On nearly the one-year anniversary of this video’s creation, I’m finally posting it. This video was made feverishly in a single night, as an experiment with highly edited gameplay content. It was preceded by my Battlefield 4 LP… succeeded by my Dark Souls 3 video… and concurrent with this video on my second channel, which came from the same Pro Lucio gaming sessions.
But I never posted it, because I wanted to keep it as a backup video if I ever had a slow month. I did have plenty of slow months over the past 12… but it never felt like the right time. So here it is after a year!
Interesting note:
I used Ask DNA because I was playing that song on loop the entire night we recorded that Overwatch footage.
The story is right there in the first two seconds, albeit cut short a bit.
At the time of filming everyone was just getting into Summer vacation. We’d all been talking on our Discord daily, but hadn’t seen each other in person for a while, so I knew that this explosion of memes had to be caught on film. Every second I wasn’t taking my turn to bowl I was recording, and I was so happy with what I was getting.
For the record, Overwatch had been out for a week or two and that’s why no one shuts up about it the whole time. Plus I was the only one who didn’t have the game, so I’m definitely not salty about that! Also for the record, I effortlessly obliterated everyone and won that game super hard, despite rarely bowling. SO there.
I’m still not sure if it was a good decision to include the jazz music. I wanted to make sure there was something to give coherence to this destructured mess, but I still worry that it might conflict with the terrible bowling alley audio, because the bowling alley was playing music, and at points my friends were playing their own music too (vaporwave of course because of course).
About the intro. As soon as I saw Luis (that’s the vape nation guy) pull that ridiculous gutter ball, I knew it was the highlight of the evening. I really have to thank him for perfectly pacing out his movements to deliver the punchline. It’s beautiful. But I deliberated about how to incorporate it into the video. The “To Be Continued” meme was still around at the time, but cooling off for sure. So I decided to double down, and use an actual dead meme, “MLG Parodies”. So then I decided to triple down, and use the hottest, freshest meme on the block, “Play of the Game”, which had only been around for a week or two (guess why). Overall, a magical trifecta of now-dead memes, connected perfectly by a timeless dab.
Interesting notes:
I had the video 100% done and rendered 2 weeks before I uploaded it on 27 July, because I finished editing it while on my month-long Summer trip to the U.S., and I wanted to post it as soon as I got back to Belgium.