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  • Alas, Poor Scrappy:
    • Despite the hate for Snow Halation, many people were saddened to see it go with the rebootnote . This was further exacerbated after ▀7̩̜̀ ͈͎̭͕͈̣͚̰́G̸͚̞͖̭͖̀R͏̛͇̟̼̺█Ḑ̤̜̙̪̳▓D͙̲̝̘̤̦̣̗̥█ was posted, revealing The Voice offering Chad a deal to merge the pre-reboot and reboot universes, at the cost of Snow Halation. Cue a flood of "Save the snow!" comments.
      • And now you can add the people upset that Chad accepted the offer to this. Now completely subverted in that Chad used his newfound power to bring back "Snow Halation" anyway.
    • Invoked in this rip of Destruction of the Sammer Kingdom, which implies that The Simpsons universe was destroyed.
    • Oddly enough, some of the fans had this reaction to the "Green De La Bean" rips being deleted. Many wanted it gone but quite a few folks admitted flagging them was not the way to do it, as it potentially put the entire channel at risk.
  • Alternate Character Interpretation: The Nutshack was commonly believed to be the post-reboot main antagonist or the Greater-Scope Villain responsible for the reboot... until Mr. Rental began killing mashups, resulting in him appearing in the banner with his shotgun, pointed straight at the lighthouse. Then people started to believe that Dick wasn't there to overshadow the other memes, but to protect them from the true enemy. Word of God later explained that Tito was indeed meant to be the one responsible for the reboot, but this idea was scrapped because people started liking rips with The Nutshack.
  • Aluminum Christmas Trees:
    • Given that rips of Fictional Video Games (e.g. Waluigi's Taco Stand, Shadow and the Snow Queen, Maroon GO) have appeared on the channel, it's easy to pass off games with similarly ridiculous as more of the same, despite them actually existing as games. This tends to happen more with fangames like Super Lesbian Horse RPG, The Nutshack: The Game, or hhGregg's Quest for Coupons.
      • Watch paint dry is indeed a real "game". It doesn't actually have a soundtrack, though.
      • The rips of 2 were mistakenly believed to be a reference to a backroom member's Inside Joke about the number 2. Eventually the community discovered that it's a real game.
      • Tate's Journey also happens to be a real game, though all of SiIvaGunner's rips of it are In Name Only.
    • You wouldn't know that Softendo's tirades in the Mario Forever rips were actual texts pulled from the real Softendo website unless you followed the actual Mario Forever game.
  • Angst? What Angst?: Haruka Amami in The SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis. In her home series, she's just a regular person, whereas here she's suddenly being thrust into a Cyberpunk story, kidnapped by The Voice and forcibly (well, presumably) made to dress up as Haltmann's daughter and perform in front of him. Afterwards, she asks Haltmann if he liked it with a smile on her face, and when Haltmann storms off, she casually complains to The Voice that he "wouldn't make a very good producer".
  • Anvilicious: Even if the intention is to dissuade conflict from the fans over their favorite characters losing, the constant "it's not about winning but having fun and meeting new friends" aesop that keeps being brought up on the King For Another Day MOJO!! can get pretty tiring to read over and over again. Of course, this gets lampshaded to hell in the penultimate posts (three-parter "The Party").
  • Arc Fatigue:
  • Archive Panic: Given SiIvaGunner has been consistently uploading multiple videos every day for 6 years now...well, no need to do the math; the channel has over 25,000 available videos, which can range from less than one second to twelve hours (though they're usually 1-5 minutes). There also exists some album-exclusive content and hundreds of deleted, unlisted, or copyright-blocked videos, including an entire spin-off channel (the now-terminated Flustered Fernando). Mercifully, going through all this content is not really necessary, since most of it is just the music uploads, which are self-contained (well, aside from the thousands of references).
  • Awesome Art: Despite the Christmas Comeback Crisis suffering from Arc Fatigue, fans have praised the drawings made for it, especially as they began greatly improving.
  • Awesome Music: Enough to have its own page.
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
    • Even considering the nature of the channel, Green de la Bean still manages to be this due to the sheer bizarreness of its appearances, featuring distorted audio, weird imagery and terrible grammar, and many rips often resume the original song as if nothing had happened.
    • The Misha incident. On August 29, 2016, in the middle of the Nutshack/Mr. Rental arc, the tower in the channel banner was taken over by a picture of Misha Flipping the Bird, which disappeared an hour later, taking the tower with it. The tower remained missing in the following days, implying that the incident was important to the channel's lore. However, following 9/11 (whose quickly-canceled event altered the banner image to contain two copies of the tower), the tower inexplicably returned with the characters still in it (albeit with the the Reboot characters gone and Tito Dick in Loud Nigra's place), and Misha would not return to the lore until his seemingly unrelated appearance four years later in Christmas 2020's "I Wanna Thank Me".
    • Subverted big time with Wood Man & Robbie Rotten - A SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis Side Story. It starts off with Wood Man and Robbie Rotten reenacting the Steamed Hams scene from The Simpsons... until Robbie spits out the food they were having. Then they hit you with lore.
    • In Jack and Elmo's first interview, right as the interview is about to be finished, Elmo says the oddly creepy "Kill everything." before correcting himself. It seems like it was going to lead into a Brick Joke, but it never gets mentioned again (although Elmo does innocently react to some inappropriate behavior from the other contestants later on).
    • One of Professor K's talk segments during his takeover stream has him and his daughter Doctor K reenacting a scene from The Incredibles, specifically an argument between Bob and Helen Parr. The argument has nothing to do with either of their lore, and is tonally different from the rest of the stream in that it's a serious familial dispute (played out by father and daughter rather than husband and wife, and substituting instances of "honey" for "pops").
