- This page is about the character. For the Haltmann's Archives file of the same name, see The Joke-Explainer™ 7000 [FILE-11] - Haltmann's Archives.
- "Explaining and subsequently ruining the joke, One Comment At A Time™."
- ―Joke-Explainer™ 7000's channel description.
The Joke-Explainer™ 7000, also known as Joke-Explainer or J.E. for short, is a recurring original character on the SiIvaGunner channel based on a YouTube user of the same name. She is a robot created to explain jokes in rips and has appeared in several places across the SiIvaGunner lore. Since Season 7, she has been used as an in-universe surrogate for the channel's team and as a channel mascot, replacing Wood Man.
Characteristics[]
The Joke-Explainer™ 7000 is a robotic version of Smol Nozomi, with purple hair, gray metallic skin, yellow eyes and hands, and an antenna on her head with Wood Man's ">:]" face on it. She is able to fly using propulsion boosters at the ends of her pigtails, which emit green flames reminiscent of Christmas Spirit. She normally acts very politely and speaks in clear, precise language. In videos where she is given a speaking role, she is voiced by Jea.
She is usually depicted wearing Nozomi's original uniform, with a teal bowtie, blue shirt, and cyan skirt. In the SiIvaGunner All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival, she wears a typical explorer's outfit, with her right eye cracked, scratches on her face, and a pith hat with her antenna's orb on top and one of its eyes crossed out. In one of the promotional images for "The SiIvaGunner 7th Anniversary Art Gallery", she is depicted dressed as a painter, with a stained apron and a black beret. In a promotional image for The SiIvaGunner Halloween Horror Special Part VI: The Cult of Proto, she is depicted dressed as a detective while holding the Necronomicon. Several avatars used during Season 8 also depicted her wearing a variety of outfits to match ongoing channel events.
Several of her video appearances are accompanied by the song "Magolor's Shoppe" from Team Kirby Clash Deluxe, including her Haltmann's Archives file, making the track somewhat of a theme song for the character.
History[]
- For a full list of comments by Joke-Explainer™ 7000, see The Joke-Explainer™ 7000/List of comments.
The character is based on Joke-Explainer™ 7000, a YouTube account that began appearing in the comment sections of several SiIvaGunner rips in 2016, where it would post comments explaining their jokes. The account was created on August 18, 2016, and is allegedly operated by SiIvaGunner team member Smoky.[1] Its first comment was posted shortly after the account was created,[2] and it continued posting comments and replies sporadically up until 2019,[3] then was temporarily terminated on December 13, 2020 alongside Smoky's main account,[1] and later returned to posting comments in 2024.[4]
Joke-Explainer's first proper appearance on the channel was in the video "Loves the Ladies [Episode 7] - The SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis", on April 24, 2017. She appears in an introduction for the episode at the start of the video, where she explains the reason for the episode's long production time and provides a recap of the first six episodes of The SilvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis.
The Joke-Explainer™ 7000 in the video "Welcome to SiIvaGunner!".
The in-universe origins of the character were later explained in "The Joke-Explainer™ 7000 [FILE-11] - Haltmann's Archives". The file reveals that she was built by Chad Warden on June 1, 2016, for the purpose of explaining obscure jokes in rips to anyone who asks, after noticing a growing trend of "commenters not getting the joke". It is stated that she has an energy signature similar to Wood Man's, and that she also has knowledge of the real world, referred to as "a world beyond ours". Following this, she later appeared in "Welcome to SiIvaGunner!", a special video meant to act as an introduction to the channel for newcomers, where she explains basic aspects of the channel and its lore, and announces the release of the album SiIvaGunner: Starter Kit & Essentials.
