Neilposting

welcome to my lemon demon blog I do not ever post on

[motherfucker-unlimited]

I still want to know what sort of planetary alignment had to happen so that "Neil banging out the tunes" and Neil Cicierega's first YouTube video being uploaded fell on the exact same day and year

[jonklassen2]

[gentlemanbones]

[dreadpiratecherry-deactivated20]

[was-fleur-prince-deactivated201]

I have no idea what’s going on

[pewterkat]

Congrats, we have reached a period of time where there is a generation that does not remember the first memes.

[ryanthedemiguy]

Look, i’ve been on tumblr for nine fucking years and I don’t get this meme. I remember seeing it at some point, but have no clue what it means.

[nerdfighterwhatevernumbers]

because this meme is pre tumblr and pre-youtube and is about 17 years old, almost twice as long as you’ve been on tumblr the ancient depths of albinoblacksheep will never die

[actualaster]

[banananutloaf4life]

But like, can someone explain. The fucking. Context.

[dangernoir]

It refers to a meme song, called The Badger Song or sometimes Badger Badger Badger, Mushroom, Mushroom. There is a snake in the lyrics also. You can watch the video on YouTube, if you so desire.

[accessibleposts]

[sepdet]

By way of further explanation, this comes from a time when most people had 56K modems or even slower, so downloading a full video clip of even crappy 320x240 resolution could take 5-10 minutes. You really had to want to see the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins or the Exploding Whale.

Flash bypassed this problem with cel animation. Each scene uses a static backdrop image plus small images of each of the moving parts, like pieces of a paper doll, which are then repositioned, scaled or flipped using a series of text commands written in a simple programming language. As the visual components were just a handful of static images, they didn’t have to be compressed as much as later Youtube video, making their edges as crisp as modern 4K. The most bandwidth-intensive aspect of Flash was the accompanying soundfile, but that loaded in a matter of seconds rather than minutes for video.

The result tended to look like a Monty Python animation, and so Flash yielded a bumper crop of the absurd from BadgerBadgerBadger to Pavoratti’s Elephants to Fight! Kikkoman, the soy sauce superhero. All of which only survive in imperfect, fuzzy YouTube captures.

[secondbeatsongs]

I originally just put this in the tags, but I think it’s important enough to add to the actual post:

these flash animations aren’t just found in fuzzy youtube videos! you can see the original animations using BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint, a flash preservation project!

the software is free and open-source, and it has built-in players for flash and shockwave (as well as many other platforms). it allows you to search their archive of games and animations, and play them whenever you want!

they’ve got Badger Badger Badger, Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, Charlie the Unicorn, the original asdfmovie, and just…so many other animations and games that were thought to be lost or unplayable.

as of their most recent update, their archive has over 130,000 games and 20,000 animations, and most of them look just as crisp as they did 20 years ago.

so, go put Badger Badger Badger fullscreen and admire all of those sharp edges and clean lines! or play the Escape the Room series from 2keysgames, or the old Barbie games, or whatever you want! it’s an incredible resource, and I have spent hours getting lost in it.

[microwavethiscd]

its been like 3 years since i touched this account and my life is so vastly different now and i did not think about lemon demon like once for years but anyways i started going out with a cool musician and we bonded over how awesome we think spirit phone is on our valentines date so. shoutout niel cicierega

[qnslnfkdndofj727383-deactivated]

[woosh-floosh]

I’m the only one….

[net-prophet]

[microwavethiscd]

wtf almost 2020 and ppl r liking my art from 2017.... 😳 u ppl r crazy crazy

[portablecrockpot-remade]

[lemondemonhater]

fuck you if you heard a lemon demon song

[emmablowguns]

Snakes

[plomptipples]

This is how Tumblr’s search function works

[frogsfuneral-deactivated2019112]

Visit Original Link

i’m sorry for posting these so frequently but c’mon i have to post this

[tredlocity]

Emmy Cicierega’s Ariel vs Neil Cicierega’s Ariel

[charlesoberonn]

These two creators were siblings the whole time and none of you thought to tell me?

[from-mars-to-venus]

I read this guy’s thesis floating around on the web once that actually stated that the Cicierega family has basically singlehandedly shaped internet culture and are alone some of the most important figures in pop culture but literally barely anyone actually knows who they are. It’s interesting stuff

[vicholas]

[mayorbuds]

heres my mouth trilogy series from last semester: acrylic on 7"x 5" matte board

[indierokkers-deactivated2020053]

[beeperinobeep-deactivated202204]

ellen: so i heard you like lemon demon

me: yeah

ellen: reveals security footage of gandalf the grey and gandalf the white and monty python and the holy grails black knight and benito mussolini and the blue meanie and cowboy curtis and jambi the genie and robocop and the terminator and captain kirk and darth vader and lo pan and superman and every single power ranger and bill s preston and theodore logan and spock and the rock and doc ock and hulk hogan rushing down the halls this very instant to kill me

me, chuck norris: omg ellen you didnt

[fearthrillmoving-deactivated201]

i imagine th singer ov “Lifetime Achievement Award” az a kinda dorky high school senior who most people just think playz d&d n shit but then they bring a dead musician back to life (spooky version i drew in december)