Gabe The Dog Bork Remixes

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Gabe the Dog Bork Remixes are YouTube Poop Music Videos that sample the sharp bark of a small Pomeranian and American Eskimo mix, cutting each 'bork' into pitched notes that play the melody of a familiar pop, rap, or lounge track. The format started in early 2013 after Gabe's owner uploaded clean bark audio for other editors to sample.

Overview

Gabe the Dog Bork Remixes are YouTube Poop Music Videos, or YTPMVs, that use the sharp bark of a small dog as the melody line of a pop, rap, or lounge track3. The subject is Gabe, a miniature mix of American Eskimo and Pomeranian whose short 'bork' pitches cleanly into individual musical notes when sliced by editors1.

The pull of the format is the contrast between a small, high-pitched bark and whatever song is picked. Editors have set Gabe's barks to genres ranging from smooth jazz standards to hip-hop, with each bork acting as a single note in the arrangement1.

How It Spread

An early standout bork edit came from YouTube user shaliek on January 27, 2013, syncing Gabe's barks to Herb Alpert's 'The Midnight Tango' and clearing 400,000 views over the next few years3. Lewdachris followed on February 6 with a version built on 'Time to Air' by 青龍 that passed 130,000 views. On June 14, 2013, user skylark posted a bork-only cover of Kanye West's 'I Am A God' that pulled over 160,000 views.

deathtrips also made popular edits himself, including versions of Yolanda Be Cool's 'We No Speak Americano' with over 200,000 views and Dr. Dre's 'The Next Episode' with more than 175,000 views1. On July 4, 2014, user widddddd flipped the format by swapping the bark for a teenage boy shouting an expletive, an edit that pulled roughly 150,000 views on its own.

Gabe died on the morning of January 19, 2017 from heart complications, announced the next day on the official Gabe the Dog Facebook page2. The post pulled thousands of tribute comments within an hour of going live. Memorial threads for the dog appeared on 4chan and Reddit the same day.

How to Use This Meme

Making a bork edit typically starts with clean bark samples pulled from deathtrips' two source clips1. Editors pitch-shift each bark to match individual notes in a target song, then arrange them into the melody line while cutting Gabe's video to the beat. Common convention is to keep the arrangement recognizable enough that the source song is obvious within the first few seconds.

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