a 1 hour critique on a 16 minute video is WILD (and deserved)

10:18 worst part is that the sawblade rotation is randomized if it's not custom which makes it even more hilarious

i'm starting to think this video is made bad on purpose. like there's NO WAY some of these are serious

lmao you made it a video 😭 also random but i remember one of his "tips" being to use a rotate trigger to slow down object rotations 😭😭😭

A thing i dont like about ”build hacks” videos, is that they kill creativity, instead they should make turorials on how to improve on diffrent styles, instead of showing me how to make a saw more spiky

The worst part is, Waboo has some rated levels. They’re not very good, but he clearly has some technical skill in the editor. I can only see this as him intentionally trying to fuck over beginning creators.

heyy, usually i don't go for making comment since i don't like getting involved in drama but i kinda had to : The "hack" number 65 at 46:06 was from me, i made a little tutorial on how to chose colors to create gradient with only one color to make "layer" for background arts for people who struggle doing it, this was never meant to be for block design... I was surprised to also see that waboo cropped my picture to avoid crediting me and i'm kinda disappointed he presented the tuto wrongly and without even wondering what the tutorial was for

41:22 Hey so at "hack" #58, it was coming from me out of Waboo hitting me up if I have any sort of editor knowledge so I gave what I've got. To be honest, Waboo explained it really poorly and I kinda find it funny how he presented the wrong object. From what I've explained to Waboo is that I just think this specific crescent shaped object from what you and Jeyzor presented is really good if you wanna make some lineart for art with the warp mechanic. I made the cat art as an example and I didn't expect that Waboo would put that in the vid, but I don't really mind that he didn't give me credit to be fair. And I also find it kinda funny how your chat is saying that the cat art is AI generated lol. Of course the cat isnt made entirely out of this one crescent object, I'm not a menace. idk why Waboo stated it that way. And now with creators heavily criticizing this vid it actually made me feel second hand embarrassment coming from this, but I heavily thank Jeyzor for clearing it up honestly.

I learned more from your critique then from the tutorial itself lol

Ever since I saw waboo's way of voting for creations in his competitions, I realised that this man is a walking joke

54:33 move over Reunomi, the REAL ARTISTS are in town!

watching the waboo video was like watching the video of the girl holding a spoon upside down which makes her unable to eat some cereal and the solution she comes up with is using a hammer to bash the back side of the spoon to make the cereal edible with it it makes it so much worse with the "and look, it looks so much better now"

45:17 Just if anyone didn’t know, entering the editor at all immediately unverifies the level.

Waboo smoking, Jeyzor and ZeroSR cooking 🔥🔥🔥

i have 4 years of expirience in gd editor and this waboo video made me cry , im giving waboo a gd content farm title from now on because the quality of his videos isnt any better than those

The words 'like to dislike ratio' gave me mental whiplash, it's literally been a while since someone said that

Someone should make a joke level that follows every one of these rules

The tip about listening to your levels music in practice is actually valid.. you don't have to buy it but it only works on your levels

15:47 your reaction was pure gold loooool

one thing wrong with the first one is that most orbs pulse, unless you use a pulsing block then it wont work

51:26 OH MY JOSH RING OBJECTS ACTUALLY EXIST? LET'S GOOOOOOO

3:53 Link visible wont always render the object for the entirety of the level, it only renders all of the linked group objects IF at least one object of that group is on screen. You can still unload them, you just need all of the linked objects to be offscreen to do so.

Just wanted to say thank you for being you :)) Your videos are very entertaining and I love your levels so much !!

Waboo is still in 1.6

35:45 The only reason I use ANY image importing mod (I use Geomtrize2GD) is as a blueprint for stuff such as music symbols and portal icons

53:10 BRO, THE GUY IN CHAT SAYING “How to be Xanii tutorial,” LMAO

20:35 i also think its tied to framerates so yeah just use color groups also its not an original tip, i saw it before from someone else

Creator tip 17 is going to be in all my maps going forward

waboo is the jaystation of the gd community

After Jeyzor's video on it, this is guaranteed to become a meme haha

How tf did i never know you existed bro You hella underrated😭 Also as an someone who watches waboo for a long time the video definitely seens like some sort of social experiment to test how his audience reacts or something

32:52 ah yes, with that we can make a rateworthy level with a single object that has more than 10 groups xD

good stuff!

4:24 You are thinking of the Practice music sync option that is not free. The option he is talking about will only work in levels you have made in the Create menu is "Enable normal music in editor" and is free.

