Vinyl Me Please Essentials

[Aelias]

It's like my freshman year of university all over again in here (1985).

 

[Heath]

It's like my freshman year of university all over again in here (1985).

I LIKE IT WHEN THE RED WATER COMES OUT

 

[Mather]

I mean, this is my all timer.

 

[NewsFedora]

I mean, this is my all timer.

I’m a HUGE Don Hertzfeldt fan. Definitely check out his other stuff if you dig Rejected. Everything Will Be Ok and World of Tomorrow are masterpieces.

 

[Mather]

I’m a HUGE Don Hertzfeldt fan. Definitely check out his other stuff if you dig Rejected. Everything Will Be Ok and World of Tomorrow are masterpieces.

Oh yes, I know them. He's pretty amazing.

 

[gaporter]

I mean, this is my all timer.

This song inspired by this is pretty fun


Also, Neil Cicierega, the man behind Lemon Demon, is also responsible for a good amount of Internet culture from the early 2000s to now. Just a few notable things he's done:



Bustin
BRODYQUEST

 

[dhodo]

It's like my freshman year of university all over again in here (1985).

Ha, I was going to post Salad Fingers but didn't want to creep unknowing people out.

I mean, this is my all timer.

I still scream "I AM A BANANA" and "My SPOON is too big" often.

 

[BattleFlag]

I mean, this is my all timer.

I still scream "I AM A BANANA" and "My SPOON is too big" often.

My brother and I still use "I'm a consumer whore." "And how!" all the time.

Funny story. Once when I was teaching, I showed this to a small group of senior high kids I had in a drama class. They thought it was hilarious enough that one of them made a model of the anus-bleeding cloud in the metalworking shop out of rebar. It was spot on to Don's real drawing.

 

[Clint Howard]

When I first got on the internet, I 'had to phreak using pbxs or fake cc's to a linux box in Arizona? I think to use. So yeah, there wasn't really a world wide web at that point to speak of. God I am old and completely unaccomplished for someone on the innernets so long.

 

[Heath]

Ha, I was going to post Salad Fingers but didn't want to creep unknowing people out.

I still scream "I AM A BANANA" and "My SPOON is too big" often.

Salad Fingers was how I first heard Boards of Canada....and indirectly also how I first started listening to Aphex Twin, thanks to that Milkman video David Firth did that still gives me nightmares sometimes.

 

[CrazyDiamond84]

I must have watched this or something like it stoned in high school a billion times.

 

[MadLucas]

All this talk of memes and generations, I give you some OG internet right here...

Damnit it took like 10 years to get that hamsterdance song out of my head, thanks a lot

My little brother and I shared a computer class together in fall of '98.
Before class let up, for several weeks, he would pull up the hampster dance video, shut off the monitor, and then, in the mass confusion of exiting the room, turn the speakers on full blast. He tried to vary the computer he used.

No one but me ever knew it was him.

 

[gouis]

One of my faves.

I liked that when it came out and I was in grade school, now it just seems racist to laugh at it.

Let's go with something a little more positive.

 

[dhodo]

I liked that when it came out and I was in grade school, now it just seems racist to laugh at it.

Let's go with something a little more positive.

I liked it because the music video is hilarious in that he (goofily) plays every one in it and the CGI is terrible and he turns into a comet and the song is a serious earworm. I'm not sure what is racist about that.

 

[chemman14]

I really love that the essentials pick is so terrible this month we've spend the last half dozen or so pages on totally off topic stuff.

 

[chemman14]

I liked it because the music video is hilarious in that he (goofily) plays every one in it and the CGI is terrible and he turns into a comet and the song is a serious earworm. I'm not sure what is racist about that.

Yeah same here, don't really see how that's racist.

 

[gaporter]

I liked it because the music video is hilarious in that he (goofily) plays every one in it and the CGI is terrible and he turns into a comet and the song is a serious earworm. I'm not sure what is racist about that.

If I recall correctly, the video was made to intentionally be kind of ridiculous and funny as well. Apparently the singer got criticized by people accusing his music videos of only being popular because they featured attractive women in them so he decided to make a video where literally every role was played by him in response.

 

[gaporter]

I liked that when it came out and I was in grade school, now it just seems racist to laugh at it.

Let's go with something a little more positive.

Nyan Cat will forever be one of the best memes. I think my phone background would agree...

 

[oldschoolkirby]

I liked that when it came out and I was in grade school, now it just seems racist to laugh at it.

Let's go with something a little more positive.

We have a plushie Nyan Cat around here somewhere. This was my kids' fave for a while.

 

[NewsFedora]

Kids these days with their "This is fine" memes. I'm old enough to remember what KC Green was ORIGINALLY famous for.

Spoiler: Is this not safe for work? It might be not safe for work. Although maybe not.