The Super Mario 64 Iceberg: explained 

An acquaintance of mine has put together a video about some things on the Super Mario 64 iceberg that I failed to mention. Steff has been working with a number of people in developing the mythos and lore surrounding the iceberg, so if you want to see how deep it truly goes, please check out their video... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MLCmArsq7pE.html

"It feels like there's a negative emotional aura that I can't really explain." I think the level might just be shit

Has nobody ever considered that the 'Please walk quietly in the hallway' is just a sign from when the castle was owned by Peach? Maybe she needs her beauty sleep

There’s something really funny to me how this guy said “you already know how iceberg charts work” yet all the other iceberg videos that came out of this explains what an iceberg chart is

Dude it’s unreal how big iceberg charts became due to this video. I remember seeing this about a week after it was uploaded and thinking that it was such a unique new idea. Now these types of videos are all over the place. Crazy how trends can form so quickly

“Now imagine Mario running around” “Ok” *imagines Mario running around* “Did you imagine Mario falling into a pit?” “No I imagined Mario running around”

Wait, Super Mario 64 is real? I thought the game was just a myth

I've come back to this video multiple times over the years. I just love how it feels like a story, uncovering details and artifacts from one of my favorite games. The narration is clear, and there is no whacky sound effects or added fluff. Just a pure video of interesting content from start to finish This is truly one of the absolute greatest videos on this platform.

i like how a video this significant to the internet culture of the 2020s came from a random guy and not like a big tuber or toker. and as much as i like putting these iceberg explained vids in the background, i think this is still the best one (probably because its more specific than, say, "Murderers" or "Horror Movies"). godspeed.

“Bob-omb battlefield bridge hanging” sounds so much darker than it really is

"Wet Dry World just feels so... weird." [health bar shows that he's 100% certain of what he's talking about]

My theory about the negative emotions of Wet-Dry world is that it causes discomfort because it combines claustrophobia, and slightly eerie music, with the discomfort from viewing a liminal space. The liminal space in this situation is the abandoned town. If you see a town you subconsciously expect that there must be people there to inhabit said village. This braking of an expectation in your mind may cause you to feel uneasy or as if something is off somehow. The human mind loves consistency, and when something violates that consistency it can disturb you.

I love how this Mario 64 iceberg is full of weird and interesting stuff, and most of the information is obscure even to people who beat Mario 64, but 99% of the icebergs that came out as a result of this one are basic information anybody who played the game would know or stuff you can easily find on Wikipedia

This guy started one of the biggest youtube trends in years

“Picture Mario running around” *Proceeds to remember me making Mario run around in circles in Bob-omb Battlefield

Ironically, Wet Dry World's chilling atmosphere and uncomfortable feeling is why it's always been my favorite. It's really odd that I loved exploring what I considered a haunted level, as I was an absolute pissy baby who was too scared to fight Deku Babas as a kid. It's still my favorite level, and Tiny Huge Island is usually when I hit my 64 burnout.

This video is RU-vid history. Not only did it popularize the whole Mario 64 iceberg thing but also iceberg videos in general. I remember watching this and getting the creeps. Dude basically started a new video format

"Your friends are trapped within' the walls", is just another way of saying, "Your friends are trapped in the castle". I don't think Bowser meant they were literally in the walls.

I’ll be honest the Health meter constantly changing so that it would fit how confident you are in your claims is a really clever touch

Will always be the best iceberg video of all time Can’t believe it was already 3 years ago

Starting my journey of the 200 hour iceberg playlist

"Picture Mario running around." My dumbas brain: *YAHOO YAHOO YAHOYAYAYAYAY-*

"I'm not gonna waste your time, you know how this iceberg images work." Me, who had no god damn idea what he's talking about and thought this video was about an actual iceberg: "oh ok"

The "Toad Projection" entry refers to how the Toads in the castle seem to fade in and out of existence depending on how far away you are from them.

13:21 I love how the health meter going down is perfectly timed to Mario dying to the fireball.

"Did you imagine Mario falling into a pit?" Literally everyone: *Mario running in circles like an idiot* Thanks, SMG4......

This was a fantastic half hour.

