were taken down due to violating YouTube's policies, the following were taken down by the team themselves:
    • The "Green de la Bean" rips, a series of Bait-and-Switch videosnote  whose punchline was a Sensory Abuse video of a cartoon green bean, were all pulled after one of them ended up being flagged. A few of these rips would be remade without the Bean or at least with the Sensory Abuse removed. SiIvaGunner reluctantly retired the character with a somewhat Backhanded Apology in "An Ending - Undertale", which was itself deleted due to having been uploaded on 9/11 (see below). It didn't quite stop the character and Running Gag from appearing occasionally in subsequent rips, though usually without the Sensory Abuse (which was also downplayed in some Bean rips released shortly before the apology video).
    • The 9/11 event in 2016, featuring 9/11 jokes, The Jetsons, and America-themed rips, was canceled partway through due to extreme backlash (not helped by this occurring directly after the poor backlash from the Bean rips). Several of the rips created for it never made it onto the channel itself. All rips from that day were deleted, including a few unrelated to the event.
    • "Ashley's Song - WarioWare: Touched!" was pulled thanks to an edited line that joked about engaging in anal sex with Ashley; since she's canonically a minor, the team felt that the joke had unintended pedophilic implications.
    • "DK Rap (JP Version) - Donkey Kong 64" was pulled since one instance of the "D! K!" chant was edited to "K! K! K!".
    • "Final Boss - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles" was removed due to the team disliking its arrangement, which they described as "a midi slap with an inaccurate Genesis soundfont that we didn't expect anyone to actually like".
    • "Puzzle Room - Kirby: Planet Robobot" was removed due to it being a shock video that was uploaded unilaterally by Le Ruse Bird without the rest of the team's consent. The video would become a Role-Ending Misdemeanor for Le Ruse Bird, who was banned from uploading for a week. Ironically, this incident was so infamous to the fanbase that the song featured in the video became a Running Gag afterwards.
    • The first version of "Title Theme - 7 GRAND DAD" was made as a joke video consisting entirely of rips and Running Gags that the channel's fans disliked. It was taken down by the team after the second version of the video, a proper Grand Finale (at first), was published.
    • "Theme Song - Caillou" was removed after a ScareTheater video revealed that one scene in the rip (the man taunting a screaming kid locked in a shower) was sourced from what appeared to be a pedophilia ring, noting its similarity to another, verified child pornography video. The members of SiIvaGunner left a comment on the ScareTheater video stating that the team took the clip from 4chan's /x/ board without any knowledge of who made it or why.
    • "Environmental Noises - Super Smash Bros. Brawl" was removed due to it being a troll video of somebody punching a pigeon that was unilaterally uploaded by an unidentified member of the channel, who was promptly fired.
    • "abc_123_a - Undertale" was unlisted as an intentional artistic decision. The video uses the Underpants video based on the track, which itself was based on Undertale's hidden metastory about the secret character W.D. Gaster, most of which requires hacking the game or extreme luck to see. Keeping in line with its inspiration, the video itself was hidden so that it required a similar kind of deep snooping to discover.
    • "Giga Bowser - Super Smash Bros. Melee" was an intentionally terrible rip uploaded to see if the fans would dislike it; it was promptly unlisted after fans did just that. A different, better rip with the same title was uploaded in its place. This was actually undone later, as the earlier bad rip was reuploaded to the channel during the Nostalgia Critic Takeover, just with the subtitle 'Original Version'.
    • "Mute City (Multiplayer Mix) - Super Smash Bros. Brawl" was unlisted due to the team disliking its quality, particularly singling out the fact that it was off-key. The rip "Mute City Ver. 2 - Super Smash Bros. for Wii U" uploaded a few months later served as its replacement.
    • The original version of "Title Screen (Demo) - Super Mario 3D Land" was removed because the backroom ultimately didn't like it, most likely for being an extremely barebones mashup. It was promptly replaced by a rip where Mr. Own shoots the mashup down, tying into the then-ongoing story arc on his murderous hatred of mashups (although Word of God is that the decision to do this had little to do with the arc itself and was just about the team disliking the original rip).
    • The original "Main Theme - Metal Gear Solid" was unlisted and removed from its playlist, most likely for being off-key. It was replaced by the creatively-titled "Main Theme (super remastered not gay version) - Metal Gear Solid".
  • Colbert Bump:
    • Mr. Rental, the obscure mascot for the Australian rental company of the same name, was given the spotlight in a few rips.
    • The channel is also responsible for transforming The Nutshack from an obscure Filipino series to an Internet iconnote .
    • Similarly, when they started using We Are Number One in rips, the once-obscure song skyrocketed in popularity and became one of the defining memes of the decade.
    • Some "rips" come from games that are rather unknown or obscure.