  • Bizarro Episode: The fake finale of The Christmas Comeback Crisis (later renamed to "Opening Scene - Waluigi's Tacostand"), which feature Waluigi and the Bean running a taco stand, Waluigi causing a portal to appear by putting garlic on tacos, and Wario apparently living on the streets after Waluigi kicked him out. Believe it or not, this turned out to be an Innocuously Important Episode.
  • Broken Base:
    • During the first few months of the channel, there was one between those who didn't like the deception factor and hoped the "high quality rips" meme would fall into irrelevance, and those who felt that the Play-Along Meme was part of the charm. This was also fueled by some people in the latter camp refusing to help people asking for the rip joke for the sake of kayfabe. The reboot would inadvertently resolve this argument, as discussion of the lore took over the comments, killing off the Play-Along Meme. The only real holdover is the use of the term "rip" to describe the channel's videos.
    • The frequent use of "Snow halation" in rips was another big one. Some would treat it as the channel's worst Running Gag and despised its high frequency while others would point out that the similar number of The Flintstones rips were praised with no backlash.note  In a case of possible Intended Audience Reaction, the reboot storyline seems to deconstruct and reconstruct this trope in regards to "Snow halation". As a result of the reboot, it became much less polarizing in the fanbase, with those who don't like it nowadays mostly just feeling neutral on it.
    • The channel's return during Halloween, due to it happening so soon after the channel ending.note  Some were relieved to see more rips, while others weren't happy that the "closure" was seemingly another attention ploy. The fact that the rips were noticeably more repetitive (mostly per the Halloween theming) and the introduction Wood Man as a Stylistic Suck Running Gag didn't help; some found these ironically hilarious, others an insult to injury. Due to the lack of these factors, the later Christmas return was much more universally well-received (prior to its Arc Fatigue).
    • Starting with Season 3, there's a minor one with the people who wish they would finish up the Christmas Comeback Crisis, and those who dislike the lore and/or only care about the music.
  • Creator's Pet:
    • "Snow Halation" used to be this, as its Forced Meme status came as a result of Love Live! being a favorite of former contributor Triple-Q. However, as it's become absorbed into the channel's identity and Rescued from the Scrappy Heap, this isn't so much the case anymore.
    • Green de la Bean, apparently. After dislike bombing and flagging removed all the videos with it, the channel banner was changed to mourn its loss.
    • Coinciding with the disliked Bean rips, a set of 9/11-based rips also appeared, which were very quickly disliked into oblivion, as many people felt them to be extremely insensitive and ham-fisted.
    • Farting D. Va immediately became this after its introduction in late August 2019, becoming incorporated into almost every other rip despite becoming one of the most despised memes on the channel, even rivaling the hate received by Green de la Bean and earlier Snow Halation / Inspector Gadget rips. Some rip titles (i.e. "For the Fans (Unused Version) - Undertale") point to the SiIvaGunner team being clearly aware of this, but continuing to incorporate it for the comedic value in the backlash.
  • Crosses the Line Twice: Certain videos lean into this.
    • Peach Beach & Daisy Cruisernote  is infamous for using actual porn audio. It even includes knocking sounds to startle the viewer!
    • "White House" (viewable here) manages to catch more than a few people off due to it being a remix of "Saleel al-Sawarim"Explanation that segues into sounds of gunfire accompanied by the actual song before cutting to "Snow Halation" at the last minute.
    • The Puzzle Room incident.note 
    • The rip of the Chapter 4 Execution from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. You'll know why it's here if you've played the game. If you don't know...
    • "Painful History" is just the theme of Crisis City, which can be very jarring to Hanako fans.Explanation
    • The theme from the August 1st Pokémon Sun and Moon trailer pokes fun at the Alola variant of Exeggutor by playing the radio hate speech from Hotel Rwanda (the joke being that it ends at the remark about how 'we must cut the tall trees now'), shortly accompanied by the cry of Exeggutor, then the sound of someone bloodily slicing through it. Then a GXSCC version of the Flintstones theme starts playing.
    • "Color Power - Yellow Drill" from Sonic Colors features girls twerking in a graveyard.
    • The fifteenth anniversary of the World Trade Center attack saw the long-awaited debut of The Jetsons on the channel... and they're portrayed as WTC kamikaze pilots. Throughout the day, there were rips frequently featuring the Jetsons attacking the towers.
    • Two of the rips posted the day prior to the 2021 April Fools' event (which involves Mario temporarily becoming a channel-wide Unperson) are of Al Bowlly's "Heartaches", most famously remixed for Everywhere at the End of Time, the infamous music album meant to simulate dementia. Even better, the following day, when all references to Mario were wiped off the channel, as if he was becoming increasingly forgotten, two new remixes of the same rips were posted, with these slowing the songs down and adding a static overlay, referencing EatEoT even more. Over time, rips involving EatEoT would be posted almost frequently. There's even a whole goddamn playlist of them.
    • "Gap of Crag (Beta Version) - Super Paper Mario" mixes the song with the very vulgar and sexual "CPR". The explicit lyrics followed with the use of Super Paper Mario sound effects in the background is hilarious.
  • Ending Fatigue: Even though the channel formally ended on September 30th, videos continued to be uploaded well into October, November, and even to the next year, including not only rips, but lore with an actual series called "The SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis". As a result, some people have assumed that the announced ending was actually just a joke.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Despite only appearing in three rips pre-Reboot, Chad Warden became really popular due to him calling out a part of the fanbase for their hypocrisy and double-standards towards "Snow Halation". He was promptly promoted to protagonist status for the Reboot. His Dying Moment of Awesome at the end of the Reboot only helped his popularity.
