Talk:The Nutshack

Probable Origin
Recently binged the SiIvaGunner YouTube channel, and realized references to The Nutshack, Pokemon's Bicycle theme, and Snow Halation were likely some trolls trying to import a running gag from the aforementioned channel. Undertale is also a possibility, but it's difficult to isolate and attribute it to SiIvaGunner since that game is still popular with one of its songs being a widespread meme. I know that Pokemon Go was also blowing up in popularity during that time, but the specific bicycle theme is more attributable to SiIvaGunner than to the actual mobile game.

SiIvaGunner is a YouTube channel best described by the first two sentences in its Wikipedia entry: a musical parody YouTube group. The channel is based mostly around bait-and-switch videos claiming to be "high quality rips" of video game soundtracks that are in reality remixes, parodies, and/or mashups, usually incorporating Internet memes.

So basically, some of the audience that are also fans of SiIvaGunner, took memes from that community and threw it at TCR to see what sticks. Some stuck well, some rejected.