Rafis: The Longest Standing osu! Player of All Time

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Unmuted ending montage: • Rafis His World Montage
An actual movie-length birch movie, my banner is no longer a fraudulent
Massive thanks to the man of the hour Rafis:
‪@Rafis500‬
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[@b1rch]

The ending is all messed up, because of slow copyright detection. Check out the good ending linked in the description!

[@arsenalscripts]

i thought it was my headphones breaking LMAO

[@krappe0]

let me get my popcorn

[@b1rch]

[@iloveucupid]

im a simple man. I see a 1 hour video essay about osu!, I click.

[@b1rch]

Well I hope you enjoy this one hour of your day!

[@iloveucupid]

@@b1rch it was a very enjoyable hour, thank you

[@rrakuyo]

real

[@mackgee21]

i see a 1 hour about rafis, i click

[@b1rch]

Mrekk setting the pp record conveniently before I want to publish my Rafis video...

[@Quasar126]

better start making that vid lmao

[@BigSources]

Dont bother making a video about it now, just wait until the 1.9k

[@zayenn1146]

@@BigSources why not 2k ???

[@BigSources]

@@zayenn1146 let's be realistic here (i'm trying to reverse jinx it)

[@SchizophreniaHaver]

People who be desperate for attention:

[@Arjun-hp2sp]

23:00 fun fact karthy's 900pp was 727 days after shige's freedom dive hdhr play

[@pacifistonly]

[@SixDigitOsu]

1 HOUR DOCUMENTARY ON THE OG DT GOD? I'LL BE EATING GOOD WITH THIS ONE

[@b1rch]

Best way to watch

[@Riyoe]

hi!

[@SixDigitOsu]

@@Riyoe hi🤤😍

[@savosumania]

​@@SixDigitOsubro is in every osu comment section

[@benedikTgd]

feature length birch movie GFG

[@b1rch]

First of its kind

[@Bulek_]

1 hour video about RAFIS. ABSOLUTE CINEMA.

[@mooshiros7053]

28:34 I DIDNT KNOW DEJA VU COULD SOUND SO EPIC LMFAOO

[@boreed1286]

6:54 AHAHAH, love that email. Fantastic video, greetings from poland man!

[@brokezy]

this is the type of content i die for. the length, the sequence of events, quality and everything is amazing. keep making more of these PLEASE 😂💙

[@arynosu]

great video, i enjoyed it!

[@b1rch]

[@diquoks]

Algorithm designed in Java: The Longest Standing osu! Player of All Time

[@Cocosluvsu]

3:01 ABSOLUTE BANGER SOUNDTRACK CHOICE

[@b1rch]

At first I had blankfields remix (called goodbye), but that was too agressive

[@Jaxznyy98]

man this braught back so many nostalgic memories! I began playing osu in 2013 when Rafis was getting noticed!

[@k.r.y.s]

0:27 THERE IS ME ahahahaha 2 years ago was so much fun ngl

[@Cleanse_]

necro fantasia was the first pp record i witnessed live

[@viniface]

Rafis is the favorite player of a lot of current and past osu players because he was the frontline fighter during the golden age of osu (2015-2017) with the likes of hvick, cookiezi, angelsim, idke, vaxei and many, many more legendary players that have either quit or went playing casually. Rafis is not just a long playing player, he is an icon of the golden age of the game. Not to mention that he has always been a positive and humble guy who likes the game for the community and the interaction, not just the numbers going up. He was one of the pioneers of the osu meetups when it was starting up by going to all meetups that he could even if it was relatively small, increasing the community events and making osu more than just a game. Rafis is osu's grandfather.

[@akirakarame3942]

www is the one that has inspired me to play osu! since 2015. Rafis makes me want to be a top player. also, The Polish team at OWC 2017 was such a happy time I always cheered them and they got 1st place. Thanks, for bringing me back to the good old memory man. I really miss that moment. Not just like a toxic osu! Community in my country nowadays.

[@b1rch]

@@akirakarame3942 Glad my video could spark up positive memories for you :)

[@DizzikDurik]

I really enjoyed the past hour and five minutes, thanks for creating this video!

[@bananacat3109]

32:31 "touchscreen died for this" -freddie benson on osu

[@psychogirly910]

Finally a video that does Rafis justice. It's important that people realize how much of an anomaly he is. Well done !!

[@hevilmate]

Hour long documentary on rafis in 2024 what

[@aliceunderstars]

Great video! Rafis has always been one of my favorite players and you did him justice. Greetings from Poland!

[@martingeciidiota]

love the sonic soundtracks haha. nice video i binged the whole thing!

[@AriScarlet]

Damn man im crying up. Thank you for the legendary montage with Rafis at the end.

[@fyve2806]

Just watch your entire video at from 1:45am. Guess I’ll go to sleep now. Nice video man, that’s some SummonSalt styles over there.