    • "We Are Number One" became one of the most well-received memes on the channel despite initially being fairly minor. After the Grand Finale, a lot of fans lamented how it wasn't a proper, staple meme... but when the channel returned for Christmas, it started appearing a lot more.
    • L.A.M.A.J and ERIOIOIRE only have a few sporadic appearances, but fans love them due to the sheer absurdity of their designs and the "who would win?" debates surrounding them.
    • The King for a Day Tournament saw the introduction of Unregistered HyperCam 2, representing late-2000s YouTube. In its matchups, HyperCam 2 managed to beat out its competitors with impressive margins - even King Dedede, who has a cult-like following in the SiIvaGunner community, and it took victory in the very final round of the event against Off the Hook to become King for a Day. Due to its popularity, it returned as an important (non-competing) character in the sequel as an interviewer alongside Meowth.
    • The second tournament had a few as well, such as Law & Disorder who consistently won battle after battle until the semifinals where they finally got obliterated by original tournament veteran DJ Professor K, who also had become a bit of a fan favorite this tournament with his more diverse source material this time around. Not to mention Mariya Takeuchi dominating the losers bracket, to the point that she ended up becoming DJPK's opponent in the final battle after beating out the much beloved MissingNo. with a very slight margin.
  • Even Better Sequel: King for Another Day compared to the original King for a Day event. Despite the increase in characters and the resulting larger workload for the team, they managed to completely outdo themselves by adding a loser's bracket to give each contestant another chance to prove their mettle, greater variety in the source lists, and even a story on the MOJO!! website. Many fans were pleased.
  • Fan Nickname:
    • The channel is sometimes referred to as "GiivaSunner/SiivaGunner" for clarity's sake (and sometimes further abbreviated to "Giiva" or "Siiva").
    • The McCartney II track "Temporary Secretary" is referred to as "Jerry Temporary" thanks to some unfortunate kerning in a comment explaining the joke in a rip.Explanation
  • Fanon Discontinuity: While the original bean and 9/11 rips were deleted from the channel due to fan backlash, two videos do acknowledge their existence and deletion as part of the channel's lore. Regardless, fans usually prefer to continue pretending those rips never happened. Though, a few of the 9/11 rips that were just America-themed would end up being reuploaded during the Nostalgia Critic's takeover without backlash.
  • Fandom Rivalry: For a lack of better words, around 2016-2017 the SiIvaGunner fandom held JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fans in much disdain, primarily due to the latter's tendency to facetiously apply elements of the series to other works of media note , something which was not helped by the massive amount of Jojo-themed rips around the same time. The hate has largely died down since then as Jojo-themed rips have become more sporadic, and now when they do drop they're largely well-received.
  • Fanfic Fuel: Potential King for a Day contestants. Even after the period where you could officially send in suggestions ended, the team seemed to encourage fans making Super Smash Bros.-esque "speculation"/wishlists on what characters could make it in. Adding to this, the second tourney also played up the "representing a certain niche" aspect of the sourcelists (compared to the first one, where the lists had relatively specific things listed). Character concepts promptly flooded the channel's Reddit for a good while. Fueled by this and the announcement that a third KFAD will not happen in the foreseeable future, several KFAD clones have also been created (though with varying quality).
  • Faux Symbolism: The 2021 April Fool's event saw rips on April 1 being primarily Mario games (or rips referencing them), except that any mentions of Mario (including all previous rips of Mario games) were excised or obscured as a reference to the "Mario dies on March 31st" meme. But interestingly enough, the event did not end after April 1; it continued up until April 4th, when Mario was seemingly reborn and the previous rips of Mario games returned to normal. April 4th of 2021 was Easter Day.
  • Fridge Brilliance:
    • Of course the Grand Finale to the reboot would be a fake-out, as well as the Christmas Comeback Crisis (twice, the first now known as Waluigi's Tacostand). The entire channel was built on Bait-and-Switch jokes.
    • In Unknown From M.E. (OST Version), Knuckles says "freedom will be waiting when the Sonic series dies", which seems weird, as he's a Sonic character. But if he doesn't have to participate in the plots of the Sonic games, he can just do whatever he wants.
    • Why does The Voice Inside Your Head's motivation seemingly change between the Reboot and the Christmas Comeback Crisis? Well, what was his most memorable trait during the Reboot? Disliking "Snow Halation" and wanting it to be removed from the channel. And The Voice returned as a figment instead of a figment-human hybrid like he was originally, so he's doing what the fans remember him doing: Removing anime, like "Snow Halation".
    • The titles of Super Mario 3D All-Stars rips are formatted just like the original Super Mario All-Stars rips. They consist of "Super Mario 3D All-Stars Music", followed by the initials of the track's respective game, and then the song's title, all of which is unhyphenated. Very fitting, as 3D All-Stars is meant to be a Spiritual Successor of sorts to the original.
    • One of the rips features a Bait-and-Switch with Fate/EXTRA CCC - BB Channel, only for it to turn into a mashup of that and the main theme of Space Jam. This gets even funnier where in Fate/Grand Order, one of Summer BB's animations involves a basketball.
    • The Batter buying the Pasta Night Mushroom of all things during the Friday Night Funkin' Lullaby segment of "Shop Fusion Collab" seems odd, until you remember "Pasta Night" takes place in a Bad Guy Bar filled with creepypasta characters — given most creepypastas involve spirits, characters going insane, and downright evil beings, this makes it the perfect spot for a mass Purification.
