Spyke

A comment says he unlisted it and reuploaded a less noisy version

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boonhetreply
sopuli.xyz

Yup, I've only seen it in blurrydefinition before and I tend to watch it every few years

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boonhetreply
sopuli.xyz

I think the lines being all shaky was part of the art (which is why that hasn't changed), but it having the resolution of a potato was more of a technical limitation of 20 years ago or whenever it was uploaded to YouTube originally.

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lemmy.world

but it having the resolution of a potato was more of a technical limitation of 20 years ago or whenever it was uploaded to YouTube originally.

Was it even on YT originally? I remember it being like.. iirc.. I remember seeing it first being posted to a forum.

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Was it even on YT originally? I remember it being like… iirc… I remember seeing it first being posted to a forum.

I don't remember running into it on any of my forums, but it may have predated my forum use, which started in like 2004 or so. Since the video itself is older than that, I'm fairly sure you're right, but I'm also fairly sure most people have seen it on YouTube first like myself. It's been popular for decades now, people tend to send it to their friends as a YouTube link.

Also most file hosts used by people back in those days had pretty nasty file size limits too, I think it was pretty common to have really low resolution and bitrate for videos. And all the warez stuff was usually in like 30 or 40 file split archives lol

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My friends and I quoted this too each other frequently back in college, to the confusion and sometimes concern of those who weren't aware of the video. We even found a spoon that really was too big and just had to buy it.

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This and "Billy's Balloon" are my favorites. I laugh every every time I see it, and they've been around for decades.

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I saw this in a theater with a whole ass audience when it was released. Anus bleeding scene had everyone in stitches which only amplified it. I'm amazed we didn't collectively die of laughter by the end. It was incredible.

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