Rooples

Rooples, channel created on July 6th 2013, is a YouTuber who's mostly known for his content that revolves around AI, by using it to create memes, song covers, and more. He is the creator of *The Stars and Strifes* series.

Has made a vow to never contribute to this wiki.

## History

### Early History

The earliest known content that Rooples first made for YouTube were tech reviews featuring his real-life fifteen year old self that have now since been unlisted from his channel. His first public video was footage of a creek near by the Winooski River in Essex Junction titled *"VT Slow TV Episode 1"* after being inspired by the content creator "soundsurvivor", who made similar videos.

From there, Rooples made a variety of different content including comedic edits of the 1964 sitcom *Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C*, music created by himself theming mostly around the video game series *Sonic the Hedgehog* with the one other exception being a five minute long track titled *"Wii Menu Type Beat",* and a comedically edited video titled *"Levi Remastered"*.

### Minecraft

On January 13th, 2020, Rooples uploaded his first piece of *Minecraft* content with a video titled *"Custom Minecraft Outlast Map"*, where Rooples showcased his incomplete recreation of *Mount Massive Asylum* in *Minecraft* from the video game series *Outlast*. The video received a good amount of positive feedback, and Rooples would continue making content around his recreation of *Mount Massive Asylum* by creating several videos documenting updates he made to the map from the 1st of June to the 8th of June before finally uploading a video touring the completed map on June 28th, 2020 titled *"Completed Outlast Map Showcase and Walkthrough".*

From there, Rooples would continue making Minecraft content by uploading videos of his various Minecraft build projects and short videos with either a player named *"*shiba*"* or another played named *"*boflaba9*"*.

### AA

On December 29th, 2020, Rooples uploaded the first of six videos centering around a person named AA titled *"AA - No thank you no sir"* shows a young male (presumably AA) sitting at a desk with two police officers. Upon being asked a question, AA breaks out into a rhythmic beat by repeatedly saying "No sir, no sir, no thank you no sir" whilst clicking his fingers. The two officers then begin to exit the room with annoyed expressions.

A day later on December 30th, 2020, Rooples uploaded the second video *"AA - Minecraft Rap".* In the video, AA laments on how tired he is from playing Minecraft and decides to instead rap about the game. AA proceeds to raps about the acquisition of his diamond sword, his unstoppable nature, the Fidget Spinner mod he has installed, his love for Minecraft being comparable to his mother and pet dog, and how he stares Endermen in the eye rather than averting his gaze because he is a savage.

On January 8th, 2021, the third video featuring AA was uploaded under the title *"AA - AWUWAHWUHWAHWUWAHHHHHWOW"*. The video is a short 7 second long clip of a young male (presumably AA) singing into a microphone, however the video has been intensely altered with visual and audio edits that distort AA's voice into a sound befitting of the video's title.

On January 21st, 2022, the fourth video of the AA series *"God's Plan | AA Remix - Lyrics"* was uploaded. As the title suggests, the video is a remix of the song *God's Plan* by *Drake*, however the lyrics have been altered to become nonsensical and is sung by AA.

On January 12th, 2023, the fifth video of the AA series *"Sea of Thieves - AA Blows up the Boat"* was uploaded. In the video, a fire breaks out on Rooples and AA's ship, which Rooples successfully puts out. As Rooples walks down the ship, he picks up a barrel and begins walking, but is stopped after AA hits the barrel Rooples was carrying, causing it to explode and detonate the rest of the ship with it. Rooples is left flabbergasted as to why AA would hit the barrel, while AA seemingly expresses confusion and then light regret upon being told he blew up the ship and the loot they had collected with it.

On January 25th, 2023, the final video titled *"In the Urban Jungle with AA"* is of Rooples and AA hanging out together in a snow suburban area that AA describes as "deep in the African jungle". AA describes how a third party source had told him that someone he used to know died in the area they are currently in. AA examines a piece of bread next to the sidewalk before the short ending with AA welcoming the audience to another video.

### Gaming Content

Whilst Rooples first uploaded a *Just Cause 2* montage back in 2019 which has since been unlisted, and another *Just Cause 2* related clip when he was primarily making *Minecraft* content, it wouldn't be until January 5th, 2023 when Rooples would begin to consistently create videos centered around other video games when he uploaded a video titled *"Just Cause 2 Bus Flying"*, where Rooples would demonstrate and explain the science and art behind flying a bus. Rooples would continue to create content surrounding other video games for a short period of time, creating videos around video games including more of *Just Cause 2, Sea of Thieves,* and *Hitman 3*.

### AI Content

On March 9th, 2023, Rooples would upload the first of his many further to come AI YouTube content with the video "*Furtick and Osteen John Piper and MacArthur's Minecraft Realm"*, where the American Christian pastors, Steven Furtick, Joel Osteen, John F. MacArthur, and John Piper are parodied using AI generated voices to portray the four playing in a Minecraft realm together while bantering.

Rooples would then later upload the videos *"MAGA PUNCH"* on March 14th 2023, and *"The Trump Card - Yugioh"* on March 17th 2023. Both of these videos would parody the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, by putting the president in stereotypical anime scenarios. With *"MAGA PUNCH"* portraying Trump monologuing to an unknown person about how powerful his attack, the Maga Punch is, and *"The Trump Card - Yugioh"* once again portraying Trump monologuing about a powerful attack but in a duel with the main character of the *Yu-gi-oh! Duel Monsters* series, Yugi Mutou. These two videos seem to have possibly been major influences on *The Stars and Strifes* series, with Donald J. Trump in the series's Trump Card fighting style possibly being inspired by *"The Trump Card - Yugioh"*, and *"MAGA PUNCH"* being the earliest instance of the idea of American presidents with anime-inspired superpowers by Rooples.

