YTP Tennis

YTP Tennis, also known as Youtube Poop Tennis, Video Tennis, Remix Tennis or simply Tennis, is a artistic medium derivative of Photoshop Tennis and Youtube Poop involving the back-and-forth editing of video projects, often absurdist in nature.

While starting mainly as a derivative of YouTube Poop, and in the early years much more embraced by the full Youtube Poop community, it has increasingly become its own thing as time went on and the community of mainline Youtube Poop and the community of tennis have grown largely seperate. Much of modern tennis is a completely different beast in comparison to Youtube Poop, often veering into much more experimental, atmospheric, avant-guarde and generally much more overstimulating territory.

There are many different types of tennis that have evolved over the years, but the tried and true "vanilla" 6 round 1v1 has held steady just as much.

This wiki is dedicated to everything about the sport - so if you want to know more, you're in the right place!

If you know nothing at all, see the Getting Started page to... get started!

Additional Recommended Reading:

The Revised Observational Guide to Video Tennis

The Revised Recreational Guide to Video Tennis

History

Origins

The idea of remixing another person's video can be supposedly traced back as early as April of 2007, when dvariano uploaded a video called "Elated Chronological Junctures" that was supposedly the first "repoop" video, and thus considered to be technically the first "Round 2" ever made. However the original video that he edited, made by a user named bahbugandhum, has yet to be found again. Alongside this, Photoshop Tennis already existed, and original YouChew admin conradslater was a fan and an avid participant of it; there exists evidence of him engaging the community with it as early as June of 2007. As someone who took YTP seriously enough to consider it genuine art at that time, the equation to put together the tennis format with video, especially YTP, seemed to be a natural one for him to make.

The first full match, also the first time that tennis was ever applied to the medium of video entirely on the internet, was in the form of Conradslater and Misslaineous10, starting on August 11th, 2007 and ended on August 21st. In it's taking place, this match forth the full idea of someone doing a remix of someone else's video, and having the original maker do the same back, creating a "Tennis" like pattern. From this match onward the concept greatly expanded to great - and at the beginning considerably unimaginable - lengths of development and refinement.

The Intitial "Freewheeling" Era (2007-2008)

At first, there was hardly any tennis community in a well defined sense to speak of; much of the tennis matches that did happen following the first one was done so in a way that would be seen by modern standards as very disorganized, as many merely skirted around the concept in curiosity without ever really committing fully to the potential that tennis in a YTP/Video context could offer. That being said, there were a handful of notable early names that became early fixtures in the world of tennis: BMATF played the second ever tennis match with Markie, and UncleChuckTH played the third ever tennis match with conradslater (the latter's second match), and both UncleChuckTH and BMATF would continue to exist in the world of tennis until the early 2010s. TangerineImpz vs. SeductiveBaz was played entirely start to finish on August 21, 2007, the day that the final round of the first tennis match was uploaded, and this was for a very long time the fastest tennis match ever played; SeductiveBaz would also be an early fixture and continued to tennis in some capacity until a full 12 years later. Second only to conradslater's early activity in tennis was that of MrDrunkenFox, who played multiple early games including with Tentor, plex14, PapaGonzales and Furnessly. This latter player, along with other such players such as InsinerateHymn, JazzDanceForChildren, TyrannosaurusReich, MelvanaInChains, dvariano, Template:Luioigi, ADHDYoshi, GameCubeHero, Intenseowl, MVJ5197, 3inchhorse, ELPSteel, SushieBoy, Vorhias, sonicnerd23, and SesakaGenX would also serve to play their own individual roles in defining the nature of tennis at its earliest onsets. Tennis is considered to have reached one of its first peaks in its intersection with "Robotnik YTP" at the time - videos that focused entirely on remixing episodes of The Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog and its main antagonist - in particular the matches of UncleChuckTH vs. Wikiwow(2007), the first ever match to reach ten rounds, Stegblob vs. TyrannosaurusReich (2007), and especially BMATF vs. UncleChuckTH vs. Wikiwow(2007). All of these would build a foundation for a strand of tennis that would eventually continue long separate from the main tennis community, which, although small, would localize and organize itself largely on the YouChew forums.

