The Story of a Meme That Became Official Merch
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2023
- Honkai Star Rail led to the creation of the "kuru kuru" meme that became a huge community hit. It even caused miHoYo to create official merch for it! So here's the story of how it all happened.
Do check out how Raphiiel and Shayien put their own creative spin on the "kuru kuru" craze!
Raphiiel on how the song was made
• How I made the "Kuru K...
Shayien on how the alarm was made
• I made a Herta Alarm... - เกม
I heard she was used the most in CBT so it's not surprising someone decided to meme about it but little did they know it would grown to be a meme popular enough to still be remembered
Guess now we all know why she was the most used back then haha. So true bruh, so true.
Cock & Ball torture?
does this stand for chinese beta test or CBT?
@@ghetoknight7801it stands for Cock and Balls Torture
@@ghetoknight7801 it stands for Closed Beta Test I believe
What he didn't mention: Herta's idle animation in the game is she slowly twirling in the marionette pose, so the merch is probably base on that (you can actually see her idle animation on HSR advertisements on TH-cam).
So true. The merch is from Herta's idle animation and not the kuru kuru meme
explain the model's likeness lol
Also if it *was* based on Kuru kuru then she’d be swinging her hammer instead of pulling a pirouette.
She even has music box music tingling and then curtseys.
Should be a twirling T-pose XD
it could still be both they wouldnt make it a merch if the meme didnt become popular to begin with 🤷♂️
if it's a music box that plays "kururin" as she slowly twirls..it will be godly
(Wahhh 4k 😭 I hope my art as well lol
But yea Kurukuru Music box cover 😌🙏🙏🙏
If that’s the case, I will buy five of them, I don’t play the game, however it would be a funny April Fools joke
Holy fuck the idea itself is Godly
Kuru kuru kuru rin, kuru-ri~n
sadly it can only spin (with 3 speed modes tho)
You could actually make a Statuette of her with the hammer, give it a little hand crank with a release button, and you could give it up to five twirls that change the audio depending on the ammount of twirls, like it does ingame, between, 1/2 being Kuru Kuru and 3/5 being Kururin, you could even give it the 4 languajes because i love the KR voice, also you could make it so that 1 spin is the sped up audio and the 3 is also the sped up audio thay she uses in fast combat mode
Honestly I’m not surprised, Mihoyo knows the community & they love good memes.
We all love to see it for sho.
Mihoyo was made by fellow weebs afterall
Tech otakus save the world
Know the community lol, where my gigabuff Itto?
he forget to mention honkai only bro@@littleboss2006
I don't think it became a meme then a merch. Personally I think they were already planning it since there's her idle where she spins like a music box ballerina.
This, it even looks more like the idle pose than the spin pose.
Let him cook
spinning anime girls (and/or fumos) became a meme 13 years ago
th-cam.com/video/gcYESYVs1FY/w-d-xo.html nothing new at all
@@Snailing_Suika true.
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This actually started back In cbt2, about a year before the game’s release
Oooo cool cool. Thanks for the correction Soupkeyi !
Whats cbt2
Co*c and ball torture2
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They released a second part of CBT!? Damn, the madlads.
Closed beta testing@@raffibagus3035
Also: you can find this reference in the game itself now. Herta has an idle animation where she summons a portrait of herself to admire: there is now an extremely small chance on this of her calling a portrait of the cartoon instead as a minor Easter egg.
It was edited afaik... not official
@@kristiantowijaya6168NOOOOOOOO
Shame, that would've been mindblowing for sho.
@@kristiantowijaya6168its real now
@@kristiantowijaya6168 Too lazy to just type "as far as I know" literally took me less than 2 seconds, Jesus Christ dude
still have those alarm ringing hahaha... all three actually...
can never have too much kuru kuru~
ooo
Apologies as there is a slight correction. The "Kuru Kuru" phenoma technically sorta started and was already quite popular back even during the game's Closed Beta Test period (which was about a year before it's release date). Which is mindblowing if you think about it. Wew.
kuru kuru~
Wait, didn't know it went that back in time
almost 2 years
@@NeroTheBoopyeah it was WAY BACK. it was when CBT 1 started and some people got annoyed by it too
@@unclefudge4206 that's crazy, i'm glad it survived that long, it's such a great meme
I'm proud to see Raphiiel here cuz even the creator was shocked to see it go so viral
At 1:02 ,it's not an really full fledged song,it's a remix of the ending theme from Super Mario World (the creator says that there at the bottom too). Theres a lot of remixes of that song like this one for other games,memes and stuff like that
Great video!
finally someone said it
I was going to say this as well
ooo
She's not even my favorite character or anything, but this is magnificent.
