River X (River Side)

About

River X is a series of YTPMVs (Youtube Poop music Videos) featuring a remixed version of the song “RiverSide (Elektrix Remix)” by Sidney Samson.^[1]

Origin

On June 26th, 2010, Youtube user MrXarlable^[2] submitted a video titled “RiverSpice”. According to the video’s description, the video was actually round 2 of YTP Tennis (Dubbed “Soccer” in this video) with DWL1993.^[3]

Video Description:

“…(Soccer) Round 2 with DWL1993, that’s why I’m still using Old Spice, it’s the source for the soccer ok.”

Spread

After the video’s upload, the view count has steadily risen to about 300,000 views as of October 23rd, 2011. The video has also received 73 video responses as of this date.^[4]

On August 24th, 2010, User Wazgul^[5] uploaded “Erectin’ A River” as a video response to RiverSpice, using soundbites from the engineer class from Team Fortress 2.

As of October 23rd, 2011, the view count has steadily increased to over 1,500,000 views.

Before this video was made, the original Riverspice had only around 50,000 views, with only 5 video responses. After, the views suddenly increased, and the video response count began to rise.

Notable Examples

For more videos, check out the videos section in this entry.

RiverBoyle (The apparent first response to RiverSpice)

RiverBoom

RiverPat (See also : No, This Is Patrick)

WayneSide

External References

(Please help me add more sources and videos to this, This most certainly is a fad/meme, this is my first time creating a meme entry. So help out, community!)