  • Gateway Series: A few fans have been known to pick up Love Live! as the result of SiIva's "Snow Halation" Forced Meme and the general quality of the Love Live! School idol festival rips.
  • Genius Bonus:
    • The jokes featured in rips can get pretty damn obscure. Since the channel runs on Kayfabe, you won't be getting any hints from the channel itself; if the comment section and the SiIvaGunner Wiki are both stumped, good luck.
    • The Simpsons replacing The Flintstones in the reboot makes sense, considering that The Flintstones was the most successful animated sitcom until The Simpsons passed it. It also has a number of Shout Outs to The Flintstones, of course.
    • "Title Theme & Ending - 7 GRAND DAD" ends with a look at SiIva's room, which features a portrait of the emperor Hadrian. This is among the more subtle jokes on the channel; SiIva is generally depicted as a Living Statue of Antinous, who was Hadrian's lover (and was subsequently deified after his demise due to his relations).
    • While the source behind "Haunted Mansion - Adventures in the Magic Kingdom" is clear to anyone that's played Kingdom Hearts II - the battle theme of Simulated Twilight Town - the actual joke is more obtuse and specific. The first time this battle theme is heard is when Roxas encounters an unusual creature in front of a mansion... that's haunted with creatures just like it.
    • "Rusty - Water Gate" is a mashup of Rusty and the opening theme of Sealab 2021. On the surface, it looks like the joke that connects the two is that they both reference water but Rusty was developed by a defunct studio called C-Lab
  • Growing the Beard: While the channel was most popular and influential in 2016, the King For A Day tournament in 2018 is widely regarded as when the channel moved on from largely memes and referential humor with a bit of lore to a full-blown celebration of video game music.
    • As of yet, 2021 is considered one of the best years for the channel since 2016, primarily due to the channel experimenting and innovating more, with things such as the weekly Friday Night Funkin' rips + mods (which gave the channel a significant Newbie Boom) and the April Fools' event, which involved Mario's existence (including almost all rips of the previous games) being completely wiped from the channel altogether... up until the Lady takeover that is.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • To an extent, "We Are Number One" becoming a meme became this when, less than a month later, Robbie Rotten's actor Stefan Karl revealed that he had pancreatic cancer. Because of it, SiIvaGunner promoted Stefan's GoFundMe on Twitter, and it became Heartwarming in Hindsight when in late April 2017, Stefan announced that thanks to the fans' support, he was on his way to making a full recovery. However, he sadly passed away in August 2018.
    • The channel saw an upsurge of Careless Whisper rips right before George Michael's untimely death on Christmas Eve.
    • The Nostalgia Critic's takeover of the channel in April 2018, despite bringing back beloved Running Gags, can be hard to swallow in light of the major controversy that dogged Channel Awesome that very same month. Of course, knowing the kind of humor this channel runs on, it could be intentional. The "Just Monika" reference in the channel banner seems to be a subtle reference.
    • The final rip uploaded during the Grinch takeover was the aptly named "The Grand Finale" from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. When the rip was uploaded, many people joked that this would be the last rip on the channel... and surely enough, it terminated the day before their MAGFest panel thanks to Sony Music Entertainment of Japan copyright striking the channel thrice at the same time. Thankfully, the channel was later restored, but one look in the comments will bring the Harsher in Hindsight moment right back.
    • Sayo-nara (Unused Reveal Mix) - Doki Doki Literature Club! combines the Burger King foot lettuce meme with Etika's reaction to Sayori's suicide. The next year, Etika committed suicide.
    • Etika was taken off the KFAD2 roster in June 2019 due to his high-profile struggles with his mental health at the time, so the team did not want to bring any more unwanted attention to him. Later that month, he took his life. He was given a tribute rip to honor him after the tournament concluded, however.
    • Rewatching "Wood Man & Robbie Rotten - A SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis Side Story" in the years since its release can lead to some Fridge Horror. In the video, Wood Man exposits that the CCC is stuck in a time-lock of sorts, and the only reason he doesn't use his Dimensional Traveler abilities to leave is that he wants his friends to be happy, too. The video itself ends on a good note with Wood Man and Robbie reconciling, but since the CCC arc has gone Out of Focus, that also means Wood Man hasn't appeared in the CCC since—while still appearing in the lore for The SiIvaGunner Spooktacular Halloween Horror Special: Part III, the Kng for Another Day tournament (complete with John Notwoodman urging him to go back to Grandiose City), the Woodyana Stones: Raider Made of Lost Bark movie, and both of the Summer festival framing device lores. Did he change his mind about the CCC universe?
    Wood Man: maybe i should just leave then. i should just leave all of you behind and go fail somewhere else, while YOU guys can all just rot in this fucking purgatory instead.
  • He's Just Hiding: Quite a few people were in denial about the channel having stopped for good after the 2016 ending; the nature of the channel preventing any explanation for the delayed holiday specials afterward helped their belief. In a way they ended up being right, since the channel was Un-Canceled.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • The channel started when Undertale was still very popular. Naturally, the game's many leitmotifs were used in rips a lot, and many rips of that game were made as well, to the point where it's the most ripped game on the entire channel and for a while, they had a rule against submitting Undertale songs that have been ripped before. But the fact that Undertale was so popular on the channel became rather amusing when shitpost rips like Main Theme - Undertale and Good Night - Undertale started appearing. This also applied to the Undertale 2 series of rips for a time, but then Toby Fox made Undertale 2 Hilarious in Hindsight for a completely different reason.
