The Insanity of 2000s YouTube Viral Videos
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I never laughed once at the "Leave Britany Alone" video. I truly felt for that person. Cara Cunningham has risen like a phoenix from that viral video and done well for herself. Being queer in rural Tennessee could not have been easy.
I remember my siblings showing me that video as something "funny" and my only response was concern. It's just a person crying :(
Being from Tennessee, you're not wrong. See "Blue Lives Matter", MAGA, and TRUMP 2020/2024 flags everywhere
Oh good to hear she’s doing well and transitioned!
The first clue that the person in the "Leave Britney alone!" Video was a woman was that she made an emotive and completely correct call for empathy and it resulted in society collectively deciding to ruin her life
And she also wore a skirt when she was in Tosh.0
Oh oof
Damn. True tho
Men do that to. Normal ones anyways
early internet was real crazy toxic, still is but in quite different ways i think. the big change occured around gamergate/2016 i think which was probably just a tipping point of the internet becoming universalised.
I used to get mocked for saying that Chocolate Rain was about systemic racism until Tay confirmed it.
That sucks.
i was never part of the conversation around it at all and yet the first time I heard it I picked up on that. wild how much people denied
It's so weird he had to confirm it. The lyrics aren't even subtle
@@coolsenjoyer deadass. like it straight up talks about the bell curve.
I remember listening to it and thinking “huh this sounds like a commentary on racism” and then googling it and finding out that yes it is in fact about institutionalized racism.
Middle school recesses were not the same after The Mysterious Ticking Noise came out. I swear we all gathered around and chanted it word for word like some type of cult ritual.
Crazy how the guy that made that also made Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny and Brodyquest which can be considered some of Neil's most mainstream media out there.
The theater kids of my school would probably do that if we had recess
Y'all had recess in middle school???
Early TH-cam was like when our grandparents only had 2 shows on television. We got like one funny video every six months and just had to watch it til the next one came out.
this is literally a genius brain level take 😱 I wonder what the comparison will be for the next generation
THIS MAKE ME FEEL OLD NOOOO
you can guess someone's age based on whether they call him lemon demon or Neil
@@crptpyr what if you just alternate between them lol
@@sleepydog08 absolute madlad, but you're probably old enough to remember his videos from back in the day but still young enough to be in the same social circles that just rediscovered his music and started calling him lemon demon straight up
Cara was right about Britney and the media. I never understood why people mocked her for having empathy.
I was confused when ÆONS said that the creator is a trans-woman because I always thought it was a cis woman from the original video . So ig I always knew the truth, lol.
@@acrylicabyss SAME THO
@@acrylicabyss so she's actually a woman?? I remember people being like "lol no that's actually a guy", when I called her a woman. I guess they were just transphobic.
@@ellem8990 looking at her wiki page, it looks like Cara had detransitioned for a period of time ~2012 & had stated that she didn't identify as strictly feminine/masculine.
@@caitlinzhang1709 yeah. I remember a point where she was clearly dressing masculine and using he/him and aggressively putting out "I'm normal guys please stop bringing up the old video" vibes. Transitioned in 2021? Very recent stuff.
Honestly I might Hate NFTs With An Incandescent Burning Rage but I fully support Cara getting that bag and wish her a pleasant life.
Eh, she made money of a bunch of losers and used it for a great cause; nothing wrong with that in my mind?
@@eazy8579 my only issue is the environmental aspect of nfts but honestly at this point there's worse things out there
There is only one case in which I endorse someone selling an NFT and it is this one
@@thequeenofcringe1585 same here
The environmental impact is truly horrific and outweighs any good in the situation. Do some research.
I absolutely HATE the argument, "you make us look bad" when someone is ridiculed for their empathetic and compassionate plea.
That's why trans people at large hate vaush
The Charlie the Unicorn finale is nuts. It reveals that the blue and pink unicorns are corpses puppeted by demons and there's a song by a ferret wizard ghost with a rap breakdown from his boyfriend, a coat.
I haven't seen the finale, but that sounds about right.
exactly what i expected
spoilers damn............ (jk)
Wtf, I have never seen the finale but it does not sound any more fricked up than the rest.
what the fuck
"How much of 2000s humour was just bullying?"
Truly.
I mean yeah it truly were tons. It was a very harsh and bullying atmosphere in a big part of TH-cam
A big part of 00’s TH-cam comments were just calling everything “fake and gay”, and just filled with mild homophobic insults no matter what the video was about.
And the worst part is that TH-cam and internet culture wasn’t even the worst offender.
00s reality tv-shows and gossip magazines, but also just comedy shows.
A lot of it felt like it was pretty bad back then, and it really really doesn’t hold up looking back.
As someone who clocked this as a child and got the brunt of a lot of it, it's bittersweet that now people see it and have changed it
Unfortunately this type of 'humour' didn't really go away
being a teenager in that era was awful
Nothing is worse than looking at the reply video dogpile on pruane2forever.
honestly it makes me so annoyed that seeing the same magazines who would've bashed britney back in 2007 are now promoting the #FREEBRITNEY movement as if they weren't the ones who pretty much put her in her conservatorship. i feel so bad for her because she was obviously going through a bad time but of course, both her and the video creator were the butt of every one's jokes...
Weakness will be exploited. It's not a secret. Act accordingly
@@sarahoshea9603 That's an awful way to live your life.
Being attacked as "bad representation" always bothered me, because it comes off more like people are mad that bigoted people who already don't like them, won't like them because of cherrypicked examples of others used as some sort of justification or comparison to what bigoted people tolerate less. It only really soynds like a mentality from those wanting to be accepted by bigoted as "not as gay" or "not as stereotypical" never actually leads to acceptance. It only leads to people harboring hatred of others they think embarass them to the views of bigoted people/society.
this is very true. I find that the majority of people who harass other queers for “bad representation“ are cis and/or white, because they already possess a certain level of social capital from those privileges, and therefore have a stake in holding onto those parts of their privilege. POC do not get to pick and choose when they are discriminated against for their race, and trans ppl don’t either if they do not “pass” to cis people’s liking - but other aspects of queerness can be tailored to present as more amenable to the public or to any social situation one enters into and assesses. so even if they are not ashamed of being queer, cis and white queers often want to use that flexibility in perception to their advantage, in such a way that they don’t put off the people in the areas in which they still hold privilege. it’s why the sweater-wearing beautiful rich white male couple had been largely accepted into society decades before any queers who don’t fit that perfectly sanitized picture.
and i can’t blame people for not wanting to be discriminated against and using whatever social capital they have to their advantage in their personal life - whatever gets you through it my man. but achieving that by harassing other queers who do not fit their acceptable version of queerness, or putting down presentations of queerness they fear to be less presentable, is truly despicable to do.
it’s choosing self-preservation over empathy and justice. it’s protecting oneself while actively harming the community they claim to proudly be a member of, redirecting the hatred towards a subsection of the community rather than fighting the discrimination head-on. it’s the difficult choice between what is right and what is easy.
Remember, thinking marginalised groups have to be held to higher standards than dominant groups to stop bigotry is bigotry.
Yeah, I think basically every marginalised community has a version of this. The other reply on this saying its only the most privileged members of a group who do this feels kind of comfy and true, but in practice I suspect it's also perpetuated by anyone accepted in the community. People who have a tiny bit of social capital in an in-group will happily shit on those below them in the hierarchy, and blaming it all on rich cis white people feels way too easy.
I'm a bit surprised Llamas with Hats didn't make it into this video. I remember it being super big along with Charlie the Unicorn. Also made by the same people if I'm not mistaken
Right!! I used to love Llamas with Hats
Yeah, it was made by the same people, and I remember it being just as big as Charlie the unicorn as well
KARRRRRRL THERE IS A DEAD HUMAN IN OUR HOUSE
"Kaaaaarlll, that kills people" and "my stomach had the rumblies that only hands could satisfy" are common phrases in my vocabulary to this day.
