GilvaSunner

About

“GilvaSunner” (or just simply known as GilvaSunner on the site) is a parody account of the videogame music uploading account, GilvaSunner. If this sounds confusing, that’s the intent. Some believe it is trolling due to their format being identical to that of the official GilvaSunner channel, which gave information on the artists, video artwork, and song titles (usually ones that were found on the game’s respective OST.)

In late 2014 the original GilvaSunner page made a post on Twitter saying that he would not be uploading anymore songs due to fear of having the channel being taken down due to copyright claims. Though, he is still active on Twitter and is allowing/helping with the project.

Format

Since the account name had been already taken by the original Gilva, the team simply replaced the lowercase “L” with an uppercase “I,” which to the common person appears like a lowercase “L.”

A large amount on the videos are remixes of the classic television show “The Flintstones” theme, though they aren’t limited to that. Some other popular songs used are Quad City DJs – Space Jam Theme Song, Take On Me, GANGNAMSTYLE, among hundreds of others.

On Nov 6, 2014, Vinesauce Joel posted a video showcasing highlights from a previous stream where he played bootleg NES games. One of these was “MARIO 7,” which was actually titled “GRANDDAD,” and was actually a ROM hack of the game The Flintstones: Surprise at Dinosaur Peak. This, of course, is where The Flintstones theme is used to parody.

In some videos, you can even hear recycled clips from Joel from the video.

The channel is ultimately identically the same aesthetically as the official GilvaSunner, mostly. The description is the same but with an added line saying:

(Every video is submitted by a small group of content creators with their approval)

This line was added to clarify that none of the content is being stolen from the original creators. The entire staff of the contributors is located on the right side of the screen in the “Uitgelichte kanalen” side bar, which is Dutch for “Featured Channels.”

Suprisingly, roughly every hour the channel uploads one to two videos around the clock. Depending on the comment, the team will also reply pretending as-if nothing is wrong. Example:

+Backbiter835 I only upload official video game rips.

Spread

The account was created on Jan 9, 2016 and within the same day published the video “Wild Pokémon Battle – Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire.” This video started the trend for a majority of the videos on the channel.

The most viewed video posted on the channel is “Slider – Super Mario 64,” which has garnered over 72,000 views in a week.

This was the first video Joel has acknowledged, which may be the reason why it is so well known. He went on to comment:

Then, days later Joel went on to make a tweet regarding the channel.