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Stereo Madness Isn't Sightreadable [April Fools]
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- Published on Mar 14, 2026
- Have you ever wondered if the first level of Geometry Dash is actually good? In this video, we explore how a new player will likely experience it, and the challenges they might face.
🎨 Character art by Loafee! / loafeebuns
🎨 Shrine background by NetBa! / netba_art
🎵 Music:
Desert City by Kevin MacLeod
Scarlet Forest from Deltarune (Toby Fox)
Scheming Weasel by Kevin MacLeod
Welcome to Mafia Town from A Hat in Time (Pascal Michael Stiefel)
Stal from Minecraft (C418)
Fire Aura by Kid2Will
Anticipation from Undertale (Toby Fox)
Tutorial from Rhythm Doctor (Sien Yi Tan)
Goat Feeding from Rhythm Heaven Megamix
sans. from Undertale (Toby Fox)
Journey from a Jar to the Sky (Mudeth)
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If you're reading this, the cereal was gross
maybe the real game design was the friends we made along the way
I love gd cologne
too cheesy
✍🔥
I love rice
i eat uranium
This video is like when you have to do an essay with a minimum number of words so you start breaking down every unimportant detail.
real
underrated
yeah im thinking that as well
So true !
yea most of it is just common sense
Imagine if robtop commented "agreed." and then replaced stereo madness With bloodBath
sounds like something robtop would do
😂
or "agreed."
>deletes geometry dash
Biggest plot twist of all time
it’s april fools sooo
Alterante title: If a game journalist played geometry dash
comment deserves trillions of likes
alterante
@liquidcashews hey i saw you on that spu7nix video (i was @justinburchard3344)
I was waiting to see this comment
ign reviewers playing cuphead
"Theres a short spider part thats not that bad"
That got me laughing so hard
ayo pauze 🤨📸📸
at 11:13 ? Right
It got you so hard 💀💀💀
11:10 got me laughing so hard!!
Like a damn semi truck
I love how it starts okay and then slowly dissolves into madness
STEREO madness?
@Term1ngamingOHHHHHH
@Term1ngaming hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
@Term1ngaming Now suddenly everything is makes sense
Guys, temporarily dislike every comment that states its an april fools video. I had my experience ruined by looking through the comments too early 😭
16:43 “Yes, yes it does. Which is why today’s video is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends!”
LOL COLOGNE APPROVED
missed opportunity
@CrystalKyryn could not agree more
Hi gd colen
"It's not like it tells you on the menu or anything"
The passing cube: And I took that personally
I laughed so hard when I saw that
But there's no blocks. this one can jump 10 blocks up
Different cube!!
It’s been a couple of months and Colon already broke his rule of “nice vibes only”
~ i love this date ~
Addictions be like:
It’s an April fool fool
its april fools bro
Fool.
its impressive how colon got a fully fledged game journalist to write the script👏👏👏
agreed
The yellow icon messed with their pathfinding
Yeah dean did a great job
"Geometry dash has too much water, what was Robtop thinking"
I think he got that one game journalist that played cuphead
the decoration is just so empty by todays standards, idk why its still rated 🙁
thats minimalism to express the emptiness the creator felt when creating the level, specifically the emptiness in his 2013 wallet, you dont get modern art
@randomannoyance exactly, this guy just doesn't get, stereo madness would go for 6969 billion if rob were to sell it.
levelution went way too far with this one
It’s just that stereo madness is *a little mediocre, no offense*
(Did you get the reference, don’t worry it’s kinda hard.)
@Cosy_zzzE
average game journalist
Geometry Challenge
polygon doom 2016 gameplay flashbacks
Frfr
stereo madness is so unsightreadable for new players smh
stereo madness 3rd coin jumpscare real
Yeh fr
yeah when I first got GD, I struggled on stereo madness. now I can beat it no problem though
Ikr
don't listen this is ancient basin's propoganda chatbot
14:20 lmao the reference to the critics who couldnt beat the tutorial
The developer of the game should really think of new players more. Have you seen the next level? It’s got these weird bumper things that launch you so, SO high up in the air. And what about the part in Staring Craziness or whatever it’s called where you have to go through this random rocket portal and play an incredibly difficult part for this yellow coin thingy that does NOTHING.
And then right after they show that you _should_ hit the yellow bumpers, then it _trolls_ you by killing you if you hit them! Like, make up your mind, game! It’s so unfair to switch it up like that!
Maybe the real food was the friends we made along the way.💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
BUT MAN THE THIRD COIN, OMG IM SO GLAD IM EXPERIENCED WITH GD, cuz WHAT THE HELL for a beginner thats like bloodbath.
