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Shittyflute covers became a popular YouTube joke format in the mid 2010s, built around famous themes performed badly on recorder to make them sound cheap and out of tune. This version applies that treatment to the Thomas the Tank Engine theme, a melody generations know from the children's television series that began in 1984. Editors later began bass boosting these clips for extra distortion, similar in spirit to a bass drop sound effect, and the combination spread through meme edits, Discord chats and short video remixes.
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The Thomas the Tank Engine theme played badly on recorder and heavily bass boosted for a distorted, off-key meme sound used in joke edits and videos.
This clip takes the cheerful Thomas the Tank Engine theme and ruins it on purpose, played on a squeaky recorder in the wobbly shittyflute style. The notes are off key, breathy and uneven, then the whole thing is pushed through heavy bass boosting so the low end booms and distorts. That clash between a familiar children's melody and the messy, overblown sound is what makes it funny. It lands like a badly performed cover that keeps getting louder, turning instant recognition into a ridiculous, ear rattling punchline.
