Stay strong always. Always a fan of your vids here in the Philippines. It's 3AM now and supposed to sleep but I'm excited to watch your vids. Keep it up. Hihi
People online can be so aggressive I can’t go in any social media comments without finding people insulting something or arguing. Don’t pay rude people any mind
No worries, your well being is important. I appreciate all the work that goes into what you do, when you post a video it never cease to make my day better.
Oh my gosh I love this video, as a kid with unrestricted internet access back I don’t think I realize how many NicoNico Douga/NND parody videos I consumed back then. Thank you to NicoNico Douga for creating a good part of my childhood.
My mind was blown when you explained the actual origin of MAD, I thought it was an acronym like AMV, and it was the Japanese equivalent term. It didn't occur to me it was basically Japanese YTP's.
AMVs have a fascinating history as well! The first one was created in the early 1980’s and Anime News Network actually interviewed the guy who made it!
and to think a certain American-born anime industry person used to desire to tip AMV creators to their respective studios for copyright infringement back in the 2000s. Looking at you Jan Scott-Frazier
Now a proud thug named “Ambatukam Ohmaygot” has taken up the mantle… he has even had a formal meeting with the Japanese: th-cam.com/video/41Gx1yjT9Gw/w-d-xo.html
Just a tiny, pointless nitpick from a Finn: The "I" in "Ievan polkka" is a capital "i", not an "L". Don't worry about it, it's not a real issue at all, but thought I'd mention it and add some context in case some people are curious about the song's origins. "Ieva" (with a capital "i") is the Finnish female name "Eeva" as it'd be pronounced in a Savonian (Eastern Finland) dialect and the "n" at the end indicates genitive case. And as one might have already guessed, "polkka" simply refers to the polka dance and the type of music it's usually danced to. So, in standard Finnish dialect the song name would be "Eevan polkka", and you could translate it into English something like "Eva's polka". The song's lyrics tell a story from the viewpoint of a boy courting Ieva/Eeva, a girl who snuck away from home to a dance party against her mother's wishes.
Speaking of nitpicks, I also cringed when I heard Keito instead of Kaito 😅 Edit: I was just listening instead of watching. The next time I heard Keito, I see the split second "*Kaito" correction onscreen haha
@@SkitsyCat Yeah, it's bad to hear it as "keito", but it's kinda seeable how this mistake came up if you think about the "a" in english how can be read. But yeah, at least if someone make a one hour long video (which possibly would be even longer if it wasn't cut) about Japanese media, then at least take that 10 minutes and look up hot to pronounce that few words correctly.
@@yanamilenova4518games + manga but a lot of the Touhou stuff you see tends to be fan imaginations of the characters too rather than canonical intentions
@@yanamilenova4518The base games have bits of dialogue before and after fights, and that establishes a sort of vague canon. The community takes those ideas and interprets them in different ways, creating their own canon. Some canon (like entire character personalities) is shared by the community and just becomes accepted over time. But at the end of the day, even that's fluid, and everything is up to how it's all interpreted. Is Touhou a comedy story? A symbolic tale? A sad manga? Ecchi? It really depends on who's making the content
I watched some of those just out of curiosity of what the Nico Nico users had to say about 'em live. The only video I know that covers that trend is called AVGN in Japan - Another Internet Nerd. You might like it, so check it out.
Being a nico nico consumer in 2006-2008 was absolutely wild. And I can't believe you didn't mentioned the amount of Hare Hare Yuukai dance cover on nico nico. That needs a video of it's own.
This era of the internet defined me as a person. I remember all the horror vocaloid videos that kept me up at night. Thank you so much for making this!
Oh please please PLEASE do a deep dive on the 2007 Kumikyoku Nico Nico Douga Medley! That song pretty much encapsulates the ENTIRETY of this era of Nico Nico memes to a point where it SOMEHOW crossed over into the English web despite very few people in the english space even knowing what most of the references were. I remember listening to that ONE very famous recording of the Medley where a large group of Nico Nico performers sang the whole thing. The original is no longer on Nico Nico but it's been uploaded to youtube several times. I considered trying to do a deep dive on the song myself and explaining what each individual meme was in reference to, but i think you might actually be better equipped to talk about it due to your resources.
I can see Mad Videos being prefect for Breakcore. The chaotic nature of them, along with the repeating music and voices, would fit right at home in that genre.
As a sidenote to the Hatsune Miku thing... I literally go around the house saying that 7/11 ad and it's gotten to the point where my fiancé literally grabs me & wont let go so the “Miku scream” is now just mixed with my own momentary panic. It’s hilarious.
NicoNico is really interesting to me, because it seems like it was a really fun community to be in back then. It almost gives me a kind of nostalgia, despite the fact that I wasn't around to experience it when it was at its peak. Also, I'd like to make a little correction regarding 10:40: The song _itself_ is not called "Fukkireta", it's called "Ochame Kinou" (おちゃめ機能).
Same though, I wish I were old enough to see when the community was thriving back then. There is a popular term that specifically talks about this time period, its called "NicoNicoDouga Heyday" and its everything that you can imagine like video slicing, Danmaku comments that goes so fast, and probably a core part of internet at this point. This time period is considered to be place near "the Lost Decade" and the late heisei era. Correct me If Im wrong, but I wish there were other people who have the same childhood memories as me.