@@allisonb8912 same, i use it in my vernacular all the time and so many people are confused. the few people who get it still are worth every confused look from someone out of the loop
Cara selling her video as an NFT is the only NFT sale I can tolerate, she gets a pass after the shit she went through
based
I'm glad a lot of people who were memes (especially people who weren't the original poster of the content) got some compensation. Would _you_ want to be "Overly Attached Girlfriend" for free for the rest of your life?
I just hope she doesn't support NFTs further than this, but hope her grandma's doing well and her transition's swell, but, seriously, I hope she doesn't go into crypto nonsense (firstly, cause of the environment, and secondly, imo cryptocurrency is just a huge scam at the end of the day).
Really dumb she had to go through so many years of fucked up shit tho.
@@rugalprohibido i follow her on insta, she hasn't mentioned nfts beyond just hers. she also said that while she did get a decent chunk of money, it wasn't enough to do anything long term like pay off her house. i'm finding that the figure was $41k, not sure how accurate that is, but i can definitely see that getting eaten up quick by her grandmother's medical bills alone. she supports both herself in her own house and her grandparents in theirs.
@@jacksyoutubechannel4045 tbf with her she basically decided to own and made a killing off it too
After hearing so many horror stories about children getting bullied for old videos online, seeing that David is fine and actually likes the fame and attention was really relieving. I hope he's doing okay.
I remember relistening to Chocolate Rain two years ago or so and was surprised by the obvious messages I completely missed as a kid. Also realized it was a genuinely good song.
Viral videos on old TH-cam were either horribly offensive “comedy” skits (Shane Dawson, Onision, etc.), or random short videos that made no sense and captivated literally everyone who watched them
In essence, nothing has changed
Peanut butter jelly time comes to mind
the only good thing onision ever made was I'm a Banana and his Deathnote skit that i still like. he's a terrible fucking person who unfortuantly did influence my lie in a negative way but those two videos is just classic youtube for me. Maybe the DN one isnt 'classic' youtube but it cameout around the time i got into deathnote.
I do want to say it was ‘a different time’ however because of its early days pretty much TH-cam was just a jungle of randomness before it’s in-corporal branding.
Those weren't individual viral videos, they were huge crappy problematic creators. :P
Growing up with the name Charlie was great fun. There's nothing I loved more than being accused of biting fingers and being invited to candy Mountain
one of the "popular" kids in my middle school was named charlie so there was always a group of popular girls flocking around him calling him charlie the unicorn lol
Did you bite any fingers at Candy Mountain?
420th like.
I feel seen.
It might have come a slight bit later, but Tight Pants/ Body Rolls by Leslie Hall needs to be on here. What a real phenom that was. Also, I saw it performed live and it was amazing. She deserves every drop of fame
Omg we use that song for workouts in marching band and it’s kinda everything
Oh my god I have thought about that fucking video on and off over the years but could never, Ever remember the name of it. It haunted me. I couldn't even remember the actual lyrics so I couldn't just look it up. Thank you so much for allowing me to experience it once more.
MY DAD PLAYS THIS SONG ALL THE TIME ITS ICONIC I LOVE IT SO MUCH
Bless your fucking soul, gotta put this one back on again
My Mom and I frequently reference this song and it always puts a smile on our faces.
"The passage of time disgusts me" 100%
Edit: Aww, the "leave Brittany alone" ending was sweet ♥️ helping her grandma and helping pay for transitioning. At least something good came out of that🥺
I never thought “leave brittany alone” was funny even as a kid. Even though I didn’t understand the context at the time, I still was like “why is it funny to see somebody so upset?” Nowadays I agree with her even more. It’s so sad what she went through.
Similar experience here; although I will add my discomfort didn't start out as an entirely "moral" objection when I first watched it.
Tbh some of my discomfort as a kid was because the ""comedic timing"" just didn't land - in a time when "badger x4 MUSHROOM MUSHROOM" was hilarious, I didn't find it funny enough to care.
Of course a bit later I realized the footage wasn't *intended* as anything other than raw, achingly sincere distress at the horrible treatment of another human being. and yeah that basically soured a previously meh joke into a "hey this is too mean i'd rather see i can haz cheezburger instead".
SAME! i always felt bad for her more than anything, even to this day memes about people crying just upset me. :(
I think it was the para-social relationship aspect. People have a laughter reaction as a release of tension to the seaming absurdity of someone being so personally invested and having such an intense reaction to the personal problems of someone they don't actually know.
I think at the time Britney was one of the early celebs where the public wanted to know every aspect of her life. She transcended the old idea of a celebrity in which you just consume whatever they produce and don't know much about them. So for a lot of older people at the time it seemed really bizzare to know and care about a celebrity as a person. I think the reason people laughed at her was the same logic as boomers laughing at "snowflake triggered libs" nowadays.
To this day, there is still a weirdly high amount of people on the internet who seem to find other people getting upset/angry to be the funniest shit on earth.
One of my cats is named Badger and sometimes I pick her up and dance around my apartment singing the Badger song at her 😂 She tolerates it, but she does give me an intense look of disappointment the whole time lol.
I love your cat
@@Kick0a0cat i love all cats
Cat, I'm a kitty cat. And I dance dance dance. 😆
@@horacegentleman3296 every kind of cat. I just wanna hug all of them, but I can't.
"I'm not angry, human. I'm just disappointed."
As an ER nurse, I’m here to say that ketamine is the “new” it drug for conscious sedation procedures and non emergent intubations. It’s fun when young patients find out we’re using ketamine and ask to be put in the k hole. If you weren’t “David after dentist” when you had your oral surgery it’s probably because they used propofol (yes the Michael Jackson drug - yes everyone asks that)
interesting thank you!!
I’ve done ketamine recreationally and I really do not understand why people WANT to be in a k hole, it’s not fun 💀 in small doses it’s fun and silly but k holes are scary as fuck
@@guytrashgurtdogIt depends on your personality. Some people like the k hole.
It’s not a “new” drug. The Chemical Brothers released “Dig Your Own Hole” in 1997 (And yes, it’s a K-Hole reference). Also, Ketamine is EXTREMELY ADDICTIVE.
@@jnnx They didn't say it was new, they said it was the "new" "it" drug for the purpose they mentioned. The quotation marks around "new" should denote that they know ket isn't new.
I remember feeling like poor David after anesthesia. Like, I was trying to explain that I knew I was drugged and that’s why I felt funny and was being a little weird, but I could still understand what was happening. And I remember getting increasingly frustrated by my inability to communicate properly and the way they were giggling at me.
“the passage of time disgusts me” is such a mood. i hate that don’t hug me im scared is 10 years old.
ITS TEN YEARS OLD???😭😭😭😭😭
WHAAATTTT?!
No way😭
That makes me 3 when it came outWTF
Yeah but on the bright side a tv show is coming out! It's still alive and being found by newer fans and stuff and I think that's pretty cool
I would kill to see you do a whole deep dive on Neil Cicirega's history as basically king of internet culture, it's honestly mind blowing how much he's done.
Sounds like an awesome video for Strange or also/alternatively Tiffany Ferg
YES.
YES I NEED THAT
yesss it's so fascinating how he stayed a core part of internet culture through so many rapid changes in the nature and use of the internet!
yes!!!
I remember I hated the leave Britney alone video because I was like 12 at the time and I was a fan of Britney since I was a kid (and also a very prone to crying and being visibly upset) and when that video came out my family constantly laughed at me and mocked the video at me because I felt the same way and even at 12 could tell that Britney really needed to be left alone and stop being hounded.
And everyone who treated me and that video like a joke back then were so #freebritney when that became big. I can only hope it was personal growth that made them change and not bandwagon-ing.
