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Crash Bandicoot "Woah" refers to a series of videos featuring audio of video game streamer OneyNG saying "woah!" dubbed over the video game character Crash Bandicoot.

Origin

In October 2016, YouTuber Oney on his OneyPlays channel began uploading a series of videos in which he plays the 1997 platformer video game Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, in which he repeatedly says the word "woah" while jumping in the game (shown below).

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On October 16th, 2016, YouTuber Greatrossturner uploaded a montage of Oney yelling "woah!" while jumping in the game (shown below, left). On November 14th, Greatrossturner uploaded a second montage of Oney saying the word while playing the game (shown below, right).

On January 3rd, 2017, a thread was submitted to 4chan's /v/ (video games) board featuring a picture of Crash Bandicoot accompanied by the word "woah."^[3] On April 25th, Redditor SomeStacheMan submitted a "Guys With Hair Like This" image macro featuring Crash Bandicoot to /r/crashbandicoot^[2] (shown below).

On July 7th, Oney tweeted a video in which he repeatedly says "woah" while animating a 3D model of Crash Bandicoot (shown below). Within one month, the tweet received more than 21,800 likes and 9,100 retweets.

The following day, YouTuber Joseph J. Kuhr uploaded a video titled "Woah! | Crash Bandicoot™", in which a 3D animated Crash Bandicoot is dubbed with Oney saying "woah" (shown below, left). On July 18th, Kuhr uploaded a video of Crash Bandicoot saying "woah" in front of a green screen (shown below, right). On July 23rd, Redditor francistickles submitted a post asking "What's with the Crash Bandicoot 'whoa!' videos?" to /r/OutOfTheLoop,^[1] where it gathered upwards of 1,900 points (88% upvoted) and 80 comments within 24 hours.

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