As a vocal synth history fanatic, i wanted to add some additional information to the Vocaloid section! So for one, Vocaloid has always been a proprietary software, meaning several companies got permission to officially release voicebanks for it. The most well-known ones - Meiko, Kaito, Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin & Len and Megurine Luka - were all released by Crypton Future Media. They're known by fans as the Cryptonloids (though Crypton later stopped releasing new versions of their voicebanks on Vocaloid and instead made their own software, Piapro Studio which is why Crypton doesn't officially refer to them as "Vocaloids" anymore.) Some other well-known ones are Gackpoid and Gumi by Internet Co Ltd, Fukase and V Flower by Yamaha, Oliver by PowerFX and SeeU by SBS Artech. The proprietary nature of Vocaloid is the reason you'll pretty much never see Gumi on stage with Miku or anything like that: They were developed for and released on the same software, but are distributed and legally owned by different companies. UTAU is different because it's shareware software and voicebanks can be created and distributed freely (for the most part) by users. For legal and practical reasons, you couldn't just take a Vocaloid voicebank and release all the associated audio files for people to put into UTAU so they'd get free Hatsune Miku, sorry to crush your dreams but Miku will be expensive for as long as Crypton can make money off of her lol. Another thing is that if you hear stuff like "Miku is 16" and "Rin and Len are 14 year old twins" you'll be pretty shocked at a ton of vocal synth songs and content, both new and old. This has one of the most common debates in the community for as long as vocaloid has been popular, but the general sentiment is that their "official" ages and relationships aren't to be taken too seriously, and as such you'll find a good amount of stuff like nsfw songs featuring Miku and the Kagamines or songs where the Kagamines aren't siblings but partners or genderbent versions of eachother. The whole point is that voicebanks are mostly blank slates to project any lyrics and story onto as the user sees fit. In some songs Miku's a self-centred idol, in some a murderer, in some a murder victim, in some a lesbian, in some a meta-commentary on the state of the Vocaloid community. She can be anything! Final thing to note here is that the voicebanks don't make the songs, their producers do. This has been another huge problem in the community for years, where the most popular youtube uploads of songs often credit them "by Hatsune Miku" instead of "by Ryo" or "by Hachi". This is especially relevant in the cases of deceased producers like Wowaka and Siinamota/PowapowaP, who's songs have gone years being credited to the instruments used to make them instead of the people who mastered the instruments. Anyway, hope someone finds this interesting, loved the video and thanks for including my suggestion of Leekspin :)
Thank you so much for all this additional information!! I've been thinking about making a video on lost Vocaloid media, and this info will definitely go to good use once I reach that point!! I still have so much to learn about all this ; w ;
@@SakuraStardust No problem, I'm glad to hear it and I'll be looking forward to that video! If you or anyone else reading this comment has any other vocaloid/vocal synth related queries I'd love to help & try to answer as best I can ^w^
i just found this channel but i loved the video and wanted to help, so i'm bringing some more points about vocal synths. please correct me if i'm wrong. also, the only interesting ones are on the end so feel free to skip ahead 1. kagamine rin & len are a very interesting case of the personality thing that was brought up in the original comment. their literal names suggest they are "mirror sounds" so that could be interpreted as basically anything from twins to just musical counterparts. 2. regarding about vocaloids having ages, it's something that isn't always specified by the companies themselves and just agreed by the fans. a different reason people might create different character takes to represent the voice is because producers can use vocaloid to tell their own original or real stories. 3. for obvious reasons, people will stick to making songs *for* the character on cases like oliver and kaai yuki, which are vocaloids voiced by actual children at the time they were made. but musically, children-type vocals make dark songs much more meaningful or scary. just like most of the vocaloids, oliver and kaai yuki have a bunch of songs about strong topics that hit different when you hear the story told by a "child". even then, they still have cute songs being made to cheer people up, because it also feels different coming from an innocent voice. 4. as brought by the original comment, vocaloid works are made by producers. something interesting to add is that most vocal synths will sound plain or boring when plug-and-played. this leads to tuning, which is a process of "vocal manipulation" to give emotion or a singing style to the voices. this is why different producers can make the same voice feel like an instrument, robotic, surreal or human. the process of tuning can also be applied onto human voices. for example, there's a person that edits the human vocals for some of the living tombstone songs. this does not mean the singer is bad and can not be comparable to auto-tuning in practice, since the process of tuning in vocaloid is manual. 5. producers who aren't into making original songs may make covers using vocaloid, just like stated in the video on the case of ievan polkka. generally, cover artists make versions of vocal synth songs, but you can find a lot of covers of western pop songs, for example. some covers are also lost media, but i believe a lot of them are saved. but these are mostly for context about the culture thing, so on to the useful stuff: *6.* there's an utau producer that disappeared from the internet and does not wish to be named. i don't remember the exact story, but they didn't like how their songs started getting attention and went gone. now, a lot of producers make songs in their style as a "tribute", but some of them later move on to their on style, such as _x0o0x. they keep the charm of having an unnamed video for their songs. *7.* there are some communities on twitter and discord dedicated to vocaloid lost media! although i'm not a part of any, it seems they recover a lot from nico nico douga too.
@@wevebi Yep, can't disagree with anything there and it's all good info I didn't think to include! For more context on the unnamed producer, who also made the Yume Nikki fangame Lcd Dem and worked on Yume 2kki, ubnubmaster's video on them is great imo.
Man I loved Aniki i remember finding that steamroller video and falling down the rabbit hole I was so devastated when the news broke that he passed away. Rest east Aniki, we all love you :’(
Wow, this was sure a travel down the nostalgia lane; being am otaku and a minor with unsupervised internet really expanded your horizon of weird anime/Vocaloid shit Amazing video, I love weird lore of internet
In the vocal synth community (im not really big in it i listen to the tracks and that’s about it) teto is a pretty hot topic rn! because she was recently “canonised” in a way by becoming a synth V voicebank 😅 i love her and her canon sm im so so glad you covered her!
All of this is so damn nostalgic I just kept nodding along and smiling at everything talked about and brought up. Such a throwback. Keep up the good work!
Only have enough time to finish the first half but already loving it. I was in my early twenties when Nico Nico started making some waves here in America and it's really cool to see how all the trends were created and evolved. Having some great nostalgic flashbacks along with seeing some stuff that had passed me by.
I remember first stumbling into the "Ran Ran Ru" thing because of one of three ways: 1. I was reading a bunch of creepypasta which led me to stuff about Giygas from Earthbound/Mother 2 and that's where I saw a Ran Ran Ru version of Pokey Means Business (I think I still have it saved in my favorites from all the way back in 2009 if it still exists here). 2. stumbling upon M.U.G.E.N. videos via a rabbithole of watching clips of Bleach episodes (Soul Society Arc because I got tired of waiting for Adult Swim to premiere new episodes).The player played Ronald McDonald against various other characters like Colonel Sanders and Wolverine. 3. Listening to random video game tracks, where I heard "Pokey Means Business" for the first time, which led to finding said Ran Ran Ru mentioned above. Also discovered Touhou tracks in the process before I even learned what Touhou was. 2009/2010 was a crazy time for me. Speaking of Touhou, I had a classmate that was absolutely obsessed with it. His laptop had a looping wallpaper that featured the various girls in the game and had several iterations of the shooter. Even his screensaver was Touhou themed ( I think it was the animation from the "Bad Apple" video IRCC). Game looked fun enough, but far too unforgiving for my taste. I've never heard of the man referred to as "aniki", but I do remember seeing the clip of him taking a swig from a bottle of beer, though I can't remember, for the life of me, where. I've listened to Omoide wa Okusenman more times that I can count (also from around the same time I found Ran Ran Ru, so those two are somewhat linked). Also, I reccommend you listen to the JAM Project version of the song if you haven't yet (seriously, it's great).
Just to correct a statement, while ZUN is the sole maker of the mainline Touhou games, the decimal Touhou games is a different matter. The Fighting games (7.5, 10.5, 12.3, 13.5, 14.5, 15.5) are made by Twilight Frontier, though the characters and stories are of course by ZUN himself. Sunken Fossil World (17.5) is also made by Twilight Frontier. Also think you could have put a bit more emphasis on the big thing about the Touhou NND vids is Touhou's music, since that is primarily what ZUN is known more for anything, his music. But otherwise, how you described things was perfectly fine.
Thank you for the information! I’m going to discuss the music more so in the nexts videos, and actually planned to elaborate more on that in later vids in this series.
Nico Nico Douga was like if YTP has it own site but instead of YT and in its own from Japan. It was a fever dream from earlier day of the internet that its also hard to winning them all due to how surreal yet questionable those culture were to many newer people
Japanese internet culture is so interesting, hope you make more of these. Though I'm a bit disappointed to not see Let's Go Onmyouji! here. 43:36 Small correction here. The cover was done by JAM Project, who also made a song called GONG.
