Everyone loves Magical Trevor 'cause the tricks that he does are ever so clever.
Look at him now, disappearing a cow, where is the cow hidden right now
Yeah, first memes were my boomer uncle emailing my boomer dad video attachments. I remember a parody of the Budweiser wassup thing with orthodox Jews delivering whitefish.
All my friends can quote Holy Grail but not so much Flying Circus (besides all the most popular lines). Some that I'll always say to myself like a psychopath:
IT'S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME WHERE HE AT WHERE HE AT WHERE HE AT WHERE HE AT WHERE HE AT WHERE HE AT WHERE HE AT PEANUT BUTTER JELLY PEANUT BUTTER JELLY PEANUT BUTTER JELLY
I have so many off these from funnyjunk, NewGrounds, eBaumsworld, and a half dozen other websites i have forgotten the name of from 20 years ago. The Llama song, Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, Do you like Waffles?, Schfifty Five, Cows With Guns.
That's all stuff from before i started using YouTube so heavily. It used to be that YouTube was just where i woukd watch Halo videos like RvB, Machinima, or Matchmaking.
I have so many off these from funnyjunk, NewGrounds, eBaumsworld, and a half dozen other websites i have forgotten the name of from 20 years ago.
Back when the internet felt like an endless sea of small random websites to discover. I know it was unpolished as hell, but I miss that compared to everything being on the same handful of corporate-samey sites.
I miss when websites were full of original content and not the endless slog of reposted memes making the same joke on the same template about slightly different topics.
Ah yeah. I was on those a bit but mostly on message boards during that era. I had dialup so even the flash games took so long to load I'd just give up.
I remember tying my phone up for a week to download a linux iso
I had to google that too. The date range they gave would include a lot of pre-youtube stuff, so I assume they're either misattributing early internet videos to youtube, or they're young and this is their experience with millennials (and they just assume it came from youtube because it's always been around for them).
Oh man, albinoblacksheep was so cursed. So many things my young eyes weren't ready to see, including a poorly drawn cartoon clip of a dog walking in on her humans giving/receiving a hand job lmao. Weird times.
The worst thing I remember seeing on there was a crude animation of a very graphic and violent crime (I'd rather not specify) set to Tiny Tim's "Tiptoe Through the Tulips." My friend and I loved it and sang/pantomimed it regularly, but yeah... That animator was either pretty disturbed or otherwise 12 years old.
For my nightmare fuel, some of the animations from Rathergood (Spoonguard being the one I can't forget) were terrifying.
I have no idea what YTP is, but I spent a lot of time on Albinoblacksheep and reading a bunch of webcomics every day. In the late 90's and early 2000's, I spent most of my time on Neopets or trying to find things I was interested in before Google and Wikipedia existed. It was a lot harder back then.
YOU'RE THE MAN NOW DOG!YOU'RE THE MAN NOW DOG!YOU'RE THE MAN NOW DOG!YOU'RE THE MAN NOW DOG!YOU'RE THE MAN NOW DOG!YOU'RE THE MAN NOW DOG!YOU'RE THE MAN NOW DOG!
You won't be so smart mouthed with your little probing shoe investigation while Dr. Tran GUNS YA DOWN in the middle of your fucking beauty pageant CONLAN!
The amount of my precious limited memory and life experiences that will always be occupied by various You're The Man Now Dog memes is basically the lead poisoning of our generation (along with microplastics and the residual lead).
In einem kleinen Dorf wohnte einst ein
Mädchen mit dem Namen Barbara.
Barbara war in der ganzen Gegend für
ihren ausgezeichneten
Rhabarberkuchen bekannt.
Can't believe we like the moon hasn't shown up yet, although they eventually sold out--not that I would've done differently in their shoes. Make some random flash vid and quiznos chucks a bunch of money at you, why tf not?
My chalupas I defend
from the King of the Great Chalupacy
With his arms of steam powered
Engines of the future
6.99 for a value meal
6.99 for a value meal
That's in your profile post history now. It's in there. People are going to see that with no context and make judgements about you as a person.
I think about this a lot as I write my posts.
They were cute little flash animations that people traded around even before YouTube was a thing. This was a dial-up modem quality of humor, so it was going to be low res and short and with minimalist sound/animation design. Sometimes you'd get a full one-man animated music video done in paint and midi or whole comedy riff done in pixel art. Other times this was some ytmnd.com (you're the man now, dog) tier content, which was literally just clips from movies/songs/interviews over eyeball gouging stills.
They were churned out in bulk by lots of people who were just throwing stuff against the wall to see what stuck. Truly the avant-garde of online media, with all that this entails.
At the time it was interesting, because so much of it was new and original. Now its practically cliche. Jay Leno posting "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" was the death rattle of the trend. But for a little while, it was genuinely a lot of fun - like drinking water out of a firehose.
I actually have up votes and down votes off so I can't even see the number. I wanted to reference the video but wanted to make sure people knew what I was taking about because if I just said "elephant muffin!" People would likely just be confused. However there's no mistaking what video my original quote came from.
If people think I'm just being edgy or in bad taste, well that's on them. Lots of stuff from that time are considered in bad taste now. I won't change a product of it's time just because current events are specifically in line with that topic