honestly i love talking and revisiting the early internet days it makes me feel So many things. early 2010s furry art made such a huge impact on me as a kid ;_; it fills me with joy when i see it, definitely make more related videos i would love to see a deep dive on early era of animation memes
this video is by no means meant to be a comprehensive history of animation memes (maybe some day i'll tackle that), just a video where i answer questions that ive been asked often and seen around a lot. this video is mainly about my personal experiences in and around the community, and isn't necessarily objective. please keep that in mind! thank you!! EDIT: i stressed in the video that the lushi dance isnt necessarily the first animation meme, so do not treat it like it! we will likely never know the true "first" animation meme. the lushi dance is just the oldest i could dig up in a relatively short amount of time. in fact, i think i remember a few potential memes that came before it after compiling this video. i was not trying to find the first meme, i was just trying to prove nya nya dance wasn't the first.
this video is great and super informative! Tho it would be super cool to have an animation meme history lesson, that’s a big project tho and I think I might do some research myself
So I know I'm not super heavily involved in the animation meme community but Dude you're THE webkinzlid??? Seeing Alermi for the first time in literal years just unlocked hella memories. I wanted to be an animator soooooo fuckin badly between 2008 and 2011 and I was super heavily inspired by videos like yours (along with names like comi, wolflover007, darkkokiri, tribbleofdoom, hinauchi, blazethefiredragon, etc). I'm glad you touched on cringe culture because cringe culture is probably the biggest reason why I've never been an animator. I internalized (and still tend to internalize) a lot of Fun-Police rhetoric. I didn't feel like I was allowed to suck at animation or art back when I was a tween and I don't feel like I'm allowed to suck now that I'm almost 25. But sucking is the natural state of starting a new thing, and so I just never start! I'm still working on killing the Cringe Cop in my brain but man fuck cringe culture lol.
yep thats me! thank you so much for sharing. im so happy to hear that i inspired you, and im so sorry that the fear of being "cringey" held you back. i like to think that cringe culture is more dead now, but there's def still more work to be done. once you internalize that monologue it can be very hard to work your way out of it regardless (trust me i went through it too). sucking at art is fun! outsider art or otherwise amateur art has a lot of value, and even if it didn't, the important thing is that youre doing what you care about & that youre having fun ♥
ahh omg this was such a nostalgia trip, the animation meme community has impacted me so much. my entry into the animation community was thru sunstripe31 and reokeo iirc? Theres so many other creators but I could be rambling on forever lol, and I feel like we lost so many notable channels over the years. I think something I really cherished from back in the day was making collabs on platforms like iscribble, where you could literally draw your parts together and chat in real time. I also kind of miss the more personal style memes like the "the song" where people had to make up their own lyrics and stuff, that was all so fun.
ikr? i saw a kickstarter for a new iscribble going around and i really hope it gets funded. as far as formatting goes animation memes have changed so drastically, i could prob make a lengthy video just examining the change in formats over the years ^^;
I've always found the really old animation meme community to be super interesting. I'm 15 so I was like, a toddler when most of those were made lol so I never actually got to experience it. Seeing something almost universally nostalgic from a third person perspective is really neat!
The first meme I made was caipirinha May 23, 2009 (not created) on Scratch. I think Maskedstar was the one who seemed to make most of the memes on that website or at least bring them over from other websites. All of Masked's projects have been deleted however. Other popular animation memes on Scratch at the time were Jai Ho, Shadowbox, The Baby Boy Dance, LA BOMBA!, He Can't Brake These Cuffs, Don't Stop, Elbows Up Side to Side, and Move Drop Shake. Scratch was weird because animation meme remixes involved downloading whoever you wanted to remix and editing their project, so people would usually make their own drawings but keep all the timing and effects and stuff of the original. It was expected that you credit whoever's programming you used but not the meme's originator or the music.
Oh man, these feel so nostalgic for some reason! I wasn't even on TH-cam in 2009, but watching Pikachus dance to that Nya Nya song was a secret guilty pleasure of mine when I was younger. These videos feel so weirdly nostalgic even though I was a few years late to them. Those edgy colorful anime cat/wolf OCs were a staple, something you just don't see anymore. No amateur Flipaclip preteen nowadays captures that vibe from back then, mainly because programs nowadays are so much more flexible than MS Paint. And, well, the old anime-esque sona style isn't like it used to be.