@Yes_Circlictf you mean food this is geometry dash video🥀
the thing is if you watch the dash video, and then this one, you genuinely have NO IDEA if he's being serious or satire because the tone is exactly the same as in the previous video
This so-called “easy” rated level is too hard! That 22% staircase is a HUGE choking point. The coins? Terrible.
Ikr, unbalanced everywhere
@GPRCJCfor new players of course
dont even get me STARTED on those triple spikes. Extreme demon skill level wth are you THINKING robtop
@onyotubero 2 star levels had some skill in them tbh
My friend beat the level in 30 attempts
He only knew about geometry dash when I told him about it
April fools dum dum it took 140 attemps
11:11 there’s a short spider part that’s not so hard killed me
@Swimspiration isnt that dash
@wisaphobia yeah it is
@Swimspiration so real
Dash spider jumpscare
I didn’t think there was a spider in there
I like how casually he says "There's a short spider part, but it's not that bad" at 11:08. Truly a dash of all time
Got me so hard
definitely real in stereo madness
@darkness17239 okaaaay? And?
You don't need to say that, everyone who plays gd knows that, and that's basically all Gd Colonge's fans...
@cupdarkness17239except the boomlings fans
@theresabrunskill7097 IT'S REAL!?!?!?
Bruh It's fake dum-dum.
3:37 “it’s not like it tells u or anything!!!” The cube in the background:
14:52 holy frick its generation retro
Lol
Jajajaja You have not win you died
Funny about the start is.
My friend died 10 times in first spike when she got my cellphone to play
this only made her more hooked to try again.
That's very good game design.
False: females do not play geometry dash
@Alexthegreater808paqoe:
@Alexthegreater808 juniper
@DrBeefWellington it’s a joke ofc some women play gd 😭😭😭
@ΕΥΘΥΜΗΣ72 it’s a joke 😭😭😭
It's unbelievable how easy the spider part is. It gives you a new gamemode which is super easy to figure out thanks to the great introduction to it, and it shows entirely new mechanics! It's my personal favorite part of stereo madness 😀
copy and paste bot stole your comment
@cheeseburgermonkey7104 bruh really
The spider part is my favorite game mode.
Yeah I like how sight-readable it is
11:53 bro got so mad the subtitles became yellow
holy god ur right
i pissed on the subtitles
@samuelife-notreal❤️➗2️⃣
@samuelife-notreal bro what the hell man why
@Couldntthinkofonenamethis is valid I do the same to food cuz it’s mine and mine only
11:03 you jump up these pillars. fall down these half slabs. and theres a short spider par-
Man We Got Dash Spidered
Dash spider in stereo madness is crazy. wait until 2.3 it will happen
Truly a
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Moment
I know right like what the hell
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De de da do ding da de da da
Game Journalists when there's no yellow arrow telling you specifically what to do;
true
You think a yellow arrow is enough information for them to know how to play the game?
The icon was yellow, messing with their pathfinding
Fr
Frfr
3:54 some might say that that is a... difficulty spike
@radicalquad nice joke
Get ou-
Copyright comment
the opposite of get out is give in
funny but unfunny
12:18 I expected you to say "welcome back to my channel, this is part 1 of my Minecraft hardcore world"
Your delivery is so genuine and real-sounding that if this was my first exposure to GD I would probably somewhat believe you
he maybe didn't sound angry enough, but I can only tell because I was looking for that.
It's stuff like this that makes me remind myself to not accept all opinions from someone with an authoritative-enough voice as fact. Because yeah, if this was my first exposure and wasn't marked as April Fools, I also wouldn't question it.
"Hmm, yeah, I guess that *is* bad game design!"
14:20 bruh i was not expecting a game journalist reference.
Same bro
I was so happy when i realized lol
fr i was looking for someone to say that
I love how, even though this video is very much ironic and an April Fool's day video, it takes itself fully seriously
Update: i didn't watch the whole video before commenting 💀
It definitely helps to 'fool' you into thinking this is an actual level analysis, and not just a joke.
it took me far too long to realize
it is not taking itself seriously at all what are you talking about
@thecontaminatedone6094 the first 6, 7 or so minutes say otherwise.
Don't worry, it got me too for a while@googleaccountacc
14:13 journalism intensifies
We went from geometry dash, to the back of a lucky charms box. Truly one of the videos of all time.
Fr
That box costed be $4.49 CAD making this my highest budget video in a while
Cereal tastes like styrofoam too
thats why captaincrunch is better @GDColon
all cereal in canada tastes terrible and its so expensive (we also don't have captain crunch)
all canadians can agree with this
I like the fact that it’s an April fools video but also a somewhat serious video at the same time
how is it serious
@petaltoday it feels like a normal video and also a joke at the same time
@Trashtatine yeah it’s supposed to seem like a serious video, but none of the points are serious. colon has been very adamant that he likes stereo madness
@petaltoday that’s the idea, it looks like a normal video but the points aren’t serious
Can't wait for the 15 hour long video of him talking about the first jump
Third coin perhaps?
