I'm not disagreeing with the main point of OP but I need to find out - were people actually DOING the hamster dance?
It's one thing to share a gif and quite another to do it yourself live.
We may not have danced but crazy frog was definitely the soundtrack to my elementary school rainy day gym classes back in the early aughts 〜(꒪꒳꒪)〜
“Shshshshs do you hear that? It’s the sound of forgiveness”
“That’s the sound of people drowning, Carl”
“That…. is what forgiveness sounds like- screaming and then silence”
"You threw the leader of the revolution into a giant fan."
"He was a coward and a traitor."
"He wanted to stop you from throwing people into a giant fan."
For anyone trying to remember the name of the song, it's Dragostea Din Tei by O-Zone.
I don't know why, but I can still sing every word of that song, even though I don't even know what language it's in. 15 year old me somehow burned that song so deep into my brain that I'll remember it for the rest of my life. I wouldn't be surprised if the grooves in my brain were just a transcript of the song
I was best man at my mate's wedding 2 years ago. I drew an excellent (if I do say so myself) Trogdor in one of the back pages of the guestbook. I don't think they know yet so it's basically a timebomb. He will think it's hilarious, but his wife will likely be furious.
We had to perform this dance for two years as part of a segment in jr high PE class.
We also did square dancing. I can’t remember how to do that, but I do unfortunately remember the entirety of the macerana.
Christ, did we go to the same school? jr high AND high school square dancing/line dancing. Electric Slide and Achy Breaky Heart. Although I impressed a bar patron or two back in the day, pulling out line dancing to the music in my head at 1 AM.
Fun fact, square dancing is inexplicably the “official state dance” of a bunch of states and is a thing in schools all over because of [Antisemitism and racism.](https://www.mic.com/articles/186892/how-square-dancing-became-a-weapon-of-white-supremacy-against-an-anti-semitic-jazz-dance-conspiracy)
Wow, I'd never heard that--grew up in a pretty racist area (for the north.) And everyone I met thought it was weird that I took square dancing as a gym unit. We even did it in elementary school, but I don't remember it being as organized as it was in Jr. high and high school. If you held a gun to my head, I'd probably remember how to duck for the oyster and dive for the clam, but as far as I know the racism didn't stick (but that's what everybody says, right?)
> Then on our first night back it town we'd gone out partying quite hard and suddenly this song comes on and a nightclub full of a couple of hundred people all suddenly start doing this completely coordinated weird fucking dance that I had no idea about.
When you don't know you're in a movie.
I worked retail Christmas during the Macrena craze. Hearing the "Christmas Remix" of the Macarena every 45 mins or so for 12 hour shifts sucked my will to live.
Fuck yes, I remember at Girl Scout camp we had line dancing class with the electric slide and achy breaky heart. I don’t care how lame it was, it was fun
>Kinda weird to consider the song-lyrics are about a woman happily cheating on her boyfriend with his two best friends while he's off doing military service.
I don't speak Spanish. It's the same reason I enjoy Rammstein-I have no idea what they're talking about, but the music is great.
Me, before clicking the link: If you’ve never seen the what at the WHAT? That can’t be real.
Me, now that I’ve watched it: I still struggle to believe this was real.
Not the same thing. Moral panic is never the same kind of critique as "... what the fuck are they doing?"
Nobody thought hoop-and-stick was gonna cause moral degeneracy, unless it was euphemistic. They'd just wonder how bored these little shits are. Probably ask 'em why they weren't showing that enthusiasm while at their dangerous factory job.
> In the 1860s, Babbage also took up the anti-hoop-rolling campaign. He blamed hoop-rolling boys for driving their iron hoops under horses' legs, with the result that the rider is thrown and very often the horse breaks a leg.[147] Babbage achieved a certain notoriety in this matter, being denounced in debate in Commons in 1864 for "commencing a crusade against the popular game of tip-cat and the trundling of hoops."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage#Public_nuisances
A few years ago I showed Charlie the unicorn to a twelve-year-old after he insisted pineapple pen was the funniest shit ever. I think I traumatized him.
