#season mine

[7grandmel]

Rip of the week: 10/02/2025

Unfounded Ownership

Season Mine No Album Release (Read More) Unfounded Revenge / Smashing Song of Praise (PAL Version) - Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Ripped by SamanthaMK

You know what I haven't felt in the premiere of a new SiIvaGunner Season in a very long time? Complete and utter confusion.

Within recent memory, with both Season 7 and Season 8, I felt as if their premieres served as comforting, reassuring statements on what the year set out to deliver; the celebratory Year of Grand Dad for the former, and the comfort in an old friend becoming host with the latter, covered on Magolor's Shoppe Fusion Collab. Both seasons would later come to deliver some amazing surprises throughout, particularly by their finales, but lots of their runs felt comfortably reassuring, showing a team on track with a vision clear to both themselves and to us in the audience. Even in the years before, the premieres have served like a comforting bridge into the future; Season 2, 3 and 4 Episode 1 all formally introduced to us by Chaze the Chat himself to explain the path going forward. And yet as 2025 begins, as MAGFest came to an end and the team geared back up to begin uploading...suddenly, things got weird. Despite the last season's ending being all about piecing things together, about building bridges to move forward; 2025's season began with what I can only describe as a non-sequitur. With barely as much as a warning, we were thrust into Stingy's world, into Season Mine - not Nine - and it all, indeed, belongs to him.

It's hardly the first time that the channel's control has been usurped by an unexpected out-of-left-field arrival - I spent last week's post on Tribute to a MAD Agent discussing Inspector Gadget's terrifying Season 2 rule, best demonstrated on Become as Gadget - yet what differentiates Stingy's takeover is the context building up to it all. There's an undeniable sense of impulsive hap-hazardry that surrounds the early years of SiIvaGunner, with projects and events coming and going on a whim and the channel only taking it all seriously whenever it felt like it. The ARG that concluded Season 8, covered similarly haphazardly back on PRIMEneria, was all about addressing this carefree event-building, piecing together every possible stray bit of lore dropped throughout the early years to form a greater understanding of the whole. For instance, back during the first anniversary of The Reboot in Season 2, we were shown Fly High, No Lies ~Genocide Ending~: an out-of-nowhere alternate timeline highlighting how things could have turned out in the original Reboot storyline following if Chad's own behavior was more "accurate to how he is in the real world", even including the line "this was my true plan all along". The implications of this alternate-reality Chad Warden were left completely unexplored therafter, until the current SiIva team built onto it for this very same ARG to completely reframe the Reboot storyline, Chad's behavior, and even the original motives behind the channel's defacto villain of nine years, The Voice Inside Your Head. This was but one subject of many that the Susie ARG directly addressed; it framed the Season, then, as one of putting all the pieces together, putting all of one's ducks in a row, for the explosive finale of the storyline that lies just ahead.

And then, within that framing, with MAGFest hype having come and gone, with The Meeting and its messaging still fresh in everyone's minds...Stingy arrives. "After numerous long internal debates deciding on the next channel host", the SiIva team says on Discord, "we felt like there was really no better choice than Stingy!"; keep in mind, dear reader, that Stingy himself has NEVER appeared in SiIvaGunner lore beforehand, and that his song, the Mine song, had at this point appeared exactly FOUR times in the channel's entire history. I was in complete shock at 1AM on my phone; seeing Stingy's public announcement on the YouTube Community tab, the profile picture changing in an instant, tabbing over to the Discord server to see fellow fans in just as much disarray as myself. Unheard of for any prior takeover, Stingy was claiming ownership of far more than just the channel; SiIvaGunner's very own Discord account, the Twitter, the BlueSky, the Newgrounds...with every passing minute, the Discord community scrambled to see which online platforms had yet to be claimed by the assertive young prince, each discovery met with dread mere minutes after being shared. Bandcamp, Minecraft, Roblox, TikTok, the official highquality.rip website, all claimed to be his; all to the tune of the YouTube channel's new wave of Stingy-themed rips. Surely, this was just a momentary takeover...right?

Despite the aforementioned sparse usage of the song prior on the channel, however, rips like Unfounded Ownership show just how fun of a source the Mine song really is. LazyTown has over the years gained quite a reputation in online circles for having genuinely really fun songs; the Pirate Song, Bake A Cake, and of course the SiIvaGunner-pioneered We Are Number One which I've covered everywhere from on we are number one but with outdated memes over it to We Are Number 4 (Golden). Robbie Rotten is hardly an unknown presence to us, and his constant output of rips since the beginning of Season 2 have shown just how capable the ripping team are at leveraging just one song in so many creative ways; its this matured, seasoned team that's now under Stingy's beck and call, and the touch for quality is already apparent this early on into his rule. Setting aside its sheer listenability in its own right for just a moment, Unfounded Ownership is filled with fantastic touches around just about every corner, with the thumbnail change being the most obvious one; replacing not just Lucas' front-and-center render with a prideful Stingy, but also various background screenshots from Brawl with images reaffirming Stingy's rule. Beyond that, though, you hear it around every part of the listening experience, such as the rising WANO trumpet fanfares and flairs from 0:28 to 0:40, the "MINE-MINE" stingers that appear loudly in the section following, and of course the "This instrumental riff is also mine" quote being so perfectly placed in the brief interlude inbetween the song's more hectic segments.