THIS VID FREAKING RULES i hope you do more essay/commentary videos in the future (if you want to of course) this one was so fun!! i loved that you included new memes too, animation memes are so impressive now.... what you went through sounds really hard, i'm glad it didn't completely taint the community for you. your content is awesome and i'd love to see more in-depth videos like you mentioned :D
thank you!! and yeah animation meme quality has gone through the roof, even kids are making professional-grade stuff nowadays. thanks so much for the feedback
This will be written in the textbooks. Soon kids will learn what animation memes are in schools and won’t have to wake up for it until like 10 cuz we all hate having to wake up at 6am
holy shit, i was SUCH a big fan of yours back in the day, you were legit my biggest inspiration! i fr looked up to you like crazy bc i thought it was so cool that someone only a couple years older than me could make such awesome stuff. your videos were definitely one of the main reasons i got (or at least tried to get into) digital animation and i'm now in my second year of my animation BFA so i guess i have you to thank 😭❤️ it's crazy to see how far you've come, you've improved so much!!! as a longtime fan, you'll always have my support :)
Dude I remember the I hate this ringtone meme , I joined the animation meme community near 2016 and it still was relatively popular, I believe I even made a version of my own just never posted it lol, impressive u were the one who made it!! I never rlly knew who the og was
yeah!! i dont remember exactly when or why i deleted it unfortunately, but there are some real troopers out there who kept crediting me all these years later. only after making this video i found out there was a fnaf version made in 2018 w 3mil views who even credited me! ofc i dont blame people who don't know the original, though. you gotta do some real digging to come to that conclusion on your own.
Honestly, I wish I was around back then, I started getting into the animation meme community when I was maybe 9years old? About 7 years ago, and even then, it was a whole lot different than how it is now. I’m not the best at animation, drawing, but the expectations people have for animation now is crazy because not everyone has the abilities as everyone else, and get hated for because of that. Everything was so much nicer and it almost seemed like everyone knew eachother in a positive way back then. But now it really seems like things are falling apart 😭
Oooooof, yeah friend, you got in at the wrong time. 2008-2010 was like peak for MS Paint animations before applications like Adobe Flash became more readily available through illicit means, and suddenly everyone was animating at a beginner level instead of an entry level. The Google+ merger of 2011 also mucked things up as that was YT was overhauled completely. Annotations, video replies, tagging, the rating system, the yellow subscribe button, all of that got nixxed over the course of a year. On the flipside though, hardware had become more readily available now than it was in that era. Huion, XP Pen, and secondhand/thirdhand Wacom tablets are available at the cost of a new video game. Applications like Clip Studio come with animation tools pre-loaded. Even editing and playback software like Shotcut and VLC which are open-source and free exist now. Even for streaming OBS is a swiss army knife of functionality whereas back then you had FRAPS, Hypercam 2, Or LiveStream which were either costly or clunky. The bar deffo has increased over time, but that's not stopping newcomers at all. It just takes a few personal rough drafts until one might come up with something publish-worthy. I think animators like Ice Cream Sandwich, QIXR, and Noodle found that perfect balance of "simple yet entertaining" that most beginners should shoot for.
i loved the lucky star music in the beginning! i remember making an oc with neon green and purple colors like alermi back in 2012 when i was around 8-9 because i loved that color combination too haha
This was so good dude !! great nostalgia trip, I remember the day I found your videos (I THINK it was for a webkinz art contest?) and all the lil arts we drew!! Alermi will always be a huge impact no matter what
ohh man nya nya dance was pretty much the first video i made with a bit of effort into it, i was like 10! ive remade it on my channel currently and plan to remake it again in the future because it gives me insane amounts of joy, i loved the video, it was a very nice flashback to the past, i didnt even remember youtube responses!
omg hi i love your stuff, your animations are really beautiful. thank u sm and im so honored that i inspired you!! looking forward to whatever else you decide to make 💕
It’s incredible to see how your artstyle has changed since then, especially the fact you still use the same oc! It’s also so cool to see how much she’s changed over time also!
