About
Driftveil City is the theme that plays in the town Driftveil City in the 2010 video games Pokémon Black and White. It is popularly used in fan videos featuring the song and as a source for MAD and YTPMV videos.
Origin
The video games Pokémon Black and White were released worldwide on September 18th, 2010. Driftveil City is the city where the fifth Pokémon gym badge is obtained. The city’s theme was uploaded by YouTuber OstProject on December 10th, 2010.
Spread
The oldest use of the theme was found in a Gachimuchi MAD video on the Japanese video-sharing site Nico Nico Douga (NND) that was uploaded on September 23rd, 2010. It received over 200,000 views over 9 years. A portion of the video was reuploaded to YouTube (Warning: NSFW).
More MAD videos featuring the Driftveil City theme were published on NND between 2010 and 2016. One example includes a JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure MAD video that received almost 600,000 views on NND. It was reuploaded to YouTube on November 22nd, 2014 by Jankey Chan (shown below, left). Another MAD video including the theme and the anime Kill Me Baby was uploaded to by NND user jasrnine49 on December 18th, 2016. On the same day, it was reuploaded to YouTube by Śiвнσ, where it received over 40,000 views (shown below, right)
On December 12th, 2016, a Hand me the aux cord meme referencing the Driftveil City theme was uploaded to KnowYourMeme by user Dameon Dice.
On January 27th, 2017, a remix of the theme to the tune of the song “Man On A Mission” from the show LazyTown was uploaded by SiIvagunner (shown below, left). On August 8th, 2017, YouTuber MaximusRap uploaded a video featuring the theme with a title that referenced the Y’all mind if I praise the lord? meme, gaining over 60,000 views in two and a half years (shown below, right).
On February 2nd, 2018, content creator Tuskoub uploaded a remix of a Family Guy scene featuring the Driftveil City theme which received more than 200,000 over two years (shown below, left). On July 8th, 2018, YouTuber Da Edge uploaded a remix of the Southern University Jukebox Challenge featuring the town’s song, receiving over 800,000 views in almost two years (shown below, right).
The theme continues to see popular use as a sample for memes and remixes in the late 2010s and early 2020s.
Various Examples
Search Interest
Know Your Meme Store
External References
Source: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/driftveil-city