I love "the myterious ticking noise" and " the duck song".
What I remember: "why is the rum gone?", "there taking the hobbits to isengard", the" trolololo" Video (with saruman), the "saxguy", "nyancat", the one with patrick answering the phone (no I'm patrick), " I can swing my sword" and other songs from tobuscous, "diggy diggy hole" and a lot of 10 hour videos.
That was s really creative youtube. Like everywhere greedy people (like youtube management) destroyes that.
Chocolate Rain is both still a banger and still sadly relevant. If anything, it's only grown more and more relevant over time.
"Build a tent and say the world is dry" is honestly a really cutting line
"The babies born will die before the sin." Dude wasn't wrong.
"The bell curve will blame the baby's DNA"
I was a little kid and had no idea what it was actually about. I did know it ended up being referenced in My Little Pony as the chaos deity makes cotton candy clouds that rain chocolate milk as a call back to this viral song. It's kinda strange considering racism was address in many episodes and mini arcs throughout the show. Hell, in his debut episode, said chaos deity takes away the magic from unicorns and wings from pegasi so that all the main ponies had equal physical abilities. Man, my childhood was so weird.
And then he immediately sold out to Pepsi with a cherry chocolate Dr pepper ad.
thank you for making me fall through time for 25 minutes. I remember watching the Badger song back when it was a flash video so many times the sound eventually falls out of sync
And I will never forget the best videos from ancient internet. Trogdor for president 2004
Hope you’re well, Lindsay. Much love always
My friend once sat my now-ex wife in front of the Badgers loop and told her to watch it all the way through..
so glad to see you here!
Miss your awesome and insightful videos, Lindsay. I hope you return to TH-cam someday, but only if you want to.
Leave Britney Alone was one of my favorite as a kid. I don’t remember anything from the vid other than the iconic, generation defining quote. My friends and I would just yell it at recess in like third grade or some shit. I didn’t know she dealt with so much shit over it. I will say, NFTs are awful, but this might be one of the few times NFTs have been positive for someone. Not the guy who bought it, but for the girl who got 40 stacks to fund her transition. I’m glad she got a happy ending out of it.
I still say Tay Zinday is brilliant and was so ahead of his time. When I was younger I just thought chocolate rain was a silly song, but as I got older, more aware of the injustices of the world, and learned what it was actually about my mind was blown
Friday by Rebecca black was definitely another early one people liked to make fun of. The internet unsurprisingly took things way too far and started attacking Rebecca, sending her (a child) death threats.
She makes music again and has a remix of friday that goes hard she's super cool now
I hated Friday, but I never understood why people sent her death threats. Like, yeah, the song was fucking awful and easy to make fun of, but the fact people attacked Rebecca over it is just too much. I always look back at the 2000's and just how fucked up some things were.
@@ReptilianTeaDrinker yea like, kids deserve the rights to make shit songs and not get death threats
I agree with what you say apart from "early" as it was in 2011. Both youtube and the concept of viral videos were well established at the time and even people like me (who generally avoided viral videos and lived in a country where most people never watched youtube) saw it.
I remember she eventually appeared in Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F)” video and she did a new song, Saturday, that was good and made fun of Friday a bit.
She’d been taken advantage of by the producer who set her up to look bad, if I recall correctly. I think he was found to be behind other “viral” cringey videos of kids singing something a bit cringe. I don’t recall the specifics. I think though that he’d profit off them going viral even if it hindered their professional careers.
in 2020-ish, i started getting into Lemon Demon and eventually found my way to neil cicierega's youtube channel, and i was like "that name sounds familiar..." so i went through his channel and i was like WHAT????? this is the same guy who made POTTER PUPPET PALS??!!?!?!?! the show i was so obsessed with as a kid i tried to recreate it with sock puppets!?? not to mention ariel needs legs, brodyquest, and so much other nostalgic stuff i had no idea he was responsible for. genuinely, neil cicierega is my favorite content creator of all time.
You forgot Bustin!
Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny was also him, I believe.
as a native of 2006 youtube whenever people in like 2018 forward mentioned listening to lemon demon i could only think ".....the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny? music like that??"
@@Cecil... "A dimension of another dimension..."
i had the exact same experience w/ lemon demon lmao, i watched potter puppet pals as a kid and then in 2020 started listening to lemon demon and i was like "huh niel cicierega? that name sounds familiar" and then in 2021 i wanted to watched some potter puppet pals for nostalgia and i saw the channel name was niel cicerega and i was like "...ISN'T THAT LEMON DEMON ???"
Since I was a kid when all of those repetitive TH-cam songs came out I was immune to finding them annoying. And you better believe I abused that power!
I loved (and still love) the Duck Song and Nyan Cat and the Badger song with all my heart.
While I’m sad that the old “wild west” of TH-cam is gone, I’m glad that the internet is expansive enough for us to make our own ways with it, either thru watching channels we like, or by making our own content, which is easier than ever.
I had the same immunity. And I still know all of the lyrics by heart.
"The passage of time disgusts me" is exactly how I feel about seeing these 'old' viral videos now. This is my childhood.
Hearing about how Chocolate Rain was seen as a funny, quirky song when it had lyrics like "Chocolate rain raised your neighborhood insurance rates/makes us happy living in a gate" is just kinda sad. Like, I'm glad Tay Zonday took it in stride, but I can't imagine how it must have felt having something that was written in earnest be made into a punchline. But I think he's doing well for himself now, so that's... something.
very much reminds me of the old poem that was eventually turned into a song (i can't remember the name rn but it was about racism and murder and the words had to do with fruit hanging from a tree) if anyone remembers/knows the name, pls lmk! it's really impactful and sad
@@catlovingnerd21 Are you talking about Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday? I don't know if it was a poem first, but it's definitely about racism and uses fruit imagery.
@@gduffey2615 yes! tysm! and yes it was a poem written sometime in the mid 1900s that was turned into a song and given to Billie Holiday to perform
@@catlovingnerd21 I believe it was actually written in the mid to late 1800s and turned into a song by Billie Holiday in the first half of the 20th century. She faced a lot of pushback on that song, a lot of big wigs didn't want it to ever be released and the response from white supremacists was... predictable. The poem was originally written by a schoolteacher.
I remember not understanding it at first but then all the kids at school started being like “you know it’s about racism, right?” So it kind of became a “fun fact” about it later that had people relistening to pay attention to the lyrics. I didn’t understand back then a lot of the elements of racism that the song touches on, so I wonder how many people he introduced to the concepts and had looking into them more? I’m sure the song probably had a net positive, even if most who listened to it were school kids just obsessed with how deep his voice was or whatever.
Not just that, but TH-cam is increasingly segregated. Back then videos would be promoted based off of popularity, there wasn't targeted ads nor algorithms deciding what you should watch, everyones experience with TH-cam was more or less the same. Now there's tons of subcultures, depending on your demographic the site is completely different in terms of what content you're exposed to. I'm always surprised to stumble across some random creator I've never heard of and find out they have millions of views on their videos. In that context it's pretty hard to get such an all encompassing meme that breaks across demographic lines/
Exactly, which could also explain why the only meme related things to transcend internet niches are meme formats, and not memes themselves. Think of soyjaks for example. A meme format is just a mode of expression, a tool to use to create humoristic content, to rebuke an argument, etc... It doesn't express any idea in itself, or at least it no longer does. It's a meme who has been stripped of its specific characteristics, and can therefore be used however you want.
If you spend a lot of time on Twitter, you can see this transformation happening before your eyes in a matter of days, or maybe weeks. I'm sure memes are fascinating to study in a serious, sociological and linguistical way.
Very true. I kinda miss non-curated content. Sometimes I have to keep telling the feed I don't want to see what it's suggesting anymore hoping it'll throw something new my way which doors happen from time to time.
