This is such a wild experience if you didn't grow up English-speaking. We're the same age but i only started watching English KZread content around 2015, so this feels a little bit like walking through a surreal museum of a culture I've never heard of before

@saso5096

Жыл бұрын

oh my, yes exactly! Last video of this series I knew most of the content, but _this?_ Totally different world lmao

@layne7580

Жыл бұрын

Super curious to hear what kind of content goes/has gone viral in your native language. Got any recommendations?

@jbone877

Жыл бұрын

That's a super cool perspective to have!

@mothma_am

Жыл бұрын

that's such a cool perspective! i was only born in 2006 (16), so i didn't really grow up watching a lot of old KZread, but the horrific tales have passed through many a generation to get to me. aka, my older sister terrorized me with early youtube videos when we were little.

@idiotsandwich1045

Жыл бұрын

YEAH EXACTLY I'm Italian and here youtube wasn't the biggest thing when I was little, I only started visiting it aroud 2016 and until the last couple of years i wasn't really aware of early youtube culture. I do however remember my cousing showing me an Italian dubbed version of the Annoying Orange back in 2012 or so

For all its flaws, early to mid 00s internet was a beautiful era. I about passed away when you said Numa Numa is almost 20 years old.

@LikeTheProphet

Жыл бұрын

I literally tweeted sometime last year something to the effect of “I wonder how Numa Numa Guy is doing. I hope that he’s doing well. Unless he’s a n*zi.” I’m actually relieved to know he’s a more or less normal, nice person who’s just straight chilled this whole time. I hope Gary has every good thing in life ✨

@crunchbuttsteak8741

Жыл бұрын

It was the internet in it's most pure and anarchic form. A consensual hallucination experienced by billions every day but with the knowlege that the laws and customs of cyberspace was different than meatspace I miss it. I liked when the internet was another world you had to log into with a laptop or a desktop. Not a filter built over society that you carry around with you everywhere

@willowarkan2263

Жыл бұрын

Hell I miss ad free youtube, i think their introduction of ads may have been the cause of my life long hatred of marketing. Seeing the evolution of youtube ads from very occasionally a skippable 5 sec ad to the hell we live with now. Also being able to preload videos/ having to because our internet couldn't load them fast enough, so I would have them staggered so i could watch while the others loaded.

@sciencefantastic

Жыл бұрын

*Plays aging into dust scene from Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade”

@adultdeleted

Жыл бұрын

the internet died when tiktok attacked

Dragonstea din tei is still such an iconic bop. Play it at an European college party and people will go WILD

i just want to say, as an autistic person who finds eye contact very hard even in videos, your new background is amazing. there’s so many nice things to look at while listening

@TheRatCollector

Жыл бұрын

I like looking at the butch poster lol

@leokonge4624

Жыл бұрын

Not to mention her earrings are always interesting

@ihatesansseriffonts

Жыл бұрын

I light to stare at the light reflected in her bangs

@SkulCat

Жыл бұрын

im also autistic - i find eye contact very hard but not so much with videos (unless the person is staring intensely at me), however i have a tendency to just. stare at everything. so i love her new background too lol

@WishGender

Жыл бұрын

Same though

I meet you in my dream last night. You were 2 meters tall, insulted my friends, told me my hair looked nice and proceded to buy multiple kilos of margerine from a butcher. Probably one of the most memorable dreams I will ever have.

@mcwjes

Жыл бұрын

This could be a poem.

@jbone877

Жыл бұрын

@@mcwjes it already is

@alicethemad1613

Жыл бұрын

I had a dream with Teya in it too! I went to a pool and my hair turned green after I got out so I started sobbing in a corner while everyone had a birthday party without me and Teya and her gf came over and were like “hey ur hair still looks cool, don’t cry. U wanna make a video?” And then I was in a certified strange aeons video crying with my mint green chlorine hair

@MinoriGaming

Жыл бұрын

why did the butcher have margerine?????

@rainy8702

Жыл бұрын

@@MinoriGaming as a butcher myself, I'd like to shine a line a light on the little known fact that butching causes the body to produce abnormally high amounts of margarine. Some butchers, after returning home after a long day at the butch mill, will collect the margarine and sell it for extra profit. DO NOT PURCHASE REGULAR BUTTER FROM A BUTCHER. IT IS NOT APPROVED.

Thank you Strange for repeatedly digging up core memories, and helping me figure out why my sense of humour is fucked.

@Tirgo69

Жыл бұрын

For me it was discovering YTP in 2007

@pengomode7442

Жыл бұрын

real

@SettMetabolik

Жыл бұрын

Amen brother

@dollbowz

Жыл бұрын

NO FR i just like to think we were all ahead of our time in the unhinged tumblr days, we collectively invented twitter humor

@ReptilianTeaDrinker

Жыл бұрын

Same here. LOL I used to watch these and for some reason, liked them. Now I'm just figuring out what the fuck was wrong with me back then... Or, what's wrong with me now, because I watched these when I was a teenager.

as an european, it shocked me so much that you had to explain what dragostea din tei is. this is the cultural essence of EVERY european country

@Speederzzz

Жыл бұрын

We still play the song at work!

@klisterklister2367

Жыл бұрын

I still hear it on the radio

@charleseunson2629

Жыл бұрын

One of my cooworkers is Romanian, and it was a bonding experience for him that we all knew the words xaxa

@applepatronum4934

Жыл бұрын

As a hungarian, i didn't realise why it had to be explained. It was played many times in freshman's camp last august. And i remember singing a hungarian parody of it in like, 3rd grade.

