I prefer to call this phenomenon "your first Neil cicerega song isn't really your first Neil cicerega song"

@alchemispark7751

3 жыл бұрын

There is a reason this comment didnt have any comments, and it's because he's not wrong

@KainoPhoeno

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@dougyuck

3 жыл бұрын

what's in the toaster

@stupidvarietyhour

3 жыл бұрын

"Fenomenom" phenomenon

@ivy.catto700

3 жыл бұрын

Can confirm, I actually listened to my trains before getting into LD

honestly if someone told me neil cicierega handmade every single meme, at this point id just believe them

@KainoPhoeno

3 жыл бұрын

If u told me Neil founded my elementary school I’d believe them like “ yea this might as well happen”

@pipevinethehybrid7049

Жыл бұрын

If someone told me I was actually adopted my real father was Neil cecierega i’d be like yeah that tracks

"how neil cicierega gave me childhood trauma"

Neil is the collective father of every single person on the entire internet

@blakethesnake6686

3 жыл бұрын

the only thing you can strive to be on the internet is somebody who doesn't steal neil's medicine (the stuff he takes to keep his hair)

@BexOrRebekah

3 жыл бұрын

@@blakethesnake6686 It'll be tough, but I think I can restrain myself from stealing it and selling it on the streets becuade I care if he loses his hair

@adp7583

3 жыл бұрын

omg your top comment haha hi

@BexOrRebekah

3 жыл бұрын

@@adp7583 whoa I'm top comment? I had no idea hHa

@DmitriDmitri

3 жыл бұрын

"As your father I expressly forbid it" -Neil Ciceriega AKA lemon demon

Neil Cicierega is at the absolute CORE of the internet. He's like. The heart of this entire operation. It's kind of incredible how much reach a single person has, even if you don't realize they're the one behind the scenes.

@UltraStorm

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah

Neil Cicierega is one of the most famous people that no one knows and it saddens me. He has had such an impact on so many people, and they never realised it was him.

@pacotaco1246

2 жыл бұрын

"when you do something right, it will be as if you didn't do anything at all" - God Cicierega

@andrewstewart1464

Жыл бұрын

The real eighth wonder.

Every perception of Neil Cicierega is personalized

@Crimson_Dusk

3 жыл бұрын

We all have our own traumatizing memories of Neil's content

@meowimg

3 жыл бұрын

"do not research this"

@Otra_Chica_de_Internet

2 жыл бұрын

Every perception of anything is personalized, if you really think about it

@andreahardin7521

2 жыл бұрын

@@Otra_Chica_de_Internet yeah- it is! 😄😄

@rottingstarz

2 жыл бұрын

it would be so cool if neil was real

Neil's work is weird. With other people, you find their work because you actively seek it out. With Neil's work, it seeks out you. I find it so funny how everyone seems to have a similar experience with it.

@testofplaces

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@pacotaco1246

2 жыл бұрын

his work is like that island from A Series of Unfortunate Events

@thesilly11409

6 ай бұрын

in one of his interviews he's asked how to find his youtube channel, and he said 'just go on the internet, you'll find me eventually'

Neil Cicierega: Internet Person

@charliguzman8363

3 жыл бұрын

Niel Cicierega: Internet G O D

i’ve heard neil cicierega’s name pronounced so many different ways and it’s hilarious

@trixabellian

3 жыл бұрын

Nelson Candlelight,,,,,

@KainoPhoeno

3 жыл бұрын

Neon rice crispy treats

@strideryourself

3 жыл бұрын

nail ceciregan

@KainoPhoeno

3 жыл бұрын

@@strideryourself neoclassicism

@catlemonical3409

3 жыл бұрын

bro, neal sissy reagan

Everyone knows him but not everyone knows that they know him

@SomeYouTubeTraveler

3 жыл бұрын

He's like Warwick Davis, or Jim Cummings. They're in everything, you recognize their voice, you've grown up with their omnipresence in everything you love, and yet you don't know their name until one day either you look it up or someone points it out to you.

me: *listens to one lemon demon song* also me: *this video*

@Eveoriginalsinner

3 жыл бұрын

Me 💀💀💀

@idk-lq2es

3 жыл бұрын

Y e s

@peanut05

2 жыл бұрын

it might not even be your first lemon demon song that’s the thing yk

@m3b02

2 жыл бұрын

@@peanut05 Ifkr. "First" song I heard from him was My Trains from Aimkid's animation. But we all know the first ones would either be Harry Potter Puppet Pals or The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.

hes also responsible for shrek becoming a meme with his video "mouth", brodyquest inspired the whole shooting stars meme, he made a few cut songs from gravity falls, he made the legend "two trucks", he made the monster breeder game, and MORE- this guy has shaped my and many others childhoods

@Sunnfloweropposum

3 жыл бұрын

And his sister is also a storyboard artist for the show gravity falls

@nikonijn

2 жыл бұрын

he made mouth??