Aside from all of these other players however, one of the most important to come out of these first months was RabbitSnore, who played his first tennis match with real-life friend Thereisnospoon303, or TINS, in October 2007. Rabbit immediately came to develop a passionate and vested interest in tennis - the places that it could go and the ways in which it could develop - from the very offset of his entrance into it, and he sought to give the medium the attention and the analysis that it deserved through his initial position on the "Vanilla" YouChew forums as chief editor of the forum's "newsroom" - from October/November 2007 onward, Rabbit began his regular "Tennis Review" series of articles, with InsinerateHymn vs. PukingCyberman(2007), GameCubeHero vs. Intenseowl(2007) and Furnessly vs. MrDrunkenFox(2007) the first three matches he covered in this matter. He would contribute a "retrospective review" of conradslater vs. Misselaineous10 shortly thereafter, and it is from this point onward, largely through his insistence, that the importance and the nature of the first ever tennis match began to become recognized in the way it now is today.

His prominence in this activity and the quality of his articles for the time gained him the trust and admiration of Conrad himself, and he was able to use this sway to convince him to allow the tennis section to begin hosting its first tennis tournaments, with Gallers being the initial organizer of the first few to take place. After Rabbit had accumulated a respectable roster of completed matches including with YamiMario, SushieBoy, Miss10, and PapaGonzales, Rabbit took on Conrad himself in the now legendary match of RabbitSnore vs. conradslater(2007). At a time when tennis usually came in the language of either "comedic" or of the extreme varieties conceived in the first match, this match was seen as a completely different third approach - of tennis as very much an art and of a thoughtful exchange in and of itself, even if this exchange was liable to get wild in other ways.

In January 2008, Rabbit had gained enough of an influence over tennis - having played further matches with MrDrunkenFox, pimpsahoy, strong414bad, and UncleChuckTH, that he was able to create some of the earliest foundational texts on how tennis was meant to be played and approached: the Observational and Recreational Guides to tennis. On January 28, Rabbit also created the first of the "Tennis Café" threads, a general chat for the tennis section that allowed for the community to begin to consolidate together and organize themselves properly for the first time. Around this time, newer members began to enter into the community or gain a greater degree of visibility in the section, including Crash2991, strong414bad, GameBop, and Nuthead. For much of the original Cafe thread's incarnation, only Rabbit and Crash would be doing the majority of the regular posting, and between them talked about tennis matches often, with RabbitSnore vs. conradslater, conradslater vs. Miss10 and MilkR0und vs. Y2Zero(2007) receiving repeated reference and discussion as part of an early canon of foundational matches for the community. Somewhere in this period due to his enthusiasm and prolific activity, RabbitSnore even began being regarded by a few as "The King of Tennis" - a title he never was comfortable with.

Conrad's last match played was with TheDarkRises in January 2008. He began to make a lot of strange, aggressive and elitist decisions in how he shaped and restructured the forum community, including among other things enforcing his "War on AIDS"(a crusade against what he termed to be low effort YTPs based on source and editor preference) upon the community in addition to a requirement for forum users to play at least one tennis match in order to be eligible to be "featured" on the site. The decline of his reign on the "Vanilla" forums coincided with the tennis community, in the absence of most everyone else, continuing to grow and consolidate around a growing collection of regular tennis players and posters in the Cafe. RAKninja, theHappyFungus, and NS2 became such members at this time, and all engaged in tennis matches both with each other and other exterior players, with Temeku/MTB710, GreatBritishTurd and TheDarkRises all beginning to make regular tennis appearances. The "Vanilla" forums officially shut down at the end of March 2008, as conradslater relinquished control over to RabbitSnore and TINS, who purchased new forum software and a new server to give the community a fresh, laid-back start - free from the drama and the hardship of the site's original incarnation. Rabbit promptly created a new version of the Tennis Cafe, and it was shortly in the wake of this site's beginning that the official rules of tennis were finally laid down for the first time, stipulating the 6-round standard with which all tennis would orient itself around from this point onward.

