Todays rip [First 30 Archive] - 02/06/2023

Field of Love and Cringe

Season 5 Featured on: The Inevitable Holiday Album

Ripped by ChickenSuitGuy Visuals by Deercarcass, TelevisionGhost, moralem, Tocinin, mBluett, 600billionlazer, Galacksy, Myeauxyoozi, Netyasha Roozi, over-cast07

Boy that list of artists huh? Part of the magic of SiIvaGunner is that huge passion projects like this drop within the same schedule as every other rip, leaving it up to fans like myself to generate discussion over when things go crazy. It really isn’t often these days that an ordinary non-event rip truly blows up in the way this one did, sitting at almost half a million as of writing. But like, its well deserved!! It takes the basic concept of a mashup between Field of Hopes and Dreams and Vylet Pony’s ANTONYMPH, and turns it into a full-on tribute to the latter song, remaking the entire music video with all new visuals.

In that process, it creates a really fun new narrative of Noelle substituting Fluttershy in the original video as the “protagonist”, which creates a really fun new look into what the character is. A dorky, happy, proud and above all else SILLY little creature raised on the early 2000s internet culture. People inside and out of SiIva are in LOVE with this depiction of the character and I honestly can’t blame them, and the art used in the video is lovely in every sense of the word. Both as an Undertale fan and a SiIvaGunner enjoyer it’s been so fun seeing this strange mash-up joke turn into a full-on mainstay on the channel, bound to show up in the lore eventually. Not to mention the visuals are great not just for the way they pay tribute to Vylet Pony’s original video, but in how closely tied they still are to SiIvaGunner in-jokes: Its a love letter on all fronts

Though I’m a bit hazy on the full extent of the season’s contents, I’m willing to say this rip alone was one of the most defining moments of Season 5? With several of the original video’s creators giving their full approval to the rip and with Gir-hoodie Noelle being everywhere even outside of SiIvaGunner, its hard to say if any rips in recent memory had more of an impact than this. That’s not a knock against the rest of the channel, but a testament to just how well executed this rip in particular was. ChickenSuitGuy is a legend just in general.

Todays rip: 02/06/2023

Field of Love and Cringe

Featured on: The Inevitable Holiday Album Ripped by ChickenSuitGuy Visuals by Deercarcass, TelevisionGhost, moralem, Tocinin, mBluett, 600billionlazer, Galacksy, Myeauxyoozi, Netyasha Roozi, over-cast07

Boy that list of artists huh? Part of the magic of SiIvaGunner is that huge passion projects like this drop within the same schedule as every other rip, leaving it up to fans like myself to generate discussion over when things go crazy. It really isn't often these days that an ordinary non-event rip truly blows up in the way this one did, sitting at almost half a million as of writing. But like, its well deserved!! It takes the basic concept of a mashup between Field of Hopes and Dreams and Vylet Pony's ANTONYMPH, and turns it into a full-on tribute to the latter song, remaking the entire music video with all new visuals.

In that process, it creates a really fun new narrative of Noelle substituting Fluttershy in the original video as the "protagonist", which creates a really fun new look into what the character is. A dorky, happy, proud and above all else SILLY little creature raised on the early 2000s internet culture. People inside and out of SiIva are in LOVE with this depiction of the character and I honestly can't blame them, and the art used in the video is lovely in every sense of the word. Both as an Undertale fan and a SiIvaGunner enjoyer it's been so fun seeing this strange mash-up joke turn into a full-on mainstay on the channel, bound to show up in the lore eventually. Not to mention the visuals are great not just for the way they pay tribute to Vylet Pony's original video, but in how closely tied they still are to SiIvaGunner in-jokes: Its a love letter on all fronts

Though I'm a bit hazy on the full extent of the season's contents, I'm willing to say this rip alone was one of the most defining moments of Season 5? With several of the original video's creators giving their full approval to the rip and with Gir-hoodie Noelle being everywhere even outside of SiIvaGunner, its hard to say if any rips in recent memory had more of an impact than this. That's not a knock against the rest of the channel, but a testament to just how well executed this rip in particular was. ChickenSuitGuy is a legend just in general.

