Summoning Salt

Summoning Salt
Personal information
Born
United States
Occupation(s)Speedrunner, YouTuber
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2017–present
GenreSpeedrunning documentaries
Subscribers1.9 million[1]
Total views228 million[1]
100,000 subscribers
1,000,000 subscribers

Last updated: 31 May 2024

Summoning Salt ("Salt" for short) is an American speedrunner and YouTuber known for his video documentaries about the history of speedrunning records. As of December 2024, his channel has over 1.9 million subscribers and more than 228 million views.[2]

Speedrunning career

Summoning Salt is one of the leading speedrunners of the NES video game Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (MTPO).[3] As of November 2024, he holds the records for a variety of MTPO categories, including single-segment (playing through the entire game in one sitting), where his 14:46 time is over 13 seconds faster than the No. 2 speedrunner.[4] In addition, he has held the record for the fastest Mike Tyson boss fight since 2017. After setting his current world record in June 2024, he wrote that it took him "more than 40,000 Tyson attempts" to lower his time from 2:01 to 2:00.[5]

Salt also plays the game blindfolded, and set a single-segment world record in 2022.[6][7] As of November 2024, he is the only player to have completed the game blindfolded in under 20 minutes.[4]

Unlike many speedrunners, Salt guards his identity and streams his world record attempts on Twitch without showing his face.[8] He has, however, disclosed that he is a fan of several Bay Area sports teams, including the San Francisco Giants and the San Jose Sharks, as well as the Philadelphia Eagles.[9] The name "Summoning Salt" was coined from a mispronunciation of "seasoning salt", originally derived from a video by British YouTuber Stuart Ashen.[10][11]

Video documentaries

Salt began making speedrunning documentaries after watching a livestream by fellow speedrunner Sinister1 about the history of speedrunning records for one specific MTPO fight.[12] In January 2017, Salt released "World Record Progression: Mike Tyson".[12] Because of its positive reception, Salt started producing videos about other video games. His style was inspired by sports video documentarian Jon Bois.[8] By March 2022, Salt's channel was popular enough that he was able to quit his job and begin producing videos on a full-time basis.[13]

By March 2022, Salt had over 30 speedrun histories documented and 1.25 million subscribers; less than two years later, his documentary count had doubled. His videos have also crept up in length and complexity, frequently hitting the 45-minute mark.[14] Some of his more recent videos are as long as feature films;[15][16] his MTPO video was over 2 hours long.[17]

According to Salt, the research is the longest step of producing a video: "I have to contact various community members, form a small Discord server, ask questions, watch tutorials, [and] play the game itself."[14] Finding the narrative is another factor: "I have to figure out which storylines are important, what to emphasize, and how to emphasize it. This process also takes several weeks."[14]

In September 2022, his video about the history of Mega Man 2 speedruns was repeatedly age-restricted, first for "excessive swearing," and following a successful appeal, breaking a "sex and nudity policy" despite having no sexual or nude content. News outlets reported that Salt's saga exemplified the confusing moderating system of YouTube.[18][19][20]

In January 2021, Salt was featured in a podcast by the Video Game History Foundation.[21] He narrated Running with Speed, a documentary about the speedrunning community, which was released on streaming platforms on January 6, 2023.[22]

