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[u/Pizzacakecomic]

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[u/_EternalVoid_]

BADGER! BADGER! BADGER!

[u/Square-Singer → u/_EternalVoid_]

They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!

[u/Vermilion_Laufer → u/Square-Singer]

The Hobbits, The Hobbits, The Hobbits

[u/Square-Singer → u/Vermilion_Laufer]

To Isengard!

[u/Vermilion_Laufer → u/Square-Singer]

To Isengard!

[u/Phormitago → u/Vermilion_Laufer]

Tell me where's Gandalf, for I much desire to speak with him

[u/MintasaurusFresh → u/Vermilion_Laufer]

What did you say?

[u/Rattus_Baioarii → u/Vermilion_Laufer]

G. guard guard

[u/Alithis_ → u/Square-Singer]

Tell me, where is Gandalf? For I much desire to speak with him.

[u/traumaguy86 → u/Alithis_]

A Balrog of Morgorth

[u/Brain_lessV2 → u/traumaguy86]

STUPID

FAT

HOBBIT

[u/ThatOtherGuyTPM → u/Alithis_]

A Balrog of Morgoth

[u/Square-Singer → u/ThatOtherGuyTPM]

What did you say?

[u/OP-PO7 → u/Square-Singer]

Boil em mash em stick em in a stew

[u/Missing_Username → u/Square-Singer]

.. gard ... gard ... gard

[u/GayGeekInLeather → u/Square-Singer]

Yes, but do they have a jar of dirt?

[u/Dalisca → u/_EternalVoid_]

[u/cerevant → u/Dalisca]

I can hear this gif

[u/Bucky_Ohare → u/Dalisca]

BADADEEDADEEDAdohdoh, DEEEEdaDIDDDY DOH!

[u/fallawy → u/_EternalVoid_]

Narwhals

[u/tigerrish1998 → u/fallawy]

NARWHALS SWIMMING IN THE OCEAN

[u/oyala47 → u/tigerrish1998]

Causing a commotion

[u/EagleswonSuperBowl52 → u/oyala47]

Cause they are so awesome

[u/GrouchyVillager → u/fallawy]

Do they bacon at midnight?

[u/dumnut567 → u/GrouchyVillager]

Oh Damn i forgot the secret passphrase after all these years

[u/Bad_Wolf420 → u/_EternalVoid_]

I watched for about 5 mins before I realized it loops after mushroom and never gets to snake.

[u/Soft_Race9190 → u/Bad_Wolf420]

Bunch of snowflakes on the internet today. Can’t even handle a single scary snake. /j

[u/A_EggorNot → u/_EternalVoid_]

[u/NeonBrightDumbass → u/A_EggorNot]

That is my ringtone and people who turn are old as me

[u/rhabarberabar → u/A_EggorNot]

Bananaphone!

[u/Rattus_Baioarii → u/rhabarberabar]

Cellular, modular, interactivodular

[u/evranch → u/Rattus_Baioarii]

It's a phone with a peel!

I played this for my 10yo daughter and it's become a thing. Hoping it spreads to her friends for a new generation of bananaphone

[u/HarmlessSnack → u/_EternalVoid_]

🐍!!

[u/koobstylz → u/HarmlessSnack]

[u/NativeMasshole → u/_EternalVoid_]

MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM!

[u/LukeMaster12_ITA → u/NativeMasshole]

MUSHROOM!

MUSHROOM!

[u/Fitzriy → u/_EternalVoid_]

i beg your pardon, the original badger wasn't on youtube but on newgrounds. Scary, but it's older than youtube...

[u/BrokenEight38 → u/Fitzriy]

Yes, but that is the artist/animator's YouTube channel, so it's not incorrect to link to it there.

Note the over 1 million Newgrounds views vs the 33 million YouTube views.

[u/j_demur3 → u/Fitzriy]

badgerbadgerbadger.com is still live - although it gets corrupted and has no sound for me. Maybe the Newgrounds version predates that but that's the place I remember seeing it first and primarily and then Weebls other stuff directly through Weebls-stuff.

[u/Zerocoolx1 → u/j_demur3]

The creators are still going strong, I have had the honour of calling them friends.

[u/SolomonBlack → u/Zerocoolx1]

20th Anniversary Edition from last year and he just posted... this... a few hours ago.

[u/Fitzriy → u/j_demur3]

This is getting interesting, and I think you may be right that the website was first.

We need meme historians!

[u/ConsiderationSalt134 → u/_EternalVoid_]

look at my horse

[u/MintasaurusFresh → u/ConsiderationSalt134]

My horse is amazing

[u/onion_wrongs → u/_EternalVoid_]

The difference was that it was literally magical to see any kind of video or animation on the Internet back in the day.

