Screaming Marmot

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About

Screaming Marmot is a video clip of a mountain marmot making a loud squeak while standing on a fence. The clip has been featured in many remix videos on YouTube and Vine, many of which feature dubbed screams over various music videos in a similar vein to "goat edition" remixes.

Origin

On July 14th, 2015, Instagram user @lonegoatsoap^[2] uploaded a video of a marmot making a loud squeaking noise while standing upright at Blackcomb Mountain in Whistler, British Columbia (shown below).

A video posted by Lone Goat Soap Co. (@lonegoatsoap) on Jul 13, 2015 at 10:38pm PDT

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On July 25th, the video was reuploaded to YouTube,^[1] where it gathered upwards of 1.3 million views and 400 comments in the next four months. On August 10th, YouTuber tooloudchannel uploaded a version of the clip dubbed with a man yelling over the marmot (shown below).

On August 27th, the original screaming marmot video was submitted to the /r/youtubehaiku^[3] and /r/videos^[4] subreddits. On October 15th, Viner Dank Memes uploaded a clip of the marmot mixed with the 2011 hip hop track "Guillotine" by "Death Grips": (shown below, left). On October 20th, Viner Jordan Morris uploaded a clip of the marmot dubbed with a loud screech (shown below, right).