I'd honestly wager that's probably why HBox was so chill about the contact in the moment, beyond them just being friends. If he recognized what happened, he's not gonna question needing to be used for stability. It would be so hilarious if that little pat on his cheek was him being like, "oh you sweet summer child, you'll be going to sleep now."
HBox: Yare yare daze. Omai wa mo shindeiru. Cody tried to intimidate HBox, but when he looked in his eyes and the shades came off, he couldn't handle H's menacing aura. The Pillar Men theme started playing in his head and he recognized that it was folly to attempt to usurp the king, as did his physiology.
My guess is that what Cody is saying to Hbox is asking him for support, which is probably why Hbox leans more into Cody when he properly wraps his arm around him
This was the funniest anti-climax of all time. When a streamer initiates a scream you expect it to persist, but then he just gently began to drift off into the side and then… silence
I didn’t even realize Hbox had won until you said so seven minutes into the video. I thought Cody won the whole time. Now that’s an effective reverse pop off.
Yeah, it's one of those things where you have to go off of the context clue of the Jigglypuff winning and have the knowledge that Hbox basically owns the character Jigglypuff when it comes to the competitive scene.
he mentions the loss multiple times before that, and gives the groundwork for what a reverse pop off is and what hbox normally does when he wins. did you sleep thru the first 6 min? 😂
Same, I should have realized the puff won, but I completely thought Cody won there. And beating hbox is a good enough reason to pop off there, so it made sense.
@@KumoGoesFast That’s the power of a truly insane reverse pop off. It deafens the ears. It blinds the eyes. It’s hard to recover from a pop off that powerful, if you ever recover at all.
After learning how physically demanding popoffs are, I must imagine that Charlie had to take a thousand year nap to recharge is ki after his legendary "Yeah, baby!" popoff.
i posted this in another video already but just so people know the truth of the situation (so misinformation doesn't spread), as somebody who knows both of them personally, im confident they both thought it was hilarious, and as Plup said, this was planned from the start for next time Hbox beat Cody, as a funny reverse-popoff of sorts. (People looking from the outside won't know that though, and might form an incorrect judgements/opinions). Watching from home I actually couldn't stop laughing for minutes lol.
Your community is embarrassing, every time it gets brought up in any capacity it's some awkward, childish or just straight up (how kids like to call it today) cringe.
Ok but if Cody fainted onstage after the pop-off it'd be immediately concerning but would make the moment orders of magnitude more legendary in hindsight
Knowing nothing about either player, I can say, I loved this. Both of them clearly respect each other very much. The whole interaction seemed really…loving. And I think that’s great. We need some more love like this in gaming.
Thats how I view it! It just kinda felt like a goofy 'im gonna meme at my friend before he can meme at me' moment. HBox checked on him and they giggled about it afterwards while Cody was recovering. I wouldn't be surprised if Cody was congratulating him in the moments afterwards.
Unfortunately Cody has a history of being a dick about HBox on his stream, even if they’re “friends” in tournament, I just don’t like the guy cause of his lack of sportsmanship.
If this is "one of the better moments" that's kinda pathetic to any outsider looking into eSports lol. I think eSports has a few moments that top this. Maybe for the smash community this is one of the better moments
For as much as I love the moment, a part of me reeeeaaaally wanted Hbox to counter the counter-popoff even harder and just have 2 men screaming, jumping around flailing their arms in every direction
99% sure nobody could have handled HBox shouting back the venue was already shakey and weak from the sheer shock of Cody doing this. Fucking woulda been an Emperor's Haki moment from One Piece if HBox unleashed his true power
*2 Friends having a joke with one another incorporating their years of history together* People on Twitter who've never seen something close to friendship before: "THIS MAN IS UNSTABLE AND A DANGER AND A CLOWN! A CLOWN I TELL YOU!"
I was so confused as to why Cody looked so weird, but as soon as the clip played again with the context that he was about to pass out, I absolutely lost it laughing
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quick frame data analysis: at 2:22.22 on the clock both of the prepared to pop off, hungrybox was first but on frame 7 of hungrybox's popoff ibdw popoff-canceled hungrybox's popoff cause hungrybox to be stuck in stun lag, thus ending his popoff with ibdw's own popoff
it makes sense that he would almost faint. i remember when i was younger i screamed so violently i got a horrible nosebleed and was lightheaded for hours, i can definitely see it happening
@@athingwhichexists Does Charlie do anything to fight these bots? Because I swear there are at least 2 on every single comment that has over a 100 likes on his channel
A counter pop-off is something that should sound so obvious for someone to attempt at some point, but it's JUST out there enough that I didn't think it were possible. It's creative and I would say was done perfectly. It was all done in good jest and HBox deciding to play along made it oddly wholesome. ...That, and he clearly saw the guy was about to faint the same way he did, so he had to stick around to be support. But that just ends up making it more wholesome after the fact.