    • Big Chungus references on the channel are usually comprised of one of three songs (or sometimes all three): the song by Endigo, the song by CG5, and the song by The Slopster. While the former two are very well-known and have roughly about 5 million views each, the latter is very obscure, having only about 40,000 Youtube views (likely all directly from SiIvaGunner), yet tends to be more frequently referenced in rips than the other two songs.
  • Creative Differences: Triple-Q, one of the more well-known early contributors to the channel, was unceremoniously let go from the contributors a few months in as the others felt that his submissions weren't of high enough quality.note 
  • Creator Backlash:
    • Since the ending of the reboot ARG, the Siiva team has made several mocking remarks about it as well as fans obsessed with "lore".
    • The "bean flagging" incident didn't help matters. It even managed to get to the point where all the rips from 9/11 were removed due to some people threatening to flag them for offensive content. They were all re-uploaded on the (now defunct) Flustered Fernando side channel.
    • A lot of the edgier rips from early in the channel's days have been deleted over the years. While two of the most infamous examples are "Puzzle Room - Kirby Planet Robobot" and "Theme Song - Caillou", there are plenty of less-known rips that the channel has since deleted, such as a 2017 rip (of an Anne Frank game no less) celebrating Hitler's birthday. A lot of this edginess originates from Chaze's and TUWieZ's former influence on the channel, at least according to TUWieZ himself, which dissipated as the channel gained an increasingly diverse ripping team and many of the earlier channel members turned out to be trans, leading to many of the original edgier channel heads leaving.
    • NBGMusic, creator of the Mr. Rental rips, mentions that he felt the three Looney Tunes-themed ones he made were "pretty boring" in Behind the Scenes - Mr Rental: The Video Game.
  • Dear Negative Reader:
    • The "OST version" of Megalovania from Undertale is interrupted by Chad Warden, who takes his time to insult people who hate the Snow Halation remixes that frequently show up on the channel.
    • Chad disrupts the "Beta Mix" of Megalovania from The Halloween Hack to once again call out the Snow Halation haters.
    • In the video that began the reboot, we are told that the channel crashed because of a problem with the file "HALATION.SYS" which was caused by "COMMUNITY_DISCOURSE".
  • Defictionalization:
  • Distanced from Current Events:
    • Sort of Zig Zagged with his "Continue? - Felix the Cat" rip which was mashed up with "Puzzle Room" from Kirby: Planet Robobot... and released about 2 days after the infamous "Puzzle Room" incident. It was unlisted very shortly after going up, and was later in the day made private, likely to prevent controversy; mirrors are available, though, and it was put back up the next day.
    • One of the contestants for the King for Another Day Tournament was a team of Reggie and Etika named "Joy-Con Boyz", but following Etika's Creator Breakdown and eventual suicide, he was removed from the contest in order to avoid bringing undue negative attention onto the real-life Etika. Bill Trinen would later fill in as Reggie's partner, and the team would be renamed "Nintendo Power". However, Etika was not completely gone from the tournament - he would later get a remix of Lifelight, the theme song to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate dedicated to him.
  • Development Hell:
    • Law & Disorder and MissingNo.'s prizes for reaching the final four in King for Another Day have suffered this fate; little to no information about either project was revealed for roughly a year and a half before the team eventually announced that they were put on indefinite hold.
  • Doing It for the Art:
    • The team is making no money off the channel. Nothing's monetized, they don't have a crowdfunding campaign, and all Bandcamp albums are free, with any proceeds made going to the account's free download credits, and undisclosed charities.
    • SiIva has an entire art team dedicated for visuals of bigger events such as KFAD or The Christmas Comeback Crisis, who consistently illustrate high quality art when needed, no matter how bizarre or silly the circumstance requires. And much like the channel itself, no real monetization comes from this.
  • Fanwork Ban: The channel accepts and posts a wide variety of rips submitted by the fans, but the contributors also keeps a list of content that isn't accepted. Some are due to concern for copyright strikes (see Screwed by the Lawyers). Others, such as "Space Jam" by Quad City DJs, "Yo Home to Bel-Air", and "All-Star" by Smash Mouth are due to being cliché memes and thus magnets for low-quality efforts.
  • Follow the Leader:
    • Besides the countless "high quality rips" from those who aren't channel contributors, there's also a handful of channels based off the same concept.
      • One of the very first was BrawiBRSTMs3 X by TurretBot, parodying actual music uploader BrawlBRSTMs3 X.
      • Later examples tend to mess with the letters of "SiIvaGunner" in various ways. One of the most popular in this category is BIizzaStunner. The OG Gilva sums it up nicely with this◊ tweet.