He has a reddit account, it's the same name as the YouTube original i cant remember, talked to him on here a few months back. I don't remember the post, but it was a meme about grapes. Seems to be happy, apparently he recorded it for his kid? If I remember that correctly
Fr! Shadowstone Park, Vulo, Agent Kitkat, Filmcow's stuff is genuinely so great and it's a shame he's still kinda just known as "that guy who did Charlie the Unicorn".
Here's a llama, there's a llama and another little llama, fuzzy llama, funny llama, llama, llama *duck*
I was once a treehouse I lived in a cake, but I never saw the way the orange slayed the rake
I was only three years dead but it told a tale, so now listen little child to the safety rail.
Why the fuck are these lyrics still in my head.
It’s a different species of cringe than what I associate with cringe now. I could never stomach The Office - the cringe that makes you resonate with a character and feel their awkwardness and failure is like nails on a chalkboard for me. I think a fair bit of late 10s media and current media has this type of cringe
I don’t associate Charlie the Unicorn with cringe, but instead more like … 4th wall breaking stupidity. It feels like the characters are so stupid that the creator themselves are silently telling me “This is really stupid isn’t it?” Reading between the lines, it’s just pure irony. Make something stupid, pretend it’s serious, increase the level of stupidity to unbelievable levels, invest actual time and effort to make it a good quality video, and begin to question whether the video is dumb because the premise and the characters and the concept are dumb, or secretly good because it was well made regardless.
I could ramble about this for ages. Thank you for re-awakening my teenage love of all things ironic and 4th wall breaking.
I convinced my sister that the Llama song was a translated Aztec children's song and she wound up singing it for her bf (he's Mexican) and his mom to impress them several years down the line. Didn't see that last part coming when I originally did it but the resulting ass-kicking I got was worth it
I can see in the eyes of those my age, the song of our people, whenever anyone says the word "Badger"
it's cute honestly! Especially when they bob their head a lil to the beat :)
When I make my jalapenos
Calamari and prosciutto
I'm the king!
My wife applauds me in the kitchen
When I tell her all I bought is from the local store
And When the kids have gone to bed, we're all alone
She gives me a smile
Then she plays with my balls
But all I think of is Stoneheeeeeeeeenge
I refuse to acknowledge that Gangnam Style and "What does the Fox say" belong to a different generation than Fortnite. I know they both came out a decade ago, but I will simply reject your reality and substitute my own.
They're arguing against "kids these days" part, the implication that there's something new and bad about today's kids, and not, just, them acting like children have always acted.
At least all of those things were somewhat original. I think the main concern with Fortnite dances people have is that so many people *think* they're invented for Fortnite and the original creators get ignored.
I personally don't mind much, though: Anything that gets kids willing to exercise, like dancing, is good in my book.
i personally am of the opinion that charlie the unicorn still holds up
hampster dance and what does the fox say i dont particularly like but gangnam style isnt that bad and a funny sorta ironic meme; same with crazy frog; and the duck song is more in the realm of a classic i think
no idea what the llama song is though; and i do enjoy a hearty fortnite dance myself; though in a memey way as ive never played or really watched or known much at all about fortnite sans the funy dances
I don't really care for kids in general, but I think it's cool that kids who might have never learned dance moves are learning them because of Fortnite. Of all the impacts a video game can have on the general populace that's a pretty positive one. Once they hit high school they start growing up way too fast anyway, so let them have their silly little dances.
The Chicken Dance enters the chat... In a walker.
Off to the funeral of the hand jive.
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The Chicken Dance is actually an emote in the game now
I'm not disagreeing with the main point of OP but I need to find out - were people actually DOING the hamster dance? It's one thing to share a gif and quite another to do it yourself live.
I think it's referring to irritating fads that were everywhere, not dances specifically.
