VarietyisHope

Started in 2014 or 2015, by a man named Hootey planting a seed into Vinesauce's head about a charity event, the Vinesauce is Hope was formed, made by members of the Vinesauce stream team. It has since evolved into VarietyisHope when the event became such a huge success.
==Origins==
Back in 2014, Hootey, a Vinesauce streamer, approached the 'Sauce Boss', Vinny Vinesauce, with an idea for a charity stream. The event was held to raise money for the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation in the Summer, and became an annual event held yearly. When the event became larger and larger every year, more and more people and guest appeared, including Jerma, Criken, Jabroni Mike, HuggbeesTV, GamesRepainted, and others. By 2018-2019, the stream event officially evolved into Variety is Hope, and became a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of humanitarian and goodwill causes. While the name changed, the cause stayed the same, and still, yearly events are held, but larger then life, as even voice actor David Hayter promoted the event. 
The Vinesauce is Hope name is used for the annual summer event, but other charities can witnessed being promoted through out the year, such as the Heckraiser event in October 2019. 
=== VRChat adventures ===
The VIH Squad ventured into VRChat, using it to RP the Kingdom RP where they must convince the king to sign ideas. King Narold is a fair and kind king and only executed one anime.
== Members ==
=== Original Vinesauce is Hope streamers ===
* Vinesauce: Leader of the stream team
* Imakuni: Local Sonic enthusiast.
* Direboar/Dorb
* Fred
* Hootey: Got this whole thing started
* Vargskelethor/Joel/UncleJobel: The Savage Swedish Metal Head
* Revscarecrow
* UmJammerJenny/MentalJen
* Limealicious
* King KY/KY
* GreatZott: The Skeleton 
* DesertP
* Gearomatic
* GreatSphynx
* Monotist
* Vidyabum
=== Guest ===
* Jabroni Mike: Took part in one year of the event, then went on to host several of his own called 'Stream of Concious'. Jabronie Mike has returned for the 2021 Charity stream, helping host the volunteer multiplayer segment.
* David Hayter: Donning his Solid Snake persona, David Hayter promoted the charity stream.
* HuggbeesTV: Andrew, though not taking part in the streaming part, was a voice over Imakuni's Jet Set Radio repainted.
* GamesRepainted: For one year, the GamesRepainted Community texture swapped the entire game Mario Galaxy to be Vinesauce themed.
* Jerma: The man was according to Vinny, locked in his dryer in one year of the event. He also made pre-recorded appearance during VineWrestle. 
* Shesez: The man behind Boundary Break on Youtube appeared and played Mario Party with Vinny, Criken and Jerma for one year.
* Regaulity: He is an enigma
*Alpharad: The Internet Funnyman himself joined in 2021.
*RubberNinja: Rubber Ross/Ninja was invited to be a guest streamer in the 2021 charity event.
=== When it evolved into Variety is Hope ===
* NarryG
* Mythi
* littleBun
* Sharkodiles
* Awesome Chocobi
* werewhisky
* Akumanorobin
* Mystikiuu
== Trivia ==
* It's humble beginnings in 2014 was a rotation of streamers for a one day event, raising $24,663.00, completely destroying the original goal of $5,000.
* In 2015, merchandising was added, and they raised $55,716.00
* In 2016, $108,209.25 was raised. 
* In 2017, the event was lengthened into a 2 day event, and over 100K was raised in direct donations alone. Combined with the merchandising, $137,366.00 was raised.
* In 2018, a 28 page magazine was created by a group of volunteers, also raising the number of members and staff for the events. The proceeds were over $181,902.00.
* In 2019, thanks to partnering with Fangamer and Chrono.gg and the ever growing community, $210,338.92 was raised.
* In 2020, the amount raised was a staggering $256,515, setting the record for 2021.
* There have been themes behind some of the streams, such as a medieval theme, and a farm based theme.
**The 2021 theme is that of space exploration.
* Joel's Vine Wrestle forces all the memes created by the many streamers going to head to head against other memes and even the streamers themselves.
*A game for the community was made by the community called the Vinerealms.
*There is a tradition where all involved join a call and say thank you all at once, effectively breaking what ever they're using.
*An Art Contest is held almost annually as well.
*As promised in 2020, Vinesauce has delivered, he has finally filled his PC with beans.
== Videos ==
2020 Credits: The credits from the 2020 Vinesauce is Hope.
2019 Credits
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