Editing Tidal Wave (section)

==Trivia==
*Tidal Wave was rated on 18 February 2024, over five months after its verification, and placed at #1 on the Demonlist on the same day, above Avernus.
**This addition pushed Instinct by Krazyman50 into the Extended List and nevermore into the Legacy List.
**Tidal Wave is regarded as the 43rd instance of the hardest rated level in the game's history.
**Pointercrate temporarily went down due to a sudden spike in web traffic.
**wPopoff verified Amethyst on 25 May 2025. Nine days later, on 3 June 2025, it was rated and placed above Tidal Wave, ending its 471-day reign.
*Tidal Wave is:
**The first three-minute-long Top 1 in the game since [[Zodiac]].
**The first solo Top 1 since [[Sonic Wave]].
**The 10th non-hell-themed Top 1, with the previous one being [[Abyss of Darkness]] in June 2022.
**The level with the most frame-perfects in any rated level, at 200 on 60FPS (1 on 120FPS), more than twice the amount of the previous record held by Avernus (which has 82 frame-perfects on 60FPS).
**The final Top 1 verified in Update 2.1.
**The first Top 1 rated in Update 2.2.
**The third Top 1 in a row to be verified by Zoink.
**The second beach-themed level on the Demonlist since Azure Fiesta, and the first beach-themed level to be placed on the Main List.
**The fifth level to hold the #1 spot on the Demonlist for over a year, after [[Bloodbath]], [[Bloodlust]], Tartarus, and [[Acheron]].
***It is also the first level to hold this distinction that is not a hell-themed level.
**The level with the longest span of time at #1 uninterrupted, surpassing Tartarus' previous 418-day record.
**Formerly the level with the longest time of having no new victors, with 421 days passing between wPopoff becoming the second victor and SerVax becoming the third victor.
***[[BOOBAWAMBA]] would surpass this length, with 430 days passing between EastShark1 verifying the level and agonom becoming the first victor.
**First Extreme Demon since Bloodlust, whose verification video surpassed the 10-million-view mark.
*Tidal Wave, if rated and placed on the Demonlist on the day of its verification, would have pushed [[Yatagarasu]] into the Legacy List of the Demonlist.
*Despite being the first Top 1 in Update 2.2, Tidal Wave was verified and released in Update 2.1, making it the final Top 1 verified during Update 2.1.
*Tidal Wave's title card at 22% became a running gag or meme among the community members.
**Community members would often type angle brackets '<' in unison on an unrelated post on social media that remotely mentions Tidal Wave's name.
**Tidal Wave was sometimes involved in 'jumpscare' type of videos, similar to [[Congregation]].
*At over 11 million views, Zoink's verification video of Tidal Wave is currently his most popular YouTube video, followed by his verification video of [[Thinking Space II]] at 4.5 million views.
*Buk, Fear, GoMask, Snoween, and T'im playtested Tidal Wave.
*After the Tidal Wave verification, WatchPiggy jokingly posted a fake screenshot of his 49% fail.<ref>https://x.com/WatchPiggyy/status/1700959437417316668</ref> Many other players followed suit, such as Kaza<ref>https://x.com/Kaza_GD/status/1700994397905805468</ref> and [[Xanii]],<ref>https://x.com/_Xanii_/status/1700999451387859411</ref> causing the screenshot to circulate widely on Twitter for several weeks.
*SerVax thinks that a 25-100% run on Amethyst is harder than beating Tidal Wave.
*The quote 'Drown them' in Tidal Wave's description references the Tidal Wave Pool at the infamous [[Wikipedia:Action Park|Action Park]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flkW-ceNvck</ref>
*[[Riot]] aimed to beat Tidal Wave as his final achievement in his Geometry Dash career based on a Twitter poll.<ref>https://x.com/xriott/status/1790170117159968880</ref> His followers opted for him to beat Tidal Wave instead of completing Zodiac, a level he had previously attempted in 2021. Before going completely inactive, he streamed Tidal Wave on his [https://www.twitch.tv/riot Twitch channel] for a few months.
*[https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/KreekCraft KreekCraft], a popular [[Wikipedia:Roblox|''Roblox'']] YouTuber and Twitch streamer, reacted to Tidal Wave while streaming himself playing Geometry Dash for the first time after the live stream chat told him to play it. After reacting to the level and realising its intense difficulty, he lectured the chat about it.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ0EGlIDxQ8</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYzEgF0Z9l4</ref>
**When KreekCraft streamed himself playing Geometry Dash for the second time, he was told again by the chat to play Tidal Wave, after which he actually played it towards the end of the stream. However, he made no progress before uninstalling the game out of annoyance.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ICv9Rvv8C0</ref>
*Tidal Wave is part of the community-made '[[Wikipedia:CMYK color model|CMYK tetralogy]]', along with Amethyst, Thinking Space II, and [[Flamewall]].
*On 19 June 2024, Dahzen's Harder 6* level was featured as the Daily Level, sharing the same name as the Extreme Demon. Commenters joked about the level's title, relating it to the Extreme Demon of the same name, including [[Colon]], who said 'yeah can i get the' about a popular meme related to the Extreme Demon.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa-39uSzfLI</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3r-B8MQE0Q&t=90s</ref>
*OniLink's first level, a mega-collaboration he hosted called Fountain of Youth,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbrivdY3YPY</ref> is a heavily The Golden-inspired level with colourful decoration and wave-based gameplay, reminiscent of that of his future level Tidal Wave. The success of Fountain of Youth would push OniLink to create more similar levels, one of which would be Tidal Wave.
*Netermind thinks that achieving 85% on Thinking Space II is more difficult than completing Tidal Wave.<ref>https://x.com/Netrimer/status/2040993030673416583</ref>
*OniLink has made an unofficial prequel to Tidal Wave called Low Tide. He showcased the level's layout on his channel on 10 September 2024.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5XnEv6wXz8</ref> OniLink left Low Tide to be decorated by other creators, such as Houmaid, who uploaded their first video of unfinished decoration of the level on 2 October 2024.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szZj1Z_sYGg</ref>
**Houmaid published six more previews on his channel, the last on 21 July 2025.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnX0lBNKGAM&</ref> On 25 August 2025, he showcased the final product of his creation.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoL5ioBHfvU</ref>
*Tidal Wave has been acknowledged by Dion Timmer, the creator of the level's song, and the footage of it was used by him during his set at the 2026 Thunderdome event.<ref>https://x.com/diontimmermusic/status/2021650234984857869?s=20</ref>
*Tidal Wave has an official, though unfinished, sequel named Tsunami, made by OniLink as a solo project, which is set to be eventually verified by Zoink.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx5GdRHkMBg</ref>
*Zoink verified [[Artemis 13]] exactly three years after Tidal Wave.
*The placement of [[GRIEF]] on 5 October 2026 pushed Tidal Wave out of the Top 5 of the Demonlist.