Tradition

It says posted 18 years ago, but I'm pretty sure this predates YouTube even. Now I feel old... gross.
- It does, I first saw it on ebaumsworld
- Yeah I remember watching this on newgrounds.
- Yes it was originally distributed as a stand alone flash animation.
- It most certainly does! I believe it's from the late 90s, possibly a tiny bit later.
Based
- Are belong to us
I think the voiceover was added for YouTube, but I’m pretty sure that footage came from a game in 1991 “Zero Wing”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us
- It wasn't done by the Laziest Men on Mars? I have a recording of the song (along with some others like Shover Robot/Pusher Robot and that Droppo one) and it includes the VO at the beginning.
  The footage (and words) are based on a bad translation of Zero Wing though, that part is definitely correct.
I was expecting rickroll, I'm pleasantly surprised
I am still considering getting this as a tattoo, 20 years later.
- WHAT YOU SAY?!

Reject modernity they say. First gMod idiot box came out 15 years ago. Nyan cat is from 2011. Gmod shitposting has been around since the game released.

Yeah the novel thing about skibidi toilet is it's a source engine youtube poop that...became something.
- Das Boo Schitt averaged 12mln views per video in the heyday.

funny, I was thinking the other day why Lemmy very actively uses very old memes, especially Saddam Hussein and ~~:.|:;~~ then I remembered that this is mostly people who ran away from reddit after the nth overreach, looking fondly back to the pre-enshittification era. makes sense they're bringing back and referencing old memes too.

We don't have a big corporation forcing us to suck every dick in the advertising industry. Old/edgy memes, porn, over the top arguments about politics, and unhinged content are the defenses against advertisers. Make it high risk and low profit and that keeps them from getting entrenched and ensharting.
Be a brand risk or be sold to the brand. The reason 4chan remains "pure" is because they do the online equivalent of firing a gun out the window to lower property.
- nah I don't think it's that calculated. there's nothing about loss that has anything to do with advertisers.
  also 4chan is a cesspool of nazis. doesn't really work as a parallel.

Hamster dance. Time to get all 1996 at you.

Has it been so long already?

I'm kind of proud of kids using new tech to meme.

Flash era was still pretty tits tho.

If gmod counts as "new".
- Oh is that what they're using?
  Score two for the flash era.

What's with the Half Life guy coming out of a urinal o.O

Trust me, ignorance can be a blessing sometimes.
If you've gone this long without knowing, you are probably better off staying that way.
Skibidi toilet.

How is a gmod shitpost anything but a return to tradition?

Please go stand by your stairs.

I wish that had an accurate view count, and upload date. But it's another pre-YouTube classic, and I'd rather link the upload to the creator's rather than the first re-upload somebody did.

PAK CHOOIE UNF.

Now I want to see an animated series about nyan-cats turn others into other nyan-cats, then a great war between nyan-cats and advice animal characters breaks out.

Why not both?

Tradition, you say?

https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=344516026421299&vanity=100083528588199

(Apologies for shitty FB link. This is so traditional that many YouTube links seem to be gone)

YouTube link

Again, this is not the original, but I seem to recall seeing it in the late 90s.

And this was definitely 90s.

Having been born in 98 I missed lots of the jems ya'll have posted in the comments 😢 thanks to you legends for dropping so many!! Leerroooy jenkiiinnnsss

Kids and their audiovisual memes. In my day we had to rely on text.

Skibidi.