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Super Smash Brothers Announcer Parodies refer to audio posts made primarily on Tumblr which feature users reading texts in the style of the announcer from the Super Smash Brothers video game series.

Origin

Super Smash Brothers was released in 1999 and featured Jeff Manning as the voice of the announcer in English versions.^[1] This established the voice of the announcer being deep and given a reverb effect, which would remain consistent through sequels of the game, though they all feature different voice actors as the announcer.

It appears the trend of creating parodies in the voice was started around October of 2014, when Super Smash Brothers Wii U announcer voice actor Xander Mobus created a video of himself singing the Pokémon theme song as part of an AMA he ran through his YouTube channel. While the original video seems to be deleted, a repost of the audio posted October 21st, 2014 by YouTube user Walnut gained over 74,000 views (shown below).

Spread

In the following years, posts in which voice actors parodied the SSB announcer voice by reading various texts began appearing on Tumblr. For example, on March 14th, 2015, ProZD uploaded a parody in which the announcer doesn't know the name of Olimar, gaining over 5,300 notes (shown below).

On May 16th, 2016, user paper-mario-wiki uploaded a variation in which he reads Dat Boi in the style of the announcer, gaining 4,300 notes (shown below).

One of the most popular edits, posted November 28th, 2017 by user cashewmonster featured the voice announcing The Girl Reading This, gaining over 15,000 notes (shown below).

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