I Used To Roll The Dice

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I Used To Roll The Dice refers to a 2018 parody of Coldplay's 2008 song "Viva La Vida," titled "Viva La Gamer," in which the vocals from the original song have been spliced and remixed to change the lyrics. The parody gained significant attention in 2018, resulting in numerous image macro based lyric videos in the following years.

Origin

On June 28th, 2018, iFunny^[1] user ChromosomieHomie posted the earliest available upload of "Viva La Gamer," crediting now unavailable Instagram^[2] page @matchka.man as the original poster and creator of the parody. The song was first uploaded to YouTube on June 29th by YouTuber^[3] Ababila, garnering over 107,000 views in two years (shown below).

The parody was made by splicing apart and re-arranging vocals from Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" to change the context, including references to gamer and meme culture, including video game character Sans from Undertale, the phrses Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru, and We Live In a Society, and Jackie Chan.

On June 29th, 2018, iFunny^[5] user AskAdam uploaded a lyric video for the parody consisting of image macros displaying the lyrics over comically related images, garnering over 9,100 smiles in roughly three years (shown below). On July 23rd, YouTuber^[4] MatchkaMan, the creator of the parody, uploaded the video to their own channel, garnering over 28,700 views in two years and taking claim of it in the description.

I used to roll the dice
Feel my dick in my enemy's ass
Listen as the crowd would sing
Now the old king is dead! LOL!

One minute I held my nuts
Next my balls were closed on me
And I discovered Sans
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of salt and pillars of salt and pillars of salt

I hear Jackie Chan singing:
Omae wamu shinderu!
Beat my meat
My sooooooooooooooooooos
For some reason I can't explain
Why we live in a society
Where gamers don't rule the world

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On May 12th, 2019, YouTuber^[6] Big Biscuitz Meme Dump uploaded AskAdam's video, garnering over 140,000 views in roughly two years.

Over the course of the next two years, the parody inspired a number of similar lyric videos, each using image macros to shift the context of the song. For example, on July 18th, 2019, YouTuber^[7] nekomancyy made a lyric video for the song using JoJo's Bizarre Adventure image macros, garnering over 233,000 views in roughly two years (shown below).

On February 25th, 2020, Instagram^[8] user @pensivemoji uploaded a lyric video for the song featuring various images of YandereDev, garnering over 56,000 views in a year (shown below). This is one of the most reposted lyric videos for the song. The video was posted by YouTuber^[9] BrizzD on December 22nd, 2020, garnering over 1.4 million views in three months.

On February 25th, 2021, YouTuber^[10] Memus Dickus posted a lyric video consisting of various images of Dr. Robotnik from the cartoon Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog garnering over 1.6 million views in a month (shown below).