incredibly popular internet shit you don't understand at all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi7TM87ksDI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEWgs6YQR9A

i don't understand the double rainbow thing

steampunk

who knew that kids used the internet these days

wiseguys arriving to thread in 5...

i thought the roflmao thing was kinda funny.

want to kill that dentist kid tho.

I admit though that seeing freddy fingerhorn for the first time was my first "damn, I'm getting old" moment

seriously, can someone explain why the double rainbow thing is "funny" or "interesting" or anything other than mildly dumb and irritating but not anywhere near the degree requisite for memedom?

I don't care for the roflmao, but as an explanation: it is a reference to a classic Muppets sketch.

i knew this was going to be about fred

okay I was really not expecting to see random WoW humor in the first post of the thread

sarahel, each generation needs its laughing at hippies moment

seriously, can someone explain why the double rainbow thing is "funny" or "interesting"

He kind of overreacts to the situation at hand.

for example neil from the young ones was nowhere near as lulzy as people said, but he was a locus for everyone's anti-hippie energy

okay ROFLMAO is kind of killing me

what the fuck is this fred shit

i mean really

even allowing that it's 2010, just... what

Fred is just garden variety "that guy has a lot of energy and a funny voice" kid humor.

the autotuned double rainbow song is pretty catchy.

how can that possibly be incredibly popular tho, it's super-WoW-y

except nothing is even happening, it's just a dude sitting in front of a camera

omg I'd forgotten how irritating Fred is

he autotuned double rainbow song is pretty catchy.

My friends and I requested it at a club a couple of weekends ago. The DJ didn't have internet access. ;_;

how can that possibly be incredibly popular tho, it's super-WoW-y

I don't know much about WoW but I know internet abbreviations and the Muppets, and I imagine that is enough for a million hits right there.

Fred is just garden variety "that guy has a lot of energy and a funny voice" kid humor.

― no gut busting joke can change history (polyphonic), Monday, August 9, 2010 4:15 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

to me, this is an explanation of why it should NOT be super popular

There are a lot of kids out there.

how can that possibly be incredibly popular tho, it's super-WoW-y

― people are for loving (HI DERE), Monday, August 9, 2010 4:16 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

WoW is incredibly popular

I can't look back on anything I liked as a kid and see it as like my generation's Fred

I guess it's like the kid version of a Tim And Eric sketch? Or Tom Green?

well, it's something that would've been on all that

in fact i would be surprised if all that didn't have a "dude talks in a helium voice" character

I don't know much about WoW but I know internet abbreviations and the Muppets, and I imagine that is enough for a million hits right there.

DM, ZG, UBRS, MC etc are completely specific to WoW (they're abbreviations for dungeons that no one has gone to in like 3.5 years since the expansion packs made them irrelevant).

O_O

yeah, exactly

I think you could draw a line from Fred to Woody Woodpecker if you really tried.

(Note: Fred is the fucking worst, don't get me wrong here.)

well you could, but why would you want to

I love lines. :(

omg I'd forgotten how irritating Fred is

― people are for loving (HI DERE), Monday, August 9, 2010 3:16 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

this was the most irritating thing i have ever seen

I'd only seen Fred on an episode of iCarly that I was watching with my niece. I had no idea he was a real thing until later.

does Fred have a Dyson?

Fred will be a movie soon, if you didn't already know:

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=64509

okay that's it, shut down the country; we've failed

First time someone mentioned Fred I thought they meant that green dude who stands around holding a beer can while watching virtual people having sex + refuses to leave when they tell him to. (Don't know the name or even the game, but it's probably second life)

Ralph Pootawn, it appears.

some nickelodeon show based an entire dreadful episode around fred iirc

I am a big Ralph Pootawn fan fwiw

saw this thread, came to post "internet sensation fred," saw it was in whiney's lead post.

i do not get "internet sensation fred" at all.

