YouTube Poop is punk rock for the internet age, and you probably don’t get it By Luke Dormehl March 30, 2019 Fifteen years ago, in the dark, pre-smartphone days of the internet, a 15-year-old kid with the online handle SuperYoshi uploaded a video titled “The Adventures of Super Mario 3 Remixed.” The video remixed an episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! , a short-lived cartoon series based on Nintendo’s mascot character, which had first aired in 1989. He couldn’t have known it at the time, but SuperYoshi had created a genre: one which preceded YouTube by a mere several months, although it would become synonymous with the video streaming service. YouTube Poops, as they are known, became an artform perfectly attuned to the internet age: provocative, absurdist, surreal, and with a good dose of trollololol devilishness. “My best description of YTP would be an...
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