@cat_in_a_sock1948

Жыл бұрын

that and lasha tumbai

Hey fun fact about the Fred movie: Lucas Cruikshank was actually a contributing writer and director on it and had an actual vision for the story and the symbolism of Fred’s journey via the characters he meets all being reflections of facets of his personality. There’s a shot in it that was directly inspired by King of Comedy (he admitted so himself on the directors commentary) and it’s the same shot that Joker 2019 also uses from King of Comedy. Fred also has a dark, angry version of himself he speaks to for the entire movie named “Derf” that only he can see and that despises him and keeps telling him to behave normally. The ending is also super ambiguous and if you’re reading it like a genuine attempt at an art film it straight up implies that Fred entirely breaks down after years of bullying and retreats deeply into his subconscious to cope by imagining a world in which he wins at the end, but that win isn’t real and he’s actually just super depressed and sitting at home, miserable and lonely. TLDR; Fred did the Joker 2019 before the Joker 2019 was even a working thought and then sprinkled some 90’s Coming of Age and a smidgen of Fight Club, and literally no one but Lucas at the time and the 5 people who have listened to the commentary track know about it.

@akiraeatsguitarpicks491

Жыл бұрын

Where does the Expired Cow fit in all this though

@librasuperstar3779

Жыл бұрын

“I’m gonna get that cake Fred”

@mlpdisneylover

Жыл бұрын

Holy shit…

@atmosphericentry0

Жыл бұрын

Lucas Cruikshank could do Joker but could Joaquin Phoenix do Fred? Exactly.

@akiraeatsguitarpicks491

Жыл бұрын

@@atmosphericentry0 holy shit a bald joker would be kinda funny

As someone who has a brother in middle school I find his addiction to asdfmovies videos fascinating.. like I knew them for YEARS and now he CONSTANTLY references them and thinks they are the best shit on earth

@averynerdybookworm972

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!! Mt little sister quotes them and is constantly telling me vines without knowing what vine even was

@grey8288

Жыл бұрын

He should get the Muffin Time game, it's a blast to play with my friends cus we hear every card deep in our souls

@anfearaerach

Жыл бұрын

They are tho, Tomska is genuinely funny xD

@jessica23claire

Жыл бұрын

I STILL reference it and I am a 27 year old adult human

@buchelaruzit

Жыл бұрын

same with my little sister. they're right tho

the fact most US peeps discovered numa numa through memes and not through actual music charts always makes me laugh. like we were unironically vibing to this at school dances for about 2 years before the US realised it was a bop.

@LikeTheProphet

Жыл бұрын

In our defense, US pop culture has been pretty insular until maybe the mid-2010s. I was bullied pretty hard for liking j-pop, k-pop, and europop music in high school (all downloaded off limewire, burned onto CDs, and loading up the family computer with viruses of course). As a person in my 30s, it’s honestly been so nice knowing that these things are so widely available to people now, and no one has to worry about being harassed or bullied for liking what they like in the same way I did. People are still assholes obviously, but the things I got bullied for are largely accepted and celebrated now. So please be gentle with us, we all have Spotify now and can get in on the party much more quickly!

@greenhowie

Жыл бұрын

That's the feeling I had when Astronomia became known as "the coffin dance" - KaZantip memories are way more depressing these days :(

@noaw418

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I always find it so weird and funny. Dragostea Din Tei was on the radio! Everyone knew the words! We sang it outloud with my friends at recess and watched the music video on TV a million times. And to the Americans it's just that funny little internet song. 😂 Edit: I looked it up; it was number one on the Eurochart for basically the entirety of summer 2004!

@willowarkan2263

Жыл бұрын

Hell I think I heard the spanish interpretation of the song's lyrics even before seeing the numa numa guy. Only really know the memetic part of the chorus now: "pluma pluma gay", yes it was the 2000s.

@jlust6660

Жыл бұрын

I found it so funny when I met someone from the US who just didn't know it at all. To my little kid brain in 2004 that song just seemed so everywhere.

I *immediately* started smiling so hard as soon as Kitty Cat Dance came on because my husband, a 28yo hyper masculine man (he’s a truck driver for Christ sake lol), on a regular basis will just randomly be going through the house and just scream CAT! (Turns to make eye contact) I’m a kitty cat! Followed by a silly little dance, and it never fails to crack me up lol i get so much joy knowing ive implanted that deep into his brain palace

@maddieb.4282

Жыл бұрын

This is the best thing I’ve ever seen

@tinyfroghag

Жыл бұрын

@@maddieb.4282 it’s truly heartbreaking that I’ve yet to catch it on camera😭😂

@Yessica13

Жыл бұрын

My spouse and I regularly do the "Cat! I'm a kitty cat! And I dance, dance, dance / And I dance, dance,dance" to each other.

Old guy here: Newgrounds was a lot more than YT before YT. It was memes and macros and thousands of flash games and chat rooms and message boards and everything else internet-culture. It pretty much was one of THE places you went when you were online, why you were in the first place, a destination where you could spend hours. Point being, when something went viral on newgrounds, it reached EVERYBODY. Good video :)

@ruedelta

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, imagine if she picks up on the whole stickman fight scene stuff.

