I got my friend with that one back in the day. It was Flash so much harder to detect a loop than a video. I told him the ending was hilarious and he managed about 20 minutes of badger badger badger badger badger until he figured it out.
And on the opposite end there was the Demented Cartoon Movie, which was half an hour of nonsense and non-sequitors in an age where most animations were a few minutes long at most. Flash movies didn't have a progress bar at the bottom, so anyone you sent it to was stuck watching the whole thing hoping it would please end already.
It's physically painful to watch today. My fellow Millennials act like Gen Z invented brain rot while ignoring that we grew up with this.
Strawberry Pancakes decremented the population count on every loop due to the end of loop shooting. If you let it run to 0 the victim would be replaced by a zombie.
It probably has been by someone since it is all on YouTube now, and I think they have revived the site to most of the old functionality (I could be wrong, I'd need to be on PC to really check). The things that YouTube can't preserve is the stuff like the mouse over Easter eggs etc.
HSR is the easiest example of rasterizing Flash content being a bad idea, because there is just so much content. Even just the Sbemails compilation (1-200) is 10 hours, and for a DVD-quality video (480p) that's almost double the size of the HSR collection that I have (2000-2009 from archive org).
The site does work via Ruffle (even the menus, though some links seem broken) and they still make new ones (sbemail-210-robots, backtoawebsite) with Flash versions. There is also an old.homestarrunner so you could probably run this with a browser that still runs Flash, lacking one I'm not sure the exact URL to do so via standalone or even if the links will properly work there.
Local is still probably best, though still a mess with so many SWFs.
I imagine that there are hundreds of swf files! The only way to make it really work is to maybe reconstruct the site locally by hand, and that would need a super fan with all of the free time in the world to accomplish, even with some community help. The creators may have a complete true backup, but as far as I know, it hasn't been released.
They could pull a Newgrounds and integrate Ruffle (an open-source Flash player) directly into the site. That'd save them the headache of maintaining compatibility for all the niche features.
Homestar Runner's website still works through the use of Ruffle, an open-source and secure Flash reimplementation. The loss of the easter eggs is a big drawback, but on the other hand it does mean that you focus more on the content than constantly looking for things to click on.
Have they preserved where the sound gets increasingly out of sync with the video the longer you watch it? Because most archived versions don't have this.
I mean, really, most of Weebl's stuff should be preserved: Amazing Horse, Magical Trevor, Crabs, Telephone Dog ("Hello, this is dog!"), Russian Dancing Men, a ton of others I've forgot.
I remember I told a class group the best part of Amazing Horse was at the ending. Someone admitted to watch quite a few loops before asking if it did end indeed. Good times.
Haha, I did essentially the same thing once. I sent a friend a link a link to badger badger and told her the best part has to be the dog thing, definitely keep watching till you get to the dog...
She was like "I watched for almost 20 minutes you asshole!"
Har har. That's not entirely an insult though. Sometimes I enjoy brain-dead things. e.g. there's a newish Beavis & Butt-Head short about AI, and it's much stupider than I could have guessed, but of course I spent my time watching the whole thing.
I feels like this might be a false memory but i remember back then the song is based on the Newgrounds music visualizer where it feature badger and mushroom popping up, which is why this one is so popular back then. But then i can't find anyone mention of this so i'm just confused now.
All Your Base is the granddaddy of Internet memes and yet I can't help feeling that its specific subgenre was sublimated a bit later on, with this, the legend, the joyful, the unforgettable: Yatta!
When this was still big, a friend of mine said he saw it and really liked it. I casually said, "Be sure to watch it all the way through!"
I don't know what prompted me to say that.
A few weeks later, we were talking, and he suddenly said, "Oh, BY THE WAY....I tried to watch Badger Badger Badger all the way through..." He said watched for "a while" before he caught on.
If I tried to plan a practical joke, it would never go as well as that one did.
I was there at the very beginning. I watched the rise of today. From playing Oregon Trail on a teletype computer head in a dingy basement, trying to learn Basic, writing batch files, compiling kernels, and rpm hell.
The Badgers were amazing and mesmerizing and are truly worthy of preservation.
Chances are pretty good that it and Mr Weebl's other animations are preserved in their original format (i.e. Flash SWF files) at the free Flashpoint Archive project.
At least some of the old Jib-Jab stuff should be there also, which were some very amusing political parodies and such.