10:36 it’s really funny to me that colon decided it would be easier to do this editing effect within gd (you can tell because the background doesn’t move)
i assume it was made with the splitscreen trigger
3:37 "you have no idea how high your jump is, it's not like it tells you on the menu or anything"
as a cube passes by and constantly jumps
that's the joke
j
i forgot this was an april fools video, and when he said "then theres this spider part which is not that bad" i was like "wait they added that? WAIT-"
You really need to not trust obvious things
Same
I came here to say 11:11 he’s lying. I remembered after seeing this comment.
@justejyraph yeah my fault i didnt play fucking block game in 4 years yeah yeah my fault
@petekrafter100 wow thanks for informing me 3 months after, really appreciate it
you are basically the only reason (and maybe minecraft) why i actually am excited for april fools
Me tooooooo
Frfr
Fr
hi maslo 😨🤬🤨🥶🤪🥶🥵
fr
This feels like an AVGN parody
Robtop needs to add more jump indicators to his levels! 😔
He won't
WE. NEED. MORE. INDICATORS!
even though there are no orbs, we need jump indicaters on the orbs.
@RapakaMain69420 he doesn't want to, but he NEEDS to.
He doesn't like jump indicators
If this video isn’t in the next years gd awards then I don’t know man 😭
This is peak comedy
the little spider part was perfect
Honestly what is the point in making the triangle a spike when it can just be a rectangle
That short little spider section is what the rest of the level for strive for in terms of sight readability
14:07 best reference ever
"Stereo madness too hard" just from the title, I already know what kind of episode this is.. 💀
yeah, unsightreadable, no jump indicators.. lemme buy some popcorn for this
I did not expect the dash spider part to pop up
The 35% straight fly is TOO DANG HARD! Can't believe Robtop did this for the first level in the game!
How are the 8hz players supossed to pass that! You can see it from the very start of the game, robtop clearly has no support to graphic calculator players. How horrible.
@MasloGD why did u pick 8 not 3 that doesnt make sense
@MasloGDHe overlooked a massive part of his game, and that is that his audience are school children. The name is cleverly designed to trick teachers into letting them play in class, but the lack of support for calculators really just cancels this out and makes GD destined to fail.
cant wait to see gd spider jumpscare man talk about the hardest level in gd for 18 minutes!
also new tublar8 video when
@realmonochrome verifying aeternus while eating waffles coming soon (trust)
hey this isn't Back on Track
Bro forgor the hardest actual level auto play area
The 2nd you dummy
3:37 "its not like the menu tells you"
me: what about that cube icon in the background
14:45 retro generation?????
The cuphead ign “video game reporter thing” is actually so funny
I knew what was coming as soon as I saw Cuphead, and I still laughed 10/10
3:37 "Its not like it tells you that n the menue screen or anything"
*Icon proceeds to jump*
I was looking for this 😂
@ChangeableS-401 I agree lol
I think that's the joke, but i thought the same
I WAS GONNA SAY THAT
I just commented this by accident lol
14:49 “THAT WAS NOT A CACTUS!!!” Got me 💀 Instenly
14:42 14:48
11:09 there is no word that can describe how unexpected the dash jumpscare was
i can't wait for an official stereo madness dash jumpscare
Hi
Nice call lol
I mean jumpscare 3 was made the day after the dash video but ok :(
@DashSpiderJumpscares dash spider jumpscares jumpscare
12:34 AIN'T NO WAY YOU CALLED IT GEOMETRY TRASH 💀💀 A friend of mine said the same a couple of months ago (He has GD on his Steam wishlist)
Balls
dammmmmmmmm
Geometrical garbage 😢😢
geometry sh*t
1234
16:11 istg colon’s gonna go on a rampage if we arent careful
He's a cereal killer 😱
most aggressive canadian
How did we go from gd to playing on a lucky charms box
11:11 was by far the most unexpected part of the video i'm crying
its even better he doesn't e en introduce the spider, it's just there
even******* i hate youtube i can't edit my comment
@adieuingyou can, click the dots
it was probably the most expected thing out of an april fools video. if you've seen gd colon in the past 4 months it'd be obvious
@adieuing oh ma gawd is that aueding the fe2 guy, remember there's no escape.
The short spider part caught me so off guard 😭
When is The Best Geometry Dash Moments of 4096
WHERE HAVE I SEEN YOU
b-but youre a m-minecraft youtuber-
Minecraft and geometry dash :O
you play geometry dash?