@kaitlinroberts1792

Жыл бұрын

​@@ruedelta That just unlocked a memory, thank you

@bishielurfer

Жыл бұрын

I spent hours on newgrounds as a kid and young teen and have so many great memories of it (I was so happy when the Henry stickman games got put on steam because it was really sad losing a lot of those games to the death of flash). I loved the flash animations especially. To this day I quote some of them (aside from the ones referenced here, I also frequently reference "Kerrigan's Big Invention" and the Final Fantasy song). But oooh my god that site had some inappropriate games 😅

@Ellie-Fisher

Жыл бұрын

@@ruedelta i know this isn't newgrounds, but remember pivot animations? those were great

@Tehbestestevasss

11 ай бұрын

If we're gonna talk about Newgrounds, we gotta talk about the king of all videos on the site... The Ultimate Showdown (of ultimate destiny). I can still sing that whole song word for word to this day. Such a core memory

as a trash child of the 2010s i can confirm that we had the peak of viral videos

@adamlambboy8332

Жыл бұрын

Salad fingers and Charlie the Unicorn for LIFEEE

@little_flitter

Жыл бұрын

@@adamlambboy8332 did you see the finale of Charlie the unicorn?

@briconsidine4726

Жыл бұрын

@J Prez Charlie the Unicorn is also pre-2010s

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is a legit work of artistic genius.

@zigzagzoom369

Жыл бұрын

It got a tv show now! It's airing in channel 4 over here in the uk

Watching that opening of Salad Fingers reminded me of being oddly fixated on the video at like, age 11 and quoting it everywhere like a little meme freak. I remember, multiple times, saying the "orgasmic" line out loud completely unaware of how uncomfortable it made the adults around me. Awesome vid as always, Strange!

@SkulCat

Жыл бұрын

gonna be honest here that is terrifying

I was an intensely online and unsupervised internet access child, so I remember showing all of these videos to my friends and leaving very poorly-written comments about how cool they were... It would be SO COOL if you could cover more 2000s web content. Homestar Runner, the hamsterdance, maybe even some old AMVs... What an era.

@ravenwolfkittyface1802

Жыл бұрын

Oh man homestar runner. The background videos of my childhood.

@BigGayIncorporated

Жыл бұрын

"hamster dance"... I thought I repressed that memory...

@kerycktotebag8164

Жыл бұрын

homestar runner is still going

@spacebunsarah

Жыл бұрын

Omg AMVs and YTMNDs.

@ifeeltiredsleepy

Жыл бұрын

The Hamster Dance is technically a 1990s internet meme.

Honestly, the two deep dive videos and just thinking about viral content in the 2010's explains why Millenial and Gen Z humor is the way it is better then any article ever could

@ReptilianTeaDrinker

Жыл бұрын

It should be in the history books, tbh. lol It's just pages upon pages of info on old YT videos and an explanation on why Millenials and Gen Z have the most unhinged humour. XD Though, the boomers will never understand us, no matter what we do. :'(

If you ever have 4 hours to spare, Quinton Reviews' deep dive into the Fred empire is incredible and so well done, it's such a thorough exploration and stays interesting the entire time?? You somehow end up with a weird soft spot for Fred

@chatnoir9038

Жыл бұрын

Quinton has the power to make anything interesting

@CheersMyDudes

Жыл бұрын

He legit gets me through my working days some days. Mike’s Mic is another if you also enjoy long ass recaps of cheesy shit like pretty little liars and glee

@seekerstheshy3842

Жыл бұрын

dude that video was so good

@flamingmonkeyheads

Жыл бұрын

quinton has set a new standard i cant listen to anybody talk about icarly or victorious if they aren't him

@justinwatson1510

Жыл бұрын

I sincerely love his videos, despite the fact that I couldn't care less about / have never seen the source material for most of the topics he covers.

so wild to see you talk about tomska, the only youtuber i've been following since the 2000s and still adore as easily one of the most honest, self aware and imo always one of the funniest people on the platform, right before casually cutting to annoying orange, something i had so deeply repressed and that ignites such rage in me

Honorable mention to "they're taking the hobbits to isengard" along with a Swedish song about Aragorn smelling like dead bodies and potatoes. They were my favorite of the 2000ths. Also "Sagan om de bannlysta" for any other swedish 00"s lotr meme lovers out there...

@kerycktotebag8164

Жыл бұрын

what about the swedish song about sitting on ventrilo (an instant messenger) talking to ppl on your headset playing Defense of the Ancients "basshunter" is the artist

@labgrownhumanbrain

Жыл бұрын

sagan om ändringen is another funny swedish 00's lotr thing its too bad most of the original videos got deleted

@thatboringone7851

Жыл бұрын

Reading this unlocked some Jar of Dirt memories I was not prepared to remember.

@yuvalinbar1921

Жыл бұрын

Definitely! They're Taking The Hobbits To Isengard and Why Is The Rum Gone are still going strong. Especially now with Rings Of Power, "Tell me where is Gandalf, for I much desire to speak with him" is once again amazing meme content

@jmckenzie962

Жыл бұрын

OH MY GOD yes the hobbits to isengard. I genuinely forgot that was a thing until I read this comment, that takes my brain RIGHT back to 2008

Tomska is still my favourite youtuber, and surprisingly nice in person too. Met him this year at a con and he had like ten minute+ chats with everyone that queued for the meet up.

