YouTube Poop

YouTube Poop, also called YTP, is a form of video editing that is exclusive to YouTube. People who engage in the creation of YouTube Poop are called YouTube Poopers, YTPers, or Poopers, the most common nickname for YouTube 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 Poopers use Sony Vegas as their video editing software of choice as video-editing capabilities are vast, allowing Poopers to manipulate their videos however they wish. What's widely accepted to be the first YouTube Poop was uploaded to YouTube on December 24, 2004 by SuperYoshi titled "I'D SAY HE'S HOT ON OUR TAIL". Names of some Poopers (current, retired, and inactive) are PaperKing99 (c), BarneyIsPerverted (i), LinkOnDrugs (i), EmpLemon (formerly EmperorLemon; technically retired), and NPCarlsson (c).

The earliest tagline made by the YouTube Poop community was "Because YouTube is where the poop is". This was used as an intro for Poops along with a later slogan, "YouTube Poop: Where there's smoke, they pinch back". The second slogan was made by sentence mixing Mario's lines from Hotel Mario. Neither one of these taglines is widely used in modern Poops and are both even mocked by the very community that created them for being part of the culture Poopers used to be.

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.

Activities
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 on the court. 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.

A musical alternative to YouTube Poop is called a YouTube Poop Music Video, commonly shortened to YTPMV. It has the elements of YouTube Poop, but the video is edited to be musical rather than humorous. This is done through editing characters' voices and other miscellaneous sounds to produce either a remix of a preexisting song or a new song altogether. One famous example of a YTPMV is Big Beat Mario, a six-and-a-half-minute song uploaded by Triple_sSs on December 7, 2009. As of April 1, 2020, it has gained 1.2 million views on YouTube. It consists of multiple scenes from Hotel Mario where the in-game music, sounds, and characters' lines are manipulated to form the song's rhythm, melody, and instruments. A Poop of a preexisting music video is not considered a YTPMV.

YTP Jargon
There are many slang words in the YouTube Poop community used to address editing techniques and other entities that are (nearly) exclusive to YouTube Poop. An example of a common term is ear rape (also written earrape or ear-rape). Ear rape is the practice of increasing the audio of the video to unnecessary volumes. Although this is done for or to enhance a joke, the excessive usage of ear rape can startle, annoy, or anger the audience. Sentence mixing is when the editor takes a character's lines and reorganizes the spoken words and syllables to create a new message the character didn't say on their own. This message may be a joke or part of a joke like a conversation between two characters. Masking is applying an effect or edit to a specified area. It's used to freely move onscreen objects around, add new objects to the scene, or chance the scenery.

Copyright Issues
YouTube Poopers, as expected due to 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 reuses the same jokes it had since it first began in 2004 and the years shortly after it got 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 modern YouTube Poop community, especially prohibiting any 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". Some YouTube Poopers and others in the community speculate that outsiders can't take their passion seriously since the word "poop" is present in its name.