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A story of loss, deletion and spicy memes. SMG3 seeks revenge as he attempts to overthrow SMG4 and his channel.

” —Official description
...let's just watch mine...
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The YouTube Arc (miscapitalized as the Youtube Arc), is a science fiction comedy-drama story arc on the SMG4 channel. It is the fourth major story arc in the SMG4 series after The Waluigi Arc, The Rapper Bob Arc and The Anime Arc, as well as the first installment in The SMG4 Cosmology Lore Trilogy. It involves SMG3 forming his own company Snitch Productions and stealing the YouTube Remote, aiming to use it so he may erase the SMG4 crew and Susan Wojcicki from existence. Now it is up to the dumb Italian plumber, Mario to stop the Snitch Productions and save the SMG4 channel before it's too late.

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Synopsis[]

After countless failures failing time and time again, SMG3 has finally had it with his nemesis and his friends. He decides to take matters into his own hands in one final attempt to eliminate SMG4 for good, and forms his own crew to take over YouTube, starting with stealing the YouTube Remote as he plans to erase SMG4's legacy once and for all, expanding his hatred of him of becoming truly evil, as the world really sees him. Once he gets this done, everyone will finally recognize him to gain the glory he's wanted for years of being humiliated as SMG3 plans to make everyone suffer the same way he did. With everything hanging in the balance, Mario must stop SMG3 in his greatest scheme yet before he erases the SMG4 crew and Susan Wojcicki from existence, or risk SMG3 becoming the new face of the channel for all of eternity.

Plot[]

Main article: The YouTube Arc/Plot

Episodes[]

Pre-Arc[]

Arc episodes[]

No. In Arc or
Lore 		Title Card Title Airdate
1 SMG4_Mario's_Spicy_Day_🔥 Mario's Spicy Day 🔥 June 20, 2020
oooooo das hot 🔥🔥
2 SMG4_Mario_Gets【Ｗｏｋｅ】 Mario Gets【Ｗｏｋｅ】 July 4, 2020
Mario gets control of ultimate power.
3 S̶M̶G̶4̶_I_Can't_Believe_It's_Not_SMG4! S̶M̶G̶4̶: I Can't Believe It's Not SMG4! July 11, 2020
SMG4 and his friends attend a play Mario plays in, but it seems awfully familiar.
4 SMG4_Stupid_Mario_Arcade Stupid Mario Arcade July 18, 2020
Mario gets sent through a gauntlet of retro games by Susan.
5 SMG4_The_Internet_Graveyard The Internet Graveyard July 25, 2020
Dead memes tell no tales ☠️
6 SMG4_Mario_VS_Youtube Mario VS Youtube August 1, 2020
Welcome to The YouTube Arc.
7 SMG4_Deleted. Deleted. August 8, 2020
Hey guys! If you're just joining in, we're in the middle of a story arc.
8 SMG4_A_Totally_Normal_S̷͍͖͉̙͚͎̑̃̿͑̆̇̚͠M̸͇͇̦̮̌̿Ğ̴̫̗̖͎͔̳4̶̞͇̰̎̀́̚_Episode A Totally Normal S̷͍͖͉̙͚͎̑̃̿͑̆̇̚͠M̸͇͇̦̮̌̿Ğ̴̫̗̖͎͔̳4̶̞͇̰̎̀́̚ Episode August 15, 2020
Hey guys! If you're just joining in, we're in the middle of a story arc.
9 SMG4_War_Of_The_Fat_Italians_2020 War Of The Fat Italians 2020 August 22, 2020
WOTFI 2020 is finally here, bringing the entire YouTube Arc to a close.

