I'm now gonna interpret the evil boops as boops for my icon since he's an evil version of my favorite cartoon character.

And he may need more than just 1.

Silvagunner's mugshot revealed... indictmentgunner...

Todays rip: 08/07/2023

I've won, but at what cost

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

Ripped by eg_9371

Requested by @undertale-vs-fortnite-who-wins

Season 6 of SiIvaGunner is immensely interesting to look back on, as it sort of carries an air of melancholy throughout. Though it had its fair share of average SiIva events, it was a season that, perhaps as a sheer coincidence, both began and ended with very important farewells. The Season's ending is a story for another time. Today, we're here to mourn the loss of GilvaSunner, the channel that arguably laid the groundwork for VGM on YouTube as a whole.

As I'm sure many are aware, GilvaSunner - thats with an L, not an uppercase i - was one of the leading channels for accessing video game music on YouTube, particularly from Nintendo music, in the 2010s and late 2000s. The channel's branding, thumbnails, description and mission statement of providing quality above all else were all things adopted by SiIvaGunner, both to help sell the original idea of impersonation whilst also building on it as a form of parody. The two existed in harmony, with GilvaSunner mostly inactive and SiIvaGunner existing as a giant tribute to video game music on the site as a whole. Through an increasingly heated copyright battle between himself and Nintendo, the channel admin of GilvaSunner was eventually forced to close the channel down, officially commencing on the 4th of February 2022. With him, a giant archive of video game music was lost, alongside all the voices and comments that had once occupied each and every upload. It didn't matter that the content that was lost wasn't original: In a way, an entire community was lost that day.

On the day of GilvaSunner's deletion, the entire SiivaGunner channel paid its respects through an event. The event posted several dozen rips in just one day, with per-game batches uploaded simultaneously to mirror the upload schedule of the original channel. In the end, it was all capped off with rips from Tengami: the very game that GilvaSunner and SiIvaGunner's header image is sourced form.

As the event's final rip, I've won, but at what cost (known otherwise as Loneliness - Tengami on the YouTube channel) holds that melancholy feeling more than any other that day. The rip initially appears to be the typical SiIva melodyswap medley, only it doesn't swap to any of SiIva's own themes. Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart 64's Rainbow Road, Super Mario Galaxy, Mother 3: The track throughout all its melodyswaps celebrates everything that the original GilvaSunner channel itself loved, what its most remembered uploads were, and gives them an exceptionally emotional touch through the source track. Its only at the very end that Snow Halation from Love Live is added to close the theme out, as the visuals and song both fade.

Divorced from its original context in Love Live, Snow Halation on SiIvaGunner has to me always held weight as a theme of hope and revival, as the theme that originally brought SiIvaGunner out of the Reboot in Season 1. Arguably, its the theme most emblematic of the passion found in SiIva audience, from its initial hatedom to the wave of people now woefully attached to it - myself included. In mourning Gilva's closure and moving on throughout the 6th season of SiIva, Snow Halation playing here feels like a passing of the torch - as a reminder that, though we've lost one, the passion and spark of the SiIvaGunner channel refuses to ever let it die.

A cherry blossom falls

Death's embrace

A new beginning

★Melty Star★

...I have a feeling this is gonna be one of those AU's I just "make" and then not really do anything with (the funny/slice-of-life ones usually turn out that way) and if so...I don't really mind, I had fun just coming up with this. ^^ In case you couldn't tell, this one is Earthbound-inspired~

Kirby A "good kid", as his fathers often call him. One day he met a fairy from a faraway land, and decided to help her out. After all, it's the neighborly thing to do.

Ribbon An alien girl from the planet Ripple Star. 500 years ago, give or take a few decades, her friend Adeleine went missing, and now she's beginning to get worried. Her only clue as to her whereabouts is the strange planet known as Shiver Star, which is now teeming with life. Everywhere she goes in this resurrected world, she feels a dreadful power in the air...

Dedede Kirby's sometimes-rival, sometimes-best friend. When he heard that Kirby was traveling to the center of the earth with some magical bug girl, he knew he wasn't about to be left out of the adventure.

Marx A mysterious boy who lives in the Impact Crater, an area of the world that the others were somehow completely unaware of before. He has a lot of interesting abilities, and seems just as eager to find Adeleine as Ribbon is. Why? No one knows...

