Nightcore

Nightcore is a version of a track that increases the pitch, and also speeds up or slows down its source material by at least 35%, causing it to sound louder than the original sound. It is also often used in many YouTube videos either created by trolls or used and imported into sounds by another user. Nightcore is also referred to "sped up" or "faster". Nightcore is even commonly associated and accompanied with anime, and otaku culture with many YouTube thumbnails of nightcore remixes containing anime characters, and/or art. One of the first major nightcore videos was for Rockefeller Street, a song by Getter Jaani performed at Eurovision 2011. The song became an internet meme after the nightcore version was posted to YouTube by a user known as "Andrea".
Nightcore also comes from either speeding up or slowing down the song after its release; such as using it in YouTube Shorts, or either stolen from sources, and using it in a video; with or without giving credit to the original creator. For example, the original song only gets 1 million views, while the nightcore version gets over 10 million views, and the uploader doesn't credit the original artist, or even put their name in the description. Many nightcore songs are also repeated as either a trend or just spamming in the search results; although it is rare to find the original song. Many people also critized people who speed up songs and make it nightcore, or slow down, by some people referring it to "slowed".
Nightcore has existed since at least 2015, with the first nightcore being a sped up version of a song performed at Eurvision. Since then, nightcore YouTube channels upload sped up songs, without crediting and use an image of either an anime boy or girl in the background. An example of nightcore is "save your tears - sped up". These nightcore sounds are used as much as 600,000 times by several users on YouTube, and a majority of users on TikTok. Many people use nightcore in their videos on mostly YouTube Shorts, with most of them being uncredited and stolen, however, a lot of nightcore versions of songs get copyright claimed, but do not get taken down by YouTube, mainly due to copyright infringement which violates YouTube's ToS. People often use nightcore to not get copyrighted, however, it is common that the song is from the creator of it. Several people dislike nightcore, although many nightcore songs are still being uploaded and haven't been taken down ever since.
==History==
Nightcore has existed ever since the first Nightcore video was made. In the 2010s, nightcore gained popularity, and during the , many users started using it more often, in either videos or shorts. By 2019, a few users claimed that Nightcore would shut down by March 19th, 2019. After that date, many users continued uploading nightcore songs, getting away from copyright. Some nightcore videos have been taken down by YouTube on unknown dates, and for unknown reasons. Around 2021, people started making nightcore versions of songs that have released or just upcoming songs. In 2002, before YouTube existed, a duo formed a group called Nightcore as a school project, which spread all over YouTube more than a few years later. Several nightcore songs started being made around 2009. One of the first major nightcore videos was for Rockefeller Street, a song by Getter Jaani performed at Eurovision 2011. The song became an internet meme after the nightcore version was posted to YouTube by a user known as "Andrea", who was known as an Osu! player. From there, the music rose in popularity with more people applying the nightcore treatment to more non-dance genres such as pop music and hip hop. Many of the pioneer uploaders of nightcore including Maikel631 have called these non-dance edits "fake". The nightcore scene then crossed over to SoundCloud with the help of artist lilangelboi, who had released around ten to fifteen edits on the service before being signed to Manicure Records. The head of Manicure, Tom "Ghibli" Mike, recalled, "I just got totally obsessed with it. I put up that one he did, "Light", we had him up here to DJ a few parties, and then he moved here. That was totally how nightcore became a thing for us." The label's #MANICURED playlist consisted of nightcore renditions of K-pop and electro house tracks, a few of them also incorporating production techniques outside of pitch-shifting and speeding up the source material, such as "Mile High" by Chipped Nails and Ponibbi and "Fave Hours" by F I J I.
==Creation of Nightcore==
How do users make a nightcore song?
#Users pick a song of their choice.
#They speed up the song by at least 20 percent.
#They take time as little as 5 to 10 minutes to speed up the song.
#They then post the song onto YouTube, sometimes referring it as a 'project'.
#The nightcore song then plays in the background, either on the website and/or the mobile app.
#They put a picture of an anime character in the background. 
What happens if a user uploads a nightcore song to YouTube?
#The video becomes shorter as the song is sped up.
#The user either puts the artist's name in the title or description.
#The video may receive a like-to-dislike ratio.
#The song gets used in YouTube videos, either made by trolls.
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