Finding the Origins of Unusual Images
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- čas přidán 29. 02. 2024
- In this video we take a look at the origins and backstories of popular strange images from the internet.. LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE...
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- The Witness
- Nebula
- Memories of a Murder
- Atlas
- Midnight
- City of Angels
- Donkey Kong Country - Aquatic Ambience (Slowed and Reverb)
- Jingle at 5:02 by @zayok7596
- Super Mario 64 DS - Psyche Out (Slowed and Reverb)
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AI will never be able to capture the raw energy of a worm smoking a blunt
Am I wrong or that is the villain in the movie bugs life lol?
oh hey! didnt expect to see you here!
Bruh that's a caterpillar, not a worm
Skill issue, if you know how to use AI properly you can make truly cursed and blessed images
@@babykata-dt3ys🤓☝️
“Pretty old image”
“2014”
I can feel my hair graying in real time
Yeah, remember the cartoon of the frog getting eaten by a stork but the frog was still fighting back by strangling the stork?
I think I got that image by fax..
I'm so old...
@@calvinthedestroyerhuh?
@@monkemilitia natureworks.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Never-Ever-Give-Up-Original-Concept-Drawing-Stalk-trying-to-eat-a-frog-Image-1.jpg
I was 16 In 2014 😟
Yea it was 10 years ago🤣
First image is Generational trauma
It scares me the living hell out
People in 2024 are trying to look like him
Kinda like Momo
That picture scared me so much as a kid. I remember seeing him on CZcams videos and immediately turning off my monitor and crying while finding my DS to try and get my mind off of what I saw.
Watching a hypnosis video and they pop up :( I am scarred
Love this guy for discussing the image we see in the thumbnail first
i was thinking the same thing lol
yeah its great because that is what i clicked here for
Always wanted to know how to find that image/what it's called
Usually CZcamsrs will discuss it last or not at all
Fr
God, I remember that first image terrifying me and my sister when we were kids, but we called it the "Ugly Girl". There was a point where I was scared to watch any video on CZcams out of fear of being jumpscared at any moment.
Same. I remember watching barbie videos and I would always see a specific video being recommended to me with that damn thumbnail called "Ugly guy sings barbie girl" or something, And it'd always make me jump or cover the screen
Same. But I watched a weird video version of the maze game with that picture on it. I was terrified to watch any videos in fear of screamers, unfortunately it seems like I was a magnet for them lol
That picture is honestly classic CZcams at this point. Crazy to think about how long it's been.
Holy shit that same thing happened to me but with a different image. There was an image of Ed Edd n Eddy drawn extremely grotesque by an animator, JaimeR who made that animation "Prank Time". I saw it on google images a while back and it utterly terrified me to the point where I didn't want to look up anything Ed Edd n Eddy related in fear of seeing it again.
Some youtube channels used to use it as the thumbnail for Ed Edd n Eddy creepypasta vids. I still think it's creepy but not the same way I did as a kid.
Someone must bring back that CZcams, not this woke hellscape
the smoking caterpillar one permanently ruined my sense of humor
Mhm
The hardest picture ever made
@@CarlM I wonder if I'm allowed to take a screenshot...?
@@gangstarmama feel free to screenshot and use as a wallpaper
The smoking caterpillar forever changed the trajectory of my life
funny how he posted "eat at WcDonalds" in 2010 and now in 2024 McDonalds is now doing a promotion that is WcDonalds 14 years later
That's exactly the comment.I was looking for because I knew someone was gonna say it before me.I just wanted to Reply to your comment and let you know.
I'm pretty sure the WcDonald's special earlier this year was a parody of Wichael Alone 😂
The fact that the first picture scarred my childhood for some reason is just actually terrifying. But I guess the horror vanished as we grow, looking back to the memories. :)
Fr
Am the only one who laughed at it and thought it looked funny when I was a kid?
so after some digging I have found the original post of "Michael Alone". The original poster said it's from a place called "Guichuan". There is a long-distance bus stop named "广东高要贵川长途客车服务区" (Guangdong Gaoyao Guichuan Long-distance Passenger Transport Terminal Service Area) which is located in Zhaoqing, Guangdong.