As someone who used to use niconico douga back in the early/mid 2000s, I wonder how many videos I saw that are considered lost media now :O This video was so nostalgic haha
Oh goodness, Sakura Stardust! This video was such a blast from the past because I was also a teen who grew up with NND and 2000s - 2010s Japanese internet culture, vocaloid, and anime. This actually made me nostalgic to go find the various Nico Nico Douga medley, especially the one with the live chorus full of memers and cosplayers I listened to it so much and even had downloaded it on my ipod back then and I can't even lie it still kind of slaps 😭
Thank you Sakura I love your videos because you always take the time to research everything thoroughly and explain everything from the beginning so everyone can understand
Man, the intense zaniness achieved with video tape remixes in early Mad Tapes before wide availability of easy digital editing is an expenditure of effort I can respect.
Hearing Sakura Stardust talk about vocaloids was not what I was expecting to see today but I have nothing against it lol Edit: I'm Canadian and everyone ive ever met calls them sweaters
Ronald McDonald or Donarudo Makudonarudo/ranranru- was such an amazing meme with its remixes- it just exploded in popularity back in the day. I still watch NND MAD remixes of anime like Lucky Star and Higurashi set to Night of Nights, Red Zone, Sky High, Ievan Polkka, UN Owen Was Her, etc. I know it's like such a specific niche of videos but these are so nostalgic.
as a long time vocaloid fan and someone who just generally grew up around the time these memes were prevalent, i really enjoyed this video and i think you covered the topics very well!! a lot of ppl i've seen just don't cover things like vocaloid and miku as well as this :'D so it was refreshing to see it done some justice. this would be a great video to show my friends who aren't familiar w it! i'm also surprised you didn't mention mmd either, but i suppose thats lumped in with the topic as a whole ^_^
The amount of pure nostalgia this gave me was so fulfilling 😭 even as a tween who was super into anime I remember seeing all these videos and absolutely losing my mind at them. Even to this day I’ll go back and rewatch my favourite MAD’s. It’s so true about the lost media though :( there’s actually one video that I saw before and it was my favourite, only for it to get removed completely. I’ll provide a veeeeery quick explanation just in case anyone reading this knows where to find it now! It was a danjo (男女) animation with the characters from the video game series “dangan ronpa”! The video actually was a massive compilation of loads of different early nnd memes and references and the art in it was really fun. I remember it actually following the very basic storyline of the second game!
Hey Sakura, I appreciate the content you've been putting out, but I really sometimes wonder about the part 5 of do not search iceberg. Any plans for that?!
Thank you ❤ It’s on the schedule of upcoming uploads for the near future. I made a community post addressing all the questions I receive about this so I won’t be answering any further comments regarding this 😅
Canadian here. We call them hoodies and zip ups accordingly. A parka is a heavy winter jacket that has fur on the hood and is typically long enough to cover your butt. Sweaters are just plain crewnecks with no hood like ugly Christmas sweaters, wool sweaters, and athletic sweaters. I thought jumpers were old aerobics one pieces but I just learned they are sleeveless dresses that are worn over a blouse or something along those lines.
I had no idea that the backstory of the Matsuoka videos was so interesting, I learned of that video from Joel Vinesauce playing it sometimes so it's cool to learn the origin!
I’ve been watching nico nico douga videos for years without knowing what the hell is going on so it’s nice to finally find out the context for some of the memes :)
I remember back when I was 14 after I'd finished watching the Ryuuseigun Chaos video for the first time my mouth was legit hanging open in amazement. I don't think I'd ever seen something so visually intense up to that point.
I used to go to this site back in the day, just for curiosity, but i didn't understand nothing there, but i loved these chaotic and random vids that used to appear in that site, and also the trends that people were into back in the day.
I love putting these videos on in the background while working on something it's always so calming. The TouHou project videos brought back a lot of weird memories of this bootleg DDR machine that was at a restaurant I used to visit with my parents which would have a lot of those videos on it PS sweaters in canada are mostly called sweaters but sometimes bunnyhugs
There's a video that I watched here in YT that I think is from NND about FF7 and crisis core but with the can can song that I really liked. I think that the last time I watched the video was about more than 10 years ago before it was removed, and I been looking everywhere for it. Watching this video made me remember about that FF7 video.
I remember I watched a unique vocaloid video in NND. I don't remember the title, but in the video there was a girl looking at the mirror, but when you pause the video the girl is looking directly at you from the reflection, if you play the video again she will look back at her own reflection, and everyone in the comments were freaking out. The video is in black & white animation, but sometimes some red japanese texts will appear when you pause the video at random.
@@Undertalepotatochip I don't, sorry. It's been ages. But I remember I watched it when adobe flash was still a thing, so maybe it's not working anymore
I remember it. If you don't know what vocaloid song category it goes in, it goes in creepy vocaloid songs. I found it in a TH-cam playlist of creepy vocaloid songs.
I love the topic of meme history. Great work and glad the video is back up from being age restricted! Also, the Ronald McDonald videos used to be all over the place on TH-cam back then ms used to creep me out so much. It's so nostalgic now.
You should do a series focusing on memes that were popular on Nico Nico. In particular you should a video focusing on the Commando meme as I believe its a meme that westerners should know about. I even created a playlist saving single Commando video that I know of on TH-cam!
42:23 "Apa kezdődik apa kezdődik áááááá" is in hungarian :D We had a commercial where a little boy wanted to watch a cartoon and kept calling his dad to watch it with him, it means "Dad it's starting" it's a meme in Hungary. I don't remember the Okusenman song being popular in Hungary, so it must've been a "wild hungarian appeared" situation.
I'm fairly new to your channel but I just wanna say that I really enjoy your content, your editing is really cool and funny especially in this video and I also like your sense of humor, it's youtubers like you that are inspiring me to wanna become a youtuber myself. Keep up the great work and I'll be looking forward to your next video.
One of the Hyperdimension Neptunia games that played like a Shining Force/Turn Based Strategy Game on the PS Vita, one of the characters ultimate attack was a Niko Niko video reference.
This video was great, alot of memories. Im getting old... I remember on 4chan we would go to 2chan and steal their pictures and horribly translate wtf they are talking about. This was early 4chan. Before it was known by everyone.
From what you mentioned in the intro and what I can tell from sites such as VocaDB, it seems that the main modern use case of Niconico tends to be uploading music (in particular Vocaloid songs)? idk, I don't see too much use of it outside of that due to the modern ubiquity of TH-cam but on VocaDB I see new songs uploaded all the time that nyever get official TH-cam uploads and basically every popular producer posts their songs on both sites.
What a throwback, I'm glad I wasn't the only one watching NND videos. I was a big idolm@ster fan back in the day so I would watch a lot of MAD's. Thank you for researching and publishing a sorta niche topic Sakura. RIP aniki.
Had to go back and check if my old NND account still exists and it sure does! My premium is gone but that's not surprising. Thank you for making me log into an account that I haven't checked on in 9 years!
this was the most nostalgic video ever! haha. I personally really loved versions of Lucky Star opening made with other animes. I hope they still exist! I'll have to look them up now :)
39:53 this has got to be one of the FUNNIEST things I have ever heard. "You, step outside" like.. I'm adopting this into my daily life. This is basically the old internet version of "touch grass" and I'm ALL FOR IT lmfao
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH!!! THE STUFF I GREW UP WATCHING ON THE INTERNEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!! I hope the Kokoro Odoru meme can make it on the next video and I wonder what else you'll cover aside from Caramelldansen. Thank you for this super long video and this massive blast from the past!!
