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I clicked the post hoping to see the original. I did not. I'm so disappointed in you
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!
Hell yeah
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.
Man may be temporary, but shitposts are eternal
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.
The Cheat is grounded!
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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!
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
I've seen things, I've seen them with my eyes
You forgot something? Kenya believe it?
I remember I told a class group the best part of Amazing Horse was at the ending. Someone admitted to watch quite a few loops before asking if it did end indeed. Good times.
Haha, I did essentially the same thing once. I sent a friend a link a link to badger badger and told her the best part has to be the dog thing, definitely keep watching till you get to the dog...
She was like "I watched for almost 20 minutes you asshole!"
Good times...
See the friendly lions, only in Kenya!
Come to Kenya, we've got lions!
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. Flash movies didn't have a progress bar at the bottom, so anyone you sent it to was stuck watching the whole thing just 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.
Oh god, it still exists! Now we just need four head shave cut and the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny to complete the chronicle!
Beavis & Butthead, Jersey Shore, Mr. Ed.
Rotten content is a product of capitalism
I believe the phrase you're looking for is "decadent capitalist pigs" - best spoken in a faux Russian accent.
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?
taking his bow, it's magical Trevor
Neat-o.
Hilarious to think about how this video is now considered ancient history, one of the oldies.
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.
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.
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Narwhal song when?
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?
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