[@kovandor99]

epic video, good effort and BIG work, was enjoy to watch

[@arlokakcani2569]

that hit hard! great vid

[@BucketGeek]

I love the summoningsalt editing style. Keep it up

[@nojck]

probably the best osu video ive watched nice job

[@Katalepsia69]

i started to watch this video, it was dark outside, i reached the final, the day is bright and beautiful, thank you so much for making this video >w

[@avranilhalder2007]

Gotta get the snacks out for this one

[@qeqw1234]

rafis flight of the bumble bee

[@tampson2256]

absolutely dialed in for the next 1h05m06s

[@cristiansanchez8040]

I can say i enjoyed every second of this one hour piece of history video, really cool.

[@mcrsmg4]

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING VIDEO BRO, I WATCHED THE WHOLE THING, It was really good, and absolute cinema. An underrated Rafis score in my opinion is his HDDT FC on Dawn of a Dark Day, Repector Remix, the fingercontrol, You cooked on editing and welcome back

[@b1rch]

Thank you :) I tried to include as much as possible, but it was really hard to track every single score, especially recognizing underrated ones from years back

[@mcrsmg4]

@@b1rchI totally respect that, but this is the best edited MOVIE for osu! Ever

[@Jaymusta]

Easily one of the best osu! lore videos out there- hell yeah dude (Rafis = Sonic the hedgehog confirmed?)

[@A_Frax]

really good video! keep the quality up !

[@maks-jz2cn]

THAT SHITS A WHOLE MOVIE

[@sanmarinocornedtuna5166]

20:57 fuck, i lost The Game phenomenal quality video, nonetheless

[@Bulek_]

THIS WAS THE BEST OSU VIDEO I'VE SEEN IN A LOOOOOOONG TIME.

[@lukah6779]

YAYY another 1h osu documentary to feel asleep to

[@kuroscloud265]

Intro of the video just ended and im already hyped to play osu

[@LovenRazu]

never ever is such a good series really good video was a bit scared b4 watching that this would just be trying to copy the style of emplemon's never ever series but it's rly well made !!

[@b1rch]

[@ravins4786]

seeing wubwubwolf actually brought a tear to my eye thjats a name i havent heard in a Long time

[@BigSources]

I will prepare my best cornflakes and milk for this one

[@giorgis9960]

I love how this is inspired by the hungrybox documentary, but instead of copying it one to one you put your own spin on it and in my opinion improved the quality from the original video of EmpLemon!!! truly an amazing video please keep this up!

[@b1rch]

Emplemon my goat

[@OsuSounds]

The Future (we didn't expect)

[@SamuraiSquads]

my goat, thats who rafis aim. god of flow aim.

[@rinyeki1832]

13:42 what is weird face doing the gogogogo to rafis

[@Robberosu]

great video dude I enjoyed the whole thing

[@Jayden.827]

That was the fastest hour of my life

[@RiseYosu]

I see some of Summoning salt and Samifying in this guy, great video!

[@FungsteRRR]

54:32 thats me wooo really cool video

[@tigor1337]

very cool video, thanks for this masterpiece

[@jasonorjoshlee7607]

More like the longest standing osu! video of all time

[@b1rch]

Funny enough, I think this is the 2nd longest osu docu type video

[@Tsukigakireiii]

58:03 hi, that someone was me, XD and it was in a tounrey called summersplash 2024.:>

[@b1rch]

You helped cement history, thank you!

[@xx_nerman_xx]

rafis the movie

[@reimiaxd]

amazing video, thanks for content

[@lukah6779]

Omg that gran turismo music is beautiful

[@syntinel9481]

Fastest one hour of my life. I owe you a beer, b1rch.

[@conan-ic6ps]

I liked this journey. Osu! In my life never dies 😭

[@maxim-miau]

Truly engaging 1 hour osu video omg

[@tunax540]

Grandpa Rafis video? Hell yeah

[@tuptu_2565]

Rafis got me emotional

[@owchh]

best osu video essay by far. you just saved osu content 🙏

[@ItzPheonix885]

After watching the video i realized it's 1 hour long TT

[@raeplaysval]

w music choice

[@Remyria]

good vid

[@Neuronecia]

36:23 didn't cookie FC this during his 2015 while he's still restricted? good video regardless!

[@b1rch]

I believe so yea, then when he was unbanned, he played it only with hdhr lol

[@Cocosluvsu]

WOW, amazing video

[@felixgg]

our favourite grandpa

[@omis3322]

i want to see rafis's reaction to this

[@chaniibak7702]

Wake up babe, new rafis documentary

[@ottlight]

RAAAAAAAAFIS

[@Phill6000]

I personally think WWW was never competing. He just casually stayed in the top 10 for years while just having fun in the game. I mean the guy most of the time SS's old map sets till this day. He is still top 50 when it comes to score, so you could argue he never left top 50

[@matikania2814]

funfact, rafis got his tournament badge right on my birthday aswell lmao

[@squarrildog1803]

Man dude great video. Cant imagine how long this took to put together

[@b1rch]

Thank you :) I think it was about 60 hours

[@squarrildog1803]

Worth it 👌​@@b1rch

[@hevilmate]

Wait how the hell did i not know that freedom dive was the first 800pp play bruh

[@b1rch]

💀💀💀

[@tomer9369]

great video rafis is goated

[@Razi7s]

EmpLemon vibes before even watching

[@ATinyFoxX0]

For some reason I love rafis.