I literally bragged breathlessly about exchanging a few words with the klingon actor from the new star trek (he's a nice fellow) to my wife. Honestly, the way I lit up I wonder if that's what made her want to watch SNW then TNG, like back to back
She enjoyed SNW but TNG she is fucking loving. Her crush on riker is almost as bad as mine
I had an anthropology tutor who is a renowned Trekkie
She is mentioned by name
There was a discussion about gender fluidity and she was so happy when the example of Dax came up as an example of falling for a person can remain while their body changes
That was almost thirty years ago, but I still remember her
Core memory unlocked. Back at my first job we would prank each other by queueing that song on the lobby speakers whenever the current cashier wasn't looking. That and the cat flushing a toilet song.
Thank you for reminding me about this song. I have no idea why I found it so hysterical as a kid but it still gets a giggle out of me every time. Especially this bit for some reason:
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GardenGeek@europe.pub · 112 pts · 97d
Finally some good fucking news!
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world · 107 pts · 97d
🍄🍄
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 97d
🐍!
ceenote@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 97d
It's a 🐍!
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 97d
🦡🦡🦡🦡
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 23 pts · 97d
🐍
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 96 pts · 97d
I got my friend with that one back in the day. It was Flash so much harder to detect a loop than a video. I told him the ending was hilarious and he managed about 20 minutes of badger badger badger badger badger until he figured it out.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 97d
And on the opposite end there was the Demented Cartoon Movie, which was half an hour of nonsense and non-sequitors in an age where most animations were a few minutes long at most. Flash movies didn't have a progress bar at the bottom, so anyone you sent it to was stuck watching the whole thing hoping it would please end already.
It's physically painful to watch today. My fellow Millennials act like Gen Z invented brain rot while ignoring that we grew up with this.
ag10n@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 97d
Beavis & Butthead, Jersey Shore, Mr. Ed.
Rotten content is a product of capitalism
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 97d
I believe the phrase you're looking for is "decadent capitalist pigs" - best spoken in a faux Russian accent.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 96d
It's been like 20 years since I watched that, and it held up way better than I expected. Surprisingly good comedic timing.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 97d
Oh god, it still exists! Now we just need four head shave cut and the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny to complete the chronicle!
ieGod@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 96d
Strawberry Pancakes decremented the population count on every loop due to the end of loop shooting. If you let it run to 0 the victim would be replaced by a zombie.
rodneylives@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 97d
What really should be preserved is the entirety of Homestar Runner.
lyrial@anarchist.nexus · 15 pts · 97d
It probably has been by someone since it is all on YouTube now, and I think they have revived the site to most of the old functionality (I could be wrong, I'd need to be on PC to really check). The things that YouTube can't preserve is the stuff like the mouse over Easter eggs etc.
insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 97d
HSR is the easiest example of rasterizing Flash content being a bad idea, because there is just so much content. Even just the Sbemails compilation (1-200) is 10 hours, and for a DVD-quality video (480p) that's almost double the size of the HSR collection that I have (2000-2009 from archive org).
The site does work via Ruffle (even the menus, though some links seem broken) and they still make new ones (sbemail-210-robots, backtoawebsite) with Flash versions. There is also an old.homestarrunner so you could probably run this with a browser that still runs Flash, lacking one I'm not sure the exact URL to do so via standalone or even if the links will properly work there.
Local is still probably best, though still a mess with so many SWFs.
lyrial@anarchist.nexus · 4 pts · 97d
I imagine that there are hundreds of swf files! The only way to make it really work is to maybe reconstruct the site locally by hand, and that would need a super fan with all of the free time in the world to accomplish, even with some community help. The creators may have a complete true backup, but as far as I know, it hasn't been released.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 95d
They could pull a Newgrounds and integrate Ruffle (an open-source Flash player) directly into the site. That'd save them the headache of maintaining compatibility for all the niche features.
Edit: looks like that's exactly what they did! Which I now see @insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe mentioned in their comment, whoops!
rodneylives@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 92d
Homestar Runner's website still works through the use of Ruffle, an open-source and secure Flash reimplementation. The loss of the easter eggs is a big drawback, but on the other hand it does mean that you focus more on the content than constantly looking for things to click on.
troglodytis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 97d
The Cheat is grounded!