I am SO sorry to the person that originally requested Steam Gardens, I promise it wasn’t intentional, I rip most of the music from Youtube and I guess I didn’t listen far enough into the song to realize it was a silvagunner post. I am so embarrassed jesus christ.

The about link in your pinned is broken ,, may I ask which flags are in your profile picture ;0?

ngl the about link is broken cuz i deleted the page cuz it's kinda pointless and was also outdated fskldjksljdjkljklfsjfds- i need to update my pinned post. anyways the flags are (from left to right) ace, lesbian (technically lesbiflexible), agender, polyamorous, rhythmheavengender, bigender and fictoaesthetic. there's also the adhd butterfly symbol thingie idk what to call it n also the catkin flag. :3 i have lots of flags-

The day GilvaSunner left us, a part of me died as well.

flashbackz to that one point in early 2022 when i [temporarily] completely gave up on nintendo and felt i needed to shun the company out of my life completely

Todays rip: 15/05/2023

File Select Fusion Collab

Featured on: GilvaSunner's Highest Quality Video Game Rips: Volume 7, SiIvaGunner: Starter Kit & Essentials Ripped by tunedlink & The Gang

The last post made me nostalgic for Season 1's ending, so fuck it, here's another rip from back then - the File Select Fusion Collab, a rip with close to 20 creators involved. What a "Fusion Collab" entails has changed quite a fair bit over the years, as the collaborations have grown larger in size with each year. Nowadays, they now tend to focus on individual artists rendering a specific track in their own style across a longer video, such as with Season 2's Wood Man Fusion Collab. But with Season 1, the meaning was a lot more nebulous - they were almost all made under the direction of tunedlink (used to go by "toonlink" and "toonlinkirl"), and were made more in the style of YTPMVs, having a base song to build off of with an everchanging barrage of styles and sources intermingling at once.

These were released every now and then over the course of Season 1 and were always appreciated, yet today's choice in particular stands out among them. Being released during what was effectively presented as the ending of the channel, it has a unique kind of emotional baggage to it, it leans into celebrating the entire legacy of the channel and all of its inside jokes. The full-circle moment of getting Joel Vinesauce himself to narrate a section in the middle of the track was perfect - the person whose joke got the entire channel started, now gets invited to formally close it out, with a speech still very much rooted in that niche joke culture SiIva itself thrives in. And it just keeps going in that direction - the rip builds in a congratulatory, yet bittersweet way to truly signal that the channel is about to end, a giant thank-you letter to the entire community that had been fostered over the channel's small 9-month lifespan.

Of course, its rendered a little bit moot by the channel...not ending, which some folks are still bitter about. Yet I still think this rip works wonders as part of a sendoff to the original era of SiIvaGunner - we're never going to get anything like Season 1 again, and I've grown to accept that.

Ive never seen Seinfeld. Everything I know has been through a slow cultural osmosis. I saw Bee Movie in theatres and had 0 idea who Jerry Seinfeld was, so hearing Jerry talk just makes me go "whoa he really is Barry the Bee." I didnt know what Seinfeld was until I had a teacher that talked about it a lot in high school. I dont remember how I figured out its a sitcom. There was a poster of the characters in the Home Ec room that looked kinda Sitcom-y. Someone once showed me a GilvaSunner (the namesake of I was also utterly unfamiliar with) thing that turned into the Seinfeld theme expecting me to recognize it. They kept expecting me to react and i just sat there listening. So I vaguely know what that sounds like. That transitional baseline ive heard in enough memes to be familiar with. Tumblr has helped me understand the structure of its conversations through others emulating it for their own jokes. At this point I have a mediocre grasp on the major characters.. Jerry, Elaine (who I saw first in Arrested Development as that "blind" lawyer), George (funni baseball bat man), and uhhhh I dont actually know the scraggly guy's name I think and Im trying to not look anything up for this post. My wife watched a video about how Sitcom's handle death, as in the end of the series, and it was interesting so I watched it with her and it used Seinfeld as its primary case study. So now I know the basic plot of the final episode of Seinfeld and have watched the final scene. I kinda understand the character dynamics but my grasp isnt solid enough to attempt to describe. I know it takes place in New York.

Cheers!

2023年08月25日 Le début des playlists

Depuis que j'ai commencé à écouter de la musique sur Internet, j'ai crée d'immenses playlists dans lesquelles se trouvaient toutes les musiques que j'écoutais. Je n'ai jamais considéré les playlists comme un moyen de catégoriser la musique que j'écoutais, mais plutôt une sorte d'archive de tout ce que j'aimais bien.