      • Following the September 30th planned ending, even more channels sprung up to continue making high quality rips. This includes TimmyTurnersGrandDad, who became more popular than any other fan channel.
      • A channel called "TheLogosMan4K" is essentially what SiIvaGunner would be like if he did "high-quality rips" of opening and closing logos.
      • There exists a parody channel of popular Geometry Dash player KrmaL (formerly known as Krazyman50), which posts meme edits of Geometry Dash levels in a similar manner to SiIvaGunner. Levels created for the channel have their in-game IDs linked in the description of their videos.
    • On a separate note, thanks to the channel's spread of 7 GRAND DAD plus the reboot replacing memes, various spin-offs of Joel's reaction to GRAND DAD have surfaced, starting with 8 GRAND MAnote . The actual crusade of making these, however, was started by the creation of 9 GRAND SON. It started getting ridiculous after 10 GRAND DAUGHTER.
    • The King for a Day tournaments have inspired multiple clones and similar tournaments on Soundcloud, which follow a similar structure to King for Another Day. Examples include Mashup Week, Temporary Flight Attendent, Third World Tournament/Third World Tournament X, Another Unnecessary Tournament and PRIZM
  • Franchise Zombie: Despite Chaze the Chat intending to end the channel on a high note in September 2016, the Christmas Comeback Crisis, intending to just be a temporary special return for the holiday, morphed into an actual comeback continuing way past the Christmas season due to the seventh episode falling into Development Hell - eventually, Chaze decided to uncancel the channel altogether.
  • In Memoriam:
    • "We Are Number One But It's a Fusion Collab" ends with the message "Thank You Stefan" in the style of the LazyTown title font, referencing the death of Robbie Rotten's actor Stefán Karl Stefánsson in 2018.
    • After the death of backroom member Marrow in 2019, shortly before the National Go Fishing Day Event was due to begin, the event gradually worked in more Ultimate Angler rips, as he enjoyed Streetpass games and Ultimate Angler in particular. The June 2023 album I JUST WANNA DO CATCH SOME FISHS, which compiles rips of the entire Ultimate Angler OST among other rips related to them, was released in tribute to Marrow.
    • Another ripper, RL.99, passed away in late 2021. In February 2022, the channel commemorated what would have been his birthday by ripping properties he liked, such as Mother 3, as well as long, complicated songs.
    • The King For Another Day tournament ended with two tracks dedicated to those who passed away before the tournament began, with "8PM (Fishing Night in Heaven)" in memory of the backroom member Marrow (again), and Lifelight as a tribute to Etika.
    • "Elliot's Theme - Garry's Mod" ends with a dedication to the late Garry's Mod machinimist kitty0706, to whom the video is an extended homage.
    • "A Song for the Fireflies - Rime" pays tribute to the late Isao Takahata, co-founder of Studio Ghibli and director of Grave of the Fireflies.
    • In the wake of Berserk mangaka Kentaro Miura's passing, the team posted an illustration of Wood Man dressed up as Guts to pay tribute to the late author.
    • "Blammed (In-Game Version) - Friday Night Funkin'" is dedicated to the late rapper Juice Wrld, being a mashup between the advertised track and "Lucid Dreams", down to his depiction in the rip bearing a halo and a pair of wings.
  • Keep Circulating the Tapes:
    • All of his videos on the original channel (just under 1000) were condemned to this once the channel was terminated. The new channel has reuploaded most of them, but some were left out, possibly due to Early-Installment Weirdness. Regardless, this playlist claims to have reuploaded them all.
    • One notable example of a terminated rip is the final boss theme of Sonic 3 & Knuckles (a remix of Roundabout using the Genesis synthesizer), which managed to reach over 60 thousand views before being taken down.
  • Meaningful Release Date: A mainstay of the channel.
  • Milestone Celebration:
    • To celebrate the SiIvaGunner 1,000th video, he uploaded... Fire Temple (Removed Version), which was the last video on GiIvaSunner before his channel was removed.
    • January 9th, 2017, the first anniversary of the channel, saw a video detailing a timeline of important events in channel's history. It also saw a special rip of "A Secret Course" from Super Mario Sunshine, which is an updated version of a pre-SiIva Soundclown remix - the very remix that inspired Chaze the Cat to start SiIvaGunner. (It was removed from the actual channel for "violating YouTube's policy on spam, deceptive practices, and scams", but is reuploaded here).
    • Not for the channel, but for another property. For the 20th anniversary of Jet Set Radio and as the promised channel takeover day for 2020, The SiIvaGunner channel was converted into a digital radio station for 30 hours, with DJ Professor K hosting.
    • The channel reaching its 7th anniversary was marked by a year-long celebration they called "The Year of Grand Dad".