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 0 pts · 97d
That's wayy too much
anothermember@feddit.uk · 40 pts · 97d
Have they preserved where the sound gets increasingly out of sync with the video the longer you watch it? Because most archived versions don't have this.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 97d
Flash's terrible audio syncing makes it hilarious that the most popular indie rhythm game was built on one of Flash's direct successors.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 97d
Also not preserved - me needing to spend a weekend getting the flash plug-in to work on Netscape under Linux. Just to watch a badger loop...
Time well spent.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 36 pts · 97d
I mean, really, most of Weebl's stuff should be preserved: Amazing Horse, Magical Trevor, Crabs, Telephone Dog ("Hello, this is dog!"), Russian Dancing Men, a ton of others I've forgot.
CritFail@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 97d
See the friendly lions, only in Kenya!
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 97d
Come to Kenya, we've got lions!
iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 97d
I remember I told a class group the best part of Amazing Horse was at the ending. Someone admitted to watch quite a few loops before asking if it did end indeed. Good times.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 97d
Haha, I did essentially the same thing once. I sent a friend a link a link to badger badger and told her the best part has to be the dog thing, definitely keep watching till you get to the dog...
She was like "I watched for almost 20 minutes you asshole!"
Good times...
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 97d
I've seen things, I've seen them with my eyes
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 97d
probably not the most popular but Babies was always my favorite lol
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 97d
You forgot something? Kenya believe it?
PixellatedDave@feddit.uk · 33 pts · 97d
Ah but everyone loves magical Trevor.
kirishoru@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 97d
it’s cause the tricks that he does are ever so clever.
DigDoug@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 97d
Look at him now, disappearing a cow
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 97d
Where is the cow? Hidden right now?
BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 97d
foggy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 97d
Everyone has seen that trick was clever
Epp@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 97d
Yeah, yeah, yeah the cow is back! Back, back, back from it's magical journey.
BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 96d
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz · 25 pts · 97d
Somehow that description just doesn't do it for me. Im not sure what would, but its not this.
Deconceptualist@leminal.space · 9 pts · 97d
But that's kind of all it is? It's pretty brain-dead IMO.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 97d
Well, your opinion is catagorically wrong, but i don't hold that against you. (this is a joke)
Deconceptualist@leminal.space · 5 pts · 97d
Har har. That's not entirely an insult though. Sometimes I enjoy brain-dead things. e.g. there's a newish Beavis & Butt-Head short about AI, and it's much stupider than I could have guessed, but of course I spent my time watching the whole thing.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 97d
I feels like this might be a false memory but i remember back then the song is based on the Newgrounds music visualizer where it feature badger and mushroom popping up, which is why this one is so popular back then. But then i can't find anyone mention of this so i'm just confused now.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 97d
We're approaching some of the old memes now, the Genesis Memes...
But if you want to brush away even more layers of digital sediment and excavate a truly ancient fossil, there's All your base are belong to us.
Balinares@pawb.social · 8 pts · 97d
All Your Base is the granddaddy of Internet memes and yet I can't help feeling that its specific subgenre was sublimated a bit later on, with this, the legend, the joyful, the unforgettable: Yatta!
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 96d
Does anyone else remember Mahir, the Turkish stud? Or, am I really showing my age..?
jac@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 96d
What you say?!
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 90d
Someone set us off the bomb!
AskewLord@piefed.social · 24 pts · 97d
wish badgers were as amazing as my horse.
espentan@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 97d
I gave it a lick.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 16 pts · 97d
Did it taste just like raisins?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 97d
Sweet lemonade, mmm sweet lemonade!
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 96d
I agree though I'm slightly biassed
limelight79@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 96d
When this was still big, a friend of mine said he saw it and really liked it. I casually said, "Be sure to watch it all the way through!"
I don't know what prompted me to say that.
A few weeks later, we were talking, and he suddenly said, "Oh, BY THE WAY....I tried to watch Badger Badger Badger all the way through..." He said watched for "a while" before he caught on.
If I tried to plan a practical joke, it would never go as well as that one did.
I sent an article about this to him. He laughed.
stephen01king@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 96d
Why is this comment such a deja vu?
limelight79@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 95d
Reread it until you figure it out!
4grams@awful.systems · 21 pts · 97d
Now they need to preserve salad fingers. I’m still creeped out by it and so should future generations.
djdarren@piefed.social · 8 pts · 97d
Hubert Cumberdale, what are you doing here?
KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 97d
It's been like 20 years since I saw salad fingers and I will still sit down and think about it randomly from time to time.
