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In 2013, he would partner with Brian May of Queen and Brian Blessed from the film Flash Gordon (among many other works), in support of the RSPCA's protests against badger culling in the UK. He did a parody of the dubstep song Swagga by Excision & Datsik, called Guess I Got My Badger Back, which would also see a release as a 3D version. Weebl is also a fan of football (soccer, for those who think of hand-egg when they hear the word football), originally uploading Footy Footy Footy in 2004, updating it for the FIFA World Cup in 2010 by overlaying vuvuzelas overtop the original audio (like the zombie badgers, this one's gone missing too), and then a 2014 version called Realistic Football Badgers in response to England's performance in that year's FIFA World Cup. He would also parody movies, such as Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Snakes on a Plane, and Transformers. A Christmas version would follow in 2005. In October of the same year, he released Badgers 2, a special Halloween edition where the Badgers were zombified (sadly, this one seems to be lost to the mists of time, if anyone knows where it's been mirrored, let me know so I can edit in the link). Weebl would revisit the Badgers concept many times. Flash music loops were particularly potent, as the repetition needed to reinforce the meme was built right in, and Badger Badger Badger may have been the most potent of all, with its hypnotic double layering of repetition. Unlike modern times, where memes can peak and then drift down into deadmeme territory in the space of days or weeks, the meme economy of the early internet was much slower paced. Or if you don't care about official uploads, here's a ten hour version.Д«adgers was released on 2 September 2003, and quickly became one of the most successful early internet memes. So, don't watch that first video I linked, watch this official one hour version instead. I won't say for certain that he invented the idea of a musical loop Flash, but he's the one who codified it into the institution that it became.

So many of his ultra-popular Flash hits were designed to be musical loops, that many other creators copied this technique to try to achieve the same success. Last week I mentioned how many Flash animations were designed to play on continuous loop until it melted your brain? Weebl is one of the main reasons why.

So, lets talk about Badger Badger Badger, sometimes called 'Badger^3', 'Badger, Mushroom, Snake', or just 'Badgers'. 'radwolf76, when come back, bring Badgers.' But, you're not here for Weebl, Bob, or pie.

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The name 'Weebl' comes from one of his longest running series of animations 'The everyday happenings of Weebl and sometimes WeeblвЂ™s Friend, Bob.' The first episode of Weebl & Bob, Pie, establishes most of what you need to know about the series: Weebl and his smaller friend are both wobbly egg shapes with the same split head mouths that South Park uses for Canadians, they talk in an incomprehensible muttering that would be almost impossible to understand without the speech bubbles, and they're obsessed with pie. He also worked uncredited on some 3D visual effects for the first Resident Evil film (specifically, I understand he was responsible for the 3D animated map of Umbrella Corp's underground facility, 'The Hive'). Weebl? Hailing from Bristol, England, Weebl is a sound engineer and artist by trade. So I'm setting aside the first Thursday of the month for a sub-series that I'm calling 'First Class FLASHBack', to help pace my posts of the most prolific creators, so they don't overwhelm the one-offs.ДЄnd who better to kick off First Class FLASHBack with than one of Flash Animation's true juggernauts, Jonti Picking, aka Mr. I also knew that a small handful of creators are responsible for a whole hell of a lot of Flashes that easily fall under the classics label. Since I'm doing one of these a week until the end of 2020 when Adobe shoves Flash into the End-of-Life bin, I realized that I'm going to be posting a whole lot of these. Another Thursday, so it's time for me to post another classic of the Flash Animation era.

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