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YouTube Poop
A YouTube Poop (abbreviated as a YTP) is a type of video mashup or collage film, created by remixing/editing pre-existing media sources. YTPs originated around 2004.
YouTube Poops often incorporate internet memes, slang, and popular music, carrying subcultural significance into a new video for humorous, nonsensical, random, vulgar, satirical, obscene, absurd, profane, annoying, confusing, or dramatic purposes.
YouTube Poop is a subset of remix culture, in which existing ideas and media are modified and reinterpreted to create new art and media in various contexts. Forms of remix culture have existed long before the internet, with DigitalTrends's Luke Dormehl listing the cut-up technique of William Burroughs and sampling in hip-hop as examples. Dormehl also says that "aesthetically", YouTube Poop is similar to the "frenetic editing style" of MTV in the 1980s, which featured "fast, non-linear cuts" that focused less on character or plot than on evoking a feeling.
YouTube Poop also draws on elements from the vidding scene, in which fans of a piece of media would create music videos using footage from the work. Observers have also proposed influences from a more modern, internet-based practice similar to vidding, the anime music video (AMV) – particularly from more comedic variations of the AMV.
The genre began in the early 2000s. The first video to be regarded as a YouTube Poop is named "The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 REMIXED!!!" (which has been renamed to "I'D SAY HE'S HOT ON OUR TAIL") by the creator SuperYoshi, uploaded on December 22, 2004, preceding the creation of YouTube by a few months. It remixes clips from the 1990 animated television series The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 as a primary source, using the video editing software Windows Movie Maker. Media scholar Randall Halle suggests that the name "poop" as used to refer to videos like SuperYoshi's referred to the purported low quality of these early works.
Throughout the mid-to-late 2000s, YouTube Poops were one of the most popular types of video on YouTube. YouTuber EmpLemon describes this era as being characterized by popular recurring memes and in-jokes in the community. According to Halle, the 2010 video "jonathan swift returns from the dead to eat a cheese sandwich" has been cited as "a work that moved YTP towards artistry", with heavy use of video in video editing and other methods of distortion.
The YouTube Poop genre declined in popularity during the late 2010s. eMarketer principal analyst Nicole Perrin speculated that the reason why the genre had "fallen to the wayside" was as part of a larger YouTube "shift to glossier, more corporate-friendly content."
Luke Dormehl wrote in 2019 in relation to this loss of mainstream popularity that "as with every other corner of the internet", YTP had undergone fragmentization from a large single community with a shared set of sources into a series of sub-communities, each with their own preferred source material. However, this has also allowed each individual sub-community to develop its own set of convoluted "references-within-references" even further. Additionally, YTP has followed the general YouTube trend of increasing professionalization and editing, with more sophisticated and larger amounts of special effects and elaborate writing.
YouTube Poop
A YouTube Poop (abbreviated as a YTP) is a type of video mashup or collage film, created by remixing/editing pre-existing media sources. YTPs originated around 2004.
YouTube Poops often incorporate internet memes, slang, and popular music, carrying subcultural significance into a new video for humorous, nonsensical, random, vulgar, satirical, obscene, absurd, profane, annoying, confusing, or dramatic purposes.
YouTube Poop is a subset of remix culture, in which existing ideas and media are modified and reinterpreted to create new art and media in various contexts. Forms of remix culture have existed long before the internet, with DigitalTrends's Luke Dormehl listing the cut-up technique of William Burroughs and sampling in hip-hop as examples. Dormehl also says that "aesthetically", YouTube Poop is similar to the "frenetic editing style" of MTV in the 1980s, which featured "fast, non-linear cuts" that focused less on character or plot than on evoking a feeling.
YouTube Poop also draws on elements from the vidding scene, in which fans of a piece of media would create music videos using footage from the work. Observers have also proposed influences from a more modern, internet-based practice similar to vidding, the anime music video (AMV) – particularly from more comedic variations of the AMV.
The genre began in the early 2000s. The first video to be regarded as a YouTube Poop is named "The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 REMIXED!!!" (which has been renamed to "I'D SAY HE'S HOT ON OUR TAIL") by the creator SuperYoshi, uploaded on December 22, 2004, preceding the creation of YouTube by a few months. It remixes clips from the 1990 animated television series The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 as a primary source, using the video editing software Windows Movie Maker. Media scholar Randall Halle suggests that the name "poop" as used to refer to videos like SuperYoshi's referred to the purported low quality of these early works.
Throughout the mid-to-late 2000s, YouTube Poops were one of the most popular types of video on YouTube. YouTuber EmpLemon describes this era as being characterized by popular recurring memes and in-jokes in the community. According to Halle, the 2010 video "jonathan swift returns from the dead to eat a cheese sandwich" has been cited as "a work that moved YTP towards artistry", with heavy use of video in video editing and other methods of distortion.
The YouTube Poop genre declined in popularity during the late 2010s. eMarketer principal analyst Nicole Perrin speculated that the reason why the genre had "fallen to the wayside" was as part of a larger YouTube "shift to glossier, more corporate-friendly content."
Luke Dormehl wrote in 2019 in relation to this loss of mainstream popularity that "as with every other corner of the internet", YTP had undergone fragmentization from a large single community with a shared set of sources into a series of sub-communities, each with their own preferred source material. However, this has also allowed each individual sub-community to develop its own set of convoluted "references-within-references" even further. Additionally, YTP has followed the general YouTube trend of increasing professionalization and editing, with more sophisticated and larger amounts of special effects and elaborate writing.