    • SiIva spends the near-entirety of Main Theme - Ubisoft E3 Conference 2016 demanding "Give me Beyond Good & Evil 2". A year later, his demands were answered.
    • "Scherzo di Notte", which uses the Family Guy theme, became this when one of Kingdom Hearts' parent companies, Disney, bought out Family Guy's parent company, Fox. It could also be Harsher in Hindsight for those that don't like Disney.
    • This rip of Gone Home, a game that prominently features a queer romance, is primarily occupied by a distorted version of "Complicated" while two guys in speedos wrestle. The rip is then cut off with a "Snow Halation" remix featuring Nozomi (as it was uploaded on her birthday in Japan's timezone). Two years later, the channel holds an entire day of gay-themed rips in lieu of doing something for Nozomi's birthday.
    • This rip of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers gets cut off by the sound made by the Morphin Brace (from Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters) and the theme song from said show, in what some believe was a Take That! towards Saban for skipping itnote . A year and a half later, it's announced that Gobusters is being adapted in the form of Power Rangers Beast Morphersnote .
    • I Am Octavio (Phase 3) (Alternate Mix) - Splatoon is mashed up with October by DeadMau5. Two years later, the sequel would have the Octo Expansion stages composed in-universe by a character named Dedf1sh, which references the same DJ.
    • Tidal Tempest Past (Beta Mix) - Sonic CD has the track arranged as if it's using the Redbook audio format. Years later, a prototype of the actual Sonic CD was released, with the song used in Palmtree Panic's past using Redbook audio.
    • BLOODY STREAM (Uncut Version) - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle is a mashup of the second opening of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by Coda and A Cruel Angel's Thesis, posted in 2016. Two years later, when the anime adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind was coming up, it was revealed that its opening theme, Fighting Gold, would be performed by Coda... and written by Neko Oikawa, who wrote A Cruel Angel's Thesis.
    • Two of the most common jokes in Season 1 were The Flintstones and Space Jam. Space Jam: A New Legacy features both.
    • One of the participants in both King for a Day tournaments was "Weird Al" Yankovic. In 2021, the actual Weird Al Yankovic was announced as the narrator for the documentary film Tiny Tim - King For A Day. SiIva even acknowledged this.
    • In both King for a Day tournaments, Off the Hook was supplemented by Paruko (under the name "Glenna Nalira" in the first), a member of the in-universe band Chirpy Chips who is never seen or referenced in-game. The Splatoon 3 Direct, however, revealed that she would appear in-person as a shopkeeper (under the name "Harmony"), making her the first off-screen musician to become an Ascended Extra in this manner.
    • The joke of "Hip Shop (Nintendo Switch Version)" is "Suit & Tie" by Justin Timberlake. Come Deltarune Chapter 2: A Cyber's World, Ralsei actually does wear a suit and tie in the game.
    • The rip of "Field of Hopes and Dreams (PAL Version)" contains a music video featuring Noelle interacting with various early internet memes, in a parody of the original ANTONYMPH video. Later, during the Spamton Sweepstakes ARG Noelle's blog would play a part, styled after those prevalent on the early internet.
    • The rip of "Launch Base Zone (Act 1)" from 2016 is the LBZ Act 1 theme from the Windows 95 port of Sonic 3 & Knuckles, using the sound font of the Sega Genesis. 2022 would see a rerelease of S3&K as part of the Sonic Origins Compilation Rerelease, but with the tracks that were worked on by Michael Jackson and his team replaced with Genesis-like arrangements of their Windows 95 counterparts by Jun Senoue, including the tracks for Launch Base Zone.
    • The "Subject removal edit" style rips became this when WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK. used the format in several videos.
    • Season 3, which began in 2018 and ended in 2019, introduced the SiIva A.I., an artificial intelligence created by the Haltmann Works Company that replaced the original SiIvagunner as the In-Universe creator of the channel's rips. While the A.I. was initially invised by the channel's team as a method of returning the channel to its "normal" state after Season 2, its existence and role would eventually become prophetic of the advancements in AI and the rise of AI-generated content, where an AI is able to replicate the voices and artstyles of human artists, in the years following the character's debut. The similarities between the SiIva AI and the generative AI have been acknowledged by team, as they stated at a 2024 Magfest panel when talking about the AI's role in the eleventh episode of the Christmas Comeback Crisis that they "weren't trying to be topical".
  • Ho Yay:
  • I Knew It!: Quite a few people predicted the Phineas and Ferb takeover during the 2020 SiIvaSummer All-Star Festival event would be followed by a Doofenshmirtz takeover when little Perry-related music showed up during the former.
  • It Was His Sled: The channel was meant to trick people into watching fake OSTs via Bait-and-Switch. However, due to the sheer amount of Memetic Mutation generated by the channel, along with the spoof channel eclipsing the original channel's popularity (and outliving it as of 2022), most people go into one of these videos being in on the joke and waiting for the shoe to drop instead of being surprised by hearing what is anything but a high quality rip.
  • Memetic Badass:
    • DJ Professor K, being the winner of the King for Another Day Tournament.
    • Etika. Aside from his tragic life cut short that turned him into a Sacred Cow among Nintendo fans, when one takes into account both King for a Day tournaments, he ends up being the only contestant to have actually beaten DJ Professor K.
    • Many comments in Boss (Alternate Mix) - Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards made specific references to Kirby cutting =HR-H= in half, with one of them even referring to Kirby explicitly throwing it out of the atmosphere. Come Something About Kirby 64 (Animated), and that's exactly how the fight against it goes.
