Editing GRIEF (section)

==Trivia==
*GRIEF was rated on 5 October 2026 and placed at #1 on the Demonlist the same day, dethroning Society after three months.
**This addition pushed The Catacombs into the Extended List and [[Kenos]] into the Legacy List after almost seven years.
***With Kenos falling into the Legacy List, no levels from 2019 or the 2010s remain on the Demonlist. Doggie made mention of this on the Demon List Discord server when announcing GRIEF's placement, calling it a 'new era of Geometry Dash'.<ref>https://discord.com/channels/395654171422097420/456448992482689025/1556501550678020107</ref>
***Many have called GRIEF's effect on Kenos strongly poetic, as Doggie used to be an editor for the verifier of Kenos, [[npesta]], and failed at 97% twice on both Kenos and GRIEF.
***Both The Catacombs and Kenos use the same song, 'Iron God: Sakupen Hell Yes RMX'.
*GRIEF is:
**The first Top 1 to use 2-player mode.
**The first Top 1 since [[Avernus]] to be hell themed.
**The first Top 1 since [[Abyss of Darkness]] to not be verified by Zoink or [[wPopoff]].
**The first Top 1 since [[Stalemate Redux]] to use the song 'Stalemate'.
**The third Top 1 level to have an Epic rating, and the first in over eight years, following Bloodlust and [[Digital Descent]].
***Additionally, this makes it the hardest Epic-rated level, surpassing [[Flamewall]].
*GRIEF is one of, if not the fastest, levels to get rated in Geometry Dash history, taking approximately 37 minutes to receive its rating after being published to the servers.
*During his GRIEF verification streams, Doggie took short breaks to play other levels, like daily levels and Slaughterhouse, which became a running joke, with Zoink's famous quote 'get back on GRIEF'.
**Doggie spoke against this joke, as it had been overused to the point where he would see it whenever he took a break due to his arm giving out, and has called it disheartening.<ref>https://x.com/DasherDoggie/status/1905834784464441440</ref>
*After icedcave uploaded the newer version of Slaughterhouse, he reuploaded a copy of the original level with the ID and the title changed (Slaughterhouse > Slaughterhouse II).
*river used to have a decorated part in collaboration with MercuryDT. However, river dropped out of the level due to personal reasons, leaving MercuryDT to finish it.
*The original layout of GRIEF featured a different ending to the pre-drop, as well as omitting the final spam; the latter is also missing in the showcase of the level's finished decoration.
*The monster face featured at the end of MercuryDT and CDMusic's parts, as well as in the original version of Slaughterhouse, was originally made by Cyrillic.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4-b4xXAcsU&t=728s</ref>
*Popular American content creators Steak and CaseOh gave their reactions to GRIEF.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvIzYvVCY4M</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdYTgH7wNyw</ref>
*Doggie faked a 99% run on GRIEF during a [[Vortrox]] stream on 1 April 2025, as an April Fools' joke.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5FCw7y4o6Q&t=1380s</ref>
*On 24 April 2025, Doggie ended up achieving a 56-100% run and a 67% run in a row, in which he said he essentially 'beat the level backwards'.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqg-2kThaSc</ref>
*On 25 May 2025, [[Amethyst]] and [[Thinking Space II]] were successfully verified. Many wanted Doggie to verify GRIEF on this day too, saying it would 'complete the trio'. Although he did not complete GRIEF that day, he reached 65% six times, including a death at 76%, as Doggie had reached a peak in his consistency. The live stream also reached 10,000 concurrent viewers.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqQOC2XBzUU</ref>
**On stream 365, Doggie's stream reached over 55,000 concurrent viewers, his highest viewer count until his verification stream.<ref>https://x.com/DashwordGD/status/2068917696599621941</ref>
*Viewbotting has occurred several times on Doggie's GRIEF streams. A notable example is Stream 289, where his viewer count skyrocketed to an unrealistically high level, peaking at 218,000 near the end.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfAR894poUo</ref>
*[[MindCap]], the host of [[Heliopolis]], posted a long statement on Twitter titled 'Enough' on 7 May 2026, and in that statement mentioned that GRIEF might be harder than Heliopolis.<ref>https://x.com/MindCap/status/2052525131054850185</ref>
*Stell06, known for beating various 'Sh*tty' versions of Extreme Demons from the ''[https://globalshittylist.pages.dev/ Sh*tty List]'', verified the 'Sh*tty' version of GRIEF on 26 April 2026, after 115,385 attempts and 71 greafer deaths.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkyYX8iPCUM</ref> The level placed at #2 on that list.
