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Sound Variations
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Sound Variations
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Sound Variations refers to a trend of YouTube videos that showcases edits of popular sound effects or music excerpts over a specified period of time. The titles of the videos tend to be "X Sound Variations in X Seconds/Minutes."
Origin
On February 15th, 2018, YouTuber Memetastic posted "25 Roblox Death Sound Variations in 60 Seconds" gaining over 32 million views in three years, becoming one of the most viewed Sound Variations videos on YouTube.[1]
Spread
Memetastic would continue to upload similar videos for some time, helping the trend grow popular, particularly around late 2019-2020. A video that likely influenced the popularity of the trend was a video called oof.exe, which featured edits of the death sound from Roblox, but progressively making them more and more unrecognizable and eccentric. It was published on March 6th, 2018 by Stoffan2000 and garnered 3.9 million views in three years.[2]
A sound variations video was published by Igorek Tv on June 30th, 2019 called "62 Variations Pizza sound in Roblox" and garnered 1 million views in over a year (shown below, left).[3] On November 3rd, 2019, Disorb would publish "18 Mac Startup Sound Variations In 60 Seconds." It garnered 493 thousand views in a year (shown below, right).[4]
The trend would continue to grow, with many YouTubers, often single-purpose YouTubers, publishing sound variations videos related to popular trends of the time. The most popular sound variations video as of April 2021 is a video by DampFijiWater, posted on April 11th, 2020, which garnered 44 million views in a year.[5]
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