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[-] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 108 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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/

[-] Pirky@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.

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[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago

Flash? I remember shockwave.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

I remember Macromedia.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[-] Bananigans@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

"Kenya believe it!?"

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

Badger badger badger predates YouTube

[-] eldain@feddit.nl 10 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[-] eldain@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you. I must have been late to the badger party in 2006 ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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[-] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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

[-] vrek@programming.dev 35 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Zoot@reddthat.com 17 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Thteven@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago
[-] JoeKis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[-] capital@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Here for the senior discount?

[-] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

That baby is 29 now

[-] eerongal@ttrpg.network 29 points 1 month ago

but this meme predates youtube, though...

[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 24 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Newgrounds maybe? Or ebaumsworld?

[-] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

Possibly Newgrounds, I used to lurk around there a lot when I was younger

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

A proper Youtube of yore is Tony vs Paul

[-] mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 month ago

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

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago

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

[-] JayJLeas@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago
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[-] otter@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

It's for sure older than that unfortunately.

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[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

Come Charlie let's go to candy mouuunnntaaain

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 month ago

Oh God, my anus is bleeding!

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[-] Harimau@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Frog in a blender

Remember penguin toss?

[-] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] Enkrod@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I watched Tim Burtons Batman in our local cinema.

Also my first contact with silly internet movies was the llama song.

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Did carmeldansen become a thing before or after badgerbadger mushroom?

Anybody remember dafthands, and daftbodies?

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[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
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