Ok, he's an instant classic.

http://ralphplsgo.com

just fyi these is still the funniest WoW internet humor thing I've seen:

http://ia310809.us.archive.org/3/items/Shoe-tosserGuyGif1/iraqimage001.gif

http://www.gamerdna.com/uimage/CqoIrO5/full/wow-lotr-328x180-gif.gif

I'm pleasantly reassured by how annoying Fred is. I always assumed that with all the noisy, obscene music I've listened to in my life, there would be nothing my child's generation could come up with that would actually offend me. Fred gives me new hope. Adults are supposed to hate kid/teenager stuff, it's not weird for a bunch of internet dudes in their 20s/30s to not get videos created by a 16-year-old to entertain 12-year-olds.

Just saw Double Rainbow for the 1st time. I get it, it's a guy on drugs flipping out, but how it warrants 10 million views is something I don't get. This should really only be popular with Adult Swim potheads or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvbL_5rH1QQ

This guy right here is transcendent though. Easily my favorite TV show since, I don't know, Sifl & Olly. Surreal and inspirational. I emailed him 3 times trying to get him to sell me a DVD of original broadcasts but he can't because it was on public TV.

Double Rainbow is the sort of thing that seems like a real treasure when it has 1000 YouTube hits but not so special when it has 3 million. Common hipster complaint, I know.

Some things definitely cross that line and become 'viral' and suddenly it shows up at the end of the Channel 2 news. It places it in a new context, one that carries all this mainstream baggage with it. You think how are people making money off this, how many people are saying they like it just to seem hip, how many weak parodies are degrading the unique value of the original...

I'm just glad nobody I know is into that All Our Base Are Belong to Us fad anymore

all your blase are belong to us

All Your Bass Are Belong to Us, produced by DJ Magic Mike

i much prefer 'for great justice' over 'for the win'
i mean justice is surely more important than vanquishing your enemies?

I'm just glad nobody I know is into that All Our Base Are Belong to Us fad anymore

That scene from Zero Wing is pretty great. Not so into the rest of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRzBVv2CSE0

I knew you would link that. (I also remember when I first told you about it.)

maybe this was already mentioned, but i guess this was a "thing"?

http://www.xomba.com/girl_quitting_job_dryerase_board_confirmed_hoax_jenny_elyse_porterfield

really boring.

Agreed, plus you kind of have to wonder about the popularity of quitting your job memes in the midst of a recession with high unemployment. For many of us it'd be nice to have a job in the first place...

It's true, but one thing that is shittier than having a bad job is having a bad job in a shitty economy. Because if you complain you're an asshole, but your job sucks just as much (if not more).

^^^^^ I hate that the right to complain about one's job has been tempered in some quarters by the unemployment rate. Certainly, sensitivity is important -- I'm not likely to go spouting off at the mouth about how much I hate my job around friends of mine who just lost theirs.

But it gets a little tiring to hear the fourth person go "well at least you have a job". So that means I should just accept the working conditions and shut up, right? On the one hand it did cause me to reflect on what is truly important to complain about, but when there are serious issues that need addressing, it's not dickish to complain about them.

the other thing that bugs me is the reply "well why don't you do something about it instead of whining about it". I'm not someone who sits idly by while stuff sucks, I've not only gotten things changed due to my persistence, but I always am very "in your face" with management on issues, while maintaining a professional tone. At the point I'm bitching about it, often it means I've tried and failed and am finally giving up.

hrm replace "in your face" with "up front"

i've always been a little suspicious of workplaces where everyone claims to be happy though, e.g. zappos, southwest

that is because they are cults

@Philip -- in my Intro to Speech class freshman year of college, this girl did not one, not two, but THREE speeches on working at Disney.
First speech was an introductory speech, where she described the "amazing" experience and what it meant to her. Second was an informational speech, where she gave information on working there. And the third was a persuasive speech where she told us all why we should work there.

It was downright scary how obsessed she was with it. I'm glad I live nowhere near there now.

that's incredibly hilarious considering that every account I've heard related to working at Disney equates the experience to working in a sweatshop

I assume this girl wasn't performing?

