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Finally some good fucking news!
I got my friend with that one back in the day. It was Flash so much harder to detect a loop than a video. I told him the ending was hilarious and he managed about 20 minutes of badger badger badger badger badger until he figured it out.
And on the opposite end there was the Demented Cartoon Movie, which was half an hour of nonsense and non-sequitors in an age where most animations were a few minutes long at most. Flash movies didn't have a progress bar at the bottom, so anyone you sent it to was stuck watching the whole thing hoping it would please end already.
It's physically painful to watch today. My fellow Millennials act like Gen Z invented brain rot while ignoring that we grew up with this.
Beavis & Butthead, Jersey Shore, Mr. Ed.
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Have they preserved where the sound gets increasingly out of sync with the video the longer you watch it? Because most archived versions don't have this.
Flash's terrible audio syncing makes it hilarious that the most popular indie rhythm game was built on one of Flash's direct successors.
Also not preserved - me needing to spend a weekend getting the flash plug-in to work on Netscape under Linux. Just to watch a badger loop...
Time well spent.
What really should be preserved is the entirety of Homestar Runner.
It probably has been by someone since it is all on YouTube now, and I think they have revived the site to most of the old functionality (I could be wrong, I'd need to be on PC to really check). The things that YouTube can't preserve is the stuff like the mouse over Easter eggs etc.
HSR is the easiest example of rasterizing Flash content being a bad idea, because there is just so much content. Even just the Sbemails compilation (1-200) is 10 hours, and for a DVD-quality video (480p) that's almost double the size of the HSR collection that I have (2000-2009 from archive org).
The site does work via Ruffle (even the menus, though some links seem broken) and they still make new ones (sbemail-210-robots, backtoawebsite) with Flash versions. There is also an old.homestarrunner so you could probably run this with a browser that still runs Flash, lacking one I'm not sure the exact URL to do so via standalone or even if the links will properly work there.
Local is still probably best, though still a mess with so many SWFs.
I imagine that there are hundreds of swf files! The only way to make it really work is to maybe reconstruct the site locally by hand, and that would need a super fan with all of the free time in the world to accomplish, even with some community help. The creators may have a complete true backup, but as far as I know, it hasn't been released.
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I mean, really, most of Weebl's stuff should be preserved: Amazing Horse, Magical Trevor, Crabs, Telephone Dog ("Hello, this is dog!"), Russian Dancing Men, a ton of others I've forgot.
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Ah but everyone loves magical Trevor.
it’s cause the tricks that he does are ever so clever.
Look at him now, disappearing a cow
Where is the cow? Hidden right now?
12 badgers doing calisthenics while a mushroom and snake occasionally appear on screen, known as “Badger Badger Badger” or “The Badger Song.”
Somehow that description just doesn't do it for me. Im not sure what would, but its not this.
But that's kind of all it is? It's pretty brain-dead IMO.
Well, your opinion is catagorically wrong, but i don't hold that against you. (this is a joke)
Har har. That's not entirely an insult though. Sometimes I enjoy brain-dead things. e.g. there's a newish Beavis & Butt-Head short about AI, and it's much stupider than I could have guessed, but of course I spent my time watching the whole thing.
I feels like this might be a false memory but i remember back then the song is based on the Newgrounds music visualizer where it feature badger and mushroom popping up, which is why this one is so popular back then. But then i can't find anyone mention of this so i'm just confused now.
We're approaching some of the old memes now, the Genesis Memes...
But if you want to brush away even more layers of digital sediment and excavate a truly ancient fossil, there's All your base are belong to us.
All Your Base is the granddaddy of Internet memes and yet I can't help feeling that its specific subgenre was sublimated a bit later on, with this, the legend, the joyful, the unforgettable: Yatta!
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When this was still big, a friend of mine said he saw it and really liked it. I casually said, "Be sure to watch it all the way through!"
I don't know what prompted me to say that.
A few weeks later, we were talking, and he suddenly said, "Oh, BY THE WAY....I tried to watch Badger Badger Badger all the way through..." He said watched for "a while" before he caught on.
If I tried to plan a practical joke, it would never go as well as that one did.
I sent an article about this to him. He laughed.
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Now they need to preserve salad fingers. I’m still creeped out by it and so should future generations.
Hubert Cumberdale, what are you doing here?
It's been like 20 years since I saw salad fingers and I will still sit down and think about it randomly from time to time.
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I was there at the very beginning. I watched the rise of today. From playing Oregon Trail on a teletype computer head in a dingy basement, trying to learn Basic, writing batch files, compiling kernels, and rpm hell.
The Badgers were amazing and mesmerizing and are truly worthy of preservation.
I clicked the post hoping to see the original. I did not. I'm so disappointed in you
Yep
My disappointment is immense, and my day is ruined
Chances are pretty good that it and Mr Weebl's other animations are preserved in their original format (i.e. Flash SWF files) at the free Flashpoint Archive project.
At least some of the old Jib-Jab stuff should be there also, which were some very amusing political parodies and such.
I mixed this into a full length song and got my mate who was the DJ at the school social to play it in full, place went fucking off!
Imagine some future PugJesus type excavating our memes from the archives and reposting this 1000 years from now. 🧐️
Aliens learn to shitpost when they start going through what humanity left behind.
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i must be too old for this. i remember the hampsterdance but i've never heard of this badger-based knockoff.
Peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat!
Hampsterdance, you mean that flash animation that ripped off the song from the old Disney Robin Hood?
If you're too old for this, it's just barely! I feel like badger badger badger came about just a couple years after the hamster dance.
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Hell yeah
Narwhal song when?
They have an interview with the father of the "Charlie but my finger again!" kids, so they're adding some good historical context to it all, too.
As it should be.
Neat-o.
Hilarious to think about how this video is now considered ancient history, one of the oldies.
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