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Late last year, we received official confirmation that the Electronic Entertainment Expo, E3, was no more. The signs were everywhere, as they'd failed to hold any meaningful event past the pandemic and were fumbling even before then, yet it was still kind of sad to see the news spelled out officially - that the gaming community's Christmas Day was going away forever, in favor of the more condensed, streamlined, and in general a lot less charming Summer Games Fest. And yeah, the excitement for game reveals and trailers is still prominent with Keighley's shows, though a tool he may be, but...there was a sort of memetic energy to the E3 shows in particular, the per-company press conferences that were always subtly coated in delicious cringe, those are now effectively lost. Though the show may be lost, the memories remain - and I'll always remember just how fun each of the SiIvaGunner channel's per-show channel events were, from Season 1 to Season 4 Episode 1.

I did indeed cover a rip related to the E3 show once before on here, with Take Me Home, Country Snow - a rip focusing on the ever-memetic quality of Bethesda's Todd Howard. That's a well-spread joke in the gaming community, yet Too big, huh, my nuts are too big how about that focuses on far more of an in-joke, one finally meeting its natural endpoint after years of build-up: Ridley, before his debut in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, being criticized as being far too big to be fit for the game's roster. "Bigley" became a minor meme on the Miiverse forums on Wii U/3DS, and it was just generally a very funny idea to spread about - that a character was simply too massive to ever possibly be able to be used in fighting.

It's likely that Too big, huh, my nuts are too big how about that wasn't even made with the intention of releasing after Ridley's reveal during Nintendo's 2018 E3 show, but withholding the rip to release it with the perfect timing just adds to the joke even further - the visuals of the rip present Ridley as the surprise new character, only to reveal that his character size is so astronomically big that the game literally cannot load him into a match. The rip's audio joke itself is initially based on a Season 1 classic, Vs. Meta Horat, mashing up Ridley's theme with The Nutshack theme, before taking on a very patently Twonko twist - you may recognize his name from Crompton Racing, and back when he was still with the channel he was one of the biggest proponents and contributors to making Jake Paul a recurring joke on the channel. The rip effectively turns into a - funny enough - BIGGER version of Vs. Meta Horat, still featuring The Nutshack prominently, but overriding it with It's Everyday Bro and other sources. Most notably, and funniest to me personally, is the line iconic to many Smash Bros. fans of the time before Ultimate's release - "RIDLEY'S BIG AS SHIT!".

This won't be a recurring thing, I promise, but yesterday's post just reminded me of another rip from the same event that I NEED to talk about. Despite how batshit insane it is - or perhaps even because of it - Crompton Racing is a perfect demonstration of the creativity of the SiIva team.

I feel like its easy to get the assumption when looking at some of the channel's takeovers that they kind of "box in" rippers creatively. Hell, for some takeovers like The Harlem Shakeover in Season 6, part of the point WAS to make all rips feel extremely similar, all using the same joke with little variation to it. That's of course an exception, since most takeovers only last a day and by extension only really reach around 10-30 rips total. But even within that time, I imagine its easy to think that all the content posted is going to feel pretty tangentially similar.

This sentiment applied to me back during It's "It's Everyday Bro" Day Bro, the one-day takeover discussed in yesterday's post where every rip uploaded spoofed Jake Paul's 2017 disasterpiece. Though I personally love the source and the event by extension, I'm sure there were a lot of people who grew fatigued of the song's sound, even with the takeover being just one day. Thus, to buck that trend we have whats probably my favorite rip made during the takeover - Crompton Racing.

Rather than playing solely off of It's Everyday Bro, this rip is a YTPMV of Jake Paul's entire channel - every audio source stems from one of his videos, be it vlogs or the aforementioned song the takeover is built around. Chocobo YTPMVs are almost always golden due to the good mood the source track itself instills, yet knowing just how much Jake Paul you're consuming all at once as you're listening just makes it all the funnier. These poor bastards decided willingly to sift through so much obnoxious Vlog-content to find the most apt audio sources possible to use for this one-day event, and it paid off in spades!