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Todays rip: 11/01/2024

Among Drip Drop Galaxy

Season 5 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume GS

Ripped by Myeauxyoozi

Honestly, out of all the jokes in current rotation on SiIvaGunner, I feel like Among Us edits are just about the most consistently good rips on the channel? The absolutely hysteria and chaos surrounding the game's release, legacy, and meme infamy is just never going to go away, and there's so many legendary audio sources to take from already. There's of course the legendary Big Gay's ranting call-to-action to make us stop posting about the game, which I covered with the excellent Big Sus Chocobo, there's the hit sociopath streamer Jerma986 who still holds the title of "the Sus guy" and appears in rips like Going Somewhere Jerma?...yet perhaps most famous of all, and one I've somehow not yet covered until now - are the rips using the legendary Among Us Trap Remix. Rips like Among Drip Drop Galaxy.

Part riding the popularity of the game, part riding its slow descent into ironic shitposting, part actually catching the attention of kids who do think "Among Us Trap Remix" are the coolest series of words ever put together by man - the result is an anthem that has effectively become the theme song to the game itself. If you're deep in the internet trenches to know about SiIvaGunner, deep enough to be reading this very blog post, you KNOW about the Among Us Trap Remix, its associations with the meme of "Among Us Drip", and have likely seen dozens upon dozens of edits using the theme already.

Yet even with that said, Among Drip Drop Galaxy is such a perfect use of the meme, that it blew my mind it hadn't been made by someone else than SiIva beforehand. There's of course the name to start - the word "Drip" in "Drip Drop Galaxy" will likely never be looked at the same way again by the modern internet user due to the sudden explosion of using the term to refer to cool-looking, fashionable people or characters, once taken seriously but now wholly drenched in meme-laced irony when used. Drip Drop Galaxy, fittingly enough, also already sports a sort of ominous, haunting melody and sound, akin to the ambience and sound design of Among Us itself, and by extension the sound building the foundation to the Among Us Trap Remix. I recall I first called something a "Perfect Rip" when describing Bowser is Coming., but the sentiment absolutely applies here just as much. Myeauxyoozi leaped headfirst at an idea that feels too obvious to not have been done before, yet also just an absolutely brilliant rip idea, and executes it with his trademark love for quality applied to the absurd (remember Shaky Mountain?). The results speak for themselves.

All the pieces of Among Drip Drop Galaxy just come together so effortlessly in its 75-second runtime, from the suspenseful opening only teasing the introduction of the Among Us Trap Remix, to the pausing of the main music to allow the "beat drop" to play out as intended within silence, to having the Among Us Trap Remix lead instrument play the melody of the original song for the back half of the song - it allows the two songs to feel truly mashed together in the most seamless way possible. Althewhile, of course, my childhood discomfort with the original Drip Drop Galaxy world and its atmosphere clashes brilliantly with the comedic value that I immediately associate Among Us edits with upon first recognition.

I may, just like always, be overthinking all this, but...there's simply not many other rips on the channel that manage to make quite as much immediate sense in my head as Among Drip Drop Galaxy. Simple as it may sound, it truly does represent my idea of a perfect rip.

Todays rip: 05/02/2024

Epic Rap Battles of History: Funny vs. Funnier

Season 5 Featured on: Rips From Around The Way 7 (Hidden Track)

Ripped by DonnieTheGuy Visuals by moralem, Blookerstein, PsychLantern, Myeauxyoozi

Requested by crickep! (Discord)

Yknow, for as much as I like to go on and on about Season 2 being my favorite period of the channel's life - it may honestly just be due to my own personal investment being at its highest at that point. Its a herculean, damn near impossible task nowadays to actually try and critically evaluate a season of SiIvaGunner in retrospect, and most of what I go off of obviously just comes from my own experiences and memories. It goes to reason, then, that Season 5 is my least favorite season of the channel not necessarily due to any fault of its own, but just due to my own personal investment in the channel being rather low at the time. I say that, because with every rip I cover from the Season - now including Epic Rap Battles of History: Funny vs. Funnier - I'm baffled as to why I'd ever consider the season anything less than peak.

When I have that discussion with other people (or just with the voices in my head), the reasons tend to primarily boil down to a lack of lore developments made during the year. Yet as I talked about way back in Knowledge of the Depths, even that feels like doing the Season a disservice, given just how enjoyable and, in a way, lore-crucial the audio dramas made during Season 4 Episode 2 and Season 5 wound up becoming. Which again makes me point toward my own lack of attentiveness toward the Season as the one to blame: because how else could I have missed out on how genuinely engaging and interesting the lore regarding Lady, Yankin', Masked Wolf and Astronaut in the Ocean was? And as the cherry on top - how could I have missed just how perfect of an ending to it all Epic Rap Battles of History: Funny vs. Funnier wound up being?

