As it should.
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.
Why is this comment such a deja vu?
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
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.
What you say?!
Does anyone else remember Mahir, the Turkish stud? Or, am I really showing my age…?
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!
I remember this cat video I liked.
🎶 Cat , I’m a kitty cat, and I dance dance dance. And I dance dance dance. 🎵
And I wanted to make it my ring tone. Back when phones were just starting to let you have custom tones.
And I sent the creator an email and asked if I could have a mp3. And he responded and sent it and I was like.
“Omg. This famous guy who made this video with like 10,000 views talked to me!”
I remember bragging to my friends that this famous video creator talked to me online.
Simpler times.
Now it’s 24 million views On YouTube. I’m pretty sure I messaged them on black sheep or some other video site that was popular around 2006.
I literally bragged breathlessly about exchanging a few words with the klingon actor from the new star trek (he’s a nice fellow) to my wife. Honestly, the way I lit up I wonder if that’s what made her want to watch SNW then TNG, like back to back
She enjoyed SNW but TNG she is fucking loving. Her crush on riker is almost as bad as mine
I had an anthropology tutor who is a renowned Trekkie
She is mentioned by name
There was a discussion about gender fluidity and she was so happy when the example of Dax came up as an example of falling for a person can remain while their body changes
That was almost thirty years ago, but I still remember her
Hell yeah
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!
That’s wayy too much
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
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!
Finally some good fucking news!
🍄🍄
🐍!
It’s a 🐍!
🦡🦡🦡🦡
🐍
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.
Strawberry Pancakes decremented the population count on every loop due to the end of loop shooting. If you let it run to 0 the victim would be replaced by a zombie.
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.
It’s been like 20 years since I watched that, and it held up way better than I expected. Surprisingly good comedic timing.
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.
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.
The archive is here
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
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…
You forgot something? Kenya believe it?
probably not the most popular but Babies was always my favorite lol
See the friendly lions, only in Kenya!
Come to Kenya, we’ve got lions!