I have watched this so many times, I will soon have it fully memorized. Help

After 2 years, I came back to watch this iceberg video and noticed something. When you were talking about the Brain diagram at 29:28, saying that there's some brain diagram hidden in the assets of Wet-Dry World. When you said you couldn't find it, I saw at 29:36 Mario was laying on the brain diagram. It might be just me but the ground texture looks just like a brain diagram...But now I can't unsee it...Worth it!

Smh I LITERALLY pictured Mario just running around in circles. EDIT: Ok can y’all stop replying. I get it “Same! Yeah! Me too! I pictured him running around in grass, I pictured him running around in bomb omb battlefield” I get it bros.

You said “now did you imagine him falling into a pit?” and i was shook cuz i was just thinking of him running in circles 💀

It scares me that this was 3 years ago time has just flew by jesus

20:37 Nah, I ain't about to let you slide with that, homie! Wario's face itself was bad enough, and you had to go on ahead and sneak that terrifying picture in. 🤣

We’re talking about years-long conspiracy theories, meanwhile I just realized today that the background of the health meter is Mario’s head turned sideways.

I like how “L is real 2401” is actually real now

this is still one of my favorite videos to come back to. So interesting and just a vibe to listen to. Well done man

The mysteriousness of the never ending staircase scared me a lot as a kid, hard to explain

"Imagine Mario running around" Brain: Mario is now breakdancing "Did you imagine him falling in a pit?" Brain: Mario is now falling in a pit. Mario has not stopped dancing.

I keep staring at the "health meter" hoping on some subconscious level that the coins are going to refill it.

I think the reason that wet dry world has that aura around it is because of how grey and dull it is. If you think about it, all the levels before and after are fun, colourful, and different from the last. Wet dry world is grey and sad. The music adds aswell. When it’s used in Hazy Maze Cave, it’s ominous. It fits with the dark, dreary feeling of the map, which ultimately makes it fun. When you look at wet dry world compared to, let’s say Whomp’s Fortress, Whomp’s fortress is joyful, using happy music that fits the stage to grow feelings of joy, and child like happiness. The stage has a clear design, switching it up from it’s previous stage. When you enter wet dry world, the music immediately brings you back to the dark, dreariness of hazy maze cave, but the feeling quickly flees, as you realize that it is very off looking. The grey look of the cave gives off the feeling of sadness and despair. The stage eliminates any sense of exploration, as you can see everything (except the town) which makes you lose that joy of a new level. When you go to enter the town, you have to go down a long, grey, sad tunnel, a metaphor for the level’s depressive feeling. Then, you are given a claustrophobic, boxed in town. All the homes, grey and sad, still giving off energy of sadness. After completing a star, it plays a happy jingle, but fails to rejuvenate the player from the depressive level they have played. Thanks for reading if you did. I just kinda wanted to give you guys what I think is the reason for the level’s negative aura. Thanks

The truth of the Big Boos Laugh: its a very real phenomenon that happens but it's just a technical artifact of processing for the system picked up in audio. Sometimes when audio is stopped or loaded or preloaded it can slow down in the old 64 engine. This happens during transitions, like opening up a door. You can detect this easily audibly walking in out or doors in Zelda. Sometimes the music slows for a second as the next music picks up. In the boo level, that happens if at the same time a boos laugh is cued during a transition, it would be a slow down boos laugh, which sounds weird because it pitches the voice down back to normal speaking octaves, but its still being modulated synthetically so it's so uncanny. It sounds like a sinister man laugh when placed in context of it being a haunted house.

Unbelievable, RU-vid actually did its job for once and recommended a smaller channel to me based on my interests. This is surprisingly rare.

I don’t know if this is true, but I’ve heard that the “walk quietly in the hallway” sign is actually a hint so you have a chance to hear the clock ticking from Tick Tock Clock

I still smile a bit every time Nintendo says "Thank you for playing!" At the end of almost every Mario game.

I've come back to this video so many times now. True masterpiece

“The yellow gas is peaches farts” Deviant art users: *S N I F F F F F F*

I have some input on the WDW negative aura: Since the entire thing is a village, and as you said earlier, Mario is the only human that enters these worlds, it may be a sort of autophobia (fear of isolation) causing that negative aura.

