About

X's life in Y seconds are videos showing the life cycle of a character mostly from Team Fortress 2 in a few seconds. These videos are made in Garry's Mod. Not only are characters used for these videos but also items like Dispenser's and Health both from Team Fortress 2. Other characters and items that used in these videos are from Valve games. Games that characters and items that are also used are from: Half Life 2, Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. The characters of one of these games would go through life stages: Birth, Childhood, Adolescence, Adulthood then Death. Most of these videos are very similar, when these videos shows the Adolescene stage, the character would be lifting weights like in the original video.

Origins

Deddej from Youtube, posted a video on the 17th of February 2010, entitled Heavy's life in 11 seconds which shows the life of the character/class Heavy from Team Fortress 2 in 11 seconds.

Spread

A day after the video was uploaded, their were many parodies of the "Heavy's life in 11 seconds" video, most of them showing the life cycle of other characters/classes from Team Fortress 2 such as Medic's Life in 11 seconds, Engineer's Life in 19 Seconds and Sniper's Life In 40 Seconds.

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