#KnightOfGames

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 04/03/2024

Willievan Afton Polkka

Season 8 Featured on: The Joke​-​Explainer 7000​™​'s Highest Quality Rips: Sunrise

Ripped by KnightOfGames

Requested by realchickenmanny! @realchickenmanny

Tentative rip name: Willievan Afton Polkka

One of the most fun parts of keeping up to date with SiIvaGunner is getting to see the rise of new jokes being used on the channel - which weird sources are trying to become mainstay running gags, which feel as if they're failing to really catch on, and so on. I talked about this in relation to Season 8 in particular back with Magolor's Shoppe Fusion Collab, back when the Season had just kicked into gear a few weeks ago, and even in that short time since there's been a few rising star jokes worth considering. One of the most surprising newcomers to me, then, is the very subject of Willievan Afton Polkka: the Five Nights at Freddy's fan song Stuck Inside, by Black Grpyh0n ft. The Living Tombstone.

Five Nights at Freddy's has of course always had a pretty prominent presence on the channel since back in Season 1 with the Circus rips a la Goodbye To Love, where the entire gag was built on how FNAF games lack much of any real music to make rips of. But there's another way this gag has been utilized in rips of the games - by instead using the rips to cover The Living Tombstone's immensely popular FNAF fan songs as if they were official theme songs of the games. The cultural impact these songs have had on many an internet dweller is undeniable: back with Five Dreams at Night 1.16, I covered an example of these using the song It's Been So Long, which currently sits at 312 MILLION views on YouTube. (and, of course, The Living Tombstone's first ever FNAF song was used as the credits theme for the feature film last year!)

All that is to say, that I find the usage of FNAF fan songs - old and new - to be a fantastic fit for SiIvaGunner, as influential nuggets of pure pop culture self-expression on YouTube. Stuck Inside, used by Willievan Afton Polkka and six other rips all released after the start Season 8, is a far more recent song than the nostalgic FNAF songs of old, themed around the story depicted in the FNAF movie - yet even without that nostalgia, it's got an absolutely fantastic melodic hook and creepy, yet ominously cheerful tone to it. After hearing it for three or so rips, I was sold - the team had clearly taken a liking to the song, and I was now amidst the various other commenters noting how fun of a listen it was.

That was, of course, before I went to look up which rippers were behind which of these eight rips. Eight rips using Stuck Inside, made in the span of two weeks - and they were ALL made by KnightOfGames.

And look, KnightOfGames is already one of my favorite rippers, I've admired the earnestness and quality in his output since I first began listening to the albums and connected the dots of who was behind what (plus, in his own words on mlp racism anthem (comix zone arrange - every MLP rip specifically goes through him for approval to ensure peak pony quality!). But this sheer commitment to rendering Stuck Inside in these SUPER distinct styles, making a one-man effort appear like the work of multiple contributors through sheer variety and rate of uploads - it genuinely did make my jaw drop when I found out! All of these are bangers in their own way, but I felt the need to single out Willievan Afton Polkka in particular for how much of a fun escalation it proved to be SO early into the meme's life - it's the kind of rip that I wouldn't have expected to see uploaded until several weeks from now.

Ievan Polkka is of course a very sillycore banger in its own right no matter what you do with it, but the idea to have Stuck Inside's vocals be sung by Miku herself over the former song's backing beat is such a genuinely inspired idea, this clash of old and new internet fandom music that, on the surface appear, like oil and water. Yet the somewhat uncanny cheeriness to Stuck Inside's melody that I mentioned earlier ends up fitting in perfectly, appearing far more sincere and lighthearted in the arrangement as a result - and all topped off perfectly by the use of Moonbase Alpha-like Text-To-Speech clips to match Stuck Inside's occasional squeals. Just for good measure, the rip lastly explores juxtaposing the tonal differences of the two songs, by using the original vocals for a small segment in the middle of the rip, before returning to the good-fun Miku vocals.

Willievan Afton Polkka is, above all else, another release in the long line of excellent vocaloid rips on the channel, much like Rolling Start and As Miku Collides. And much like those two rips in particular, there's a sort of personal feeling to the rip - in part due to how exclusive Stuck Inside as a SiIva joke still is to KnightOfGames himself, but also due to how much fun the guy clearly had in arranging it in a seemingly-bizarre style such as this. There are some mashups and edits that you think of just from hearing songs for the first time, the "surprised this hasn't been done yet"-type of rips, but Willievan Afton Polkka feels like the complete opposite: the kind of out-there rip idea that could only be done by someone who knows Stuck Inside like the back of their hand. That's a level of commitment that I just have to respect - and I hope with my whole heart that Stuck Inside eventually becomes picked up by other members of the team as Season 8 progresses.