This is super true. I've been saying that this is the reason why there are so many quotable vines that everyone knows, but you can quote a "viral" TikTok meme and have no one understand it.
Which is just sad because that just means this isn't the result of the natural evolution of the internet and people's habits as a culture over time, but plain and simply youtube's manipulation thanks to algorithms. We could've had an entirely different reality if it wasn't for that.
So much better this way!!
In those early days, hunting for viral videos was actually a thing too. Not everyone was on social media yet and so when you found a good funny website, you'd tell all your friends... BY EMAIL. People would email funny videos and images to each other because they didnt have facebook and other social media to share stuff on yet. People slowly and quietly stopped doing that, at about the same time everyone got cell phones and stopped using public pay phones. I feel so old talking about the past like that LOL
This!!! The first of these I saw was the Badger, and it was *emailed* to me in an attachment! I remember it taking ages to download 😂 and I completely forgot to plug in the computer speakers so I had no idea there was any sound to it until I replayed it for my family 🤣
The weirdest experience is my 5th grade students referencing these videos and then trying to explain them to me, as if they weren't an integral part of my formative years. Thanks for this trip, I didn't realize it's been this long and I'm still saying shoes like Kelly does.
God i love neil cicierega. He's been the mostly creditless pretty much first influencer, somehow always managing to make content that gets popular.
Lemon Demon??
@@wolfdwarf yep.
Absolutely love him
had an argument with my friends once about how i discovered that he was the guy behind ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny and potter puppet pals. i still dont think they've fully accepted it haha
neil made the internet and i live him for that
Now that you're talking about TH-cam rather than Tumblr, I'm feeling a very, "Don't cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written," moment.
She brings up Newgrounds a bit, which reminds me of the ancient stuff from that website, like Madness Combat, The Matrix Has You, The One Ring to Rule Them All, etc.
Same haha. Like the other poster said, new grounds comes to mind and the cursed meme site ytmnd 🤣 “You merely adopted the dark. I was born into it, molded by it.”
Lo, I too was there.
@@pootoobaby738 Oh wow, I don't think I've seen ytmnd mentioned in like a decade 😂
Y'know, this one time, I ... Saw some wookies. Great big wookies. 🎶 They came to maaaaaul Daaaarth Vaadeerrr! 🎶
As somebody who was re-uploading things from Newgrounds and other internet media dump sites to this website the year it was made, I feel this deep to my bones, through to the marrow and plasma and into my soul. I still get people asking me how I've been on this website for so long... it's because I'm in my 30s, friend. I have always been here.
I had the candy mountain perfume in high school. It smelled like sweet tarts but a little bit sweeter. Whenever I would be complimented on my scent or told I smelled like candy, I'd say, "It's candy mountain, chaaaarlie."
Ah, the days when cringe was cool.
My friends and I tried to make a stage play of Charlie the Unicorn when we were in elementary school, and as much as I cringe at it in retrospect it's a memory I'm honestly fond of.
One day several years ago I mentioned to my mom that someone had reminded me of that duck song from youtube years ago. Her face instantly went slack with horror. Apparently I was obsessed with that thing as a kid and completely forgot about it. She would have to listen to it on repeat as I watched it on the family computer, which was in the kitchen. I cannot imagine her pain.
Apologize to her
As a parent with a 9 and a 7 year old... I've been through that phase twice already. *soblaugh* I'm never having more. xD
That was my little sister with "what does the fox say" and " What is love". I can't even listen to "What is love" any more.
Oh, it's YOU. YOU'RE the antichrist.
I wonder if the viral nature of the "leave Brittany alone" video meant that Brittany herself might have seen it and got something positive from it. And let's be real a lot of the bullying that came for Cara probably had something to do with her being gnc.
sorry but what is gnc?
@@danigirii gender nonconforming
@@citylights903 thanks~!
@@danigirii No problem!
The gnc part was certainly how I was first lead to interpret it (not my best moment)
I always find the Duck Song extra funny because Forrestfire101 is arguably the most legendary Lego animator on TH-cam, like he had two large animation successes one in the mainstream and the other in a niche community.
Badger badger mushroom gives off generation z randomness chaos. I'd love to see a gen z reaction to all these videos and if they find any of them funny.
The degree to which I found 'Shoes' hilarious and delightful when it came out was - in retrospect - another giant flashing neon 'gay' sign that I should have noticed much faster than I did
That truly explains everything in my life damn
1000% true, I didn't ever connect it to just how much I adored it
Poor Cara. She was so right. Britney is my age and it's just pretty horrifying to think of her with that conservatorship all those years when I was having sometimes wild but still pretty normal 25-40 year old lady things, but I like, had free will. It's really screwed up. The 00s were so oof, like I have fond memories and viral videos were fun in some ways, but the humor... if anyone has an Xennial parent or boss or anybody in your life, you might be able to say "I know what kind of jokes you made in '05" and just win any argument because they will so ashamed haha.
Shit like that kinda feels like child slavery. Parents throw your child into the limelight, train them throughout the years to become really good at their job, let them take the brunt of negative attention they’ll receive in the industry & audiences, don’t help them emotionally or mentally or help them stay grounded as a regular person. The adult relies on the kid for money and lives it up while the child deals with the financial pressure from a young age, and the “responsibilities” for who uses the money and what for falls to the “adult”. and when they go “crazy” you receive justification to take all their earnings for years. The person who lost their mind due to pressure and no childhood, will never get to see their earnings cuz it belongs to their parents.
I think the humor actually said a lot of positive things about where we were as a society. I think very few people who made jokes based on someone's age, race, sexuality, gender, etc. were _actually_ doing so because they didn't like a particular group (I know I didn't). And I don't think most people who were a part of those groups and heard the jokes were offended by them (I know I wasn't). In general, I think our wide ability to joke and the minimal criticism it got at the time is reflective of how we felt about one another--like our race or gender didn't matter, and we were just friends making jokes.
Empirically, we can actually see that, for example, race relations in America were at their peak at the same time so many jokes that would lose you your job today were commonplace. It's just a lot easier to joke about potentially sensitive things when both sides know there's no malice behind it, and that's something we knew at the time. (It's not like anyone in the 00's thought it was okay for actual racists or sexists to make those kind of jokes.)
I'm not sure if society has really become more compassionate than in those days. We still make a spectacle out of people's misfortunes, like the johnny depp trial. Maybe hindsight's just 20/20.
@@jacksyoutubechannel4045 You look at Cara's video and the response it got and tell me "we we're just friends making jokes"
@@jacksyoutubechannel4045 we get it, you're racist. Calm down.
I am bummed "the end of the world" didn't get a mention, though I think that video pre-dated a lot of the videos she was talking about. It was viral even before youtube was the standard for watching videos. Same with Salad Fingers, which is internet gold imo. I'm on a boat was also huge around 2007-8, though that was SNL, so maybe not worth mentioning. (Also what happened to T-pain? Is he still around?)
I think T-Pain is still around as a twitch streamer, I vividly remember a saltydkdan vod where he sent people to t-pain's stream as a joke
I'm still watching this collection while reading comments. So I'm not sure if this super old early Internet thing I'm thinking of is "the end of the world", or if the song & images that are burned into my mind are indeed from what you're talking about. And if it's not, perhaps you will remember this too! It certainly was made a part of my life during the rise of salad fingers, in foamy the squirrel times. Back in the day, when Spencer's Gifts was full of Happy Bunny merch & even sold rolls of TP with different images /captions printed sheet by sheet. I guess H.B. is almost like a great auntie of what evolved to be "memes".
I'm sorry. I digress, I just got totally lost in old-womanly memories of things young people did before they graduated in 2007 lol
Is this video you speak of the one where it's an opera song playing, and there's crabs that start to kind of take over the screen and they have little Darth Vader helmets and lightsabers? And eventually the song kind of kicks into an almost techno type of vibe? I'm pretty sure Britney was featured in it, she's just a few still frame images from her music video for her early classic "Crazy", shimmying around in that iconic Green top? My memories of this go back to 2003 or 2004... It was shown to me on a website that featured a bunch of flash player videos... I think that's where "we like tha Moon" was from too.