Sadly the Baidu Map only provided with streeview outside of the service area.
edit: have found a recent video that shows Michael Alone maybe abandoned and repurposed as a toilet /a/FOBXNRB
here is the screenshot of the original post and rough translation /a/3iwFl83
just complete it with imgur
holy shit the madlad did it
God bless you in the name of Jesus Christ, who is the name above all names & the only way to Heaven❤
each image getting their own montage of them in random places in killing me
😂
Same , although i really like it
i bet the person who created the first image just sat back and laughed as everyone was horrified by it
Fr and I can only imagine the moment of discovery after that person creating something that horrific.
I love the "vintage internet" aesthetic of the presentation!
So many false memories of what the past wasn't like
The man woman thing didn’t scare me as a kid but it sure does startle me when it appears. It’s just disturbing in an uncanny valley way
I have the same experience, really.
Same
Fr, I don't know why it scares me so much and I'm a grown ass adult lol It's just uncomfortable to look at.
Staring at it is more unsettling than using it as a jumpscare tbh
I'm not scared of it but it's uncanny valley vibe makes it unsettling to state at
less scary than the man in the mirror tbf
I've been meaning to say this, but you sound like Izzzyzzz's older brother or something, except instead of covering 2000's internet tween culture, you cover lost media. Seriously the infliction shared between you is spot on.
omg. I never even thought of this. you're so right
I’ve been thinking the same thing for months! Didn’t think anyone else would mention it lol
Anyone remember a photo called "my chemical bromance" it was a photo 4-5 emo dressed guys relatively normal til you notice all their trousers unzipped and their doinkers hanging out. I remember one guy had a really intense creepy smile. Please help me find this image known only as "my chemical bromance"
Because there both Australian? Tard
and instead of the cool makeup he has cool liminal spaces 🫡
I can't believe that so many people was scared by "creepy ugly guy" when I literally never thought that was supposed to be creepy - I always took it as funny
To me it’s both
Fr I feel same!
Same
Judging by your pfp I assume you enjoy the evils of this world. Smh
its the eyes that creep me out the most
Timestamps because why not?
0:01 Intro
0:25 Creepy ugly guy
5:03 Scary Barney statue
8:10 Wichael/Michael alone
18:04 Smoking caterpillar
20:13 Jacuzzi brocolli
Please find this one 22:57
Thats it
My dad was a major stereotypical 80s kid. When he discovered the internet as it was born, best believe he shared it with me as a kid. I remember seeing this man-woman-monkey in one of the hundred of weird videos on the internet that my dad showed me. Along with videos like “Charlie the unicorn” and “Harry Potter puppet ticking bomb”, he showed me a song called “Shwifty Five” (if I remember it correctly). This is the first time I saw this image and I remember being TERRIFIED. Now when I see/hear a “55”, I think of my younger self being traumatized 😂
My farts are better than ShaiiValley’s farts 💨
lmaooo I remember schfifty-five omg
Neil Cicirega reference? Potter Puppet Pals? Yooooo
It still scares me and I'm an adult lol
Good someone else who has early childhood memories of shwifty five. That image will always make that song pop into my head even though I barely remember it.
I remember seeing that first image for the first time in 2002 in the computer lab at my highschool during my freshman year. It was posted on funnyjunk. Wasn't part of a jumpscare or anything, just the image. I remember laughing pretty hard at it because I'd never seen an absurd photoshop before. It's creepy looking and weird, but it reminds me of simpler times.
i remember when i saw the first picture on a musical lyrics video of the song "Aquí Mandan Las Divinas" from the argentinian novel "Floricienta". Old times, that was between 2007-2009
6:58 this thing is going to get vandalised/stolen one day
:(
No
16:30
There actually is a Chinese version of Google Maps. It's called Baidu Maps and you can use Street View with it
(I discovered it right now lol)
i legit got a add for that same place
Sadly this is normal "internet video essay" investigative reporting lol. Answer isn't 5 seconds google search away so they didn't even bother to check if there was another way to find it. Not saying it would have worked, but it would have made like he knows what he's talking about a lot more if he tried something like that instead of going off on a tangent to talk about some random mall in the Philippines lol.
