YouTube Poop

YouTube Poop, also called YTP, is a form of video editing that is exclusive to YouTube. People who engage in YouTube Poop are called YouTube Poopers, YTPers, or, more commonly, Poopers. Poopers take numerous forms of media, be it movies, children's TV shows, or commercials, and edit their sources to be funny, bizarre, otherworldly, or, in rare cases, artistic. Many YouTube Poopers use Sony Vegas as their video editing software of choice as it's practically limitless regarding video-editing capabilities, allowing Poopers to do whatever they please with their sources. What's said to be the first YouTube Poop appeared on December 24, 2004 by SuperYoshi titled "I'D SAY HE'S HOT ON OUR TAIL". Names of some YouTube Poopers (current, retired, and inactive) are PaperKing (c), BarneyIsPerverted (i), LinkOnDrugs (i), EmpLemon (formerly EmperorLemon; technically retired), and NPCarlsson (c).

YouTube Poop is considered to be counterculture at its core by remixing and sometimes mocking its sources. Some Poops use sources such as Barney the Dinosaur, Pixar movies, Michael Rosen, and SpongeBob SquarePants, its most widely-used source of videos by far, making up 19% of existing Poops. These Poops are often more mature than their sources by having swearing, sex jokes, drug usage, and blood and gore be recurring elements in the Poops.

The YTP Community
Sometimes, YouTube Poopers participate in a collaborative project called YTP Tennis where two Poopers will take turns editing one source, hence the name. Like in regular tennis, the video editing goes back and forth until the end of the video, like how the ball bounces back and forth between the tennis players. Unlike regular tennis, this is not a sport. For the convenience of the viewers, there may be a watermark of both Poopers (but only one at a time) in the bottom left or right corner of the screen to tell whose turn it is in the tennis match.

Another activity for Poopers is collabs (short for collaboration), a video (typically over twenty minutes in duration) in which multiple Poopers contribute their short Poops to the project. To initiate a collab, one Pooper must announce on their channel that a collab is starting soon, give participating Poopers a deadline to send their Poops to them, and the collab announcer will edit together all of the Poops into one large video. The collab may be themed by a franchise, holiday, or miscellaneous theme the collab announcer thinks up.

Copyright Issues
YouTube Poopers, as expected by their usage of copyrighted materials, have a long-running history of trouble involving copyright infringementundefined. Although most Poops fall under fair use, they were more vulnerable to copyright issues than most other videos on YouTube. The most notorious name behind the countless take-downs of Poops, terminations of channels, and general attacks on the YouTube Poop community is Viacom, the same mass media conglomerate who in 2007 tried to sue YouTube for $1 billion due to the alleged massive copyright infringement the platform was responsible for.

Misrepresentation By the Outsiders
As with many other moderate or small online communities, YouTube Poop is poorly understood by those outside of itundefined. Many outsiders who are aware of YouTube Poop believe it keeps using the same jokes it had since it first began in 2004 and years shortly after from Hotel Mario, Link: The Faces of Evil, and the Super Mario World cartoon. This simply isn't true. In fact, there are rules against the excessive or sole usage of these jokes in the YouTube Poop community, especially prohibiting including scenes from Hotel Mario and The Faces of Evil, calling the series of jokes found in the two games "Spadinner", a portmanteau of "spaghetti" and "dinner".