I've dissected and talked about Masked Wolf before in Aquarium in the Ocean and Snow halocean, as the figment who best fits the role of a true anti-hero within SiIvaGunner - an agent of chaos whose rips only occasionally bother to actually sound good, yet one we wound up loving despite (or because of!) it all. Yet as Season 5 began to truly ramp up, his role seemed to change from agent of chaos to necessary evil - as the only remaining figment capable of stopping the reign of hell that Lady's "Yankover" was subjecting us all to. No doubt SiIva has had its contentious, long-lasting takeovers before (Harlem Shakeover and Totally Shaaking Out Right Now, anyone?), yet nothing truly compared to the neverending downpour of hellfire cast upon us by one particularly crass rapper singing about her genitalia. And for once, it seemed as if the SiIvaGunner team agreed - Lady became, for all intents and purposes, the actual villain of Season 5, with her figment form reimagined as a full-on demon in need of imprisonment. And small nuggets of lore were being handed out week by week (nuggets that I, again, unfortunately glazed over back in the day), Lady's defeat wound up happening at the hands of HoBART, everyone's favorite mixer from the King for Another Day Tournament. Yet to me, Epic Rap Battles of History: Funny vs. Funnier still sits at the most pure, befitting end to her reign - a battle between the Season's fallen angel and its lawless demon, set to the tune of a game whose entire hype cycle practically enveloped Season 5 in its entirety.

Back in Satinpanties Symphony, I mused over how Friday Night Funkin became a mainstay feature on SiIvaGunner almost overnight, and how it feels as if the two projects share a lot of DNA that make them a perfect fit for one another, in how they handle the idea of legacy. What better game, then, could there be to depict the encounter between these two legends that defined the season, than with the game that defined the year - coincidentally, one entirely focused on duels between rappers. That's not to imply that Epic Rap Battles of History: Funny vs. Funnier isn't an absolute banger on its own - the melodic core of Ugh, paired with the implementation of both Astronaut in the Ocean and Yankin's backings into the back-and-fourth, creates a fantastic re-imagining of the song that's both endlessly relistenable and incredibly charming with the custom visuals. Yet its the same point I made in Take You To The Desert - with all that context in mind of all that led up to this battle, the knowledge of how much the community suffered under the thumb of both rappers yet came to understand one for his harmless-if-strange tendencies yet came to loathe the other...Epic Rap Battles of History: Funny vs. Funnier becomes something genuinely legendary. Paired with so many small flourishes added on top, such as the original track's "Ugh" sample being replaced with Masked Wolf's opening "Astro", the reference to Lady's attempted Thanksgiving resurrection ritual in Twerkey (seriously), down to Lady being positioned as the player character to truly sell home how dominant she was during her reign...It feels like yet another one of those, for lack of another word, Perfect, rips.

The cherry on top of it all though is, of course, the ending. Despite the seemingly even back-and-forth in the battle, Lady is suddenly dragged back into the pits of hell, as Masked Wolf leaves her with his parting words.

I believe in G-O-D, don't believe in T-H-O-T.

Todays rip: 21/10/2023

Bramble Blast Collab

Season 6 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume FF

Organized by Myeauxyoozi Ripped by Myeauxyoozi, eg_9371, l4ureleye, IzzyKart57, Heboyi, Memmy, Sarvéproductions, Pan, RHMan, Grambam36, C-Man, minindo

Hot off the heels of yesterday's celebration, I felt it only right to follow it up with yet more celebration. Wheras SING A SONG ABOUT HOPES AND DREAMS was part of a celebration of SiIvaGunner as a whole, today we're looking at a somewhat different celebration: the premiere of Season 6, Bramble Blast Collab, is an enchantingly unique collab even amidst the channel's long history of doing them.

Kickstarted by our good friend tunedlink back in Season 1, collabs like the File Select Fusion Collab were initially labelled as just that - "fusion" collabs, a carryover from the Kirbtunes remix project they were imitating. These proved to be immensely popular and loved by the community, and so the "fusion collab" branding stuck around, eventually morphing into a whole new, more clearly-segmented form of collaborative projects. I'm yet to cover any of these on the blog, but Season 7's Shop Fusion Collab is an excellent example of these collabs - each segment lovingly crafted by teams of rippers with visuals to match. In comparison, the old style of fusion collab may seem a bit messy, a bit unfocused and noisy. But amidst that noise, these have always been able to serve as incredible celebrations of so many parts of SiIvaGunner all at once.