  • Memetic Loser: Every time anime and/or idol music showed up in a rip during the Christmas Comeback Crisis, several comments would point out how The Voice is a failure at suppressing weeaboo anime bullshit.
  • Memetic Molester: TITO DICK (YEAH DICKMAN, BABY!), naturally. Even more after he started showing up more in the channel's banner.
  • Memetic Mutation: See here.
  • Memetic Psychopath:
    Mr. Rental: Ban. All. Mashups.
  • Misaimed Fandom: Tito Dick (with The Nutshack Theme) was meant to serve as an Arc Villain after the Reboot, as the intent behind the rips were to troll the fandom at large and prove that The Voice wasn't exactly wrong about repetitive rips being bad for the channel. However, the fans started to like the meme, and this potential bit of lore was dropped entirely before it could surface.
  • Never Trust a Trailer: Waluigi Pinball (Beta Mix) was rather hyped up when it was revealed the week before. A big deal was made about it being the return of the Flintstones theme being the joke. However, through either poor scheduling or bad timing, other Flintstones-related rips were uploaded to the channel in the days leading up to it. Once the rip was uploaded, and the joke turned out to be just a Flintstones melody swap and nothing else, many people thought this made the rip feel less special.
  • Older Than They Think: The whole concept of a channel dedicated to bait-and-switch game soundtracks was not invented by SiIvaGunner, as a channel called SkywardSwordOST did it five years earlier. The execution was a bit different though; It primarily focused on The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, which hadn't released yet, so the supposed soundtrack was completely made up (mainly relying on Sensory Abuse such as ear-piercing music and sounds or random notes being played to startle the viewer, or simply incongruous techno remixes of franchise-staple themes) rather than existing tracks being tinkered with to form memes. SiIvaGunner evidently caught wind of their spiritual precursor, making a rip of one of the made-up songs, and have been subscribed to SkywardSwordOST ever since.
  • Paranoia Fuel:
    • A couple of SiIvaGunner's "rips" have a door knocking sound that pops up when you least expect it. Many people in the videos' comments section have noted how realistic the sound is, leading to some people going into a panic because they're tricked into thinking someone is knocking on a door or window next to them.
    • Following the Harlequin Baby incident, numerous viewers have become paranoid about shock images being posted in the channel's videos, despite SiIva assuring viewers that he will do everything he can to prevent similar incidents from occurring.
    • The second rip of "Puzzle Room", the previous version of which contained the aforementioned harlequin baby, initially had comments and likes/dislikes disabled, giving the viewer no indication of whether or not the rip contains the same thing.note 
    • Green de la Bean rips quickly became this, with early viewers not knowing what was in store for them.
  • Parody Displacement:
    • In November 2020, they surpassed GilvaSunner in subscribers. People had been mistaking GilvaSunner for SiIvaGunner, rather than the other way around as intended, long before that point (especially on Twitter, as SiIva's handle is still @GiIvaSunner with a second i). With Gilva's channel being deleted in February 2022, SiIvaGunner has completely outlived the channel it was a parody of.
    • Also applies to the songs themselves to an extent, as SiIva's "rips" usually appear on the first page of results for any given video game soundtrack, even to the point of being the first result sometimes. (This is probably helped by multiple popular VGM channels having been taken down since the channel's inception.)
  • Play-Along Meme: The whole "high quality rips" thing was treated as such when the channel was first starting, with most fans running with the idea that these are the regular video game soundtracks. Pretty much became a Discredited Meme because fans would respond with it to other fans who were already in on the channel and simply trying to figure out the rip's joke, which most saw as annoying.
  • Replacement Scrappy:
    • The Simpsons and Family Guy themes were this to The Flintstones theme, as several of the rips that use the Simpsons theme were disliked bombed, and both of these memes quickly died out after the Reboot ended. Though, given the Reboot's plot, this was most definitely an Intended Audience Reaction. Chaze the Chat later admitted that the songs are really difficult to incorporate into rips due to their unique chord sets, making it this trope for the team as well.
    • Similarly, while "Snow Halation" was liked and hated in equal measure, opinions on its Reboot replacement "Go My Way" were that it just wasn't as memorable, for better or worse. However, the song was Rescued from the Scrappy Heap after the end of the Reboot.
  • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap:
    • Snow Halation, after being gone for weeks, and Chad Warden accepting The Voice's offer, was brought back by Chad's Heroic Sacrifice, to much praise.
    • As mentioned, "Go My Way" after the Reboot ended and it could co-exist peacefully with "Snow Halation". Unlike the other Reboot memes, "Go My Way" still made consistent (albeit sparse) appearances afterward, and the fans warmed up to it. This also led to its singer, Haruka Amami, being included in the Christmas Comeback Crisis and getting a whole day of rips dedicated to her in April 2017.
    • Green de la Bean was once incredibly loathed by the fanbase for both being pushed as the next big meme by the channel and for being an very unpleasant surprise in every video it was in. Since its "flag nuking" and subsequent return, it has instead become a minor meme, and is now incorporated into the song through the melody behind "U Guessed It" as opposed to a bass-boosted "No Words" randomly coming out of nowhere, and the fans are now much more accepting towards it.
      • During the later weeks of the Christmas Special, Green de la Bean rips seem to come in two flavors- Sometimes, it's played straight, but only to show Stylistic Suck. Other times, the original image is edited to act as some sort of joke. Either way, the fans seem to be more tolerant of the Bean than before.
    • During his takeover, Inspector Gadget got hate from a lot of fans because he appeared in every single rip that he uploaded. However, once the takeover ended and Inspector Gadget rips were no longer omnipresent, fans were able to warm up to him, and rips featuring him became much more liked. The fact that he died at the end of his takeover also helped matters.