RabbitSnore, as Admin and the "First" "Tennis Fuck"

The spring of 2008 was a prolific time for tennis under Rabbit and TINS' administration. RabbitSnore himself however began to considerably slow in activity around this point, with some of his matches played in this era being with the likes of BMATF, theHappyFungus, GameCubeHero, Christoph and Nuthead. He was now an administrator and "second in command" of a forum that was ever so steadily growing in activity and users of all personality types - often the overwhelm of the rest of the site would get to him, resulting in him often retreating to his second Tennis Cafe thread to get away from it all. Multiple regulars of the Café would over time make this thread their only home on the entire site, and the tennis section the only active place that they would visit during their periods of activity.

Rabbit took the initiative to create a separate staff for this subforum in order to take the weight off of him managing the entire section on his own, and thus - the tennis staff was first formed in May 2008. A matter of months later, RAKninja, the oldest and last chosen of the first generation of staff, would christen them with the informal moniker of the Tennis Fucks, a name that has stuck into the present on occasion. Many of the matches played in this period on the YouChew forums occurred between the members who would be chosen for this staff, including theHappyFungus vs. RabbitSnore, theHappyFungus vs. RAKninja, theHappyFungus vs. Nuthead, Crash2991 vs. NS2, Crash2991 vs. RAKninja, Crash2991 vs. strong414bad, RabbitSnore vs. Nuthead, theHappyFungus vs. NS2, and Nuthead vs. NS2. Out of these, the seeds that made up the foundation of much of the initial in-jokes in the community were first created, and would continue to do so with RAKninja supplying the lions share of enduring moments in tennis.

While there were originally six members chosen, making for a total of seven when counting Rabbit, the lineup would continue in a state of flux from its inception onward with the promotion and departure of various members, but generally settled around an early core of RAKninja, Crash2991 and strong414bad as those the most faithful to the tennis section in this initial phase. [to be continued]

The first matches

The following is a list of the first 50 matches ever played (or alternatively, every match from August to the start of November 2007). The timestamps are based on their time started/completed on the YouChew forums. As there was yet to be a concept of a "failed" match, ever match is here is listed as complete, even if some only go to 2-3 rounds.

Matches are sorted by date started, with the precise order going by when matches started sometimes by the hour and minute the first round of a match was posted if multiple matches start on the same day. Date format is MM-DD-YYYY.

