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.
Nah, the voiceover was a Somethingawful thing that spread everywhere else. YouTube wasn't really a thing then, so many folks were on 56k still that you'd download the files. Streaming audio was about the best you could normally do.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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