@muffinte

2 жыл бұрын

@@nikonijn yes

I really appreciate the spoiler alert for “Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom” 😂

@BarryBebop

3 жыл бұрын

Spoiler unneeded, I was reciting the whole story together with him 😂

@beeswithchainsaws

3 жыл бұрын

Nice profile picture :)

YES! I watched potter puppet pals, then brodyquest, then ultimate showdown, and now I'm obsessed with spirit phone

@pixeliien

3 жыл бұрын

same!

@whistlepunkz

3 жыл бұрын

listen to view monster listen to view monster

@pixeliien

3 жыл бұрын

listen to dinosaurchestra listen to dinosaurchestra

@pixeliien

3 жыл бұрын

WAIT actually listen to i am become christmas listen to i am become christmas (listen to the other albums too of course but listen to iambc first, it's short and it is the perfect time to listen to it rn)

@itsjustjaketv6666

3 жыл бұрын

@@pixeliien I've listened to basically all of Neil's discography, (save for mouth moods idk why) but I really like view monster and dinosaurchestra

I met Neil Cicierega on his Potter Puppet Pals tour, at a library in Indianapolis. Half the crowd was kids, and the other half was in their 20's, like me. We all joined in the goofy songs and laughed and had a great time. Some dude and I in the crowd had a long conversation about weird old videos we saw in the early internet days, like Fishmaster (that Nightwish misheard-lyrics video), and he introduced me to Van Canto (an acapella metal band). In that place there was just such a concentration of love for the weird and the curious and the creative, a love and childlike joy that Neil espouses. Neil was a real awkward dude, just like in this video, and when I spoke to him for a second at the merch table, we didn't talk much. I think I asked him about the Neville puppet or something, and I thanked him for such a fun memory in my childhood, and for doing this free concert just for the love of his art. I found out later that he did the Ultimate Showdown, one of the most oft-quoted internet things of my friends and I back in middle school. I had the same reaction we all have... "Wait, what? That was him TOO??" It's just such an amazing thing to think about... he was one of the very first pioneers of the weird and wild possibilities of the internet. If this thing ever gets a true hall of fame someday, he deserves to be among the first inductees.

@clemclemclemclemcl

Жыл бұрын

what would you even say to neil lemon demon cicierega???

@Golden_pikachu

Жыл бұрын

@@clemclemclemclemclYou go OH MY GOD NEIL CICIREGA 😍😍 (reference)

how a 34 year old man raised an entire generation of people

@inayasyed6674

Жыл бұрын

He's 34 and hasn't aged a day

I hope Neil sees this, I feel like he'd appreciate it :)

THIS DUDE IS GOING THROUGH THE EXACT SAME EXISTENTIAL CRISIS AS I DID LAST YEAR

I remember Watching the mysterious ticking noise and it was really messed up

@pixeliien

3 жыл бұрын

it was funny though

@AmpersandsDeadChannel

3 жыл бұрын

My primary school made us preform it.

@bubblegum-uo5pf

3 жыл бұрын

@@AmpersandsDeadChannel YOU TOO??? oh my god i thought i was going insane we had to sing it in music i think

Neil Cicierega shaped my life too. The first thing I ever saw on the internet was potter puppet pals. Later on, I started listening to lemon demon, and I have been listening to him for the past 7 years. I also connected the dots when I was going back to watch the mysterious ticking noise again because duh, nostalgia. I saw the channel name and kind of recognized the voice and boom, childhood made.

neil cicierega actually invented music and the internet so good job neil

@assblaster420

11 ай бұрын

real

@number2869

4 ай бұрын

I LOVE HOW UR EVERYWHERE 😭👾

for real, oh my gosh. i genuinely had the same reaction when i connected the dots in my head that he made all of that historical internet content that defined my childhood. haha

This is why I call Neil an omnipresent god.

I swear, I had this exact same epiphany last week. Weird timing.

I love how you couldn’t recognize him in each picture because neil is eternal

this phenomenon is called "Wait, its all Neil Cicierega?"

My friends and I usually pass the term "Cici'd" around when we discover that one thing we like was made by an artist who also made another work we like without realizing for a long period of time. If there's an actual term please let me know, otherwise I'll take all royalties thanks.

