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2026-05-25 18:55 UTC

but it having the resolution of a potato was more of a technical limitation of 20 years ago or whenever it was uploaded to YouTube originally. Was it even on YT originally? I remember it being like… iirc… I remember seeing it first being posted to a forum.

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@boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2026-05-25 20:59

Was it even on YT originally? I remember it being like… iirc… I remember seeing it first being posted to a forum. I don’t remember running into it on any of my forums, but it may have predated my forum use, which started in like 2004 or so. Since the video itself does predate YouTube, I’m fairly sure you’re right, but I’m also fairly sure most people have seen it on YouTube first like myself. It’s been popular for decades now, people tend to send it to their friends as a YouTube link. Also most file hosts used by people back in those days had pretty nasty file size limits too, I think it was pretty common to have really low resolution and bitrate for videos. And all the warez stuff was usually in like 30 or 40 file split archives lol

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@atomicorange@lemmy.world 2026-05-26 04:33

It aired at Spike and Mike’s film festival! That’s where I first saw it.

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