Take That / SiIvaGunner

For all the great music SiIvaGunner has ripped and uploaded for various reasons (though mainly for laughs), there are some songs that are meant to take a jab at various scenarios.

Jokes exclusive to the rips listed are not marked with spoilers on this page.

• The (presently un-reuploaded) "rip" of the "main theme" from the March 2016 Nintendo Direct... which was simply a fart sound.
  • This continued into the "title theme" for Paper Mario: Color Splash — it's simply Paper Mario: Sticker Star's title theme with Loud Nigra screaming over it.
    • A completely different "rip" for Color Splash was for "Prism City" and only contained the sound of paper being ripped.
• While the presence of Angry Joe references could be mistaken for a Shout-Out, any ambiguity was cleared when the SiIva Direct outright referred to him as "cring[y]".
• The "rip" for Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location's "Circus" theme is just Loud Nigra's screams echoed, almost certainly a jab at some people's thoughts on the series' longevity.
• The "Song That Might Play When You Fight Sans" rips are actually remixes of Mother-related Smash Bros. songs, an ironic reference to the infamous Game Theory video claiming that Sans is Ness.
  • The announcement video for the 7 Grand Mother album is a parody of the aforementioned Game Theory episode.
  • The rip of The Unreasonable Theory from Eternal Sonata is yet another jab at this episode and Game Theory in general.
• The rip of Battleborn's prologue theme: Chirping Crickets.^explanationThe game was widely overshadowed by the open beta of Overwatch. And then very quietly, the themes of Overwatch and Team Fortress 2 start playing. And then the theme of Final Combat starts playing which starts to get louder.
• The rip of the main theme from Minecraft is simply the song with the sound of someone taking a dump and several people screaming and yelling in panic (including Loud Nigra and Vinesauce's Joel) in the background.
• The "rip" of Yo-kai Watch 2's main theme (a text-to-speech rant against the game) takes a good portion of its script from James Rolfe's notorious video about his refusal to watch or review Ghostbusters (2016), as a way of poking fun at the unwarranted backlash that followed James Rolfe stating his opinion.
• "Title Theme" from Overwatch is simply the Jeopardy! theme song, a jab at the severe server overload that the game experienced within the same hour that the rip was uploaded that forced players to queue up and wait their turn.
• "Live and Learn (Instrumental)" from Sonic Adventure 2 is just "Prison Lane" as a blatant jab at how similar it is to "Live and Learn".
• The various "Main Theme" videos he uploaded during E3 2016 all mock the companies involved^note with the exception of Electronic Arts, which simply referenced Snoop Dogg's involvement in their conference.
  • Bethesda's Theme is a snippet of Little Lies by Fleetwood Mac (with a little bit of Snow Halation thrown in at the end).
  • Microsoft's Theme is just repetition of their E3 announcer saying "Xbox One and Windows 10 exclusive", mocking the fact that there wasn't anything truly Xbox One exclusive at the conference. (This extends to the description, and then a litte bit of Snow Halation at the end, accompanied by footage of the "snow" from the Dead Rising 4 part of their conference.)
  • Ubisoft's Theme begins with their bizarre Just Dance performance of Queen^note which is why the composer is listed as "Freddie Mercury, although he probably wishes he wasn't by now" (with Loud Nigra added in), before it's cut off by SiIvaGunner complaining about them not showing anything about Beyond Good & Evil 2^note which was announced the following year. He then repeatedly says "Give me Beyond Good and Evil 2", only to start singing the lyrics to Snow Halation halfway through the video to footage of Ubisoft's new Alpine sports game, Steep, then goes straight back to repeating "Give me Beyond Good and Evil 2". Then tops the video off by saying "Also, fuck that hacker with that mask" (a jab at a new character from Watch_Dogs 2 who wears an Expressive Mask that at least once uses emoticons).
  • Sony's Theme is just a clip from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, with Will's dialogue edited to ask "Where the Vita games?" A memorial for the Vita then appears, with An Ending from Undertale playing in the background.
    • Similarly, Main Theme - Nintendo Direct 9.1.2016 features the same clip, but with Will's dialogue edited to ask "Where are the Wii U games?" while showing footage of the two 3DS ports of Wii U games that were announced during the direct. The video ends with a memorial to the Wii U with the text "Exclusives? WHAT Exclusives?"
    SiIva: "Wait a second, didn't we already make this joke before?"