I don't watch Smash Esports, neither do I know these two players. I was legitimately confused when I first saw the clip. But after knowing all the contexts, I think it's pretty wholesome. It's that toxic wholesomeness or some shit that I dig. Thanks Charlie.
At first I thought cody was the one who won. I thought it was poor sportsmanship. Then when I realized the roles were reversed, and they’re good friends and this was planned. That makes it extremely funny
I love how hbox was about to pop off, you hear the initial iconic hbox screech, but then he slowly silences as Cody performs the frame perfect tech: the pop off cancel. This is genuinely one of my favourite moments in smash its hilarious And then it's even funnier than IBDW always enjoyed watching hbox pop off, and laughed at hbox fainting, then he apparently almost fainted on stage himself
Charlie’s beautiful mix of sarcasm and dead pan delivery are the one thing that could make me understand the lore behind what i first thought to be a kid having a mental breakdown on stage lol.
I'm guessing the faint was, in some part, due to the fact that his heart was already racing from the adrenaline of the tourney and the nerves about doing the preemptive pop-off.
Or even the adrenaline from actually performing something you've been working on for a while. I know I'd be worried I'll trip and fall on my face, or if people end up clowning me for it in general, lol...
This was just fun, goofy, good sportsmanship gaming. Without context you'd think one was being a douche cause he won, but it's the total opposite. This is the type of eSports moments I enjoy watching.
Hungry box truly is the greatest person to ever pop off, he won that title the day he became the only person I've ever seen to pass out from popping off so hard
You can tell during that awkward transaction; he had enough of Hbox popping off all the time, so he authorized to pull an uno-reverse card and did a reversal pop-off. With all my years attending to competitive aspects, I have never been so confused.
It's good to hear that it was a joke instead of an act of spite. Imo, a lot of people thought it was out of genuine disdain because IBDW has gotten frustrated on stream after losing to HBox, saying that he's bad at the game, etc. Honestly, I'd be surprised to see a competitive smash player who hasn't said or at least thought similar things. Smash games are stressful and Melee is the most stressful one of them all, what with its brutal speed and skill required. It sucks to see people take these things out of context and use them to fuel a narrative that is ultimately unhealthy for both the players and the spectators. Also, hearing the video continue after Charlie said "And that's about it" really caught me off guard.
I love your videos, they are so well organized and you explain events in a way that counters toxic Twitter arguments and the way that you explain your opinions blends so well. Super entertaining to watch, thank you for doing what you do.
This shows how much energy hbox has lmao, Cody wasn’t able to handle the power that a pop off have or underestimated how strong a pop off is, truly legendary
My kids called their farts "pop-offs" when they were smaller, so having you say stuff like "he's well know for his pop-offs" and "*guy* fainted cos he popped off so hard at a tournement" brought a rather childish grin to my face 😊
It's called orthostatic hypotension. When you sit for a long time and then suddenly stand up, your blood pressure tanks. Add that to the fact that you're jumping around, screaming, and straining yourself. You can understand why he almost fainted.
i can relate with cody when it comes to extending the bit for a little too long, but the core concept of the reverse pop-off on hbox is perfect and the fact that it worked is unbelievably funny
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I was so confused when IBDW popped off so hard. I was like “wait, didn’t hbox win that?” And that’s when it clicked that it was a joke for me, and I laughed hysterically.
"If you’re easily the best at your school and your school is considered cool AF, you can actually buffer a fully-charged pop-off that is so powerful it will kill everybody you love." - Deep Leffen HBox might actually be holding back
i've been in the melee community for almost a decade at this point and this is genuinely the most wild thing i've ever seen come form this scene and it's fucking hilarious. the only thing that even comes close is the guy who threw a crab at hbox mid popoff
This moment will definetly be a mainstay for "Awkward/Cringe eSports moments compilation" from the initial lost, the counter pop off all the way up in hbox face, the weirdly homoerotic way ibdw was feeling up hbox as he was about to faint is just pure compilation food.