PS, you guys might already know & remember, but if you missed it: in the mid 2010s T-Pain was on NPR tiny desk with just a keyboard & no auto tune. I'm still unsure how this man was never properly recognized for it in his peak of fame. There is a beautiful voice behind that auto tune!
@@marysupernova7780 No, the video was a crude flash cartoon about the literal end of the world. It is the reason I still say "but I am le tired" even though no one gets that reference anymore.
My brother 17 year old brother still regularly sayd "badger, badger, badger, mushroom mushroom, badger, badger" while doing the little move.
Not gonna lie, I kinda miss this era of TH-cam but I also forgot that we don't get viral videos anymore. Everything goes viral now with how big the internet has gotten over the last 10 to 15 years. Also, I just realise a lot of viral videos happen in 2007 which like dang a lot of stuff happened in that year alone.
I feel like the last time there was something like this was Vine. Tiktoks can be funny and spawn memes, but there was something about vine (and subsequent vine compilations on youtube) that had almost the same power as early youtube viral videos.
@@allisonb8912 Same Vine did have that sorta simillar feel to old viral videos of the old internet era.
I feel like at times TikTok can sorta be like that and maybe give it 10 or 15 years the people that grew up with TikTok will feel the same way with some of the videos on there.
Though its not fully the same as old TH-cam but who knows only time will tell of what will happen next.
2007/2008 was when the Internet truly started to spread in everyone's home, notably through smartphones, so it's not surprising.
@@NIHIL_EGO Oh yeah that makes sense forgot the first iPhone came out that year.
its not viral nowadays its pushed content
when I was younger, my sister went to a potter puppet pals event at the mall of america. she brought me back a snape puppet picture signed by neil that said “sam. you are cool.” and then his signature. I LOVED it and put it up on my walls. a few years later, I wasn’t really into PPP anymore, and took it down off my wall. and, not realizing the treasure I had, I think I may have thrown it away. I’m genuinely devastated by this like. I had fucking NEIL CICIEREGA’S SIGNATURE. and, at BEST, it’s lost in the ether of storage, most likely ripped and crumpled. and is more likely gone for good. even though I fucking despise jk rowling and harry potter now, GOD.
i absolutely hate jk rowling but i still like harry potter and can't bring myself to hate it just because its creator is a bigot 😭i won't buy any harry potter stuff though (at least not that is produced by the actual franchise)
@@catlovingnerd21 pretty much everything is connected to her unfortunately, the only ethical HP thing I have is a stolen Thermos cup.
@@eonilem8428 my dark mark tattoo is ethical technically. And atleast now we know jk is a bellend having voldemort be my fave seems smart now if jk is anti trans any villian she writes is probably pro trans.
In December 2016, there was a Yule Ball tour stop right down the street from my apartment and I think it was one of the first live shows PPP had done in a while and I am KICKING MYSELF that I didn’t go
What's wrong with ol' J.K.?
I honestly hate 'The Mysterious Ticking Noise' with such a burning passion because several people literally cut me out of their friendship groups because I didn't know it and couldn't perform it with them (I wasn't a fan of Harry Potter, so didn't find any entertainment in the video and especially didn't enjoy it enough to watch it on repeat to memorise it). The friendship groups I did manage to remain in would attempt to force me to be a part of it and then would yell at me and argue when I got it even slightly wrong. Most people only talk about it from the perspective of someone who actually enjoyed it and was "in on the joke", and I'm sure people who did enjoy it have fond memories of performing it with friends... But for me, anytime anyone started it, I just sat miserable, knowing that I wasn't going to be including in that social interaction for the following 10-30 minutes.
Snape. Snape. Cerberus Snape.
Same deal, cept I just didn't have internet lol
I still did it but I still found it kind of cringe at the time bc I was never that into harry potter
I didn’t like Harry Potter but found the potter puppet pals pretty funny when it came to the random humor and silly voices, so i played along. Definitely not in the same way as the potter fans did tho. My friends actually kinda did the opposite and got really mad that I knew the puppet pals but didn’t read the books.
@chewiirull so someone was like, "man this stupid trend affected my social life as a kid, so I can't stand it," and you come in like, "ummm actually...sounds like a /you/ problem."
That's fucking wild bro 😂
I had this on a playlist on TH-cam to listen to while sleeping and when the Harry Potter puppet pals came on I woke up out of a dead sleep in almost a panic to turn it off
But what you don't know is that his real name is Strange Aeons....
Let’s keep it alive
Omg yessss don't let it die @strange eon should pin this comment
Though it is relatively easy to find out who is dating Strange Aeons...
The ones I remember are like 'Can't pet every cat' and 'nyan cat' or 'how animals eat their food'. I actually don't know how "viral" these videos were, but it seemed like everyone I knew were constantly talking and referencing them.
Omg yess
Nyancat was def viral and also iirc sold as an NFT (booo). I remember the games I had on my ipod touch and would play back in highschool lol.
@@notshardain Wait nyan cat sold as an nft??? Shit bro noooo 😭
i completely forgot about "how animals eat their food" omg and i just went back and watched it and honestly i still laughed a lot it's pretty funny in a lolrandom simpler time way
How animals eat their food, oh my god. My fifth grade teacher showed that to us in class lmfao
I tried to convince my friends in my anatomy lab to perform The Mysterious Ticking Noise when we were allowed to saw off the top half of our cats. It’s actually fairly normal for all of the pre-health majors to lose their minds at that point during the semester
The guy who did Charlie the Unicorn and Llamas with Hats also had a video called The Cloak. My friends and I spent our whole high school senior year just quoting that video and laughing. It was a 10 minute video and somehow we stretched the humor we got out of it for an entire school year. It was our whole personality. We still quote it 10+ years later.
I was half expecting her to say "don't forget to rate and comment!" at the end of the video as a call back to the 5 star rating system TH-cam had. Fantastic video though! I remember all of those quite vividly
srsly tho what was wrong with the star system? much more granular than like/dislike and all the SHIT videos could be downvoted to hell
@@asuka_the_void_witch Agreed. The star system was better.
@@asuka_the_void_witch it didn't promote controversial videos enough, now dislikes do nothing but help the video in the algorithm, so obviously TH-cam doesn't care if a video is good or not, just if it's clickable
@@universal_stupidity yeah... =(
I feel so bad for Cara Cunningham. She called us all out as a society and we really just ruined her life. I hope younger people somehow find the “LBA” video and at least give her some internet clout. She deserves it. Cara, if you’re reading this, I’ll buy LBA merch!
Sounds incredibly accurate for 2000s internet culture, tbh. "Oh, you want to express sincere emotion? Can't have that!"
Honestly I've never seen the original video (just occasional clips of it popping up), and I always thought it was a parody/joke video. Really sucks that she got so much hate from it, super undeserved, but at least she managed to get some money out of it in the end. Doesn't make up for everything but it's better than nothing.
@@PunkZombie1300 yeah at least she can make a bag
@@hollandscottthomas "Sounds incredibly accurate for 2000s internet culture, tbh. "Oh, you want to express sincere emotion? Can't have that!""
The 2000s did immediately follow the perma-ironic 1990s so there was a hangover from that.
Also, the internet was seen as entirely separate to real life back then. Just log off, sadsack! But even IRL culture was different, these were the days of Jeremy Kyle, Steve Wilkos, Jerry Springer, Maury, Geraldo, Vanessa, Trisha... this led to a more and more judgmental culture that kind of changed with the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 when people discovered that _anyone_ could end up a guest on the Jeremy Kyle Show. People they _knew_ and _loved_ were now long term unemployed through no fault of their own, people who had "done nothing wrong".
