Source Interaction

This article is a stub! It is missing critical information, likely just standing ground until it is completed later. Come back soon!
Reason: (none specified)

Source Interaction refers to the wide-ranging and flexible technique of different sources in a video tennis match "interacting" with each other in various ways. This can be done through either word association, direct conversational exchange, an opinionated response to another, implied shared space, implied mutual expressions, or physical synchronicity. This is a technique that has been widespread in Youtube Poop entirely since its earliest years and is not limited to a single style of playing tennis, though it is most often seen in matches driven largely by its sources rather than its editing. This technique carries directly over from pre-YTP video art in underground works such as the TV Carnage film A Sore For Sighted Eyes(2007), the Pat Vamos film KRUNNK SHUTTLE(2006), and Animal Charm: Golden Digest(1996).

The earliest instance of source interaction in tennis occurred in the very first moment of the very first tennis match. In Round 1 of conradslater vs. Misselaineous10(2007), Toad from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! points forward and exclaims, “There’s smoke signals!” before the video cuts to a woman smoking a cigarette from a 1970’s fetish video based around this act, implying that this is what Toad is pointing at. Luigi is subsequently implied to have been observing this with a somewhat fixated expression.

Variations

The simplest form of source interaction comes in the form of rounds that cut between sources in such a way that implies a shared relation, without any other flourishes to convey it. Sometimes this is done entirely with added sources, but is most effective when done using some part of the previous round interacting with a new addition, or two different parts of the previous round being edited to interact with themselves. This is not to be equated with a word replacement variation on sentence mixing, but rather to create a unique space where characters from radically different pieces of media share some kind of connection with each other, most often humorous.

Examples

• In Round 6 of Crash2991 vs. NS2, the on-screen avatar of Dr. Kawashima from Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day!(DS, 2005) asks, "What time was it on that clock?". A clip from the opening moments to Metal Gear Solid(PS1, 1998) answers this with "TWO", taken from the phrase "TWO MISSION OBJECTIVES".

• In Round 3 of Crash2991 vs. RAKninja(2008), a character asks the crew of the Outlaw Star if they "got any money"; Kintaro from Golden Boy (from RAKninja's Round 2) answers by exclaiming "THOUSAND DOLLARS!".

• Moogle vs. theHappyFungus(2008) is greatly defined by its use of source interactions themed around gun violence. From Round 3 onward, characters are often depicted as shooting at or being shot by each other, culminating in a climactic sequence in Round 6 where characters from across the match fire their weapons into extra characters from Rambo(2008).

• In Round 4 of NS2 vs. RAKninja(2009), the previous round and added material is all edited in synchronisation to audio from a theatrical trailer for the film Willow(1988). An example of the effect this creates is during this dialogue: "A TIME WHEN A CHILD COULD TIP THE BALANCE BETWEEN GOOD (while showing footage of "Macho Man" Randy Savage) AND OF EVIL (while showing footage of Ben Bernanke). These characters are also implied to be acting out their respective parts in the chosen film through the edits that take place.