You just earned a new subscriber. I adore Niconico and wish I had known about it during its heyday. I cannot imagine experiencing gachimuchi at its peak with NO CONTEXT. These types of channels make me feel less self conscious about having an interest in obscure Japanese culture stuff. If nothing else, more obscure immersion content will be useful when I go to Japan.
They are generally called sweaters in Canada too! I know because I have lived in Canada my whole life! Sometimes we call winter coats parkas, we also call beanies (the hat) toques (pronounced two-ks). Edit: one more thing in some regions of Canada (particularly in Saskatchewan, I’m not from there btw)people call the types of hoodies in those “Red Parka” videos “Bunny hugs”, it’s such a cute name isn’t it!
This brings me back. I’m at work listening to the this like a podcast but when u say the titles I can hear the songs. I remember opening a nico nico account and bumbling around on their not knowing what buttons to click. Was a fun time.
Nico Nico always looked extremely interesting to me but I sadly never got to be a part of witnessing it in the early days. I don't know exactly how to express how much I appreciate this little portal to an era that's long been past, so I'm just gonna say, thanks. Really cool video. Enjoyed the history lesson on this site.
great timing with this!! i just showed my boyfriend nico nico douga ryuuseigun for the first time yesterday because i was obsessed with it when i was like 13 lmfao
It really surprised me how familiar I am with damn near all of these, either from encountering them in the wild back in the day or from later references to the memes. Excellent work as always, I look forward to the next part!
The MAD tapes are unironically impressive to me. Not so much the later ones, although they are cool in their own way, but I'm old enough to have some experience editing on VHS tapes, it was a *lot* harder than editing now, and these crazy fast, synchronised splices. Especially on the beat, are pretty hard to pull off.
Oh man.. this takes me back. I only went on NND a few times but I loved watching the TH-cam reuploads. Okkusenman in particular has always stood out to me
Man. I grew up on half of these, especially the musical and animation memes. I remember my introduction to alot of these memes were Warrior Cats and sparklefurs dancing to the Caipirinha and The Goldeneye Glitch among others. It's so interesting to know alot of 2000s/2010s internet culture came from Japanese internet
I was just talking about Okkusenman the other day to my partner! The song has always given me chills, even though when I first heard it was only just a teenager. Actually a bunch of stuff covered in here I was talking about, so this whole video is like, a surreal trip down memory lane. I still have a bunch of Nico Nico Medleys on my phones music player, transfered from phone to phone over the years |D
I'm really happy Miku and vocaloid characters got as popular as they are now. I remember it used to be niche and now we got massive concert halls with the popular songs from the internet and there's a whole new generation of weebs getting into the concept. I still see a bunch of vocaloid cosplay at cons and I'm always glad to see it. I'd like to add there are serious music artists that got their start on niconico, Ryo, Supercell, Hyadain. There were also several CDs released under the niconico douga name of popular song compilations. One was called "Waste of Talent".
@@SakuraStardust The meme song compilation CDs sure are something. I think at the time JAM Project must have caught wind of the Okkusenman song and put their official cover on a nico nico CD. They also performed it at animelo 2008. The otaku ties run deep. I was downloading and watching those anisama live annually around then.
It's so weird to see Vocaloid be so openly popular; you can mention it now without getting ostracized by society lol. It used to be so niche. With that said, it's still REALLY weird that they had that "partnership" with Toyota in the early years
I learned about NND prior to 2010 thanks to MADs,Touhou videos as well as imageboards, but my NND account dates all the way back to 2010, and thats mostly due to the fact that eventually, you had to create an account in order to watch some videos. I remember when english wasn't available as one of the website's languages, but there was Spanish and German, that helped me a lot understanding its interface. Those were good days
I rarely write comments on youtube, but you deserve it! So, i've been watching you as a channel by months, i am a huge fan, and OH BOI! Your way of making videos, being calm and relaxing, yet chaotic and fun, and of course, VERY explanatory and informative, i just LOVE IT! I can't get enough! So, keep up on doing the great work you are doing, Sakura! You're great as a youtuber, and i am sure, also as a person! Cheers from Italy, Mike!
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Stay strong always. Always a fan of your vids here in the Philippines. It's 3AM now and supposed to sleep but I'm excited to watch your vids. Keep it up. Hihi
People online can be so aggressive I can’t go in any social media comments without finding people insulting something or arguing. Don’t pay rude people any mind
Screw the haters. Take care of yourself, we appreciate you. 🙏🏼
No worries, your well being is important. I appreciate all the work that goes into what you do, when you post a video it never cease to make my day better.
dont push yourself
Oh my gosh I love this video, as a kid with unrestricted internet access back I don’t think I realize how many NicoNico Douga/NND parody videos I consumed back then. Thank you to NicoNico Douga for creating a good part of my childhood.
Same. These YT reuploads are exactly how I got into Touhou ww
Same ! I discovered the videos with Ronald mixed with Touhou's music.
My mind was blown when you explained the actual origin of MAD, I thought it was an acronym like AMV, and it was the Japanese equivalent term. It didn't occur to me it was basically Japanese YTP's.
AMVs have a fascinating history as well! The first one was created in the early 1980’s and Anime News Network actually interviewed the guy who made it!
i thought that was Music Anime Douga 😭
@@SakuraStardustthat’s crazy. Where could I find this interview?
and to think a certain American-born anime industry person used to desire to tip AMV creators to their respective studios for copyright infringement back in the 2000s. Looking at you Jan Scott-Frazier
I’ve literally seen that term for so long on the internet but never questioned or looked up what it was.
Back in 2018 4chan spent months mourning Aniki's passsing. It was a time.
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Now a proud thug named “Ambatukam Ohmaygot” has taken up the mantle… he has even had a formal meeting with the Japanese: th-cam.com/video/41Gx1yjT9Gw/w-d-xo.html
I never knew of Aniki, i just knew of a game called Cho aniki.
He was a legend, and a loving man. He deserves the best send-off imaginable.
@@zukodude487987 same here lmao
Just a tiny, pointless nitpick from a Finn: The "I" in "Ievan polkka" is a capital "i", not an "L". Don't worry about it, it's not a real issue at all, but thought I'd mention it and add some context in case some people are curious about the song's origins.
"Ieva" (with a capital "i") is the Finnish female name "Eeva" as it'd be pronounced in a Savonian (Eastern Finland) dialect and the "n" at the end indicates genitive case. And as one might have already guessed, "polkka" simply refers to the polka dance and the type of music it's usually danced to. So, in standard Finnish dialect the song name would be "Eevan polkka", and you could translate it into English something like "Eva's polka". The song's lyrics tell a story from the viewpoint of a boy courting Ieva/Eeva, a girl who snuck away from home to a dance party against her mother's wishes.
Ah, thank you very much for this correction and information!! Super interesting stuff! :)
Speaking of nitpicks, I also cringed when I heard Keito instead of Kaito 😅
Edit: I was just listening instead of watching. The next time I heard Keito, I see the split second "*Kaito" correction onscreen haha
thanks for the explanation, i love this song, both the vocaloid version and the original, so it's great to learn more about it!