Just don't ever tell people you are part of the Kuru Kuru Kult ...
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Glad the algorithm sent this my way (albiet 11 days late) because not only was this well edited, it was just good on all fronts. From the way you presented the memes and the facts to actually crediting people, which more people should do, is so nicely done! You just gained a subsciber and I lookforward to what you are cooking in the future.
Thank you so much for the very kind words Gottaloveaxolotls! Will continue to cook for sho :)
@@theindoorowl7637 neat :D
Unironically the Kururin Kurukuru is my alarm.
Very effective when it is layers
Its my notification/sms sound
Kuru-Kuru was so addicting to listen to since CBT 1 and almost outhroned another Honkai meme phrase which is "Teri-Teri" by Theresa from Hi3
Teri Teri will never leave my mind
"Teri-teri daisouri!" (Stuck on my head lol)
Hoyo is probably one of the most in touch developers out there with their communities meme culture. Which is an accomplishment for such a huge company.
Even in Genshin there are just a lot of voice lines and dialogue that would just not exist if fans hadn’t made memes about them. For example I guarantee you “Emergency Food” would not have been a reoccurring joke if nobody memed on it a bunch
Back before I quit Genshin out of pure boredom, any chance I got ingame (aside from the first time), I'd call Paimon "emergency food", to troll her, because she's so annoying to me, and she's pretty much brain-dead too. (Paimon literally cannot pronounce the word "imaginary", even after it's said nearby her, and assumes the Traveler meant to say something else) And this hatred of Paimon is from a person who never found Navi annoying in Zelda Ocarina of Time. Paimon speaking on the behalf of the Traveler, is why the Traveler rarely has any voice lines in cutscenes. Trailblazer from Star Rail speaks on their own, with nobody needing to speak on their behalf. And now in Honkai Impact 3rd's main story Part 2 getting the Dreamseeker MC, once I saw her ingame, she is perhaps one of MiHoYo's best written self-inserts. Despite being a self-insert, she speaks a ton, no needing influence from the player's choices, acting not like a self-insert
this merch is based on hertas idle animation of her dancing like marionette, not her kuru kuru itself~
I´m happy to say I´ve been a part of this kuru kuru journey as a viewer and player, peak life phase fr
Thank you so much for the lore explanation ❤, i needed this
How in 9 days I haven't known about it?
That's awesome
Ms. Herta is unstoppable
Wow, how did I miss this? It's right up my alley.
On Herta idle animation sometimes have the meme also.
Yep! She does a much slower twirl that's pretty nice too.
This game is created after that frog meme. Now this is a new challenger taking over the stage
Woah this is you're second video and its doing really well. Keep up the good work man👍
I listened to that remix for 10 hours. Best 10 hours of my life.
I feel happy that i know where every clip is from
Kuru kuru lives rent free in my head and it's the first ear worm I haven't regretted
Didnt know what this was about until i heard the line
Im surprised they made it so fast, for genshin usually it takes them like half a year till they make merch off of the popular and cute characters like the aranara
Aranaras are not cute sorry.
An Aranara stomper would be cute though.
Never heard this kurukuru thing before but now it's my notification so thank you
"Instrumental covers"
AN INSTRUMENTAL COVER OF THAT SONG IS JUST THE SUPER MARIO WORLD CREDITS LMAO
thank you for also putting in the gif artist.
Thanks Sereren for your GIF
I literally started playing the game after hearing that sound, I'm not kidding
holy crap I had no idea that raphiiel made the kuru kuru song I've listened to their music for like several years
Hina from touhou project owning this meme well over a decade ago:
KuruHS must be having daily nightmares since this dropped 😂
crazy how this is the second time a girl from an anime-style game went viral for the kukuru kuru kuru kurukuru
Bro I still use that alarm to this day 😭
Surprised the official version of the meme wasn't added in this video. It really bops.