late as hell but the nya nya dance meme was the first meme i did back in 2013. i wish i was old enough to be in the community before that but like i was 8 in 2013 hahaha. for real though, animators in their mid 20s now are such huge inspirations for us in their late teens/early 20s. yall rocked
Star ratings, tagged videos, annotations, video replies, MS Paint and WMM- Such simpler times those were! This was a nice trip down memory lane. I was devastated half a decade ago when I went back to try to watch the old videos only to learn most of them were deleted, but I 100% understood as to why you did what you did. Valid tbh. I don't know if you remember, but I tried to start a street-racing series called The Burnout Strip involving Alermi, FireFluff, Bex, KyoKitty, Bani, and a few others, but it never got anywhere past the trailer which has long since been lost to time. I think the only remnant of it was I have a snapshot of my old channel background in my 20 subscribers celebration video of the garage and all the cars in it, which has been unlisted for a decade. Alermi had a Ford Thunderbird SC, Fluff had a Hummer H3, Bex had a Ferrari 355, Kyo had an Aston Martin DB9, Rekker had a Supra, and Bani I think was supposed to have the Porsche 911 but my documentation was nonexistent when I was 12 so I have a whole bunch of vehicles still in my Sketchup folder and no idea what some of them were for. What ended up killing it entirely was I got stuck on voice acting. Too scared to ask people for help, and too clueless on that I could have done what RPGs do and have sound effects play over subtitles. I took it a step further and had wiped a lot of files off my laptop when I got introduced to what Steam was and got into The Orange Box. I even had deleted an entire stop motion Paint dot net video I was working on for BaniTehKitty and... uh... I forget their name, but they were an orange cat with a star pin in their hair that was also "big" at the time. Oh well, "kill your darlings" and all that. I was clueless on how important archiving files were, but it was also the era where a 4 GB flash drive was 30 dollars. I wish I could go back some days knowing what I know now. This stuff was my world but it took me way too long to figure out how to get into it. lol. Now I'm approaching 30 and do landscape painting, 3D drafting for simulators, and participate in National Auto Sport Events. Funny how time changes like that. Again, thank you for making this!
I'm very interested in old animation meme culture because it's such an interesting and different time. I only knew about animation memes in 2020, so then I found that old animation memes playlist I was immediately Intrigued. I wish you'd make more videos about this stuff!
If i’m not wrong the first animation meme is the Caipirinha Dance (Brazil Mentioned 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷) from 2007. Correct if i’m wrong, guys, i’m not sure about that 😅
To me the earliest animation meme that i can remember that isnt directly tied to 4-chan culture is the hamster dance. Meme culture as far as i know started around mid 2000s and more of a thing for 4chan and various similar sites. I didnt even hear about 4chan nor the idea of meme culture untill 2009 but from what i could understand its existence was all the way back to 2004 and derived from an earlier japanese site. And so ofcourse most of that culture was going to be primarily japanese animation memes. But a meme doesn't necessarily need to be duplicated a million times by different artists, it merely needs to be shared enough that it's declared "viral". And there were plenty of content out there becoming memes but not necessarily referred to as memes just yet. And as such for back then, most animation memes were simply called music videos or looped animations depending on the content and the word "meme" was more for informal recognition of viral status. And really only 4chan trolls actually cared about calling something a meme back then. Everyone else would say "oh hey this is a really popular internet sensation". Also most dedicated animators had their own websites as basic html + plugins was still the primary standard and flash and it's predecessors was the go to plug-in for anything more technical than basic html. And then after 2010 all the animators started relocating to youtube and such
I really wished I had TH-cam back then because it would've been so cool and awesome it looks like the type of things I would make, also great video! My little niece loves the nya nya dance song!! :3
Ahhhh I remember the old days so much! I hid all of my videos from then. I’ve kept the same username though since its a little too sentimental and its easy enough to remember.
I saw this and I had to stop doing to watch. I was going thoiugh my wayyyyyyy old history on youtube and I found your old videos. So much has chnaged over these, what 13 years? Crazy man. But anyway, sick video I remember watching you as a kid. Really looked up to you at the time.
For some segments, your audio was very mumbly and I couldn't understand what you were saying. I really love the aesthetics you're going for tho, and this vids super cool.
thank you for the feedback! obviously i am not used to recording myself like this, i will keep that in mind and def try to enunciate better for future videos
I always get sad whenever i realise that i never grew up during this age, since i honestly never grew up in that era.I I grew up around the cringe culture era (Sadly), and i was EXTREMELY toxic. Like- I'm glad my parent's didn't allow me to make an account at that time, because i literally hated on people who shipped there oc's with fictional characters -_- I kinda wish i grew up in the early days of YT, tbh. I always feel like shit whenever i see a channel that hasn't posted in ages (Like one GORILLAZ animator i enjoy, there last post was i think 7-9 years ago? But I'm really not sure.) And idk why it just makes me feel sad i missed the whole "Scene kid" Era since it fits somewhat into the aesthetic i have, and qlso cause the olden days of the internet give me nostalgia even though i never grew up in that era. (Well, at least i can say that i began a furry hater, but then i ended up joining the furry fandom xd)
bruh what a throwback! I remember old furry youtube! I was 5uzyd4wg and I remember making a couple animation videos with Alermi and my orange cat oc Trevor haha. Great video!
youtube removed a lot of useful features! star ratings, channel customization, and the site even had dms at one point. really wish they kept more of it around :'(
I'm reanimation my nya nya meme from 2010ish as I watch this and came across this looking for audio to download because 10 year old me decided 6 hour nya nya meme was a good idea and I don't want that download time 💀
@@fluff3r_muff1nz008 Looks like someone named Tacocake69 reuploaded all of Lushi's old animations, and Lushi goes by Jupimeow now. Looks like her old account was nuked 3 years ago because it was hijacked.