	Match	Start Date	End Date	Verification
1	conradslater vs. Miss10	08-11-2007	08-21-2007	YouChew
2	BMATF vs. Markie	08-19-2007	09-03-2007	YouChew
3	UncleChuckTH vs. conradslater	08-19-2007	08-29-2007	YouChew
4	TangerineImpz vs. SeductiveBaz	08-21-2007	08-21-2007	YouChew
5	ZippZapp vs. ADHDYoshi	08-30-2007	09-02-2007	YouChew
6	KingCornholio vs. Ophios	08-30-2007	09-14-2007	YouChew
7	MrDrunkenFox vs. Tentor	08-31-2007	09-02-2007	YouChew
8	UncleChuckTH vs. Yenehckcid	09-01-2007	10-07-2007	YouChew
9	glitchboyadvance vs. conradslater	09-01-2007	10-19-2007	YouChew
10	seconteen13 vs. 1upclock	09-01-2007	09-02-2007	YouChew
11	Plex vs. MrDrunkenFox	09-02-2007	09-07-2007	YouChew
12	AimManEXE vs. Arufonzu	09-10-2007	09-23-2007	YouChew
13	Wikiwow vs. MetalAcid5	09-14-2007	09-15-2007	YouChew
14	JazzDanceForChildren vs. TyrannosaurusReich	09-22-2007	09-24-2007	YouChew
15	PapaGonzales vs. MrDrunkenFox	09-23-2007	09-28-2007	YouChew
16	conradslater vs. Gnomebob	09-27-2007	10-04-2007	YouChew
17	Idiotska vs. SoldierElerium	09-28-2007	10-04-2007	YouChew
18	BMATF vs. Dhgriff9/UberNooberPooper	09-29-2007	10-05-2007	YouChew
19	hom906sar vs. strong414bad	09-30-2007	10-08-2007	YouChew
20	Bobomb99 vs. Misselaineous10	10-03-2007	11-07-2007	YouChew
21	Luioigi vs. scimath12	10-03-2007	10-10-2007	YouChew
22	SeductiveBaz vs. UncleChuckTH	10-05-2007	10-17-2007	YouChew
23	azsxdc vs. Y2Zero	10-06-2007	10-12-2007	YouChew
24	Chain Poop	10-06-2007	12-29-2007	YouChew
25	KittyGabyIMEANGOAT vs. MelvanaInChains	10-13-2007	10-14-2007	YouChew
26	TantricNferno vs. Terrorist	10-17-2007	10-19-2007	YouChew
27	MelvanaInChains vs. TyrannosaurusReich	10-17-2007	10-21-2007	YouChew
28	MetalAcid5 vs. Tentor	10-21-2007	10-25-2007	YouChew
29	ADHDYoshi vs. Ikwaylx	10-23-2007	10-27-2007	YouChew
30	Wikiwow vs. UncleChuckTH	10-23-2007	11-18-2007	YouChew
31	Nimrodpowerz vs. MelvanaInChains	10-24-2007	10-24-2007	YouChew
32	RabbitSnore vs. Thereisnospoon303	10-24-2007	10-30-2007	YouChew
33	cloggedone vs. hom906sar	10-24-2007	10-28-2007	YouChew
34	SushieBoy vs. kiz038	10-24-2007	10-27-2007	YouChew
35	SpamNapkin vs. BMATF	10-24-2007	10-26-2007	YouChew
36	Furnessly vs. MrDrunkenFox	10-26-2007	11-03-2007	YouChew
37	Wizkid837 vs. UberPooper12	10-27-2007	11-01-2007	YouChew
38	GameCubeHero vs. Intenseowl	10-27-2007	10-31-2007	YouChew
39	heartlessmushroom vs. Razor64a	10-27-2007	10-28-2007	YouChew
40	MVJ52197 vs. 3inchhorse	10-28-2007	11-04-2007	YouChew
41	MesuginaChicken vs. SeductiveBaz vs. hom906sar	10-28-2007	11-05-2007	YouChew
42	BMATF vs. ELPSteel	10-28-2007	11-05-2007	YouChew
43	SobmicSSBB vs. plex14	10-29-2007	11-07-2007	YouChew
44	InsinerateHymn vs. PukingCyberman	10-29-2007	11-01-2007	YouChew
45	RabbitSnore vs. SushieBoy	10-30-2007	11-05-2007	YouChew
46	Cortes vs. MelvanaInChains	10-30-2007	11-06-2007	YouChew
47	DrKelexo vs. Vorhias	10-31-2007	11-19-2007	YouChew
48	sonicnerd23 vs. Hoss1993/HossTehMaster	10-31-2007	11-03-2007	YouChew
49	BMATF vs. conradslater	10-31-2007	11-5-2007	YouChew
50	EdE0tt vs. MAXXNinja	11-01-2007	11-06-2007	YouChew

Further Developments

The very first rematch in tennis (players going at it more than once) took place between MelvanaInChains and nimrodpowerz, with their second match going from November 17th to the 24th, 2007 - ending exactly a month after their first match concluded.

