Not the best comparison. A spinning chip with a loop of Funky Town would almost certainly just be taking two things made by someone else and slapping them together. Badger Badger was made as an original piece of music with original animations by Mr Weebl. Even if both are somewhat mindless, one is a soulless asset swap while the other is an all original multimedia creation created by someone who genuinely put effort into bringing mirth into other people’s lives.
Totally agree. And timing. Big platforms didn’t exist, or were still small. The internet was still new to a lot of people and no phones to access it. We had to go to a website on a PC and actively choose to watch it.
I could be wrong but that feels more special than a video liked and shared over a big corp messaging app.
It meant you probably found it because a real person showed it to you and the two of you shared a human moment rather than you were thrown at it by an algorythm trying to keep you staring at the screen.
This is spot on, I once had nyan cat on the background for like 4 hours straight, and I found it hilarious xD
Let kids have their own bullshit without thinking too much about it.
To me it was Lmfao - Sexy and I know it
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME
OK, but that song was a banger.
TAKE OFF EVERY ZIG
FOR GREAT JUSTICE
Mr T ate my balls
10 hour leekspin video uploaded to YT 15 years ago, original leekspin vid on yt is 18 years old
there is no OC
To be fair, the music leekspin was based on was pretty “novel” and beautiful. (see Loituma “Ievan polkka”)
Back in my day we used to frame our memes with black and white borders.
Either that, or it would be on a two-colour sunbeam background.
I feel like One hour of silence occasionally broke by the opening riff from Bad To The Bone would have been a banger in the all your base days.
Have you seen the marvellous breadfish?I don’t know how to make the youtube link :-)
It was just a handful back then, now it’s a constant stream, feeds full of it
Snake! Snake!
MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM!
God damm…that was 23 years ago?
Our generation ate fucking Tide Pods. We don’t have a leg to stand on.
I still get hamster dance song stuck in my head
Exactly, our content was intellectual stimulating, like the hamster in the microwave Flash game.
I somehow managed to miss that flash game… Now I need to figure out which guardian spirit kept me from seeing such horrors. It was probably Aunt Tifa.
Brainrot is eternal, but I will say that old brainrot has a bit more kick to it like pre-atomic steel or import cars with safety exceptions. Also UN Owen Was Her edits seem to be eternal now that I think about it, the Dawn of War one by Alfabusa lives rent free in my head.
Look…“Cliff Yablonski Hates You” was peak internet.
We used to have Badger N+7 competitions - just take the dictionary and transform the lyrics accordingly then sing it. it was absurd and fun.
