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4 mo. ago • 96%

YouTube of Yore

https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI?si=wv3wxX4eMRpq7PSO

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YouTube?! Surely you mean Flash! This came from the creator Weebl who had a ton of great Flash animations on his website. Actually I can't believe it, but the website is still up in 2024!

http://weebls-stuff.com/

Here's the badgers one specifically: http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/badgers-animated-music-video-mrweebl/

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- I remember watching this pre-youtube as well, but it was in ebaumsworld.com
  It looked very different back in the day.
  Another classic song is the llama song. I remember a friend showing that to me in '04.
  
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  Also used to muck around with Frog in a Blender and Gerbil in a Microwave Flash games all around the same time as badger badger badger….ahh memories ….when the internet was simply for nerds 😂
  
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  I'm not sure if I've seen that one, I'll have to check it out, thanks!
  
  Is it this one? http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/alpaca-animated-music-video-mrweebl/
  
  Or maybe you were referring to the Llamas In Hats series? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBE8C175E9FAAA34A
  
  I was always partial to the Amazing Horse one for some reason. http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/amazing-horse-animated-music-video-mrweebl/
  
  I used to listen to it for hours and a weird quirk of Flash animations was that often the audio track and the video were milliseconds off so over time it would get very out of sync.
  
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  Ebaumsworld is where 14- to 17-year-old me spent most of my time in those days. The forum was my introduction to internet message boards. Will always have a spot spot there.
  
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- Flash? I remember shockwave.
  
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  I remember Macromedia.
  
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  Oh shockwave games. The Internet peaked at the turn off the millennium
  
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  Fuck... me... I forgot how terrible that was.
  
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  I always thought shockwave was part of flash? I never understood the difference
  
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  I seem to remember a competitor, I think it was called 3DO or something?
  
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- "Kenya believe it!?"
  
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Badger badger badger predates YouTube

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- We shared the albinoblacksheep link on msn. Youtube existed, it was part of the rise of shockwave flash technology websites.
  
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  Badger by AlbinoBlackSheep (John Picking)
  
  Publication date: 2003-09-01
  
  https://archive.org/details/flash_badger
  
  Youtube Founded: February 14, 2005
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
  
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  Ah, spent so many hours of my youth on albinoblacksheep. My first introduction to Lemon Demon among many other things.
  
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Why is there only one badger and not three? Why is there no snake ?

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- Where is the music? I only see the one mushroom too, we're missing like 3/4 of the picture mate
  
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but this meme predates youtube, though...

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To jump on the bandwagon, OP's showing their age. I can't remember where I first saw Badger Badger, but it was definitely pre-Youtube (or at least mainstream Youtube) when Flash was all the rage

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- Newgrounds maybe? Or ebaumsworld?
  
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  Possibly Newgrounds, I used to lurk around there a lot when I was younger
  
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- I remember seeing flash video like "End of the World" and "Bunny Kill" series on Miniclip and then later ArmorGames. I didn't even consider how far they predated YouTube until now lol
  
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That's Newgrounds, OP, from the times before YT.

A proper Youtube of yore is Tony vs Paul

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Alternatively: THIS IS THE ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN. ^(of ultimate destiny)!^

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- GOOD GUYS BAD GUYS AND EX-PLO-SIONS ^(as far as the eye can see)!^
  
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  AND ONLY ONE WILL SURVIVE ^(I wonder who it will be)!^
  
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Hamster dance.

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- The Hampster Dance by Hampton and the Hampsters.
  
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- Hampsterdance is one of my earliest memories of using the internet at the age of 4. I remember it being used in random videos a lot like Paralyzer and Dreamscape were.
  
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Me: 2008 wasn't that long ago. It was like a decade ago.

Also me: wait... That's 16 years 😰

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- It's for sure older than that unfortunately.
  
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  September 1st 2003 apparently
  
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  Thanks. Now I feel even older. I should have remembered it predating YouTube.
  
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Honey Badgers don't care! Honey Badgers don't give a shit!

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Come Charlie let's go to candy mouuunnntaaain

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Oh God, my anus is bleeding!

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- But, how big is your spoon?
  
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Anyone remember Joe Cartoon? Superfly, Lump the no legged dog, Gerbil, and so on.

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- Frog in a blender
  
  Remember penguin toss?
  
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Showing age, the first thing that came to my mind was the old show The Wind in the Willows.

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- You mean the book?
  
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  The 1984 TV show based on the book is what I thought of when looking at this meme
  
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😭

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I watched Tim Burtons Batman in our local cinema.

Also my first contact with silly internet movies was the llama song.

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Did carmeldansen become a thing before or after badgerbadger mushroom?

Anybody remember dafthands, and daftbodies?

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- Oh yes, I remember them. Every few years I remember the Badger song and play it for a while + some other catchy old Weebl's stuff like Amazing Horse, Where can you see lions (only in Kenya)... Oh god, the more I think about them the more I remember.
  
  Apparently Badger Badger is from 2003.
  
  Caramelldansen (gif + music) is from 2005.
  
  Daft Hands from 2007.
  
  Dancing Baby is even older, from 96 / 97.
  
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  I still want to somehow make Clippy real and murder him.
  
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- I found basgerbadger a long time after caramelldansen. Helicopter parents of the 90s/early thous with all the time limits and website blockers a parent could easily get their hands on lmao
  
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  A large part of my journey of becoming a nerd was figuring out how to disable those haha.
  
  I had time limits, until my dad became too much of a drunk to care, and my mom was too disabled and incorrectly medicated to do anything.
  
  Anyway, I was not introduced to carameldansen until dating an extreme weaboo girl who insisted on dressing me up as L from Death Note... whereas I found badgerbadger years earlier.
  
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Yore, pfft, not sure on the exact year but predates badgers by some I'm sure. From rathergood.com/b3ta.com. My zimmerframe is parked in the corner btw!

https://youtu.be/zSQDR1yF3uQ?si=oiAgQXySjBbP-aaB

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20s? 30s? A teenager? I'm assuming not 40s or older. anyway that picture is fucking adorable.

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KUALA LUMPUR

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Like a siren song, we all go back to the classics

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you anteater ??

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- Anteater? That's clearly an aardvark.
  
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