The Most Famous YouTuber You've Never Heard Of

Have you ever been listening to a song from video game, but something about it just wasn't right? If so, then that was the work of SiIvaGunner, one of the most widespread but least known channels on YouTube. Today, we take a deep dive into SiIvaGunner's history, it's memes, and much more.

Music Used (Chronologically)

Athletic Theme (PAL Version) - Super Mario World
Absolute Zero - Deep Rock Galactic
Buy Somethin' Will Ya! - EarthBound
5 PM (OST Version) - Animal Crossing New Leaf
Battle! (Wild Pokémon) - Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire
Driftveil City (CD Version) - Pokémon Black & White
Title Theme & Ending - 7 GRAND DAD
Pewter City (OST Version) - Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver
Simian Segue - Donkey Kong Country
Scarlet Forest - Deltarune
Main Title (Extended Mix) - Banjo Kazooie
Flat Zone 2 - Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Joy (Beta Mix) - Persona 3
Fallen Down (Reprise) (OST Version) - Undertale
Dire Dire Docks (OST Version) - Super Mario 64
sans. (Extended Mix) - Undertale
Can You Really Call This A Hotel, I Didn't Receive A Mint On My Pillow Or Anything (OST Version) - Undertale
Buy Somethin' Will Ya! (Alpha Mix) - Earthbound
Self-Destruct Sequence Initiated (Beta Mix) - Stray
No Man's Sky Lofi Remix - @sleepyjuice

The SiIvaGunner Wiki was an essential (and at times the only) source for timelines, stats, and catalogues of important events. It's well-written, and is curated by both team members and SiIva scholars!

Additional Footage From:
@VinesauceJoel
@ludwig
@vinesauce
@clashtournaments
@PinkieOats
@hugo__
@Shadowserg

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:58 - Chapter 1: Where it all began
5:03 - A brief tangent into a stupid meme
7:10 - GiIvaSunner's Termination
8:32 - SiIvaGunner's Creation
11:01 - SiIvaGunner Today
18:20 - GiLvaSunner's Termination
19:51 - Appendix
23:21 - Outro

Relevant Tags:
#music #gaming #siivagunner #videogamemusic #memes #ost #videoessay #explained
music, gaming, siivagunner, videogamemusic, memes, ost, videoessay, explained

[SiIvaGunner]

I only upload high quality video game rips.

[thebestworst]

The funniest part about this channel is that with Nintendo nuking all music videos of music from their games, siivagunner videos are often the first result you search for trolling everyone even more. I remember a few years ago sheet music boss accidentally made a piano theme for the Super Mario 64 final boss theme but the guy making it never played the game so they recorded a remix of Owen was her by accident

[KaijuofSteel]

You forgot to mention how SiIva “We are Number One" rips were really important to help Stefan Stefansson (Robbie Rotten's actor) in his battle with cancer.
Stefan lived a few more years thanks to memes, which included SiIva's rips, and that's something he was forever grateful of. Rest in peace legend.

[ChristopherMoom]

I love how SiIva exists in a perfect middle ground where the channel is popular enough for loads of casuals to know about it, but it's not at the point where big channels all over YT are aware of it, so every now and then a popular Youtuber (or their editor) slips up and uses a SiIva rip as background music, I haven't seen it happen too often, but it's hilarious when it does

There's also this funny incident where Ludwig, while talking about Gilva's deletion, accidentally used SiIva's channel to illustrate what he was talking about

Anyway, this is a really well-done and concise summary of the channel, I've only followed SiIva since 2021 but this video does a great job at covering the past and present of SiIva

[GameAceTaylor]

I love how SiIvaGunner has re-influenced language enough that the actual term for extracting music from the games has become a meme in and of itself. Very high quality.

[atwistedb]

Siivagunner now being more recognized then Giivasunner (before Giiva disappeared completely) really shows how far they’ve come

[CheesecakeMilitia]

Surprised you didn't explain the "high quality rip" joke, since that dates back to even before the 2008 SilvaGunner channel - when people were manually ripping audio from games, curating it, and sharing it online. Most games didn't have official soundtracks, or if they did they usually only contained a few tracks or were mixed differently or were only released in Japan, so if you tried to find game music it was always of wildly varying quality. RIP GilvaSunner - lots of the copyrighted tracks that took them down still don't have official releases. I'm always grateful to SiIvaGunner for bringing attention to this plight and of course for bringing us only the highest quality rips.

[sihamhamda]

One of the most favorite event from siiva is that every 1 or 2 years they are making the rips from any game soundtracks that only contains the words "goodbye", "the end", "game over", "final" and similar words like that in the title, and then they stop uploading for 1-2 months so all the followers thinking that the channel is ending (although they are always coming back again after that).

[TheGuy]

as a fan of siiva since 2016 this is such a good tribute and breakdown, the use of melodyswap bgm ties everything together so perfectly

[jeanguylouisbourg]

KFAD is legit one of my favorite things that ever happened on youtube. I'm suprised it didn't get a mention, considering how much effort the channel put into it.

[redmii]

The disappearance of Mario is still one of the coolest things on Youtube.

[OhNoBohNo]

There's something very fun and cozy about Vinesauce Joel being tied up in all these momentous Internet occasions- Granddad / SiIvagunner, The Evil Farming Sim Game... A strange legacy for a very cool Swedish guy

[magmastorm]

The best part of SiIvaGunner to me will always be that despite his popularity, every now and then he'll still get someone big. My favorite instance of this is still a really popular multi-million sub music channel, Sheet Music Boss, transcribing one of his covers of Ultimate Koopa and treating it as if it was the original. It's always such a fun occurrence, and it's nice to see it show new people what the SiIva crew is about.

[youmeltube]

Holy shit FINALLY a SiIvaGunner video essay

[gobinokitsune]

Such a criminally underrated channel. FrogInABox, I mean. Absolutely nuts that it's not a 100k sub channel. Great content, as always!

[ayylmaoalien]

thank you so much for this video, KFAD and KFAD2 were genuinely some of the coolest things ive ever seen on youtube and im happy to see the people behind it getting more attention

[emmbeesea]

Long live high quality rips by smashing that MF Like Button.

Todokete!

[silverflight]

The old age of SiIvaGunner was pretty wacky. There was the 9/11 event, a slew of Green de la Bean rips that got taken down because of the sheer loudness, and several rips being dislike bombed because of Snow Halation (which not only pretty much resulted in the entire lore happening, but the song is now well loved).

There's also been times, mostly in recent years, where SiIva had to break the usual "Write the video description exactly like Gilva's" trend by adding the artist of the joke. This usually had to do with either Ken Ashcorp (for whatever reason I never found why) and Kiara because of a "Sunset Heights X HINOTORI" rip trolling her a little TOO well. For the latter, the video description also changed the playlist link to the link of the joke

[SSB_Seal]

Awesome video! I'm really impressed at the historical accuracy regarding the channel origin. Siiva has been a massive part of my online life all the way back since February 2016, and it's always nice to see people discuss and appreciate it!

[igeljaeger]

I knew of him but never was aware of the lore, thanks