Verbalase's $50K Hazbin Hotel AMV

Overview

Verbalase's $50K Hazbin Hotel AMV, also known as Verbalase's $50,000 Charlie Morningstar Video, is an animated music video (AMV) supposedly commissioned by YouTube creator Verbalase, known for his Cartoon Beatbox Battles videos. The video features an animated version of himself being chased by an infatuated Charlie, the main character of the animated series Hazbin Hotel. The video began attracting attention in mid-January 2024 after being reposted on X / Twitter as claims that the video cost nearly $50,000 to produce spread online and also resulted in the decline of his Cartoon Beatbox Battle YouTube channel.

Background

On January 11th, 2018, the band Synapson posted an official music video for their song "Hideaway" featuring Holly to YouTube.^[1] The video showed a blonde woman kissing a restaurant full of people, old and young, men and women, after being rejected by a man. The video gathered over 1.5 million views in six years (seen below) and was later used in the Hazbin Hotel AMV.

The video, titled "Chase – Hide Away (Verbalase AMV)" was reposted on YouTube^[2] by user HydroHater99 on September 6th, 2023. The video's original upload date is unknown, but it is believed to have been posted on a channel belonging to Steven Chase, who is credited as the director. It amassed a total of 62,000 views before being blocked under copyright grounds in January 2024.

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An early mention of the AMV on X^[3] was user @SFGTgames, as seen in a post from January 9th, 2024 (seen below).

Developments

X^[4] / Twitter user @thestartofluck brought attention to the video on January 11th, 2024, purportedly detailing how the video first made the rounds on various Discord channels (seen below). In five days, the tweet received over 524,000 views, 4,800 likes and 1,000 retweets.

The post also shows screenshots of Verbalase supposedly discussing a "side project" that cost him nearly $50,000, which many presumed was referring to the Hazbin Hotel AMV (seen below). He talks about the song "Hideaway" and how he did not like its original music video, as well as his plans to post the video to a separate channel in the future.^[5]

Shortly after on January 11th, the video^[6] was reposted by X user @OOCWesternR34. The video gathered over 12 million views in five days.

Fuck it, here’s the full AMV: https://t.co/Q9Mza0PdLC pic.twitter.com/d09p1UKKbn

— Out of Context Western Porn (@OOCWesternR34) January 11, 2024

Verbalase's Response

On January 20th, 2024, Verbalase released a video on his YouTube^[11] channel Verbal Ase, titled "Addressing Things," in which he discusses the virality surrounding the Hazbin Hotel AMV (shown below).

In the video, Verbalase thanked his audience and the support he received from fans amid "slander, defamation and allegations," while also acknowledging the impact of his past statements and apologizing for any hurt caused by his opinions. He then discussed the Hazbin Hotel video and noted that the project originally started in 2021 and was intended for a separate YouTube channel centered around a more mature and older audience. When it was finished in 2022, he made this separate channel, uploaded the video and marked it for 18+ viewers, but later deleted it to focus on other content.

After this, he stated that the Hazbin Hotel AMV was later downloaded and reuploaded without his consent, eventually making it public on his birthday and tagging him in it. Toward the end, Verbalase reassured viewers that his main content, including cartoon beatbox battles and puppet beatbox battles, would continue, concluding with him expressing love for his audience and a commitment to learning from his mistakes.

The response video received over 152,000 views, 9,000 likes and 3,000 comments in two days.

Online Reactions

A thread from January 11th, 2024, on 4chan's /co/ forum^[7] showed users discussing the animation, as well as its supposed $50,000 commission price. Many users in the thread commended Verbalase for his dedication, while others criticized him for spending the money on a relatively SFW video.

On January 13th, 2024, Redditor^[8] /u/Yougart_Man posted a video comparing Verbalase's AMV to an animated Sonic vs. Super Mario video. The post gathered over 5,000 upvotes in three days (seen below).

On January 12th, X^[9] user @AnthemOverload posted a video joking about Verbalase's infatuation with Charlie from Hazbin Hotel, gathering over 28,000 likes in four days (seen below).

Verbalase be CRAZY bro pic.twitter.com/M1ru7ALE4O

— ANTHEM (@AnthemOverload) January 12, 2024

VivziePop's Response

On January 11th, 2024, VivziePop,^[10] the original creator of Hazbin Hotel, responded to a since-deleted post asking if she had seen the fan animation. Her reply gathered over 10,000 likes in five days (seen below).

Related Memes

For $50,000 You Could Purchase X

For $50,000 You Could Purchase X refers to an exploitable meme that arose out of conversations surrounding YouTuber Verbales's alleged $50,000 Hazbin Hotel animated music video commission in January 2024. Jokes comparing the supposed cost of the video commission to other items that cost the same amount typically follow a template that reads, "For $50,000 you could purchase One (1) three-minute video of a cartoon version of you getting seduced by a fictional character with no actual NSFW scenes or X."

Verbalese Running From Charlie Morningstar

Verbalase Running From Charlie Morningstar is an exploitable meme using a scene from the Verbalase Hazbin Hotel AMV in which Verbalese is running from Charlie Morningstar, replacing Chalie with with other characters. Another variant of the meme instead replaces Verbalese as the character being chased after.

The earliest known edit of the scene was posted to Twitter by ShootingFilms64 on January 14th, 2024, which shows Verbalese running from Linkara. The edit (shown below) received over 19,000 likes and over 2,800 retweets in over one week.

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