While File Select Fusion Collab served to celebrate the good times had across Season 1, looking back upon all of its events and memes in a sentimental way, Bramble Blast Collab has always felt more...mixed, in its messaging. It has old memes, of course, be it Space Jam, Soulja Boy, or the introductory clip of Chad Warden's holy ghost, but...its filled to the brim with so much more, sources from the channel's recent history like Big Time Rush, Yankin' and Astronaut in the Ocean, amidst sources that are basically never seen on the channel such as Baldi's Basics and Smiling Friends. Its all delivered at a pace that's insanely fast even for the standard of these kinds of collabs - the result is a noise collage not just of SiIvaGunner's history, but of its possible future - the jokes we're yet to hear the full potential of, mixed in with small snippets of our old memories.

Althesame, it carries a slight sense of melancholy to it buried underneath all those funny memes: The track its built on *is* Bramble Blast, after all, one of the most emotionally poignant pieces of retro VGM out there. After rummaging around a zillion sources for most of the rip, the four-minute mark feels as if the song is breaking free of itself with the core melody re-emerging at full force, gradually built up by the increased prominence of the backing melody from the three-minute mark. Season 6, even as early as this, had the feeling of sorrow sort of engrained in it from the announcement of GilvaSunner - the original channel SiIvaGunner is made in tribute of - officially shutting down later that year. The fallout of which wouldn't quite be understood until I've won, but at what cost, but even as far back as the Season's premiere it was as if we were all gearing up for the inevitable.

Bramble Blast Collab, with its noise, its barrage of memes and its enchanting core throughline, remains one of my favorite season premieres the channel has ever done, and I feel it's not appreciated nearly enough for just how incredible of a collaboration it is. My hat goes off to the dozen rippers involved in its creation, for setting the stage perfectly for the ride Season 6 would end up being - althewhile keeping the spirit of the old Fusion Collabs alive and kicking.

Todays rip: 03/10/2023

Piranha Plantsom

Season 6 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume DQ

Ripped by Myeauxyoozi

Just last month, when covering Super Mario 64 Submarine Ending, I first discussed just how ridiculously good SiIvaGunner's ripping team has gotten at using Super Mario 64's instrumentation for rips. Hell, its far from the only rip of its kind I've covered here on the blog - Earth, Wind & Bombs, Harder To Breathe 64, slideless, Blessing the Dire, Dire Rains - and today's rip likely won't be the last of its ilk either. One could argue I feature these rips a bit *too* frequently, but...can you blame me? Super Mario 64 music is both essential to SiIvaGunner's legacy, and just exceptionally fun-sounding in its own right no matter what its arranged to. It feels like the clearest comfort-zone type of game to rip from, where almost anything you do with it is bound to sound somewhat authentic.

But I was aware I couldn't just feature any old Super Mario 64 arrangement once more on the blog - I had to find something to truly make this one stick. And what's something else I've harped on about on the blog almost as much as Mario? That's right - rips with "escalating" jokes, ones that keep building on themselves to surprise and delight for a rip's entire runtime. Such is best exemplified with Story of Undertale, one of the channel's best ever rips which arranges the entirety of Lady Gaga's bad romance whilst going through a majority of Undertale's soundtrack - in chronological order of appearance.

You put these two golden aspects together, and you end up with Piranha Plantsom - a full arrangement of Lil Tecca's Ransom in the styles of close to a dozen different songs from the Super Mario 64 soundtrack. While its unfortunately yet another song I primarily know from meme edits, its sparkling percussion sound always reminded me of that of a music box - the same kind of sound used in Piranha Plant's Lullaby in Super Mario 64. Its pretty likely this is what inspired Myeauxyoozi to make the rip to begin with, and the music box sound from the rip's first segment sticks around for many of the others - its a binding thread that keeps the rip cohesive, in a sense. As it moves between all sorts of different tracks from the game, both intense, low-key and zany, that one soothing little music box rhythm keeps them all unified - despite just being three notes, its what sticks with you after every listen.

