Web Video / Davie504

"What's up, s l a p p e r s?"

Slap "like" now, and add some tropes!

Davide Biale (born April 5th, 1994), better known by his YouTube handle Davie504, is an Italian bassist, composer and YouTube content creator who mostly uploads videos relating, but not limited to, b a s s... Bass covers, bass lessons, meme songs on bass, heck, even playing video-games with a bass! He is capable of playing a large scope of genres but is most skilled in funk, and therefore employs the slapping technique quite often; so much so that it's a mainstay of his channel. He opened his channel in 2011, and as of current it has 13.4 million subscribers, though the number steadily increases with each passing month.

What's up, t r o p e r s ?:

• The Ace:
  • Davie is, without irony, an excellent bassist.
  • He has also demonstrated skill with the guitar, drums and piano.
• Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: He notes that Fiverr bassists started charging more after he started posting videos about Fiverr bassists.
• Berserk Button: Though he doesn't really emote, anything he dislikes will make him raise his voice, with increased reverb.
  • Playing bass with a pick. That's i l l e g a l.
  • So is guitar. Even though he's capable of playing it himself.
  • Using h a c c s.
  • Calling salami "pepperoni".^note As he explains, "peperoni" refers to actual peppers, while the "pepperoni" everyone thinks about is actually called salami
  • Comparing him to either Sylvester Stallone (especially in his younger days) or Murdoc Niccals. Please s t o p.
  • Bass puns. D e l e t e this.
• Beyond the Impossible: The point of the 'very impressive, but can you...' memes and challenges he does. To date, he’s played a 36 string bass, 10 necked bass, with corn, with a bass (fish)...
• Camera Abuse: Davie uses an editing trick to emulate this trope whenever he asks his fans to "slap like now" and claps at it with his hand. He later admits in a video to breaking his Macbook Pro laptop by literally slapping it, cracking the screen.
• Catchphrase: He has several, most of them with reverb added.
  • "What's up, s l a p p e r s?" ^note Opening tagline.
  • "B a s s"
  • "Slap "like" now!"
  • "O M G!"
  • "E p i c!"
  • "M i n d - b l o w i n g!"
  • "U n b e l i e v a b l e!"
  • "C h e c k m a t e!"
  • "W h a t ?!"
  • "He cheated. He used h a c c s!"
  • "'He b e t r a y e d me!"
  • "That's i l l e g a l!" ^note Relating to playing bass with a pick, or anything to do with guitars.
  • "Pfft!'"
  • "T h i s i s g e t t i n g e x p e n s i v e.'" ^note On his Fiverr videos, where he racks up bills in the hundreds.
  • Best X prize! ^note Nearly every contestant in one of his challenge videos gets some sort of prize.
  • "S t r o n z i." ^note A plural version of "stronzo", which is the Italian equivalent of "asshole" or "shithead"
  • "Get your facts s t r a i g h t!"
  • "T s k t s k."
• Cold Ham: He may have a monotone delivery of just about every line, but the reverb really hams it up.
• Deadpan Snarker: Very high on the deadpan, given that he almost never raises his voice.
• Does Not Like Spam: As he revealed in his childhood reveal video, he hated eating lunch at his elementary school because they served fish.
• Enemy Mine: Sort of. In this Fiverr search video, Davie went to recruit guitarists.
• Felony Misdemeanor: According to him, bassists playing with a pick, pineapples in pizza, not slapping like on his videos, etc.
  Davie, holding a gun to the camera: Don’t worry. I am very friendly.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: Davie often peppers his videos with some funny commentary.
• Friendly Rivalry:
  • Davie seemingly got into one with a female Japanese bassist, AnimeBassMe. After a few weeks, Davie revealed that it was him in a skirt and wig, the whole time.
  • He has one with fellow Youtube bassist Charles Berthoud, having collaborated or battled each other several times.
• Gender Flip: In "I pretend to be a GIRL BASSIST on the Internet", he puts on a female filter on his appearance in Omegle, but doesn't change his voice. Quite a few people even recognize him, despite the filter.
• Gentle Giant: He stands pretty tall at 6'7'', dwarfing his girlfriend, but for all his obsession of bass and digs at other non-bass instruments like pianos, violins, and guitars, he is really a kind and gentle soul. Many Youtube comments talk about how nice he is outside of his bass-loving persona, as well as how he inspired them to play bass themselves and helped them through emotional hardships with his "therapy time" sessions.
• Gratuitous Italian: As of his Italian voice reveal video, he occasionally drops his aforementioned catchphrases in Italian.
• Happily Married: As of August, 2023, he's married to his long-time girlfriend since his viewers noticed and wondered about his wedding ring.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: At 6'7'', he easily dwarfs his girlfriend (eventually wife).
• Hypocritical Humor:
  • He calls out other musicians for using "haccs" in his Fiverr challenges, while he did the same during the "You Laugh, You Lose" challenge uploaded prior to his laugh reveal video.
  • In some of his Fiverr videos, he says that real bass players use only a 4-strings bass (in reaction to people using 5-string bass). He himself has a 24-string and a 36-string bass. He even lampshades this by displaying the thumbnails to his 24-string and 36-string bass videos.