@Cooliscoolandstuff

Жыл бұрын

i love tom so much, such a genuine and funny guy. i hope he comes to australia someday so i can meet him too

Ah, the Numa Numa song - here in Europe the song itself was actually a pretty huge hit internationally way before it became an internet meme. It was weird to discover that in America it was always associated with that youtube video because i remembered it being just EVERYWHERE for about a year before that

@galaxymew5138

Жыл бұрын

I've always remembered it vaguely from the meme but honestly, the song is still a banger

@seauouiaiouieaux546

Жыл бұрын

I was in a nightclub the other day and everyone went mental when Dragostea Din Tei came on. It's so wild that a lot of Americans only think of it as a meme and not the Europop banger it has always been

It's interesting to see which of these ever arrived in my German sphere of early KZread. For example the asdf movies were highly popular here, because there was a German guy making translations of them. To me, he just was the guy for asdf content, it wasn't until much later that I learned that asdf movies originally were in English, and weren't just popular in our class, but a viral video a lot of people knew.

@Vickyeverythingelsewastaken

Жыл бұрын

Back when Coldmirrors Harry Potter-Parodies weren't age restricted yet.

@Nimoes_archive

Жыл бұрын

I grew up in the UK and moved to Germany around age 14 in 2013, now my partner is German and I love to discuss early 2000's KZread with them and see what they know and what they don't. @Vicky OMG I feel so blessed that my friends introduced me to the Coldmirror Harry Potter parodies and I am so sad that I can't share them with my friends from the UK cause of the language barrier. I feel like they are heavily missing out, that woman is a LEGEND. XD

Can't believe Peanut Butter Jelly Time still hasn't been mentioned yet. That video is, no joke, 20 years old now - it was originally posted in 2002 and was popular enough by 2005 that it was referenced in an episode of Family Guy, all before KZread even entered the scene. I realize as I'm saying this that it's probably another Star Wars Kid situation where it's too old to even be considered an early KZread viral video since it was already popular long before KZread was even created, but I still really wanna mention it since a) it was one of the first things I remember seeing on the internet so it'll always have a special place in my heart and b) the band that made the actual Peanut Butter Jelly Time _song_ - the Buckwheat Boyz - has an absolutely fucking buckwild story.

I remember actively avoiding the annoying orange on KZread back then. It was terrible when my friend showed up to school with the backpack key-chain plush that talks when struck

this video made me realize that Fred was my introduction to the “unreliable narrator” trope and is why I love it so much 😅

Some other viral videos from the 2000s I remember that you didn’t talk about are “Do You Like Waffles?” and “The Yes Dance/Let’s Do the Fork in the Garbage Disposal,” the latter of which is one of my favorites!

@RisingSunfish

Жыл бұрын

I discovered Parry Gripp in college, and only learned like a month ago that he did “Do You Like Waffles?” and it felt like discovering an ancient conspiracy. I’d be interested in specifically a comparison video between him and Weebls, but I understand if that’s not really Strange’s speed lol

@BigGayIncorporated

Жыл бұрын

I found a video of the full performance of that song and it fucking sent me, I felt like I'd found a priceless artifact.

@Aeroductile1

Жыл бұрын

the yes dance is a proper blast from the past, such a classic

@bishielurfer

Жыл бұрын

Oh my god I had completely forgotten the garbage disposal dance, but the second I read those words it came flooding back to me

Tom Ridgewell is the nicest guy, I went to a fan meet of his when I was in high school and met him at several comic cons since and he's just a really lovely and genuine person! I'm glad the Internet has been kind to him

But what you don't know is that his real name is Strange Aeons....

@hannahfanning9585

Жыл бұрын

I swear this joke will be on every one of her uploads now XD

@Tb40556

Жыл бұрын

I always check the replies to these comments, looking for panicked subs saying they didn’t know Teya uses he/him pronouns 😂

@BiratesoftheCaribbean

Жыл бұрын

I think about this everyday

@YumLemmingKebabs

Жыл бұрын

I understood that reference.

@blueismylove3128

Жыл бұрын

Someone explain the joke to me please.

The Fred videos always had a kind of discomforting loneliness that I found addicting when I was younger. I often wondered if I was supposed to believe that Fred was lying for attention, which is tragic.

@vsGoliath96

Жыл бұрын

People don't give Lucas Cruikshank enough credit for what he was trying to pull off with Fred.

This is a scary throwback for me. As a 2000s kid, I'm very familiar with a lot of these videos and the fact I get to have a full history lesson "behind the memes" is actually phenomenal. Can't wait for the 2010s! So much has happened...

Since spanish is my first language, I wanted to add that the numa numa song here sounded like "pluma pluma gay" (pluma means feather, and was also a term to refer to femme gays), so it was used as a joke in parties but also reclaimed by the gay community and I think that's beautiful.

Also I am seeing a disturbing trend where the overwhelming majority of our beloved viral videos have tragic trajectories...like, you'd think that videos from the mid 2000s are just some RANDOM internet memes, but no we cannot have NICE THINGS.

It's so weird hearing people talk about the environment of my childhood in this way lmao

@LikeTheProphet

Жыл бұрын

For me, it’s the environment of my adolescence. 😅 listening to young people talk about it makes me excited for people to know about my weird sense of humor as a teenager tbh. I was mercilessly bullied for my bizarre humor and nerdy interests in middle and high school, which was largely influenced by internet culture. and I’m just really excited that these things won’t get people bullied anymore! But also, this makes me ever so slightly want to shrivel into dust and blow away in the wind haha.