What ever happened to xlushix? I find it very sad that she is no longer well mentioned in the community. There is ONE reupload of the cursed collar vid bu5 I can’t find anything of her... it’s very disappointing because lushi was the one who kinda started it all...
She goes by @JupiMeow these days. Her old account got terminated 3 years ago because it hadn't been signed in to in years, and was allegedly hijacked by a crypto bro who used it to promote crypto. Tacocake69 had archived and uploaded most all of JupiMeow's old Lushi animations roughly 4 months ago.
Wow!, I didn't think i met the channel founder of the animation meme coummunity. Thank you very much because you have Made me want to be an animator and an animation meme youtuber
I appreciate the sentiment but I did not start the community! I was influential but I did not invent animation memes. Thank you for the kind words, though ♥
@@VoidQueen oh my god, I never heard of such a thing called a crypto shill, I thought it got terminated bc most of the music she used was copyrighted and she got terminated for copyright
@@fluff3r_muff1nz008 Crypto is just shorthand for cryptocurrency. A shill is a dastardly person who uses deception tactics to make a sale in bad faith. Car shill, vacuum cleaner shill, video game shill, crypto shill, etc. In other words its a pushy and invasive salesman.
hello! do you still have an "awesome tag vid" by xlushix? as u know too, lushi's acc got terminated a long time ago, and this legendary video just disappeared :-( p.s.: i mean the video on 2:51 :D
The rainbow gradient background gives me life
*Y e s.*
Agreed
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@@ded_rusedfgejashB yes. Chip indeed.
Hallow chip
the nya dance was actually the introduction to me wanting to animate and draw, create oc’s etc 😭
honestly i love talking and revisiting the early internet days it makes me feel So many things. early 2010s furry art made such a huge impact on me as a kid ;_; it fills me with joy when i see it, definitely make more related videos i would love to see a deep dive on early era of animation memes
this video is by no means meant to be a comprehensive history of animation memes (maybe some day i'll tackle that), just a video where i answer questions that ive been asked often and seen around a lot. this video is mainly about my personal experiences in and around the community, and isn't necessarily objective. please keep that in mind! thank you!!
EDIT: i stressed in the video that the lushi dance isnt necessarily the first animation meme, so do not treat it like it! we will likely never know the true "first" animation meme. the lushi dance is just the oldest i could dig up in a relatively short amount of time. in fact, i think i remember a few potential memes that came before it after compiling this video. i was not trying to find the first meme, i was just trying to prove nya nya dance wasn't the first.
Still a really good topic to talk about.
this video is great and super informative! Tho it would be super cool to have an animation meme history lesson, that’s a big project tho and I think I might do some research myself
So I know I'm not super heavily involved in the animation meme community but Dude you're THE webkinzlid??? Seeing Alermi for the first time in literal years just unlocked hella memories. I wanted to be an animator soooooo fuckin badly between 2008 and 2011 and I was super heavily inspired by videos like yours (along with names like comi, wolflover007, darkkokiri, tribbleofdoom, hinauchi, blazethefiredragon, etc).
I'm glad you touched on cringe culture because cringe culture is probably the biggest reason why I've never been an animator. I internalized (and still tend to internalize) a lot of Fun-Police rhetoric. I didn't feel like I was allowed to suck at animation or art back when I was a tween and I don't feel like I'm allowed to suck now that I'm almost 25. But sucking is the natural state of starting a new thing, and so I just never start!
I'm still working on killing the Cringe Cop in my brain but man fuck cringe culture lol.
yep thats me! thank you so much for sharing. im so happy to hear that i inspired you, and im so sorry that the fear of being "cringey" held you back. i like to think that cringe culture is more dead now, but there's def still more work to be done. once you internalize that monologue it can be very hard to work your way out of it regardless (trust me i went through it too).
sucking at art is fun! outsider art or otherwise amateur art has a lot of value, and even if it didn't, the important thing is that youre doing what you care about & that youre having fun ♥
ahh omg this was such a nostalgia trip, the animation meme community has impacted me so much. my entry into the animation community was thru sunstripe31 and reokeo iirc? Theres so many other creators but I could be rambling on forever lol, and I feel like we lost so many notable channels over the years.
I think something I really cherished from back in the day was making collabs on platforms like iscribble, where you could literally draw your parts together and chat in real time. I also kind of miss the more personal style memes like the "the song" where people had to make up their own lyrics and stuff, that was all so fun.
ikr? i saw a kickstarter for a new iscribble going around and i really hope it gets funded. as far as formatting goes animation memes have changed so drastically, i could prob make a lengthy video just examining the change in formats over the years ^^;
I've always found the really old animation meme community to be super interesting. I'm 15 so I was like, a toddler when most of those were made lol so I never actually got to experience it. Seeing something almost universally nostalgic from a third person perspective is really neat!
bruh i wish i wasnt like a toddler in 2009 so i couldve actually participated in the animation meme community in that time era
can we rewind time rq so i can just experience it for a year or so
in 2009 i was a sperm
in 2009 I was a nothing lmao
i was still a baby in 2009, sometimes i wish i was older
In 2009 all I saw was darkness
The first meme I made was caipirinha May 23, 2009 (not created) on Scratch. I think Maskedstar was the one who seemed to make most of the memes on that website or at least bring them over from other websites. All of Masked's projects have been deleted however. Other popular animation memes on Scratch at the time were Jai Ho, Shadowbox, The Baby Boy Dance, LA BOMBA!, He Can't Brake These Cuffs, Don't Stop, Elbows Up Side to Side, and Move Drop Shake.
Scratch was weird because animation meme remixes involved downloading whoever you wanted to remix and editing their project, so people would usually make their own drawings but keep all the timing and effects and stuff of the original. It was expected that you credit whoever's programming you used but not the meme's originator or the music.
i never used scratch so this was really interesting to read!! thanks so much for sharing :o
Oh man, these feel so nostalgic for some reason! I wasn't even on TH-cam in 2009, but watching Pikachus dance to that Nya Nya song was a secret guilty pleasure of mine when I was younger.
These videos feel so weirdly nostalgic even though I was a few years late to them. Those edgy colorful anime cat/wolf OCs were a staple, something you just don't see anymore. No amateur Flipaclip preteen nowadays captures that vibe from back then, mainly because programs nowadays are so much more flexible than MS Paint. And, well, the old anime-esque sona style isn't like it used to be.
THIS VID FREAKING RULES i hope you do more essay/commentary videos in the future (if you want to of course) this one was so fun!! i loved that you included new memes too, animation memes are so impressive now....
what you went through sounds really hard, i'm glad it didn't completely taint the community for you. your content is awesome and i'd love to see more in-depth videos like you mentioned :D
thank you!! and yeah animation meme quality has gone through the roof, even kids are making professional-grade stuff nowadays. thanks so much for the feedback
This will be written in the textbooks. Soon kids will learn what animation memes are in schools and won’t have to wake up for it until like 10 cuz we all hate having to wake up at 6am
god i miss when every animation memes used to have neon backgrounds :')
@woolubb Minaj
Emo furries 💀
@woolubb Minaj yeah ig but sometimes it depends
you were one of my biggest inspirations as a kid with art and i'm glad to your art thriving, you deserve it!!
thank you so much!!! :'3
holy shit, i was SUCH a big fan of yours back in the day, you were legit my biggest inspiration! i fr looked up to you like crazy bc i thought it was so cool that someone only a couple years older than me could make such awesome stuff. your videos were definitely one of the main reasons i got (or at least tried to get into) digital animation and i'm now in my second year of my animation BFA so i guess i have you to thank 😭❤️ it's crazy to see how far you've come, you've improved so much!!! as a longtime fan, you'll always have my support :)
im so honored and happy to hear that, thank you so much for your support it means the world ; _ ; ♥
Dude I remember the I hate this ringtone meme , I joined the animation meme community near 2016 and it still was relatively popular, I believe I even made a version of my own just never posted it lol, impressive u were the one who made it!! I never rlly knew who the og was
yeah!! i dont remember exactly when or why i deleted it unfortunately, but there are some real troopers out there who kept crediting me all these years later. only after making this video i found out there was a fnaf version made in 2018 w 3mil views who even credited me!
ofc i dont blame people who don't know the original, though. you gotta do some real digging to come to that conclusion on your own.
Honestly, I wish I was around back then, I started getting into the animation meme community when I was maybe 9years old? About 7 years ago, and even then, it was a whole lot different than how it is now. I’m not the best at animation, drawing, but the expectations people have for animation now is crazy because not everyone has the abilities as everyone else, and get hated for because of that. Everything was so much nicer and it almost seemed like everyone knew eachother in a positive way back then. But now it really seems like things are falling apart 😭
Oooooof, yeah friend, you got in at the wrong time. 2008-2010 was like peak for MS Paint animations before applications like Adobe Flash became more readily available through illicit means, and suddenly everyone was animating at a beginner level instead of an entry level. The Google+ merger of 2011 also mucked things up as that was YT was overhauled completely. Annotations, video replies, tagging, the rating system, the yellow subscribe button, all of that got nixxed over the course of a year.
On the flipside though, hardware had become more readily available now than it was in that era. Huion, XP Pen, and secondhand/thirdhand Wacom tablets are available at the cost of a new video game. Applications like Clip Studio come with animation tools pre-loaded. Even editing and playback software like Shotcut and VLC which are open-source and free exist now. Even for streaming OBS is a swiss army knife of functionality whereas back then you had FRAPS, Hypercam 2, Or LiveStream which were either costly or clunky. The bar deffo has increased over time, but that's not stopping newcomers at all. It just takes a few personal rough drafts until one might come up with something publish-worthy. I think animators like Ice Cream Sandwich, QIXR, and Noodle found that perfect balance of "simple yet entertaining" that most beginners should shoot for.
i literally just did the nya nya dance meme
I saw it it’s great!
looks great!! thanks for doing my meme ♥♥
Oh my god, has it been that long? I remember watching you when I was a kid! It's good to see that you're still drawing and animating!
I would honestly love to see a remake of Kandi raver from you! You’re awesome
thank you ; w ; ♥
this was amazing
thank you so much
you're a huge reason as to who me and alot of others are
your videos inspired and shaped a whole TH-cam generation
i loved the lucky star music in the beginning! i remember making an oc with neon green and purple colors like alermi back in 2012 when i was around 8-9 because i loved that color combination too haha
This was so good dude !! great nostalgia trip, I remember the day I found your videos (I THINK it was for a webkinz art contest?) and all the lil arts we drew!! Alermi will always be a huge impact no matter what
2:24 random thing but I have a small collection of lps as we speak but I liked your older videos. They were so wholesome
I love the rotating cycle of backgrounds for each section haha
ohh man nya nya dance was pretty much the first video i made with a bit of effort into it, i was like 10! ive remade it on my channel currently and plan to remake it again in the future because it gives me insane amounts of joy, i loved the video, it was a very nice flashback to the past, i didnt even remember youtube responses!
omg hi i love your stuff, your animations are really beautiful. thank u sm and im so honored that i inspired you!! looking forward to whatever else you decide to make 💕
@@VoidQueen ohh thank you so much ;o; i love your stuff too!! < 3
It’s such a shame that this version of the animation meme community was before my time bc it looked like so much fun •^•
the oldest animation meme i remember was called something like Caramelldansen.
It’s incredible to see how your artstyle has changed since then, especially the fact you still use the same oc! It’s also so cool to see how much she’s changed over time also!
late as hell but the nya nya dance meme was the first meme i did back in 2013. i wish i was old enough to be in the community before that but like i was 8 in 2013 hahaha.
for real though, animators in their mid 20s now are such huge inspirations for us in their late teens/early 20s. yall rocked
Star ratings, tagged videos, annotations, video replies, MS Paint and WMM- Such simpler times those were! This was a nice trip down memory lane. I was devastated half a decade ago when I went back to try to watch the old videos only to learn most of them were deleted, but I 100% understood as to why you did what you did. Valid tbh.
I don't know if you remember, but I tried to start a street-racing series called The Burnout Strip involving Alermi, FireFluff, Bex, KyoKitty, Bani, and a few others, but it never got anywhere past the trailer which has long since been lost to time. I think the only remnant of it was I have a snapshot of my old channel background in my 20 subscribers celebration video of the garage and all the cars in it, which has been unlisted for a decade. Alermi had a Ford Thunderbird SC, Fluff had a Hummer H3, Bex had a Ferrari 355, Kyo had an Aston Martin DB9, Rekker had a Supra, and Bani I think was supposed to have the Porsche 911 but my documentation was nonexistent when I was 12 so I have a whole bunch of vehicles still in my Sketchup folder and no idea what some of them were for. What ended up killing it entirely was I got stuck on voice acting. Too scared to ask people for help, and too clueless on that I could have done what RPGs do and have sound effects play over subtitles.
I took it a step further and had wiped a lot of files off my laptop when I got introduced to what Steam was and got into The Orange Box. I even had deleted an entire stop motion Paint dot net video I was working on for BaniTehKitty and... uh... I forget their name, but they were an orange cat with a star pin in their hair that was also "big" at the time. Oh well, "kill your darlings" and all that. I was clueless on how important archiving files were, but it was also the era where a 4 GB flash drive was 30 dollars.