Just getting up too fast after sitting gaming for a couple hours. I've almost blacked out and fainted. That feeling is soo crazy too I feel like that's how death is gonna feel when we die. Loss of all control 💀😎💯
This was more awkward than anything, like trying to go for an embrace and the other person didn't reciprocate, or going for a fist bump and your friend went for a high-five. Like, the audience didn't know if cody was trying to attack hbox or hug him, then hbox just didn't even know wtf to do. These two are most certainly not friends.
I’m not in the melee scene at all, so I may not know much about it but to me, Panda’s popoff felt like a commemoration of Hungrybox’s win. He’s imitating his opponents victory, celebrating, screaming just the way he would. Even if that wasn’t his intention, it’s still harmless enthusiasm except for maybe the fainting.
Ey imitation is the highest form of flattery fr. No context I thought he was having a soy meltdown lmao but with the context he was lowkey big brained for it but just full sent a lil too hard
From watching Cody and tuning into a couple of his streams, he seems to be a good person, but there is a vocal group of people that dislike him and assume the worst intentions from him. Unfortunately, this seems to be one of those instances of such, which sucks because this moment was awesome and the counter-pop-off was obviously a joke.
I think a lot of that comes from the way he complained about the ledge grab limit in game one of that set. When he heard how high the ledge grab limit was, you could hear him complaining over the mic. He was like 'well, fine you can just camp all game and there's nothing I can do about it, that's great.' Like he was obviously frustrated before this point. It makes sense that people would assume the whole counter popoff was done out of anger instead of as some in-joke.
@@xxProjectJxx To be fair, part of why Cody has a vocal minority is because he likes to complain. But he’s genuinely a talented player, and generally really good to everyone in the community.
@@menaatefadly EmpLemon's documentary is pretty cool, but it ends up giving anyone new to the scene the mindset of "Hbox is hated by everyone in smash, and is the coolest person; I need to support him," when really since he began doing Ultimate content creation Hungrybox has been one of if not the biggest and most loved Smash community figureheads
My theory: the pop off is the release of energy saved that was meant for the game. Them almost fainting after a pop off means they were ready to die for the match.
I like the idea of a counter pop off but I thought it would've been hilarious if Cody didn't stop, but joined Hbox's pop off. Maybe this has happened in eSports/Melee before, I don't really follow anything like that, but the idea of a winner and loser both popping off together sounds like a fun time.
10:01 you mention you go from 0 to 100, but I'd assume the event itself is incredibly stressful as it is. Seems more like you'd be blowing up from 100 to 200 as the stress relief explodes into post-gsme hype and emotion.
I believe he grabbed my FUPA for support, Charlie. But otherwise good video.
True
yes
Sure looked like it.
haytch bocks
Wow
The bromance between those two was legit. HBox was like "Are you okay?" as he sat there clearly amused.
I so was convinced they would kiss in that moment
@@repprH pop off to make out is a true combo
@@TopOfAllWorlds Underrated comment holy shit
waiting for the fanfics to start rolling in /j
iBDW wasn't going for a Buster Wolf he was going for a Buster Floor
I'd honestly wager that's probably why HBox was so chill about the contact in the moment, beyond them just being friends. If he recognized what happened, he's not gonna question needing to be used for stability. It would be so hilarious if that little pat on his cheek was him being like, "oh you sweet summer child, you'll be going to sleep now."
Him patting his face being like "You're lucky you're not on the ground rn"
HBox: Yare yare daze.
Omai wa mo shindeiru.
Cody tried to intimidate HBox, but when he looked in his eyes and the shades came off, he couldn't handle H's menacing aura. The Pillar Men theme started playing in his head and he recognized that it was folly to attempt to usurp the king, as did his physiology.
My guess is that what Cody is saying to Hbox is asking him for support, which is probably why Hbox leans more into Cody when he properly wraps his arm around him
Really looked like he gave him a “doin alright there bud?”
Actually looked like that slap snapped him back to reality…his eyes flickered and that’s when he realized he need to hold on
IBDW saved Hbox from fainting himself on a stage. true hero
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This was the funniest anti-climax of all time. When a streamer initiates a scream you expect it to persist, but then he just gently began to drift off into the side and then… silence
Dont read my name 😑🙄..
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I didn’t even realize Hbox had won until you said so seven minutes into the video. I thought Cody won the whole time. Now that’s an effective reverse pop off.
