About
Guile’s Theme Goes With Everything is a series of YTP videos that involves pairing up any choice of footage with the theme song for Guile, a video game character featured in the popular fighting game Street Fighter. Most instances are typically set to the version of the song from the Hyper Street Fighter II Soundtrack.
Origin
On April 24, 2010 a YouTube user named guilethemefitsall posted a video called Guile Theme goes with everything (Super Mario Bros. Movie).
This YouTube video contained a scene from the 1993 movie Super Mario Bros., in which Mario falls into another dimension while spinning out of control, and Hyper Street Fighter II Music – CPS2 – Guile Stage begins to play.
Super Mario Bros. Movie:
The video obtained over 40,000 views in the first 3 months after being uploaded.
The guilethemefitsall channel on YouTube consists exclusively of Guile’s Theme videos and reached a collective view count of over 750,000 views 3 months after creation.
Spread
The earliest forum post found linking to a video by guilethemefitsall comes from the ScoreHero forums on May 7th, 2010 posted by user benlikesthesalsa. The post links to the Lion King variant of the video which is the most viewed variation on the guilethemefitsall channel at over 170,000 views 3 months after upload.
On May 21st, 2010 Gamesradar.com published Guile’s theme goes with everything. VIDEO: Could Guile be the next Keyboard Cat? The article mentions only guilethemefitsall as the sole account responsible for creating each of the videos.
The following day, May 22nd, 2010, Destructoid.com posted Guile Theme Works With Everything.
Exerpt:
So apparently, Guile’s theme fits in just about any situation. There’s a YouTube channel dedicated to mashing up the epic theme song with scenes from movies, games and TV shows. For the most part, yeah, it actually does fit.Thus, a meme is born.
On June 11th, there was a resurgence in popularity after a Reddit user 4erlik created the thread Guile theme goes with everything.
That same day, “Guile’s theme goes with everything” was added to the MemeDB.
On June 12th, “You are NOT the father” was submitted to Buzzfeed, where it entered the Top 50.
By June 14th, a “Guiles Theme goes with everything” video was added to eBaum’s World, with the tagline “The new meme that’s sweeping the nation!”
Search data
Despite the popularity of the Street Fighter franchise, “Guile’s Theme” is not a generally sought after term. The term showed small peaks in interest during February and September of 2009, but searches for Guile’s Theme are currently growing higher than ever before beginning in May of 2010, continuing into June.
Derivatives
Many YouTube users have began to post more videos with Guile’s Theme in it in efforts to prove that it indeed goes with everything:
Maury:
Microsoft’s 2010 E3 Press Conference:
Metal Gear Solid:
Cats fighting:
Walker Texas Ranger: