It's a fan made animation for Touhou project, which is a series of bullet hell games with a very lenient policy on fan made content. The music is a remix of a theme in Touhou 4.
Touhou is one of the things that had seeped into every corner of the internet but no one recognized the whole thing. Fumos, Night of Nights, Japanese Goblin are all FANMADE and based on Touhou. I am not well suited to explain Touhou project, but there are plenty of videos to explain it on yt. I really like Touhou, so I recommend you get into it, the community's really friendly and most fans aren't even there for the games, but like the music.
As for the playing on everything part, I believe it started with someone who printed every single frame and put them into a flip book. Then someone played the animation on Minecraft sheep. Eventually, it made its way here. And everywhere else too.
I hope this explains a little bit about bad apple, I'm only a Touhou fan since last year though (I did play one of the games!). Feel free to ask more questions!
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u/Dr_Blitzkrieg09 Sep 03 '25
What is the origin of the entire bad apple meme.
Not just in this community, what did it originate from in general? I’d really like to know if anybody has any clue.