Then came GamerGate, Trump, BLM, COVID and the Cost of Living Crisis and we've sort of realised than none of us are above or better than anyone else.
It was a very different time back then.
Fortunately she got very validated recently with Free Britney
I love Kelly and shoes. Holds a special place in my heart.
i remember as a kid being terrified to finish watching the duck song video because i was worried that something horrible would happen to the duck by the end.
when i was little i had been sufficiently traumatized by animated youtube content with cutesy presentations only for them to take an edgy, dark twist where characters are violently murdered and i thought that was what the duck song was gonna be. i wish i could tell younger bugs that the duck song wasn't gonna hurt him.
Awww I'm sad you didn't mention Actual Cannibal Shia Lebouf. I watched to original animated version in HS and was ecstatic to see the live version years later. A level of payoff most people sadly did not get.
that one was more 2010s, the guy who made it, rob cantor, was also in a band called tally hall (who made their own old school meme videos as well as some truly incredible music) and now he works for disney making the music for the show “the ghost and molly mcgee”
@@mimigigihere IM SORRY WHAT.
I HAVE JUST MADE THIS CONNECTION BETWEEN ACTUAL CANNIBAL AND TALLY HALL, AND YOU FUTHER IT WITH THE GHOST OF MOLLY MCGEE? JESUS CHRIST. it's my own lemon demon moment.
My friends and I regularly reference that song in the year of our lord 2022. "But your leg, ah, it's caught in a bear trap!" and "But wait, he isn't dead- Shia surprise!" never fails to make everyone laugh lmao
@@cactoyote yep, that all happened … also zubin was in actual cannibal shia laboeuf. and apparently joe hawley and lemon demon could have collaborated but joe pissed off neil
My first DnD campaign our DM set up an encounter where we recreated the events of Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf without any of his players (save my little brother) knowing what it was. It was hilarious
Shoes is an excellent litmus test of someone's familiarity with early 00s internet culture.
It's as old as me
i have never met a person aged 25-35 who is not viscerally familiar with it
I still remember someone making a Club Penguin music video of that song filmed with unregistered hypercam 2
Ahhhh, those were the days
I don't actually remember it myself.
i think i was just too young for it, im 20 now so i would’ve only been 4 when it came out
As an old, I feel like the first viral video was maybe the dancing baby from Alley Mc.Beal. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it was put as a stand alone video and then shared and then it made its way into the show? Or maybe it was part of the show and was posted online? There are LOTS of cobwebs in my brain but I feel like it all sort of started there.
Yeah you're right - the Oogachaka Baby was probably the first ever viral internet video, with what I've read dating the video all the way back to 1996. It was a GIF that went viral through email chains. So yes Ally McBeal was referencing the meme. The insane thing about it is that that was long enough ago that my parents remember it and the term "meme" wasn't even a thing in common parlance.
From what my dad has told me about the very early days of the internet, people just kinda saw the "dancing baby email gif" as another funny pop culture thing like the Macarena or Bill Clinton and his saxophone that was referenced in TV shows like Ally McBeal. The internet was in such an early stage then that the idea of "internet culture" and "memes" being a distinct culture from the pop culture of legacy media simply wasn't a thing to most people. Of course, there were online subcultures, but those were extremely niche and seen as the realm of uber-nerds. It wasn't really until Star Wars Kid exploded out of nowhere that the idea of the "viral video" really took hold in the mainstream.
In regards to Cara, God bless the Britney video, but I seem to recall a number of other very off colour videos. I specifically remember one where she criticizes mothers, and says she is far more dedicated to her beauty than any mother will ever be to her child. As an 11 y/o couldn't tell if it's satire, but it really made me mad at her
the emotional whiplash i went through from 'awww, the charlie bit my finger family did a little feature on the video's 10 year anniversary' to 'the video was sold as an NFT and removed from youtube' was. staggering to say the least
Oh man, I was in my mid-late teens during this era and this was a real blast from the past. Off the top of my head I can also remember:
- The Numa Numa Guy
- Creepy Girlfriend's Justin Bieber parody
- Star Wars Kid (Both the original and edited version)
- He-Man's version of 'What's Going On'
- They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard
- Salad Fingers
And the Trollololol song was EVERYWHERE
I still think about the He-man video every time I hear What's Going On
wavywebsurf actually made a video about the "What's going on" song and it's quite interesting, if you want something to watch. o wo
This video could have been 2 hours long, there's so much to cover lol
The TH-cam rewind videos of the time should showcase a lot of the viral videos of the time.
Taking the Hobbits to Isengard is a classic and a banger, but PO-TAY-TOES is probably the more impactful entry in the weirdly-specific subgenre of Lord of the Rings techno remix memes.
I was in college during early TH-cam, so I remember many of the early viral TH-cam videos with great fondness. Most of them were so wacky and stupid. Sometimes I realize that the college students who currently work under me probably haven't seen most of them and wouldn't get the joke if I alluded to them and then I feel old.
Shoe is a big memory for me because I didn't have youtube and my friends were talking about "Shoes" and I was like idk what that is and Matt turned to me and said "You Haven't seen SHOES? I've seen shoes" and he had no internet access. I was shamed.
I remember when it was a fun activity to go over to someone else's house and literally just watch TH-cam for hours on end. You showed most of the viral hits I remember seeing at that time. There was also a time where it seemed that just a few professional music videos had been uploaded, and the ones I remember most was Lip Gloss and Milkshake.
Truly simpler times lol. I was starting college around this time so we just hung out in each other's dorms doing this. Wholesome
Watching Weird Al Yankovic, Backstreet Boys and Shakira music videos on TH-cam with friends. Those were the days.
My husband still does this to our guests. Lol. They're good sports.
Lip Gloss omg!!
Yup I couldn't watch youtube at my house (we had 1gb of data a month) so I would watch all these classics at other friends places especially sleepovers.
Went back to revisit the comments section of "Chocolate Rain" after 2020, expecting the newer comments to have a lot of stuff like, "ohhh, I get it now," "this is still really relevant after George Floyd/the BLM movement," etc. There were a lot of new comments, but they were still mainly about how it was a "quirky," "nostalgic" 2000s viral song, with only a relative few about the meaning of the lyrics. One thing that sort of stands out in my mind is how one commenter made up a series of new lyrics specifically about summer 2020 and the BLM movement, and all the replies were like, "it's just an internet song, don't get too deep into it," "cringe," etc. That really surprised me, because I thought a ton of people would have been more aware of it by now.
Idiots don't tend to have good media analysis skills, and idiots tend to be more conservative-leaning, so...
It’s funny to revisit things like that bc on one hand there’s “whoa shit was more meaningful than I realized while also still being a banger” aspect but there’s also the “damn shit hasn’t changed” aspect
The meaning was lost on most when it came out, too.
The comments under Neil Cicierega's rework of this song "Like Tears in Chocolate Rain" are pretty nice at least!
The lyrics are literally so blatant
i remember my babysitter (when I was like, 7 or 8,) showing us these videos, alongside My Drunk Kitchen and other hit youtube channels at the time. I don't think my parents were very happy when they came home and watched us watching videos where pipebombs and illegal organ transplantations were the punchlines but I look back fondly.
At the time, Being familiar with cara Cunningham's previous videos (jokes about having incestuous relationships is one example i remember), i absolutely did not take 'leave britney alone' at face value. Yes she was speaking some truth (the media and public treated Britney and others horribly), but the video i thought was theater, not a genuine emotional reaction, and was meant to be laughed at. It was weird to me when people were mocking the leave britney alone video
Cause it was obviously a performance. The joke was like "people are mean to Britney, but i'm going to get super over the top about it for comedy". That sucks she got harassed and assaulted and shit as a result of the video
I'm genuinely surprised the "Numa Numa" video didn't make it on here! I remember seeing that one as a teen before I ever saw Shoes or Charlie the Unicorn. That video is from like, 2001, and it was super popular.
