Vinesauce

(WIP)

About

Vinesauce is a Twitch– based video game streaming website which features a group of gamers commentating on a wide variety of games. They are famous for often playing bizarre games and their use of black comedy.

Origin

The original Vinesauce YouTube page^[1] was created in February of 2010 by the streamer known as Vinny. The name “Vinesauce” originally comes from Vinny’s experience playing Mario Party, in which, playing a minigame, a joke arose between him and his friends that the vines in the minigame looked like they were coming out of an ass. ^[2] The streaming site^[3] was created in May of 2010.

Vinesauce Today

Today, Vinesauce has a total of streamers, ^[4] including Vinny (Vinesauce), MentalJen, Joel, KY, RevScarecrow, Fred, Limes, FearGingers, Imakuni, Darren (VicariousGaming), Bobito, Hootey, and StudyGuy.

In addition, there is a TV Tropes page^[5] for Vinesauce., as well as Twitter^[6] and Tumblr^[7] pages.

Related Memes

Bonzi Buddy

Bonzi Buddy is an infamous adware program designed for Windows XP. It recieved a boost in popularity in February of 2014 after streamer Joel featured it prominently in his “Windows XP Destruction” video. ^[8]

Supra Mayro Kratt

Mayro is a poorly drawn version of the famous video game character Mario, who stars in his own surrealistic series of fan games. Vinny commentated a fan game called Super Mayro Kratt^[9] on August 27, 2012.

Sanic

Sanic, much like Mayro, is a poorly drawn version of a successful video game character, this time Sonic The Hedgehog. Vinesauce has used the character’s fan games in videos, such as Sanic R. ^[10]

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