And a nice one at that.
The Bike
is a YouTube series specializing in creating gaming mods primarily based on the horror visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club!. The videos are commonly requested by subscribers to the account. The videos are not story-driven, but they do carry some motifs.
The Bike uses these tropes:
- Abusive Parents: Natsuki's dad much like how he is suggested to be in canon. However, there are a few videos that actually subvert this.
- All Just a Dream: "Sayori is missing" concludes with Sayori waking up from a nightmare. However, it also leans itself towards Or Was It a Dream? with Yuri barging into Sayori's room.
- All Women Are Lustful: Monika in "Sayori gets a new prescription" as a result of her taking amphetamines.
- Ax-Crazy: Yuri, much like in the original game when Monika began to corrupt her character file, but likely even more so.
- Particularly in "Cooking with Monika and Yuri" wherein she takes too much enjoyment out of cutting fruits and vegetables, and tops this by repeatedly stabbing a watermelon until juice covered the counter, and she even gets an electric chainsaw and cuts the counter in half.
- In 'There's Nobody Else Like Yuri', this rears its ugly head again when her cutting almost gets out of control and sees her collapse from blood loss.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Monika, as per usual, knows that she's currently a subject of YouTube videos made by a guy who calls himself a bicycle. When he tries to design a lewd scene involving her, she flat-out addresses him and refuses to play along.
- Bullying a Dragon: After teasingly messing around with Yuri, Monika ends up drying Yuri's patience, getting out of dodge when Yuri grabs one of her knives.
- Monika does it again to Yuri while she was having an intimate moment with MC.
- 'Yuri Loses Her Temper' is all about this, with Natsuki learning the hard way what happens when you repeatedly disrupt Yuri's reading.
- Canon Discontinuity: "Yuri gets exposed" due to audience backlash.
- Character Exaggeration: Yuri becoming psychotic due to Monika's influence is amplified in most of The Bike's videos. She has several more psychotic episodes, and one running theme is that she has to take medicine to level her mood.
- Cluster F-Bomb: In the appropriately named "The Doki's say the F-word", everyone gets into the act, but special mention has to go to Sayori's outburst.Sayori: Fuck!
Sayori: ...Huh.
Sayori: I don't think I've ever said that word before.
Sayori: Fuck! Fuckity-fuck!
Sayori: Mother-fuckity fucking goddamn motherfucking shit!
Sayori: Eff-you-cee-kay. What does that spell?
Sayori: It spells FUCK! - Comedic Sociopathy: Whenever it isn't being truly horrifying, several of the characters — namely Yuri — are exaggerated to comedic levels.
- Namely any video where Yuri takes a nose dive in her mental health is this, but two in particular involves her character being violently Exaggerated: "MC eats breakfast with his 'mother'" and "Lewd Yuri thing". The first one is where the player character wakes up one day to discover that Yuri was in his house cooking breakfast, and for some odd reason, kept insisting that the player character address her as their mother. Eventually, this culminates in the revelation that Yuri broke into the player character's house and murdered his entire family in his sleep. The second involves her wanting to have a moment with the player character climaxing in her accidentally fatally stabbing him.
- Darker and Edgier: The Bike has the habit of making canonically disturbing moments from the visual novel even more horrific in his videos.
- An example is "Monika checks on Sayori". Sayori's suicide is infamous enough on its own, but in this version of the events, Monika is present throughout it.
- Did Not Think This Through: MC decides to include Sayori into his relationship with Natsuki. As one could guess, she isn't amused by this.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Sayori kills Yuri after she had stolen her bow in the video "Sayori loses her bow."
- Everybody Must Get Stoned: "the LITerature club", where Monika enters the clubroom to find that Yuri has brought in some THC oil and everyone there is pretty high. Then they get the munchies and demand Monika take them to Wendy's.
- Fan Disservice: In "A Month with Natsuki," Sayori strips down to her birthday suit in an effort to seduce MC to no avail. Though later MC and Natsuki talk about it and appreciate the nudity, at the time all it makes him feel is pity.
- For the Lulz: Monika makes many copies of herself to mess with Yuri in one of the episodes.
- Hand Wave: In Act XXII of A Month with Natsuki, Natsuki states that adoption isn't an option for her expected child, with little elaboration. This came in response to adoption being repeatedly brought up by as a solution by many viewers up until that point.
- Hidden Depths: Sayori loves country music.
- Hotter and Sexier: The fourth installment with Yuri ends with MC and Yuri "edging" each other.
- The Immodest Orgasm: As the main character finds out in videos where they're paired together, Natsuki is a screamer. Apparently he gets noise complaints from neighbors whenever she stays over.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Monika as always.
- Lethal Chef: Dadsuki in "Christmas With Natsuki".
- Lighter and Softer: Some videos are much more comedic and lighthearted then both the game and other videos, such as "The Doki's go to Walmart" or the cooking videos. While Yuri is still sometimes prone to becoming murderously violent, in these videos it's played for laughs instead of creepyness like in the more serious ones.
- Me's a Crowd: Monika replicates several copies of herself to mess with Yuri. Unfortunately for her, she had dried up all of Yuri's patience.
- Naked People Are Funny: A majority of the fourth installment with Yuri revolves around this.
- Parents as People: Natsuki's dad is difficult at the best of times, but his frustration and behavior towards his daughter are shown to be Anger Born of Worry from a damaged man.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: Yuri says this verbatim in reaction to accidentally stabbing the player character in "Lewd Yuri thing".
- Power Perversion Potential: The Bike can edit values in the girls' character files, which naturally has gone into lewd territory at times.
- Psycho Lesbian: Yuri as depicted in Sayori is missing.
- Shout-Out: Yuri mentions considering Clifford the Big Red Dog as one of the greatest literary works. This is a reference to the Game Grumps' playthrough of the game.
- Teens Are Monsters: Monika takes too much crude fascination with watching Sayori's death play out in Monika checks on Sayori.
- Yuri is the main perpatrator of this in several videos revolving around her.
- Yandere: Yuri, but in most of the videos, her obsession with the player character is taken to new levels.
- In "Sayori is missing," Yuri is revealed to have kidnapped Sayori and was intending to slice her open. Thankfully, this turns out to be a dream.
- Yuri broke into the player character's house once and kills their entire family while they were sleeping.
