A few years ago, I found myself with a bit of free time... and I had an idea. Speedruns were popular, so why not a speed run of the most ridiculous genre possible?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k1bLBy7gQPI
What made things fun was the number of random actions that could mess up a speedrun. (I kept footage of several partial runs...)
A few years later, the video suddenly began getting thousands of views due to Zork being included in Black Ops. YouTube sent me an email inviting me to monetize the video, but as I was using footage from the game, I didn't feel as though I could click the "I own all copyrights" button. Not sure how everyone else gets around that...
I've seen more text adventure speedrun recently, but I like to think I was somehow the forerunner...