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!
Here’s the badgers one specifically: http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/badgers-animated-music-video-mrweebl/
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.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 😂
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
And homestarrunner was the granddaddy of it all.
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.
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.
Flash? I remember shockwave.
I remember Macromedia.
Oh shockwave games. The Internet peaked at the turn off the millennium
Speak for yourself. I, for one, do not miss needing to suffer through intro animations before the real site would load, “designed for Internet Explorer 4”, or the endless ad popups of the era.
Points for nostalgia though
Fuck… me… I forgot how terrible that was.
I always thought shockwave was part of flash? I never understood the difference
Adobe jumbled them up after acquiring Macromedia, which itself had previously acquired both (shockwave from Macromind, flash from Futurewave).
I seem to remember a competitor, I think it was called 3DO or something?
“Kenya believe it!?”
Badger badger badger predates YouTube
We shared the albinoblacksheep link on msn. Youtube existed, it was part of the rise of shockwave flash technology websites.
Badger by AlbinoBlackSheep (John Picking)
Publication date: 2003-09-01
https://archive.org/details/flash_badger
Youtube Founded: February 14, 2005
Thank you. I must have been late to the badger party in 2006 ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Memes traveled a bit slower in those days.
Ah, spent so many hours of my youth on albinoblacksheep. My first introduction to Lemon Demon among many other things.
Here for the senior discount?
Practically dead 💀
doot doot
That baby is 29 now
Why is there only one badger and not three? Why is there no snake ?
Where is the music? I only see the one mushroom too, we’re missing like 3/4 of the picture mate
but this meme predates youtube, though…
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
Newgrounds maybe? Or ebaumsworld?
Possibly Newgrounds, I used to lurk around there a lot when I was younger
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
That’s Newgrounds, OP, from the times before YT.
A proper Youtube of yore is Tony vs Paul
Alternatively: THIS IS THE ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN. ^(of ultimate destiny)!^
GOOD GUYS BAD GUYS AND EX-PLO-SIONS ^(as far as the eye can see)!^
AND ONLY ONE WILL SURVIVE ^(I wonder who it will be)!^
Hamster dance.
The Hampster Dance by Hampton and the Hampsters.
Hampsterdance is one of my earliest memories of using the internet at the age of 4. I remember it being used in random videos a lot like Paralyzer and Dreamscape were.
Me: 2008 wasn’t that long ago. It was like a decade ago.
Also me: wait… That’s 16 years 😰
It’s for sure older than that unfortunately.
September 1st 2003 apparently
Even older than I thought. I was thinking 2005
Thanks. Now I feel even older. I should have remembered it predating YouTube.
Come Charlie let’s go to candy mouuunnntaaain
Oh God, my anus is bleeding!
But, how big is your spoon?
Anyone remember Joe Cartoon? Superfly, Lump the no legged dog, Gerbil, and so on.
Frog in a blender
Remember penguin toss?
Showing age, the first thing that came to my mind was the old show The Wind in the Willows.
You mean the book?
The 1984 TV show based on the book is what I thought of when looking at this meme
Fantastic theme song, that show has
I have a soft spot for music from tv show intros from the 70s and early 80s. The compositions and memorable melodies were something else.
I think maybe it was a legacy from the 70s movie soundtracks, where Ennio Morricone really showed how important soundtracks were to movies, but then TV shows had to do it in 30 seconds. I love the craftsmanship of it.
Some of my favorites:
Airwolf’s opening I’ve seen before; and the Dallas one is pretty great. Here are a couple I’ll throw in to the mix:
Rupert note the interesting time signatures
Gormenghast the first and second books are excellent. The third is… different…
The Prisoner possibly the greatest (and surely the longest!) opening
“The prisoner” is quite wild from a music perspective and way ahead of it’s time. Looks more like a 60s/70s series. Never saw it myself.
I guess it’s not so decade dependent, but more about someone caring enough to make a good intro song.
Here are more TV themes that you didn’t know you already knew:
Round the Twist (this is the Epitome of early 1990s)