  • Naturally, his ire when seeing bassists use picks is all just a joke - he can and has played bass with a pick numerous times.
  • In one of his videos, he noted the bassist in the video he was watching was using playback audio. Davie then proceeds to insert a recording of him saying 'I never use playback in my videos'.
• I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham: After subjecting pizzas with pineapple to much ridicule, Davie tries a Hawaiian pizza once he gets 6 million subscribers and. It's subverted as he ends up liking it.
• Irony: He is a very tall Italian playing the bass. "Basso" means short in Italian. He has said that he gets these jokes a lot (while showing one such comment on the screen).
• Kids Are Cruel: In his childhood reveal video, he reveals that he was subjected to a lot of bullying as a child, whether for not having 'white' teeth (he drinks black tea in the morning), his monotone voice, or some other reason. It was also due to bullying that he stopped playing sports after his own teammates made fun of him. Understandably, he was a very shy person by the time he started his Youtube career, though he has grown more confident since then.
• Lame Pun Reaction: He is very unamused with bass-related puns, and a running gag in his "SDAIAY" videos involves people sending him pictures of bass (the fish) and base (as in baseball bases). His reaction is usually "D E L E T E this, please".
• Lead Bassist: He lives and breathes this trope. Not only is he very good at bass slapping, he also has a successful Youtube creator who makes his own videos about bass.
• LOL, 69: In his 36-string bass video, he declared that if it got 690,000 likes, he would play a 69-string bass. It got far more likes than that, and sure enough, Davie actually played a 69-string bass.
• Lonely Piano Piece: One plays whenever Davie is "sad".
• Mistaken for Masturbating: He does this a few times for laughs in his "Send This To Your Crush" video.
  • Also used in the opening of his SDAIAY opening.
• No Sense of Humor: Subverted. His laugh reveal shows that he, indeed, has a sense of humor.
• Nobody Loves the Bassist: Davie naturally defies this trope in any shape or form; he also takes whimsical digs at guitarists, despite being able to play guitar decently well.
• Not So Stoic:
  • Shown very concisely in his laugh reveal video that he is very giggly when off camera.
  • The final stages of his "bass guy vs bald guy" video with Seth Everman. The "What?" reaction to Seth no-selling his H o l y S l a p p is like a Big "WHAT?!" to the rest of us.
• Overly Long Gag: Some of his videos are endurance challenges where he plays the bass for hours straight, such as "Playing Can't Stop but I can't stop", "SLAPPING the BASS but I CAN'T STOP until FLEA (RHCP) notices me", "I Played Bass Until I Broke ALL the Strings (Impossible?)", and "Slapping the BASS until Coronavirus is CANCELLED".
• Pungeon Master: Davie isn't averse to wordplay, and he employs it when all other forms of humor abandon him.
• Running Gag:
  • Lately, he almost never misses the opportunity to make a joke about the number 69.
  • Every single time he goes on Fiverr, he says it's the last time, even though he always keeps coming back with a new Fiverr video.
  • Joking about calling the police when he sees something 'illegal', such as a bassist using a pick.
  • Being sent pictures of bass (fish).
  • Every time he uses Omegle, he's banned from it by the end of the episode.
  • A fair share of fans have taken a liking to comparing Davie to veteran actor Sylvester Stallone, and even went so far as to deepfake Davie onto Stallone in several scenes from the Rambo franchise.
  • He also has been compared to Murdoc Niccals of Gorillaz due to their similar hairstyle and facial expressions, much to his consternation.
• Shoddy Knockoff Product: SDAIAY is one of LWIAY by PewDiePie, and Davie lampshades this by pointing out it and its theme song are "fully original".
• The Stoic: All of his videos are delivered in a complete deadpan, and he very rarely cracks a smile.
• Supreme Chef: Davie has shown that he can find his way around the kitchen very easily: on his channel, he's cooked spaghetti carbonara, baked a pizza, made tiramisu and baked an Italian pastry dish called focaccia.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: A very tall, black-haired and occasionally sardonic fellow, to be sure.
• Trademark Favorite Food: By Davie's own admission, it's pizza. He also got to make one on his channel.
• Useless Accessory: He's often seen wearing headphones even when he doesn't really need them, to the point where he promises a reveal without headphones at 6 million subscribers, despite most of his early videos not having them, as well as his profile picture.
• The Voiceless: His girlfriend has never spoken in their videos. Subverted when Davie hit 7 million subscribers and she finally spoke.
• When He Smiles: It's definitely something, since usually he has a very flat, unenthusiastic face.
• The Worf Effect: His Bass VS Piano duel with Seth Everman has his usually invincible H o l y S l a p p be completely helpless against Seth's piano riffs. So strong that Davie is defeated and turned "bald".