Rooples would then hop on the trend of American Presidents Barack Obama, Joseph Biden, and Donald Trump ranking various subjects with a tierlist by uploading two videos following the trend on March 18th 2023, and March 19th 2023. The first video had the presidents rank the video games in *The Last of Us* video game series, while the second video had the three rank the various flavours of *Kraft Mac and Cheese*.

#### The Stars and Strifes

Whilst *"The Trump Card - Yugioh"*, and *"MAGA PUNCH"* seemed to be early ideas of *The Stars and Strifes* series, it wouldn't be until a later video when the idea of *The Stars and Strifes* began to truly take form. The video in question was a meme video centering around the Biden Blast meme. In the video, The 46th President of the United States, Joseph Biden, monologues to a person he's in a fight with on how they've done well to survive up until now, however, Biden reveals that he had only been using 5% of his power during the fight up until now. With this, Biden unleashes the Biden Blast, ending the video. The video skyrocketed in popularity, reaching up to 300K views before it was taken down by Rooples in order to obtain monetization.

Later, Rooples would upload a short titled *"OBAMEHAMEHA",* where the 44th United States President Barack Obama is confronting a villain and gives a motivational speech of the power of hope and change before firing his "Obamehameha" attack. Additionally, Rooples would upload *"Obama Transforms into Yami Bama - Yugioh"* on March 18th, 2023, parodying Yugi's transformation from the *Yu-gi-oh! Duel Monsters* series with Obama transforming into "Yami Bama".

With the sudden popularity of both of these videos, comments began to build up, suggesting a showdown between the Biden Blast and the Obamehameha. Complying with these suggestions, Rooples would make a continuation of the short with the short *"Biden Blast vs. Obamehameha"* on March 21st, 2023, where the villain Obama fired the Obamehameha at in the Obamehameha short is revealed to be Biden. The two have a verbal face-off against each other before beginning their fight. The short would once again gain immense popularity and Rooples would create two more continuations before finally compiling the three videos into *"The Stars and Strifes: The Biden Blast Arc"* along with a newly added intro scene. The idea of Obama transforming into Yami Bama in *"Obama Transforms into Yami Bama - Yugioh"* happens to be used in the scene where Obama awakens his fighting spirit as well.

After uploading The Biden Blast Arc, The video soured to popularity, gaining massive amounts of attention. With the new found popularity, Rooples expanded *The Stars and Strifes* into a series with its own timeline and canon events, with four sequel arcs and one prequel arc being made. *The Stars and Strifes* cemented itself a small, but dedicated fandom, and become the most anticipated series on Rooples' channel.

#### AI Song Covers

On April 5th, 2023, Rooples would upload the first of his many AI song covers with *"One Piece - "We Are" | Obama Cover"*. As the title suggests, the video was a cover of the TV-sized version of the song *"We Are!"* , the anime series *One Piece's* first opening, by an AI voice model of Obama. The video skyrocketed in popularity, even reaching international viewers in Japan. The video would later become the most viewed video on Rooples' channel, with 1.9 million views as of October 2023.

With the success of the *"We Are!"* cover, Rooples continued creating AI Obama song covers of the *One Piece* anime openings, now under the title *"The Presidents Concert"*. Eventually, Rooples branched out into other genres of music such as pop, rap, and other popular anime songs, with AI voice models of Biden and Trump sometimes doing the singing in place of Obama. Rooples even began branching out further with the singers, using voice models of Frank Sinatra and SpongeBob.

Later, Rooples would unfortunately have to private a handful of the song covers after his channel was inflicted with two copyright strikes in order to avoid termination.

#### Joe Biden Stand Up

On April 8th, 2023, Rooples began a small series called *Joe Biden Stand Up*. The series centered around an AI voice model of Biden running comey stand-up show to a large audience including Obama and Trump. The first video, *"Joe Biden Does Stand Up Comedy"*, Biden questions why commercials are produced when a new medical drug is released, and gives an example of why it should be the doctor who's informed about new drugs and not the patient. On April 21st, 2023, the second video titled *"The Grocery Store - Joe Biden Stand Up"* was uploaded, where Biden rants about his experience at modern grocery stores. The final video in the series titled *"Family Differences - Joe Biden Stand Up"* was uploaded on May 3rd, 2023, where Biden rants about some of the unbelievable differences between his and his wife's side of the family.

#### Tyler1 Transformations

On July 4th, 2023, Rooples would begin a short series called *Tyler1 Transformations* with the video *"Tyler1 Transforms Into Tyler2"*, where the streamer Tyler1 has a explosive transformation, blowing up his house in the process, and becomes Tyler2. The series would continue, with Tyler1 increasing his power with more transformations and the results of these transformations becoming even more devastating until he reached his final form of Tyler6 on July 7th, 2023.

### Music

After taking a month long break, Rooples returned to YouTube on October 18th, 2023 with an original music track titled *"Roople Beats"*. In a pinned comment on the video, Rooples would say that "a new generation of Rooples is upon you", along with announcing that he was beginning work on the script of the Corn Pop's End Arc of *The Stars and Strifes.*