SiIvaGunner
SiIvaGunner (spelt Siivagunner, pronounced See-va-gunner), formerly GiIvaSunner, is a musical group best known for their YouTube channel that uploads videos which claim to be "high-quality rips" of video game music, but in reality are remixes or mashups of the songs most often involving references to Internet memes, popular music, and their own running-gags such as 7 GRAND DAD (a Taiwanese bootleg of a Flintstones video game containing stolen assets of Mario that replace the main characters), The Nutshack, and Snow Halation, a song from the anime Love Live.
History
The channel originally went by the name GiIvaSunner;[1][2] this is a reference to the now-defunct channel GilvaSunner, but with a capital "i" used in place of a lowercase "L" (with the effect of making the channel names appear identical).[3][4] Following the termination of their original YouTube channel in April 2016,[5][non-primary source needed] the name was changed to SiIvaGunner for the new channel (retaining the capital "i").[6][non-primary source needed]
In late 2019, the art gallery Gallery Aferro featured an exhibit titled "Elevator Music 6: SiIvaGunner", curated by Juno Zago. An auditory exhibit, it was a collection of SiIvaGunner remixes of classic and new video game music played inside an early-1900s refurbished Otis elevator.[7][8]
The channel has also lead to the popularity of some specific Internet memes such as "Yoshi Commits Tax Fraud", a made-up joke video game.[9]
References
- ↑ Schreier, Jason. This YouTube Channel Is Definitely The Best Place To Listen To Video Game Music (in en-us). Kotaku (2016-03-09). Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ↑ GiIvaSunner. GiIvaSunner. YouTube.
- ↑ Morris, Tatiana. Someone has taken the art of trolling to a new level with game theme songs (in en-US). GameZone (2016-03-09). Retrieved 2020-05-17.
- ↑ SiIvaGunner. Welcome to SiIvaGunner! (in en) (March 31, 2019). Retrieved November 29, 2020.
- ↑ GiIvaSunner. Account got taken down @sortofaweeb @nintenchu (April 6, 2016).
- ↑ GiIvaSunner. I hope the SiIvaGunner account is temporary. Waiting for appeals is a long process. @VictorASvensson (April 13, 2016).
- ↑ Gallery Aferro Presents Exhibits By Individuals At Angola Prison, Geri Hahn, and SilvaGunner (in en). NewJerseyStage.com (2019-09-14). Retrieved 2020-05-17.
- ↑ Dhaduk, Birju. New Gallery Aferro Exhibitions Open (in en-US). The Vector (2019-10-15). Retrieved 2020-05-17.
- ↑ Hathaway, Jay (May 10, 2018). "Did Yoshi commit tax fraud?". The Daily Dot. https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/yoshi-tax-fraud-meme/. Retrieved November 29, 2020.