You've even forgot the 3D AD at TH-cam that time...
I remember a mobile ad using the kuru kuru song.
i use the second version as my alarm clock and let me tell you, its literal hell to wake up to so i always wake up 5 minutes early just to turn the damn alarm off. thats how you can figure out if an alarm works or not, i guess..
This will be nostalgic omg
Its really catchy
It is still my current notification sound
the music that was playing in the background of kuru kuru is the super mario world end credits
but i guess I'm the only weirdo who would know that
I just realized that the song is my phone alarm ever since then
Now I NEED THIS!!
That's my ringtone actually
That Tokyo Xanadu's bgm in the end, nice.
i streamed herta spinning on twitch for hours for the HSR streaming event lol
I actually have the alarm/ringtone as my ringtone and alarm on my phone, I showed my brother all three and he picked the third one. It keeps giving me a mini heart attack whenever I get a phone call.
bro i have the kuru kuru full song on ringtone, and a short kuru kuru on notifications💀✨️
Thanks Sereren for yout GIF
I hear this while studying, and it makes me go SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEED
HSR is making everything from every damn memes you can find
Probably the first time bro ever witnessed such a thing in his lifetime..
That song has been my ringtone and will be till the end of my days unless I find something similarly interesting. For reference my last ringtone was Mission Impossible Theme but the weird af Flute version (used that for ages)
YOOO THE KURU KURU SONG IS ACTUALLY MY ALARM 😂 AND IT WAKES ME UP EVERY SINGLE TIME
Hoyo does like to bank on the memes.
Especially in Star Rail
Ikr, there are so many references in-game. Not complaining tho XD
The Reason Why I played HSR:
Just for herta's follow attack
kuru kuru~
Same. still have my bio and pfp set as herta bc of that
the most trailblazer of all time confirmed
@@theindoorowl7637 y e s
@@theindoorowl7637 definitely
Like some edgy Magnetic man would say
Memes.. They shape our culture.. they are... DNA of the soul...
i still use the ringtone daily 😅
i clearly play it for the part, so true 😂
may the algorithm bless you
kuru kuru
this is called fanservice my brothers, you still remember that Mihoyo is mostly otakus, they know exactly what fanbase would love based of fan content, its just a common thing already that Hoyo throws one character personality in trash and makes him fanservice based, may it be memes or story, we know about that from HI3 and Genshin, especially with Arlechino who was originally male
My neighbor has the alarm and everytime i sleep with her, i has to hear Herta sing in the morning😂
I need that merch 😳
Its a chibi version of her idle animation
i was about to bought the Kuru kuru merch
but i and my friend end up choose the Trailblazer duo
honkai star rail devs listening to their fanbase statistically someone has to listen to their fanbase but still it’s nice knowing
I still use it as an alarm 😂
And now its official advertisement
As a player in 2024... I'm still loving the Kuru Kuru thing❤️😻
This is tuturu and padoru padoru all over again
I love this game
yk, imma show my child this vid one day
I knew star rail devs knew because they literally make herta do it in the swarm disaster kidn- special program with Owlbert where at the end he asks to do it
i actually have the ringtone on my laptop lol
I better get this on christmas if not imma cry
Seseren makes some really good stuff despite the goofy art style, the Herta one became a whole meme chat in his server that’s nothing but “kuru kuru”
We live in a world where Herta sings super mario world theme
Kuru kuru kururim is the world domination
kuru kuru~
NOW THERES THAT ONE HERTA STAR RAIL AD WITH THE KURU KURU SONG
I still use that alarm
Kafka kuru kuru is music to my ears
kurukuru is literally my ringtone
Same thing as the Raiden police emote was added. Hoyo really takee notes from the community
Kuru-kuru merch is a bold move
Now give me the kafka version and set for life😊
I will have kurukuru, kurukuru is forever
They really follow closely community desires like when they called Kafka “mommy” on the stream or when Himeko was the host of Kafka’s stream
The Power of Honkai Star Rail's community
I'm going to install that game just to get this carather and spam every atacks just to hear "kuru kuru"
Is correct
Kuru kuru is kururing indeed
That's my alarm right now