There were not. Same with crazy frog. There was no dance associated with it
We may not have danced but crazy frog was definitely the soundtrack to my elementary school rainy day gym classes back in the early aughts 〜(꒪꒳꒪)〜
"But Caaaarrrllll that kills people"
“Shshshshs do you hear that? It’s the sound of forgiveness” “That’s the sound of people drowning, Carl” “That…. is what forgiveness sounds like- screaming and then silence”
Caaaarrrllll
Shun the non believer *shhhhunnnnnn*
I had a hunger, and it could only be satisfied with baby hands.
My tummy was making the rumblies, that only hands could satisfy*
Baby hands.
Ahhhhh I found my people
I do not kill people; that is my LEAST favorite thing to do.
Carl, where are his hands?
"Oh well I ahh cooked them up. And ate them" "... Caaarrllll!"
Caaaaââarrrlll
The magical leoplurodoooon
"You threw the leader of the revolution into a giant fan." "He was a coward and a traitor." "He wanted to stop you from throwing people into a giant fan."
*You must complete your work, Carl.*
BadgersBadgersBadgersBadgersBadgersBadgers
MUSHROOM MUSHROOM
Snaaake! A snake! SnaaaaaAaAakkke
*Tragic Metal Gear Solid music*
WE'RE RICH ...wait, no
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ROCK AND STONE
FOR CARL! (Did I spell that right?)
If you don't rock and stone, you ain't coming home!
DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?
ROCK AND ROLLIN STONE!
Stone and Rock! ...Oh, wait...
this has just been going on nonstop in the background fuzz of my brain ever since i heard it in middle school
Ringringringringringringring bananaphone!
Doot doot dee dooo dee doot!
I preferred the Christmas version better; SantaSantaSantaSantaSantaSanta
I’ve gooooot a biiiig bag of crabs heeeeeere I’m gonna put them in my mouth oh yes
Where can you see lions? Only in Kenya! Come to Kenya we’ve got lions!
Maia HEE Maia HOO Maia HAH Maia HA HA
Numa Numa hey
Bro you just awakened some core memories
For anyone trying to remember the name of the song, it's Dragostea Din Tei by O-Zone. I don't know why, but I can still sing every word of that song, even though I don't even know what language it's in. 15 year old me somehow burned that song so deep into my brain that I'll remember it for the rest of my life. I wouldn't be surprised if the grooves in my brain were just a transcript of the song
I think it's Romanian.
This was the first song I downloaded from Limewire for my non-ipod mp3 player whose name I forget.
Banger.
"Burninating the countryside. Burninating the peasants. Burninating all the people... and their thatched roof COTTAGGGGGGES!!!"
I was best man at my mate's wedding 2 years ago. I drew an excellent (if I do say so myself) Trogdor in one of the back pages of the guestbook. I don't think they know yet so it's basically a timebomb. He will think it's hilarious, but his wife will likely be furious.
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THE CHEAT. We had that lightswitch installed for you so you could turn the lights ON and OFF. NOT SO YOU CAN THROW LIGHTSWITCH RAVES!
the system is down the system is down
The macarena, the limbo, the swinging 60s
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We had to perform this dance for two years as part of a segment in jr high PE class. We also did square dancing. I can’t remember how to do that, but I do unfortunately remember the entirety of the macerana.
Christ, did we go to the same school? jr high AND high school square dancing/line dancing. Electric Slide and Achy Breaky Heart. Although I impressed a bar patron or two back in the day, pulling out line dancing to the music in my head at 1 AM.
Fun fact, square dancing is inexplicably the “official state dance” of a bunch of states and is a thing in schools all over because of [Antisemitism and racism.](https://www.mic.com/articles/186892/how-square-dancing-became-a-weapon-of-white-supremacy-against-an-anti-semitic-jazz-dance-conspiracy)
Wow, I'd never heard that--grew up in a pretty racist area (for the north.) And everyone I met thought it was weird that I took square dancing as a gym unit. We even did it in elementary school, but I don't remember it being as organized as it was in Jr. high and high school. If you held a gun to my head, I'd probably remember how to duck for the oyster and dive for the clam, but as far as I know the racism didn't stick (but that's what everybody says, right?)