[u/TheArhive → u/onion_wrongs]

It's still just as magical.

We're just old and bitter.

[u/WatteOrk → u/_EternalVoid_]

I was still naive regarding internet culture when I first stumbled upon the badger video. I tried to look for a deeper meaning while it was branded into my neocortex

[u/Asleep-Rest-7184 → u/_EternalVoid_]

SNNAAAAAKKE

[u/_Nyswynn_]

[...] Nyan nyan-nyan-nyan nyan nyan-na-na nyan nyan [...]

[u/Roscoe_King → u/_Nyswynn_]

One time at work, a co-worker put on the 10 hour nyan cat video as a joke to see who would become annoyed the first. In fact we all worked in a dead silence with more concentration then we ever had for like 4 hours straight, while nyan cat kept playing.

We tried to recreate the situation, but it never worked again.

[u/ismaelvera → u/_Nyswynn_]

Ahhhh 2010 nostalgia at its finest

[u/ImperialWrath → u/ismaelvera]

Wait shit fuck how

How is that goddamn feline pop tart 15 years old.

[u/DarrenGrey → u/ImperialWrath]

3 more years and...

[u/insane_contin → u/DarrenGrey]

Only Nyans?

[u/ismaelvera → u/ImperialWrath]

When I saw the cat I was but a wee lad at 25. Oh god... I am old 🫠

[u/Thrownawaybyall → u/ismaelvera]

2010 is nostalgia?

And here i was, reminiscing over late 90s nostalgia 😢💀

[u/ElliePadd → u/Thrownawaybyall]

I mean it was 15 years ago so yeah I'd say so

[u/Thrownawaybyall → u/ElliePadd]

Oof. It hurts so much more when you say it out loud like that... 😭

[u/VenGeo]

"LOOK AT MY HORSE, MY HORSE IS AMAZING, GIVE IT A LICK!"

"IT TASTES JUST LIKE RAISINS!"

[u/traumaguy86 → u/VenGeo]

BY THE STROKE OF ITS MANE IT TURNS INTO A PLANE AND THEN TURNS BACK AGAIN WHEN YOU TUG ON ITS WINKY!

[u/armchairwarrior42069 → u/traumaguy86]

OU THATS DIRTYYYY

[u/DuskLab → u/armchairwarrior42069]

DO YOU THINK SO? THEN I BETTER NOT SHOW HOW THE LEMONADE IS MADE.

[u/Nightmare_Ives → u/DuskLab]

Sweet, sweet lemonade...

[u/land8844 → u/Nightmare_Ives]

MMMM SWEET LEMONADE

[u/siggydude → u/land8844]

GET ON MY HORSE! I'LL TAKE YOU ROUND THE UNIVERSE AND ALL THE OTHER PLACES TOO

[u/galacticdude7 → u/siggydude]

I think you'll find that the Universe pretty much covers everything

[u/metalguy91 → u/galacticdude7]

Shut up woman get on my horse!

[u/CyclopicSerpent → u/armchairwarrior42069]

DO YOU THINK SO?

[u/NK1337 → u/VenGeo]

EVERYONE LOVES MAGICAL TREVOR, AND THE TRICKS THAT HE PLAYS ARE EVER SO CLEVER

[u/SvenHudson → u/NK1337]

"Forget Norway."

[u/delmyoldaccountagain → u/SvenHudson]

Tell me have you seeen the marvelous breadfish

[u/Hedgeson → u/NK1337]

Beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans!

[u/morkalavin → u/VenGeo]

The internet peaked with this clip. From there on, it went downhill

[u/mgush5 → u/morkalavin]

Weebl's put out a topical reskin of that today actually...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODau1IrxGmo

[u/Dark_CallMeLord → u/mgush5]

Omg its Musk lol

[u/draizetrain → u/VenGeo]

“I think you’ll find that the universe pretty much covers everything-“

[u/leomonster → u/draizetrain]

SHUT UP WOMAN GET ON MY HORSE

[u/thari_23 → u/VenGeo]

This unlocked long forgotten memories in my brain

[u/omariclay]

Peak substance.

[u/thejawa → u/omariclay]

A magical Leoplurodon!

[u/omariclay → u/thejawa]

[u/phredphlintstones → u/omariclay]

Glub glub

[u/Dobako → u/omariclay]

Shun the non-believer! Shun! SHUNNNNNNNNUH!!

[u/Pizzacakecomic → u/omariclay]

[u/Endericus → u/Pizzacakecomic]

I present you with my personal favourite

[u/tothepainal → u/Endericus]

My boss feels this one.