Its something I discussed already in Plains of Des-passing-to, but I am genuinely so happy to be rediscovering my love for some of these music tracks upon getting to hear them in different contexts. I was never really one who paid much mind to Ransom when I'd hear it in various meme edits - the same way I never cared much for Despacito - but my overexposure to the tracks has undeniably made me somewhat attached to them, which SiIva's rippers so expertly prey on. Piranha Plantsom is more than simply a fantastic arrangement - its a loveletter to the entirety of Super Mario 64, a celebration of a great source track, and a display of Myeauxyoozi's seemingly endless pool of talent.

Todays rip: 08/03/2024

Reach for the Submission, Immortal Fes

Season 5 Featured on: Bloodstained Bounties ~ The SiIvaGunner All-Star Summer Festival 2021 Collection [Event Side]

Ripped by minindo, Myeauxyoozi

Requested by crickqt! (Ask Box)

And so we reach the third installment of this, I guess "Trilogy" of Minindo Touhou rips. It's fascinating, especially as someone who doesn't really know much about the games, to see how Touhou music gradually became more and more prominent on SiIva over the years - it began as mostly just Princess Sylvyspirit's passion project on the channel back in Season 1, yet gradually grew into becoming one of the channel's most known sources for good ass rips. Touhou creator ZUN was featured in both King for a Day Tournaments, we finally got the long-awaited Touhou album right before Season 5 began, and as Season 5's big summer festival event drew to a close, it was a Touhou rip - Reach for the Submission, Immortal Fes - that co-signed its ending.

I've gone on record saying that Season 5 was the time where I was...least engaged in the channel's activity. I believe I described the Season as feeling "aimless" back in my rip :), which in hindsight I wouldn't exactly say is accurate, It's moreso just that it was a period where the channel was doing things I wasn't quite as enthusiastic about. In a way the change was to be expected: the team had put the main narrative of the channel on hold since Season 3 and spent both episodes of Season 4 specifically on building up to, performing, and celebrating the King for Another Day tournament. Season 5 (and the final months of Season 4 Episode 2) was then, in a way, the first time that the channel wasn't really tethered to any recently set-up beats to follow through on, with the Christmas Comeback Crisis already long on hiatus and the King for Another Day tournament officially wrapped up. As a result, we got a ton of interesting, out-there projects that we likely wouldn't have otherwise: The beginning of SiIvaGunner Fusion Records/SGFR in snow halation but it shreds and Running Through Cookie Country, the debut of Friday Night Funkin' and the ridiculously high-effort rips made for it such as Epic Rap Battles of History: Funny vs. Funnier; and of course the continued emphasis on voice acted side stories, with various audio dramas such as Curse of the Fallen Angel in Knowledge of the Depths and today's topic, SummerFes 2021.

SummerFes 2021 may not have had as much immediate emotional pathos as its predecessor in Season 4 Episode 2, but used its standalone nature to great effect - a super distinct western theming with some of the best art on the channel, tons of left field events like Christmas in July with Nostalgic Blood of the Gregg ~ Old Source and Dream's birthday with Five Dreams at Night 1.16, and so much more. In closing out this vast, varied fun time of rips, Reach for the Submission, Immortal Fes is more than just a meme medley mashup - most all of the jokes are, in chronological order, reflecting each part of this greater SummerFes event. The annual PSY Day, the Spirited Away anniversary event, the Dream event (synced with *Dream* Land's music from Smash 64 to also cover Super Star Symphony), Beatles Day...its a full-on journey, a trip down memory lane of the entire event and just how much fun it all was.

Minindo's ripping prowess is something I've emphasized before in the prior Touhou rips of his I've covered, particularly Beautiful Dreamer, but it absolutely bears repeating: a rip this varied and large in scope only works because the guy is exceptionally good at what he does. And while I definitely prefer Beautiful Dreamer as a listen due purely to how focused and refined it is, Reach for the Submission, Immortal Fes still manages to give me those same feelings that the smaller-scale Fusion Collabs on the channel have always done, of sending me on an audio journey through an super-event that, though less fondly than others, I do still hold very dear to my heart. A lot of people became fans of SiIvaGunner through King for Another Day and its subsequent celebration in the Season 4 duology, and SummerFes 2021 did an excellent job demonstrating just how good the team is at keeping you engaged even with seemingly so little to actually work with.

