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Oblivion NPC Dialogue Parodies refer to videos mocking the awkward dialogues with non-player characters (NPCs) found in the 2006 Bethesda Softworks role-playing game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and later in 2011 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Origin

On May 17th, 2007, YouTuber Jax Reads uploaded a video titled "Real Oblivion," featuring a parody of dialogue sequences in the game (shown below). Within 10 years, the video received more than 614,000 views and 1,400 comments.

Spread

On July 28th, 2010, the Max and Sam YouTube channel uploaded a video titled "Oblivion Weedcraft," featuring a comedy sketch about buying marijuana in Oblivion (shown below, left). Within seven years, the video gained over 258,000 views and 230 comments. On December 26th, 2014, YouTuber Sharkblock uploaded a video titled "Oblivion NPC dialogue in a nutshell," featuring a clip from the episode "Buster's Best Behavior" in the animated television series Arthur (shown below, right).

On March 20th, 2016, YouTuber BassPianoBassPiano posted a video titled "Oblivion NPC Dialogue.avi," featuring a clip two children talking with the Oblivion soundtrack playing in the background (video since deleted). On October 1st, YouTuber fabioproductions uploaded footage of two autistic adults on a date, edited with user interface images from Oblivion and the game's soundtrack (shown below, right).

On May 31, Youtuber Jmak started releasing series of eleven videos featuring edits of various media, mostly English video tutorials for Korean children. First video "Oblivion NPC dating in a nutshell" featured footage from 1991 movie "Samurai cop". The video has since been deleted. On June 20th, 2017, Redditor Yomusing submitted the fabioproductions video to /r/MemeEconomy^[2] in a post asking if the parody videos were "on the rise."

Skyrim TikTok Parodies

On November 27th, 2019, TikTok user @jinnkid aposted an NPC parody featuring a courier (shown below, left). The video gained over 389,700 likes in 14 days. The TikTok user continued to post a five more Skyrim parodies the most popular being part 2 featuring Jin-Ra post on November 30th (shown below, center). The video garnered over 1.4 million likes in 10 days. This sound clip, was used in more TikTok parodies. For example, on December 8th, TikTok user @erinisconfuced posted a parody using @jinnkid's sound clip (shown below, right).

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