Quand j'étais petit, je n'étais pas passionné de musique et je n'écoutais aucun artiste si ce n'est les musiques qui passaient à la radio quand on allait quelque part en voiture. Cependant, quand j'ai commencé à être passionné par les jeux vidéos, j'écoutais les musiques provenant de plein de jeux différents, dont beaucoup que je n'avais jamais joué !

Des chaines YouTube du nom de BrawlBRSTMs3 et GilvaSunner postaient des musiques de jeu vidéo, et c'était les chaines référence pour les amateurs qui voulaient écouter leurs bandes-son préférées sans avoir à télécharger quoi que ce soit, en plus de la partie commentaire où la communauté pouvait interagir. Ainsi, j'avais une playlist composée majoritairement de vidéos provenant de ces chaines. Malheureusement, poster ces musiques sur Internet s'avère être illégal pour Nintendo, qui a fini par céder et supprimer toutes les vidéos les concernant pour droit d'auteur.

Dans le cas de BrawlBRSTMs3, c'est arrivé le 15 mai 2019, soit un jour avant que je ne découvre Casiopea ! Ma playlist avait deux ans, et plus de 1100 musiques, et voilà que deux tiers venaient de partir en fumée...

Depuis, j'écoute toutes ces musiques directement depuis mon ordinateur, et je les stocke sur un disque dur externe. Je n'ai pas réussi à retrouver toutes les musiques tellement il y en avait, mais je suis sûr qu'avec le temps j'y parviendrai !

Todays rip: 21/09/2023

Earth, Wind & Bombs

Season 1 Featured on: GilvaSunner's Highest Quality Video Game Rips: Volume 7

Ripped by Nape Mango

Do you have ANY idea how hard it was to pick just *one rip* for today?

You all likely expected ahead of time what type of rip was to be featured for today - September 21st has practically become its own holiday, the day to celebrate Earth, Wind & Fire's September, due to the specific date mentioned in that song. Once a year, we all pay respects to one of the most legendary pieces of music out there, and of course SiIva is no different.

For seven seasons and eight years, SiIva has never missed a beat on celebrating Earth, Wind & Fire annually. Its not quite a mainstay meme on the channel, but its an inevitability we all love and cherish - an event as expected as Halloween, Christmas and Wood Man's birthday. There's even some in-jokes on the channel pertaining specifically to September: the composer for Dragon Ball: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 infamously plagiarized the song in the theme Capsule Obtain, and thus all SiIvaGunner rips from said game are actually just rips of September. Even outside of today's date, September continues to get attention in rips completely unrelated to the inofficial holiday, and they're almost all bangers in their own right.

In the end, I felt it was best to stay simple. The final few months of Season 1 of SiIva were magical in a lot of ways, such as what I wrote about on File Select Fusion Collab and Planet Wisp Mashup Medley. The most obvious reason for this magic is also the simplest to explain - the rippers had simply gotten REALLY good at their craft. While Season 1 as a whole is oft defined as the era lacking in proper quality control, the final quarter of the season had everyone firing on all cylinders, and Earth, Wind & Bombs demonstrates that perfectly. Like some of Nape Mango's other most popular rips, its a pitch-perfect Super Mario 64 arrangement of September - it exudes the joy of two deeply nostalgic pieces of art all at once. Super Mario 64 is even more beloved on SiIva than September is, yet with the two combined the feeling of warmth and comfort just gets amplified a thousand fold. Really, its an arrangement that speaks for itself - an absolute jam that shows how Nape Mango is, now and forever, the greatest of all time.

@kingfucko replied to your post “silvagunner was a legit rip channel before it was a mashup channel. vivi remembers this.”

i thought the legitimate ost rips channel was GilvaSunner and SilvaGunner was a separate channel purposefully meant to make you think it was GilvaSunner specifically so you'd think it was going to be rips and be surprised that it wasn't. Same people yes but two completely separate channels the entire time??

Oh, haha

No I was thinking they were different channels, since the "GilvaSunner" channel seemed to exist primarily for ripping old music/game soundtracks. I haven't seen a whole lot of them, and their track lists are all of music albums, not random songs, so the idea of a mashup channel for just rips seemed to make sense.

I miss you GilvaSunner :(