  • Newbie Boom: Despite steadily going on for almost 5 years at that point, the channel received a significant boom in newcomers in early 2021 after Friday Night Funkin' blew up on the Internet, mainly due to the channel posting 3 high-quality mods of the game every Friday night. The memeability of the mods themselves may have also helped.
  • Official Fan-Submitted Content: The channel occasionally uploads rips that are created by the fans as opposed to the contributors. The "Main Theme - Superman 64" rip is actually an instructional video on how to properly submit rips to the channel, which also includes a list of content that will not be accepted for various reasons.
  • Promoted Fanboy: A few regular contributors got their start creating unofficial "high quality rips" on sites like Soundcloud and YouTube before officially joining the team.
  • Recursive Adaptation:
  • Role-Ending Misdemeanor:
    • Le Ruse Bird was let go for uploading the infamously graphic "Puzzle Room - Kirby: Planet Robobot" without permission from the rest of the staff. Le Ruse Bird did apologize and was allowed back into the group, but just as a normal ripper without direct channel access.
    • An unidentified member of the team was fired for uploading "Environmental Noises - Super Smash Bros. Brawl", which includes a real video of someone punching a pigeon, without anyone's consent.
  • Role Reprise: KNIIO reprises her role as DJ Doctor K during the Professor K takeover, having first voiced her in the Jet Set Sona Challenge's introductory short.
  • Rule 34 – Creator Reactions: The SiIvaGunner: King For a Day credits include a Special Thanks to everyone who drew Fan Art... immediately followed by a "Special Unthanks" to "that one person that drew porn of Unregistered HyperCam 2". Likewise, the King for Another Day credits includes a "Special Unthanks" section that starts off with "Porn".
  • Screwed by the Lawyers:
    • As of the Season 4 submission guide, the channel currently cannot accept or host rips involving Morimori Atsushi, the soundtrack to Re:CREATORS, or footage from Super Sentai explicitly due to copyright concerns. Other copyright-unfriendly sources (such as Drake or Kanye West) are not banned outright, but still highly discouraged in submissions.
    • The beginning of 2019 saw the channel being taken down thanks in no part to Sony Music Entertainment Japan filing 3 copyright strikes on them in one day. It would take the crew over a few months to get the channel restored by YouTube.
    • A more minor one here. The "It's a me, Mario!" - Super Mario 64" rip features Charles Martinet, the voice of Mario himself, giving a shout-out to the channel. Martinet was originally supposed to say "It's a me, Grand-Dad!" but his contract didn't allow him to do so.
  • Trolling Creator: Obviously, considering it's a Bait-and-Switch channel. Even after the channel's true nature became well-known, the SiIvaGunner team still frequently messes with the fans both inside and outside the channel. Examples of this include references to this rip and extending the Inspector Gadget event because of the fan backlash. It hasn't always worked out in the team's favor, though, as their attempts to turn Green de la Bean into a major meme resulted in the fans giving the channel a flag strike.
  • Urban Legend of Zelda: Rumors persist that certain Undertale and Deltarune rips were contributed by Toby Fox himself, some citing the clarity of rips based on songs that had only been revealed shortly before.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • The creator of the infamous Puzzle Room rip originally intended for the video to end with a photo of Kirby ripping his skin off. Since no such photo existed, they substituted one of a harlequin baby put through the Hypernova Yourself filter, and, well...
    • Chaze the Chat explained in a Tweet thread that the storyline following the reboot was originally going to be much different, with someone hacking SiIvaGunner's computer to add The Nutshack to it and ultimately making Tito Dick the lore's true villain. However, the fans eventually ended up liking Nutshack rips more than disliking them (against the team's Intended Audience Reaction) and the Mr Rental arc seemed more compelling, so it was scrapped.
    • The Mr Rental arc itself also went unfinished, the reasons why being explained at length in "Behind the Scenes - Mr Rental: The Video Game".
    • Chaze noted in a livestream that The Nostalgia Critic's takeover was ready to go well before the controversy that hit Channel Awesome just before it started, and the original ending for the takeover was completely different, but was scrapped in favor of "An AWESOME Announcement!", a video directly spoofing the controversy.
    • Unregistered HyperCam 2 in the King for a Day Tournament was originally planned to be a Moe Anthropomorphism of the software called Unregistered HyperChan 2, but it was scrapped in favor of a robot design more directly based on the software's icon.
    • King for Another Day had several scrapped concepts, one of them being that Law & Disorder was going to be a Visual Novel rep with Monika as a third team member, with her confined to a tablet screen the entire tourney. This idea was scrapped since the team still had concerns about Monika's popularity muddling the contest, and they just thought it would be funnier to represent Doki Doki Literature Club! without her on the roster (with Missing No. ultimately getting the game's soundtrack due to the game's use of glitches).

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