But to of course return to the main topic at hand; this rip shows just how much the channel's long-term rippers, rippers like SamanthaMK and the many more who have been helping the channel for half a decade's worth of time, have grown in experience and proficiency. We don't have official stems released for the Mine song the way we now do with WANO, and as prior mentioned it's not exactly one that's well explored online beyond low-effort MrMrMANGOHead-core parodies, and yet Unfounded Ownership sounds as if the team had been doing these rips for all of 2024 behind our backs. The pitch shifting is both hilarious and exceptionally done, working alongside the placement of specific vocals for harmony with Unfounded Revenge's melody; the repeating, compounding "Mine-mine-mine-mine-mine"'s at 0:14 followed by the high-pitched "it all belongs to meee~" show what I mean just about perfectly. It's in large part just what I find impressive about rips like no more nuzzles in my skin; merging two seemingly conflicting songs in degrees so far above a mere mashup that you begin to question how the ripper managed to sit through it all to begin with, the end product lying so, so far away.

Every relisten I find some new little part of Unfounded Ownership to love, and saying that makes me feel absolutely insane given that I still can't quite even comprehend the state that the channel itself is even in. I'm taken back to the beginning of Season 4 Episode 1, where Chaze the Chat introduced the season as being one explicitly aiming to be "more unpredictable and chaotic than ever before"; yet, paradoxically, making said announcement in the same means of season premieres as the prior two years had already done. Season 4 Episode 1 did indeed have some absurdist highlights - I'll never forget the likes of Chain of Memories 2 Day or Sex - Steve Harvey - and yet the Season ironically wound up becoming far more known for the most expected part of its run, the tournament sequel announced before the season even began; reflective, in a sense, of how Chaze the Chat's wish for chaos was announced in the most expected means possible. Funny enough, SamanthaMK even worked on last year's season premiere with Magolor's Shoppe Fusion Collab, a collab as comforting and reassuring as it was, in part, expected; With Season Mine, with Stingy's takeover, meanwhile, Chaze the Chat's promise for chaos is finally being followed through upon, the tables being flipped only after so much time had been spent carefully decorating it. It's with the first channel host to truly take over EVERYTHING, the first season to exclude a number from its name entirely, the first premiere in ages to make me feel genuinely uncertain about what's in the pipeline for the channel; all, of course, still paired with rips like Unfounded Ownership, that show the team's utmost confidence and proficiency running high behind it all.

[coatsinkleaf]

[thenerdyalchemist]

Sisters

[roz-ani]

IS THIS YAOI DOOMED ENOUGH FOR YOU?! IS THIS WHAT YOU PEOPLE WANTED?! 😭

[kalicocal]

it must've been like a punch to the gut when ekko saw powder from this:

to this:

[thanks-for-the-crabapples]

in case anyone is missing it arcane tiktok is recreating mishapocalypse by changing their pfps to show whether or not they support Jayce

here are the standard ones

even League of Legends is in on it, though they're avoiding choosing a side

it's gotten a little out of hand with the varieties but it's so good. there's pride flags, there's gay kisses, there's loss.jpg, there's anti maddie, there's scissors, there's reduce reuse recycle, there's isha lives, there's christmas, there's mpreg. you name it they got it

[qvert]

The Aftermath

(More blood under the cut for @venomwrites specifically)

[trashgyrl]

he wants that cookie so baddd 😭😭

[paperlignes]

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2019-2024) SEASON 6, EPISODE 10: THE PROMOTION

[faeeebaeee]

jayce talis “science” journal 📔

[twitter]

[wizard-loving-wizard]

magical misfits + text posts

[autumnaffinity]

North Algona Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada

October 2019

[penseesduncookie]

I had to make matching illustrations with those two !

I’m really proud of this one but I had to rework viktor ‘s one after that haha

I’m not sure about the tarot card choice but i wanted to make reference to the tarot cards sevika plays in s1 :)

Let me know what you think of it 🌼

[roz-ani]

You know, for kids

[kalicocal]

ONE FUCKING BREAK. CAN THEY NOT GET A GODDAMN SECOND TO FUCKING BREATHE?!?!?!

[beaulesbian]

ARCANE 1.08 || 2.09