SNCA:Major League Gaming

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Major League Gaming, Montage Parodies, or MLG for short, is a mostly-dead meme and editing style originating from the early-to-mid 2010s. It began as a parody of excessively edited Call of Duty montages and trickshot videos, eventually mutating into an entire genre of internet shitposting.

MLG edits usually involve taking an otherwise normal video and completely destroying it with quickscopes, hitmarkers, airhorns, MTN Dew, Doritos, Shrek, weed, Doge, lens flares, Illuminati triangles, explosions, spinning images and approximately 400 other things happening on screen simultaneously.

>MOM GET THE CAMERA

At its peak, practically anything could be turned into an MLG montage. Teletubbies, cartoons, games, films, random YouTube videos and other footage could all be converted into a 360-noscope compilation by adding enough hitmarkers and bass-boosted sound effects.

MLG was especially popular around 2014–2016 and became strongly associated with the broader meme culture of that era. Its popularity eventually collapsed as the internet moved on to newer meme formats, causing MLG to become the exact thing it once would have mocked:

nostalgia.

Origins

The primordial ancestor of MLG.

Before MLG became an ironic meme format, gaming montages were an actual genre of YouTube video.

Call of Duty players in particular would compile quickscopes, trickshots and killstreaks into highly edited videos featuring dramatic music, slow motion, visual effects and hitmarkers.

Montage parodies took these editing conventions and exaggerated them beyond recognition.

A normal montage might have a dramatic quickscope.

An MLG montage would have the same quickscope accompanied by:

• 14 hitmarkers
• an airhorn
• a spinning Doritos bag
• Snoop Dogg
• an Illuminati triangle
• a Mountain Dew bottle
• a weed leaf
• three explosions
• a lens flare covering 70% of the screen
• somebody screaming
• the screen rotating 720 degrees
• +420 BLAZE IT
• another airhorn

The increasingly ridiculous nature of these edits eventually separated MLG parody culture almost entirely from the competitive gaming organization it originally referenced.

MLG culture

>MOM GET THE CAMERA

MLG developed an enormous collection of recurring memes, sounds and images. An editor did not necessarily need all of them, but the generally accepted philosophy was that adding more shit to the screen made the video objectively better.

360 noscope

Skill.

The 360 noscope is perhaps the single most recognizable MLG trope.

The basic technique consists of spinning around before firing a sniper rifle without using its scope.

In MLG mythology, however, successfully performing one represents the highest possible achievement of human civilization.

>OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH

A successful noscope is traditionally accompanied by hitmarkers, screen shaking and enough audio distortion to permanently damage (You)'s speakers.

Hitmarkers

The ancient symbol.

The Call of Duty hitmarker became one of the universal symbols of montage parody culture.

In authentic MLG editing, hitmarkers are not restricted to bullets actually hitting people.

They can appear when:

• Somebody falls over
• An object hits another object
• A door closes
• Somebody says something remotely insulting
• Literally anything happens

The more inappropriate the hitmarker, the more historically accurate the montage.

Doritos and MTN Dew

The sacred meal.

Doritos and MTN Dew became inseparable from MLG culture due to their association with stereotypical gamer culture.

As a result, MLG edits regularly feature bags of Doritos and bottles of Mountain Dew flying across the screen for absolutely no reason.

>nutrition

>Doritos + Mountain Dew

Airhorns

>BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

No MLG montage is complete without an airhorn.

If the viewer can still clearly understand the original video's audio, the editor has not added enough airhorns.

Illuminati confirmed

Coincidence? I THINK NOT.

The Illuminati triangle was another major component of mid-2010s montage culture.

Any remotely triangular object could be used as evidence that somebody or something was secretly part of the Illuminati.

The standard proof consisted of drawing several completely arbitrary connections between unrelated numbers before concluding:

ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED.

Shrek, Doge and other gems

Average frame of a 2015 YouTube video.

MLG eventually absorbed a large percentage of contemporary internet culture into itself.

Common appearances included:

• Shrek
• Doge
• Snoop Dogg
• Weed
• Sanic
• Illuminati
• Fedora memes
• Dancing characters
• Random explosions
• Bass boosted music
• Dubstep
• Lens flares
• "rekt"
• "420 blaze it"
• "u wot m8"

The result was less of an individual meme and more of a giant container for practically every recognizable internet joke of the period.

Peak MLG

2015 internet culture summarized in one image.

MLG montage parodies reached their cultural peak around the middle of the 2010s.

By this point the format had moved well beyond Call of Duty. Editors would apply the MLG treatment to cartoons, movies, television clips, video games and random viral videos.

The joke increasingly became the editing itself.

A completely mundane five-second clip could be stretched into an audiovisual catastrophe featuring dozens of layers of images, music and sound effects.

>Graphic design is my passion.

The intentionally excessive editing also meant that MLG videos were immediately recognizable. Even people who never watched competitive gaming could recognize a hitmarker, airhorn and spinning Doritos bag as part of the same meme ecosystem.

Decline

Major League Gaming is a DEAD MEMEPay your respects here.

Eventually, the inevitable happened.

People stopped laughing.

He noscoped his last scope.

As the mid-2010s ended, classic MLG montage parodies lost much of their popularity. Many of their individual components became dated themselves, and internet humor moved toward newer formats.

By the late 2010s, calling something "MLG" was more likely to invoke memories of old YouTube than contemporary meme culture.

The format therefore entered the dead meme retirement home alongside rage comics and several thousand other former internet phenomena.

However, its extremely distinctive aesthetic has prevented it from disappearing completely. MLG occasionally reappears in deliberately nostalgic or ironic edits, especially when somebody wants to recreate the atmosphere of 2014–2016 internet culture.

This creates the horrifying possibility that MLG is becoming retro.

>2015 was over a decade ago

>SHUT THE FUCK UP

People who wish to revive MLG can theoretically do so by creating new montage parodies instead of reposting the same ten-year-old videos, preferably by combining the classic editing style with newer memes rather than simply reproducing 2015 frame-for-frame.

Relations with the Soysphere

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MLG is not posted particularly often on the Sharty, though it has at least one namefag known for posting MLG threads and who also created the original version of this article.

There are nevertheless scattered references to the meme throughout the Soysphere. Froot & Root's email addresses, for example, include the extremely period-accurate names froot@xxxnoscopemlgxxx.com and rooty@420blaze.it.

On the Shemmy, MLG has had a considerably larger presence. It has appeared in banners, the site's "rizz" feature and previously even had its own board.

There are also several MLG-themed 'jaks on the booru.

The format's relationship with the modern Soysphere is therefore somewhat unusual: MLG itself is far older than much of contemporary Soyjak culture, but its deliberately obnoxious editing, excessive irony and willingness to completely ruin an image arguably make it a spiritual ancestor of certain modern shitposting styles.

People associated with MLG

Several internet personalities became associated with MLG or the broader montage-parody era, including:

• Pyrocynical
• NFKRZ
• Filthy Frank

Archaeological evidence of ancient YouTube.

More MLG Gems

Notes

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