  • PC Gaming's Theme plays the first 15 seconds of the conference, only for a banner to pop up saying "Upgrading from Windows 7 or 8? You'll love Windows 10! - Fred Flintstone", punctuated by SiIvaGunner saying "Aw, for fuckin' out loud!"
• Main Theme - Mighty No. 9, released the same day as the game in question, consists of SiIvaGunner talking about how the rip has been delayed, mocking the game for its numerous delays.
  • Later, the "OST theme" of the Main Theme of Mighty No. 9 was uploaded. It plays like "normal" ^note (it's a Stylistic Suck GSXCC version of Wood Man's theme) until the end, where a fake avast! "Virus Detected!" warning detecting the video as malware suddenly appears over top of the video (in reference to the game's infamous reputation as being detected as malware on some players' PCs). To make it even more overt, the URL given is "rip_of_shit_game", noting the mediocre reception the game got upon release.
• Several rips, such as this rip of "For the Fans", the title theme of Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, and this rip of "Mii News" make fun of the host of the infamous YouTube show #DramaAlert, Keemstar.
• The album release of Super Mario Bros.'s "Overworld (Alternative Mix)" (in which parts of the theme are altered to sound like the Super Mario All-Stars version... at least for the first minute and nine seconds) is entitled, "Soyo Oka Ruined the SMB Overworld Theme and This Is Why".
• Chad Warden's last words: "PS Vita... I'm coming to see you..."
• The title theme from New Super Mario Bros. Wii is actually the file select music for New Super Mario Bros.... with the game logo of New Super Mario Bros. 2 being shown, and the playlist link in the description leading to the playlist for New Super Mario Bros. U, making fun of the subseries' constant stagnation.
• During the infamous livestream of Sega's 25-year anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2016, which was fraught with technical issues and odd product placement, the channel made several jokes at its expense:
  • Title Screen - Sonic Adventure 3 is simply loud static, referencing the audio troubles stream had. This was followed by Special Announcement Theme - Sonic 25th Anniversary Party which is a buzzing noise over audio from said stream.
  • Trailer Theme - Sonic Mania which is simply the Totino's song from Tim & Eric's Totino Boy video as a dig to the stream's Totino's product placement. It was also posted three times in reference to the Sonic Mania trailer being played thrice during the event. After Sonic Mania was released in 2017, due to said product placement, nearly every rip from Sonic Mania from this point on contained the Totino's song in some way.
  • Eventually the channel got backlash from viewers for its overuse of the joke so the channel uploaded Head 2 Head - Versus Mode (4P) - Sonic Mania Plus in response. It's actually a dub of the "It's Not Jackie Chan" skit from Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! but with the Totino's song in context.
• Ancient Lore from Demigod is a take that to impatient fans considering videos to be ARG-related lore for minor reasons, as well as to talk show host Alex Jones.
• The rip of "Kongo Jungle"^note Melee's version of the DK Rap ends with the singer getting shot with a coconut gun by the original DK Rap singer.
  Shooter: Sorry, but Kongo Jungle isn't as good as the DK Rap or the CG Rap, says SilvaGunner. There isn't even a clear acapella of it anywhere. Fuck Kongo Jungle.
• The main theme of Bear Sterns Bravo gets cut off by a Record Needle Scratch midway through, followed by:
  "NOOO, GOD! NO! GOD PLEASE NO. NO! NO! NOOOOOOOO-"
• "Pokémon League (Beta Mix)" from Pokémon X and Y is a stab at the last episode of Pokémon the Series: XY's Kalos League story arc, which resulted in Ash's (inevitable) loss.
• Miracle Night (Stardust Mix) from The Idolmaster Platinum Stars makes a jab of all of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fans who try to make JoJokes out of anything that could even be loosely connected to something to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
  • JOEJOE'S BIZAERRE JOEJOKE is an album-length jab at the same group of fans. The entire thing is filled with Stylistic Suck JoJo-related rips - including one with the much-maligned Bean - with similarly insulting titles.
  • According to Word of God, "Bloody Stream" rips are intentionally terrible to hit back at the hypocrisy of some fans hating on Snow Halation rips for being "weeb crap" but at the same time constantly demanding JoJo rips.
• The YouTube Heroes rip is a parody of Sonic Heroes' theme with the lyrics poking fun at how easy it is to abuse said system.
• Stage Builder - Super Smash Bros Brawl is actually the theme of the Wii Homebrew Channel, referencing the exploiting of a coding flaw in the game involving the Stage Builder to execute homebrew on a Wii ("Smash Stack"), including Brawl game mods such as Project M.
