demy

my 2 moods are:

- im baby

- im small bastard man i wanna hiss at the sun

#thinking and reminising about my childhood #i could never pick. there were so many good things #and there still are and there is so much beauty in that #and i love child me for appreciating it all #i love her so much. she never felt like she fitted in and she had no concept of self beyond what she would play on the playground #all she knew is she loved her mommy and her tv shows #thats what its all about baby #childhood

the fact that this post is almost at 10k is baffeling. this post i made in 2019 is my legacy

as a child i never knew the answers to those really mundane questions like “whats your favourite colour?”. but i’ve finally figured them out now. my favourite colour is green. my favourite animals are anteaters. my favourite food is surinamese roti. ive finally grown into my skin.

sometimes as a kid when i was going somewhere i would look at a small branch on a tree or a leaf on a bush and think to myself “this thing has never gotten the attention it has gotten from me right now.” and i hope truely that all those plants thrived off of that attention. i hope those trees outlive me and that those bushes never die and that those leaves fed from the sun until they couldn’t anymore.

iosonomer-blog

monsieurenjlolras

I need to know the rules!!!! What are the guidelines for what the vehicle has to be?

anyway-what

Hi! This is a dutch gameshow called "ter land, ter zee, en in de lucht" (transl: by land, by sea, and in the air). Its unfortunately discontinued bc nobody wanted to deal with the stricter health and safety guidelines, but nobody died during the recording. Its also one of the few ways to get dutch cyclists to wear helmets.

There are several different game variants, and this is "snel naar de bel" (fast to the bell). Both game variants are very similar: you and your friend have to make your own wheeled device, and get it to the other side, where you need to ring a bell. You can either win because you're the fastest, or you have the best vehicle, or the most interesting failure.

But you should definitely check out more of it, there are game variants where you have a larger vehicle where part of it gets launched into the water, you have the backwards race where everyone gets into shitty cars and races backwards through the official zandvoort racetrack, you have a version where they just drop you into the water and have to stay airborne as long as possible, and so many more! A bunch of episodes are over on the youtube, so experiment with google autotranslate autocaptioning (its in dutch) and enjoy!

#but yes unhinged tradition i LOVE #dutch culture is overall very mid but this is one of those bits that is just so ridiculous that u just have to love it

small correction!! after tltzeidl was discontinued, redbull picked it up as part of their campaing to sponsor "extreme sports". that is the version this video comes from!!

nyancrimew

its decmbre ... the gronch

nyancrimew

the grink .

vile-things

entryn17

tumblr trying to be like tiktok then trying to be like twitter then giving us the 3rd unreality inducing immersive ad, its staff members being condescending to the userbase, the marketing team trying to parasocialize their way into your pockets, youtube trying to do away with adblockers after upping the percentage of ads by 40% and making it so even if your video is demonetized watchers will still get them, youtube removing the dislike button then making it so you don't get a home feed if you have watch history turned off, google being able to remove your synched bookmarks if they don't comply with their policy, if i listed every way in which twitter has gotten worse in the last year this post will be as long as a novel, ai generated articles and images everywhere, google searches sucking ass in general, reddit charging for its api, KOSA being introduced into the US senate, tiktok in general, every social media under the fucking sun introducing log in walls, being unable to browse most sites on mobile from the sheer amount of popups taking over your screen WAUUUGH social media being products and thus requiring infinite growth and thus trying to introduce newer and newer shit that alienates its dedicated userbase. saturated sludge era of the internet

#every social media site nowadays feels like those recipe sites with 500 popups etc

rodrickheffeley

"it will pass" is still the craziest response to someone saying "i love you" like he really gagged her a bit

we need tumblr market place. not like for ads or companies but like facebook market place

#@staff

coolkaius

Furby Resources!

I added a lot of things since originally posting, so you may want to delete your last reblog and replace it!

Incredible Google Drive folder with a huge variety of Furby content and history

Guide to Furby Fandom Tags

Tips For Buying Furbies

Adult Furby Price Guide | Furby Value Guide For Dummies

Furby Discord Server | Furby Wiki’s Discord Server (direct invite)

Archived Furby content on archive.org

Colorful Google Doc to track Furby projects and collections

Furby Certificate Of Adoption | Furby Adoption Certificate

Images ripped from flash games

Official Furby Tiled Backgrounds

Furby Carrier Pattern | If that doesn’t work patterns are sold on Etsy

All Official Furbys

Eye colors on official models | Common 2005 Furby Eye Colors

Differences between Curly Furby Babies and Sheep Furby Babies

High Quality Transparent Furby Masks

Furbtober Prompts

Pixel Furby Page Dividers

Furby Sticker Scans

THE FURBY ORGAN, A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MADE FROM FURBIES

Lore

Furby Paradise Manga - 1 chapter scanned and translated

Desktop Furby - 2005 Burger King Freeware

A Deep Dive Into The Furby Fandom

Furby Island Movie Free On YouTube

Printable furbish-english dictionary | Official PDF Dictionary | All Known Furbish Words

