SimpleFlips

"Shout-outs to SimpleFlips!"

SimpleFlips, real name Eddie Cruz (born: September 14, 1995), is an American YouTuber, streamer and speedrunner, mostly known for his presence in the Super Mario 64 scene. He is known for his multitude of running jokes and memes that are referenced in his content, and is a member of the YouTube group Minus World. SimpleFlips often holds themed Super Mario 64 ROM Hack contests. He also has a significant chunk of his content dedicated to Super Mario Maker and its sequel, Super Mario Maker 2.

His YouTube channel is here, his Twitter can be found here, and his Twitch channel is here here; this channel hosts a mass majority of his full streams.


 * Can You Please Come to the Castle?
 * Fallen Kingdom

"--I can't believe it, like I was-- I was at the point of losing all hope, and I swear it's like a-- it's like a trope or some shit! The moment you lose all hope, it is actually going to happen."
 * Awesome Yet Impractical: Tends towards maneuvers of this nature for the sake of displaying his extensive speedrunning skills, which more often than not take much longer than completing the objective in question normally.
 * Beam Me Up, Scotty: "Gay baby jail" was floating around the internet for quite a while, appearing as far back as this set of fanart for Undertale in November 2015, if not further still. It wouldn't come to be associated with SimpleFlips until July 2017, when some of his friends mentioned it in the chat during a stream of a Super Mario 64 ROM Hack, where it soon underwent its Memetic Mutation.
 * Catch Phrase: Several.
 * "First try, idiot!"
 * "Bruh" is a general slang exclamation often associated with him, frequently used in introduction gags for ROM hack videos.
 * "Duuuuuuuude!" and variants thereof.
 * "I'M DEEEEEEEEEEEEEAD!"
 * "Schmoovin'" also occurs pretty often.
 * "Speedrunners hate him!", often following a complex, time-saving, and/or game-saving maneuver.
 * Complexity Addiction:
 * Couch Gag: Done for the various hack contest videos, all with some form of "bruh" involved.
 * The "Troll Hacks" contest videos all start with SimpleFlips jumping towards a Star, only to slam into an Invisible Wall and slide off.
 * The Halloween Hack contest videos have a shady-looking Toad at Simple's door when he answers; they let out a "BUP", prompting Simple to throw a chocolate bar at them and send them flying.
 * Credits Gag: The outro song for most of his videos is the SilvaGunner mix of Nimbus Land's theme; more recent videos often include a relevant quip on the endcard. At the end of videos featuring themed Super Mario 64 hacks, the end card theme and music are changed accordingly, e.g. Zelda-themed hacks have a green end card with a Gerudo Valley mix of Nimbus Land).
 * Disappeared Dad: Also Played For Laughs as one of the many Running Gags, with the viewers as his "children" wondering when he'll come home and be the father they deserve.
 * Eucatastrophe: Possibly the trope he had in mind when he said the following after finally completing the first Star of the Green Demon Challenge:


 * Insufferable Genius: Played For Laughs.
 * Marathon Level:
 * Some sections of the Green Demon Challenge proved to be this, including the penguin race on Cool, Cool, Mountain and the 100-Coin Star of Shifting Sand Land.
 * Memetic Mutation: Several of these as well, all of which are chronicled on the community wiki.
 * After SimpleFlips tried his hand at the Green Demon Self-Imposed Challenge, the Green Demon became a recurring meme within his community - in addition to the creation of a specialized hack, Green Demon-style 1-Ups are noticeably more common in the hacks he plays, and even features as the basis of some hacks submitted for his contests.
 * One of the "cheats" available for viewers during one of his Crowd Control playthroughs of Super Mario 64 was a slightly different type of Green Demon. Naturally, viewers took to springing them on him soon as they could, even frequently combining it with the "gay baby jail" cheat that holds Mario in place - usually just moments away from collecting a Star.
 * SimpleFlips himself created a stage designed around the original challenge in Super Mario Maker 2 using the remarkably similar Zombie Shrooms.
 * The term "gay baby jail" was introduced to him by his friends Foxen and mooshies in this video at 2:23, and Simple found it funny enough to adopt; it usually refers to situations involving a potential softlock. Since then, one member of the community known as Jet Erikson gained a reputation for keeping track of GBJs in Simple's videos, though he stopped sometime in 2020.
 * Never Live It Down
 * No Indoor Voice: He can get real loud during tense moments, generally punctuated in videos with a shaking screen.
 * Only Known by Their Nickname: Is almost never referred to by his real name in videos and on-stream.
 * Running Gag: Quite a few, all of which are chronicled on the community wiki as well.
 * The "Subscribe" rooms and maps found in several of the hacks and levels Simple plays, sometimes played off as somehow being left in the base game/level.
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! prison.
 * Taking two hours to pull off some dumb shit god-level IQ gaming maneuvers.
 * 1, 2 Oatmeal is the English version of a YouTuber's original German lyrics set to the Gourmet Race theme (which in turn is often associated with YouTube Poops), and is known for its almost unintelligible lyrics. It took off as yet another of the channel's many running gags when SimpleFlips first played the song as a request in September 2017 - since then, there have been over 500 unique mixes and edits of the song (which can all be found here).
 * Self-Imposed Challenge:
 * The "Green Demon" Challenge for Super Mario 64 was so highly requested after being re-popularized by the Game Grumps that it resulted in a series of videos using a specialized ROM Hack of the game, called - you guessed it - the Green Demon Challenge. Simple has an ongoing series of videos dedicated to it, found here (All Red Coins, Star Road Edition, and All Stars) and here (All Stars only).
 * "Walkies", Simple's ongoing endeavor to see if he can reach S-Rank in Super Mario Maker 2 without running in any fashion.
 * His "Uncleared" series focuses on uncleared Super Mario Maker 2 levels, and it's a fairly popular concept in general for content derived from the game.
 * Shameless Self Promoter: ...wait, you mean you're not subscribed? How do you even manage that?!?
 * Sir Swearsalot: Very much so.
 * Tempting Fate: Enough times during his career to make compilation vids out of them.
 * Yet Another Stupid Death: A common source of humor is watching Simple find the most inexplicable ways to die in a game, and usually occurs in tandem with him trying out excessively complex techniques.

- "First try, idiot!"