About

Vay Hek Parodies refers to remixes of dialogue from the character Councilor Vay Hek in the video game Warframe.

Origin

Vay Hek is a villanous character in Warframe, and much of his dialogue is shouted and over-the-top (shown below).

Remixes of the dialogue began appearing in the summer of 2017. The first, posted July 27th, paired some of the character's dialogue with footage of a squeaking frog, gaining over 146,000 views (shown below).

Spread

The most popular parody to date is a remix featuring Vay Hek's dialogue overdubbing an Amazon Alexa. The video, posted by Rahetalius on March 24th, 2018, gained over 256,000 views (shown below, left). It was posted to Reddit's /r/Warframe and gained over 840 points.^[1] On May 25th, 2018, YouTuber Better Name Pending posted a parody that gained over 76,000 views (shown below, right).

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Better Name Pending also published a popular edit that gained over 38,000 views (shown below, left). On December 11th, 2017, YouTuber Triburous posted an edit featuring Vay Hek saying "Tick Tock" for five minutes (shown below, right).

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