GilvaSunner

GilvaSunner (with a lowercase "L"), previously known as TimmyTurnersDad, was a YouTuber whose (now defunct) channel is parodied by SiIvaGunner. The GilvaSunner channel was active from October 2, 2010 to February 4, 2022 and contained a selection of mostly Nintendo video game music.
==History==
After the original SilvaGunner (with a lowercase "L") channel was taken down due to copyright, two users who also uploaded video game music, TimmyTurnersDad and BrawlBRSTMs, started up a collaborative tribute to the SilvaGunner channel called GilvaSunner on October 2, 2010.Archive of the GilvaSunner channel via the Wayback Machine; November 18, 2010. Uploads began shortly after, beginning with "Title Theme - Donkey Kong Country" (and the rest of the soundtrack).
When the TimmyTurnersDad account was suspended on February 7, 2011, GilvaSunner became his primary channel,"GilvaSunner" on Wikitubia, the YouTube Wiki. with BrawlBRSTMs leaving.Archive of the GilvaSunner channel via the Wayback Machine; April 1, 2011. He would then use a picture of Timmy Turner's dad as his avatar until late January 2016, when he changed it to his current picture.Archive of the GilvaSunner channel via the Wayback Machine; February 3, 2016. He began using the lighthouse as his channel banner in 2013.
Prior to the creation of GiIvaSunner (with an uppercase "i"), he had not uploaded since 2014. By that point, he had uploaded 6,313 videos to his channel and covered around 120 different soundtracks. He would return on March 21, 2016, to celebrate his channel reaching 150k subscribers. After this point, he returned to uploading again every so often. On April 30, 2016, he uploaded the Kirby Planet Robobot soundtrack, but it was later removed due to copyright claims."Sorry guys, had to delete the entire Kirby Planet Robobot playlist from YouTube just now. HAL claimed and removed a lot of the OST videos a few hours ago, so I don’t wanna take any risks. Please be careful with uploading HAL music, they are getting more strict!" - Archive of a tweet by @GilvaSunner via the Wayback Machine; January 15, 2018. On February 25, 2018, he did his second-to-last upload batch, that being another set of uploads.
On August 13-14, 2019, a large portion of GilvaSunner's catalog of music was copyright-claimed on YouTube."Game over" - Archive of a tweet by @GilvaSunner via the Wayback Machine; August 13, 2019."And there goes Awakening. 115 videos in total blocked so far. They started manually with the most viewed content on the channel, and are now going through the playlists one by one I guess. Looking at the time of the claims, it seems these are coming from Japan HQ." - Archive of a tweet by @GilvaSunner via the Wayback Machine; August 14, 2019. His channel was not copyright-striked and some soundtracks were still available on his channel. Between December 20, 2019 and January 3, 2020, he changed his channel description, removing the sentence about uploading new videos. Despite this, he returned on September 24, 2020, updating his playlist (due to the game being rereleased alongside an official soundtrack in ). These would ultimately be the final videos uploaded to GilvaSunner, with the last being "Pinna Beach - Super Mario Sunshine".Archive of the GilvaSunner channel's video list via the Wayback Machine; January 7, 2022. (Note that the Sunshine uploads were later blocked.)
On December 8, 2020, he posted another update showing his uploads of Super Mario 64, , , , and had been blocked."Hi all, an update to this. As of a few hours ago, the soundtracks for Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time and Mario Kart Wii have been blocked in its entirety on YouTube by Nintendo JP. I'll keep you posted if more claims come in." - Archive of a tweet by @GilvaSunner via the Wayback Machine; December 8, 2020.
Beginning on January 29, 2022, almost all of GilvaSunner's soundtrack uploads were gradually blocked over a period of several days following a much broader copyright takedown request from Nintendo; on that day, GilvaSunner noted on Twitter that over 1,300 videos had been blocked."Over 1300 copyright blocks on the YT channel today. Here are all the soundtracks Nintendo has blocked this time." - Archive of a tweet by @GilvaSunner via the Wayback Machine; January 29, 2022. On February 1, 2022, he announced that following the blocking of a further 2,200 videos, he had decided to delete the channel on February 4."After thinking about this a lot over the past few days, I’ve decided that at this point it’s really not worth it to keep the channel up any longer, and will therefore delete the GilvaSunner YouTube channel (or what’s left of it) this coming Friday." - Archive of a tweet by @GilvaSunner via the Wayback Machine; February 1, 2022. The channel was deleted at 12:00 p.m. EST. The GilvaSunner Twitter account would also be deleted on February 22.@GilvaSunner's Twitter statistics on Social Blade. SiIvaGunner would acknowledge the deletion with a day of tribute rips.