>finn
>autistic
Of course😂
@@SkitsyCat Yeah, it's bad to hear it as "keito", but it's kinda seeable how this mistake came up if you think about the "a" in english how can be read.
But yeah, at least if someone make a one hour long video (which possibly would be even longer if it wasn't cut) about Japanese media, then at least take that 10 minutes and look up hot to pronounce that few words correctly.
Ahhhh I'm so glad you included Touhou!! Seriously, you gotta look more into the series since the lore of the various sub communities go real deep!
just a question, where does the lore come from? are there cut scenes in the games where things happen? or is it something else?
Best girl is patchouli
@@yanamilenova4518 games + manga
@@yanamilenova4518games + manga but a lot of the Touhou stuff you see tends to be fan imaginations of the characters too rather than canonical intentions
@@yanamilenova4518The base games have bits of dialogue before and after fights, and that establishes a sort of vague canon. The community takes those ideas and interprets them in different ways, creating their own canon. Some canon (like entire character personalities) is shared by the community and just becomes accepted over time. But at the end of the day, even that's fluid, and everything is up to how it's all interpreted. Is Touhou a comedy story? A symbolic tale? A sad manga? Ecchi? It really depends on who's making the content
I love how JP subtitled AVGN episodes were also popular around this time. Really fun era of content
I watched some of those just out of curiosity of what the Nico Nico users had to say about 'em live. The only video I know that covers that trend is called AVGN in Japan - Another Internet Nerd. You might like it, so check it out.
The absurdity is alive and well. For example, look up ぬぬぬぬ. It's just the specific examples we grew up with got old.
I really wonder how they translated all the swearing
Being a nico nico consumer in 2006-2008 was absolutely wild.
And I can't believe you didn't mentioned the amount of Hare Hare Yuukai dance cover on nico nico. That needs a video of it's own.
This era of the internet defined me as a person. I remember all the horror vocaloid videos that kept me up at night. Thank you so much for making this!
What I wanna know is, how many Gachimuchi videos did Sakura watch for research?
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Oh please please PLEASE do a deep dive on the 2007 Kumikyoku Nico Nico Douga Medley! That song pretty much encapsulates the ENTIRETY of this era of Nico Nico memes to a point where it SOMEHOW crossed over into the English web despite very few people in the english space even knowing what most of the references were.
I remember listening to that ONE very famous recording of the Medley where a large group of Nico Nico performers sang the whole thing. The original is no longer on Nico Nico but it's been uploaded to youtube several times.
I considered trying to do a deep dive on the song myself and explaining what each individual meme was in reference to, but i think you might actually be better equipped to talk about it due to your resources.
I can see Mad Videos being prefect for Breakcore. The chaotic nature of them, along with the repeating music and voices, would fit right at home in that genre.
As a sidenote to the Hatsune Miku thing... I literally go around the house saying that 7/11 ad and it's gotten to the point where my fiancé literally grabs me & wont let go so the “Miku scream” is now just mixed with my own momentary panic. It’s hilarious.
NicoNico is really interesting to me, because it seems like it was a really fun community to be in back then. It almost gives me a kind of nostalgia, despite the fact that I wasn't around to experience it when it was at its peak.
Also, I'd like to make a little correction regarding 10:40: The song _itself_ is not called "Fukkireta", it's called "Ochame Kinou" (おちゃめ機能).
Same though, I wish I were old enough to see when the community was thriving back then.
There is a popular term that specifically talks about this time period, its called "NicoNicoDouga Heyday" and its everything that you can imagine like video slicing, Danmaku comments that goes so fast, and probably a core part of internet at this point. This time period is considered to be place near "the Lost Decade" and the late heisei era.
Correct me If Im wrong, but I wish there were other people who have the same childhood memories as me.
😅llll
R.I.P. Aniki. You will always be remembered on NND, twitch and kick.
He was a good meme, gone but not forgotten. o7
As a vocal synth history fanatic, i wanted to add some additional information to the Vocaloid section!
So for one, Vocaloid has always been a proprietary software, meaning several companies got permission to officially release voicebanks for it.
The most well-known ones - Meiko, Kaito, Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin & Len and Megurine Luka - were all released by Crypton Future Media. They're known by fans as the Cryptonloids (though Crypton later stopped releasing new versions of their voicebanks on Vocaloid and instead made their own software, Piapro Studio which is why Crypton doesn't officially refer to them as "Vocaloids" anymore.)
Some other well-known ones are Gackpoid and Gumi by Internet Co Ltd, Fukase and V Flower by Yamaha, Oliver by PowerFX and SeeU by SBS Artech.
The proprietary nature of Vocaloid is the reason you'll pretty much never see Gumi on stage with Miku or anything like that: They were developed for and released on the same software, but are distributed and legally owned by different companies.
UTAU is different because it's shareware software and voicebanks can be created and distributed freely (for the most part) by users. For legal and practical reasons, you couldn't just take a Vocaloid voicebank and release all the associated audio files for people to put into UTAU so they'd get free Hatsune Miku, sorry to crush your dreams but Miku will be expensive for as long as Crypton can make money off of her lol.
Another thing is that if you hear stuff like "Miku is 16" and "Rin and Len are 14 year old twins" you'll be pretty shocked at a ton of vocal synth songs and content, both new and old. This has one of the most common debates in the community for as long as vocaloid has been popular, but the general sentiment is that their "official" ages and relationships aren't to be taken too seriously, and as such you'll find a good amount of stuff like nsfw songs featuring Miku and the Kagamines or songs where the Kagamines aren't siblings but partners or genderbent versions of eachother. The whole point is that voicebanks are mostly blank slates to project any lyrics and story onto as the user sees fit. In some songs Miku's a self-centred idol, in some a murderer, in some a murder victim, in some a lesbian, in some a meta-commentary on the state of the Vocaloid community. She can be anything!
Final thing to note here is that the voicebanks don't make the songs, their producers do. This has been another huge problem in the community for years, where the most popular youtube uploads of songs often credit them "by Hatsune Miku" instead of "by Ryo" or "by Hachi".
This is especially relevant in the cases of deceased producers like Wowaka and Siinamota/PowapowaP, who's songs have gone years being credited to the instruments used to make them instead of the people who mastered the instruments.
Anyway, hope someone finds this interesting, loved the video and thanks for including my suggestion of Leekspin :)
Thank you so much for all this additional information!! I've been thinking about making a video on lost Vocaloid media, and this info will definitely go to good use once I reach that point!! I still have so much to learn about all this ; w ;
@@SakuraStardust No problem, I'm glad to hear it and I'll be looking forward to that video! If you or anyone else reading this comment has any other vocaloid/vocal synth related queries I'd love to help & try to answer as best I can ^w^
i just found this channel but i loved the video and wanted to help, so i'm bringing some more points about vocal synths. please correct me if i'm wrong. also, the only interesting ones are on the end so feel free to skip ahead
1. kagamine rin & len are a very interesting case of the personality thing that was brought up in the original comment. their literal names suggest they are "mirror sounds" so that could be interpreted as basically anything from twins to just musical counterparts.