    • Averted with "Despacito". Even when fans admit that rips containing the melody of this song are an improvement from the original, they will still claim the latter to be mainstream-pandering trite, and consider the former a statement on the talents of the SiIvaGunner contributors, rather than the merits of the song itself.
    • "Astronaut in the Ocean" by Masked Wolf was initially a detested running gag due to its Stylistic Suck nature in its appearances, but from the event which celebrated the song's second anniversary onwards, rips featuring "Astronaut in the Ocean" are much more in-lined and more coherent, gaining redemption from fans who disliked the meme before.
  • Sacred Cow: Invoked by the Voice in the "Opening - Hatred" rip, where he makes it clear that he wants to kill all animenote  - not just the series that poorly represent it - by killing Guts and Spike Spiegel in his murderous rampage.
  • The Scrappy:
    • Virtually any Running Gag that overstays its welcome is liable to becoming this, such as the Inspector Gadget rips. Despite having produced some otherwise good remixes, the cartoon's theme song was abused enough that viewers became sick of it, as addressed in this video.
    • Snow Halation was the most hated Running Gag pre-reboot due to its Forced Meme status and, to a lesser extent, moe backlash. Most of the hate died down as a result of the reboot, though.
    • JustinRPG is also a hated Running Gag as the rips that feature his songs have garnered many dislikes. This may have to do with his bad, monotone singing voice. At least Snow Halation isn't deliberately unpleasant on the ears. This turned out to be intentional, as one part of the steps the Voice took to kill the original universe.
    • Since the reboot, kazoo rips are becoming increasingly hated, practically rivaling Snow Halation in the dislike bomb category. In this case it's mostly because the kazoo rips are, for the most part, just not very good. Crypt Of The Necrodancer rips get this the hardest, since almost every single one is a kazoo rip; many think of it as a waste of potential, and every single one has a roughly equal like to dislike ratio.
    • The Nutshack theme slowly started to become this. While at first it wasn't particularly disliked, as time went on since its introduction, more and more dislikes were placed on videos featuring it. It doesn't help that most rips using it just lazily slap it over the music, resulting in a rather jarring switch. This was intentional, though. In a twist of fate, the joke became a lot more popular after "The Nutshack intro, but..." videos became a meme, causing the channel managers to scrap their plans with the initial Intended Audience Reaction.
    • Bowflex rips, while presenting a nice joke at first, started being dislike-bombed once they became a Running Gag. Many think that either the joke ran out of steam quick, or was never funny in the first place.
    • In under a week of their initial introduction, rips containing Green de la Bean soon became one of the most disliked rips on the channel, for very good reasons. Not only do they come out of nowhere but they also take the Sensory Abuse to an extreme. It was hated to the point where one of the rips got flagged, promptly resulting in the rest of the bean rips being deleted.
    • The rips based on Silentó's Whip/Nae Nae are notable in the sense that they were largely disliked and were one of the few recurring jokes to not get Rescued from the Scrappy Heap after the typical day of the backroom uploading nothing but those rips.
    • The temporary Jake Paul takeover was not received well, since he was a controversial figure on YouTube. Some people even believed that the rips that were uploaded during it were a case of They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot, or in this situation, rips, especially the Super Paper Mario rips, which were in high demand but have only gotten sparse uploads, usually during the unfavored takeovers. Though, knowing the kind of humor the channel runs on, it could've just as well been the team's Intended Audience Reaction.
    • Dear god, Farting D.va. First introduced in late August 2019, it became one of the most despised jokes on the channel. Naturally, it was then inserted into almost every alternate rip till the KFAD prep season began, and still occasionally appears afterwards. Fans frequently comment that they now fear clicking on any rip under 1 minute, as these are the ones that tend to include these jokes. Of course, as with all the other Scrappies on the channel, the SiIvaGunner team seems to know how hated the joke is, but continues to include it as they find the backlash amusing.
    • Due to its competitive nature, the King for a Day and King for Another Day tournaments have rosters literally full of these depending on your tastes. Law and Disorder in particular was disliked by a certain sect for its busted source list that includes media with large and active fanbases (Danganrompa and Ace Attorney, but it was also stated to have the potential for Gravity Falls and Mystery Skulls) and it winning against every other contestant up until the semifinals, knocking several well-liked characters such as Weird Al and Papyrus out of the tourney.
    • Lady and her song, Yankin, who took over the channel in mid-April 2021, has received a whole new level of hatred rivaling or even more than D. Va, thanks to the unpleasantness of the song itself and the fact that it was included in every single uploaded rip (even D. Va only appeared every other rip). Thankfully, the event ended within just two days, rather than almost for a month like D.va. Only for it to come back in full force two days after it seemingly ended. It then ended for real on April 19 with the video "YANKIN' FOREVER", which features Lady and her backup dancers as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, only for Knuckles to barge in and trap her in the Master Emerald. She's been consistently portrayed as a Satanic Archetype ever since, so this was very likely another Intended Audience Reaction.
  • Shocking Elimination: In the King for Another Day Tournament:
    • Many were not pleased with the elimination of HOBaRT, who was viewed as one of the early favorites to win and got a big push from the SiIva team. Justified as the mixer lost Losers' Bracket to MissingNo., an even bigger favorite to win.
    • Ditto for Off the Hook, the previous tournament's runners-up, who didn't even win a single round; they lost the first round to King Dedede, and then were immediately eliminated by Mariya Takeuchi in the Losers' Bracket. This could also be seen as justified as their near-victory led the team to give only one very small buff to their source list, as well as revenge-voters trying to avoid a repeat of their near-victory.