Official Furby trainer’s guide

Furby Songs YouTube Playlist

Dancing Furby Gameplay & Interacting with Furby - Game Boy Color Japan

Unofficial Guide To Furby Species And Biology

Furby Lore Zine

Every printable from Big Fun In Furbyland (contains lore, Furbish words, phrases, coloring pages and photos)

Make A (non-plush) Furby

Furby Bases Collection on deviantART | Extra Furby Base

Design A Furby Shockwave Game (pictured above , also has a few old Furby mini games) | Can be played through Flashpoint which archives old web games

Official Coloring Pages

AdoptAFurby.com Coloring Pages | List Of Official Coloring Books

Color A Furby Online (pictured above)

Furby’s Design-o-Matic (pictured above) | Works with Ruffle’s browser extension

Make A Furb Game (pictured above) | Preview Video

Furby Creator Games on Picrew

Origami Furby Tutorial

Big Fun In Furby Land CD-ROM has a very limited Furby maker pictured in a gif above (works with Windows 10, just right click, click “Mount”, then open Furby.exe it’s an application file)

Real Life Furby Mods

FURBY TUTORIAL MASTERPOST

1998 Furby Pattern

Long Furby Pattern

How to Long Furb | Longifying Your Furby

How To Skin A 1998 Furby

Eye Chip Tutorial

How To Make Accurate 1998 Eye Chips

Furby Buddy Pattern

replacing a 1998 furby’s speaker

~ furby beret - crochet pattern ~

Curing Me Sleep Again (when you’re Furby won’t stay awake)

How To Skin A Shelby

Real Life Furby Care

How To Find Your Furby’s Birthday

Furby Name Generator | Another Furby Name Generator

How To Brush Your Furby In Depth Guide

How To Clean A Tilt Sensor

Sync Screw Adjustment

Please suggest additions!!

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weirdness-is-good

sylph-of-gender

moonyplays

can-of-genderfluid

#controlling a submarine with those wii controllers in the form of golf clubs or tennis rackets for wii sports

oh it's horrific i'm being klomded

itznarcotic

hiphopocliedes

One struggle 🫡

catfishimages

if we keep getting fatter and hornier we can abolish all world militaries by 2026

alefbetsoup

hyrude

was talking with gwen yesterday and she was like “yeah leonard nimoy’s cool. it’s cool that he’s gay” and i was like “he’s not gay. i also thought he was gay but he was just nice. you’re thinking of patrick stewart” and she was like “he’s not gay you’re thinking of stanley tucci” and i, thinking of steve busciemi, said “FROM SPY KIDS?” anyway just checked and none of these people are gay apparently. thanks for reading

hyrude

posts that make people say “stanley tucci IS gay, lol” and then google it and reblog again with “oh, huh. nvm”

#idk if u play 2 iconic gay characters #nigel and ceasar flickermann #ur gay to me!

I do have to impress on anyone who wasn't around for it how batshit the reality boom of the 2000s could be. Especially on Fox.

Here are some 100% real 2000s reality shows:

Who's Your Daddy? A woman has to guess which of eight men is her biological father. One of them really is, and if she guesses right she wins $100,000. If one of the seven fake dads convinces her to guess them, he wins $100,000.

Black. White. A white family learns about racism by living a month in blackface, while a black family spends a month in whiteface. The black family was a real family, but the white family was just some actors hired to put on blackface to prove racism exists

Without Prejudice? Five strangers decide which of five strangers gets a cash prize based off clips and their answers to political questions. Cancelled when one of the choosers openly said he'd eliminate all black contestants

Welcome to the Neighborhood. Three conservative white families in a Austin subdivision decide which diverse family gets to move in. Unaired due to being literal housing discrimination

Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay. Two straight men try to pass themselves off as gay and whoever seems more gay gets $50,000. Unaired due to. Due to. Due to

Playing It Straight. A woman tries to find love among fourteen men, half of whom are straight and half of whom are gay, and she must eliminate two men she believes are gay each week. If she ended up picking a straight man in the end, they'd split a million dollars; if she picked a gay man, he'd win a million dollars

Boy Meets Boy. This was Playing It Straight but starring a gay man and he had to eliminate straight people

Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire? He wasn't a multimillionaire. He didn't even have a million dollars in liquid assets. He had a battery conviction Fox claims they didn't see. Because it was the 2000s, somehow this ended up with the woman he won being widely vilified and turned into a national punchline. How dare she complain about a massive corporation tricking her into marrying a lying abuser, good thing Matt Lauer's there to take her down a peg

The Swan. A "ugly" woman is given plastic surgery and wins a prize if she's the hottest at the end of the season. If she's not hot enough by the show's standards she's eliminated and called ugly on national TV

The Biggest Loser. Overweight people engage in competitive crash weight loss that often led to awful health complications. Studies showed basically everyone on the show regained any weight they lost once it was over and they didn't have abusive trainers demanding they take huge health risks to win a competitive weight loss competition. Like the others, this one was cancel-oh, it was a massive hit that ran for 18 seasons? Yikes!

