Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31829114-20170829155808/@comment-31071347-20170910231451

Sorry, I've been a bit busy with real life lately. But I think I gotta give my two cents on this topic, since I'm kind of the guy who started this whole mess, in a sense (when I created separate pages for "Meet the Flintstones" and "Joel's reaction to 7 GRAND DAD").

My understanding of this has always been as follows:

7 GRAND DAD – is the super-meme. It manifests in rips in various ways, including: So MtF, Joel's reaction, and Grand Dad can be considered sub-memes to the super-meme that is 7 GRAND DAD.
 * Meet the Flintstones – The melody;
 * Joel's reaction to 7 GRAND DAD – Joel's monologue;
 * Grand Dad – The character;
 * just random Flintstones references (e.g. references to the infamous cigarette commercial).

I don't quite agree that MtF isn't a reference to 7 GRAND DAD. Remember, the first ever rip on the channel used MtF, and it featured a picture of Grand Dad, as a visual reference to what the joke is about. So the joke was always 7 GRAND DAD; it's just that the SiIva team seems to prefer subtle hints rather than blatant references lately.

As for the categories, I'm not really sure what to do about them. When editing rip pages, I usually removed "Rips featuring 7 GRAND DAD" if it was just MtF, but kept it if it was the MtF version from the bootleg game (it sounds slightly different). I'm not sure if we really need a separate category for that or not, though.

P.S.: Another reason the keep the "Rips feat. 7 GRAND DAD" category on a rip's page might be if the rip references the game directly (e.g. the Sonic Mania rip which features 7 GRAND DAD gameplay, and mockups of future versions of 7 GRAND DAD).