SimpleFlips

"Shoutouts to SimpleFlips!"

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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. He is also close friends with Vinesauce's Joel, as well as TheOdd1sOut.

SimpleFlips often holds themed Super Mario 64 ROM Hack contests, and his channel primarily consists of Super Mario 64 ROM hack gameplay. He also has plenty of content from Super Mario Maker and its sequel, Super Mario Maker 2, as well as various Tetris games.

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.

"--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."
 * Ascended Meme: Both the Green Demon and 'gay baby jail' appeared as "cheats" available for SimpleFlips' viewers during a Crowd Control playthrough of Super Mario 64; naturally, viewers took to springing them on SimpleFlips as soon as they could, which the video's opening animation even alludes to. A common combination was using the gay baby jail cheat to hold Mario in place and prevent escape from the Green Demon - usually just moments away from collecting a Star.
 * Awesome Yet Impractical/Difficult but Awesome: Tends towards maneuvers of this nature for the sake of displaying his extensive speedrunning skills; more often than not, this takes far longer than completing the objective in question normally, but it's usually worth it for the sheer spectacle.
 * 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!" This is usually said following several attempts at something.
 * "Bruh" is a general slang exclamation often associated with him.
 * "Duuuuuuuude!" and variants thereof.
 * "I'M DEEEEEEEEEEEEEAD!"
 * "MY DICK!"/"MY PUSSY!"
 * "Schmoovin'" also occurs pretty often.
 * "Speedrunners hate him!", often following a complex, time-saving, and/or game-saving maneuver.
 * "Brush your teeth, bitch!"
 * "Nathaniel (some phrase, usually "Scuttlebug") Bandy, every time!"
 * Complexity Addiction: Simple sure loves him some high-skill speedtech. It's an occupational hazard of being a speedrunner.
 * Couch Gag: An animated intro created by PowerPalette is used for special videos, including the various Super Mario 64 ROM hack contest compilations as of March 2019, most with some form of "bruh" involved. View the full set of animated intros here.
 * The Troll Hacks competition videos all start with SimpleFlips jumping towards a Star, only to slam into an Invisible Wall and slide off; this has its own set of slight variants.
 * The Retro Hacks competition videos use a title sequence with Game Boy-like palette set to the Birabuto Kingdom theme; Simple walks up to a pipe that spits out part of the title, followed by "Press Start" blinking on-screen.
 * The Creepy Pasta Hacks competition videos have Simple exploring a hallway within an abandoned mansion, only to turn and be frightened by a ghostly Mario.
 * The Linear ROM Hacks competition videos have Simple standing in front of a mysterious door, then remembering to pull out a piece of paper with the magic word that opens it. (Go on, just guess. Bet you can't.)
 * The Halloween Hacks 2019 competition videos have a shady-looking Toad ring Simple's doorbell; when he answers they let out a "BUP", prompting Simple to throw a chocolate bar at them and send them flying.
 * The Mystery Hacks competition has a magnifying glass floating in front of Simple, which he takes and looks through.
 * The SM64 Zelda ROM Hacks competition videos have Simple fall from the ceiling and land in front of a chest, which he then triumphantly opens to the expected fanfare.
 * Credits Gag: The outro song for most of his videos is the SilvaGunner mix of Nimbus Land's theme. Starting on August 6, 2017, his videos mostly use an endcard that includes a relevant quip; for ROM Hack competition videos, the end card theme and music are changed accordingly (e.g. Zelda-themed hacks have a green end card with a Gerudo Valley instrumental mix of Nimbus Land that also incorporates Gourmet Race).
 * Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Another occupational hazard for SimpleFlips - for example, any Super Mario 64 hack that makes significant changes to certain mechanics (e.g. Mario's movement) is gonna require some adjustments on his part.
 * Disappeared Dad: Played For Laughs as one of the many in-jokes, with the viewers as his "children" wondering when he'll come home and be the father they deserve.
 * Eucatastrophe: Tends to be a recurring theme in his videos, and is possibly the trope he had in mind when he said the following after finally completing the first Star of the Green Demon Challenge:


 * Griefing: Inevitable with any multiplayer games he plays, but particularly Super Mario Maker 2. and especially when playing with friends.
 * Insufferable Genius: Also Played For Laughs.
 * Like Is, Like, a Comma
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * SimpleFlips himself created a stage designed around the original challenge in Super Mario Maker 2 using the remarkably similar Zombie Shrooms.
 * Never Live It Down: The BLJ that took him 2 hours. Since then, SimpleFlips trying out some technique he just thought up is usually met with (mostly-joking) complaints that he'll spend 2 hours on that as well. Many of his video titles also allude to it.
 * No Indoor Voice: He can get real loud during tense moments, generally punctuated in videos by a shaking screen.
 * Only Known by Their Nickname: He's never referred to by his real name in videos and on-stream.
 * Phrase Catcher: "Shoutouts to SimpleFlips!"
 * Finally caught a SimpleFlips stream. He spent some significant amount of time doing something usually nonsensical, sometimes followed by falling asleep on stream. Great entertainer he is.
 * 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 being left in the base game by Nintendo.
 * Yu-Gi-Oh! prison.
 * Taking two hours to pull off some dumb shit god-level 200 IQ gaming maneuvers.
 * Bup, the Fan Nickname his viewers gave to pictures of a Toad's face, originating in this video and derived from a Mario Kart 64 voice clip played backwards. SimpleFlips often has a picture of the face hung up on his wall.
 * 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 created, many of which were naturally requested on his stream. You can find them all here).
 * Rhymes on a Dime
 * 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 using the B button to run.
 * 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?!?
 * Signature Move: The BLJ (backwards long jump) is most frequently associated with him.
 * 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.
 * Guaranteed during any stream or video involving the "Chaos Edition" of Super Mario 64.

- Finally caught a SimpleFlips stream for the first time. He wasted 4 hours browsing All The Tropes and then fell asleep. Great entertainer, he is.