Todays rip: 09/12/2023

Moriah Carey

Season 5 Featured on: The Inevitable Holiday Album

Ripped by Myeauxyoozi

Honestly, at first glance I kind of forgot why I even put this rip in the drafts of posts! All that I knew was that it wasn't one I've ever had in any of my playlists, yet I had no recollection of how it ended up here. As soon as I hit play to listen back to it again though, the memories of laughing to this stupid shit at 2AM a few weeks ago all came flooding back - Moriah Carey is a stupid idea that should've never been attempted, executed with such perfect gusto. This is a rip that'll haunt me forever in its sheer absurdity.

Mo Bamba by rapper Sheck Wes isn't exactly a tune I've been able to place a finger on until just recently - I knew it was a viral song in the same vein as Sicko Mode, but it felt so entirely out of my wheelhouse to even begin to try and look into. Yet without having done that research for either of those tracks - or indeed, music like Right Foot Creep, I suddenly found myself with an attachment to them purely through idiotic, ironic shitposting. Both of the two aforementioned songs are ones I've covered here before with SICKO TALE and Loopdeloop Griddy respectively, so I suppose its about time to close the trio out - even if, really, I don't have much constructive to say.

Because like, really - its just a damn funny idea! The droning, almost haunting beat of Mo Bamba, paired with the borderline obnoxious cheerfulness of Mariah Carey's played-out Christmas music, is juxtaposition in its clearest form, and works pretty much perfectly together for comedic effect due to that. Its a pretty fun listen unironically as well of course, the mix is done very properly despite its absurd concept, and there's a really fun little sprinkle tossed in halfway through the rip.

Myeauxyoozi, from all the rips I've heard of him, seems to just really have a great sense of humor and ability to capitalize off of those jokes (Shaky Mountain, anyone?). And it certainly worked on me, even if it was through me basically playing a sleep-deprived Russian Roulette with all of my downloaded albums whilst unable to go to sleep. Yet I really do remember it giving me a very genuine smile on my face - and hey, joy and laughter is just as much part of the holiday spirit as anything else, no matter how it's delivered.

Todays rip: 29/12/2023

Totally Shaaking Out Right Now

Season 6 Featured on: The Harlem Shakeover

Ripped by Myeauxyoozi

Well, I've coincidentally been covering a lot of corners of the King for a Day Tournaments recently - so I figured it best to wrap this whole thing up with something I've been waiting to write about for a while. We've seen the winners and losers, the happenstance heroes and the shining stars, and all the different emotional reactions that the tournament's contestants gave us. All except one - one I've only previously alluded to with Shaky Mountain and later A New Threat. It's about time we look at the last remaining piece of the King for a Day Tournament. The Disaster.

As part of the initial 16-character roster of Season 3's King for a Day Tournament, Ajit Pai was immediately recognizable as a complete joke inclusion to most viewers. His source list was pretty shallow compared to a lot of other contestants, and he only got a single rip to promote his potential - the forebodingly titled Harlem Shakeover. It wasn't long until he was defeated at the hands of Thanos, turned to dust to float away in the wind, seemingly destined to forever remain a one-off joke amidst a sea of other figments on SiIva. Yet as I covered in A New Threat, the King for Another Day Tournament aimed to actually bring Ajit Pai back as a serious contender for the top, with a buffed source list and an actual twist to his character - reincarnated within a suit of armor, clinging for life after his defeat at the hands of Thanos.

After all of that, after going from joke, to actually trying, to losing and sitting the entirety of Season 5 out - it came as a complete shock to see Ajit Pai return for Season 6, and for him to bring his long-promised Harlem Shakeover with him. Yet I think there's something really poetic to be mined from it, story wise - there's something to be said thematically about someone like Ajit Pai just refusing to let go of life on SiIvaGunner despite having so little to actually offer, such a small fanbase to appeal to, and simply refusing to move on with life. Coincidentally already happening in Season 6, the Season all about grief, loss, and the need to move on, Ajit Pai's 10-day Harlem Shakeover was a great change of pace with a lot of levity, yet still left me with far too much to think about. The guy is canonically literally just ashes, and gave us 10 days of LITERALLY JUST ONE SINGLE JOKE to be repeated into the ground - yet still refused to move on. In a way, it prepared us all for what would happen by the end of the Season - the end of the SiIva AI itself.

Anyway, yeah, uh, sorry about all that - Totally Shaaking Out Right Now is fucking great, as are tons of the other rips from the Shakeover. I covered it in Shaky Mountain, but rippers like Myeauxyoozi really did work their asses off to ensure that these 10 days of torture were as impressively varied as possible within the constraints they worked in, and showed so many fascinatingly good examples of how to use the meme in. Inbetween the joke rips and shorter gags, there are rips like the two mentioned in this paragraph that just genuinely lend themselves fantastically to the wub-wub sound of the Harlem Shake.

