• Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

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        Beavis & Butthead, Jersey Shore, Mr. Ed.

        Rotten content is a product of capitalism

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        Oh god, it still exists! Now we just need four head shave cut and the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny to complete the chronicle!

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      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.

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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.

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    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.

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          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.

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        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.

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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.

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      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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        Pretty much exactly the same as me, which is why I posted it :).

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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.

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    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 100,000 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.

    https://youtu.be/SaA_cs4WZHM

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      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

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        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

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      Core memory unlocked. Back at my first job we would prank each other by queueing that song on the lobby speakers whenever the current cashier wasn’t looking. That and the cat flushing a toilet song.

      Good times, thanks for the nostalgia trip!

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    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.

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    I clicked the post hoping to see the original. I did not. I’m so disappointed in you

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    Imagine some future PugJesus type excavating our memes from the archives and reposting this 1000 years from now. 🧐️

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      Aliens learn to shitpost when they start going through what humanity left behind.

      Man may be temporary, but shitposts are eternal