Yeah, it's one of those things where you have to go off of the context clue of the Jigglypuff winning and have the knowledge that Hbox basically owns the character Jigglypuff when it comes to the competitive scene.
he mentions the loss multiple times before that, and gives the groundwork for what a reverse pop off is and what hbox normally does when he wins. did you sleep thru the first 6 min? 😂
Same, I should have realized the puff won, but I completely thought Cody won there. And beating hbox is a good enough reason to pop off there, so it made sense.
@@KumoGoesFast That’s the power of a truly insane reverse pop off. It deafens the ears. It blinds the eyes. It’s hard to recover from a pop off that powerful, if you ever recover at all.
Great of you to ruin it for people scrolling the comments...
Hbox: *Doesn’t pop off the exact millisecond that he won*
Cody: “Fine I’ll do it myself”
He did the pop
Dont read my name!!!
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After learning how physically demanding popoffs are, I must imagine that Charlie had to take a thousand year nap to recharge is ki after his legendary "Yeah, baby!" popoff.
Twas a legendary popoff.
whats is a popoff
@@Tw0Dots its whenever someone gets excited over something they react with a lot of excitement
@@Tw0Dots did you not watch the video
lol that shouldn't exhaust someone like that. that is not a good sign
I've never heard "he jigglypuff rested IRL" spoken out loud and it just got a million times funnier
Dude, same I’m dying rn 😂
i posted this in another video already but just so people know the truth of the situation (so misinformation doesn't spread), as somebody who knows both of them personally, im confident they both thought it was hilarious, and as Plup said, this was planned from the start for next time Hbox beat Cody, as a funny reverse-popoff of sorts. (People looking from the outside won't know that though, and might form an incorrect judgements/opinions). Watching from home I actually couldn't stop laughing for minutes lol.
youre not the only one...
I heard IBDW plays Melee with a Guitar Hero controller.
m2k with the fax
Hbox doesn’t look like he found it hilarious
Your community is embarrassing, every time it gets brought up in any capacity it's some awkward, childish or just straight up (how kids like to call it today) cringe.
Ok but if Cody fainted onstage after the pop-off it'd be immediately concerning but would make the moment orders of magnitude more legendary in hindsight
100 percent
Fainting from a pop off in front of the person renowned for fainting from popping off.
@@Instantur the strides in the anti popoff tech are truly advancing, we now need someone to have a cardiac arrest having a popoff to complete the saga
@卐-POGGIES-卐 these bots never change do they?
@@vladimirirkhin never will
Knowing nothing about either player, I can say, I loved this. Both of them clearly respect each other very much. The whole interaction seemed really…loving. And I think that’s great. We need some more love like this in gaming.
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Thats how I view it! It just kinda felt like a goofy 'im gonna meme at my friend before he can meme at me' moment. HBox checked on him and they giggled about it afterwards while Cody was recovering. I wouldn't be surprised if Cody was congratulating him in the moments afterwards.
Hbox is essentially the melee mc
Unfortunately Cody has a history of being a dick about HBox on his stream, even if they’re “friends” in tournament, I just don’t like the guy cause of his lack of sportsmanship.
HungryBox and IBDW are good friends. They definitely respect each other.
Honestly this is a cool story. Without context, yeah you could assume negative things. But with context, one of the better moments in eSports imo.
If this is "one of the better moments" that's kinda pathetic to any outsider looking into eSports lol. I think eSports has a few moments that top this. Maybe for the smash community this is one of the better moments
@@balloonpoop yeah that's why I said "imo" or *in my opinion* but thanks for commenting
@@balloonpoop You can hate on things. Congrats. You're totally cool now
@@balloonpoop Your comment was kinda pathetic to read ngl
@@balloonpoop Hope you’re being purposefully cringe rn.
He straight up absorbed Hbox’s energy
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Dont read my name 😑🙄.
Gangstamind I think we're the only humans here...
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“He jiggly puff rested in real-life”
IM DYING
down B irl moment
Someone in his chat said "down+B"
Bro said ⬇️🅱️
For as much as I love the moment, a part of me reeeeaaaally wanted Hbox to counter the counter-popoff even harder and just have 2 men screaming, jumping around flailing their arms in every direction
Lol
imagine hbox did and right after cody just faints on stage
@@kennethkim4278 I can't get over the mental image of this. They just both get up and jump around screaming until cody just fucking passes out.
99% sure nobody could have handled HBox shouting back the venue was already shakey and weak from the sheer shock of Cody doing this.