[@Akurii7]

these types of videos deserve 1m views.

[@vJuelz]

Grandpop’s still got it.

[@WillyOsu]

Every time a big history video comes out I have to do this sort of thing. Don't take it personally, but these are my points on issues I found, or things that can be improved. (P.S. Loved His World section) Big issues (video format): - Just like many other videos attempting to tell the history of a player, you seem so focused on pp and pp values that you leave out what makes the player special. You skip a massive chunk of Rafis' history of the skills he was improving at apart from that, and just skip to getting a new top play. How was he able to FC this jump map (Miraizu)? Up to that point you had only mentioned in passing that he had played speed maps (Plasma Gun), and never even mentioned any of his top plays before this point. Please talk about what makes the player special or what they had to accomplish rather than just the pp they got. - The chronology is all messed up, you keep going back and forth on events that happened before and after what you're talking about currently. I don't know, maybe it's the style of video, but like, if it's meant to be a "documentary" then I feel like you should at least keep the timeline consistent. - You have good content for this video, but it just feel like you wanted to stretch it out to 1 hour and had to throw in filler. Minor issues (historical accuracy): - peppy didn't create osu! because he "wasn't satisfied", he made it because he could imagine custom songs being used in the game and wanted to create an emulator where people could make their very own beatmaps - "Tablet support" was not a thing that was implemented, I believe you may be confusing this with TabletPC support, which is what early touchscreen computers at the time were called. - You left out the most important aspect of PPv1 which is what made it "skill-based" in the first place: the higher you place on a map the more pp, and that over time plays would gradually lose pp, meaning you had to continue actively setting good plays to remain at the top of the rankings. - Just mentioning rrtyui and sayonara-bye during the PPv1 era isn't really the best examples to put forward; why not mention someone like Reimu-Desu or Niko along with rrtyui? - I know to simplify you make it sound like the change from PPv1 to PPv2 was basically just removing the "map popularity factor", but it is completely and utterly a different system entirely. - No mention that Rafis' Miraizu DT FC was the 2nd highest pp play in the game, and the highest SR FC ever up to that point. - Delve deeper into why Rafis becoming a "3-mod" player was such a big deal, there were barely any around, what makes is so hard, what are some scores he was able to achieve before Best FriendS. - Was Poland vs China in 2015 an upset? From my memory China were the favored team to win OWC entirely from the start. I could be wrong about this though. - Comparing pp values from different eras is impossible, especially when you don't give any context as to how the numbers differ. Why even bring up the Cookiezi FDFD current pp value vs. Karthy's Honesty in 2018? Again, this is another issue with focusing too much on then numbers rather than what makes the plays/players special. - Why are we only talking about filsdelama/other 3-mod players when we get to the late 2016 section? - 24:40 up to this point you have talked more about Cookiezi's scores than the subject of this video. - "No one dared to try Necro Fantasia" what are you talking about? It was a well known farm map from the day it was ranked, in fact many other top players with similar DT/jump skillsets had tried it, Rafis wasn't even the first DT FC on Necro Fantasia if we count Totoki. - Honestly past the halfway point there weren't really historical errors, just the big issues mentioned earlier.

[@Simred69]

>delve hello ChatGPT

xd

[@flashybangy]

Totoki replay edited that shit LOL blud is blabbering

[@g_vilela]

"spinner kurwa"

[@xavier4542]

Rafis is stagnant water

[@cantbepixil]

only 2006 views in 3h??? underrated asf

[@espetodeflango1]

19:26 i laughet so fucking hard and loud at this part LOL

[@rdxcosu]

you are so vsauce, i like it

[@supertrolle9555]

Thats my grandpa! Thanks for the documentary about him

[@JetLagRecords]

b1rch, I love watching your videos!

[@b1rch]

@@JetLagRecords Thanks for the support :)

[@brqy]

the ending lowkey scared me

[@tranhuutriet2007]

I have played this game for 5 years but when i see this video about legacy for one of the best player ever that I know this game is unbeatable

[@alternatiive]

Summoning salt vibes...

[@shigeroza]

This is so goood video

[@lokki9129]

holy fuck dude 1 hour???

[@Aquana01]

Glazing Rafis to extreme lengths

[@Riyoe]

Rafis is the unlucky guy who was always shining less bright than Shige for like 8 years straight but he's really deserving as one of the greatest players of all time also great vid

[@zysttt_]

banger

[@b1rch]