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[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

The state of the internet today: you need a giant text with the punchline because otherwise people won't watch a 50 seconds sketch

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 145 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Here's the original without the giant, fuck-off text shoving the entire joke in your face the whole time.

[-] iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.app 25 points 1 day ago

There must be something wrong with YouTube, because it says that was uploaded 18 years ago.

[-] toynbee@piefed.social 5 points 20 hours ago

Did you know that YouTube was originally created to document the Janet Jackson incident?

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

I know, right? Hey, did you see that there's a new Llamas with Hats?

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

That kills people!

[-] ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Wdym, it was actually uploaded 18 years ago.

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 13 points 23 hours ago

I believe they are exhibiting denial that YouTube could possibly be old enough to have videos uploaded 18 years ago.

This denial is being done mostly in jest to cover the true, creeping, dripping, existential despair that so much time has passed, but at the same time to commiserate and laugh with others who are similarly affected. Drip, drip, tick, tick, tick.

Also, the video turns 19 in a couple of months. yaaaaay

[-] mmmm@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 day ago

Been using linux since 2006 and this is the first time I see an ad for it. Well done.

[-] pedz@lemmy.ca 7 points 23 hours ago

IBM made ads for Linux in the beginning of the 2000s. Most were a bit weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ozaFbqg00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vggF3VIzVpI

Here's one with Sisko (Avery Brooks): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJA9eiUktcA

[-] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

This ad was made just 2 years after you started.

[-] ranzispa@mander.xyz 12 points 1 day ago

I remember suse making quite a few back in the days, some were pretty nice.

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

SUSE has an entire library of musical parodies. Some of them actually slap. This one is my favorite.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 22 hours ago

SUSE parodies remind me of when tech competition was actually fun. <3

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

fyi you probably wanna cut the parameter in url after video id as it may identify you

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I rarely share anything on my phone and I think I got lazy from relying on a browser extension to remove those. I appreciate the heads up.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago

maybe circle the overlaid punchline in red next time so I don't miss the joke

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 22 hours ago

And add some Subway Surfers or Skylanders footage so I don't scroll away in the first half-second.

[-] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

geez that tux looks creepy af xD Love it!

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 points 22 hours ago

Like that Panda commercial where it'd stare people down and then wreck their desks in a rage. Lmao

[-] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

i just saw some commercial (don't remember about what) with a panda explaining the product and i thought exactly of the "don't mess with panda" spots xD

[-] Danitos@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

This is one of those "it's so bad that it's good" movies. Love it.

[-] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

So will Microsoft, to their cloud.

[-] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 4 points 1 day ago

Apparently, Linux can't even get people to spell 'losing' correctly.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

It has me loosing my grammar correcting urges. X_X

[-] ideonek@piefed.social 3 points 23 hours ago

Joke is allways funnier when you start with the point.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

That way I know what is coming and won't risk having my expectations subverted.

[-] ideonek@piefed.social 2 points 11 hours ago

As we know, surprise is a comedy killer.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

OH MY GOD!

Shit. You scared me!

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago

Honestly don't get the joke

[-] daggermoon@piefed.world 8 points 1 day ago
[-] piyuv@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

There are credits at the end

[-] daggermoon@piefed.world 14 points 1 day ago

I still have more questions than answers.

lucky you. you have the Information Highway©®™ at your fingertips

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago

I gotta say, "living embodiment of Linux as a Christ figure" was not something I expected to see today.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

I was hoping Tux would have a persona more like Dr. Cox, sweeping in nonchalantly to save the patient while badgering the interns for being incompetent

[-] LemmyPlaceDN@europe.pub 2 points 1 day ago

Linux is my personal savior. You can make a religion out if this!

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

There is a difference between macOS and Linux.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 10 hours ago

Yes, MacOS is corporate surveillance crap and Linux isn't.

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Took the words out of my mouth. I mean they weren't in there, but I am glad you said it for us.

[-] JATtho@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

*If you install a light weight distro close to the mainline ones.

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