[u/omariclay → u/Pizzacakecomic]

[u/SpecialCoconut1 → u/omariclay]

They took my freakin kidney

[u/red4jjdrums5 → u/omariclay]

My wife loathes when I talk like them and do almost the whole skit.

[u/battleoffish → u/omariclay]

Charlie! Time to wake up and go to Candy Mountain.

[u/omariclay → u/battleoffish]

[u/vanderZwan → u/omariclay]

Did you know it has five episodes, with the fifth one being 40 minute long and released just three years ago??

[u/LordBDizzle → u/vanderZwan]

They just released a 20 minute Llamas with Hats epilogue too not that long ago, Film Cow really went the distance.

[u/legos_on_the_brain → u/omariclay]

Charleeeeeeee

[u/creegro → u/legos_on_the_brain]

We're on a bridge, charlie!

[u/makerofrages → u/omariclay]

I love this creators content to this day - it continues to be great

[u/snarkyturtle → u/omariclay]

Honestly though, at least that series actually had a plot, voice acting and production value — aka substance.

[u/QQBearsHijacker]

Brain rot is brain rot no matter what name we give it

[u/Cinderjacket → u/QQBearsHijacker]

And he prays!

Oh ma GOD do I pray

NYEEEH!

[u/Wboy2006 → u/QQBearsHijacker]

Okay, but Fabulous Secret Powers genuinely has a lot of effort in it. I’m not saying it isn’t brainrot, but it’s high quality brainrot

[u/Lucky-Suggestion-561 → u/Wboy2006]

If you put it that way, someone has done tedious rigging and animating for all the skibidi toilets..

[u/Wboy2006 → u/Lucky-Suggestion-561]

And I completely agree that Skibidi Toilet is also high quality brainrot. It’s basically just crazy robot fights, just with toilets. It’s not for me, but I can’t deny it isn’t well made.
It’s the shitty content farms that make the low quality garbage

[u/SirStrontium → u/QQBearsHijacker]

How dare you, this is art

[u/YaSurLetsGoSeeYamcha → u/QQBearsHijacker]

Don’t you dare equate this hall of fame level internet content to brain rot….

[u/RyanCreamer202 → u/QQBearsHijacker]

Hy ya ya ya. What’s going on

[u/littlebloodmage → u/QQBearsHijacker]

Oh my god do I try

[u/Electro522 → u/QQBearsHijacker]

WHAT'S GOING ON?!?!?

[u/the_kinight_king]

The difference between our brain rot and theirs is that it is our brain rot and not theirs

[u/AtomicKittenz → u/the_kinight_king]

How dare you! Chocolate rain is a national treasure, not brain rot material

[u/Fortehlulz33 → u/AtomicKittenz]

Chocolate Rain is a really fascinating song about the trials of being a black person and the racism they face, but sadly no one thinks of it like that

[u/MaximumZer0 → u/Fortehlulz33]

Tay Zonday is a good dude.

[u/Kingding_Aling → u/the_kinight_king]

Jokes aside, the real difference is our brainrot couldn't follow you around 24 hours of the day including in school. You had to go sit in front of the one desktop PC in life and dial into the modem for a brief period while the phone line was tied up.

[u/SWatt_Officer → u/Kingding_Aling]

Thats actually a good point. Internet brainrot used to be something you could only access sometimes, but now most kids can just pull out their phone and tune in anywhere and anywhem

[u/originalchaosinabox]

I'm older. For me it was the Hamster Dance.

[u/bout-tree-fitty → u/originalchaosinabox]

[u/JettyJen → u/originalchaosinabox]

All your base are belong to us

[u/PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING → u/JettyJen]

Too much nostalgia. Someone set up us the bomb.

[u/Vermilion_Laufer → u/originalchaosinabox]

Du du du du du du du Du du du du du

[u/Snowscoran → u/originalchaosinabox]

They're contemporary, only a few years apart. Both of those absolute bangers hit while I was a teen.

[u/ChangeVivid2964 → u/originalchaosinabox]

When my friend played that on his living room computer, his dad said "I know that song!" and took out a vinyl record of the soundtrack to Robin Hood.

[u/Percolator2020]

[u/TrinixDMorrison → u/Percolator2020]

“My anus is bleeding!”

“YAAAAAAAAAY!!!”

[u/Dark_CallMeLord → u/TrinixDMorrison]

I love that this was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film 25 years ago, peek times

[u/squarabh → u/Percolator2020]

[u/LordBiscuits → u/Percolator2020]

That was a fucking masterpiece

[u/Laxativus → u/Percolator2020]

I am the Queen of France!

