Artificial Intelligence Bomb

Submission 33,038

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About

Artificial Intelligence Bomb is a chiptune-style song made by Naruto in 2003. It became a YouTube Poops Music Videos (YTPMVs) resource in 2011.

Origin

The song "Artificial Intelligence Bomb" was released as an entry for the 1st user-generated online NSF (NES Sound Format) competition Famicompo which was held from May to July 2003,^[1] and was written by the Japanese composer Naruto, also known as Naruto2413. The song ranked the 2nd place in the contest, and it was the highest rank among the original songs. The song was uploaded to YouTube by Naruto on November 14th, 2010, where it has received over 1.7 million views in over 11 years (shown below).^[2]

The song was later re-released on Bandcamp by Naruto2413 as a single album on June 23rd, 2020.^[7]

Spread

The first YTPMV of the song was uploaded by YouTube user fezzyfay^[3] on May 8th, 2011, which used a famous YouTube celebrity Mystery Guitar Man.^[4]

Other YTPMV creators began mimicking the video style by using the this song in various videos with the phrasal template "Artificial X Bomb" or "Artificial Intelligence X".^[5]

Bandcamp Arrangement Album

On June 6th, 2016, an arrangement album of the song was released on Bandcamp. The album, titled "STAFFcirc vol. 2 – AI BOMB VARIATIONS", features 16 different arrangements of the tune by various artists.^[6]