@clsisman

Жыл бұрын

@@LikeTheProphet big same

@SavvyNitro

Жыл бұрын

same like it’s some ancient time but to me feels like yesterday lol

Growing up in Canada, I had no idea Bananaphone was a meme - we used to listen to it all the time in the car as kids, along with Raffi's other songs. Possibly that's why Teya is confused about this, because Raffi is Canadian.

@kaitlinroberts1792

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for saying this! I'm canadian as well and I just knew it, I didn't consider it a meme. I thought we were all nostalgic for it

This feels very weird if you grew up in a different country. I wonder what it would be like to explain my countries early 2000s meme culture

@merrittanimation7721

Жыл бұрын

Most likely very surreal

@ianisblue

Жыл бұрын

@@merrittanimation7721 probably

Oh lord the Kitty Cat Dance. The way you described your feelings on it spoke to me. I was 14 when it came out and to this day I still hear it in my head all the dang time.

@mrflibble3226

Жыл бұрын

I'm 44 & it pops into my head every now & then.

@Adamant_Adam

Жыл бұрын

I feel like a baby xD I was born in '02. I remember my uncle (just 5 years older than me) and I begging my mom to put it on the computer in the good old days of '06/'07.

newgrounds was one of the big pre-youtube youtubes, but there was also albinoblacksheep and ebaumsworld, which were more general, whereas newgrounds was mostly for flash animation and games. individual content creators often had their own sites, too, and people would actually go to them - like for homestar runner, weebl's stuff, foamy the squirrel, realultimatepower, etc.

@LikeTheProphet

Жыл бұрын

AlbinoBlackSheep was mostly what my friends and I used! So many great flash-animated video memories 🥺

@kenna176

Жыл бұрын

Albinoblacksheep defined my middle school career.

@Dreamachineries

Жыл бұрын

omg, Foamy the squirrel, I watched that obsessively lmao

@petrichorbones

Жыл бұрын

OH ok i think you just solved a question i had for myself. i was wondering how i discovered klayworld outside of youtube esp bc i didnt start using youtube til 2007 or 8 (im baby) and its the only early 00s video series i watched outside of youtube. i think my dad introduced the videos to my brother and i now probably through ebaumsworld bc i played games on that video as a kid. didnt remember it had videos too lmaoo ok this theory makes sense to me

@ry291

Жыл бұрын

Thinking of AlbinoBlackSheep reminds me of AmishDonkey too, don't hear it mentioned much

Oh God, I remember the Bananaphone + Potter Puppet Pals crossover back in the day, lol. My friends were also obsessed with Salad Fingers, strangely I think teen girls liked Salad Fingers better than the boys, at least from my experience, but as a baby nerd gay in highschool with a gaggle of nerdy female friends, maybe it just felt that way.

I feel like covering all the viral videos from the 2010s would be next to impossible considering the amount of viral content just grows exponentially the closer you get to 2020

As a very long time Tomska fan I honestly forgot that ASDF was what propelled him into the mainstream as I first saw his content through Eddsworld then later found his channel

@Banana_D

Жыл бұрын

if you were REALLY a Tomska fan you'd know asdf is spelt entirely underlined... smh my head🙄🙄🙄(/s)

@georgecooper9766

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I didn't realise he was the same guy for quite a while. I knew ASDF movies and then came across some of his live skits later on and took me a long time to put them together. (and also to notice that a lot of the voices are famous youtubers lol)

@ha_des

Жыл бұрын

through WGAT

@anfearaerach

Жыл бұрын

For me it started with warrior cats meme videos with tomska audio.... On to the first videos he released xD

@Axqu7227

Жыл бұрын

I was an early tomska fan too! I found him through eddsworld and my edgy middle school self thought he was the coolest one. I fell off the fan train when he had his (extremely public and ugly) mental breakdown after Edd passed, but I genuinely love his newer content more than I ever liked him as a kid. The dude’s come a long way and still has an edgy sense of humor but it’s less mean spirited now.

Absolutely cannot forgot how Salad Fingers deeply ensnared me and my friend group. It was creepy, like creepypastas, and had so much potential for fan theories before FNAF. Also I remember it being weirdly popular with folks with fetishes for gore and seeing some general sexual fixation around Salad Fingers.

@tzatwar

Жыл бұрын

this came unsurprising cuz of salad fingers himself's weird almost sexual fixation on inanimate objects & dead things

@Hatsune-Miku_Fan

Жыл бұрын

@@tzatwar and that prickly plant that irritated his nipple

@midsommarvvitch7182

Жыл бұрын

i went to a horror convention a few years ago and some very tall person was dressed up as salad fingers and i genuinely couldn't look up from the ground until they passed. it still terrifies me to this day

@PageShearling

Жыл бұрын

@@midsommarvvitch7182 He's canonically 6'6" you know.

