Nah. This was a made with a :3
open gangnam devs failed [arbitrary purity test]. I now only use the libre gangnam style fork
Where my gangnam-rs bois?
But they are struggling to catch on as “lib, lib lib, libre gangnam style” is too different for some people
How do you feel about the fork of libre Gangnam style, Gangnam Style NG
I feel like Gangnam Style was a watershed moment in some way. It was the first time someone in my office said to me, “FishFace, have you seen this video…”. It was a break-out of internet culture into mainstream culture in a way I’d never experienced before. A few years later, 2017, I was in a sports club where most of the members were a fair bit younger than me, and they were all talking constantly in memes and I (as someone who had been talking in memes to my fellow terminally-online nerd friends forever) felt instantly at home - but I realised that the change had truly happened; internet memes and culture were no longer the niche preserve of nerds, but were well and truly mainstream.
So at the same time as I was enjoying having “my culture” something I could share with more people and be understood, there was a sad aspect that it was no longer special either.
Harlem Shake -> Gangnam Style -> …Despacito maybe?
It’s the two girls, one cup of your generation?
It’s certainly one of the first examples of viral internet trends.
I can’t really think of one bigger than it before it. First YouTube video to hit 1B views as well.
There were the occasional things like Star Wars Kid that would leak from containment into the mainstream, but nothing quite the scale of Gangnam Style.
Yeah I remember the 1B record. I wouldn’t say it was the first viral internet trend, but it was the MOST viral at its time - everything viral up until then was dwarfed!
I had the same experience. This guy truly ruled the world for a brief moment. I don’t think anything has come close to how this broke out, I guess because it all became so normal after that.
grandma style by now
14 years ago 🥲
I need to share this with someone: Minecraft Style hit me right when I was playing Feed The Beast Modded Minecraft with my Girlfriend years ago and I am still in awe.
