Saltydkdan (real name Derek) is an American YouTuber, livestreamer, animator, and voice actor that primarily makes reaction videos, highlight reels, and video essays alongside a wide variety of friends and collaborators. His humor often utilizes plenty of ironic memes and quick edits.
There is a wide variety of content to be found on the Saltydkdan YouTube channel, such as:
- Have You Heard About, in which Salty subjects his friends to incredibly obscure content. Some of the subjects covered were discovered while he was looking around online, while others were submitted by fans.
- A Day in My Life, a series of vlogs that combine live action footage with an animated Author Avatar.
- His Pokémon Friendlocke series, where he plays the Nuzlocke Challenge but has each Pokemon controlled by a member of his friend group.
- Live reactions to video game press conferences, such as the Electronic Entertainment Expo and Nintendo Direct.
- Fan dubs of shows and video games
Salty's YouTube channel can be found here
, his Twitch channel here, and his Twitter here.
Have you heard about these tropes?
- Author Avatar:
- Appears frequently in video thumbnails and in A Day in My Life
- Each regular collaborator on the channel has one of their own as well.
- Blatant Lies: In Suicide Forest 2 (Ft. Jake Paul), Pastey repeatedly claims that they're located in Jacksonville, Florida.
- Brick Joke: In Have You Heard About: Karate Training Videos, when Pastey insults JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Salty claims that he's outside his house and ready to kill him, asking him to open his door. Pastey asks why he can't just break down the door with his karate skills, to which Salty states that Black Belts need to be invited in like vampires. Later on, when the Sausages invade Tommy Nitro's dojo, Salty uses this to proclaim them as not being true karate practitioners since they didn't ask to be invited.
- Dead Person Impersonation: In protest to Elon Musk changing Twitter's verification checkmarks so that Twitter Blue subscribers would also have a checkmark for only 8$ a month, Derek decided to get his checkmark removed by impersonating the late Queen Elizabeth II, claiming that she was just binge-watching Big Mouth and proceeding to spout nonsensical phrases and responses. Afterwards, he claims his account was hacked, Claire adding that it was hacked by Queen Elizabeth's ghost herself.
"Yes, it still do be squirting" - Queen Elizabeth II @saltydkdan
- Depraved Bisexual: Trevor the Hedgehog is "the first bisexual Sonic character" who sets fire to churches that do not worship Jesus, calls his mother sexy and is romantically interested in his own brother, Sonic.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: In "HOW TO SELL YOUR GARFIELD MERCH," the boys are quick to draw comparisons between the Garfield superfans and furries.
- Early Game Hell: In "Pokemon: Friendlocke: Season 2." The first Pokemon Salty picked up did not know any attacking moves, making the first few fights a matter of attrition. After he picked up a few more friends and Igglybuff leveled up to level 9, the game started to look beatable.
- Eldritch Abomination: Garfeldi is an alien capable of doing anything he wishes at his own command. The gang thinks of him as rather attractive and constantly ask Mal if she would kiss and/or date him.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Lots of video titles follow this trope, such as "Q&A in a dimly lit basement"
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: A rather spolerific example in his Undertale Yellow let's play, where Ceroba explains she can feel her daughter still connected to her...in Alphys' True Lab. Cue Derek muttering 'oh no' over and over again as the Amalgamates flash on screen.
- Failed a Spot Check: In "HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT: SpongeBob in Tehran", he and his friends very quickly notice that the creators left in a very obvious Adobe Premiere Media Missing errornote . Twice.
- Fanon Welding: Salty reads the following comment from chat during a playthrough of The Force Unleashed - "What if in FNAF 3 The Purple Guy used the suit of C-3PO, and got crushed into it becoming C-3PO? IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE, SOMEBODY SEND THIS TO GAME THEORY, WE HAVE TO SEND GAME THEORY RIGHT THI-BLEHBLEPHBERHBLEPH"
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: From "The Legend of Trevor the Hedgehog (REAL)":Trevor: My name is Trevor, and I am a lover, not a fighter. But if you worship anything other than Jesus, your church will be burned down.
- Mundane Made Awesome: "GROWN MAN LEARNS TO TYPE ON A KEYBOARD" features fast-paced gameplay of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing.
- No Sex Allowed: Queen Elizabeth threatens that, if Sonic Frontiers doesn't score at least and 80 on Metacritic, then she will outlaw sex.
- "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: In "HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT: Chuck E. Cheese Training Videos," when Derek and Gerber joke about Chuck E. being an alt-right furry, Pastey takes a moment to state that it is a real problem in the furry community, seeing other furries get cancelled on Twitter every day thanks to having pictures of themselves wearing MAGA hats in their fursuits.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Pastey and Gerber, though their real names have been revealed in the Q&A video. *
- Perverse Sexual Lust: A running gag is Derek's love of Rouge the Bat, breaking down in her presence when playing The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog. He claims his one character trait is loving Rouge the Bat.
- Resolved Noodle Incident: "The Dice Block Incident", where during a game of Mario Party Superstars for charity, he and Mikey had a feud for an hour and thirty minutes because Salty wanted to roll the dice block last. Salty ended up not rolling it last when he lost a game of Rock Paper Scissors to decide who would roll first.
- Roger Rabbit Effect: A Day in My Life utilizes this any time Salty's Author Avatar is shown.
- Running Gag:
- References to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
- "DAMN, DANIEL."
- Any time someone makes an Incredibly Lame Pun, expect celebratory music and text that says something along the lines of "That was the funniest joke ever!!!"
- Sanity Slippage: During "
THE WORST DS GAMES", Salty slowly gets more crazed playing Squinkies on the DS and its sequel. Salty mentions that he wasn't having a good day before the stream, and that the games were making his day worse. - Single-Issue Wonk: Brittany Bluespheres introduces herself by establishing how much she likes Blue Sphere, which is her entire personality. She doesn't even like Sonic, seeing him as a rat bastard who needs to be eradicated.
- Take That!: During his Miitopia playthrough, Salty casts Butch Hartman as the Dark Lord and likens the Dark Lord stealing the faces of other Miis to how Hartman infamously traces over the artwork of much more talented artists in his commissioned work.