@aspentree641

2 жыл бұрын

i'm stealing this thanks /j

@maesaliva

2 жыл бұрын

me too

@GamerTowerDX

2 жыл бұрын

Happened to me with ScottFalco,Super Mario Hydein is still a fever dream on the back of my brain.

You better listen to Mouth Dreams and all the other Mouth albums he made for that matter

@Norsilca

2 жыл бұрын

The album covers for Mouth Silence and Mouth Moods are in the video. He knows.

@JerryFilms

2 жыл бұрын

@@Norsilca replies to year old comment like a boss 😎. Also this came out a little over a month after mouth dreams (which I was obsessed with at the time) and no mention was made of it in the video.

@Norsilca

2 жыл бұрын

@@JerryFilms I don't discriminate

I ONLY FOUND OUT THE OTHER MONTH AFTER LISTENING TO NEILS ENTIRE DISCOGRAPHY THAT NEIL MADE EVERYBODYS PANTS NOW AND THAT VIDEO USED TO SCARE ME ALOT FOR SOME REASON BSHSJANBVSFDGSHAN

@arcade3198

3 жыл бұрын

THIS IS SO FUNYNYUSUFFDSJKDN

i found out a similar way. i found out that lemon demon was neil cicierega, recognised that name and came across harry potter puppet pals again after a decade. this dude has shaped my humour into what it is today since i was 7 years old

I'm 12 and I found Neil a few days ago with two trucks and then yesterday spent like two hours straight listening to spirit phone and I'm obsessed at this point. This is already consuming my life, so yeah. This is my life now. I want to eat macaroni with Neil in his basement next to his trains now.

@NumberOneRatedSaIesman1997

Жыл бұрын

MORE ALBUMS IMMEDIATELY

i learned Neil existed and then he was everywhere and everything

Built up by Cicierega and shattered by SiIvaGunner. A proper pincer attack of bizarre musical mixes.

You forgot to mention Two Trucks.

He was literally part of my creepypasta phase and that BLEW my mind

I come back to your siivagunner video because it's such a well put together video on a thing I like. I just saw at the end that it had a card for a video about Neil Cicierega. Of course I click through because Neil is a cultural juggernaut, pretty neat to see a video incarnation of that realization that happens in the comment section of almost any one of his works.

how does neil cicierega

@pixeliien

3 жыл бұрын

he just does

@seventrials

3 жыл бұрын

@@pixeliien yeah

@Lalaz

3 жыл бұрын

yes

@spookyguy8099

3 жыл бұрын

No.

This is my exact experience

lol somehow i managed to avoid all of those things except puppet pals,,, My first song was two trucks, my friends had showed me which i promptly ignored, then last year My "first song" was 8th wonder and now he's my hyperfixation 😫

I've seen a handful of videos of this ilk, talking about how many different popular things Neil Cicierega has made, but I appreciate this video because of how emotionally driven/personal it feels-- this video is clearly a personal narrative first and a documentation of Neil's career second. With the more documentary-style videos, it always bugs me when they only talk about the really popular stuff... Speaking of which, if you're ever scrolling through Neil's youtube channel, I'd recommend checking out some of the videos that don't have a million+ views. One of my favorite Neil products is the web series "new kids on the rock", as well as guaranteed* video, which are made by Neil and two of his friends. Or, like, many of the less popular lemon demon songs are still catchy and worth listening to.... There's a lot of good stuff out there, and I feel like a lot of it gets overlooked

i had this same realization like a couple months ago it was terrible yet intriguing. now im like hopelessly obsessed with neil's content

dude i watched the harry potter puppet pals in middle school and then found myself being obsessed with Lemon Demon in college. this dude has been making gold for so long, and seeped into my childhood in a unique way that no one else has. and i STILL enjoy his content.

Quite literally the flash animated potter puppet pals were one of my earliest inklings of the internet. It's bizarre to see not only someone else who has had that exact same experience that I did but multiple people in the comments. It's as though the realization that all of these things trace to one singular creator- one who makes FANTASTIC MUSIC AND SKITS BY THE WAY- struck me as an absolute epiphany. It's like Neil inadvertently raised a lot of us. It's so weird knowing this sort of thing is exactly why everyone suddenly knows who Neil is now

yea, except I only recently discovered him like 2 years ago

same except to a slightly lesser extend, the "realisation moment" was when I saw two trucks in a meme, thought it was actually a pretty catchy song despite the lyrics, looked up the band behind it and instantly plunged down a rabbit hole

Neil is my role model. I've always wanted to learn how to do everything, I draw, I paint, Im kind of teaching myself how to make music, I tried animation for a while, this summer im going to start selling my art, I sew, and I want to start a youtube channel. It's fucking awesome that he makes a living off that, just doing different stuff online. I really hope I can do something similar - persue different creative endevors forever - for a living. He's so cool, and I love him.