Typical Game Format + Etiquette

The rules of YTP Tennis are often customized to suit each pooper's needs. However, one of the original, and well known, formats is as follows:

• One player (P1) asks another, or in some cases the community as a whole, whether or not they would like to participate in a game. Here the number of videos to be made (or rounds, typically 4 or 6) is defined, as well as the length of each, and any other additional conditions. If an open challenge is made, a video is sometimes supplied. This is "Round 1", the serve of the tennis match.
• Another player (P2) accepts the challenge, and edits over P1's first video to make "Round 2". In addition to editing the video supplied, P2 can add new sources to mix in with it if they so choose.
• P1 follows through by remixing the new video to make "Round 3", adding sources of their own if they so choose. The game continues in a back and forth fashion like this until the round limit is met.
• It is always absolutely essential that the previous round always be used in some way to make each subsequent round, otherwise it is not considered true tennis.

For additional conditions to a match, they are usually outlined in these such ways:

- specific sources that are to be used for a match, like "video games only" (Furnessly vs. MycroProcessor (2008-2009)), "Final Fantasy only"(Moogle vs. Mazz0Murder(2009)) or having each round correspond to a sequential letter of the alphabet with added sources and time limit (CorruptionSound's "ABC" Tennis Multi-Way (2011-2014))

- the amount of sources that can be added (in the early years, it was commonly suggested that added sources be capped at a maximum of three per round; in Kurkop vs. Metzgorrre(2010), the condition was that No sources were to be added)

- specific software to be used, such as WMM (dani_phantump vs. GameBop(2012-2014), CorruptionSound vs. Massivezephyr14 vs. GameBop vs. BSP66c vs. Metroid998(2010-2012))

- editing restrictions, such as "no visual distortion/ear rape"(NS2 vs. ChrisGendo(2009))

- a nonstandard match type, such as Wildcard (RabbitSnore vs. Crash2991(2008)), Multiplied Time (quax94 vs. MycroProcessor(2009)) or Panic Tennis (dani_phantump vs. GameBop vs. LeSuperKoffee(2012))

Exceptions + Special Cases

Often, 6 rounds in total is the conventional amount of rounds made that make a normal match considered "complete". However, in certain circumstances, especially if the players enjoy working off of each other, the number of rounds can often get extended to 8 or more. TheChutley and vvaluigi began a match together with the intent of playing 100 rounds in total beginning in 2008, and have gotten as far as Round 75 in the present day, with a five year window of inactivity between 2011 and 2016. TheChutley is also known for often playing matches with various opponents that get extended to 8 rounds, having done so in her matches with GameBop, quax94, ChrisGendo, AbsoluteBillion, JakeSteel, Rarenut59 and SesakaGenX, to name some. Her first match with Imaperson additionally extended all the way to 10 rounds, at a time when the only known instance of this otherwise was Wikiwow vs. UncleChuckTH(2007), the first 1v1 match to go this far.

In some cases, especially in tennis's early years, matches could be declared "complete" at an odd number, as well as one under the conventional amount of 6. This usually came about as a mutual agreement between the players involved that the match had reached a natural end, if not exactly a conventional one. Matches such as Crash2991 vs. strong414bad(2008) and AshcrementVII vs. UncleChuckTH(2012) were called complete at 5 rounds, and in another, much rarer instance, RabbitSnore vs. NS2 (2008-2009) was given "honorary completion" after only 3 rounds. Other matches like RabbitSnore vs. conradslater (2007) and Kurkop vs. LeSuperKoffee (2010) were declared complete at the unusual amount of 9 rounds. These circumstances usually only happen when the last even round of a match is either unable or unwilling to be made by the volleying side, but there is not a desire to consider the match "failed" for sentimental reasons, usually due to the players being close as friends or the quality of the match as it stands being considered too great for failure.

Additionally, matches can sometimes stall at an odd number with an even finishing round never being made and the match being considered neither completed nor failed due to a loss of communication. These include matches such as BMATF vs. Markie(2007, the second ever tennis match), NS2 vs. Markie(2012), dani_phantump vs. robochao1(2015-2016) and SushieBoy vs. guysafari(2010), all matches that never received a Round 6.

