greetings~ mostly here to share something I’m pretty proud of, and to encourage other editors to do similar
I spent much of my day cataloging all the different official arrangements (and a couple meme parodies) of one of my favorite Kirby themes, Gourmet Race in MusicBrainz
there’s at least two main versions, the original and Fountain of Dreams from Super Smash Bros. Melee; both have at least a few arrangements thereof. that said, Dreamland from Super Smash Bros. is quite popular in the meme scene
in the process, I also improved the Kirby work series, tho it’s still missing quite a few games
specifically referring to 1, 2 Oatmeal and Snoop Dogg’s Dreamland, both based on the Dreamland theme from Super Smash Bros. there’s more detail on the Know Your Meme articles (Oatmeal and Dogg)~
Oh ok, they explain a little bit, there too: YTMND
I didn’t try to click on any examples, but they say it’s multimedia webpages featuring a still image or animated GIF with an overlay text and looped audio track.
Technically they are cover, remix and/or mashup, but that also make them memes because they use memey music into it.Or they create the meme, like SM64’s Slider theme being reused in numerous mashup, or the minecraft’s “Boss fight” music using obscure samples from a video where inspector gadget plays minecraft
As a person who’s been watching these for years, it grinds my gears to hear someone write it off as AI slop ^^’
Silvagunner, the main source of these meme mashups (“high-quality rips” as they are ironically referred to), has been running for over 7 years with hundreds of contributors each submitting “rips” of any video game music transformed to be anything else.
The original idea was that, for example, someone will find one of these videos expecting what’s in the title. Then they will be surprised when, 30 seconds in, it turns into “Europe - The Final Countdown” with the given video game’s arrangement style! Imagine that, but with any game, transforming into any song/meme, and you’ll never know what it will be in advance. That’s the appeal.
As niche as it may seem, its community is passionate to a level rarely seen online. If you were there for “YTPMV” videos, where people take a source media and sample it to make some internet-popular song, it’s a version of that for video game music.
Despite the amount of videos, it’s surprisingly curated. Any submissions that are on the channel and sound mediocre are (generally) intended to be, because memes
when I found it, all the titles were in English, and I wasn’t sure if that was intentional or not, so I left it as-is. since it is a Japanese series, I have been trying to add English aliases
