About
Word replacement is a series of Youtube Poop videos where all the words in a certain clip are all replaced with something else, usually a different word or another video entirely, which can increase the video’s running time to several hours.
Origin
The first known word replacement video was “Hotel Mario (Nouns replaced with explosions)” by mrSimon, which was created sometime in 2006 and uploaded to Youtube on November 30, 2008 with the description “The original 2006 hit.”
A similar video was uploaded to Youtube by Groudon0199 titled “Hotel Mario (Common nouns in intro replaced with big explosions)” on May 27, 2007, making it the earliest noun replacement video on Youtube.
Spread
On June 23, 2007, Stegblob uploaded the word replacement video, "Hotel Mario (Nouns Replaced With “PINGAS”)" that has since become the most popular Hotel Mario word replacement video, with more than 247,000 views as of October 2016.
Since then, word replacement videos gained popularity in Youtube poops over the course of the next few years, primarily in 2008.
Notable examples
Resurgence
While word replacement videos have been continually made since their peak in 2008, there has been a recent resurgence in these types of videos due to the recent popularity of Nutshack edits. The first word replacement Nutshack edit was uploaded on July 30, 2016 by Ringabel as “Hotel Mario every noun replaced with the entire nutshack theme”
On September 7th, 2016, Baconlovar uploaded the video “the nutshack theme but every nutshack is replaced with the entire reading of the bee movie script”, which was the first word replacement video to reach over 1 million views.
More recently, on November 17, 2016, Avoid at All Costs uploaded “The entire bee movie but every time they say bee it gets faster”, resulting in the first word replacement video to reach over 10 million views and the most viewed word replacement video of all time with more than eleven million views as of November 28.
Other popular subjects for the remixes include We Are Number One, Bee Movie, and All Star.