(for context it's a video of a guy enthusiastically lipsyncing to Romanian pop song Dragostea Din Tei)
Oh yeah I remember watching that on newgrounds in like 2004 when I was around 9 yrs old. Such a classic.
Or the nyanza cat! That was like the first viral video I saw
That and the original Llama Song. Classics.
I used to know every word in both languages lmao
It's because she's too young to remember albinoblacksheep, which is where the truly ancient memes kicked off. Think Milk and Cereal, Mashed Taters, End of Ze World, Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny. Anything before that and I think it was just too big to transfer over dialup.
As someone born in 1991, and therefore a 7th grader when youtube started, I think my age group (I would say people born 89-93) was uniquely in the perfect situation for these videos to entirely shape our personalities. Nearly every one of these videos is still present in my consciousness 24/7. I cannot say "mushroom" without conjuring the badger song. I say "shun the non-believers" unironically, and hate myself. I would watch these videos once a day for at least 3 years. My brain is irreparably warped by these references, and I simply will never be normal.
It’s strange how I’m a decade younger than you (I was born 2001), and yet what you wrote doesn’t seem entirely dissimilar to me. While the mention of badger, mushroom, or snake doesn’t necessarily bring the song to mind, any mention of two of either word at the same time or the word badger being said twice will bring the song to mind. And while I don’t unironically say “shun the non-believers” there are still times that my siblings and I will quote it together
Also 31. My feelings exactly. At least the internet was a little more pleasant those days.
Same buddy, same.
Before TH-cam, I remember trawling websites like AlbinoBlacksheep. Stuff like the End of the World, L33t Romeo and Juliet, Schfifty Five, Peanut Butter Jelly Time... It was a simpler time.
Another -91 here and this is exactly my thoughts. My brother and I still sing and dance the badger song randomly every now and then. These videos and especially the flash stuff I used to watch on Newgournds are a part of my soul and personality.
I think "Charlie Bit Me" found fame because of Richard & Judy, a UK daytime TV show that was an unmissable staple of your day if you were over the age of 50 (it was afterschool time for me, right when my mum made dinner so I had to sit through it too). They held a 'competition' of sorts to find the funniest clip on the internet and send it in and Charlie Bit Me was inexplicably the winner. The hosts were absolutely howling at how hilarious it was and played it again and again. I've never been so baffled. I can only conclude that it's boomer-funny somehow.
It is super strange to feel the internet growing up with you. When you are in high school and stuff and it is just popping off. And it's a really good way to feel old and a sense of camaraderie at the same time.
Hyped for this one Strange. I suffered from being exposed too early to the internet.
Brainrot is real
Exposed like goatee.
David After Dentist made me so terrified of getting my wisdom teeth out because I didn’t want my family to take the opportunity to record and humiliate me - which they would. I refused to be put under for the surgery for that reason and… it honestly wasn’t that bad. But I still have a fear of being humiliated after surgery to this day.
This!! I never saw the exact video and I know my family wouldn't record me on anesthesia (so sorry yours would), but this kind of video is also why I was so nervous about getting my wisdom teeth out. So many people had recorded their family members' and friends' scary disorienting drugged up moments and, removed from all context, made me terrified of losing control of my mind/body. That (and the fact that I have a relative who had a weird reaction to NO2) is why I opted not to go under.
@@fionamclary7631 I got put under for my wisdom teeth and I woke up and didn’t act silly at all, I remember waking up really vividly and just feeling tired. Nothing was funny, I didn’t say anything stupid, it just hurt.
I remember being really paranoid that I would get filmed by my parents after I got my wisdom teeth removed in high school, only to immediately pass the fuck out the second I got into the car.
I, did not know that the child was on ketamine.
ok , lol & lmfao imho! btw omg xD
had special k minutes ago....pardon my french..
I was terrified that I'd out myself as gay somehow, since it seemed like you'd just blurt out whatever was on your mind.
It's obvious now that you still have self control on painkillers hahaha. At the time I didn't know
“Neil Ciceriega… yeah, *that* one! 😃” Incredibly accurate. Thank you, Teya.
I only just remembered that early TH-cam had a really short time cap on videos - I think between 5-10 minutes? That would have also greatly affected the content that was published and how TH-cam was watched in general
i never found the song chocolate rain itself funny because i easily found out its meaning, the only funny thing is the text saying he moves his head away so he can breathe without having it in his song lol
agreed, I never understood why everyone though it was hilarious (other than the head moving away from the mic part)
This was the mid 2000's when most white Americans were still under the idea that racism had mostly been "solved," even though obviously it had not been (plus children generally don't understand racism so that's a big chunk of the audience). If you're able to ignore the actual content of the song it's functionally competent if not a little repetitive and that's about it, which also describes just the video itself coincidentally. So yeah besides the big obvious part about institutionalized racism the only other thing that sticks out is the breathing away from the mic.
Chocolate Rain just barely flew under the critical radar because of a lot of different converging factors. Most people who saw it on TH-cam, at the time largely kids and people upper middle class enough to have a home PC (since this was largely before smartphones), just didn't really think about what the song was really saying. But because of what the song was saying people and organizations outside the internet (e.g. news stations) were hesitant to talk about it. If this song had come out a decade later and still somehow been at relatively large on the internet (which would be very unlikely in this age of the internet) then people probably wouldn't find the video all that funny. Hopefully it would've been taken more seriously in that version of reality, but it would've been so much more politicized in the eyes of viewers I can only imagine what kind of fights it would've started.
*edit: please read through mine, MC's and Asparageese's discussion from here as well as there is a lot to learn from it :)
@@voodoolilium they literally just went “haha Chocolate Rain so silly and random XD” and didn’t pay attention to any other part of the song
@@guineverehaas2427 as a black person, I'd like you to stop whitesplaining smile
@@weeweewermwangstalker9062 I am sorry, it's an incredibly complex issue and I tried my best to not leave too much out but that's obviously impossible in a few paragraphs on TH-cam. If you could let me know what I've gotten wrong I'll edit my comment to be as correct as I can. A good amount of my comment was based off impressions from when I was a sheltered kid, and it's difficult for me to properly convey living in the mid 2000s for anyone other than a sheltered white kid, much less a person of color.
I want to learn more so please explain as much as you feel you need to, if that means I'm wrong about most or even all of what I said then that's how it is.
Yeah, ketamine is no joke. I was put on some when I broke my arm and lemme tell you that I was straight up tripping that I could perceive in 360 degrees with bug eyes and going on a floating train ride around the doctors trying to reset my arm. I don’t think the like 7 shots of morphine before that helped any considering that I was only in the 5th grade.
I don't know if I should be jealous, or concerned on how you turned out afterwards...
man american doctors really love to dope people out of their gourds
Was this in the us? That healthcare system is wildly concerning.
@@essneyallen6777 bruh its wild to know every decade of our medicine, even up to now, sounds wildly innapropriate to most other countries of similar medicine capabilities. We seem to just take medicine and throw it like spaghetti to see what will happen. Yet they do it while acting like its all according to plan & totally safe.
((My mind goes to oxycontin in the 90s.... So many heroin addicts that were just kids in the 90s but were given straight up large doses of oxy for like a broken arm or tmj! ))
@@essneyallen6777 Yep! The good U.S. of A. The two ambulance rides I took that day cost a small fortune too! I was a kid so my parents didn’t let me know the total amount that everything cost but I can only imagine seeing as we went to three hospitals in the same day.
Yay! Thanks for this, you named a couple videos I had forgotten about and wanted to add to my "old internet" playlist. A couple things got removed but I think I have a pretty complete list at long last! I started this account in 2006 after lurking for a year and it has been wild!
