About
Screaming Marmot is a video clip of a mountain marmot making a loud squeak while standing on a fence. The clip has been featured in many remix videos on YouTube and Vine, many of which feature dubbed screams over various music videos in a similar vein to “goat edition” remixes.
Origin
On July 14th, 2015, Instagram user @lonegoatsoap[2] uploaded a video of a marmot making a loud squeaking noise while standing upright at Blackcomb Mountain in Whistler, British Columbia (shown below).
Spread
On July 25th, the video was reuploaded to YouTube,[1] where it gathered upwards of 1.3 million views and 400 comments in the next four months. On August 10th, YouTuber tooloudchannel uploaded a version of the clip dubbed with a man yelling over the marmot (shown below).
On August 27th, the original screaming marmot video was submitted to the /r/youtubehaiku[3] and /r/videos[4] subreddits. On October 15th, Viner Dank Memes uploaded a clip of the marmot mixed with the 2011 hip hop track “Guillotine” by “Death Grips”: (shown below, left). On October 20th, Viner Jordan Morris uploaded a clip of the marmot dubbed with a loud screech (shown below, right).
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1]YouTube – Marmot screaming on Blackcomb Mountain
[2]Instagram – lonegoatsoap
[3]Reddit – Poetry Marmot Scream
[4]Reddit – What a marmot scream sounds like