Fucking woulda been an Emperor's Haki moment from One Piece if HBox unleashed his true power
@@skylarfox_bmb I've been laughing at that exact thought for a few minutes
Imagine if Hbox had planted a kiss on him right on the lips. That would have been Hbox’s 8D chess answer to IBDW’s Already 4D chess play.
Bruh when he reached for his cheek I thought he was gonna.
There is definitely sexual tension between the two.
i really seriously thought this would happen
Kissahomie
I came in to the video somehow thinking this 😂
As a wise man once said, "To be cringe is human, to accept cringe is divine"
with that pfp you are 100% divine
@@miaspaghetti real
IBDW anti pop off is actually crazy and felt almost like an insult but at the same time it feels like just a friendly joke
I think he was a little more hype then he planned because the set was legitimately very close
Especially with that face tap like "yea okay kid go ahead and let it out"
No ibdw is just a massive tool with emotion control issues
Is my music ass or gas⛽️
@@koother cringe
*2 Friends having a joke with one another incorporating their years of history together*
People on Twitter who've never seen something close to friendship before: "THIS MAN IS UNSTABLE AND A DANGER AND A CLOWN! A CLOWN I TELL YOU!"
Jave u seen the whole set? Ibdw been salty asf
@@marc2752 with peace and love Ibdw is salty nearly every day
@卐-POGGIES-卐 be respectful challenge (99.9% fail)
@卐-POGGIES-卐 Technoblade disrespect and a Swastika? We’ve reached new lows.
@@yelladude6969 don’t bother replying to these trolls. All they want is your response.
I was so confused as to why Cody looked so weird, but as soon as the clip played again with the context that he was about to pass out, I absolutely lost it laughing
Now what's a REAL shame is that they didn't pop off at the exact same time. I think we can all agree that would have been amazing
they did! Watch it again, you can see Hbox scream as he gets up, but stops in shock when he sees Cody popping off.
@@the.shotgun.approach no, but like, both continue to pop off in harmony. A loud harmony. Brothers in pop offs
*True Combo Unlocked: Double Faint*
@@thekidrichie no
@@DaveWAMWLeon that sounds so wholesome
The counter-popoff meta is advancing. IBDW is a pioneer of the scene
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Dont read my name 😑🙄.
ITS SO FUNNY TECHNOBLADE IS GONE 😂 my content is better
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Tip from a metalhead: If you ever feel lightheaded after doing something physical, freeze yourself, don't move for some time. You can see metal artists do this after headbanging.
I got a concussion from headbanging and blacking out. Just flopped and bonked the back of my head on a 40kg bass amp
@@cloroxusthestainlessone4324 omg were you okay?
@@Tube_cat aye, it took a couple of pints to feel normal again but it was a great gig past that
@@cloroxusthestainlessone4324 I'm glad lol as someone who plays electric guitar Ik how heavy those amps are lol
@@Tube_cat an old Marshall 4x12 bass amp. She was a monster who could turn your legs to jelly from 4 onwards. I miss it so much
i honestly hope this starts a trend of reverse pop offs. the possibility’s of a double pop off sounds amazing
@卐-POGGIES-卐 Go straight down to the deepest pits of Hell.
@卐-POGGIES-卐 @everyone
Don't pay any attention to him!
Don't give him views and or comments!
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Man this guy really made it a Win-Win for himself either he won or he got to show off his surprise and cop a feel
Fongr
Honestly that's how you gotta live life lol, try and turn everything into a win any way you can.
LMAO HE REALLY DID THO
Without the context you would think hbox mentally broke his opponent so hard he lost his mind
Y did this crack me up so hard
quick frame data analysis: at 2:22.22 on the clock both of the prepared to pop off, hungrybox was first but on frame 7 of hungrybox's popoff ibdw popoff-canceled hungrybox's popoff cause hungrybox to be stuck in stun lag, thus ending his popoff with ibdw's own popoff
Im also Hbox fucked up his L-Cancel on his popoff while Cody landed it perfectly
ibdw also had a better wavedash and gained more distance which helped him win the neutral.
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we need turndownforwalt to hop on this
Pro gamer move. Very difficult.
HBox has ascended to possessing his opponents to pop off for him. A perfect insult cherry on top. He is now popping off THROUGH his opponents.
