About

People Screaming and Disappearing refers to a genre of meme videos in which a person will be seen screaming before having the scream cut off by them disappearing from the video. This genre of perfectly cut screams became very popular in mid 2020 with Twitch streamers having their screaming reactions used for early examples of it in action.

Origin

On May 6th, 2020, the YouTube channel memes spawn^[1] uploaded one of the earliest examples of the genre, a video edit of streamer Tyler1. Tyler1, known online for having a habit of raging and screaming, is seen screaming, and then falling. The video, titled Tyler1 dies, received more than 1.3 million views in three years and popularized the short cutting of a scream method of video editing (shown below).

Spread

Shortly after the initial Tyler1 edit, the quick cut scream to fade out became very popular for meme video edits. For example on August 3rd, 2020, YouTube user conkface^[2] uploaded similar edit by using the Chris Turns Blue video. It received more than 1.1 million views in three years (shown below, left). On February 25th, 2021, YouTube user Kr_ispy^[3] uploaded a similar edit of the Valorant player, sinatraa screaming. The video received more than 1 million views in two years (shown below, right).

In late 2021, the screaming and disappearing meme genre grew with a lot of different edits of various streamers and meme screams that led to fade out. All the different versions of the meme over the previous year were collected and put together into a compilation by the YouTube user Hyper The Kappa^[4] which uploaded it on August 15th, 2021, receiving over 3.5 million views in the process (shown below).

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