Ultimately though, a match is traditionally considered "failed" when one or both players have lost the desire to continue a match and the agreed number of rounds is not reached, and every player in tennis comes to play at least one, and often at least a few failed matches throughout their tennis career. There is however no definitive time limit to how long a tennis match must take. Metroid998 vs. AshcrementVII notably took an entire 5 years to complete, lasting from 2011's Round 1 to 2016's Round 6. dani_phantump vs. vel 17 additionally took 4 years to complete, lasting from 2012 to 2016. Whether or not a match fails depends entirely on the players involved and their willingness to continue the match.

Etiquette is generally recommended when it comes to starting matches with people - like the game itself, communication is key. In the early days of tennis a direct challenge to a specific player would sometimes be cast without any prior planning to ultimately spotty success, and it was generally considered not the most popular way to start matches with people. Throughout Tennis's history, it has seen some players such as HerpyWhooves and autumnithink who were notorious for their habit of uploading serves to whoever they wanted as an opponent with no prior (or subsequent) communication whatsoever. While most of these serves were not volleyed, they on occasion were and did in fact blossom into full matches, such as autumnithink vs. CorruptionSound (2011) and HerpyWhooves vs. GameBop (2011). It is still overall highly discouraged that one start matches with anyone this way however.

Doubles Tennis

Doubles Tennis is the practice of teams of two going at it. See here for more.

Triples Tennis

Tennis with three! See here for more information.

Multi-Ways

Larger matches with more than two people, but still in a repeating pattern. See here for more information.

Poop Chains

A Poop Chain is a longer match where a different person makes each round. These are usually large, community-wide collaborative events. See here for more.

Tennis Café and Café Staff (Tennis Staff)

The Tennis Café is the great congregation place of the world of tennis. Historically started on YouChew before first moving to YTPMania, then to YellowTealPurple later on, it is where tennis is discussed, matches are born, and people generally have a good time. While it has become much less active due to services like Discord, it still exists and serves as an important resource to this day.

This Café (along with tennis as a whole) is overseen by the Tennis Staff, the moderators that oversee the tennis section of the medium's given forum home, and a group of individuals who strive for the success of the community and keep it stimulated and active through the hosting of events, the organization of interesting tennis matches and unique setups, and (under a more modern understanding) helping to set an example of a great person... and a great player. If you ever need help with something in tennis and can't get answers elsewhere, they are the best people to ask.

See here for more!

Achievements

As stated above, the first tennis match took place in 2007, between Conradslater and Misslaineous10.

The longest accepted tennis round is "Vore. Unbirth. Dinner." by MycroProcessor, at a whopping six hours. The round is the final (sixth) round of Nineroe vs. MycroProcessor, taking place during the first set of the Match Voting Tournament. While there are rounds longer, these are usually not counted due to lack of content or effort.

The longest true self-match is the "idc r1k" by dillon, a match that is at over a thousand rounds long. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtz_UBFzs0Jg6EeYXbnq2hkEMFGVVAPh6

The longest 1v1 match is system128 vs. The British YTPer.

The longest tennis match is Missadaxio, at nearly 14000 rounds and counting. It isn't likely to be passed any time soon, as the match plan to go on forever.

Not a single player has won more than one individual tennis tournament. However, if counting collaborative matches, GameBop has the most wins with three: GTT, TTT, and MVT. For other tournament-related achievements, see here..

The first time two tennis staff played each other was strong414bad vs. Nuthead in December, 2007. The first time this happened in a tournament environment was in TL2 Gameweek 2, between strong414bad and RabbitSnore.

The most viewed tennis round is "(YTP Tennis Round One) 20th Century Fox and Universal have a party" by Paperking, a serve for their match against TrickyMario7654. As of June 14th, 2025, it sits at 2,072,180 views!