Retsupurae/Trivia

"Slowbeef: You know what, I can't say the guy didn't put effort in, it's just...to what end?"
 * Colbert Bump:
 * Sir Ron Lionheart's subscriber count skyrocketed after Slowbeef and Diabetus riffed on him...and subsequently, Chip and Ironicus made a video about how great he is, without so much as a hint of irony.
 * In "Metroid Machinema Makes Me Maddeningly Miserable," there's a crack along the lines of "I love how the tags include 'General Dysisa,' like someone's going to be searching for that." The creator of the video later commented that there was a sudden spike of people finding his video by searching for "General Dysisa."
 * Cornshaq is also enjoying his newfound popularity as an LPer, thanks in part to his badass reputation encouraged by the Retsupurae guys. While he has slowed his speech since then, he has beaten a lot of ridiculously hard games seemingly with ease.
 * During the Darkseed wrongpurae, Slowbeef mentions he emailed Mike Dawson about the game, but accidentally insulted him by mentioning he was making fun of Darkseed. Given how many people watched the video, it makes you wonder if Mike Dawson got hit with one of these.
 * Everything related to someone named Mike Dawson got hit with one after the Darkseed 2 longplay.
 * Doing It for The Art: Slowbeef admits that the creator of a weird Mario fanfic was at least devoted to making his series.


 * Fan Nickname: Diabetus' family: "The Fat Fucks".
 * Hey It's That Guy: Both Slowbeef and Diabetus are well-known in the Let's Play community--the latter for his LPs of Battletoads (and Battlemaniacs, the sequel) and the former for doing the first known video LP (the concept described as being like a DVD commentary on a movie done by someone who had nothing to do with its production) of The Immortal. Also, Slowbeef, as mentioned under the Self-Deprecation entry, was involved in the translation patch for Policenauts.
 * Keep Circulating the Tapes/Missing Episode: Many of the riffed videos can now only be found through the Retsupurae riffs. In some cases, the videos got removed because of the riffs.
 * There's also a large amount of Retsupuraes that have disappeared from the main channel, although they can still be found on alternate sources or reuploaded by other viewers. Most of their missing episodes involved footage of the actual people they mocked, which they removed due to a new Youtube policy.
 * Mean Character, Nice Actor: Despite the many nasty things he says on video, slowbeef seems to be a fairly nice guy in real life. According to him, he's even taken down a couple of RP videos (such as 'Want LP Gone') because the original uploader asked politely.
 * Shout Out: Quite a few, including No Hope, which quickly turned into our boys systematically running through every single line from Star Wars that had been subject to Memetic Mutation.
 * The longplay of Evil Zone has a ton of Metal Gear Solid 2 references, due to the fact that the longplayer's selected character has Colonel Campbell's voice.
 * Vaporware: Part 2 of Billy MC's let's play of Double Dare. Slowbeef has stated they'll never make it, as he and Diabetus didn't think the Part 1 RP was any good anyway.