Skylanders: Outdated Memes

"I hate taglines asking for likes. Like if you agree."Skylanders: Outdated Memes is the sequel to Skylanders: Realm of Faces and prequel to Half-Life 3.

Production
The game first started development after a few people on the team working for the Emoji movie and a few people who formely worked for Vicarious Visions joined CowbellyTV's discord server. They told CowbellyTV about the idea and they started working on the game together.

Its official trailer was posted on CowbellyTV's YouTube channel on February 9, 2019, just one day after the announcement trailer of Star Wars Episode 9. The trailer of this game quickly overshadowed it and stayed in the trending list of YouTube for over 20 weeks. It also became the fastest video to reach 3 billion views, managing to do so in only 3 months.

On June 6, CowbellyTV released a video where he said that for every like the video got in the next week, a new figure for the game would be made. The video ended up getting 946,464 likes. However, the idea of having figures was later cancelled because CowbellyTV figured out that there was no time to make all of them, so instead he just said the game's name 946,464 times in a live strea but this time, the money earned was not for charity, it was for the development of the game.

It was later announced that ending would be written by Ryan Higa as Cowbelly felt his content on YouTube matched the feel of the game.

Both Donald Trump and Kanye West asked to be in the game as a way to improve their presidential campaigns in 2020 but Cowbelly declined both offers, saying that he didn't want the game to get involved in politics.

Release
The game was released in 2020 after the failure of Club Penguin Island. It was originally supposed to be released in 2019 but then it was moved and all the people who were waiting for it just said "Understandable, have a nice day."

It was released on the iPhone 3.1415... also known as Apple Pie and it was later released on the Samsung Guardians of the Galaxy. It was then released on the Xbox 360 noscope and the Xbox Number One but then Sony got jealous since the game had no PlayStation versions. The game was then released on the PSP, which stands for PetStarPlanet. And finally, it was also released on Scratch after an advertisement by Vsauce3. Then it was also released on the Nintendo Light Switch after the creators watched Jacksfilm's YIAY and saw that it had the words "A LIGHT SWITCH" and then they also added an anime about it on Crunchyroll.

It was sold out in less than a week after it sold more copies than all the previous Skylanders games combined, including Realm of Faces. It was then sold again and it had sold a total of 3 billion copies by the end of 2020.

Reception
The game got positive reviews from all the meme sites and it was praised for giving the original feel of CowbellyTV's comment awards series. However, some people hated it how the memes included were too outdated, but, to be honest, every meme is outdated after one day so it's impossible for the game to not be outdated. The Skylander Boy and Girl hated it because it's not childish and had a too non-Skylander like feel to it.

Calbel, CowbellyTV's inspiration, bought it and said it was comparable with the original Club Penguin. That's right - he compared them and came to the conclusion that this game is over 9000 times better. Due to this positive review, CowbellyTV added a Shower Thoughts update to the game.

YouTubers such as PewDiePie and Jacksepticeye played it on their channels and really enjoyed it. PewDiePie's gameplay videos of the game got over a billion views each and increased PewDiePie's subscriber count to over 420 million. Smaller YouTubers played the game as well and every gameplay video of it, even the hidden ones, got over 9000 views and at least 420 likes each. The dislikes of these videos never went above 360, except for The Skylander Boy and Girl's gameplay because they disliked the game too much.

The game was also confirmed to be Illuminati by Peladophobian after less than a week after it release. Reaction Time reacted to it on his channel and praised it. And, of course, 14 theories of it were made on the channel Game Theory after thousands of people demanding it, including a theory that connects the game to the FNAF universe. Some people even went as far as trying to fit it in the Pixar theory, Zelda timeline and even in the order of Star Wars movies (between which movies should you play this game when binge watching Star Wars; most of the time it was included more times than all the movies combined). Harry Potter Folklore posted a video where he sorted all the memes into Hogwarts houses based on what they were like in the game. And, of course, Ceave Gaming made a video where he explained how to make levels in Super Mario Maker resemble this game.

Normal mode
This mode mostly resembles the normal gameplay, except that the levels are totally lit and contain all the well-known meme characters, including Pepe, Dat Boi, doge and Robbie Rotten, as NPCs. The Trollfaces from the previous game also return. All food items are Doritos and Mountain Dew.

Yoloblomlmtaasosbtdpwkeoboiodawcheoboitod mode
The popular feature called the Yolo mode returns for the previous game, but due to Vsauce's demands, it has been renamed.

Bee mode
A mode where you play as Barry Bee. It is basically the video game version of the Bee movie.

Over 9000-degree Fidget Spinner mode
As these things are falling to the ground, the character must build an armor made out of original Nokia phones as a protection.

Shower Thoughts mode
This mode was added after an update. It features shower thoughts posted by other players and allows players to submit their own.

Music
Cowbelly first "revealed" the theme song of this game on April 1, 2019, but that was actually a rickroll.

It was later announced that Darude would be working for the music of this game. One of the songs would feature the Epic Sax Guy but that song had to be kept a secret until 2020 as it was also Moldova's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020. The game also featured a remix of We Are Number One where every One was replaced with shorter memes. A jazz band also performed some of the music for the game's bee mode.

The "Comment Awards" music was originally intented to be in the game but it was later scrapped because it was from an already existing Nintendo game. However, it was later added to the Nintendo Light Switch version of the game and that version only.

The main theme of this song is a version of Shooting Stars mashed up with Never Gonna Give You Up. Its official music video was released by the YouTuber grandayy.

Eurovision 2020
As one of the game's songs was Moldova's entry of the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest, that song became an instant hit song. It was almost disqualified due to being included in a game released before the official final, but was later allowed to stay since according to the Epic Sax Guy, the song was always intented as a Eurovision song. The song won after getting 12 points from both the juries and televotes of every country (except Moldova).