This video made me hunt down the Weezer mv for Pork and Beans. I never knew much about these people as a kid (I spent my youtube time watching anime), so hearing about how terribly they were treated makes it even cooler to see them all rocking out to a song about doing your own thing regardless of what other people think.
In 2007 I was a young adult working at a gay and lesbian bookstore and I remember the staff talking about Leave Britney Alone, most of us saying that we thought Cara was right. So even at the time there were definitely people who “got” what she was saying and agreed, though that obviously doesn’t negate all the harassment and ab*se levelled at her. It’s really awful that she was scapegoated and punished so harshly for saying what a lot of people were thinking to begin with, but weren’t outspoken about when tormenting Britney Spears was such a popular pastime for tabloid media and it’s consumers.
With the Free Britney movement in recent years, I’ve often thought about how the public at large was often complicit in the ab*se of both Britney Spears and Cara Cunningham, and how Cara was publicly ab*sed specifically for speaking out in defence of a woman who … was being publicly ab*sed. It’s honestly a little terrifying to look back on! I think NFTs are kind of the worst but in this case I’m just glad she finally got some material good out of the video and was able to reclaim some power over it.
I wasn't speaking english at the time this video was released so I never understood the appeal. however you got me curious on one thing. you worked in a gay and lesbian bookstore? how does that work? is it just a safe place for homosexual to read books and socialise? was it books that specifically cattered to the LGBT community? that sound like a great idea and very progressive for the time
@@KevinAlibert a gay a lesbian bookstore is basically what it says on the tin! The store where I worked was located in the “gay village” part of the city, we carried books by and for LGBT+ people on a variety of subjects (from Oscar Wilde to Alison Bechdel) and also had an “adults only” section in the back for videos and accessories of a more NSFW nature (which became kind of a popular spot for cruising lmao). Everyone who worked there was some flavour of LGBT, and we’d frequently partner with nearby gay bars for local events like trivia nights and etc to raise funds for local LGBT organizations/causes. It was just a really safe space for LGBT+ people - occasional bomb threats from homophobes aside.
In Canada there used to be a small handful of bookstores like this throughout the country, mostly in big cities like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Sadly many of them have closed even since I worked at one, though the one where I worked is still around (and very much a part of LGBT history in Canada). For many years they were at the centre of a thorny anti-censorship case that went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada… but that’s another story lol
Craig Ferguson talked about how it was wrong to laugh at her on his show
I was 14 and I remember being inspired by Cara. Sure, most of her videos were troll-y and over the top, but the self-assured, relentless attitude really had an impact on me at the time. I came out to my friends that year. I embraced my effeminate side. I found my own sense of identity and exaggerated it. I sometimes miss those angsty years, even though it was such a dark time for me.
I remember the first time someone showed me the leave Britney alone, and they were confused about why I didn't laugh... and I was confused about why everyone thought the video was funny...
The difference in meme lifespan is so stark. I was born in 2005 but when I started becoming exposed to the internet in the early 2010s, memes such as chocolate rain, Charlie the Unicorn, Badger, etc. were all still popular. Now most memes have a lifespan of what, a week?
like 1-4 weeks, usually 1 . the best memes like 2-6 months. tho like, the blåhaj meme has been going for years. as an example.
"The passage of time *disgusts* me" is the moment I fell in love
I remember a fair number of these. But 2000's TH-cam for me - which happened right amidst my college years - was really about discovering music, because all sorts of people back then would go upload pirate videos to old 70's and 80's acts with "RARE" affixed to it, before the introduction of actual copyright controls and Vevo. They'd also put up whole movies, cartoons, anime, albeit always in 10 minute parts because of the upload limits. Yugioh Abridged stood out among those as something that went beyond piracy into a great remix.
And it blended in a lot with the two other great influencers of the early 2000's Web: Newgrounds(still kicking because animators inevitably gravitate to its orbit), and Something Awful(for which the forums acted as a convenient link aggregator, post-Usenet, but before Digg, Reddit, Twitter and all the rest.) Like, the whole culture of Let's Play videos was first built on SA, with text-and-screenshot playthroughs, before it became YT content - and it was generally YT, not Vimeo, because it was easier to get working, and Vimeo eventually took a hostile stance to the idea of gameplay videos as artistic creation. The first video LP's were kind of trash(I made one, I should know) but gradually established that mold of being an entertaining bumbler that still survives on Twitch even now.
I’m happy for those of you who weren’t old enough to remember or witness what The Media did to Brittney. It was HORRIFIC. Absolutely horrific. That’s why so many older women were SO passionate about the Free Britney cause, we saw what they did to her.
yeah- i remember watching it as it happened, and while i had zero interest in her music i was kinda cheering her on during that drama- "you go girl! shave your head and tell them all to fuck off"
At the time we had NO wider context. Shaving her head for no reason doesn't exactly seem like something a mentally stable pop star would do. The media were predatory, but it's not hard to understand why so many of us thought she was just losing her mind.
I was 11 when all the Britney Spears drama happened and I didn't understand it at all. I was like why is this woman being photographed having a meltdown. As an adult who's been through so much at the hands of a family member for 4 years I look up to Britney Spears for how strong she is
As someone who (I presume) is the same age as you that also grew up online this video was such a great, nostalgic trip down memory lane! What a website this used to be!
The first TH-cam video I ever watched was Evolution of Dance, and I’m so glad that my older brother was such a big nerd that he decided to show me every popular TH-cam video that was coming up when I was like 8. Also shout out to my mom who was also a huge nerd who would watch those videos with her students no matter if it was 2008 or 2017. That made for a lot of great memories when I was able to sit in on those classes :)
Thank you for not deadnaming Cara Cunningham and sticking up for her and Tay Zonday. People were awful about them and they were always 100% right.
Oh my God thank you for just clarifying that. I get it now I’m sorry for being an old gay with the time delay on some of my responses part is because I had a stroke last year but he totally glitched on who made the Brittany video because I thought….. When I read Ciara’s name didn’t sound familiar and also I guess I retroactively miss gendered her? And yet questioning myself in perhaps the person who I thought of in a different pronoun might have indeed transitioned. Thank you for not making me feel so much more like a pain in the ass boomer who isn’t capable of evolving. I just take a couple seconds to catch up. I hope Cara is doing well and I remember that I was really moved at the time to see a kid that was so capable of being compassionate and putting herself in Britney's place but it's so many people blindly reading tabloids and disrespectful of the personal life privacy and mental health....? ALL the people in her life were somehow complicit I believe in her breakdown and after that with conservatorship. It’s really disgusting that she didn’t have any real allies in her family or even A publicist with a conscience. Dr. Phil tried to capitalize on it I remember. I was in school finishing up my annual mandatory weekend of continuing education so I can keep my license as a counselor and there I was in a hotel where the seminars were held Eating some crab food hangover psychologist notes and there’s that scam fraud huckster and a Doctor Who has no Active and valid license to practice in California by the way I’m not sure if his credentials are up-to-date in Texas and I really don’t care with Dr. Phil in the ambulance and poor Britney. She was so young I mean she’s only seven years younger than I am but at that point she was like still almost a kid even though she was a man wife where the hell that her parents are on sister her baby sister try to capitalize on that conservatorship it’s just so sad LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE on indeed.
@@RadioPsychicAstrologyByPepper yikes
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People say "modern internet is so soft" but like we're just normal now, chocolate rain was taken so out of context and misunderstood because not caring was so normalised
@@elwiwi4638 we have not gone soft, we have grown up
@@thequeenofcringe1585 That's literally what i said
The way you handled the maker of Leave Britney Alone changing her name is *the best* I've seen of any time a trans person has come out after getting internet famous~!
Cara has such beautiful eyes! I never thought she was weird or crazy or stupid when I first saw that video. I wish her every single success in her future because she was fucking correct all along.