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[-] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 109 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

YouTube?! Surely you mean Flash! This came from the creator Weebl who had a ton of great Flash animations on his website. Actually I can't believe it, but the website is still up in 2024!

http://weebls-stuff.com/

Here's the badgers one specifically: http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/badgers-animated-music-video-mrweebl/

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 months ago

Flash? I remember shockwave.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

I remember Macromedia.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago

Oh shockwave games. The Internet peaked at the turn off the millennium

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[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago

Fuck... me... I forgot how terrible that was.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

I always thought shockwave was part of flash? I never understood the difference

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Adobe jumbled them up after acquiring Macromedia, which itself had previously acquired both (shockwave from Macromind, flash from Futurewave).

[-] z500@startrek.website 4 points 5 months ago

I seem to remember a competitor, I think it was called 3DO or something?

[-] Pirky@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

I remember watching this pre-youtube as well, but it was in ebaumsworld.com
It looked very different back in the day.
Another classic song is the llama song. I remember a friend showing that to me in '04.

[-] peanutyam@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Also used to muck around with Frog in a Blender and Gerbil in a Microwave Flash games all around the same time as badger badger badger….ahh memories ….when the internet was simply for nerds 😂

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

Joe Cartoon was an old internet staple. The website still exists but everything has been converted to movies, isn't quite the same without the interaction

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[-] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 5 points 5 months ago

I'm not sure if I've seen that one, I'll have to check it out, thanks!

Is it this one? http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/alpaca-animated-music-video-mrweebl/

Or maybe you were referring to the Llamas In Hats series? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBE8C175E9FAAA34A

I was always partial to the Amazing Horse one for some reason. http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/amazing-horse-animated-music-video-mrweebl/

I used to listen to it for hours and a weird quirk of Flash animations was that often the audio track and the video were milliseconds off so over time it would get very out of sync.

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Ebaumsworld is where 14- to 17-year-old me spent most of my time in those days. The forum was my introduction to internet message boards. Will always have a spot spot there.

[-] Bananigans@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago

"Kenya believe it!?"

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 40 points 5 months ago

Badger badger badger predates YouTube

[-] eldain@feddit.nl 10 points 5 months ago

We shared the albinoblacksheep link on msn. Youtube existed, it was part of the rise of shockwave flash technology websites.

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Badger by AlbinoBlackSheep (John Picking)

Publication date: 2003-09-01

https://archive.org/details/flash_badger

Youtube Founded: February 14, 2005

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

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[-] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Ah, spent so many hours of my youth on albinoblacksheep. My first introduction to Lemon Demon among many other things.

[-] Thteven@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago
[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago

Here for the senior discount?

[-] JoeKis@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago
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[-] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

That baby is 29 now

[-] vrek@programming.dev 35 points 5 months ago

Why is there only one badger and not three? Why is there no snake ?

[-] Zoot@reddthat.com 17 points 5 months ago

Where is the music? I only see the one mushroom too, we're missing like 3/4 of the picture mate

[-] eerongal@ttrpg.network 29 points 5 months ago

but this meme predates youtube, though...

[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 25 points 5 months ago

To jump on the bandwagon, OP's showing their age. I can't remember where I first saw Badger Badger, but it was definitely pre-Youtube (or at least mainstream Youtube) when Flash was all the rage

[-] RandomStickman@kbin.run 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Newgrounds maybe? Or ebaumsworld?

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[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I remember seeing flash video like "End of the World" and "Bunny Kill" series on Miniclip and then later ArmorGames. I didn't even consider how far they predated YouTube until now lol

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 18 points 5 months ago

That's Newgrounds, OP, from the times before YT.

A proper Youtube of yore is Tony vs Paul

[-] mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip 17 points 5 months ago

Alternatively: THIS IS THE ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN. ^(of ultimate destiny)!^

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 8 points 5 months ago

GOOD GUYS BAD GUYS AND EX-PLO-SIONS ^(as far as the eye can see)!^

[-] JayJLeas@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

AND ONLY ONE WILL SURVIVE ^(I wonder who it will be)!^

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago
[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

The Hampster Dance by Hampton and the Hampsters.

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[-] otter@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 months ago

Me: 2008 wasn't that long ago. It was like a decade ago.

Also me: wait... That's 16 years 😰

[-] illi@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

It's for sure older than that unfortunately.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago

Come Charlie let's go to candy mouuunnntaaain

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 7 points 5 months ago

Oh God, my anus is bleeding!

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[-] Harimau@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Anyone remember Joe Cartoon? Superfly, Lump the no legged dog, Gerbil, and so on.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Frog in a blender

Remember penguin toss?

[-] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Showing age, the first thing that came to my mind was the old show The Wind in the Willows.

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[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Did carmeldansen become a thing before or after badgerbadger mushroom?

Anybody remember dafthands, and daftbodies?

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I found basgerbadger a long time after caramelldansen. Helicopter parents of the 90s/early thous with all the time limits and website blockers a parent could easily get their hands on lmao

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago

A large part of my journey of becoming a nerd was figuring out how to disable those haha.

I had time limits, until my dad became too much of a drunk to care, and my mom was too disabled and incorrectly medicated to do anything.

Anyway, I was not introduced to carameldansen until dating an extreme weaboo girl who insisted on dressing me up as L from Death Note... whereas I found badgerbadger years earlier.

[-] Wolfwood1@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Oh yes, I remember them. Every few years I remember the Badger song and play it for a while + some other catchy old Weebl's stuff like Amazing Horse, Where can you see lions (only in Kenya)... Oh god, the more I think about them the more I remember.

Apparently Badger Badger is from 2003.

Caramelldansen (gif + music) is from 2005.

Daft Hands from 2007.

Dancing Baby is even older, from 96 / 97.

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