• Both of the No Man's Sky rips. Opening / Main Theme -- No Man's Sky is the title theme with the "have you ever had a dream like this" kid rambling over it^explanationHe fumbles over a sentence many times, and finally finishes it with "...you could do anything?", meant here as an ironic reference to the claims of being able to "do anything" in No Man's Sky., followed by Murray saying "Sometimes."
  • Multiplayer Menu - No Man's Sky It starts with Chirping Crickets, then plays clips of interviews with Sean Murray over a snippet of "Little Lies" by Fleetwood Mac, a reference to the promised multiplayer in the game that doesn't exist. To make things even more overt, the title on screen is changed to "No Man's Buy"
• Chemical Plant Zone - LEGO Dimensions is the royalty-free song "Pixel Peeker Polka (slower)" by Kevin MacLeod, poking fun at Warner Bros. composing off-key soundalikes of Genesis-era Sonic the Hedgehog songs in LEGO Dimensions partially to avoid paying royalties to musician Masato Nakamura, who composed and owns the rights to the soundtracks for the first two Sonic games.^note Another reason for the soundalike music, which has nothing to do with royalties, is that LEGO Dimensions employs Sonic levels from the second half of the Sonic 3 portion of Sonic 3 & Knuckles whose songs are, long short story, entangled in a veritable legal screwjob with the Michael Jackson estate, preventing Sonic 3 & Knuckles from being re-released in any form other than direct emulation of an unmodified ROM (which may be why it was excluded from the Sega Genesis Mini). However, the music of the Sonic & Knuckles portion of Sonic 3 & Knuckles is legally clear (refer to Sonic Generations rearranging Sky Sanctuary and Mushroom Hill, for example), but that, too, its substituted with off-key soundalikes in LEGO Dimensions purely for the sake of consistency with what music hasn't been legally cleared by WB.
• A "Hard Day's Work" - Mr Rental: The Video Game:
  • The video spends its second half mocking meme channel MrMrMANGOHead's videos for being low effort and unoriginal.
  "we are number one but every one is replaced with stock distortion effects with no change because I have no idea how to make any original or transformative content and a forced meme is added to stay relevant with normie trash and I can shill my patreon in the description in the hopes that someone actually thinks these videos take any real effort"
  • There are shots taken toward the Behind the Meme channel's constant use of .gifs in their videos.
• "The Moon (OST version)" is a seventeen minute long cover of Cuphead's tutorial theme, riffing on GamesBeat editor Dean Takahashi's infamous failure to get through said game's tutorial.
• The Reveal Trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 might as well be called: "The SiIvaGunner creative team reads YouTube comments bickering about the '4' in the title while we play unfitting music".
• Bloody Tears / Monster Dance - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is in actuality "Galaga Medley", in reference to how Simon Belmont was accidentally leaked hours before the August 2018 Smash Direct.
• During the King for a Day tournament, Ajit Pai was the only contestant to canonically die, after being snapped out of existence by Thanos. Additionally, his "promo" vid on Twitter is a sloppily edited Harlem Shake parody of his infamous "7 Things You Can Still Do After Net Neutrality", with it lagging due to slow internet halfway through, and the only rip of his that was uploaded was a mediocre mashup between the Harlem Shake and "Watch Me Whip/NaeNae", an already widely loathed Running Gag on the channel. Despite this, he returned as a serious contestant in King for Another Day, albeit reincarnated as Metal Ajit Pai.
• Rhythm Rally - Rhythm Heaven Megamix is a jab at the length of the prequel version of Rhythm Rally in Rhythm Heaven Megamix.
• Game Over - Sonic the Hedgehog is a Sonic 1-style remix of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise," the music used in the poorly-received trailer for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie released the same day.
• Password Screen - Hydlide uses audio of Blood on the Dance Floor's Sexting along with ProJared's voice clips to sentence mix referring to him on the alleged cheating his wife and sending nude pictures to his fans as a jab in light of Jared's cheating scandal. Later, he made a remix of ProJared's actual theme ("Goodbye Summer, Hello Winter") as Cheato's theme, the implied jab there being more obvious. (Interestingly, Jared's theme got a more standard remix shortly after the pedophilia accusations against him were proven unfounded, possibly as a token apology.)
• Opening Theme- Bethesda E3 Press Conference 2019 is a Stylistic Suck version of Little Lies, likely as a reference to adding a battle royale mode to Fallout 76 and the showing of mobile games at their E3 stage.
