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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 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!".