And now, here’s the sixth season of Game Of Thrones rendered entirely in mash-ups
[This article contains heavy spoilers for the entire sixth season of Game Of Thrones. There’s some SpongeBob SquarePants and Pulp Fiction mixed in there, too.]
Game Of Thrones just wrapped up a big year, with the show’s sixth season propelling it to ever-heightening levels of popularity and cultural obsession. Nowhere is that near-fanatical love of Starks, Lannisters, and all the other future-corpses of Westeros more keenly felt than on the internet, where crafty video editors are always hunting for the next meme-ready moment to merge with an appropriate bit of music or video clip.
Russian video service Coub is ideal for these kinds of creations, what with its “upload a 10-second clip, splice in some audio, loop forever” structure. Coub users have been un-shy with their appreciation of this year’s crop of Game Of Thrones content, to the point that we’ve been able to recreate a pretty fair approximation of the show’s sixth season, using nothing but these quick, 10-second clips.
Unsurprisingly—in more than one way—there’s the long-rumored resurrection of Jon Snow, a popular topic for Coub users:
Or the reveal of the agent of his revival, the Red Priestess Melisandre, in her true form:
We checked in with old favorites, like a freshly baptized Theon Greyjoy: