Uploaded Aug 3, 2017
Summary
While Second Coming and Green are watching a stick figure animation on YouTube, SC accidentally angers YouTube itself by hitting the screen when the video keeps buffering. The fight against it is long and with many phases, such as it using videos to attack, using annotations as limbs, and the screen shuffler to mix things up. When Second Coming uses the full screen button to do actual damage, YouTube refreshes the page, but before it could use the full screen button, Green and it break the button in the struggle, enraging it further, and using both its like/dislike and the annotation hands to fight. Eventually, Green and SC defeat it by uploading a video of Green destroying YouTube and the entire page with it. After the battle, the other stick figures show up and refresh the page to watch a similar video. It ends with SC and Green fleeing as Red enrages YouTube yet again.Tropes:
- Adaptational Jerkass: In a way. The site has its flaws and redeeming qualities... but here, it's a literally-giant douche who only cares about hurting the stick figures in any way once provoked.
- Annoying Pop-Up Ad: The animations have to deal with a few ads that pop up while they are watching YouTube. Later when they are fighting the website itself, ads interrupt the fight, and both sides express their disdain before skipping the ad and resuming their fight.
- Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption: The Second Coming hits one of YouTube's hands while it's skipping videos, causing it to click on a video of a kid screaming.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The Second Coming uses the fullscreen button to enlarge himself, allowing him to severely damage the YouTube interface. Unfortunately for the stick figures, YouTube manages to refresh the page, returning the Second Coming back to his original size and undoing all the destruction.
- Call-Back: One of the videos YouTube plays happens to be the original Animator Vs Animation.
- Car Fu: YouTube uses videos of cars driving by to attack.
- Chekhov's Gun: It was established back in 4 that any damage done to a webpage or its contents can be undone by simply refreshing the page. This works both for and against the stick figures at various points.
- The Cameo: Various well known YouTube videos make an appearance.
- Floating Limbs: The like and dislike buttons function as YouTube's hands. Once they're destroyed, it resorts to creating makeshift hands out of annotation boxes.
- Genius Loci: A significant part of the fight is that the YouTube video player is both sentient and the videos' contents interact with the stick figures. It constantly uses that to its advantage, changing the video played to have objects attack the stick figures, such as hitting them with trains or slapping them aside with gestures from people on-screen.
- Here We Go Again!: The animation ends with Red trying to punch a buffering video.
- Hoist by His Own Petard:
- YouTube's main strategy in fighting the stick figures is to rapidly switch between videos. During the climax, The Second Coming quickly switches to a video with a water hose to propel Green towards the Upload button.
- Also, YouTube's constantly taking advantage of its own intangibility to its videos to attack the stick figures without hurting itself. When Green gets uploaded, this gets turned against it and it can't attack Green, but Green can break the boundaries of the video player to destroy Youtube.
- Hope Spot: The stick figures nearly win when the Second Coming enlarges himself and unleashes a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on YouTube, but YouTube uses one of the remaining buttons left on its player to refresh the page, rejuvenating itself and leaving the still very battered stick figures at its mercy.
- I'm Okay!: When Blue, Red, and Yellow come in to see Green and the Second Coming collapsed on the ground and the YouTube UI destroyed, Blue nudges Green, who in turn raises one hand to indicate this.
- I Shall Taunt You: When YouTube manages to refresh the page, thus undoing all the damage while leaving the stick figures exhausted, it gloats by playing various celebratory clips, including Numa Numa.
- Kill It Through Its Stomach: How the stick figures win in the end; Green uploads himself as a video, and then The Second Coming plays him in the playlist. Green shows up on the YouTube screen, and destroys him from the inside.
- Mad Libs Dialogue: All of the words are blanks that get filled in: when YouTube threatens the stick figures, this is the site's other way of communicating — using clips of various people saying specific words from their videos.
- Meet Your Early-Installment Weirdness: One of the videos in the playlist is the original Animator vs. Animation.
- Never Trust a Trailer: Or this case preview. The preview used the old YouTube layout while the animation itself used the current layout. Justified because the layout was changed between the making of the preview and the animation proper, as Alan himself pointed out in his announcement video.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The majority of the fight is this, with YouTube repeatedly smacking the stick figures around using its hands and video clips. The Second Coming briefly returns the favor when he enlarges himself... but then YouTube refreshes the page, undoing all the damage he'd dealt.
- "No. Just… No" Reaction: Green's reaction the video that is played before the We-Suck Vacuums Ad.note
- No-Sell: YouTube is able to smack around the stick figures with its hands throughout the video, but is completely unable to touch Green when he is uploaded inside of the YouTube screen.
- Our Slogan Is Terrible:
- "Try WeSuck Vacuums, because we suck more than any of our competitors!"
- "Introducing Drag Vacs, "Because life is a drag."
- Percussive Maintenance:
- When the video Green and the Second Coming settle on first has buffering issues, the Second Coming kicks it to get it to play again. Next time it stops, the Second Coming gets up and repeatedly punches it until the buffering icon morphs into a clearly unamused face.
- At the end of the animation, Red is going to punch the buffering video before it cuts to the credits.
- Post-Victory Collapse: After YouTube is defeated, Green and the Second Coming manage to high-five each other before collapsing completely, though their lack of a face makes it hard to tell if they actually fainted or not before the others enter and check on them.
- Running Gag: Vacuum cleaner advertisements.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Blue and Yellow sit down on the couch and Red starts scrolling through the video playlist, Green and the Second Coming immediately jump up and run away, to the bemusement of the others.
- A Truce While We Gawk: When an ad suddenly pops up while YouTube is in the midst of walloping the stick figures using different video clips, all of the combatants react with exasperation instead of using it to their advantage.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: While the other stick figures show clear concern at seeing Green and The Second Coming lying exhausted on the ground, it's dispelled as soon as Green gives an I'm Okay! gesture, and beyond some brief surprise they don't give much thought to seeing the YouTube UI completely destroyed.