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  • SMG3
  • Susan Wojcicki until SMG4: A Totally Normal S̷͍͖͉̙͚͎̑̃̿͑̆̇̚͠M̸͇͇̦̮̌̿Ğ̴̫̗̖͎͔̳4̶̞͇̰̎̀́̚ Episode

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Trivia[]

  • This is the first arc:
    • In which Fishy Boopkins and/or Bob Bobowski are not directly responsible for the conflict. The former started the Waluigi Arc due to convincing Waluigi to try to get into Super Smash Bros, both of them started the Rapper Bob Arc (Boopkins messing up Bob's concert and Bob throwing Boopkins into a well) and both parts of the Anime Arc, with the latter starting the first part by blowing up Peach's castle using a Kamehameha, and the former starting the second by telling Francis about how Inkweaver works, the latter starting the Genesis Arc by indirectly freeing Niles by ignoring the expired Antivirus Subscription and the latter starting the Revelations Arc by helping Melony to train to control her deity powers, which got her into Omnia Academy and allowed Niles to manipulate her.
      • Mario is directly responsible for the conflict since he joined the Anti-Cast to steal the YouTube Remote.
      • However, SMG4 is fully responsible for the conflict since he prevented SMG3 from pursuing his own career as well as destroying his studio before becoming fully evil and creating the Anti-Cast.
    • In which Saiko Bichitaru and Tari do not play a major role, only appearing in five out of the nine videos in the arc. However, they were extremely pivotal characters in the climax.
    • To have a major villain be the main antagonist, as Waluigi, Bob Bobowski, and Peach Toadstool were not antagonistic characters, Desti only appeared in a single video prior to her arc, and Francis (and Team Killer Ink if the Anime Arc Aftermath is counted) was introduced in his respective arc.
    • To have multiple major antagonists in one part, preceding the Anime Arc where there is one major antagonist for each part.
    • In which SMG3 plays a major role in, as he only plays small roles in the Waluigi Arc in SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2018 (where he was actually a minor protagonist and helped end Waluigi's reign of terror) and the Rapper Bob Arc in SMG4: Mario And... The Well (where he was using a cement mixer to try and save Fishy Boopkins, only to be grabbed by the Wario Brothers' claw), and is never seen or mentioned in the Anime Arc.
    • In which Toad, Bowser, Wario, Jeeves, and Greg The Alien appear, but only have minor roles or cameos. However, Greg's death drove Mario to get his revenge on Susan.
    • In which Shroomy plays an antagonistic role.
  • This is the second arc:
    • Not to have a character's name in the title.
    • In which an antagonist is not redeemed, but is instead defeated. (the first was the Anime Arc with Francis who was killed instead of redeemed, the third will be Genesis Arc with Niles in his Eldritch Zero form who was defeated and would then become the main antagonist of Revelations Arc, the fourth arc in which he was later killed instead of redeemed).
      • However, later on during the post arcs, SMG3 has been redeemed so that he could take care of the dead memes, although he still acted antagonistic towards SMG4.
    • To finish with a WOTFI, the first being the Waluigi Arc.
    • To have a change to Meggy, with The Anime Arc giving her a human form, and this arc giving her a human voice.
  • The survival of SMG4 and his friends (barring Mario) in the Internet Graveyard following SMG4: Deleted was heavily foreshadowed in SMG4: The Internet Graveyard, when Axol explains the nature of the titular graveyard as the final resting place for any meme that lose its "relevance".
  • This is the arc with by far the longest pre-arc, with 34 episodes, beginning with the Season 1 episode Super Mario 64 Bloopers: Account Loss, which aired 9 years and 7 days prior to the beginning of the arc.
  • This arc is inspired from Steven Spielberg's 2002 science fiction film, Minority Report.
  • As a tie-in to the arc on July 1, the banner on SMG4's YouTube channel was changed to a new, unique banner that only featured the SMG4 cast. Starting with SMG4: The Internet Graveyard, SMG4's Gang slowly started to morph into the Anti-Cast, while Mario can only look on in fright. After the arc's closure with SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2020, the banner was reverted to the 2019 Glitch Productions banner with Luke and Kevin as well as the Meta Runner cast and was shortly changed to the new banner in its original form with only SMG4's Gang after the launch of the GLITCH channel up until October where the banner started to advertise other Glitch Productions shows such as Meta Runner's second season and Sunset Paradise.

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