SpikeytheCactus (once known as desert pickle in late 2024) is a lostwave YouTuber known for his "lostwave be like" series, memes surrounding about lostwave in general and also for posting a reasonable amount of unknown songs himself. He also talks about the current statuses of the unknown songs, that being Cold Cases or Nearly Solved.
Whenever a song is found, Spikey hearts a comment that mentions the artist and the actual name of the song.
History[]
On July 25, 2017, SpikeytheCactus registered his account, starting to post lostwave-related content inearly 2024. The channel then focused on helping identify unknown songs, announce recently found songs and upload unknown songs.
On March 22, 2024, Spikey registered a second YouTube account, focused on shitpost/meme content unrelated to lostwave itself.
On April 24, 2024, Spikey started a series of video called "Lostwave | Cold Case". In the description of the playlist, he describes it as lostwave songs that seemingly have no leads, not much attention or even searches that were abandoned.
On May 6, 2024, Spikey uploaded the first "lostwave be like:" video onto his channel, which gathered over 52k views. The most recent episode is Part 8 of the series.
What is "lostwave be like"?[]
"lostwave be like:" originates from a meme format called "(insert anything music-related here) be like:". It uses meme footage over songs, to show a particular band or musicians appreciation or just to meme about them. An example can be Listening to Radiohead be like.
In each part of the series, the videos consists of lost songs that are either marked as solved by their respective title and artist or unsolved with their placeholder names. These videos usually last from one to six minutes. The only exceptions are "lostwave be like: part 4 (fan requests)", "lostwave be like: part 4.5 (shorts edition)" and "lostwave be like: part 5 (500 subscriber special)".