2. regarding about vocaloids having ages, it's something that isn't always specified by the companies themselves and just agreed by the fans. a different reason people might create different character takes to represent the voice is because producers can use vocaloid to tell their own original or real stories.
3. for obvious reasons, people will stick to making songs *for* the character on cases like oliver and kaai yuki, which are vocaloids voiced by actual children at the time they were made. but musically, children-type vocals make dark songs much more meaningful or scary. just like most of the vocaloids, oliver and kaai yuki have a bunch of songs about strong topics that hit different when you hear the story told by a "child". even then, they still have cute songs being made to cheer people up, because it also feels different coming from an innocent voice.
4. as brought by the original comment, vocaloid works are made by producers. something interesting to add is that most vocal synths will sound plain or boring when plug-and-played. this leads to tuning, which is a process of "vocal manipulation" to give emotion or a singing style to the voices. this is why different producers can make the same voice feel like an instrument, robotic, surreal or human. the process of tuning can also be applied onto human voices. for example, there's a person that edits the human vocals for some of the living tombstone songs. this does not mean the singer is bad and can not be comparable to auto-tuning in practice, since the process of tuning in vocaloid is manual.
5. producers who aren't into making original songs may make covers using vocaloid, just like stated in the video on the case of ievan polkka. generally, cover artists make versions of vocal synth songs, but you can find a lot of covers of western pop songs, for example. some covers are also lost media, but i believe a lot of them are saved.
but these are mostly for context about the culture thing, so on to the useful stuff:
*6.* there's an utau producer that disappeared from the internet and does not wish to be named. i don't remember the exact story, but they didn't like how their songs started getting attention and went gone. now, a lot of producers make songs in their style as a "tribute", but some of them later move on to their on style, such as _x0o0x. they keep the charm of having an unnamed video for their songs.
*7.* there are some communities on twitter and discord dedicated to vocaloid lost media! although i'm not a part of any, it seems they recover a lot from nico nico douga too.
@@wevebi Yep, can't disagree with anything there and it's all good info I didn't think to include!
For more context on the unnamed producer, who also made the Yume Nikki fangame Lcd Dem and worked on Yume 2kki, ubnubmaster's video on them is great imo.
This probably explains the existence of the Korg Hatsune Miku vocal sampler guitar pedal
As a huge YTP and YTPMV fan, I FUCKING LOVE OLD MADS
Man I loved Aniki i remember finding that steamroller video and falling down the rabbit hole I was so devastated when the news broke that he passed away. Rest east Aniki, we all love you :’(
Wow, this was sure a travel down the nostalgia lane; being am otaku and a minor with unsupervised internet really expanded your horizon of weird anime/Vocaloid shit
Amazing video, I love weird lore of internet
In the vocal synth community (im not really big in it i listen to the tracks and that’s about it) teto is a pretty hot topic rn! because she was recently “canonised” in a way by becoming a synth V voicebank 😅 i love her and her canon sm im so so glad you covered her!
All of this is so damn nostalgic I just kept nodding along and smiling at everything talked about and brought up. Such a throwback. Keep up the good work!
Only have enough time to finish the first half but already loving it. I was in my early twenties when Nico Nico started making some waves here in America and it's really cool to see how all the trends were created and evolved. Having some great nostalgic flashbacks along with seeing some stuff that had passed me by.
"15 years ago"
My bones are dust
I remember first stumbling into the "Ran Ran Ru" thing because of one of three ways:
1. I was reading a bunch of creepypasta which led me to stuff about Giygas from Earthbound/Mother 2 and that's where I saw a Ran Ran Ru version of Pokey Means Business (I think I still have it saved in my favorites from all the way back in 2009 if it still exists here).
2. stumbling upon M.U.G.E.N. videos via a rabbithole of watching clips of Bleach episodes (Soul Society Arc because I got tired of waiting for Adult Swim to premiere new episodes).The player played Ronald McDonald against various other characters like Colonel Sanders and Wolverine.
3. Listening to random video game tracks, where I heard "Pokey Means Business" for the first time, which led to finding said Ran Ran Ru mentioned above. Also discovered Touhou tracks in the process before I even learned what Touhou was.
2009/2010 was a crazy time for me.
Speaking of Touhou, I had a classmate that was absolutely obsessed with it. His laptop had a looping wallpaper that featured the various girls in the game and had several iterations of the shooter. Even his screensaver was Touhou themed ( I think it was the animation from the "Bad Apple" video IRCC). Game looked fun enough, but far too unforgiving for my taste.
I've never heard of the man referred to as "aniki", but I do remember seeing the clip of him taking a swig from a bottle of beer, though I can't remember, for the life of me, where.
I've listened to Omoide wa Okusenman more times that I can count (also from around the same time I found Ran Ran Ru, so those two are somewhat linked). Also, I reccommend you listen to the JAM Project version of the song if you haven't yet (seriously, it's great).
Just to correct a statement, while ZUN is the sole maker of the mainline Touhou games, the decimal Touhou games is a different matter. The Fighting games (7.5, 10.5, 12.3, 13.5, 14.5, 15.5) are made by Twilight Frontier, though the characters and stories are of course by ZUN himself. Sunken Fossil World (17.5) is also made by Twilight Frontier.
Also think you could have put a bit more emphasis on the big thing about the Touhou NND vids is Touhou's music, since that is primarily what ZUN is known more for anything, his music. But otherwise, how you described things was perfectly fine.
Thank you for the information! I’m going to discuss the music more so in the nexts videos, and actually planned to elaborate more on that in later vids in this series.
Nico Nico Douga was like if YTP has it own site but instead of YT and in its own from Japan. It was a fever dream from earlier day of the internet that its also hard to winning them all due to how surreal yet questionable those culture were to many newer people
Japanese internet culture is so interesting, hope you make more of these. Though I'm a bit disappointed to not see Let's Go Onmyouji! here.
43:36 Small correction here. The cover was done by JAM Project, who also made a song called GONG.
Ah, thank you for the correction! Also, I was planning for Lets Go Onmyouji for vol 2 :)
As someone who used to use niconico douga back in the early/mid 2000s, I wonder how many videos I saw that are considered lost media now :O This video was so nostalgic haha
Oh goodness, Sakura Stardust!
This video was such a blast from the past because I was also a teen who grew up with NND and 2000s - 2010s Japanese internet culture, vocaloid, and anime.
This actually made me nostalgic to go find the various Nico Nico Douga medley, especially the one with the live chorus full of memers and cosplayers
I listened to it so much and even had downloaded it on my ipod back then and I can't even lie it still kind of slaps 😭
Got ALOT of Nostalgia from this. I binged so many of these videos back in the 2000s - 2010s. Vocaloid Flash Animations and Touhou Animations.
Thank you Sakura I love your videos because you always take the time to research everything thoroughly and explain everything from the beginning so everyone can understand
I love Shuzo Matsuoka’s videos! For some reason whenever life gets rough, his famous clam fishing one always pops up in my feed💖
I remember seeing the get down memes as a kid. Theyre still hilarious to this day
Maybe one day *I* will be gay enough to become an international icon out of absolutely nowhere. Rest well, Aniki
Wholesome from the unwholesome 🥹 it's beautiful!