You have joined the list of Waboo skeptics. Wonderful

Yes, I know that if you go to practice mode for a level that you didn't create, it will say that you need a "Music Unlocker" to enable that setting, but what he's actually saying is that you can use that option in the EDITOR, not another level that you didn't create, no, he's talking about a level that YOU created, not a level from another creator

17:07 Who is this sonic wave infinity guy trying to defend waboo in every tip 😭😭

heres some more things from the video in the description and some stuff i found funny 1. the orb pulses so it doesnt even work properly 3. it causes MAJOR lag 9. this is already a block, you do not need to manually make it 16. the hitbox does not change even if you do that 17. there is already a flower object 22. this door does not look like it takes hundreds of objects 25. use objects from the saws tab 27. there is already a bpm trigger to set out guidelines 29. "Around the same quality" 31. put actual effort into it instead of cloning it and please hue shift them (color theory exists) 35. select filter 38. actually make buildings instead of this lmao 39. what kind of clouds does waboo see outside to think this is a "detailed cloud" 41. that would have been useful 5 tips ago 42. you still gotta add a spike hitbox lil bro 45. stealing 2 46. just dont stack them 48. you can make this with 1 particle trigger 49. read the last part of 31 again 51. you should trace art... - waboo (also it doesnt even appear when playing the level) 52. literally does not impact the flow, just make it sync 53. you can just press T 54. "Warp trigger" 56. there are already circle objects 58. that was not made with moons, you cannot color that moon object properly. they used the crescent shaped object (as you can see by the mouth and a few other details having the same exact shape) 60. why is it yellow?? 61. why do you need to copy it that many times just use the version with 2 of them and clone it turned 90 degrees. also edit special again 62. or make a level 64. add variation 65. this guy needs to learn color theory oh my god 66. just detail it normally so you know how detailed it should be, you dont need a billion blocks for this 1 block 68. for gods sake edit special exists 69. THEN WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU SAY IT IS A PERFECT CIRCLE??? theres also a circle object 72. why 73. literally just put a square behind it you dont gotta use that face that isnt even the right icon 74. 11.5k objects just stop trusting this man at this point 75. static frame 10 76. "INSTEAD of clicking the color button, click the color button twice" 77. again, orbs pulse 78. he turned off animation previews because it wont look like a laser beam lmao 79. there are better objects 80. this is a really overcomplicated way to make a rainbow trigger 81. its difficult to see but it looks like the black squares are rotating when they arent 83. dont

I love how the chat is saying “it’s ai, I just checked” when they probably just checked the comments on the tip video and found one saying it’s made by ai 17:25 lol

I'm glad I watched at least one of these response videos, I never knew you could hold shift to activate swipe mode... It's really funny how Waboo assumes the viewer has never seen anything related to creating art before, what with the suggestions to plagiarize, and explaining hueshifting as if nobody has ever heard of the idea that darker things are more blue due to how shadows work. ..."You now have a super-detailed block that looks good", that's just called blocking Waboo from all recommendations and never thinking of that channel again. Genuinely painful.

As a guy who made so many levels in GD, the 83 tips in creating by Waboo is the worst Geometry Dash creating tutorial I have ever watched imo

3:26 How dare you insult the gradient trigger like this, Waboo?!

This video really makes me want to see a "theory of design" video for gd creating (that may also be applicable for other things outside of gd). Maybe one already exists, but I haven't seen it.

44:43 and with that secret way tip you'll still need to verify it since you'll make it a classic mode level again

25:25 it's either if you wanna multiplicate your value (useful for brighter colors), or add a value (useful for darker ones)

as someone whos never played gd, never made a level, knows barely surface level details, this video is incredibly intriguing and ill probably end up watching more. well done! you sound super insightful on everything you're saying, without coming off as condescending

I use the HSV with the box checked off since I like seeing the negative and positive numbers since I always think of the unchanged value as "0"

Dang you made this video insanely fast !! ❤️

38:21 i've found hold-to-swipe really useful when editing on mobile, since it means i don't need to remember to un-swipe after

For number 47, it says it counts as one object, but it doesn’t. It just all selects when you select one. It still counts as multiple objects.

Some comments: 18:50 can be just 3 objects bc the white square can be scaled on y-axis to 2x and bc there is a triangle glow and rectangle glow 38:50 on mobile, personally, hold to swipe is a godsend, but on PC I would probably agree if I used the PC version

Its like that "100 facts you didnt know about butters" and a shit ton were false or mixed up

11:00 also saws on default are random, so sometimes it’ll go super fast. Using rotate trigger is only applicable if you have used edit special

25:24 the checkbox is there for changing between multiplicative brightness and saturation, and additive. Its only purpose is for the color black, since its values are 0,0,0 no matter how much you multiply them, it will remain black

So normally, the saturation and brightness slider in the hsv thing, are actually set multiplication, and the check boxes will change them to addition and subtraction. Take the following scenario as an example: You have a white block and you want to give it a color with hsv (and just to make this less random/useless sounding, let's just say you're keeping it as a preset on your custom object tab as you're too lazy to manually make color it over and over again). Now normally, you'd make it saturated with the saturation slider, but since white has no saturation, it does nothing, because it's multiplying it by zero. However, if you use the check box, it'll instead add saturation, making it possible to add color to a completely white block using the hsv sliders.

The saw filler one actually helped me make a shitty demon 💀

30:20 When doing a pixel theme, i've found some pixel slopes to look better and stand out more than some pixel spikes (but by scaling, not warping lol)

I love how he just straight up breaks down laughing at wubooh at 7:12

25:15 it adds or subtarcts that value of the color, instead of multiplying it, useful if you'll change the brightness constantly

i love that not only jeysor made a video about waboo, but also you

16:00 - That kinda sounds like a mistake I made when I tried motion blur movement. While I was starting out making levels. I copied the exact same object multiple times, and the thing is that those hitboxes were still there and I didn't even realized.

