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Wario Dies refers to a series of video parodies on YouTube using a sound byte of Wario saying "Oh my god! Waaaaah!" The videos add other sound effects to make it sound as though Wario is dying in a horrific explosion of some sort.

Origin

In the Japanese version of the first Mario Party video game by Nintendo, Wario reacts to bad news by saying "Oh my God!"^[1] (shown below, left). On April 22nd, 2016, Tumblr user tmcb^[2] posted a remix of that clip, adding the "wah" sound and a car crash sound effect, gaining over 10,000 notes. On January 19th, 2019, YouTuber SomeoneOnYoutube posted an animation of the audio, gaining over 25,000 views (shown below, right).

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On June 24th, 2019, YouTuber Saint Dabbers posted a video titled "wario dies in a car crash while listening to ed sheeran .mp3," adding audio of an Ed Sheeran song to the tmcb clip. The video gained over 240,000 views (shown below, left). This began a trend of videos which meant to be audio of Wario dying in various horrific circumstances. For example, YouTuber Beach posted a video titled "Wario dies in a helicopter crash in the Vietnam war.mp3," gaining over 185,000 views (shown below, right).

Other examples include "Wario Dies In a Car Listening to Ram Ranch" posted by Kweg (shown below, left) and an animation by K1Cartoons (shown below, right).

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