FUCKING GENIUS COMMENT LMAOO
Honestly it made a huge smile on my face he seems so happy that his friend just won even though it means he himself lost. IBDW seems like a good guy.
it makes sense that he would almost faint. i remember when i was younger i screamed so violently i got a horrible nosebleed and was lightheaded for hours, i can definitely see it happening
thanks hagrid
You are Eleven
I remember when I popped off to Sora's reveal trailer. I didn't faint or anything, I just got tired and had to sit down for a bit to recover ☠️
Yeah, when Italy won Euro I have popped off so hard that I had a fucking aneurysm for almost an hour, beautiful
If you pop off and almost faint you need to hit the gym😂
Smash has learned to respect their elders and now popoff for their seniors as popoffs have been shown to endanger Hbox's life
jesus, all the fucking bots
@AThingThatExists youtube is ruined ngl
@@athingwhichexists Does Charlie do anything to fight these bots? Because I swear there are at least 2 on every single comment that has over a 100 likes on his channel
I almost fainted doing the "yea baby" classic I don't see how these grown adults can pop off like this, we need some gamer insurance for these boys.
"Tears were shed, pants were shat" 😂 Charlie really has a way with words.
the pants shit themselves so you don't have to
*9:17** "He's using HBox's cock as a walking stick here to keep his balance." 🤣*
A counter pop-off is something that should sound so obvious for someone to attempt at some point, but it's JUST out there enough that I didn't think it were possible.
It's creative and I would say was done perfectly. It was all done in good jest and HBox deciding to play along made it oddly wholesome.
...That, and he clearly saw the guy was about to faint the same way he did, so he had to stick around to be support. But that just ends up making it more wholesome after the fact.
I didn't really see him playing along, more so just being amused by it.
It's been done many times before
@@migz019 By who? Would love to watch those clips.
9:15 this was one of the best lines I've ever heard in a critkal vid lmao
I don't watch Smash Esports, neither do I know these two players. I was legitimately confused when I first saw the clip. But after knowing all the contexts, I think it's pretty wholesome. It's that toxic wholesomeness or some shit that I dig. Thanks Charlie.
Get into the game it’s good fun
@@ammmmm6556 This game is actually a 10/10 show.
At first I thought cody was the one who won. I thought it was poor sportsmanship. Then when I realized the roles were reversed, and they’re good friends and this was planned. That makes it extremely funny
@卐-POGGIES-卐 the hell
@卐-POGGIES-卐 L human being
@卐-POGGIES-卐 I hope you go next
However, Cody messed up our opportunity to psychoanalyze hbox for the millionth time and that makes me very sad
After the second yell, the eyes say it all, he was sleeping until hbox pats his cheek, Cody's eyes come back to life
Nah, it's the reverse, Hbox pats his cheek to rest Cody, and it nearly worked.
When I was a little kid, my Mum referred to a fart as a "pop off". So this video has me crying using that definition of the term.
I love how hbox was about to pop off, you hear the initial iconic hbox screech, but then he slowly silences as Cody performs the frame perfect tech: the pop off cancel. This is genuinely one of my favourite moments in smash its hilarious
And then it's even funnier than IBDW always enjoyed watching hbox pop off, and laughed at hbox fainting, then he apparently almost fainted on stage himself
Charlie’s beautiful mix of sarcasm and dead pan delivery are the one thing that could make me understand the lore behind what i first thought to be a kid having a mental breakdown on stage lol.
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Going to explode = going super saiyan = shitting pants
Different things the same power
I'm guessing the faint was, in some part, due to the fact that his heart was already racing from the adrenaline of the tourney and the nerves about doing the preemptive pop-off.
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Or even the adrenaline from actually performing something you've been working on for a while. I know I'd be worried I'll trip and fall on my face, or if people end up clowning me for it in general, lol...
Without knowing anything about their relationship or Cody’s near-faint, I for SURE cringed hard at first. But this is hilarious with the deets 😂 A+++
bruv i cringe in my sleep
The room is looking real nice, Charlie. A beautiful setup you have there
Looks a bit grey imho
@@zapataboy9377 yes the room full of Pokémon cards, anime figs, and comic book posters looks grey
@@nitoyep3366 tbf the walls and floor is grey lmao
@@nitoyep3366 yes exactly actually
Hbox almost got popped off on stage with a classic reach around
I literally can't describe how much this moment shattered me. Funniest thing to ever happen in smash. I love melee
Melee is king, even against Ultimate
These are some of the only vids on RUclips that are so captivating yet have no bells and whistles to the editing. Such a great content creator.