4grams@awful.systems · 3 pts · 97d
Pretty much exactly the same as me, which is why I posted it :).
Bluewing@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 96d
I was there at the very beginning. I watched the rise of today. From playing Oregon Trail on a teletype computer head in a dingy basement, trying to learn Basic, writing batch files, compiling kernels, and rpm hell.
The Badgers were amazing and mesmerizing and are truly worthy of preservation.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 15 pts · 97d
Chances are pretty good that it and Mr Weebl's other animations are preserved in their original format (i.e. Flash SWF files) at the free Flashpoint Archive project.
At least some of the old Jib-Jab stuff should be there also, which were some very amusing political parodies and such.
daannii@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 97d
I remember this cat video I liked.
🎶 Cat , I'm a kitty cat, and I dance dance dance. And I dance dance dance. 🎵
And I wanted to make it my ring tone. Back when phones were just starting to let you have custom tones.
And I sent the creator an email and asked if I could have a mp3. And he responded and sent it and I was like.
"Omg. This famous guy who made this video with like 100,000 views talked to me!"
I remember bragging to my friends that this famous video creator talked to me online.
Simpler times.
Now it's 24 million views On YouTube. I'm pretty sure I messaged them on black sheep or some other video site that was popular around 2006.
https://youtu.be/SaA_cs4WZHM
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 97d
I literally bragged breathlessly about exchanging a few words with the klingon actor from the new star trek (he's a nice fellow) to my wife. Honestly, the way I lit up I wonder if that's what made her want to watch SNW then TNG, like back to back
She enjoyed SNW but TNG she is fucking loving. Her crush on riker is almost as bad as mine
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 96d
I had an anthropology tutor who is a renowned Trekkie
She is mentioned by name
There was a discussion about gender fluidity and she was so happy when the example of Dax came up as an example of falling for a person can remain while their body changes
That was almost thirty years ago, but I still remember her
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 90d
This has lived rent free in my brain for decades, and I can't say I hate it lol
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 95d
Core memory unlocked. Back at my first job we would prank each other by queueing that song on the lobby speakers whenever the current cashier wasn't looking. That and the cat flushing a toilet song.
Good times, thanks for the nostalgia trip!
belunos@lemmus.org · 13 pts · 96d
I clicked the post hoping to see the original. I did not. I'm so disappointed in you
FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 96d
Yep
My disappointment is immense, and my day is ruined
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 96d
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I-h-kdscGH8
e0qdk@reddthat.com · 11 pts · 97d
Imagine some future PugJesus type excavating our memes from the archives and reposting this 1000 years from now. 🧐️
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 97d
Aliens learn to shitpost when they start going through what humanity left behind.
Man may be temporary, but shitposts are eternal
BucketBong@p.hobo.social · 11 pts · 97d
I mixed this into a full length song and got my mate who was the DJ at the school social to play it in full, place went fucking off!
hemmes@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 97d
Honey Badger don’t give a shit!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 97d
Thank goodness. I'm full up on shit right now
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 97d
Yes! Now do Benny Lava by Buffalax.
atomicorange@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 97d
Thank you for reminding me about this song. I have no idea why I found it so hysterical as a kid but it still gets a giggle out of me every time. Especially this bit for some reason:
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 97d
Hell yeah
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 97d
They have an interview with the father of the "Charlie but my finger again!" kids, so they're adding some good historical context to it all, too.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 97d
The archive is here
https://replay.bfi.org.uk/collection/458
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth · 7 pts · 97d
Narwhal song when?
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 5 pts · 97d
As it should be.
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 97d
Neat-o.
Hilarious to think about how this video is now considered ancient history, one of the oldies.
adarza@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 97d
i must be too old for this. i remember the hampsterdance but i've never heard of this badger-based knockoff.
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 97d
Peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat!
Zorque@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 97d
Hampsterdance, you mean that flash animation that ripped off the song from the old Disney Robin Hood?
KanadrAllegria@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 97d
If you're too old for this, it's just barely! I feel like badger badger badger came about just a couple years after the hamster dance.
Edges@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 97d
knockoff seems like a stretch
Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 97d
... Did a meme from my childhood just get put in a museum
rodneylives@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 97d
If you want to have fun with an internet newbie tell them to watch to the end, it gets really good.
YaksDC@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 97d
This makes me so happy.
Bluedragon012@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 96d
As it should.