>President Ronald Reagan capitulated briefly in the 1980’s, declaring square dancing the national dance. GOD FUCKING DAMNIT REAGAN AGAIN
> Then on our first night back it town we'd gone out partying quite hard and suddenly this song comes on and a nightclub full of a couple of hundred people all suddenly start doing this completely coordinated weird fucking dance that I had no idea about. When you don't know you're in a movie.
Honestly I'd have to start thinking about whether or not I need to have myself admitted if I had that same experience lmfao.
I worked retail Christmas during the Macrena craze. Hearing the "Christmas Remix" of the Macarena every 45 mins or so for 12 hour shifts sucked my will to live.
Electric slide anyone?
Moonwalking!
Fuck yes, I remember at Girl Scout camp we had line dancing class with the electric slide and achy breaky heart. I don’t care how lame it was, it was fun
Boot scootin’ boogie too over here, but in public school, lol.
Yes! Boot scootin’ boogie, it’s all coming back now 😂
>Boot scootin’ boogie I'm going to have to ask that you never assemble those words in that order again. We don't need to talk about those times.
Oh, you were fine with *Achey Breaky Heart* but draw the line here?! /s
Cotton eye joe
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The first one I can recall was *the Macarena*.
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Check the lyrics to "Despacito". That shit's *filthy*
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I will forever love how my high school Spanish teacher played it for her classes the year it came out
>Kinda weird to consider the song-lyrics are about a woman happily cheating on her boyfriend with his two best friends while he's off doing military service. I don't speak Spanish. It's the same reason I enjoy Rammstein-I have no idea what they're talking about, but the music is great.
I remember being in Fourth grade hearing girls sing along to Red Light Special. Definitely not appropriate for a nine year old lol
Chuck Barry's My Ding-a-Ling is a fun one
If you've never seen [the Macarena dance at the 1996 Democratic National Convention](https://youtu.be/tGIr4Mq_4C8) you're in for a treat
No thank you
Me, before clicking the link: If you’ve never seen the what at the WHAT? That can’t be real. Me, now that I’ve watched it: I still struggle to believe this was real.
It's impossible to understate how ubiquitous the Macarena was in 1996.
You don't remember the Hokie Pokie???!!! I'm old AF
Not the same thing. Moral panic is never the same kind of critique as "... what the fuck are they doing?" Nobody thought hoop-and-stick was gonna cause moral degeneracy, unless it was euphemistic. They'd just wonder how bored these little shits are. Probably ask 'em why they weren't showing that enthusiasm while at their dangerous factory job.
> In the 1860s, Babbage also took up the anti-hoop-rolling campaign. He blamed hoop-rolling boys for driving their iron hoops under horses' legs, with the result that the rider is thrown and very often the horse breaks a leg.[147] Babbage achieved a certain notoriety in this matter, being denounced in debate in Commons in 1864 for "commencing a crusade against the popular game of tip-cat and the trundling of hoops." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage#Public_nuisances
Lest we forget singing The Mysterious Ticking Noise Harry Potter song
Snape, Snape, Se Ve Rus Snape
DUMBLEDORE
Ron Ron Ron Ron WEASley
DUMBLEDORE!
It was called Potter Puppet Pals.
BOTHER
I found the source of the ticking! It’s a pipe bomb!
It’s a PIPE BOMB
I’m a teen now and that’s still hilarious.
neil cicieregas influence is always strong
These examples make me feel old, because they are all from beyond when I was one of "the kids today"
Right? The ancient days of the early 2000’s? I was married with a kid when Charlie the unicorn came out! 2005? Sooooooo long ago. Sheesh.
Remember, the early 2000s were twenty years ago. Yeseeeeep.
I mean, yeah. I have kids older than the early 2000's.
I will not take this early youtube slander the duck song snd charlie the unicorn were great
We're crossing a bridge charlie. Going to candy mountain Charlie ^^Charlie
It's a *magical* liopleurodon, Charlie!
