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Heavy Is Dead is the title of a Team Fortress 2 video made by Antoine Delak. The video immediately gained recognition on YouTube, inspiring a surge of Replacement Remix parodies in same vein as We Are Number One.

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Team Fortress 2 parodist Antoine Delak posted "Heavy Is Dead" to YouTube on September 22nd, 2019.[1] The parody is in the vein of a detective short, following the cast from the game as it investigates the murder of the Heavy Weapon Guy, or "Heavy." With absurd humor typical of TF2 spoofs coupled with Delak's notoriety as a Garry's mod user, the video quickly gained popularity on the site, gaining more than 9 million views in less than a year, becoming the most viewed video on his channel.


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On September 26th, 2019, the earliest parody was posted by Snitch G (shown below). Every time the word "dead" is uttered by a character, his Meet the Team short is played. The video gained over 1 million views in less than a year, laying the template for future Replacement Remixes.


In the ensuing months, many YouTubers created replacement remixes of the video, including KFCereal (shown below, left), wildy (center) and Megacine64 (right).


Off To Hang Myself

Near the end of Heavy Is Dead, the Spy back-flips off a chair while wearing a noose, saying "off to hang myself" (shown below, left). A clip of the moment was uploaded to YouTube on the same day as Heavy Is Dead, receiving over 140,000 views in eleven months (shown below, right).[2] The moment gained popularity as a reaction GIF and image macro.

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About

Heavy Is Dead is the title of a Team Fortress 2 video made by Antoine Delak. The video immediately gained recognition on YouTube, inspiring a surge of Replacement Remix parodies in same vein as We Are Number One.

Origin

Team Fortress 2 parodist Antoine Delak posted "Heavy Is Dead" to YouTube on September 22nd, 2019.[1] The parody is in the vein of a detective short, following the cast from the game as it investigates the murder of the Heavy Weapon Guy, or "Heavy." With absurd humor typical of TF2 spoofs coupled with Delak's notoriety as a Garry's mod user, the video quickly gained popularity on the site, gaining more than 9 million views in less than a year, becoming the most viewed video on his channel.




Spread

On September 26th, 2019, the earliest parody was posted by Snitch G (shown below). Every time the word "dead" is uttered by a character, his Meet the Team short is played. The video gained over 1 million views in less than a year, laying the template for future Replacement Remixes.




In the ensuing months, many YouTubers created replacement remixes of the video, including KFCereal (shown below, left), wildy (center) and Megacine64 (right).



Off To Hang Myself

Near the end of Heavy Is Dead, the Spy back-flips off a chair while wearing a noose, saying "off to hang myself" (shown below, left). A clip of the moment was uploaded to YouTube on the same day as Heavy Is Dead, receiving over 140,000 views in eleven months (shown below, right).[2] The moment gained popularity as a reaction GIF and image macro.



Various Examples




Search Interest

External References

Recent Videos 11 total

Recent Images 14 total


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SirKeksalot
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This short is honestly a textbook example of "random" humor done right. The running gags, the surrealism, the blatant disregard for its own plot--every line brilliantly takes the piss out of the characters and audience, yet coherent enough to make sense of and stay grounded in so that the batshit insanity still holds weight. Every good joke needs a victim, and everyone is the victim of every joke. It's that nigh-incomprehensible comedy that you just can't have outside of GMod and YTP.

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