Man, the intense zaniness achieved with video tape remixes in early Mad Tapes before wide availability of easy digital editing is an expenditure of effort I can respect.
Hearing Sakura Stardust talk about vocaloids was not what I was expecting to see today but I have nothing against it lol
Edit: I'm Canadian and everyone ive ever met calls them sweaters
Ronald McDonald or Donarudo Makudonarudo/ranranru- was such an amazing meme with its remixes- it just exploded in popularity back in the day. I still watch NND MAD remixes of anime like Lucky Star and Higurashi set to Night of Nights, Red Zone, Sky High, Ievan Polkka, UN Owen Was Her, etc. I know it's like such a specific niche of videos but these are so nostalgic.
as a long time vocaloid fan and someone who just generally grew up around the time these memes were prevalent, i really enjoyed this video and i think you covered the topics very well!! a lot of ppl i've seen just don't cover things like vocaloid and miku as well as this :'D so it was refreshing to see it done some justice. this would be a great video to show my friends who aren't familiar w it!
i'm also surprised you didn't mention mmd either, but i suppose thats lumped in with the topic as a whole ^_^
The amount of pure nostalgia this gave me was so fulfilling 😭 even as a tween who was super into anime I remember seeing all these videos and absolutely losing my mind at them. Even to this day I’ll go back and rewatch my favourite MAD’s.
It’s so true about the lost media though :( there’s actually one video that I saw before and it was my favourite, only for it to get removed completely. I’ll provide a veeeeery quick explanation just in case anyone reading this knows where to find it now!
It was a danjo (男女) animation with the characters from the video game series “dangan ronpa”! The video actually was a massive compilation of loads of different early nnd memes and references and the art in it was really fun. I remember it actually following the very basic storyline of the second game!
Hey Sakura, I appreciate the content you've been putting out, but I really sometimes wonder about the part 5 of do not search iceberg. Any plans for that?!
Thank you ❤ It’s on the schedule of upcoming uploads for the near future. I made a community post addressing all the questions I receive about this so I won’t be answering any further comments regarding this 😅
@@SakuraStardust ohh thank you very much!! I'm very glad that it's in the schedule.
Why do you have to use the “?!” It’s so demanding
Canadian here. We call them hoodies and zip ups accordingly. A parka is a heavy winter jacket that has fur on the hood and is typically long enough to cover your butt. Sweaters are just plain crewnecks with no hood like ugly Christmas sweaters, wool sweaters, and athletic sweaters. I thought jumpers were old aerobics one pieces but I just learned they are sleeveless dresses that are worn over a blouse or something along those lines.
Holy shit! Is that where the whole Rin and Len roadroller thing came from?!
If so, id be laughing my ass off
It's quite mindblowing just how thick of a presence Touhou has within early video sharing, Japanese or otherwise.
I had no idea that the backstory of the Matsuoka videos was so interesting, I learned of that video from Joel Vinesauce playing it sometimes so it's cool to learn the origin!
I’ve been watching nico nico douga videos for years without knowing what the hell is going on so it’s nice to finally find out the context for some of the memes :)
This video is just what I need! It feels so nostalgic! I honestly miss this very unhinged time of the internet
I remember back when I was 14 after I'd finished watching the Ryuuseigun Chaos video for the first time my mouth was legit hanging open in amazement. I don't think I'd ever seen something so visually intense up to that point.
Dude same!!! Except, I never finished it because it was so intense. It almost gave me nightmares. I was 12.
I used to go to this site back in the day, just for curiosity, but i didn't understand nothing there, but i loved these chaotic and random vids that used to appear in that site, and also the trends that people were into back in the day.
I love putting these videos on in the background while working on something it's always so calming. The TouHou project videos brought back a lot of weird memories of this bootleg DDR machine that was at a restaurant I used to visit with my parents which would have a lot of those videos on it
PS sweaters in canada are mostly called sweaters but sometimes bunnyhugs
What part are you from? I'm from tobacco country in Ontario and have never heard that.
so this is something that a lot of people get confused about - in "ievan polkka" the I is an uppercase i - it comes from the name Eeva :)
also lmao I was JUST thinking of the Ronald McDonald insanity video a few days ago
There's a video that I watched here in YT that I think is from NND about FF7 and crisis core but with the can can song that I really liked. I think that the last time I watched the video was about more than 10 years ago before it was removed, and I been looking everywhere for it. Watching this video made me remember about that FF7 video.
I remember I watched a unique vocaloid video in NND. I don't remember the title, but in the video there was a girl looking at the mirror, but when you pause the video the girl is looking directly at you from the reflection, if you play the video again she will look back at her own reflection, and everyone in the comments were freaking out. The video is in black & white animation, but sometimes some red japanese texts will appear when you pause the video at random.
Do you remember what year you saw this video? Sounds intriguing
@@Undertalepotatochip I don't, sorry. It's been ages. But I remember I watched it when adobe flash was still a thing, so maybe it's not working anymore
I remember it. If you don't know what vocaloid song category it goes in, it goes in creepy vocaloid songs. I found it in a TH-cam playlist of creepy vocaloid songs.
I love the topic of meme history. Great work and glad the video is back up from being age restricted!
Also, the Ronald McDonald videos used to be all over the place on TH-cam back then ms used to creep me out so much. It's so nostalgic now.
You should do a series focusing on memes that were popular on Nico Nico. In particular you should a video focusing on the Commando meme as I believe its a meme that westerners should know about. I even created a playlist saving single Commando video that I know of on TH-cam!
The Aniki section was so wholesome
nice showcase, i was literally 9 when all this happened and really got me tru a lot at the time
So many of these are soooo nostalgic, I really hope to see a second part with some of the other things not mentioned here!
I miss aniki so much 😢
Same. RIP Billy Herrington.
42:23 "Apa kezdődik apa kezdődik áááááá" is in hungarian :D We had a commercial where a little boy wanted to watch a cartoon and kept calling his dad to watch it with him, it means "Dad it's starting" it's a meme in Hungary. I don't remember the Okusenman song being popular in Hungary, so it must've been a "wild hungarian appeared" situation.
I'm fairly new to your channel but I just wanna say that I really enjoy your content, your editing is really cool and funny especially in this video and I also like your sense of humor, it's youtubers like you that are inspiring me to wanna become a youtuber myself. Keep up the great work and I'll be looking forward to your next video.
Been waiting! So excited to watch this. Thanks for the content as always 🖤 you're the best
One of the Hyperdimension Neptunia games that played like a Shining Force/Turn Based Strategy Game on the PS Vita, one of the characters ultimate attack was a Niko Niko video reference.
This video was great, alot of memories. Im getting old... I remember on 4chan we would go to 2chan and steal their pictures and horribly translate wtf they are talking about. This was early 4chan. Before it was known by everyone.
From what you mentioned in the intro and what I can tell from sites such as VocaDB, it seems that the main modern use case of Niconico tends to be uploading music (in particular Vocaloid songs)? idk, I don't see too much use of it outside of that due to the modern ubiquity of TH-cam but on VocaDB I see new songs uploaded all the time that nyever get official TH-cam uploads and basically every popular producer posts their songs on both sites.
