The Insanity SMP

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About

The Insanity SMP, continued, It's Hardcore Minecraft, But Everyone Has Unique Superpowers, refers to a viral audio clip of TikToker KillianTheCrafter announcing applications for his Minecraft SMP server, The Insanity SMP. The audio clip became the subject of video edits, including animations and audio replacements, due to the TikToker's voice sounding like a stereotypical nerd. The original video was uploaded around March 2022 and was popularized throughout 2022 and 2023, seeing a boost in popularity on TikTok that July and August.

Origin

On March 25th, 2022, TikToker^[1] @forrealthereal4 re-uploaded a now-deleted video by TikToker^[2] @killianthecrafter, a Minecraft player who runs The Insanity SMP, where he announces applications to join the SMP. The re-upload gained over 202,000 views in a year (shown below).

The Insanity SMP. It's hardcore Minecraft! But everyone has unique superpowers. And today, you, the viewer, get the chance to join. If you would like to join The Insanity SMP, make a video using this sound. The video should include things about you, what you want your powers on the SMP to be, your Microsoft account name and in addition, it's not necessary but it boosts your chances of getting in, pictures of things you've done in Minecraft and your Minecraft skin. Anyways, I can't wait to see what everyone has to offer and I wish everyone the best of luck getting in the SMP.

The audio clip became the subject of memes over the following months due to Killian's voice, which some believed sounds like a stereotypical nerd. On March 19th, YouTuber^[3] Duboniclol posted a video replacing Venom's voice in a clip from the Venom movie with the audio, garnering over 100,000 views in a year (shown below). This is the earliest known meme to use the audio.

Spread

On March 26th, 2022, TikToker^[4] @mr_bigbux posted an animation set to the audio clip depicting Killian as a typical nerd, garnering over 760,000 views in a year (shown below).

On May 29th, YouTuber^[5] YoShibyl posted an HD remake of the Venom meme, garnering over 204,000 views in a year. It was reuploaded by TikToker^[6] @supersaiyanyeezy on August 1st, 2023, garnering over 1.7 million views in a month. On August 3rd and 4th, TikTokers^[7]^[8] @tlmmy_burch and @breadeater236 posted memes using the audio that gained over 450,000 and 690,000 views respectively in a month (shown below, left and right).