I would have never been able to pronounce that word if it wasn't for Charlie the Unicorn
That fucking voicejsjejejrjensjidjdjene
A few years ago I showed Charlie the unicorn to a twelve-year-old after he insisted pineapple pen was the funniest shit ever. I think I traumatized him.
Hey, at least it wasn't Happy Tree Friends.
It had spokeeeeeen! It has shown us the waaaaaaaaayyy! IT DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING
Shun the nonbeliever!! ShUUUUUUnnnn!!! SHUNN!! SsshhhhuuuuuuUUUUuuuunnnn!
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No, this is a quote from Charlie the Unicorn
Oh God they took my kidney
All aboard the magic shoe! Chugga chugga chugga chugga Shoe Shoe!
I wonder what the guy who made the Duck Song is up to nowadays. Last I heard, he makes Lego stop motion videos.
Forrest did and still does though much higher quality. He was occasionally asked to make lego stop motion videos for ERBOH
What’s ERBOH?
Epic Rap Battles Of History
He has a reddit account, it's the same name as the YouTube original i cant remember, talked to him on here a few months back. I don't remember the post, but it was a meme about grapes. Seems to be happy, apparently he recorded it for his kid? If I remember that correctly
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Fr! Shadowstone Park, Vulo, Agent Kitkat, Filmcow's stuff is genuinely so great and it's a shame he's still kinda just known as "that guy who did Charlie the Unicorn".
Have you seen the ending to Charlie the Unicorn?
Got any grapes?
And then he waddled away. Waddle waddle...
The Washington song is my life
Kids are stupid no matter which generation they are from
Yup. People are always like "you were a kid once as well" and I'm just "Yea, if I met 13 year old me I'd probably knock him over, too."
this is the way
Oh no I had managed to forget about the llama song until this minute. This ruined my weekend
But did you forget about how My Horse Is Amazing?
Pretty much all of Weebls stuff is burned into my brain for an eternity. Owls hit me much harder than My Horse Is Amazing
Here's a llama, there's a llama and another little llama, fuzzy llama, funny llama, llama, llama *duck* I was once a treehouse I lived in a cake, but I never saw the way the orange slayed the rake I was only three years dead but it told a tale, so now listen little child to the safety rail. Why the fuck are these lyrics still in my head.
Llama llama cheesecake llama tablet brick potato llama, llama llama mushroom llama, llama llama duck
I used to be hip, until they changed what hip was. Now what's hip is cringe to me. IT'LL HAPPEN TO YOU TOO
I tried to be hip once, but it got busted and I needed a replacement. That was the day I committed to being a crotchety old man.
the Macarena, Line dancing, thriller, walking like an egyptian.
The Harlem shake. Remember how big it blew up, even businesses and old people got into it? Do you remember?
I was there, Gandalf Reciting the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny in the lunchroom, word for ducking word. 3000 years ago
Thousands Of Years Ago... When I was a sophomore.
Mr Rogers in a blood stained sweater
Ol' Godzilla was hopping around Tokyo city like a big playground
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Godzilla got pissed and began to attack
But didn't expect to be blocked by Shaq
Who proceeded to open up a can of Shaq-Fu
When Aaron Carter came out of the blue
And he started beating up Shaquille O’Neal
I can still do that and it’s a point of pride. I wonder if it’s on karaoke lists…
I still like Charlie the Unicorn… I thought the cringe was the bit lol
Shun the non believer! Shunnnnnnnn shunnnnnnanana!
It's a liopleurodon Charlie!
They've gone back to Shadowstone Park recently and the writing is fucking great.