16:09 he’s a cereal killer
DUDE LAST TIME I SAW THE VIDEO YOUR COMMENT SPAWNED WHEN HE WAS STABBING THE CEREAL BOX 😭😭
Sh-sh-sherlock?
do NOT tell this man abt back on track
lmao i wasnt paying attention when the spider part caught me offguard
$0.023 💀
@fale_x sadly argentina economys is rlly bad
@fale_x at least he gave something
ikr
Fue buenísimo KSJSAKJS
so happy cologne got a game journalist to make this video
13:49 "OK- Cuphead!" oh no
This part made me die from laughing 😂
As someone who 100% this game I was scared too. Then I immediately realized the joke was mocking the game journalist
3:38 erm actually 🤓 the icons show you how high in the background
11:11 “There’s a short spider part but it’s not that bad”
WATCTHE FU-----
lol
that's not in the actual level
@javiervictoriano-bd4xdhi ok sherlock
@javiervictoriano-b4xd no slit Sherlock, thanks captain Obvious
2:06 Believe me, everyone who played any sort of flash game would know spikes in most games will kill you no matter where you touch it.
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Also Bounce Tales
But there are games where it does *not* work like that
1. Classic Sonic games, touching the spikes sideways is safe
2. Some P2W Russian Transformice clone, reverse side of spikes is safe in it (prob the original game as well)
no durr
3. Celeste
does anyone remember flagman and the dude with a jetpack?
when the stereo is madness
never seen more facts
Wth 34 likes
Never thought I'd see somebody get ragebaited by a cereal box
15:53 CONTROLS ON A CEREAL BOX?!??
14:00 am I watching Craig or Dean Takahashi
Bro shot a crackshot
13:07 the way he said NO
“ *No* OoUo”
I like the dash spider part joke
16:18 ok, I honestly didn't expect an april fools video to suddenly get so deep and thoughtful all of a sudden
10:57 “its a wasthe of time :3” 🥰🥰🥰
so glad to find somebody who finally pointed this out! There's been so many years where NOBODY noticed how bad Stereo Madness is and finally somebody has come to point out this horrid problem of a level. Thank you Colon
4:37 when I first started the game I thought these pulse rods indicate that you need to jump
“And there’s a spider part but it’s not that bad” mean while it’s from one of the hardest Levels💀
7:22
Imagine this becoming a meme like the dash spider
FUCK THAT SPIKE THOUGH
30 likes but no comments? Lemme fix that :)
@keremylmaz8423 what
@OlddShadow It was just a joke
I like the “it’s not like it tells you in the menu or anything” joke
3:35 "its not like tells you on the menu or anything"
*as a cube jumps in the background*
I unironically love this video. Best april fools video to come.out today and I've already watched it 3 times in 8 hours. help
Ik right!? But i think 150 coin video is better
I personally think that this one is a bit bigger
@tayamikaokwudire8039 Love the icon - I love Achilles! Turbo Achilles is my second favorite Achilles - after, of course, Zest Achilles, which is my favorite bey ever!
@tayamikaokwudire8039
Hi
Bruh
I cannot wait for this April fools video, I’ve been anticipating it ever since I knew who Cologne was.
gd bolognese
@th0rnzofawarrior gd milanese
14:17 bro really turned into a game critic/reviewer
That's avarge for him lol
he also turned into a game designer
@Alecishavoc HE IS LITERALLY A ADVOCATE FOR GOOD GAME DESIGN
He turned into a game journalist
The pulsing rods tell you when you jump
14:56 generation retro.
Gen retro
Funny fox boy knows his deal. I don't understand why no one talks about this level.
14:01 , you really gave me IGN PTSD 💀
3 minutes and 50 seconds and we're still on the first spike 😭😭
That’s some very simple spider part for the very first level
To be honest, Stereo Madness needs more gamemode variety, like bro, ONLY cube and ship, and ship only gets used twice, and the first ship part barely has anything in it too, so most of it is just cube with only one actual ship part
True
dude, did you seriously forget the short spider part?
Untrue
New players are already introduced to 2 new modes, a third mode would have made the player lost and forget the previous mode
Think about stereo madness is the one that presents the most mode
There's a spider part for half a second so that's something
@Hon38148 the amount of gd players that actually take evrth so srsly is telling lmao
11:56 BRO WHY WOULD ROBTOP TO THAT?!
Bro went back in times in games
16:37 dude just described wii sports
"oh i get it! Colon's april fools video is a completely normal video, when people expect it to be not normal!"
"...oh"
lol
hello bro
11:11 "short little spider section"
wowo colonge you didnt complain about this part even it dosent show the controls of this part and is literally unsightreadable
wonderful commentary
that is not even close to the correct timestamp
11:09
sorry I have skill issue💀
@Marcooooo5 No. Colon has a skill issue. He always yapped about the spider part for not being understandable, but I never died to it.
this is a april fools video
guys, PLEASEEEEEE READ THE TITLE.
He changes the title to say april fools the day after april 1st
I cant