The asdf series became widely known in Germany when it was dubbed around the same time the original came out. Not a whole lot of Germans know the "I like trains" catchphrase but if you mention the translation „Ich mag Züge“ they will know exactly where that’s from. I just think it‘s really interesting how much english/american KZread content was dubbed by German creators and how much they actually influenced what Germans consumed back then on KZread

@vermillion6159

Жыл бұрын

I feel like it's because the general mainstream/pop culture of Germany has often overlapped with the American one for the last ~50 years so I can see why it was so popular here. The simplicity of the jokes helps that it doesn't get lost in translation as well, taking the reverse example, something like Coldmirror's Harry Potter parodies probably wouldn't work that well in English because it's slightly more "personalized"? I don't really know how to phrase it and I might be mistaken, but you get what I mean

@sirius1770

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah i remember we had our own translation of asdf movies in finnish too

Tomska and the yogscast have been some of the youtubers I've followed since the old days of youtube

@some_condiment

Жыл бұрын

"WHY IS THE BELT BELOW HIS ASS"

@vsGoliath96

Жыл бұрын

Hey now, Yogscast is still 2010's! We gotta go even further beyond!

Thank you Strange for the nostalgia! David Firth of Salad Fingers was such a tangible piece of my childhood. I completely fell down that rabbit hole in 5th grade, definitely a part of that "cult following." For anyone interested in more, his series "The News Hasn't Happened Yet" goes crazy- it's hilarious, surprisingly topical, and not *very* gory. (btw I've also made a video on his wack ass series "Spoilsbury Toastboy")

@irradiated_woman8016

Жыл бұрын

Ah, david firth. I adore the spoilsberry toast boy series and the "take this pill" videos.

@mirawinemiller1081

Жыл бұрын

I would also recommend “cream”

@yungtessie

Жыл бұрын

@@mirawinemiller1081 cream is elite 👌🏻

@WellWoopdidoo

Жыл бұрын

I think about The Child that Smelt Funny monthly, at least. Spines in brine are just so bloody cheap.

@Axqu7227

Жыл бұрын

Dog of Man is one that nobody knows about but is one of my favorites!

You talking about Fred was like a spiritual freewrite session. Like it just started and then all of a sudden you had all these fully formed opinions

The Evolution Of Dance guy came and spoke at the university in my home town a little bit after he got big online. My friends and I went and saw him, and tho I don't remember much of what he talked about I do remember having a good time. I grew up having to listen and see a whole bunch of motivational speakers due to my mom being in Amway, and he was the only one who came across as not having an agenda. He just seemed like a nice guy who wanted to encourage people.

Gotta appreciate that Lucas went from Fred to doing water park reviews with his brother and writing a song called "Shargay Evans."

"The Evolution Of Dance" was the "Moses parting the sea" moment of KZread, you HAD to be there.

i once watched the fred movie with a friend as a young’n. we had never heard of fred before, nor did we know he was famous. the lack of context made it quite haunting.

@alinkadebruin3455

Жыл бұрын

Dude, me and two friends watched it during a sleepover when I was like 11 and none of us knew who he was either. We were pulling an all nighter and that shit was surreal af, especially since we found and watched a few of his KZread videos right after and since we watched random ones out of order nothing made sense. All I remember is that John Cena was his father???

@Adamant_Adam

Жыл бұрын

I remember scrolling through cable one day and seeing the Fred movie (it was just the one back then) on Nick. I remembered him, and was shocked to see how popular he'd gotten that he even had a movie. I didnt watch his youtube vids much, but I remember loving the movies so much I'd replay them one after the other. (The 3rd was low-key my favorite, as cringe as it was.) Definitely a good time but not one I'd return to lmao

@everestlol4309

Жыл бұрын

same lmao

Man, Fred was dope. Watching that as a kid was such a trip how that guy managed to create such an engaging universe with honestly really good storytelling. Yea the screaming was a lot but for awkward hyperactive 12yr olds it was great content with an uncanny amount of depth. The neighbourhood squirrels maaaaaan. That, salad fingers, and the annoying orange is fond memories for sure x

I am so happy you talked about asdfmovie because I will try to reference or talk about with people now and I always felt crazy because no one ever knew what I was talking about. Also maybe it was just me and my school but Parry Gripp songs were iconic to me in 2010s. I know raining tacos is his most popular song although neon pegasus lives rent free in my brain. same with boogie boogie hedgehog but that was a 2000s song.

@steampunk-llama

Жыл бұрын

Parry Gripps iPhone song being animated on Flipnote Studio had a chokehold on kid me

my favorite thing about learning internet history like this is discovering the context behind shit i remember from childhood but only in, like, an adjacent way. i only knew Fred as a kid from 1. that episode of iCarly, and 2. my friend in elementary school who wanted to be like him SO bad. i never knew where he... came from until a couple years ago. and now i can go back and see the cultural phenomenon that took place around him. it's so crazy.

@bananasplitlady3045

Жыл бұрын

Same here, I only ever saw commercials for the movies on Nickelodeon and GASPED when I found out where it all started

I can't believe Shia LaBeouf (the original version which doesn't continue with the "wait, he isn't dead!") is from 2012. I could have sworn I remembered watching it on Albino Blacksheep back when I was still in school

@LikeTheProphet

Жыл бұрын

If I’ve learned anything being a constant and proud citizen of the internet for the last 22 years, it’s that time is immaterial here, and becomes more immaterial by the day. 🌀

@the_pipster

Жыл бұрын

i mean it makes sense, because the guy who made it was rob cantor and that was about the time that tally hall (the band he was in) went on "hiatus"

I feel like the 2010's one is going to have way more memories for me than these ones because I was born in 2002, you just mentioning how animals eat their food unlocked so many memories

The excitement I felt when I saw asdfmovie in the thumbnail is indescribable. Anytime I see it mentioned outside of my little Tomska fan corner of the internet I get so happy lol. I feel like Tomska nowadays doesn’t get talked about nearly as much as he should, his content is stil great and he as a person is just a genuinely good guy, his pride shirts where charity shirts that he paid lgbt+ artists to design then doubled any profit made of the shirts and donated it all all to charity.

