We Didn’t Start the Flame War
I’m in a rush, so I’ll keep it brief.
The song and video were made by collegehumor.com and I first saw it when I stumbled upon the blog What Tian Has Learned…. It is one of many parodies of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel; another infamous parody being “Pet Names for Genitalia” (which I actually knew about before the original).
As for the video, the drunk college girls pic in the beginning is this one (you horny bastards…). The ihatemindy.com site exists, the ihatecindy.com site does not. The pic that is referred to as photoshoped is this one. The pic that is “stolen from xkcd” is this one, which in itself is based on an Internet meme with X-Zibit. The alien ASCII art thingy is Admiral Ackbar (thank you Faethin <3) and the bear is Pedobear, one of 4chan’s mascots. I couldn’t find the kitty video. The Rick Roll video URL is obviously fake as YouTube uses an = between the v and the video ID, not a +. The proper link is therefore http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 and the two videos are obviously not the same, but it was a very nice touch.
The song and video were made by collegehumor.com and I first saw it when I stumbled upon the blog What Tian Has Learned…. It is one of many parodies of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel; another infamous parody being “Pet Names for Genitalia” (which I actually knew about before the original).
As for the video, the drunk college girls pic in the beginning is this one (you horny bastards…). The ihatemindy.com site exists, the ihatecindy.com site does not. The pic that is referred to as photoshoped is this one. The pic that is “stolen from xkcd” is this one, which in itself is based on an Internet meme with X-Zibit. The alien ASCII art thingy is Admiral Ackbar (thank you Faethin <3) and the bear is Pedobear, one of 4chan’s mascots. I couldn’t find the kitty video. The Rick Roll video URL is obviously fake as YouTube uses an = between the v and the video ID, not a +. The proper link is therefore http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 and the two videos are obviously not the same, but it was a very nice touch.
Apr 23rd, 2009 at 9:18 pm
IT’S A TRAP!
Actually, it’s Admiral Ackbar.
Apr 30th, 2009 at 7:12 am
OMG, that’s awesome.
Apr 30th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Damn memes. Ruined the intarwebs
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Quick thing I noticed: The stolen XKCD strip has been cited to come from an obvious misspelling of ebaumsworld.com, a site notorious for stealing content from other sites.
Well, the more you know…
May 11th, 2009 at 12:45 am
Awesomeness xD
I’d totally do them too ._.
Jun 15th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Found your kitty video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZSbC09qgLI
Jun 15th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
@Alex: It’s close, but not the same.