HBox is pretty much always on the receiving end of some of the most unhinged moments in Smash history
I will always know Hbox as the guy got that crab thrown at him over a gamecube game
the crab incident
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Didn't someone throw a bare-ass hot dog at him or something?
3:24 God pressed mute.
This was just fun, goofy, good sportsmanship gaming. Without context you'd think one was being a douche cause he won, but it's the total opposite. This is the type of eSports moments I enjoy watching.
Hungry box truly is the greatest person to ever pop off, he won that title the day he became the only person I've ever seen to pass out from popping off so hard
Wizzrobe as well
Yeee wizzy was first out some respect on the rod
@@name8329 It's a little unfair. Hbox's recency bias trampled on the OG. "Wizzrobe has died (for our sins)".
He popped off for the safety Hbox so we wouldn't pass out again. Very thoughtful and caring actually
omg, knowing that he almost fainted made this go from weird af to hilarious lol. out celebrating the winner is awesome dude. new meta, lets goooooo
1:33 watch when hbox looked at him, it's like he used jigglypuff up B and put him to sleep for a sec, or mewtwo's down B
You can tell during that awkward transaction; he had enough of Hbox popping off all the time, so he authorized to pull an uno-reverse card and did a reversal pop-off. With all my years attending to competitive aspects, I have never been so confused.
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It's good to hear that it was a joke instead of an act of spite. Imo, a lot of people thought it was out of genuine disdain because IBDW has gotten frustrated on stream after losing to HBox, saying that he's bad at the game, etc. Honestly, I'd be surprised to see a competitive smash player who hasn't said or at least thought similar things. Smash games are stressful and Melee is the most stressful one of them all, what with its brutal speed and skill required. It sucks to see people take these things out of context and use them to fuel a narrative that is ultimately unhealthy for both the players and the spectators.
Also, hearing the video continue after Charlie said "And that's about it" really caught me off guard.
Honestly love that, like instead of getting mad or upset. He gets silly and has fun and celebrate the other persons win, which is so sweet
I love your videos, they are so well organized and you explain events in a way that counters toxic Twitter arguments and the way that you explain your opinions blends so well. Super entertaining to watch, thank you for doing what you do.
This shows how much energy hbox has lmao, Cody wasn’t able to handle the power that a pop off have or underestimated how strong a pop off is, truly legendary
My kids called their farts "pop-offs" when they were smaller, so having you say stuff like "he's well know for his pop-offs" and "*guy* fainted cos he popped off so hard at a tournement" brought a rather childish grin to my face 😊
Certainly one of the moments in esports history
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It's called orthostatic hypotension. When you sit for a long time and then suddenly stand up, your blood pressure tanks. Add that to the fact that you're jumping around, screaming, and straining yourself. You can understand why he almost fainted.
i can relate with cody when it comes to extending the bit for a little too long, but the core concept of the reverse pop-off on hbox is perfect and the fact that it worked is unbelievably funny
Thank you charlie for bringing us historical news like this, also I love watching the room fill up with things, looks amazing!
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This is legitimately just an inside joke between friends that those on the outside don't understand. It's fucking great
I was so confused when IBDW popped off so hard. I was like “wait, didn’t hbox win that?” And that’s when it clicked that it was a joke for me, and I laughed hysterically.
The almost fainting context makes it all make so much sense.
4:08 You can hear a car with loud music or something go past
"If you’re easily the best at your school and your school is considered cool AF, you can actually buffer a fully-charged pop-off that is so powerful it will kill everybody you love."
- Deep Leffen
HBox might actually be holding back
Hbox did have an engineer degree, so he might be the best at his school.
Deep Leffen will never fail to kill me with truly deepfried wisdom
Challenging an Hbox Popoff is like Challenging God
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I mean Hbox is one of the five Gods of melee
The ol reliable walking stick never fails
The way Hungrybox fainted and fell over reminds me of a time a friend of mine took a hit off a blunt.
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i've been in the melee community for almost a decade at this point and this is genuinely the most wild thing i've ever seen come form this scene and it's fucking hilarious. the only thing that even comes close is the guy who threw a crab at hbox mid popoff
WHO THREW THIS?!?
Props to the camera man. This moment is captured so well it's unreal.
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i was at the event and the camera men were like strapped in full body camera suits. it was insane
That’s literally his JOB…🙄
Props to the camera man in this video
This moment will definetly be a mainstay for "Awkward/Cringe eSports moments compilation" from the initial lost, the counter pop off all the way up in hbox face, the weirdly homoerotic way ibdw was feeling up hbox as he was about to faint is just pure compilation food.