Wife Swap and Trading Spouses. These were the same show and had a wife from one family go to another family that was different politically, racially, culturally, religiously etc. Most famous for the God Warrior

At the time people focused on the likes of Fear Factor but looking back it's wild how many of the worst shows toyed with politics. So many of these shows have a premise that's like "what if we exposed these conservatives to these people they hate?" or hyping themselves up as Important Experiments. Then they'd freak out when they got the kind of viral bigoted freakout they were trying to construct the whole time.

There were also a bunch of horrible reality shows, thankfully this time mostly unpopular, in the 2010s that based themselves around economic themes as a response to the market crash, but that's a story for another time

Murder in Small Town X. A murder mystery reality show, but unlike most murder mystery games that have a cozy manor-house-mystery vibe this one was all edgy 2000s slasher film aesthetics. The season finale aired on September 4th, 2001 and the winner died in 9/11

Lost. No not that one. This one was actually cool (this one and the one above are the only two I actually saw at the time). Contestants were taken to a unknown country and had to first figure out where they were, and then get from there to New York City to win. In the first episode they were abandoned in the middle of Mongolia. Anyway this show about people being flown to the middle of nowhere and safely & freely traveling around the world premiered on Tuesday, September 4th, 2001 and, uh, did not seem so feasible by episode two's premiere date

What the fuck I watched both of those. How did this silly post lead me to remembering what I was doing a week before 9/11

The Runner: This show was about one contestant as a fugitive, running across the country, evading capture from "agents" as he bypassed security in cities and at airports. Mysteriously dropped unaired from its planned late 2001 release date - who could say why!

Moment of Truth. People answer embarrassing questions on polygraph. Cancelled when one woman, with little prompting, admitted she stole money from her boss, wished she'd married her ex-boyfriend, and cheated on her husband, then was eliminated when the lie detector judged her saying "I'm a good person" a lie. Absolute icon

Are You Hot?: The Search for America's Sexiest People. Maybe the nadir of reality show creativity since literally the only premise was to put hot people on a stage and judge if they're hot enough, with nothing else being considered. Lorenzo Lamas, arbiter of human attractiveness, used a laser pointer to point to the "problem areas" of contestant's bodies

Man vs. Beast. Humans engage in athletic feats against animals. A professional eater competitively eats opposite a bear! Dwarves race a elephant! A sumo wrestler tug-of-wars a orangutan! The producer of this says he couldn't make his animals-fight-humans show today bc society is too "woke"

I'm actually curious what bizarre shows other countries had. I know the UK had several 'cause a lot of these are based on UK shows, and their reality TV boom started earlier and afaik was more popular than America's, like my distant sense is that reality TV drama got non-stop coverage over there. What batshit reality shows were airing on Channel 4 and ITV back then, does anyone know??

@ everyone: please. Add your own entries into this terrible archive

H8R. Not a 2000s show but a early 2010s show. A show where online commentators who made fun of celebrities were shamed by the celebrities in-person. But it wasn't, like, people who had said racist things, it was people who made jokes about reality TV stars and famous-for-being-famous celebrities. You know, people whose own shows treat them as a joke? Most infamously the show took people to task for insulting Joe "Girls Gone Wild" Francis, since god forbid anyone online dare to criticize someone sued multiple times for filming underage girls. He was charged for false imprisonment and assault earlier the same year he did the show about how unfair it was that internet trolls were mean to him. If it hadn't been cancelled they planned to expose the "haters" of Sarah Palin and Mel Gibson

Seriously, this review of it has stuck with me. They tried to frame this show about how the peasants should never criticize their betters as anti-bullying! All the celebs featured on it turned out to be exactly like they seemed on TV! All their criticism of the celebs was mild and on point (like the reality stars were mad that people are judging them based on the characters they choose to play on their shows? How else were they supposed to be judged, exactly, besides what they choose to show to the public?)

If you made this show now it'd be called UnCancelled and everyone on it would've been "cancelled" or something. Logan Paul and Pewdiepie would be on it. Gina Carano would be on it. It would be the worst show ever made

British TV managed to find a show less healthy than The Biggest Loser. Incredible @redacted-user-69420

I thought this couldn't possibly be a thing but it was real and called Space Cadets @canutegoodman

This reminds me of an American show called I Wanna Marry "Harry", where twelve American women were taken to a castle and competed to date a British guy posing as Prince Harry.

People joked about how the women could've fallen for it but according to a interview with the winner they didn't, but Fox basically had a gaslighting regime to separate them and quash doubt??? They were isolated in hotel rooms with no connection to the outside world and told not to look around in public, lest they see a image of the real Prince? Fox had someone pose as a therapist and tell the cast they were being delusional for thinking he wasn't Prince Harry??? Like they didn't treat it as a joke, they were dead serious about making them believe he was the real Prince Harry. Incredible Sex House energy

So The Runner did eventually come out, since they did a version in 2016 for something called...go90? What the hell is go90? (A defunct streaming service owned by Verizion, apparently)

Hunted sounds worse though bc on The Runner the chasers were also game show contestants, like viewers at home could be picked to be chasers. While on Hunted they were all cops???