I wish I could go back some days knowing what I know now. This stuff was my world but it took me way too long to figure out how to get into it. lol. Now I'm approaching 30 and do landscape painting, 3D drafting for simulators, and participate in National Auto Sport Events. Funny how time changes like that.
Again, thank you for making this!
look at dat Alermi design evolution! 🥰
I'm very interested in old animation meme culture because it's such an interesting and different time. I only knew about animation memes in 2020, so then I found that old animation memes playlist I was immediately Intrigued. I wish you'd make more videos about this stuff!
bro same lmao
If i’m not wrong the first animation meme is the Caipirinha Dance (Brazil Mentioned 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷) from 2007. Correct if i’m wrong, guys, i’m not sure about that 😅
The checkered rainbow scene background. I luv!
To me the earliest animation meme that i can remember that isnt directly tied to 4-chan culture is the hamster dance. Meme culture as far as i know started around mid 2000s and more of a thing for 4chan and various similar sites. I didnt even hear about 4chan nor the idea of meme culture untill 2009 but from what i could understand its existence was all the way back to 2004 and derived from an earlier japanese site. And so ofcourse most of that culture was going to be primarily japanese animation memes. But a meme doesn't necessarily need to be duplicated a million times by different artists, it merely needs to be shared enough that it's declared "viral". And there were plenty of content out there becoming memes but not necessarily referred to as memes just yet. And as such for back then, most animation memes were simply called music videos or looped animations depending on the content and the word "meme" was more for informal recognition of viral status. And really only 4chan trolls actually cared about calling something a meme back then. Everyone else would say "oh hey this is a really popular internet sensation". Also most dedicated animators had their own websites as basic html + plugins was still the primary standard and flash and it's predecessors was the go to plug-in for anything more technical than basic html. And then after 2010 all the animators started relocating to youtube and such
I don’t even have to watch it to tell it’s going to be good AAAA I’m so exited
Ur cute art style in the past made me instantly know that u would improve
I really wished I had TH-cam back then because it would've been so cool and awesome it looks like the type of things I would make, also great video! My little niece loves the nya nya dance song!! :3
le cuteness overloooad over 9000!!! >//w//
This was very enjoyable to watch, i like how you kept the same oc for so many years
Ahhhh I remember the old days so much! I hid all of my videos from then. I’ve kept the same username though since its a little too sentimental and its easy enough to remember.
Alermi is such an iconic fursona
I saw this and I had to stop doing to watch. I was going thoiugh my wayyyyyyy old history on youtube and I found your old videos. So much has chnaged over these, what 13 years? Crazy man. But anyway, sick video I remember watching you as a kid. Really looked up to you at the time.
You’re really a good explainer for an internet historian btw.
For some segments, your audio was very mumbly and I couldn't understand what you were saying. I really love the aesthetics you're going for tho, and this vids super cool.
thank you for the feedback! obviously i am not used to recording myself like this, i will keep that in mind and def try to enunciate better for future videos
I always get sad whenever i realise that i never grew up during this age, since i honestly never grew up in that era.I
I grew up around the cringe culture era (Sadly), and i was EXTREMELY toxic. Like- I'm glad my parent's didn't allow me to make an account at that time, because i literally hated on people who shipped there oc's with fictional characters -_-
I kinda wish i grew up in the early days of YT, tbh. I always feel like shit whenever i see a channel that hasn't posted in ages (Like one GORILLAZ animator i enjoy, there last post was i think 7-9 years ago? But I'm really not sure.) And idk why it just makes me feel sad i missed the whole "Scene kid" Era since it fits somewhat into the aesthetic i have, and qlso cause the olden days of the internet give me nostalgia even though i never grew up in that era.
(Well, at least i can say that i began a furry hater, but then i ended up joining the furry fandom xd)
Oh my gosh!
It looks so DAMB COOL!!!
WHOO BOY THIS TOOK ME BACK
Petting my WEBKINZ rn
bruh what a throwback! I remember old furry youtube! I was 5uzyd4wg and I remember making a couple animation videos with Alermi and my orange cat oc Trevor haha. Great video!
i was wondering where you went!!! tysm for commenting 💖
i'm gonna talk about you in my degree book
ITS SO COOL TO KNOW ABOUT THIS A
STUFF :D
i love this vid and it's such a good retrospective, u are truly an old head and a pioneer of the furry animation meme community
Haha omg I remember your old video lmao I loved them.