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he didnt feel him up lmao he was literally blacking out
Ibdw said he was about to pass out LOL
Idk I've never grabbed a dude by the waist when I get light headed. Definitely a cringe lord
For me 1:47 is the funniest part of the entire video.
That flex from the crowd is the most masculine thing I have ever seen.
Just getting up too fast after sitting gaming for a couple hours. I've almost blacked out and fainted. That feeling is soo crazy too I feel like that's how death is gonna feel when we die. Loss of all control 💀😎💯
At first I thought it was cringe, but then I started to enjoy it more and more and find it legitimately funny.
Why can't we have more things like this in high level sports where people just goof around like this
High level autism, there is no sport here, outside of the undiagnosed diabetes
Pop offs like that get dangerous as these players get older though
all i gotta say is out of context that clip looks mad weird but in context its golden internet culture
Probably the biggest platform cody has ever been featured on and it’s for this moment. RIP
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room coming together looking nice
lol cody mirrored xbox pop-off - almost rests himself too hahahah two great dudes
The guy used up all his oxygen when he exhaled the word "Lets go!" That's dedication.
9:02 actually charlie hbox's slap was so incredibly powerful even though it looks like a simple tickle slap is what made cody almost faint.
That was Hbox resting Cody irl.
This was more awkward than anything, like trying to go for an embrace and the other person didn't reciprocate, or going for a fist bump and your friend went for a high-five. Like, the audience didn't know if cody was trying to attack hbox or hug him, then hbox just didn't even know wtf to do. These two are most certainly not friends.
I’m not in the melee scene at all, so I may not know much about it but to me, Panda’s popoff felt like a commemoration of Hungrybox’s win. He’s imitating his opponents victory, celebrating, screaming just the way he would. Even if that wasn’t his intention, it’s still harmless enthusiasm except for maybe the fainting.
The counter-popoffer is named iBDW (or Cody Schwab). Panda stands for Panda Global, which is the team he plays for.
Ey imitation is the highest form of flattery fr. No context I thought he was having a soy meltdown lmao but with the context he was lowkey big brained for it but just full sent a lil too hard
From watching Cody and tuning into a couple of his streams, he seems to be a good person, but there is a vocal group of people that dislike him and assume the worst intentions from him. Unfortunately, this seems to be one of those instances of such, which sucks because this moment was awesome and the counter-pop-off was obviously a joke.
I think a lot of that comes from the way he complained about the ledge grab limit in game one of that set. When he heard how high the ledge grab limit was, you could hear him complaining over the mic. He was like 'well, fine you can just camp all game and there's nothing I can do about it, that's great.'
Like he was obviously frustrated before this point. It makes sense that people would assume the whole counter popoff was done out of anger instead of as some in-joke.
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To be fair, part of why Cody has a vocal minority is because he likes to complain.
But he’s genuinely a talented player, and generally really good to everyone in the community.
And you can learn the whole history on Emplemons channel on episode 5 of Never Ever
@@menaatefadly EmpLemon's documentary is pretty cool, but it ends up giving anyone new to the scene the mindset of "Hbox is hated by everyone in smash, and is the coolest person; I need to support him," when really since he began doing Ultimate content creation Hungrybox has been one of if not the biggest and most loved Smash community figureheads
I don’t like him personally for how he acted in the leffen hax situation.
Lol homie reverse popped off so hard he went groupie mode.
That room is looking great!
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My theory: the pop off is the release of energy saved that was meant for the game. Them almost fainting after a pop off means they were ready to die for the match.
"Woo thats what im talking about woooooo" *passes out*
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You can see the change in his face the instant he almost faints, the exact same look Hbox had when he did faint.
I like the idea of a counter pop off but I thought it would've been hilarious if Cody didn't stop, but joined Hbox's pop off. Maybe this has happened in eSports/Melee before, I don't really follow anything like that, but the idea of a winner and loser both popping off together sounds like a fun time.
My man tapped into forces his mortal flesh was not meant to harness. He's lucky he survived with his sanity intact.
10:01 you mention you go from 0 to 100, but I'd assume the event itself is incredibly stressful as it is. Seems more like you'd be blowing up from 100 to 200 as the stress relief explodes into post-gsme hype and emotion.
“Tears were shed, pants were shat 😂” charlie’s natural calm commentary is hilarious
0:54 Say that for you
Truly a blessed moment
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