Todays rip: 05/07/2023

Shaky Mountain

Season 6 Featured on: siivagunner's highest quality rips: volume

Ripped by Myeauxyoozi

Alright, I promise I will get to covering Season 6's Harlem Shakeover one day, but it's a big thing to unpack, okay! All you need to know about it for this rip in particular is that there was a takeover of two weeks where every single rip uploaded was nothing but the Harlem Shake. The takeover was as hilarious as it was torturous, and many parts of the fanbase celebrated its ending, or at least that's what I saw from the comments section. Yet in typical SiIva fashion, the joke refused to die: The harlem shake kept propping up every now and then in rips acting as if the takeover never truly ended. It created a sort of fear in the fanbase only really comparable to the infamous (and far worse) Bean incidents in Season 1.

What made it all worth it, though, was that these Harlem Shake rips, both ones during and after the takeover, are CRAZY good. I don't understand for the life of me why Myeauxyoozi decided to dedicate his time on the channel to making over 50 different Harlem Shake rips, but he's evidently a master of his craft. In Shaky Mountain in particular, every aspect of the original track is used perfectly, from the vocal samples to the intro sequence before the actual "shake" commences, to the lead instrument and its wub-wub backing...I just can't get over how perfectly placed out it all is.

I might be a bit biased toward this track in particular, as I've always had a fondness for how Kirby songs' high BPM lent themselves well to really fast jokes. High quality rips are very good at making you laugh as soon as they start, and that goes double for ones that move at such an insanely fast tempo.

Todays Raft: 07:44 - 01/04/2024

Some Rapids That I Used To Ride

Season 7 Ridden on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume Sapphire

Raft by Myeauxyoozi

Somebody That I Used to Know is already one of the funniest songs to use in audio edits right off the bat, and I fucking love how every little part of Raft Ride was edited to fit into the song itself - the backing made to the song's (xylophone?) percussion, with the lead vocals pitch shifted incredibly drastically for amazing results. This shows the utmost potential Raft Ride rips have to go above and beyond. Great stuff

Todays Raft: 01:10 - 01/04/2024

Raft Ride Rip Brainrot

Season 7 Ridden on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume Sapphire

Raft by Myeauxyoozi

i like how the title just reads like Myeauxyoozi admitting himself to the hospital after being infected

super idol is a BANGER in every context its used in and i love how its paired with canny mr incredible just like Mad Mew Mew Becoming Uncanny, incredible concept done very very good

Todays Raft: 10:00 PM - 01/04/2024

When I was 13, I had my first Raft

Season 8 Not Ridden by Link (Read More) Raft Ride (Beta Test) - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

Raft by Myeauxyoozi

An absolutely evil yet inevitable idea for a Raft Ride - I suppose if it were to happen at any point in time I'm happy it was during the Justin Bieber takeover in particular. Baby does still sound just a little bit grating due to sheer overexposure, but its at least very fun to hear it mixed into Raft Ride's trademark absurd sound - and it leverages that sound well with my beloved high note in tow. Great stuff.

Todays Raft: 06:56 PM - 01/04/2024

Haunted Elevator Ride

Season 7 Ridden on: PROTONOMICON ~ The Cult of Proto Collection

Raft by Myeauxyoozi

DAVID PUMPKINS!!!!! You love to see it. The legend introduced to SiIva during Season 6's Halloween event makes a surprise return and its a treat - I love how the tune just plays parity to the original Raft Ride, the 8-bit original still plays right alongside David Pumpkins' performance, I can't describe how but it really does add to the whole bit in this instance. Great time all around and kind of a surprise to see in Season 7.

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Todays Raft: 04:48 PM - 01/04/2024

Hot Cross Buns × Raft Ride (Rip of the Century)

Season 7 Not Ridden by Link (Read More) Raft Ride (DX Version) - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

Raft by Myeauxyoozi

This rip feels historic. This feels like it should be in the history books of greatest rips of the year. This marks a landmark occasion of two unstoppable objects colliding and creating a big bang. Hot Cross Buns infiltrated my brain so hard during 2023 to where I genuinely don't know how I feel about it anymore. This feels like a forbidden concoction.