*There is a level called Deathmate, created by Zronk. It is a redecorated version of Stalemate, inspired by GRIEF. It also has the same song.
*On 17 June 2025, an Insane 8-star parody level of GRIEF named 'GREIF' by wdlucas was set as the [[Daily Level]].
*There is an Extreme Demon parody level named GREFG, based on the Spanish YouTuber TheGrefg, as the name suggests. The level uses a designated mashup of 'Stalemate' by Kayoz X and 'Calvaland Rap' by Zarcort and Piter-G, a song dedicated to TheGrefg's ''[[Wikipedia:Minecraft|Minecraft]]'' series 'Calvaland'.
*Doggie's 'Grief 97% Stream' is on IMDb, an online database consisting of information related to various types of media, where, as of 5 October 2026, it has a rating of 9.9/10.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt43562903/</ref> For a period of approximately two months, the stream held a rating of 10/10 and served as the highest-rated piece of media ever.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/geometrydash/comments/1rs1etp/doggies_grief_stream_283_has_a_10_on_imdb_this/</ref>
*Doggie managed to get 68% and 72% in a row on 18 June 2026, which he considered harder than beating the entirety of GRIEF.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apmslJgRMow&t=11678s</ref>
*Doggie verified GRIEF on 5 October 2026, which is almost exactly one year after he uploaded his Legendary-rated level, [[The End is Here]], on 3 October 2025.
**Additionally, the oldest known upload of the original Slaughterhouse by ToshDeluxe was on 3 October 2015, nearly the same day GRIEF got verified 11 years before.<ref name="ToshDeluxe" />
***Moreover, the oldest public video on Doggie's main channel was uploaded on 4 October 2015, a day after ToshDeluxe's video.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJAWbbcVLEI</ref>
*Upon the verification and release of GRIEF, the game's servers crashed due to the massive influx of players trying to play the level. RobTop later messaged Doggie's Twitch chat, saying, 'you beat grief and my server at the same time'.
*Doggie's verification video of GRIEF reached 1 million views within seven hours, making it one of the fastest Geometry Dash videos to reach this milestone.<ref name="Verification" />
**Due to how fast GRIEF got rated and placed, the Pointercrate Demonlist temporarily had to use Doggie's live stream as the verification footage on the website.
**The intro to the video was created by Pyrox as an homage to that of the original hacked verification of Slaughterhouse by spaceuk.
***The sound bite is a clip of dialogue spoken by a grieving [[Wikipedia:Thor (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Thor]] in the film ''[[Wikipedia:Avengers: Infinity War|Avengers: Infinity War]]''.
*After its rating, the servers would briefly redirect players to GRIEF no matter what they typed in the search bar.
**This issue was mostly fixed, but the servers currently still only show GRIEF if searching 'grief' or 'greif', making the rated levels Grief by Moffe and GREIF by wdlucas unsearchable by name.
*The music artist of 'Stalemate', Kayoz X, gave his reaction to GRIEF being verified on Newgrounds.<ref>https://kayoszx.newgrounds.com/news/post/1666502</ref>
*Wave spam segments at 40% and 87% feature a limit to how many clicks are needed to pass—maximum for 40% is three and 87% is five.
*There was initially a skip that would completely bypass greafer and GrenadeofTacos's parts by staying as a mini-wave in Burgadahz's part and avoiding the sawblade wall in the transition.
**An update patched the skip by adding the cat from [[pg clubstep]] and a spike wall.