History WebVideo / Vinesauce

* NightmareFuel:
** In-universe; the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu-hlvrtzOM The Legend of Sen]]" corruption severely freaked Vinny out.
** In-universe, when making his Mario and Luigi Sims have sex with the male pregnancy mod installed, Joel remarked, "They will connect. They will connect into a maze of torment... and pleasure."
* NightmareRetardant:
** In-universe, Vinny comments on the ridiculously tiny face a Big Boo has in one of the levels in his ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosX'' contest (level #44, "Spooky Boardwalk" by Phoba).

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The current line of streamers and their Website/{{Twitch}} and Website/YouTube channels are (in no particular order):

* PaperThinDisguise: In Vinny's 2015 ''Super Mario Bros. X'' contest, Mario encountered a character who went by "Cup Drinker" (a reference to Vinny's "Drinking Out of Cups" song). Even before he said that wasn't his real name, "Cup Drinker" made no effort to hide the fact that he's actually Kappa, as in the Website/{{Twitch}} emoticon.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Vinny is baffled when he defeats Bowser in World 1-4 of ''Super Boy'' (a bootleg version of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' for the UsefulNotes/{{MSX}}) and the trope-naming scene with the freed Mushroom Retainer is replaced with the text "SORRY NOTHING" on a plain black background.

* GutturalGrowler: Grover's voice becomes deep and demonic-sounding at one point in Vinny's ''Sesame Street'' corruption stream.

* IKnewIt: [[invoked]] Vinny said at the beginning of his first stream of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess HD'' that the only time he had played any version of ''Twilight Princess'' before then was when he played the Platform/{{Wii}} version around its release and that he had previously thought about streaming the [[Platform/NintendoGameCube GameCube]] version of the game. However, when he heard rumors about an HD remaster coming to the Platfor./WiiU, similar to what happened with ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'' in 2013, he decided to hold off on it and the rumors turned out to be true.

** A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdRs8YNk1pI corruption]] of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'' seemingly answers Vinny's rhetorical question at one point.

*** During the final stream, he read a chat message discussing Reggie Fils-Aimé showcasing the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on ''Series/TheTonightShow with Jimmy Fallon'' and almost referred to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' as "The Legend of Zelda: Best of the Worst" when the subject of ''Breath of the Wild''[='=]s framerate came up.

--->'''Vinny:''' I mean, thanks, but also... you know... ''(sighs)'' that's not why I do this!\\

** Vinny frequently makes fun of Toad from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'', particularly because of the voice Nintendo gives him in games released from the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance[=/=][[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube GameCube]] era onward.

** Within the span of a week, Vinny, across [[VideoGame/{{Miitopia}} three]] [[VideoGame/RockOfAges different]] [[Videogame/{{Cuphead}} games]], defeated Jesus, God, and Satan.

** Japanese indie game ''innyume'', a game Vinny played on [[https://youtu.be/d6TPyTqu6Yw?t=3519 one of his Spooptober streams]], initially presents itself as this, opening with a cutscene that references several [[{{Imageboards}} 2ch]] memes, one of which is the "Smile Ghost", [[https://en.everybodywiki.com/Smileghost_(Innyume) ostensibly]] the profile picture of a user whose Japanese reading comprehension wasn't exactly up to snuff. The pretense is dropped fairly quickly, though, as Vinny finds himself dropped in the middle of a dark building immediately after the cutscene ends and promptly getting chased around by several copies of the Smile Ghost, which now have [[{{Cephalothorax}} unsettlingly human arms and legs attached to them.]] The game left such an impression on Vinny that [[https://youtu.be/CzkGyf3ZRwE?t=853 a brief Smile Ghost cameo]] in ''VideoGame/MariosMysteryMeat'' managed to scare him again.
--->'''Vinny:''' ''(Smile Ghost comes into view)'' ...[[FlatWhat What?]] '''''OH GOD!''''' ''(hyena laugh)'' Oh god, no! Get these fuckin[='=] emojis away from me, please!

---> '''Joel:''' This is actually scary. ''(runs into a Smile Ghost)'' Oh go- ''(starts whimpering)'' ...I absolutely hate this.

** Earlier in Vinesauce's life, Joel's [=YouTube=] channel was used as a general Vinesauce channel and still contains highlight videos for streams from streamers other than Joel, such as Vinny's streams of ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: City Folk'' and Fred's drunk ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons]]'' stream.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: In his playthrough of the Anime/GregoryHorrorShow game, he considers [[ATeamFiring Cactus Gunman]] to be the best character in the game, mainly due to his GratuitousSpanish.

* EyeScream: [[invoked]] [[https://youtu.be/9gsHo89xyzE One]] of the bizarre girls' Flash games Rev played is a eye doctor game. It was as gross as it sounds and Rev said it reminded him of a scene in ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'', a ''horror'' game. Rev sat {{squick}}ed through it.

* FauxSymbolism: [[invoked]] Played for laughs when Vinny discusses where to get UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch pre-orders during his fifth ''[=EarthBound=]'' stream and he mentions that Amazon recommended an assortment of Jesus-related items for unexplained reasons, questioning what led their algorithm to produce those results.