Reception

Salt's videos have been featured on Kotaku,[23][24] Mashable,[25][26] Vice,[27] and Polygon.[3] Jay Castello of Eurogamer called Summoning Salt "the most famous creator in the speedrun history space".[14] Adam Downer of Know Your Meme said: "Any video game fan and YouTube enjoyer has likely stumbled across Summoning Salt, arguably the internet's premier speedrunning historian who has carved a significant niche on the platform with his lengthy, detailed and surprisingly gripping documentaries about the history of various video games' world record speedruns."[28] About his video regarding the history of level 4-2 in Super Mario Bros., Polygon's Charlie Hall said: "Using archival footage and in-depth knowledge of the speedrunning community, Summoning Salt has created a legitimate documentary of the level. Not only does he explain the tricks and techniques needed to get through it as quickly as possible, he focuses on the evolution of those strategies over time and the people who discovered them. It's a master class in speedrunning a classic Nintendo game, and an excellent entrée into the genre as a whole."[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "About Summoning Salt". YouTube.
  2. ^ "Summoning Salt - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
  3. ^ a b c Hall, Charlie (January 30, 2018). "How speedrunners cracked Super Mario Bros. level 4-2". Polygon. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! - Speedrun.com". www.speedrun.com. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
  5. ^ Bailey, Dustin (June 4, 2024). "It took 4 years and 40,000 attempts to shave 1 second off this Mike Tyson's Punch-Out speedrun, and "it could be many years" before the record is broken again". gamesradar. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
  6. ^ Mäki, Jonas (March 8, 2022). "Punch-Out speedrun record set by blindfolded player". Gamereactor UK. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  7. ^ Wilcox, Matthew (March 7, 2022). "New Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! World Record Set by Blindfolded Player". ScreenRant. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  8. ^ a b Thielmeyer, Max. "YouTube's Voice of Speedrunning Talks Music, GDQ, And New 'Running With Speed' Documentary". Forbes. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
  9. ^ Summoning Salt. "SummoningSports". Twitter. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
  10. ^ "Play it faster, play it weirder: how speedrunning pushes video games beyond their limits". The Guardian. September 28, 2021. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  11. ^ 30 Year Old Food Parcel | Ashens. Retrieved April 22, 2024 – via www.youtube.com.
  12. ^ a b Castello, Jay (March 5, 2022). "Meet the YouTubers turning speedruns into incredible stories". Eurogamer.net. Retrieved December 12, 2024.
  13. ^ Summoning Salt (March 17, 2022). "As of today, I'm officially doing YouTube fulltime..." Twitter. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
  14. ^ a b c d "Meet the YouTubers turning speedruns into incredible stories". Eurogamer.net. March 5, 2022. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  15. ^ The History of Super Mario Bros 3 100% World Records, archived from the original on October 18, 2023, retrieved October 18, 2023
  16. ^ The History of Lego Star Wars World Records, archived from the original on September 22, 2023, retrieved October 18, 2023
  17. ^ The History of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out World Records, retrieved February 4, 2024
  18. ^ Machkovech, Sam (September 30, 2022). "YouTube age-restriction quagmire exposed by 78-minute Mega Man documentary [Updated]". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  19. ^ Wolens, Joshua (October 3, 2022). "A Mega Man documentary has been deemed too sexy by YouTube's baffling content rules". PC Gamer. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  20. ^ "YouTube Declares Mega Man 2 Documentary Too Sexy For Kids". Kotaku. October 4, 2022. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  21. ^ Kunimune, Robin (January 20, 2021). "Ep. 15: Speedrunning Around with Summoning Salt". Video Game History Foundation. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  22. ^ "A new documentary will tell the "peculiar story of the fastest video game players in the world"". Tubefilter. December 23, 2022. Archived from the original on December 28, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  23. ^ "The Incredible Story Of Mario Kart: Double Dash's Hidden Shortcuts". Kotaku. July 24, 2022. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  24. ^ "Legendary Mario 64 Record For Collecting All The Stars Finally Broken". Kotaku. May 5, 2017. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  25. ^ Beck, Kellen (May 30, 2021). "A 'Super Mario Bros.' speedrunning history captures the fight for human perfection". Mashable. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  26. ^ Beck, Kellen (March 15, 2017). "The history of 'Mario Kart 64' world records, glitches and all". Mashable. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  27. ^ "Watch the History of Game-Breaking 'Mario Kart' Ultra Shortcuts". Vice. August 27, 2018. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  28. ^ "YouTube Keeps Changing Its Story For Why It Age-Restricted A Summoning Salt Video About 'Mega Man 2'". Know Your Meme. October 5, 2022. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.

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