[bestofmidi]

submitted by @knightofgames !!!

Britney Spears Goes to Hell ("Kill Me Baby") Inspired by britney.mid Remixed and axe-murdered by Rufus T. Firefly r_t_f@hotmail.com

original midi at https://bitmidi.com/britney-spears-baby-one-more-time-hell-mix-mid

[paper-mario-wiki]

Have you made any SiIvaGunner rips? specifically if you did this one youtube com/watch?v=T8UxsmDn8sQ

nope! all siivagunner medleys and all King For A Day entries have their artists in the description.

this one was made by KnightOfGames.

[knightofgames]

oh i almost forgot. Bluesky account https://bsky.app/profile/knightofgames.bsky.social

[doomgay]

been blown up from orbit by @loudmound to list the 5 songs ive been listening to atm

1. bbno$ - gone prod. y2k 2. when summer's gone - blue 3. dare to be stupid (kogmix) - knightofgames 4. yona yona dance - akiko wada 5. remind me - röyksopp

and in response i will dub for the challenge @smitemeister @ozdical @sarcosuchus @a-gay-little-cat @gaussprime @gr-74 and whoever da fuck else wanna do it be free

[digi-log-conversation]

was tagged by @digboye to make a playlist that spells out my URL! you can listen here on YouTube. these are the songs included:

Marble Water / Seirou Okamoto telephone / Vylet Pony How Do I Life / Em-One & Answered - Emmaculate / l4ureleye Mirror / Porter Robinson まだダメよ (mada dame yo) / Yuki Kajiura and I'm home / wowaka

i think it speaks some amount of volumes that most of this is not popular music in the slightest, and that i am just a bit of a nerd loser. i do listen to normal music i promise, but since it was my name and the letters were limited, this was what came to my mind out of my fav songs. i also tried to pick tracks that would hopefully flow pretty well in playlist form. here's a different playlist that represents me a little better.

anyway ive been thinking about changing my url for a while so maybe if i end up doing that i'll make another playlist. for now i'll tag @aquacycle @knightofgames aaand @youtubepoopmusicvideo.

see below for embeds of all the songs!

[fallentitan98]

Sure why not, I love spreading my absolute bonkers taste in music.

1. The Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton

2. The Cult of Dionysus by The Orion Experience

3. Moon base Bay by Knightofgames

4. Honey and Glass by Peyton Cardoza

5. Don’t you dare (Make me fall in love with you) by Kaden Mackay

@cinnamon-pineforest @zsweber-studios @werewolf-cuddles @yamada-ryo @kob131 @cerastes

@casgirlrights2 tagged me to share 5 songs i’ve been listening to and then tag 10 ppl (thank u for the tag !!) :)

- freak like me by caroline rose

- foundations of decay by my chemical romance

- freaks to the front by amyl and the sniffers (highly recommend checking them out if you don’t know them !!)

- this is why by paramore

- (you) on my arm by leith ross

tagging @synttaxx @balisonged @pidakit @meurtre-du-corbeau @decayed-foundations @gothic-neons @frankieairobongrip @nerdloser222 @ftwwwdotmp3 @fastidious-and-a-mess <- no pressure to any of y’all + sorry if you’ve already been tagged lol <3

[mendelpalace]

Snowman Fusion Collab 

Artists: Niko+, Monotonemonkey, Dooki51, Zoom Guy, New Guy, Scribblenaut19, Matsu Muhō, Scribble1k, NutellaFrenchToast, Harley201, The Duane, KnightOfGames, LarryInc64, vince94, Supahstar

SiIvagunner and crew made a lovely medley of the theme of Snowman in Mother, done in the style of several different games, musicians and genres. 

@spaceauddity & @titleknown, I think you’d love this for various reasons. As well as anyone who likes the music of the Mother series and hearing game tunes done in very different styles. 