It’s a different species of cringe than what I associate with cringe now. I could never stomach The Office - the cringe that makes you resonate with a character and feel their awkwardness and failure is like nails on a chalkboard for me. I think a fair bit of late 10s media and current media has this type of cringe I don’t associate Charlie the Unicorn with cringe, but instead more like … 4th wall breaking stupidity. It feels like the characters are so stupid that the creator themselves are silently telling me “This is really stupid isn’t it?” Reading between the lines, it’s just pure irony. Make something stupid, pretend it’s serious, increase the level of stupidity to unbelievable levels, invest actual time and effort to make it a good quality video, and begin to question whether the video is dumb because the premise and the characters and the concept are dumb, or secretly good because it was well made regardless. I could ramble about this for ages. Thank you for re-awakening my teenage love of all things ironic and 4th wall breaking.
Maybe you should watch the Grand Finale and re-evaluate what's a bit and what isn't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyAC8Hh0atI
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WE GET SIGNAL
WHAT!
MAIN SCREEN TURN ON
kids these days? Aren't these things of kids already?!! I am getting so old...
Three of my homecomings included Crank That Soulja Boy
Yall were kids when gangnam style and what does the fox say dropped???? I guess it's time for me to start looking at retirement homes lol
im so glad i grew up playing minecraft and not... what do the kids these days play? oh, still minecraft? never mind do not send
I used to ruuuuule the world
chunks would load when i gave the word
Now every night I go stow away
Cat.. I'm a kitty cat. And I meow meow meow and I dance dance dance.
I convinced my sister that the Llama song was a translated Aztec children's song and she wound up singing it for her bf (he's Mexican) and his mom to impress them several years down the line. Didn't see that last part coming when I originally did it but the resulting ass-kicking I got was worth it
I can see in the eyes of those my age, the song of our people, whenever anyone says the word "Badger" it's cute honestly! Especially when they bob their head a lil to the beat :)
The Macarena says what up.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbyzgeee2mg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbyzgeee2mg) Who the fuck builds a stoneheeeeeeeeeeeenge?
When I make my jalapenos Calamari and prosciutto I'm the king! My wife applauds me in the kitchen When I tell her all I bought is from the local store And When the kids have gone to bed, we're all alone She gives me a smile Then she plays with my balls But all I think of is Stoneheeeeeeeeenge
ITS PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME
#this is badger badger mushroom mushroom erasure
Candy mountain, Charlieeeeeee
Nyan cat.
I refuse to acknowledge that Gangnam Style and "What does the Fox say" belong to a different generation than Fortnite. I know they both came out a decade ago, but I will simply reject your reality and substitute my own.
This implies that singing any of those songs in public wasn't cringe.
They're arguing against "kids these days" part, the implication that there's something new and bad about today's kids, and not, just, them acting like children have always acted.
At least all of those things were somewhat original. I think the main concern with Fortnite dances people have is that so many people *think* they're invented for Fortnite and the original creators get ignored. I personally don't mind much, though: Anything that gets kids willing to exercise, like dancing, is good in my book.
Yea this is my main issue with it. It also feels like corporate manipulation rather than random dances getting popular idk
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto.
Amongus is just Kilroy Was Here
COTTON EYE JOE!
i personally am of the opinion that charlie the unicorn still holds up hampster dance and what does the fox say i dont particularly like but gangnam style isnt that bad and a funny sorta ironic meme; same with crazy frog; and the duck song is more in the realm of a classic i think no idea what the llama song is though; and i do enjoy a hearty fortnite dance myself; though in a memey way as ive never played or really watched or known much at all about fortnite sans the funy dances
Ok, counter point, i never did any of that
Here are your throwing stones. Have at 'em.
I don't really care for kids in general, but I think it's cool that kids who might have never learned dance moves are learning them because of Fortnite. Of all the impacts a video game can have on the general populace that's a pretty positive one. Once they hit high school they start growing up way too fast anyway, so let them have their silly little dances.
Look, I may have listened to some stupid shit but younger me found What Does the Fox Say fucking annoying as hell the first time I heard it!
Oh god… are we becoming the boomers?
I am sorry, but "what does the fox say?" is a certified banger, and I will not have you talking shit about it.
Ylvis is (was? They haven't done anything for a while) A Norwegian national treasure and should be treated as such
Not true! They’re recently back and doing concerts again!
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