The trauma… i thought I had outlived it… but it has risen from the ashes and returned to haunt me

@sonofaspyder3000

Жыл бұрын

From which video Or is it just all of them

idk how fred got like three movies and a whole SERIES but i hope that man is set for life. he has contributed too much to the culture and has gotten too little recognition

@lexismith8325

Жыл бұрын

Lucas has a KZread channel!

@crptpyr

Жыл бұрын

lucas cruikshank has a KZread channel (just under his irl name iirc, so searching that should bring it up) he's actually a pretty cool guy he's also gay which means Fred is now an LGBT icon

@davidkonevky7372

Жыл бұрын

He has a channel, it's called Lucas

@davidkonevky7372

Жыл бұрын

@@crptpyr Judy was actually a man this whole time and we never knew

@pickle6096

Жыл бұрын

Fred from an artistic standpoint is insanely deep and so interesting. I still unironically love fred

For me “taking the hobbits to Isengard “ is truly the most iconic 2000’s KZread video.

29:02 Woah, brain blast, you’re right. One of the videos I found memorably hilarious was Fred auditioning or getting vocal lessons and he made up his own song for the occasion, complete with a piano accompaniment, about witnessing a murder. Randum XD and loud = funny comedy were my bag (hell, it still is) and I didn’t really realize how disturbing that would be in-universe. How dare you make me want to watch Fred for the lore.

I was too young to understand most of the 2000's virals. But oh boy the 2010's are going to be a nostalgia train, literally my whole teens and I honestly can't wait.

potter puppet pals just reminds me that you need to do a video on neil cicierega and how he somehow shaped people entire youtube with so much of his stuff, like his more recent work on gravity falls and the song two trucks, potter puppet pals, the ultimate showdown of ultimate history, brodyquest, ariel needs legs, the mouth albums (strange name but oh well) and honestly probably more that i just dont remember

@the_pipster

Жыл бұрын

if you have ever been on the internet, you have probably seen something made by neil whether you realize it or not

@BigGayIncorporated

Жыл бұрын

That one man alone has shaped SO much of the foundation of internet culture, it's fucking wild.

I grew up in the town next to where the creator of Salad Fingers lived. He was a pretty active local DJ and a Tesco (basically Walmart), that has since been knocked down, had a Salad Fingers mural spray painted on the back of it near the bins

Shout-out to Salad Fingers for giving 6-year-old me nightmares. Scared me off the internet aside from flash games, which kept me from falling down the alt-right rabbit hole that I would have definitely ended up in. Edit: Oh god Annoying Orange was mentioned, I am cringing at elementary school me who got obsessed with the series. I had a full-on parasocial relationship with DaneBoe and watched his Plants Vs. Zombies let's plays like 5 times over. Poor, poor child me...

when i was a kid, i had severe behavioural problems. i would scream, cry, throw and break things, hit people and myself in meltdowns, well up to the age of 10 or 11. whenever my parents put on the kitty cat dance video, though, genuinely it was like a switch was flipped and i would just calm down and watch it.

@ha_des

Жыл бұрын

the autistic fixation was too powerful

I feel like 'bananaphone' is probably best described as a meme song that served as the basis for many different videos that each lacked the impact to become true viral videos. still, they accumulate to turn the song itself into a sizable meme. I just realized I've been singing this song to myself for years and I've not seen any of these videos lol. I think that's speaks to how much people were listening to and singing this song back in the day.

as a child i had a hermitcrab and i named him fred and he was so glorious and whimsical and he lived for like 9 months before succumbing to having a 7 year old owner with no heat lamp

I went through an annoying orange hyperfixation when I was around 10 because me and my sister just randomly picked out a dvd of the high fructose adventures of the annoying orange for a plane trip and then proceeded to watch it over and over again for weeks. My mom HATED it.

In 4th grade my best friend moved to my hometown from australia and went as salad fingers for Halloween and that honestly solidified us as being best friends forever, it’s wild to see the effects of the internet on people worldwide and our shared nostalgia ❤

Shane Dawson’s obsession with Fred was so creepy. Shane said on a podcast that he thought Lucas Crookshank was trying to hook up with him while Lucas was still a minor.

@mrflibble3226

Жыл бұрын

Shane Dawson is so creepy. Full stop.

@vsGoliath96

Жыл бұрын

I dunno, I've kind of reached this point where I don't trust anything Shane Dawson says. Bad vibes all around.

@gaywalllbiter

Жыл бұрын

Ew. I watched both of them as a kid and this is so disgusting to think about, Fred was 15 to 16 in most of his videos.. Shane also made gross comments about his cat and about willow when she was literally 12 or 13

There are so many videos that I keep thinking are older than they actually are. I’m excited for the 2010s video! The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger and Dumb Ways to Die had such a death grip on my class’s sense of humor.

i have had the melody of "bananaphone" stuck in my head for over 20 years. almost my entire existence has been plagued by that melody and that snippet of lyrics "ring ring ring ring ring ring ring ring bAnAnApHoNe" .... until now i couldn't fully remember where i'd learned it. thank you for helping me recall where i gained this curse

Another old 2000's series that I still love to this day in RvB. I know it started on other websites, but its still the series I think of when I think of a "KZread show". Just some normal dudes recording their TV and talking on their phones created an 18 season long epic. That first episode was so insanely widespread on early YT with quotes that are still memorable like "You ever wonder why we're here"

@eryaviel

Жыл бұрын

Oh lord, I remember quoting Red vs. Blue SO MUCH back in the day. "What in Sam Hell is a puma?!"