==Abnormal uploads==
===Remixes (100k, 150k, kirbtunes)===
After he stopped uploading video game music in 2014, GilvaSunner would begin postings playlists of remixes, the majority of which come from SBFR, a Japanese remixing community (as GilvaSunner described it). Originally intended as 100k and 150k subscriber specials focusing on Nintendo songs, these would later be uploaded randomly as and only feature Kirby songs. For non-English titles, they were sometimes translated.
Instead of a logo, these featured artwork from SBFR as their background image. The video descriptions deviated from the standard as well, listing "Artist:", "Original:", and "Artwork:", which state the creator of the remix, the song it's based on (as well as the game of origin), and the creator of the background image respectively.
As far as the remixes themselves, there was nothing too notable aside from "нет головоломки?", a remix of "Puzzle Room" that GilvaSunner titled with a reference to the SiIvaGunner meme. SiIvaGunner would also upload an original Kirby remix, "Light", in the style of these remix uploads.
===Specials / Random Stuff===
Prior to the subscriber specials/kirbtunes uploads, GilvaSunner used a different playlist for non-OST uploads called . This playlist included three bonus tracks on official albums of the relevant franchise, 3 live performances of video game music, two joke videos (with one being removed later), and another remix from SBFR.
*Snowmobile Accident
*New Super Sittin On Tha Toilet WeeArchive of the Specials / Random Stuff playlist via the Wayback Machine; May 9, 2013.
*K.K. Soul ~ Chill Mix
*K.K. House ~ Club Version
*35 LegendsOn GilvaSunner, "35 Legends" was originally titled "35 Legends (Brawl Techno Mix)" (June 9, 2012). It was later renamed to "35 Legends ~ Brawl Techno Mix" (May 9, 2013).Archive of the GilvaSunner channel's video tab via the Wayback Machine; June 9, 2012.
*Final Destination ~ Super Smash Bros. Universe (April Fools)
*Happy 20th Anniversary, Kirby! ~ Stage Medley
*Orchestral Medley ~ New Super Mario Bros. Wii
*Okami ~ Orchestral Medley
*Nintendo Ending Medley
====Snowmobile Accident====
On December 26, 2011, GilvaSunner uploaded the video "Snowmobile Accident". It consisted of video footage from the video "Grazy hill climb crash with go pro cam." by Kris Kenni Støvlbæk set to "Slider" from .
This video has been parodied multiple times on the SiIvaGunner channel: a video also titled "Snowmobile Accident", the two rips of "Slider - Super Mario Galaxy 2", "Jetski Accident", and "Skimobile Accident". It has also been referenced in a few videos, namely "SiIvaGunner YouTube Trailer", "The SiIvaGunner Spooktacular Halloween Horror Special Part III: Episode 3", "Reveal Trailer Theme - Overwatch 2", and "Consistency | SiIva Swim".
===April Fools' Day===
GilvaSunner celebrated April Fools' Day at least four times. All of these uploads were later unlisted.
*In 2011, he uploaded "Zelda: Skyward Sword Music - Leaked Main Theme", which was actually an 8-bit cover of Rebecca Black's "Friday".
*In 2012, he uploaded "Super Smash Bros. Universe Music - Final Destination", which was actually a remix by SBFR for their album We Bros. X. It was later renamed as "(April Fools) Super Smash Bros. Universe Music - Final Destination""Kid Icarus Uprising Music - Mysterious Invaders". Archived video by GilvaSunner., and then "Final Destination ~ Super Smash Bros. Universe (April Fools)".
*In 2016, he uploaded "Final Destination - Super Smash Bros. Brawl", which was actually a high quality rip made by Xarlable. According to MtH, GilvaSunner made the visuals for this rip,"GilvaSunner actually made the visuals for this. What a legend." - Comment by MtH. making it his only direct contribution to SiIvaGunner.
*In 2017, he uploaded random (but unedited) video game music tracks every hour, essentially replicating SiIvaGunner's Season 1 upload schedule.
==Trivia==
*As of August 2024, SiIvaGunner has at least one high quality rip for every game soundtrack uploaded to GilvaSunner except Donkey Kong Land III, Final Fantasy XIV, and PiCOPiCT, as well as every non-game playlist except The Legend of Zelda: 30th Anniversary Concert. Of the games that received one-off April Fools' Day 2017 rips, Super Punch Out!!, Shin Onigashima, and Radar Mission do not have any SiIvaGunner rips.
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