• Pull Up A Chair - Hearthstone features the usual, cheerfully quiet tune... while violent audio directly lifted from footage of the Hong Kong protests happens right outside the building, as an obvious send-up to Activision Blizzard's PR disaster revolving around their disqualification of a pro-HK tournament winner, as well as firing of both commentators interviewing him to avoid pissing off the Chinese government, which has been seen by many, many people as picking money over morals.
  • Related to the above video, Reveal Trailer Theme - Overwatch 2 starts off with clips from the advertised trailer interweaved with several clips of Winnie the Pooh^note Who, in China, has been banned for memes comparing him with Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping. Then, after a brief clip of the familiar Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby, it becomes a Stylistic Suck version of Chinese "propaganda" interweaved with an edited version of "Fist Bump".
• Emote: Beep Beep - Fortnite starts off with car honks playing the Flintstones theme while canned laughter and popular Fortnite streamer Ninja's mocking laugh from his infamous outburst against a player in an H1Z1 session, before playing unedited audio of a different session (this time in Fortnite) where Ninja reports a player for stream-sniping just because they emoted after killing him, serving as an obvious jab to both moments.
  • Circus (The Phrase "It's Just A Mix Name" Is Such A Weak Mindset) - Five Nights at Freddy's is also another one at Ninja, the mix name referencing a widely mocked tweet Ninja made. The rip itself also prominently features Ninja's outburst mentioned above, along with Ninja's intro song mixed with The Flintstones theme. To add further insult at Ninja, this rip was uploaded to the channel on June 5, which is Ninja's birthday.
• Several golf and Vinesauce's Joel related rips were uploaded on June 19, 2020, the release date of The Last of Us Part II, as a jab on Abby beating Joel to death with a golf club.
• April Fools' Day 2021 features a mini-narrative revolving around Mario becoming Ret-Gone, with the day's rips consisting of Mario games with the title and thumbnail adjusted accordingly. This is a jab at Nintendo's decision to pull the Super Mario 3D All-Stars Compilation Re-release from stores on the same day.
• "FREEDOM DiVE↓ - Muse Dash" is the ubiquitous Rhythm Game song of the same name as advertised, but with part of the lyrics for "Kino ni Kanaderu Ashita no Uta" by the idol group YURiMental mashed up with it. The fact that the two songs mesh together so well isn't a coincidence - the rip is a jab at the latter song being such a Suspiciously Similar Song of the former (despite being marketed as a "homage") that Xi had to intervene.
• "Tabloid Jargon - Press Garden Zone Act 1 - Sonic Mania Plus" takes potshots at Minecraft streamer Dream and his speedrun cheating scandal, cementing the point home with adding The Angry Video Game Nerd's "That's right, we're gonna cheat!" line from his Ghostbusters (NES) review followed by defensive voice clips from Dream, referencing his stance towards the scandal.
  • If a rip has "Mask" as the joke, expect it to be switched halfway through with the remix made by We The Sus Music, poking fun at the original song's negative reception.
  • During Dream's 21st birthday on August 12, 2021, the channel released five rips with Dream as the joke. Main Theme (US Mix) - Five Nights at Freddy's 2 and Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day: Rock Band being particularly scathing ones, both featuring "Mask" and its Sus remix of course. The former references an infamous tweet Dream made in response to the backlash from "Mask" during one of the song's bridges, while the latter has the video poke fun at Dream's speedrun cheating scandal by Googling Minecraft hacked clients during the song's instrumental.
• "Road to Cerulean City: Leaving Mt. Moon (OST Version) - Pokémon Red & Blue" has a reverb effect over the entire song that becomes progressively more overbearing as the rip goes on, a poke at the reverb added to the Super Music Collection version of the soundtrack.
• "Lights, Camera, Action! - Studiopolis Zone Act 1 (Unused Mix) - Sonic Mania" is a mashup with a song from Turning Red, with its release date of September 11th making fun of The Mysterious Mr. Enter's infamous complaint that the film didn't talk about The War on Terror.
• "Muda Kingdom (Beta Mix)" - Super Mario Land is just the music, unedited, overlaid with audio of DIO yelling "MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA!" and an obnoxious laughtrack, mocking commenters from the previous rip of this track who assumed the joke would be exactly that because of the title.
• The entire 2024 April Fools' event is a mockery of YouTube remix culture as a whole since the late 2010s, namely the "[X song] but [gimmick]" format from content mill channels. Most notable is the "One Winged Angel but with Classic Internet Era Memes", which lampoons meme channels such as Grandayy and the numerous discredited memes of the 2020s.