Yeah, guys if you have a job, that's totally cool, no ill will towards yall. I know that especially the past few years the people that have been able to stay employed have gotten a shitty deal, having to do extra work with little extra rewards, and actually being afraid of asking for props for that extra work they are undertaking. But workers, comrades, let us not fight amongst ourselves!!

I was trying to explain why that meme didn't interest me. Biggest offense was it seemed too twee or blatantly marketing school-viral. 33 separate dry erase board photos? seems like a cell phone commercial from 2003.

xpost No, she was working in one of the gift shops, as a trainer. Nowhere in there does that sound like a recipe for awesome.

sorry Adam, none of that was directed at you -- it was just a tangent I launched on.

I kind of like that quitting your job has turned into a weird folk-art along the lines of wacky marriage proposals, which makes its use as viral marketing extra offensive.

I think ILX needs to colloborate on a viral marketing campaign -- one idea, one item, for 2010

http://beta.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tf20x/Beckii_Schoolgirl_Superstar_at_14/

that's incredibly hilarious considering that every account I've heard related to working at Disney equates the experience to working in a sweatshop

I have heard the same thing.

I have no idea if this is incredibly popular or not, but I dunno where else to put it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1c2KzJbcGA

LOL. I actually saw Leslie Hall live about 5 years ago. It was amazing but mostly in a "What the fuck is going on here?!" kind of way.

seriously, can someone explain why the double rainbow thing is "funny" or "interesting" or anything other than mildly dumb and irritating but not anywhere near the degree requisite for memedom?

If you think there's some degree of quality or funny or... whatever... requisite for memedom, you are WAY behind the curve. Those things have nothing to do with memedom. Rarely even anything to say to it. They're really awkward at parties.

My own theory about double rainbow is that it actually IS pretty damn awesome, but dude can't keep it in check. So it's like, you had me, then you lost your shit. And that's funny.

so fred is basically 14-year-old andy samberg with a chipmunk filter on his voice? idk i was expecting worse.

antoine dodson auto-tune the news vid was just a story on ch4 news

<3 existence

i don't get the star wars prequel commentary shit that has been posted elsewhere on here, mainly b/c i can't get past the dude's voice and his jokes aren't funny

Yeah, but those movies are so bad they deserve to have all the reasons pointed out as much as possible. It's great to see that clip of Sir Alec Guinness wistfully talking about how Anakin was the best star fighter pilot in the galaxy, cunning warrior, and a good friend, then have it cut to them bitching at each other in Ep 3. Or Yoda speaking wisdom about the mystery & power of the force from Empire, intercut with Ep 3 footage of him jumping around w a lightsaber like a mindless videogame character. The side-by-side starting at 5:00 in below really nails how GL turned a modern myth into a lifeless, busy-looking piece of merchandise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq0wv2ossJU

Really agree w you tho, this series could have been 5 parts long w/o all that faux horror movie BS.

I mean Ep 2.

ya but if u wade thru the annoying voice and stuff (which actually kinda gets funny thru repetition) his analysis is pretty effing great

i like how the criticisms arent fanboyish 'u ruined my childhood' stuff at all, or 'jar jar sucks,' they're just like, how does this story make any sense at all

Agreed. Great analysis, lame comedy.

But the comedy breaks up the pacing a bit for people who don't want to sit through a sixty-minute video review of a movie from over a decade ago.

I suspect if you removed the horror bits, not only the pacing would suffer but the analysis would seem dumb, too.
there's a fine line between "no duh" and "on the money" and the horror bits lower your critical bars.
"This is pretty astute analysis for a horror-comedy character"
vs.
"This dude is not saying anything that isn't blatantly obvious to anyone who has seen the movies"

I guess there is one way to find out -- has anyone made a phantom edit of this guy's reviews subtracting the horrorcom stuff?

You would have to re-record the audio.

and kill yourself after

My kids sing this in the car until I cry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtN1YnoL46Q

I understand this shit, holy shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8CtWUY7nvg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQZj5jT0qfU

Adam: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=59934

:)

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hahahaha

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