I really like how you set a trend for small time RU-vidrs. You and Sunflower made classic videos regarding the Super Mario 64 iceberg, and iceberg videos as a whole.

This guy simultaneously started and perfected iceberg chart videos

Yoshi didn't kill himself. he just went go swim back home to go commit tax fraud.

Love the idea of using a bar to show one's confidence in their theory.

The video that started it all. Thank you for spawning a new video genre, I love iceberg videos to death

28:24 Wario, the original VTuber, before it was cool.

The "L is real" texture was actually also used in Ocarina of Time, inside Dodongo's Cavern.

"Did you imagine him falling in a pit?" What? People don't just imagine him running around in bombomb battlefield or something?

all time classic video. perfect exploration of just how creepy and mysterious mario 64 can really be under the surface, all backed up with some great music selections

I wish the "health bar=confidence in explanation" part of this video had remained part of the trend. I remember it was still there in the first few videos that popped up after this one, but it largely died out by the time the iceberg genre truly exploded.

10:37 Then he turns himself to the castle. The funniest shit i've ever seen.

I have to give you credit: your idea kickstarted my channel. I wish you all the best!

I come back to this video every few months. It just has a lasting editing style and vibe to it idk what it is. Overall a video I still love to this day and it deserves all the love it's got! ❤

Nice Iceberg video, dude! Your voice is pretty relaxing to me. Great for background sound when I'm studying.

"Bowser may have attempted to enter Peach's back door" Hey now

every time he wasn't sure about his theories and the gameplay collected coins, i expected the health to go up

Love that this was the first big iceberg video and it's still one of the best.

no matter how many years it has passed, no matter how much the trend is dead, this video and generally iceberg videos, expecially sm64's one keep haunting me. I just.. can't get my mind off the more "mysterious" parts and "myths" about super mario 64 it's.. kinda of an obsession at this point. there is something about super mario 64.. that has always been mysterious. this iceberg.. I don't know how to put it in words, it's just that there is this aura around super mario 64, and I can't get enough of it

Wet Dry World's negative aura also comes from the fact that there's a town with no one in it. A dead, drowned town. Disturbing. There's also the flamethrower orbs in the water that don't function. Another drowned, dead resident. AFAIK they literally can never come alive and shoot fire. Disturbing. You also (barring speedrun techniques) can't just jump up to higher levels of the course without using the water. Which feels like it restricts freedom. That on top of the fact that some of the water levels are only triggerable by entering the painting (max height is just above the highest crystal), and you can't get out of the town. Disturbing.

I think wet dry world is unnerving because it's a strangely human town with no life. It's disturbing

Did anyone catch the smile dog

I did not imagine Mario falling into a pit, just merely running around in circles as was asked of me

The secret Boo laugh part reminded me of something interesting. That was a sound effect of a man laughing, it was pitched way up to make Boo's laugh, but also pitched way down to make Bowser's. Well, turns the original sound effect was apparentlly recorded by Charles Martinet.

My theory about the "broken paintings" is that you, as the player are supposed to recall what paintings you have already jumped into, therefore testing your memory when you make it to the upper floor of the castle.

I remember my friends telling me that the grate outside in the front of the castle could be smashed through after the end of the game on the DS version as Wario, letting you fight Bowser again to unlock Peach as a playable character. Playing this game with no ability for myself to use Wifi or the internet, I had to experience all this weirdness myself and with people at school, and years later I look back on the game thinking about the game's mysteries and what's real and what wasn't and what was discovered and what wasn't lol

My guess for “toad projection”: toads only render when you get close to them, and it looks like they fade into view, so it looks like they’re projected holograms?

I think the “shhh, please walk quietly in the hallway!” Is supposed to be a nod to art galleries or museums. In America you usually only think about that sort of courtesy in Libraries and sometimes art galleries, but in Japan where this game was mostly developed, it’s a common courtesy to be quiet in museums, libraries, and art galleries alike. The area it appears in seems to be some sort of art gallery.

