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1 Hour Of Silence Broken By Sound Effects or One Hour Of Silence Broken Only By Random X refers to a series of shitpost videos on YouTube meant to be used as a prank consisting of an hour of silence with occasional interjections of a specific sound effect or set of sound effects. The first video of its type was uploaded in 2018, seeing a resurgence in popularity in 2021.

Origin

On April 10th, 2018, YouTuber^[1] Imperial Professor posted a video titled "One Hour of Silence Broken Only by Random Discord Pings," consisting of an hour of silence and occasional Discord notification sounds (shown below). At the start of the video, the uploader describes how the video is meant to be used in pranks. The idea is to open and play the video on an unsuspecting person's computer, resulting in them hearing the sound effects occasionally and either getting surprised or confused. The video gained over 3.1 million views in three years.

Spread

The format spread slowly over the following years, resulting in a number of new videos following it. On August 19th, 2020, YouTuber Imperial Professor posted another version of the meme, this time with Steam notification sounds, gaining over 18,000 views in a year (shown below).

On April 10th, 2021, YouTuber^[2] dinorno posted a similar video using random Among Us sound effects, gaining over 10,000 views in four months (shown below, left). On July 2nd, YouTuber^[4] DannDorito posted a version of the format with the Vine Thud sound effect interjecting, gaining over 418,000 views in a month (shown below, right).

On July 25th, DannDorito^[3] posted one with an hour of silence occasionally broken by a reverberated fart sound, gaining over 50,000 views in a week (shown below).

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