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YTPMV (YouTube Poop Music Video) is an online remix microgenre in which creators transform spoken or non-musical source material into rhythmic, pitched music through heavy sampling, pitch-correction, chopping, and time-stretching. It typically pairs hyperactive video editing with tightly quantized, melody-focused audio made from syllables, phonemes, sound effects, and short instrumental fragments pulled from TV shows, games, commercials, and internet ephemera. The result sits between plunderphonics, sound collage, and breakcore, but with a distinct meme-native sense of humor and visual pacing. While rooted in YouTube Poop’s sentence-mixing culture, YTPMV emphasizes musicality: samples are tuned to scales, mapped to MIDI, arranged into chord progressions, and driven by energetic drums. Parallel Japanese communities (MAD/OTOMAD on Nico Nico Douga) cross-pollinated techniques and aesthetics, giving YTPMV its hallmark blend of frantic edits, catchy motifs, and pop-culture nostalgia.