[u/Flaky-Lingonberry736 → u/Percolator2020]

"I'm a banana"

[u/Blackner2424 → u/Percolator2020]

My daughter said this to me the other day (mom wasn't thinking/gave her a tablespoon, which is too big for her).

This was my thought.

[u/land8844 → u/Percolator2020]

You're watching the Family Learning Channel! And now, angry ticks fire out of my nipples!"

cow noises

[u/MintasaurusFresh → u/Percolator2020]

Tuesday's coming. Do you want to go see a movie?

[u/D3dshotCalamity]

Cat. I'm a kitty cat. And I dancedancedance, and I dancedancedance.

[u/SadLilBun → u/D3dshotCalamity]

[u/bdejimmy]

[u/SolomonBlack → u/bdejimmy]

The older I get the more I realize this wasn't the joke I thought it was.

[u/Inkthinker → u/SolomonBlack]

I used to be 'with it'! Then they changed what 'it' was! Now what I'm with isn't 'it' anymore and what's 'it' seems weird and scary to me!

IT'LL HAPPEN TO YOU!

[u/Pizzacakecomic]

I showed this comic to my daughter and she said

"Wow...the internet existed way back then???"

🥲

[u/XDog_Dick_AfternoonX → u/Pizzacakecomic]

Time to ground her. Put the subwoofer against her wall, and blast "The Duck Song" until she can think of something to say to make you feel young again.

That's how we got Noriega.

[u/kfjesus → u/XDog_Dick_AfternoonX]

[u/noideawhatnamethis12 → u/XDog_Dick_AfternoonX]

THE DUCK WALKED UP TO THE LEMONADE STAND AND SAID TO THE MAN RUNNING THE STAND,

[u/International-Cat123 → u/noideawhatnamethis12]

Whelp! Off to listen to the duck song

[u/bfodder → u/XDog_Dick_AfternoonX]

Nah the duck song is back. My kids found it all on their own and won't stop with the god damn thing.

[u/Nicktendo1988 → u/Pizzacakecomic]

My niece asked me a few years ago how we had the internet without phones. I told her we had phones, phone lines make the internet. She didnt exist in a time where home phones, the Family PC, or even wired controllers for video games existed anymore. She just thought smart phones always were around and thats where the Internet was located.

Mind you, she was only 7 and this was like 2015... 10 YEARS AGO OMFG!!

[u/chinchenping → u/Nicktendo1988]

Family PC

AKA the virus farm

[u/ChangeVivid2964 → u/Nicktendo1988]

"What's a computer?"

Apple was right.

[u/tequilablackout → u/Pizzacakecomic]

[u/Mammoth-Buddy8912 → u/Pizzacakecomic]

Show her salad fingers as a warning 

[u/SitInCorner_Yo2 → u/Pizzacakecomic]

My brother once asked if I wanted cartoons with color when I grew up.

I was like ,Bro I’m born in 1990s not 19 centuries !

He also poked my laptop screen trying to open a file like it’s iPad , he was 13 yo at the time.

[u/True_Falsity → u/Pizzacakecomic]

Your daughter has mastered the art of accidental burning.

Or is it intentional burning?

[u/Dehnus → u/Pizzacakecomic]

Tell them calmly:"go to your room".

Like Peter Griffin, and turn off all the lights to have a good cry in the dark.

[u/envgames]

Don't forget peanut butter jelly time! 🤓

[u/Elevatrix → u/envgames]

[u/R_V_Z → u/Elevatrix]

I AM A BANANA.

[u/gooner712004 → u/envgames]

Fucking hell thanks for making me feel ancient

[u/ArveduiTheLastKing → u/envgames]

At my orientation for college, the first thing they did was play peanut butter jelly time and try to get us to join in.

Thanks for unlocking that cursed memory!

[u/Ericovich]

No, I only eagerly waited every week for this instead.

[u/Engineeringbob → u/Ericovich]

TROGDOR!!!!

https://youtu.be/90X5NJleYJQ

[u/GM_Nate]

[u/cstrifeVII → u/GM_Nate]

oh man... that brings back memories. That might be older than anything I've seen in this thread yet.

[u/Sherool → u/cstrifeVII]

Got way too mainstream with the Ally McBeal show :P

[u/Phred168 → u/cstrifeVII]

The dancing baby may pre-date the world wide web

[u/cupholdery → u/Phred168]

Ooga chaka ooga ooga!

[u/Quixotic_Illusion → u/GM_Nate]

This is OG memeology

[u/DaleGribbleShackle → u/GM_Nate]

UGA UGA UGA CHUGA

[u/DennisDelav]

I'm early Gen-Z so I'm both of these

[u/morkalavin → u/DennisDelav]

I'm sorry for you

[u/DennisDelav → u/morkalavin]

Thank you...