** During his stream of Super Metroid, Vinny talks about how he came up with the name "Especially Onions" for a hipster trash band. Later on he mentions that he thinks that "Strange Assumptions" would be the name of their first album.

** During a stream of Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Joel's Xbox crashed and began to Red Ring, with all efforts to restart it causing it to make a strange "zap" noise. After pleading with it for a few minutes, it becomes functional again long enough for him to restart the game - only to hear that same telltale "zap" sound again, making it obvious that the Xbox really was going to die after all. An uncut clip of the moment can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncaxPS5CYD0 here.]]

* IKnewIt: [[invoked]] Vinny said at the beginning of his first stream of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess HD'' that the only time he had played any version of ''Twilight Princess'' before then was when he played the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} version around its release and that he had previously thought about streaming the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube GameCube]] version of the game. However, when he heard rumors about an HD remaster coming to the UsefulNotes/WiiU, similar to what happened with ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'' in 2013, he decided to hold off on it and the rumors turned out to be true.

--> '''Vinny:''' ''(after moving to the second world map)'' Uh... excuse me? Excuse me, ''what?''

** Everyone's reaction after Joel attempted to land on the surface of a star in an early release of ''Videogame/KerbalSpaceProgram''. Thanks to a catastrophic bug, the ship did not crash, it just disappeared... along with all the other ships Joel had in orbit, all the structures of the Space Program on Kerbin, and even Kerbin's atmosphere for no clear reason, even after restarting the game.

--> '''Vinny:''' "What killed me? ...Ah, the gray block. That son of a bitch."

---> '''Announcer:''' ''(at the start of one minigame)'' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Let. There. Be. LIGHT!]]\\
'''Joel:''' ''(starts laughing hysterically)'' No! Noooo, this is fake! This is a fake game! Somebody ''made'' this! There's no way this game's fuckin' real! There's no way-- some, like, [[MoralGuardians Christian mom]] brought this home for the Christian child and said, "Alright listen, those ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'' games? Those Japanese sin games? They're going in the '''''[[SuddenlyShouting BIN!]]'''''" [...] It really seems like a fake game! This is the kind of game you would see on like, like... a ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' skit or something like that, but it's ''real!''.

** During Corruption Stockpile 11, Vinny played a corrupted version of a VideoGame/MaddenNFL video game. The resulting corruption produced an ''insanely'' loud and distorted wall of crowd noise when he selected "Ask Madden," which startled Vinny. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADJPuluiGZM&t=802s See it here]][[labelnote:WARNING]]Tone the volume all the way down[[/labelnote]] Said corruption became unintentionally funny when [[spoiler:one of the football players made a shushing gesture, which caused the audio to turn back to normal.]]

-->'''Joel:''' Huh, he did it again. He duped us again, he duped us again. God damn it, Bob. Wow, when I add the purple pause menu it fucking looks ''great''! Look! Fuck, holy fuck, dude! I did that? What the fuck, man?

** Vinny and Joel often mock Todd Howard during some of their streams, mostly in their VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim and VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion streams respectively and like blaming any glitch and mechanic oversight on him.

** Vinny sometimes takes shots at conspiracy theorists, most frequently Flat Earthers and people who genuinely believe that space is fake. Ironically, he's expressed interest in "tinfoil hat"-like subjects in the past on stream, such as [=UFOs=] and top-secret government projects like MKULTRA. In his playthrough of ''[[VideoGame/Area51FPS Area 51]]'', he [[https://youtu.be/4rLU9W4Zkf8?t=1292 blames his waning interest]] of TheGrays squarely on the - as he puts it - "wacko" side of the alien conspiracy "community", mostly because of everyone having conflicting information.

-->'''Joel:''' Unga bunga ga ga ga doodogaga '''[[Music/{{Disturbed}} SEECKNEEES]]'''

-->'''Joel:''' Like, they're gonna buy it and be like ''(with a fake lisp)'' "Oh cards! Sports! Basketball! Oh look the balls are-- [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny oh lookidat I can buy real moni!]]"

** As a funny consequence, this has led to more collaborations with Vtubers from larger companies like [[WebVideo/VShojo VShojo]] or {{WebAnimation/Nijisanji}} that specifically already knew about Vinesauce beforehand.

** Vinny played a hack of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' called ''Kronos Trigger'', which obfuscates the text to produce nonsense by running the script through a machine translator multiple times, producing an intentional TranslationTrainWreck. To give a couple of examples, Marle's time travel accident at the beginning of the game apparently involved her going to a villa in Tuscany, while the town of Porre is the home of an inn called the Porn Inn. Other hacks in the same vein include ''Finally Fantastic VII'', which does this to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', and ''Beast Intersection 16'', which does this to ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: New Leaf'' and was played by Southbird, whose similarly titled "Beast Intersection" video series ended up shifting from text obfuscation to inserting [=YouTube=] comments into the game's text.