@mrclean7164

Жыл бұрын

Ahhh classic

@mrclean7164

Жыл бұрын

You got me wanting to go back and rewatch it!

@TayDoesStuff

Жыл бұрын

I wish rooster teeth hadn't gone so corporate. :(

@kandikidzora

Жыл бұрын

I still find ways to quote RvB no joke daily and it breaks my heart when people don’t get it, or get stupid excited when someone can add to the quote!

I personally forced well over 20 people to watch the Bananaphone driving you crazy video on NewGrounds in the early 2000's. I'm wanted in 23 states.

I feel like the annoying orange is the first example of a viral video that went viral not because people actually wanted to watch it but because people wanted to inflict it on other people. The idea was never going to be successful outside of youtube because nobody willingly watched the annoying orange.

I honestly think my love for horror, specifically very creepy psychological horror, stems from videos like Salad Fingers and Don't Hug Me I'm Scared. Those were my childhood, and then I grew to like other media and video games in the horror genre.

It's a shame you didn't mention how the creator of the annoying orange tried to release a remastered version of the original video exclusively as a NFT, only for it to fail horribly with backlash and the fact that people were able to download the video without buying it. He even deleted the tweets about it.

My boyfriend sings banana phone every time we go to karaoke. If he’s drunk enough he will even shove a banana in his back pocket and pull it out when he sings. He’s been doing it for years. I love that man.

@gaywalllbiter

Жыл бұрын

Stop this is so cute

17:03 - 17:09 might trigger photosensitive seizures to some viewers so might be good to add a warning 🙏🙏🙏

I watched annoying orange unironically as a kid. My brother showed it to me and I thought it was hilarious. A few years ago I was feeling nostalgic so I went back to watch it and I was shocked to see there were recent videos.

You do need to do a whole video about the 2010s memes and include the pineapple pen song because no one ever had me watch a viral video until then.

I don't know when I first stumbled upon Fred but seeing his face unlocked a memory I didn't know I had 😂

"Unsettling" is definitely the word for Salad Fingers. The background music is even called "Beware The Friendly Stranger".

Spanish-speaker here, it's kinda funny cuz we know the Numa Numa song mainly because some people made a whole cover because the iconic phrase sounded very similar to ''fiesta fiesta, pluma pluma gay'' (pluma means feather in Spanish). After watching it again, I think it aged very well

Wow, thanks for unlocking the memory of being in middle school, seeing some guys from our class screwing around with a video platform they called "youtube" on a school computer, and shyly asking my friends, "hey, what's... a youtube?" xD I actually... Didn't realize it was a brand new platform back then!

Dragostea Din Tei is still on my playlist to this day. That song is a freaking bop.

@lil_weasel219

Жыл бұрын

dragostea

@eryaviel

Жыл бұрын

@@lil_weasel219 thank you! Edited my comment :)

These videos are actually amazing you seem like a person I would be friends with

the kitty cat dance and this was the first youtube video i ever saw, in a friend's basement and it was a hallmark for the future to me

This is your reminder that the library also does audiobooks, Libby is my fave

This is bringing up so many repressed memories

when you metioned annoying orange i died, i still remmeber so many of the song covers 😭

I come back to asdfmovie, laser collection, and llamas with hats every so often. For the nostalgia

I adore your stuff about old YT snd Tumblr. It's so nostalgic. Reminds me when I was kid/teenager

I had pretty much blocked out Annoying Orange from my memory, but that thumbnail just brought back all those memories. Thanks. I *really* wanted that. /s

I found out about ASDF movie through flipnote on the DS… someone had redrawn it and I thought the pie flavoured pie was the funniest thing ever… Also controversial but I think the Fred movie is not actually a bad film

Hey Strange! I’ve never commented on your videos before but I just wanted to let you know that I enjoy them a lot, for me they hit a sweet spot between interesting & entertaining and … calm? Idk how to say it better, but the mix of that makes my brain very happy and sometimes I watch several of your videos in a row, so thank you for making them ❤

I feel ancient lol 👵. Not only do I remember watching almost all of these when they were new, I remember watching just about all of the videos that have uploads predating KZread on either the original site or one of those sites that stole content from around the web back in the day like eBaum's World. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

@clsisman

Жыл бұрын

I know, there’s nothing like being at the top end of a youtuber’s audience age-wise. Strange: The numa numa guy video- Me: Ah yes, it came out when I was in high school about 8 years ago Strange: -which is approaching it’s 20th anniversary. 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

@LikeTheProphet

Жыл бұрын

Time is coming for us ❤️

@DominiqueNoel0

Жыл бұрын

Yeah eBaum's World is where I found all of these back in the days.

Gun to head, I'd say The Newgrounds animation for Bananaphone was 100% viral. I wonder if it was because of the kind of social circles I was in. But - I'd say it was more popular via Newgrounds

Strange, never stop making these videos. You are very talented in bringing us back to the good ol times, and you can disect other topics so well too. Keep it up!

The annoying orange video came out when I was 5. I vividly remember my dad laughing his ass off and calling me to the computer room to watch it with him lol