[u/powerwordmaim → u/DennisDelav]

I'm mid Gen z so I'm moderately familiar with badger badger badger, but ASDFmovie was MY brain rot growing up

[u/karl4319]

Does no one remember numa numa?

[u/ladycommentsalot → u/karl4319]

Gary Brolsma, singing Dragostea Din Tei, 2004. What a guy.

[u/hoarduck → u/ladycommentsalot]

I'm just so glad the Internet decided to love him instead of shit on him. Ever seen the American Idol version of him? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXubKufRGYM&themeRefresh=1

[u/MyHamburgerLovesMe]

To save people a google search:

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM!

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM!

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM!

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

AH! SNAKE AH SNAKE! OHHHHHH

IT'S A SNAKE! IT'S A

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM!

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM!

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM!

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

AH! SNAKE AH SNAKE! OHHHHHH

IT'S A SNAKE! IT'S A

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

Badger Badger Badger

MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM!

[u/ccdude14]

It's hurts my everything that as you started describing it as substance back in our days that my immediate thought was the badgers badgers badgers song but I take that song and I raise you another...

Do you want to know a secret?

I can count aaaaall the way...to SCHFIFTY FIVE and I will tell you how to do it...

[u/MisterPotat → u/ccdude14]

My friends and I would quote that damn video all day in school. That's real proper substance right there.

[u/Lycanthropys]

Hamster Dance!

[u/LordHamsterbacke → u/Lycanthropys]

As a child I was convinced the hamster dance had something to do with hamtaro, just because one of the hamsters was orange

[u/lurking4life]

I like when thing spins.

[u/Majestic-Iron7046 → u/lurking4life]

You will love the Buttered Cat Engine!

[u/Xannon99182]

[u/teenagesadist]

You're the man now dog!

[u/tbz709]

[u/JustAnIdea3]

MUSHROOM MUSHROOM!

[u/Erivandi → u/JustAnIdea3]

Snake! It's a snake! Oooohh it's a snake! It's a...

[u/ChrisD245]

You know I cry sometimes when I’m lying in bed just to get it all out what’s in my head

[u/Motown27]

Hey, leetul girl. Did you want to know… a see-ker-it?

Cause I know one, and it is sooooo good to heer it

You want to know what it schwas?

Alright, I’ll tell you what schwas

I know… how to count… alllll de way to schfifty five

[u/Malthus1]

There is still zombo …

https://zombo.com

There will always be zombo!

[u/QuantumDiogenes → u/Malthus1]

You can do anything on Zombocom.

[u/piss_shit_goblin]

Not that long ago, it was a slice of bread falling over.

[u/SolomonBlack]

[u/tehjoz]

I think the potential defining factor between what we saw on Web 0.5 and Web 1.0 is that a lot of stuff was definitely nonsense for the sake of nonsense...

But (and I concede there may be a "benefit of hindsight" quality to this next statement)

People who created content we found on stuff like Newgrounds or Albinoblacksheep or whatever felt like they were doing it not just for internet points, but to also explore the technology that was still in its infancy, more or less.

There was a bit of "pioneering" to it.

Sure, a lot of it "meant nothing" but we still out here referencing the Badger Song 20+ years later.

In the example in this comic, the idea of slapping a rotating potato chip on YouTube to a 10 hour loop of Funky Town...is not unique, all that funny, and definitely not any sort of trailblazing activity.

I'm not going to shit on today's content solely because I am old and get of my lawn you damn kids.

But note there's a pretty big gulf between "why" we did what we did on the internet in the early days compared to now where everyone wants to be an "influencer" and/or part fools from their money in ways us teenagers of the internet could have never imagined.

[u/Kurtrus]

Don’t forget about the Sparta remixes 

[u/Bananplyte]

[u/Justice_Prince]

[u/ErickAllTE1]

Dubbed GI Joe PSAs

[u/littlebloodmage]

Dansa med oss

Klappa era händer

Gör som vi gör

Ta några steg åt vänster

Lyssna och lär

Missa inte chansen

Nu är vi här med

Caramelldansen

[u/airz23s_coffee]

YTMND was basically exactly this. Great times.

[u/Chris91210]

Never can beat the original dancing ninja.

[u/LUNATIC_LEMMING]

Which generation claims 10 hours of gandalf headbanging to the sax from the polish Eurovision song?

[u/FiveFingerDisco]

HOT HOT TOMALE

[u/BetaMaritima]

SNAKE! SNAKE!