[willmelon]

(KnightOfGames II)

[digboye]

MOONBASE BABY

did a commission for @knightofgames meant for his Moonbase Alpha cover of INDUSTRY BABY! go check it out on yt:

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 04/05/2024

FEEL SO FINE STUCK INSIDE

Season 8 Featured on: The Joke-Explainer 7000™'s Highest Quality Rips: Sunset

Ripped by KnightOfGames (@knightofgames)

Tentative rip name: FEEL SO FINE STUCK INSIDE

Hey everyone - remember Stuck Inside? The Five Nights at Freddy's fan song I covered back in Willievan Afton Polkka, the one pushed entirely by long-time team member KnightOfGames? Back when I first wrote that post, the meme was just beginning to take off, sitting at seven rips total by the beginning of March. We've now reached the two-month anniversary of that post - and in the time since, the amount of Stuck Inside being done has grown exponentially. Not only has the total rip count more than quadrupled - currently at 33 - but the tune has also caught on with more rippers on the team than just KnightOfGames, bringing about a huge variety of more takes on the song. Granted, today's rip is still one from the man himself, but after you've listened to FEEL SO FINE STUCK INSIDE I highly recommend checking out all the other Stuck Inside rips if you haven't already - 12 AM - Maroon GO got a really good chuckle out of me in particular.

But yes, no matter - it's been three months since KnightOfGames first had the idea to start putting a silly fan song into his rips back in February, and it's arguably turned into the most prominent reoccurring tune to specifically debut during Season 8. And like, you'd think that would lead to a sort of overexposure to it, that one would get fed up hearing the same joke in so many places - but this deep into the channel's life, rippers have learned just how to leverage running jokes in a way that keeps them sounding fresh at every turn. Last time it was vocaloid - today, months after my post on SING A SONG ABOUT HOPES AND DREAMS, we're returning to the world of hyperpop, with one of the most cool-sounding interpretations of Stuck Inside that we've gotten yet. To be completely honest - this rip may alone have perked my interest in 100 gecs' music.

Yes, we're at one of those rips again, the kind where I'm woefully unfamiliar with the material that the rip's joke is using. But even moreso to an outsider looking in, there's a whimsy to 100 gecs' music that I just can't help but be allured by, a sound that somehow feels like a nostalgic calling to the early days of internet expression: to be loud, cringe and unashamed of being as such. FEEL SO FINE STUCK INSIDE is in particular using the band's debut single Money Machine as a baseline, both using parts of its instrumental and tuning the original Stuck Inside vocals to that level of distortion and higher-pitch that 100 gecs is known for. It's a surprisingly natural fit (hence why I'm writing about it here) for how different you'd think the two songs are in terms of tone - but then, Stuck Inside had its chorus be sung by a rather filtered voice to begin with...perhaps this combination of tracks isn't as far-fetched as one would initially think?

In truth, I don't know if there's much I have to say beyond my absolute highest recommendation to FEEL SO FINE STUCK INSIDE in particular - I'm just incredibly happy that Stuck Inside is continuing to see use in general. KnightOfGames' passion for the track is infectious, and it's really sweet seeing just how much its caught on with fellow SiIva viewers in the comments - despite how blatantly prevalent it was during the April Fools event in particular, I've hardly ever seen anyone complain about its overexposure the way people did with Grand Dad or Snow Halation back in Season 1. Perhaps that just speaks to how much better the rips have gotten over the years - Stuck Inside is incredibly prevalent, but each rip is made with such care and with such a distinct feel from the last to where it never feels as if the jokes are getting redundant or stalel.

Stuck Inside is just a damn good song - and through rips like FEEL SO FINE STUCK INSIDE, its presence on SiIvaGunner is also helping me uncover my tastes in music in a rather fun way. It's not an inherently funny leitmotif nor something grounded in any sort of meme culture - it is merely a tune KnightOfGames saw tons of potential in, and has leveraged to incredible lengths in the months since. I cannot wait to see what the future of Stuck Inside looks like, but FEEL SO FINE STUCK INSIDE will do just fine in the meanwhile.

[601billionlazer]

I'm not following enough people rn so my following page is just ppl who didn't evacuate twitter to be here so its just @knightofgames it is entirely just him

[awnbeepee-blog]

a post written by my good friend heboyi

@knightofgames @apsticle @cosmic199x @fwugradiation

There is a gas leak in my house smells like hot dogs

bro is flabbergasted

[knightofgames]

i made this acapella swap of an oldish rip of mine when i was bored a while back, because i found out that mrbeast got to add multiple audio tracks to one of his youtube videos. umm it would be cool if we got that too just saying

acapella's not as clean because i couldnt find a 5.1 rip of the jp dub of mlpfim at the time, but fortunately you can get pretty damn good DIYs with modern software. i didnt really retime the notes to the dub's vox because i already have to do quite a bit to stretch the vocals themselves out to the proper BPM throughout the track

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

(KnightOfGames II [ARCHIVE])