    • Mr. Krabs goes onto the list as well, as he had the most popular track of the tournament, Mr. Krabs Rave.note  Not even his competitor, MissingNo., has a single rip that achieved that level of success.
    • Law & Disorder's loss to DJ Professor K certainly counts, though this was more due to previous voting records rather than the elimination itself. The DJ managed to seemingly gain 2,000 votes out of nowhere, an increase several found suspicious including one redditor that made a highly detailed analysis about it. To make matters worse, this match and the grand finals were the only matches to be single elimination, ultimately leaving Law and Disorder as the only contestant to not get a second shot at the crown and placing them lower than the tournament's runner-up who had one more loss than they did.
  • Shocking Moments: The 2021 April Fool's event. As a reference to the "Mario will die on March 31st" meme, the channel privated every single Mario rip (or rather, every rip that had "Mario" in the title, the only exception being "Vanish Mario" from Super Mario 64). Yes, even the most popular video on the whole channel. They then preceeded to post numerous Mario rips on that day, only with the rip titles and logos deftly edited to remove any mention of Mario - while a lot of the logo edits are pretty simple, special mention goes to Super M̸̌̊a̴͛̿█̸͌̑i̵̛͊█̷̾̓ Sunshine rips, which have the logo edited to have Mario's name be completely obscured by goop with the Shine Sprite being partially corrupted, the Super Odyssey rips which show Cappy in his original Bonneter form prior to possessing Mario's cap, and the Super █̴̧̀a̵̤̐r̷̙̋█̶̰̆o̶͚̚ Galaxy rips, which replace Mario's name with a 3D "Image not found" icon.
  • So Bad, It's Good: Rips based on the low-quality midi called "mm2wood", often being off key and downright cacophonic. However unlike Green de la Bean and JustinRPG, these rips manage to keep a rather large amount of likes, giving them this statusnote .
  • Song Association:
    • You will never hear the Flintstones theme the same way again.
    • Following the Harlequin Baby incident, SiIva's fans now associate the Kirby: Planet Robobot track "Program Rhythm" (titled "Puzzle Room" in the rip) with the sight of a baby with Harlequin Icthyosis, if the comments on unaltered videos are anything to go by.
    • This channel is probably the biggest source of exposure The Nutshack and its theme song have ever had, so it naturally became this.
    • Similarly, "We Are Number One" was originally this...until it grew to be a meme more popular than SiIvaGunner itself.
  • Spoiled by the Format: People who pay attention to the playlist section on the channel can already expect what games are being ripped on any particular day. To keep an hourly upload schedule, rips are uploaded en masse, and added to the playlists ahead of time using scheduled uploads. However, YouTube shows when a private video is added to a playlist, and since playlists are sorted in order of when they were last updated by default, it is easy to somewhat spoil upcoming rips by going to the playlist page.
  • Squick:
    • "Dating Fight! (Unused Mix)", which is just the audio of Sans and Toriel having sex backed by a mashup of "Careless Whisper" and "Megalovania". Responses were wonderfully negative.
    • After two successful Koriball streams, another stream went up on May 22nd, 2016, where SiIva streamed the scene from Pupa where Yume consumes Utsutsu's intestines in their bedroom while repeating "onii-chan" constantly.
    • A few videos into the reboot, a video for the puzzle room music for Kirby: Planet Robobot was posted, which eventually switches to an annotated screen with the options "Yes" and "No" written in Russian. While in this screen, a hand slowly comes into the screen and presses the "no" button, causing a distorted image of a baby with Harlequin Icthyosis to appear in the video. The video was made private after a while, but it had already became infamous among the fans, who are now cautious of viewing the rebooted SiIva's subsequent uploads. SiIva broke character to apologize, saying that it was uploaded spontaneously by a team member. The first reupload was a rip featuring the infamous Green de la Bean and was taken down and uploaded on Flustered Fernando, while the second upload had the originally intended image of Kirby.
    • Farting D.Va rips likely got the hate they did for this reason as well.
  • Suspiciously Similar Song: The "Match Results" theme from the King for Another Day Tournament sounds like the first and second main stanzas of "Someday of my life".
  • Take That, Scrappy!: Invoked several times in the Alternate Reality Game, in which several videos went out of their way to take a jab at Snow Halation and its fans.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The rip of the Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire battle theme on the revival channel caught some flack for changing the later part of the song to the much-reviled Snow Halation.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: On March 31, 2023, Love Live! School idol festival ended service, and Tomori Kusunoki stepped down from her role as Setsuna Yuki. The channel did not acknowledge these events, however, despite Love Live being a popular rip choice.
  • Unintentional Period Piece: The channel actually does a decent job of averting this, as rips of both old and new games, with old and new memes incorporated, have always been the channel's MO. However...
    • The sheer overabundance of Undertale-related content in the first year of the channel dates plenty of rips to the time Undertale's popularity was at a critical mass. This has had some lasting effects into the present, such as Sans is Ness jokes still popping up occasionally, long after it's become a Discredited Meme.
    • A massive amount of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure memes were also posted in 2016; while the show had not yet reached its absolute peak in popularitynote , it was when the show started to become a mainstay of meme communities. As the incessant amount of JoJo rips started to become increasingly polarizing, they have since become significantly less common.
    • Rips referencing gaming news were originally somewhat regular, but the cancellation of E3 2020 also marked the end of this practice for the most part; rips related to game trailers and Nintendo Directs are mostly stuck in the mid-to-late 2010s.

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