As well as 'Charlie Bit my Finger.'
  • rodneylives@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    If you want to have fun with an internet newbie tell them to watch to the end, it gets really good.

    • atomicorange@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Thank you for reminding me about this song. I have no idea why I found it so hysterical as a kid but it still gets a giggle out of me every time. Especially this bit for some reason:

  • anothermember@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • ag10n@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Beavis & Butthead, Jersey Shore, Mr. Ed.

        Rotten content is a product of capitalism

        • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I believe the phrase you’re looking for is “decadent capitalist pigs” - best spoken in a faux Russian accent.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        2 months ago

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

    • iegod@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

  • limelight79@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • Bluewing@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • belunos@lemmus.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

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

  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • InvalidName2@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Neat-o.

    Hilarious to think about how this video is now considered ancient history, one of the oldies.

  • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

        • Deconceptualist@leminal.spaceEnglish
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          2 months ago

          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.

      • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

    • lyrial@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

        • lyrial@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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          2 months ago

          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.