How funny I meet u on my recommendation now :p
very interesting video, thanks!
ZOMG!! I LOEV DIS!! X3
Loving your artstyle and your video!!
thank you so much!!
@@VoidQueen np!! You feserv more attention!
SO COOL
Yesss bring me back!
HOLY SHIT THAT WAS YOU???????? AAAAAAA i was so young watching it andsjdnguyherhg I JUST CANT BELIEVE IT I THOUGHT YOU LIKE.....died
2:27 I HAVE FOUR OF THOSE ON SCREEN
I encountered you in 2019 to see your old videos!
10:13 dang that looks like an icon
You can see progress). (and it's interesting to see how you develop)
Great Video👌
I like it)
I'm glad that you are a creative person ^-^
The animation by Lushi was created on the EXACT DAY, MONTH, AND YEAR that I was born. That's- INSANE!
It was so nostalgic
Poggers
I just found out about this awesomeness and now I'm subbed
This meme still exists to this day.
hey void queen where are you it’s been 10 months????
im more active on twitter and insta :]
video responses that sounded nice why was that removed huuhh
youtube removed a lot of useful features! star ratings, channel customization, and the site even had dms at one point. really wish they kept more of it around :'(
@@VoidQueen ooh i do remember the dm ones, confused why it just disappeared
yeah its making it more and more user unfriendly :^
Spam
i dont know you but i love your products.
thank you! 💜
@@VoidQueen no problem i might buy :p
This rocks!!!!
Lydia! Remake your funniest animation meme when you are 10.
❤️❤️❤️ much love
i miss those golden days so much ;0;
I'm reanimation my nya nya meme from 2010ish as I watch this and came across this looking for audio to download because 10 year old me decided 6 hour nya nya meme was a good idea and I don't want that download time 💀
So underated!!!!!
i just saw the nya nya dance meme recently and its inspired me to want to draw... is it too late being 20
I really thought It would be a video about “a domo doing the Nyah-Nyah dance” that came first,
Edit: Mandela effect lol.
Omg wait nostalgia
Ahhhh xlushix got terminated
Just because of that I want to cry so haaaarrrrrd
@@fluff3r_muff1nz008 Looks like someone named Tacocake69 reuploaded all of Lushi's old animations, and Lushi goes by Jupimeow now. Looks like her old account was nuked 3 years ago because it was hijacked.
@@FurryWrecker911 yeah I’ve seen that but she didn’t get all of them
And I actually know that person too
What ever happened to xlushix? I find it very sad that she is no longer well mentioned in the community. There is ONE reupload of the cursed collar vid bu5 I can’t find anything of her... it’s very disappointing because lushi was the one who kinda started it all...
She goes by @JupiMeow these days. Her old account got terminated 3 years ago because it hadn't been signed in to in years, and was allegedly hijacked by a crypto bro who used it to promote crypto. Tacocake69 had archived and uploaded most all of JupiMeow's old Lushi animations roughly 4 months ago.
ur great
IM EXICITED OMG OMG
That feeling when you are a color born in 2009
Wow!, I didn't think i met the channel founder of the animation meme coummunity. Thank you very much because you have Made me want to be an animator and an animation meme youtuber
I appreciate the sentiment but I did not start the community! I was influential but I did not invent animation memes. Thank you for the kind words, though ♥
@@VoidQueen You're welcome
Nice video :)
Why is xLushix terminated
the account had been untouched for a while and was recently hacked by a crypto shill, so the account was terminated because of it :(
@@VoidQueen oh my god, I never heard of such a thing called a crypto shill, I thought it got terminated bc most of the music she used was copyrighted and she got terminated for copyright
@@fluff3r_muff1nz008 Crypto is just shorthand for cryptocurrency. A shill is a dastardly person who uses deception tactics to make a sale in bad faith. Car shill, vacuum cleaner shill, video game shill, crypto shill, etc. In other words its a pushy and invasive salesman.
I dont like cringe comps, its just people having fun but they had to be put in cringe videos. Its not fair!
what programs to animate/draw did you use back then?
ms paint and windows movie maker lol
hello! do you still have an "awesome tag vid" by xlushix? as u know too, lushi's acc got terminated a long time ago, and this legendary video just disappeared :-(
p.s.: i mean the video on 2:51 :D
Good video
Hey Dud Have You Ever Heard of MisterOutcast
You’re the one who made it!?!?
Remake the nya nya dance
2019*
Furry dota may have been the first animation meme
Y ellow
I think I found the oldest animation yet!!!! In my replies
It's o dancada de creu from PriVer animation go to their oldest one yet