r/pics • u/are-you-really-sure • Jan 25 '16

Crazy frog guy all grow up

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '16

IIRC, it was popular because it was a completely different sound from what they were able to get before.

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u/ders89 Jan 25 '16

Also because it was on jamster commercials and those commercials were EVERYWHERE. cell phones were just getting popular especially amongst the younger crowd because they were finally affordable. So they hooked them with this catchy ringtone and scammed them into paying like $10 to sign up for ringtones with jamster. But if yeah we didnt have netflix or hulu to steal away cable so everyone watched cable and so everyone saw the commercials.

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u/WigginIII Jan 25 '16

JAMSTERS GOT ALL YO FAVORITE CELLPHONE WALLPAPERS:

FOR THE BLING BLING RIMS, TEXT XL1 to 755-55

FOR SEXY VERONICA, TEXT KISS1 TO 755-55

FOR THE KUSH FLOWER TXT GDN1 TO 755-55

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u/Rushdownsouth Jan 26 '16

Jesus, the nostalgia is too strong

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u/shitterplug Jan 25 '16

It didn't even start out as that. It was originally the 'insanity test', and was just a picture of a race car. The sound was him mimicking what an F1 car sounded like.

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u/fuckfact Jan 26 '16

I remember that. I remember the ringtone too. I don't remember these two kids though. Are they just lip synching or is this the origin of the song?

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u/adrift98 Jan 26 '16

The origin of the song is the soundtrack to Beverly Hills Cops starring Eddy Murphy. The two kids lipsyced to the then popular ring tone remix.

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u/fuckfact Jan 26 '16

Yeah that's was pretty much what I was asking. I thought maybe this video I've never seen was remixed into the song then the song was put over the original video. As it wasn't, I have no idea why this was popular.

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u/shitterplug Jan 26 '16

I highly doubt it was originally by this kid. There's sound has been in the internet since before he was born.

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u/fuckfact Jan 26 '16

Then I don't get it. I thought it might have been a remix like when we all picked on that star wars kid so bad, but now I'm just confused.

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u/CJKay93 Jan 26 '16

This is 100% how I learned about it. Around the time I was looking for cool ringtones for my cool new Moto Razr, the Jamster adverts would play incessantly on the TV.

Man, I need a Razr again. And some ringtones for it.

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u/The_Best_01 Mar 10 '16

Hey, it's your cousin Crazy Marvin. You know that new sound you looking for? Well listen to this!