I was really afraid that you were about to say that Neil also made Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom, and if that were true I'm not sure my brain would've been able to handle it.

God this video gave me the vibe that you were talking about lmao

omg neil cicierega 😰😰😍

another title: neil cicierega gave me trauma when i was 9 years old

neil cicierega saw your video, and now he needs your credit card information to buy a new microphone to continue making music

Alternate title: Neil Cicierega traumatizes a child numerous times over the course of their life and turns it into a career

If our world is a video game, then Neil is the player.

Neil Cicierega made Minecraft

@theJennicat

3 жыл бұрын

i'd belive that tbh neil and his shenanigans

neil is the internet

The funny thing is I don't think this is even particularly unusual. I actually don't know Potter Pals at all, but there's an incredible through-line of his music for pretty much the entire timeline of popular internet at this stage.

Neil cicierega gave me childhood trauma and I would marry him

THE HAIRCUT SONG IS NOT SIX YEARS OLD, IT CANT BE, HOW DARE YOU, HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME FEEL OLD

@Parsnips001

3 жыл бұрын

Hate to break it to you, but it's actually 10 years old

@vogonp4287

3 жыл бұрын

@@Parsnips001 That's not true! That's imposible!

NEIL CICIERGRA IS EVERYWHERE. HE MOLDED US ALL INTO WHO WE ARE

OMG NEIL CICIEREGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sadly when i hear “neil cicierega” i think of his music but mostly the “OOOHH MY GODDDD NEIL CICIEREGA”

everybody feels like this about him eventually

Oh man, I used to binge the heck out of his channel along with his friends Ryan Murphy's and Max Pacheco's (somehow never got around to Kevin James')! Good times! Each of their channels gives me major nostalgia.

11:56 I heard the ticking and immediately thought you were going to start playing Dinosaurchestra

I had a similar horrific realisation when I got into Deltarune and listened to Spamton playlists for the hell of it. So, yes, this all took place a year ago and I don't have too many early memories of being scarred by Neil's beautiful abominations. I kept on noticing, however, that they kept on including songs by "Lemon Demon". No matter who made the play list, it was "Lemon Demon" "Lemon Demon" and I thought I was safe when I read "Neil Cicierega" until someone informed me "no, that's still Lemon Demon". So, out of shame and feeling that I needed to prove something, I listened to more of his music. No word of a lie, that man has changed the trajectory of my life in little but a year. Before listening to his music, I was a quiet, scared stereotype, and now I'm making an animatic of Aurora Borealis where I'm trying to actually reign myself in for making it too disturbing. Tangent aside, I later googled him in similar fashion and it all struck me like a brick. He even wrote the demo for the unused Bill song in Gravity Falls. I've been whistling the little ending diddy in the Draco Malfoy episode of HPPP. This man has and always will continue to consume my entire life and I know I am not his only victim.

after watching "07/27/1978" literally 82 days in a row i cannot watch any videos like this without thinking of it again

im only 12, but i think i can safely say the same. i absolutely love neil bro

I love how at first I heard of Neil as a guy who made Touch-Tone Telephone, then the guy who made The ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny, then I found rest of his songs and in the end I see this

thanks for being like, the best bits of my childhood neil.

Neil is my personal hero

I was obsessed with Brodyquest to an unhealthy degree

The first work I ever saw of Neil is Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny!~ 😄😄😄 I used to think Lemon Demon was a band, I was genuinely shocked & surprised to know it was all one dude making all those bops!~ ☆☆☆😎😎😎😄😄😄🤘🤘🤘💜💙💖💚⚡⚡⚡🏅🏅🏅

@gunkymcsplunky

3 жыл бұрын

It technically is a band in a way because for live performances Neil would get a entire band.