What a throwback, I'm glad I wasn't the only one watching NND videos. I was a big idolm@ster fan back in the day so I would watch a lot of MAD's. Thank you for researching and publishing a sorta niche topic Sakura. RIP aniki.
Another banger, Sakura just don’t miss 😤
Oh my god that was such a blast from the past. Thank you so much for making this video!
Had to go back and check if my old NND account still exists and it sure does! My premium is gone but that's not surprising. Thank you for making me log into an account that I haven't checked on in 9 years!
this was the most nostalgic video ever! haha. I personally really loved versions of Lucky Star opening made with other animes. I hope they still exist! I'll have to look them up now :)
39:53 this has got to be one of the FUNNIEST things I have ever heard. "You, step outside" like.. I'm adopting this into my daily life. This is basically the old internet version of "touch grass" and I'm ALL FOR IT lmfao
11:38 i like how the 7-eleven ad just parodies the actual miku familymart ad shot-per-shot and taken at the opposite time of day
Man, that was a trip down memory lane. I remember watching so many MADs during middle school.
You made me relive my pre-teen to teen years. Thank you so much. Also, dont forget the Lucky Star MAD Paffendorf!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH!!! THE STUFF I GREW UP WATCHING ON THE INTERNEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!
I hope the Kokoro Odoru meme can make it on the next video and I wonder what else you'll cover aside from Caramelldansen. Thank you for this super long video and this massive blast from the past!!
You just earned a new subscriber. I adore Niconico and wish I had known about it during its heyday. I cannot imagine experiencing gachimuchi at its peak with NO CONTEXT. These types of channels make me feel less self conscious about having an interest in obscure Japanese culture stuff. If nothing else, more obscure immersion content will be useful when I go to Japan.
Thanks so much for the sub! I love talking about Japanese internet lore, so I hope you enjoy my future vids! 😊
They are generally called sweaters in Canada too! I know because I have lived in Canada my whole life! Sometimes we call winter coats parkas, we also call beanies (the hat) toques (pronounced two-ks). Edit: one more thing in some regions of Canada (particularly in Saskatchewan, I’m not from there btw)people call the types of hoodies in those “Red Parka” videos “Bunny hugs”, it’s such a cute name isn’t it!
This brings me back. I’m at work listening to the this like a podcast but when u say the titles I can hear the songs. I remember opening a nico nico account and bumbling around on their not knowing what buttons to click. Was a fun time.
Same! I was really hoping people would have this kind of reaction and be as nostalgic about this content as I am 🥲
Gee, I just finished this video and I feel like crying. Thakk you so much for bringing all those memories in a one place! :""") 💖
Made up a huge part of my teenage years. Enough that Kumikyoku NND Medley still brings a tear to my eye
19:59 This unlocked buried memories of when I watched the black butler ver : Sebastian stole the precious thing on youtube in the early 2010s.
You don't know how great it feels knowing I'm not the only one who knows about the obscure meme culture of Nico Nico. Been a fan since Middle school
You hit me with the classics!
Nico Nico always looked extremely interesting to me but I sadly never got to be a part of witnessing it in the early days. I don't know exactly how to express how much I appreciate this little portal to an era that's long been past, so I'm just gonna say, thanks. Really cool video. Enjoyed the history lesson on this site.
great timing with this!! i just showed my boyfriend nico nico douga ryuuseigun for the first time yesterday because i was obsessed with it when i was like 13 lmfao
All things can eventually be traced back to vocaloid, touhou, and Jojo’s. Such is the way of the universe.
It’s quite amazing you have incredible Knowledge of Japanese History culture very impressive
Thank you, I try my best ❤
@@SakuraStardust you’re very welcome Sakura
i love the cheems hatsune miku picture, makes the video subject matter even better
It really surprised me how familiar I am with damn near all of these, either from encountering them in the wild back in the day or from later references to the memes. Excellent work as always, I look forward to the next part!
The MAD tapes are unironically impressive to me. Not so much the later ones, although they are cool in their own way, but I'm old enough to have some experience editing on VHS tapes, it was a *lot* harder than editing now, and these crazy fast, synchronised splices. Especially on the beat, are pretty hard to pull off.
Oh man.. this takes me back. I only went on NND a few times but I loved watching the TH-cam reuploads. Okkusenman in particular has always stood out to me
I always wondered where that guy standing in the water shouting excellent advice came from because I saw it on tumblr for a couple of years ago.
Commenting for the algorithm. I love videos about niche Japanese culture like this!
Man. I grew up on half of these, especially the musical and animation memes. I remember my introduction to alot of these memes were Warrior Cats and sparklefurs dancing to the Caipirinha and The Goldeneye Glitch among others. It's so interesting to know alot of 2000s/2010s internet culture came from Japanese internet
Honestly I’ve worked at McDonald’s and this is about the funnest thing I’ve seen from that horrible place.
Also you look amazing!
I was just talking about Okkusenman the other day to my partner! The song has always given me chills, even though when I first heard it was only just a teenager. Actually a bunch of stuff covered in here I was talking about, so this whole video is like, a surreal trip down memory lane. I still have a bunch of Nico Nico Medleys on my phones music player, transfered from phone to phone over the years |D
I'm really happy Miku and vocaloid characters got as popular as they are now. I remember it used to be niche and now we got massive concert halls with the popular songs from the internet and there's a whole new generation of weebs getting into the concept. I still see a bunch of vocaloid cosplay at cons and I'm always glad to see it.
I'd like to add there are serious music artists that got their start on niconico, Ryo, Supercell, Hyadain. There were also several CDs released under the niconico douga name of popular song compilations. One was called "Waste of Talent".
Oooh thank you for this!! I definitely wanna talk about those artists later on and also make a more dedicated vocaloid video!
@@SakuraStardust The meme song compilation CDs sure are something. I think at the time JAM Project must have caught wind of the Okkusenman song and put their official cover on a nico nico CD. They also performed it at animelo 2008. The otaku ties run deep. I was downloading and watching those anisama live annually around then.
It's so weird to see Vocaloid be so openly popular; you can mention it now without getting ostracized by society lol. It used to be so niche.
With that said, it's still REALLY weird that they had that "partnership" with Toyota in the early years
I learned about NND prior to 2010 thanks to MADs,Touhou videos as well as imageboards, but my NND account dates all the way back to 2010, and thats mostly due to the fact that eventually, you had to create an account in order to watch some videos. I remember when english wasn't available as one of the website's languages, but there was Spanish and German, that helped me a lot understanding its interface. Those were good days
36:00 holyyyyyshieeeet that’s him? Bro usually pops on my recommendation and uplifts me
😢🙏🏼 shuzo sensei pulled thru more than once
I love Azumanga Daioh so much I never knew it used to be so popular on NND.
I rarely write comments on youtube, but you deserve it! So, i've been watching you as a channel by months, i am a huge fan, and OH BOI! Your way of making videos, being calm and relaxing, yet chaotic and fun, and of course, VERY explanatory and informative, i just LOVE IT! I can't get enough! So, keep up on doing the great work you are doing, Sakura! You're great as a youtuber, and i am sure, also as a person!
Cheers from Italy, Mike!