The group is also known for its annual charity marathon, "Vinesauce is HOPE", a three-day event every July where the Vinesauce streamers and associates play games to raise money for the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation. The marathon started in 2014, and as of 2019, it is managed under the nonprofit organization Variety is Hope, run by former Vinesauce member Hootey. The first Vinesauce is HOPE event to be conducted under Variety is Hope's management took place in 2020.

Vinesauce is a livestreaming group of gamers, with an emphasis on variety, hilarity, and [[CrossesTheLineTwice crossing the line twice]]. While there is no particular schedule for when each streamer streams a game, the group's creator, Vinny, usually streams late at night (typically from sometime between 11 PM and 12 AM EST to around 4 AM EST) on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, while Joel streams mainly on Fridays and the weekends (though is much less consistent about it than Vinny). Some of their most well-known streams include Vinny's corruption, ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosX'' level contest, and ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' streams, Joel's ''[[VideoGame/TheSims Sims]]'', bootleg game, Windows destruction, and ''Facade'' streams, and Rev's 24-hour ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob|SquarePants}} Boat-O-Cross'' marathon.

** Joel accidentally discovered [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPoI-un5y40 the Infinite Puke Glitch]] in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3''.

%%* VitriolicBestBuds: [[http://i.imgur.com/7GjD5.jpg Rev and Joel]], as well as Reg and anyone he interacts with (mostly Vinny and Jen).

** Exposing Vinny to any sort of WidgetSeries whose target audience is mainly {{Otaku}} usually turns him into a gold mine for this type of comedy. For example, really crappy low budget {{visual novel}}s featuring [[https://youtu.be/UqkHVOK_YiI?t=3302 stray cat]] or [[https://youtu.be/IMMjrgo0pB8?list=PLlc94szfcNDFl0yBP6TXEMqXRa7rJkaNG&t=560 dog]] [[LittleBitBeastly girls]], or games like ''VideoGame/GalGun''.
** Much to Vinny's dismay, a WidgetSeries having a budget still doesn't prevent him from cringing a lot, as he found out the hard way with ''Puyo Puyo Tetris 2''[='=]s story mode. He barely gets ten minutes into the story before sounding like he's laughing and crying at the same time and skipping dialogue.

** In-universe, Vinny pokes fun at this idea while playing ''Strawberry Cubes'':

** [[invoked]] [[https://twitter.com/Rev_Scarecrow/status/694993601919455232 Rev tweeted]] that he dreamed that his ''[=HotStart=]'' album became a huge success and drove people to tears, despite it consisting of slowed-down dishwasher noises.

They are not to confused with ''WebVideo/VSauce'', another collective of [=YouTubers=].

** Vinny isn't as familiar with the ''Mario'' [=RPGs=] as he is with the platformers, so when characters from ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'' appeared in the 25th ''Super Mario Bros. X'' level ("Kuntz's Veil" by [=SlyAsACooper=]), he insulted Dragohoho by calling him "Albie the Racist Dragon" during a segment taking place in the Beanbean Kingdom.

%%** The Magic 8-Ball in Rev's stream of ''VideoGame/{{Facade}}''.

** On a rather brief Creator/{{CNN}} spot, Vinny [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=551CRcASqJA claims]] that intentionally bad games like ''Trombone Champ'', the game CNN was showcasing, gel well with his sense of humor.

%%* HellIsThatNoise: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jHVc-BMy5IY#t=520 Joel's stream of]] ''All Dogs Go to Heaven''. It goes downhill after the first title screen.

** The [[HellIsThatNoise "lovely music"]] from ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' [[https://youtu.be/gjvFLuJFkgU?t=358 corruption stream]].

** Jabs are often taken at [=YouTube=] celebrities like LetsPlay/PewDiePie and LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNQAgr6WnKQ this video]], mocking the exaggerated stylings of LetsPlay/PewDiePie and his many imitators.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs:
** [[invoked]] One question Vinny asked the creator of ''Mario Cars 2'' when talking to them was "What drugs did you guys take when you made this?" And this was one of the ''less'' trippy amateur games he's covered.
** [[invoked]] When the 31st level from Vinny's ''Super Mario Bros. X'' contest ("[=Pastaquest64=]" by [=Vulcan64=]) ended up having {{word salad|Humor}} text and bizarre graphics, he asked if drugs were involved in that level's creation.

Vinesauce is a livestreaming group of gamers, with an emphasis on variety, hilarity, and [[CrossesTheLineTwice crossing the line twice]]. While there is no particular schedule for when each streamer streams a game, the group's creator, Vinny, usually streams late at night (typically from sometime between 11 PM and 12 AM EST to around 4 AM EST) almost every day, while Joel streams mainly on Fridays and the weekends (though is much less consistent about it than Vinny). Some of their most well-known streams include Vinny's corruption, ''VideoGame/TomodachiLife'', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosX'' level contest, and ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' streams, Joel's ''[[VideoGame/TheSims Sims]]'', bootleg game, Windows destruction, and ''Facade'' streams, and Rev's 24-hour ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob|SquarePants}} Boat-O-Cross'' marathon.