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Important Videos is a YouTube playlist consisting of over 309 videos (7 videos have been deleted and 2 have become private videos). The playlist was created by a user named eljolto and had accrued over 799 million views as of September 12th, 2017.^[1] The playlist is known for featuring short videos, and several popular videos which have become memes in their own right.

Origin

On December 30, 2015, Eddie Jolton, better known by his YouTube username "eljolto", created a playlist titled "important videos".^[1]

Spread

Over the following year and a half, Jolton added over 300 videos to the playlist, gaining hundreds of millions of views total.

Notable Videos on the Playlist

Yee

Yee refers to a 2000 German animated film that was released by mockbuster company Dingo Pictures.^[2] The film consist of 5 parts and is called Dinosaur Adventure. The scene that is portrayed in the video occurs in the 5th part of the series roughly at 3:15, featuring Peek the Ankylosaurus singing to the beat of the song that starts at 4:01, and ends off with Oro the Orodromeus yelling out "yee" which is only said in the Italian version of the movie.

This video was upload by YouTuber revergo on February 29th, 2012, and is the first video of the Important Videos playlist.

Color Red

Color Red is a video that was upload by YouTuber Alex Jimenez on September 5th, 2014, and is also the the second video of this playlist. Lasting only 16 seconds, we see that he's Googling the color red. After entering what he typed, he proceeds to images and after that is completed his video focuses on an image of the color Blue! When this occurs, the X-Files Theme is playing to further heighten the suspense.

This Guy Moaned at Least This Loud

This Guy Moaned at Least This Loud is a video from 2003, that is a part of a DVD Love To Accelerate which was released for the Speed & Aggression Toolkit published by The National Road Safety Foundation and distributed by Ohio Department of Public Safety. In the video, two drivers discuss a street racing accident and the consequences of the choices they’ve made, along with eyewitnesses adding more depth to the tragedy. At approximately 2:46, a man imitates what it was like to hear an injured driver moan. On January 19th, 2012, YouTuber alloway7884 uploaded the full video.

On October 19th, 2015, the moaning segment of the video was reuploaded by YouTuber Zanderich. It is the 156th video on the playlist and has gained over 700,000 views. On November 5th, Redditor SkoffMyWillie submitted a post about the scene to /r/AccidentalComedy.^[3]

The Pumpkin Dance

The Pumpkin Dance is a YouTube video of a man dressed in all black wearing a Jack O'Lantern mask dancing to the theme song from the 1984 film Ghostbusters. The clip, which originally aired on the KXVO news channel in Omaha, Nebraska during a Halloween broadcast in 2006, went on to spawn several mash-up videos, remixes and photoshopped GIFs.

During a 10 PM news broadcast on Halloween, October 31st, 2006, a man in a black unitard and a pumpkin mask was shown dancing to the Ghostbusters theme song in front of a graveyard backdrop. On November 2nd, the clip was uploaded to KXVO's official YouTube channel, where it has received more than 3.1 million views as of October 2015. The video is the 238th video in the Important Videos playlist.

Have You Ever Had A Dream Like This?

Have You Ever Had A Dream Like This? is a video of a boy fumbling over a sentence which ends up being completely incoherent. As he is talking, the boy changes what he is saying several times, and ends the sentence with "you want him to do you so much you could do anything?"

The original clip was a blooper from the 1999 Turner Classic Movies television special "Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepytime Tales." Though the special was mostly animated, several children were interviewed as well. The video clip was uploaded to YouTube in January 2011. "Have you ever had a dream like this?" appears at the very end.

It is the 278th video in the Important Videos playlist.

He-Man Sings

"HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA" is the unofficial title of a 2005 animated music video in which the fictional superhero character He-Man sings a rendition of 4 Non Blondes' 1992 hit rock single "What's Up." Since entering online circulation in May 2005, the video has been widely used as a popular material for bait-and-switch trolling, while spawning hundreds of remixes, parodies and music video tributes.

The music video was created by two animators at Slackcircus Studios, who were inspired by Eric Fensler's G.I. Joe PSA series, by pairing footage of the titular protagonist from the 1980s American cartoon series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe with American alternative rock band 4 Non Blondes' 1992 hit single "What's Up." On May 8th, 2005, the original copy of the video file was uploaded to the Something Awful forums under the title "Fabulous Secret Powers."

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