From the "WDW negative emotional aura" thing, I can actually imagine it even though I've never played Mario 64. To me, the feeling he describes in the video is similar to, for example, playing a Tomb Raider game where you're out there exploring in the middle of nowhere not knowing if you will find something. Or when you have homework from school and the deadline is tomorrow, but you're still grinding in some game. It's sort of the feeling of being in a place you're not supposed to be, or doing something when you could be using that time to do something more productive or important. It's hard to explain it, but once you get the feeling, it becomes very relatable and at the same time, quite quirky and niche.

The video that started it all...

Another thing that I don't see mentioned very often is that in the mirror room, Toad tells you to pay attention to what "ISN'T reflected" but the secret painting is only invisible from the side you're standing in, which could imply you're on the wrong side of the mirror, as your side is the one not reflecting the painting

"YOU WANT FUN? WARIO SHOW YOU FUN!" I guarantee you if I hear that in the first three seconds of a video *I'm watching.*

I cannot believe that it has been almost two years since this masterpiece was published. This will forever be a cult classic.

thanks so much for making this video, because icebergs are some of my favourite vids on youtube

Fans: I FOUND A HAUNTED MYSTERIOUS CRAZY SCARY CURSED TEXTURE WITH THE FACE OF A WITCH IN SUPER MARIO? Devs: lmao forgot to delete this corrupted texture

19:08 hey Mish Koz, I would like to complete your theory about the darkness in the ghost cage. It’s been proven (not by actually shrinking someone but by how light works) that if a human were to shrink down to a microscopic size, their eyes would perceive things MUCH darker because there is less light absorbed from the perspective of smaller eyes. This is why the blades of grass and sky look like a dark haunted forest!

If you want a very harrowing image, set your play speed to .25, go to 20:38 and pause right as he finishes the word "imprisoned".

20:37 I had to replay this section in slow-motion. Nice easter egg lol

Toad Projection ties in with the "in the walls" theory. The theory states that because the toads are more transparent the further you get away from them, they're actually holograms while the REAL toads are in the walls... I think

Here's a better thought experiment: picture Mario running around... Was he running in Bomb Omb Battlefield?

This is my comfort video

Thank you so much for making this video, I first watched it whenever it was a few months old and would put it on as background music while I did online school work. And of course for kickstarting the Iceberg trend on RU-vid they’ve been a part of my RU-vid recommendations ever since 2020, I really recommend the Cartoon Network Iceberg by Look-Out Look it has a really eerie atmosphere I like. Thank you Koz hope you upload more in the future. 8:47pm March 30 24 Saturday

Laughed loudly at that "FAKE ENDING, KILL THEM ALL" reference. Truly amazing video, and I love the idea of the health meter as an indicationfor certainty

"The yellow gas are peach's farts" "These are balls of poop (Peach and Bowser's poop mixed)" LMAO

This was awesome. I look forward to more retro gaming icebergs.

I think the reason why the fog above the water in Jolly Roger Bay goes away after collecting the first star is probably because the sunken ship was blowing hot air from underwater up to the surface, making steam.

I didn't realize other people also got bad or off vibes at wet-dry world, always felt so strange as a child

"Picture mario ruining around" Well his running animations were limited in Nintendo 64 so it's not really that surprising that people would think the same thing. I personally imagined him running around in a tight circle counter clockwise.

So we’re all just gonna ignore the creepy image that appears for a single frame right after 20:35….

I will watch this entire playlist

I think the main issue with Wet-Dry world is that its so lifeless. Every stage has some sort of personality or feel to it, but the same cant be said about Wet-Dry world. First, where the hell are you supposed to be in? You can see buildings outside, but youre just in a caged in box thing with randomly placed architecture, where nothing lives other than a few robots. Then you enter the "town" section through some water tunnel, and its even more lifeless. There are basically no enemies and it feels like a ghost town.

people always mention that mario kills the mushroom people in super mario bros for NES because he smashes the brick blocks and the manual says "the quiet peace loving mushroom people were turned into stones bricks and even field horse hair plants" what people never mention is that the manual also says the mushroom people that are trapped inside the blocks help mario on his journey by giving him coins mushrooms fire flowers and stars so the the brick blocks that you get items from are the only ones that used to be mushroom people and those blocks are impossible to break therefore mario dosen't kill the mushroom people

Good job starting this intriguing RU-vid genre of videos!

the one that started it all i still love iceberg videos and hope they continue to be made