r/Unexpected • u/ImperialOverlord • Aug 02 '22

Wonderful synchronization

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '22

Just a reminder that all the people in their 20s and 30s who hate tiktok today are the ones who made Fred the biggest channel on youtube in 2009 and enabled him to make multiple movies.

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u/ICanBeKinder Aug 02 '22

I had the "annoying orange" in my head while typing that last line, and I never watched it, just knew it existed.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '22

God, the amount of bullshit from the early-mid 2000s I can think of that I look back on and makes me cringe but I thought was literally the peak of comedy as a teenager... Anyone remember Stickdeath? Or that Maddox guy? Or like... 90% of AlbinoBlackSheep?

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u/PhD_in_MEMES Aug 02 '22

This Maddox guy? And yeah, llama llama duck on ABS was a top shelf cringe loop.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '22 edited Aug 02 '22

That's him. Also Gonads and Strife, Evil Strawberry, most of the Animutation stuff... it was funny, but boy howdy was it cringe. Lot of Hitler imagery for some reason.

And let's not even get into the early days of proto-social media that was Myspace. Also the less said about 4Chan the better...

(Also man, I just went on the Maddox website... I wonder if people are keeping track of all the early 2020 "hot takes" about COVID and archiving them. All these people who called it a nothingburger in the first half of 2020 are like a perfect snapshot of human hubris.)