[46:13] This is literally that meme "Step 1. draw a circle... Step 2 -- draw the rest of the fucking owl."

38:45 as a mobile player the swipe button is always where my thumb finger is so it's just more convenient rather than using hold to swipe

25:19 from what I can guess, with the checkbox the value is a flat additiong and without it it's a multiplier

For number 49, you don’t always have to make it darker. You can also make it brighter to match the theme

For number 48, you only need one particle trigger to do that. You don’t need two.

35:59 did you guys see that spirit orb? i think his house is haunted

never did I imagine to see the equivalent of 5 minute crafts for Geometry Dash

17:38, I'm on mobile, it does take a little bit of time to get used to, but eventually you can become really fast with it

25:52 "I would advise not to use them because of low quality" literally nearly all art creators who use them for highlights:

I always wanted to shift a cube 😭

1. "Did you know that (thing made in gd) can be recreated in gd?" 2. "You can actually make this in gd" * does it in the most unoptimal way possible * 3. * PLAGIARISM * 4. "You can make this in gd" * doesn't show how to even do it* 5. * Actually really useful tip * Build Hacks in a nutshell.

19:37 I feel like calling that "opticall illussion" was unintentional, because it isn't

In 16:30, it's probally fine if the obvious ground that need to touch is front and the another block backing off (but tbh aside from layout deco, it's terrible)

Zero helping us so much, dude thank you so much for doing this man. Awesome content.

He asked his community for many of these ideas, which explains why so many of them are overly-specific or just look bad. I'm guessing he used ChatGPT to generate the script too, cause there's no WAY he could look at some of these "hacks" and describe them himself as he does. Great video too, btw. I hope every new creator who clicks on Waboo's vid is automatically redirected to this one, since you provide actually helpful tips.

1. Usually doesnt work due to the orb pulsing.

39:13 nah this is conditional, if you use blending and alter the color a little bit it can work really well

I actually think that video might be a joke, cuz of that “you are finally making a good level thing.”

2:03 i swear i saw orbs like that in a gauntlet level it was glorious fortress... those orbs were STOLEN AAAAHHAHAHDGFHDNDKWJ

Ain't no way you actually making this into an video 💀

This entire video was just insanity but the real highlight was making a canvas out of 18k dots to make some simple art that could be recreated with under 10 objects and BETTER

39:18 btw, his camera covers it, but Waboo treated the color (C) as the object count seriously, you need to know what each thing means, and the object count is conviniently named "Objects:" "C" is color, "C1" is color 1 and "C2" is color 2 "Layer" is the Z layer, "Z" is the Z order, and "EL" are the editor layers, separating layer 1 form layer 2 by a comma "Order" provides the Order and the channel of a trigger, orb, pad, or portal (every object that has those 2 without being one of them have it for nothing) and the numbers at the end are the coordinates

Also imagine if Waboo makes a post/video later down the line saying this was satire

the problem is waboo has CREATOR POINTS, which makes this so a CREATOR is goving out the shittiest tips lmao

Thx for this video. I also watched the stream :)

2:20 the orbs pulse and the circle behind it doesn’t pulse 10:35 im not even good at creating and I know that trick 💀💀💀 23:37 what was he on when he was talking abt a mod 24:42 waste of objects 28:58 that is not a cloud

You don't have to buy the normal music in editor in the shop, you have to buy music thing or whatever it is called in the mechanic's shop and it makes you hear level music in practice mode rather than practice music, I think you can also change the music of the main menu with it

I don't wanna see the recent tab anymore after that video😭

At this point I am hoping this is a social experiment.

15:13 me when i copy paste and somehow i create a block design

THE ILOGISTICS BLOCK REVEAL WAS JAW-DROPPING HOW DOES HE DO IT 😭😭

Btw, the link visible trigger doesn't work. The group ID just clears when the level saves :)

A secret way is wild, never add those unless its for the funny

For number 56 I don’t even know why you would ever need that.

I just wanted to say, now that ive seen this in multiple videos, you don’t actually have to buy the setting to enable normal music in the editor. You only have to for regular levels

4:30 two things that no one is actually considering: 1. You don't actually need to use 2000 diamond shards (you get one for every diamond you get) to use it in the "Create" tab 2. That option is enabled by default, so if you're only a creator with no diamonds, is not only useful, but you don't need to manually activate it

15:14 BRO EVERY SINGLE PERSON DIED AT THIS PART LMAO

DUDE i forever thought link controls were in some kind of better editor mod, WHYYYYY did rob not make this appear by default

35:56 what he says is that you can(n't if you are an iOS user) use the mod "Art importer" to put images in GD, let's say you're an artist, and make a really cool animation, and want it to be in GD, you can import some frames with the mod, of course, importing every single frame is hard, because you need to get them, and is not like the video files store each frame, in fact, they store the changes (in the case of .mp4 files, I don't know with the rest), but you can use move and rotate triggers in some cases to optimize it and you could make a completely new animation just for a GD, is not necessary plagiarism