You guys are gonna freak out when you find out Neil made a scrapped Gravity Falls song that Bill was gonna sing

I love it when people realize how much he's done. For me the first things were the Animutations and then years later realizing Ultimate Showdown and then Puppet Pals was also him. It got to the point where I always check to see if he's involved in something I like that goes viral... but I also have an unhealthy crush on his sister. Hat=$

I saw a ghost-like hallucination that looked like him. But I only got a quick glimpse at his head, and I recognised the head shape and hair. I’m probably gonna think about that a lot. Edit: but like, I did kind of see the sitting position, either that he was in a chair or he was kneeling down. I was also listening to his album “Spirit Phone” at the time. And this was only yesterday at around 11:30pm when I was trying to go to sleep. It also wasn’t pitch black,since two lamps were on, so I could see the figure pretty well. I was most likely just sleep deprived since after 20 second of having my eyes closed since they were starting to feel odd I opened them and saw him. What a weird time that was. If anyone sees this like a week or so after this comment, here’s the date it happened: 23/6/21(AUS)

@redmantis3336

2 жыл бұрын

...Neil said on the commentary that there's a ghost in that album. You should be scared.

And then FNF was created, and Lemon Demon was shoved back into the unknown closet, as the search results were flooded with one overrated character.

@meli_lemon_real

3 жыл бұрын

so true 😔

@meiysko

2 жыл бұрын

i hate this

as someone who has been a fan of neil for years, i love hearing the stories of people who have rediscovered his work. it’s so awesome to see

The fact that this guy told it like a horror story is everything

As he said in ‘as your father I expressly forbid it’, “IM YOUR DAD😡”

beautiful video

If you haven't yet, watch his XOXO speech. The rabbit hole is never ending.

Thank you, Neil. For real.

this has the same energy as that video breaking down how a siivagunner rip made them break down

How is it my dude have can have almost 7,000 Subscribers and usually has less than 200 Views on each video.

@pixeliien

3 жыл бұрын

he’s underrated

its just such a collective experience to see who made something you grew up with and just "wait he made that too?"

I just like how Bo en and jack stauber were also downloaded there too lmao

Holy shit that ending, I knew Brodyquest was from my childhood but I thought that was his only major influence. But that Puppet Pals song unearthed some ANCIENT memories of kids singing that in elementary school WTF Neil

I came back to this to add, after this I went to watch Neil related stuff because you put me in the mood to. The as I was rewatching his state nightmares videos, when he says New Yorks nightmare he says "Not a nightmare So Much as a Genuinely Sad Dream About the Death of Mario". Then I remembered when you talked about that animation of Mario dying and how it traumatized you. I thought it was funny that he referenced that so I came back to comment lol.

@worthybutter2004

Жыл бұрын

But was it an intentional reference?

this video in a nutshell talks about childhood talks about neil cicierega conclusion neil cicierega good

oh my god neil cicieriga

Shout out to this video for igniting my lemon demon / neil cicierega hyperfixation. Almost two years now and going strong

i’m only in high school & my parents didn’t allow me to have much internet access when i was very small so one might THINK i would never have heard of anything neil-related. HOWEVER in second or third grade i was on the bus & a girl one year older than me somehow ended up talking to me. she told me to do something. she would repeat “snape, snape, severus snape” & i would say “dumbledore!” at the correct intervals. i had no idea what she was doing but i had no one else to talk to & i had read some of the harry potter books so i played along. eventually i had the bright idea to scream “VOLDEMORT” instead. when i did she was dismayed. “you can’t do that!” “why not?” “because that’s not how it goes.” we didn’t really talk after that, & i forgot about the whole thing for a while. skip to three years ago. i was discovering neil. i learn he made something called “potter puppet pals.” i decide to watch the most popular video… & all of a sudden everything made sense. i happen to still be acquainted with that girl. i don’t think she knows neil’s name, & i’ve been waiting for an opportunity to talk about it. anyway insert jurassic park quote here blah blah blah

@clauseluger3932

Жыл бұрын

What a fascinating story you got there

@synodicseason

Жыл бұрын

@@clauseluger3932 thank you!

Bro really raised me when my mom decided that she didn't want to

I REMEMBER THIS!! MOST OF THEM!

All internet content can at some point be traced back to Neil C

The ending of the video is how we all felt, an existential crisis about "WHAT THE FUCK HE MADE THIS TOO?????"

i LOVE this video

believe it or not my love of gravity falls lead me to Neils work so here is a chart to demonstrate how interests inspired interests gravity falls -> axolotls axolotls -> this one animator called sir fluff sir fluff -> this one song she made a amv for called sleepwalk touch-tone telephone showed up in my recommended

@theJennicat

3 жыл бұрын

did- did you know neil made a song for the show, it didn't end up getting into it, but also his sister worked on the show, small world man and yea neil just always ends up coming full circle

It's funny, I expected this to start with Animutations, which I saw back around 2000 in the Internet stone age. Finding out years later that was him, and also that he was my age was an extra mindfuck. I was just a kid when I saw those, but so was the kid making them!