It’s October 3rd!

Happy Mean Girls-Fullmetal Alchemist-Naruto-We Are Number One-Let’s Get Tropical Day!

Does anyone else miss those videos that were like

"How Bad Can I Be but every time The Onceler says bad Toy Story 2 plays but every time someone speaks We Are Number 1 plays but every time Robbie Rotten breathes All-Star plays but every time Steve Harwell (may he rest in peace) is on screen the video starts over in reverse but every second is actually 5 minutes and life has no meaning because you're sense of time is warped beyond repair"

Or is it just me?

STEDDIE IS OFFICIALLY THE NUMBER ONE ST SHIP ON AO3!!!!!!

There was Quaritch + Yelan a few pictures ago, now it's Quaritch + Robby Rotten

fuck it. grub karkat in memes from 2016/2017

There can only be one

Anyone else think their Block Party duet sounds... weirdly familiar?

made by @starstrucknightking12345678

Todays rip: 22/04/2024

Robbie's Rotten Mine

Season 8 No Album Release (Read More)

Ripper Unknown

Hey, yesterday I covered the olden ways of doing We Are Number One rips - it only seems right to contrast it with how things are done nowadays!

Though, of course, Robbie's Rotten Mine is far form the first rip of this style that I've covered on here, but it likely won't even be the last. Chillin’ Like A Villain, Ska Cha Cha (Rotten Mix), and of course The expanse of meme in past was split, A fiendish trap has now been set; Behind a tree the villains sit, Terror of sport, the Robbie's Net., are all some of my favorite rips on the channel - and the reason is just because, even eight years later, I'm very attached to this silly ska song. There's a lot of memes that seem to have run their course for people, stuff like All Star mashups as I talked about in Semi-Charmed All Star, and while the rest of the internet certainly aren't out there celebrating We Are Number One anymore, the SiIvaGunner team is still making rips of the song at a remarkably consistent clip. And like, I stand by what I declared back on We Are Number 4 (Golden) - of all the long-running jokes on the channel, We Are Number One feels as if it is the most refined and polished one - it isn't just being used as a reocurring gag, but because rippers have become exceptionally good at using it for truly high quality rips.

Robbie's Rotten Mine, then, decides to combine my affection for We Are Number One with my unabashed love for Mario Kart Wii, which I've rambled on about with several posts already now like Neon Wi-Fi and Sweatpants Select. The result is a rip that just made me smile as soon as the rugpull occurred: Those unedited first four seconds builds suspense for just long enough, only for Robbie's sax playing to suddenly introduce the rip proper, not just revealing the joke, but reminding you of just how far We Are Number One-posting has come. Because yes, that is unmistakeably the same saxophone sound as in the original song - but its playing the opening to Wario's Gold Mine, the arrangement is absolutely seamlessly blending the two. It really just gets better from there going into the chorus, I love how the ripper leverages Wario's Gold Mine having a sort of ebb-and-flow between sounding silly and trepidatious by matching them with We Are Number One's chorus and verses respectively. The Wario's Gold Mine melody going all nervewracking and tense feels like it was MADE for something like Robbie Rotten talking about sneaking around and laying booby traps - in the words of one commenter, "I’m more surprised this didn’t happen until now".

I talk a lot on here about rips in the vein of, say, Poké Village: the ones that feel ever-so-personal, like love letters to parts of a ripper's life, the ones that bridge parts of the online world together that you'd never considered before listening. But there's just as much value to be found in the rips on the other end of the spectrum, ones like Among Drip Drop Galaxy - the ones where the joke fits so well, that it's a marvel it hadn't been done sooner. I declared Among Drip Drop Galaxy a damn-near perfect rip for that very reason, and I'm going to do the very same for Robbie's Rotten Mine - with maybe just one sole exception, there are few songs that I think would fit We Are Number One quite as perfectly as Wario's Gold Mine, and yet it took me eight years past the meme's upbringing for me to come to that conclusion. And to me, that speaks volumes to just how enduring of a tune We Are Number One is - there's surely yet more to be done with this track, and I'm all here for it.

"Are you, uh, a real villain?"

Since there was some interest on youtube, I'm posting my thumbnail art for the Trap For You x We Are Number One mashup I uploaded a few months ago :)

I guess I'll share the video here too lol:

WITH THE WORD OF DOGE,

THE GREEN MASCULINESS OF SHREK,

THE EVILNESS OF WALUIGI,

AND THE POWER OF WE ARE NUMBER ONE,

OKIDOGI WAS FORMED!

I swear, pokemon is taking from memes now.

We Are Number 68🎶

Feelin' really 2017.

So I accidentally changed Julian's catchphrase from "glimmer" to "We are #1!"

Now I wanna redraw him cosplaying as Robbie Rotten. Do you think I should?

''WE ARE NUMBER 1, MAGGOTS!''