In "Garlic-Flavored Tacos [FILE-16] - Haltmann's Archives", it is stated that Joke-Explainer managed to access a different universe after consuming a garlic-flavored taco, and she was given the task to archive information about it and submit it to Haltmann Works R&D. She would go on to make several appearances within this universe alongside Wood Man, starting with The SilvaGunner Spooktacular Halloween Horror Special: Part III, in which she appears as a deuteragonist in the animated series released for the event. She is invited to Wood Man's mansion alongside other characters and helps to uncover the mystery of his disappearance, ultimately exposing John Notwoodman as the culprit.
She would later reappear in the SiIvaGunner All-Star Nuclear Winter Festival, in the event's lore and related posts on social media. Following a catastrophic meteor impact, Wood Man finds her and the two decide to travel together in search of a calm zone near the impact site, while Joke-Explainer enacts her mission to "archive everything from the world before it's too late." They meet several characters over the course of their adventure, including Geno, who also joins them on their journey. Before reaching the crater, Geno gives the duo a drive containing his locked-away memories of the meteor. Upon reaching the site, Joke-Explainer reads the drive and enters a horrified trance, causing Wood Man to pull her emergency shut-off switch and delete her most recent memories. Wood Man then removes himself from this universe by touching the meteor, and Joke-Explainer later submits her archived information to Haltmann Works R&D in the form of a disc.
Following the upload of "The Disappearance of Wood Man - A SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis Side Story", Joke-Explainer took over Wood Man's role of updating fans on channel happenings in an in-universe manner throughout Season 7. Following SiIvaGunner's awakening in the Christmas Comeback Crisis episode "One Last Chance", she has also taken the role of running the channel in his absence since the video "...of Season 7". During her takeover, starting with the Super MAGFest 2024 event, the catchphrase was changed to "For more information, please read the channel description!"
Gallery[]
- Main article: The Joke-Explainer™ 7000/Gallery
Trivia[]
- Her appearance and general "helpful" functionality is a reference to the Omochao of the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
- The YouTube channel for the Joke-Explainer™ 7000 has a single video, which is simply a reupload of "Minecraft with Gadget". It was published on May 14, 2017 as part of a mass reuploading across several channels (also including TimmyTurnersGrandDad and VvvvvaVvvvvvr) to protest Mike Matei striking reuploads of the video.
- The Joke-Explainer™ 7000 has replied to several comments with "It looks like you need assistance on how to make a good comment. Would you like to view the tutorial?". Comments receiving this response appear to be deemed "bad" in terms of the joke they were trying to tell.
- According to MtH, "joke explainer is half filipino half brazilian".[5]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "It looks like Socialblade last got usage data for the Joke-Explainer account on December 13, 2020. SmokyThrill77's YouTube channel was terminated for the same reason and on the same day [...]." - Comment by u/overcast07 on the r/GiIvaSunner subreddit; January 5, 2021.
- ↑ "The Joke™: The melody starts off normal then turns into an arrangement of "Dango Daikazoku" by Chata, which is the ending song of Clannad. Later during the rip at about 2:30, the vocals of the actual song kick in. The title of this video is a play on this, as it is named the "Yoshi Clan Mix" (Clan=Clannad)." - YouTube comment by Joke-Explainer™ 7000 on "Story Music Box (Yoshi Clan Mix) - Yoshi's Island".
- ↑ "I'm always here to help!" - YouTube comment by Joke-Explainer™ 7000 on "Welcome to SiIvaGunner!".
- ↑ "The Joke™: This is the announcement video for SiIvaGunner's newest album, RIPBLOX. The timing, premiere countdown and title of the announcement were intentionally chosen to mislead viewers into believing it would be Puyo Puyo-themed, as it was uploaded directly after the last rip of Puyo Puyo Day. Additionally, the usage of "Long-awaited" references both the song A Long-Awaited Spacetime Journey! from the Puyo Puyo series as well as the fact that a long time has passed since the ROBLOX channel event in 2023 and its album release" - YouTube comment by Joke-Explainer™ 7000 on "A Long-awaited Announcement!".
- ↑ Tweet by @emmnyaa
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