@@saitodosan9377 god I swear youtube video essays are such a huge "trust me bro"
@@fzxfzxfzx I'm in college rn for a very research-heavy major and I sometimes wonder why I don't just try doing this. For some reason every internet essay I get recommended has like a million views and thousands of positive comments no matter how bad and low-effort the video actually is lmao.
I first encountered the "creepy ugly guy" as a kid, in the form of a fake quiz that claimed it would generate a picture of you from a description of your features. I was young and naive enough to believe the claim, and I was pretty upset by the result, lmao. Then I got my dad to try it, and was absolutely mystified when he got the same image. I was a pretty gullible kid... 😅
That website was from the 90's, 1st place I saw Image#1 also
thats crazy someone else said the same thing haha small world
Omg yes! I thought it was at the bottom of an email that said it had a photo of you attatched at the bottom but what youve described actually rang more bells in my mind. I know it hurt my feelings lol.
Ah! Was it from Netlaughter? That’s the one I remember.
Wow, l've seen another person like you in the comments😂😂
My sisters would lock me in a room with the picture with someone screaming, it gave me some kind of trauma
gosh, thats crazy. as a scot i got ptsd from the barney thing, i have a few photos of me with the den and the glen/storybook glen statues.
This is so messed up. I'm sorry that you went through this
That sucks friend
Stop the cap 🧢
@@manga_kit I know for a fact because it happened
your visuals are amazing, it really brings back that sense of childhood nostalgia
AUUUH immediate chills.
That image haunted me for a while after seeing it on YT back when i was a kid.
Looking back now that image accompanied by "Beautiful Girls" seems like what would pass as a shitpost.
Remember guys, "M" is Mcdonalds and "W" for Wumbo
The study of wumbology
Wcdonalds
W is for Wichael
Wumbodonalds
Wario
as a funfact- the smokeing bug meme beacame a reaction meme in poland with caption "ta? to zajebiście" wich means "yeah? thats fucking awesome" usually used to show how small and unimportamt the information was, alternatively it could show genuene apperciation
Poland mentioned
Poland mentioned
no shit
@@kmz-mh2js Poland mentioned
POLSKA SPOTTED🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
that first image traumatized you guys? i always found it funny
Same but the catipiller traumatized me
Same lmao. Even in the jumpscares it was sort of a loud funny thing.
If you notice on the whackdanolds image on 14:38 its says "I'm Like it" instead of "I'm lovin' it.
honestly knowing the ‘origins’ of the first image and that it was just stock images spliced together kinda healed a part of my inner child 😅i used to be so scared of it i couldn’t look at it. now it’s just funny lol
I feel like I remember watching a video on how the image was made. and yes, stock images were used. Everything was dragged and pasted (like a Timelapse photoshop). I remember the eyes came from a black dog with brown spots but a chimpanzees eyes makes sense. The head came from a 30ish or 40ish year old man, and the pigtails came from a little blonde girl with overalls.
I watched it probably 13 years ago when I was 7. My memory is a bit fogged
also incase anyone is curious, I first saw the image in a CZcams video titled, "Ugly Barbie Girl"
It's crazy how the lower the image's quality is the creeper it gets.
its kinda like being scared of the dark. when you dont know what youre staring at your brain starts to assume the worst
@@SimsWhoSmokeWeednot for me. I control my brain. It listens to what I say. And if I say it’s not scary, it’s not scary
and a little funny that the opposite happens with memes.
@@LilXancheX what a cool guy
This whole video feels like a time capsule. From the images shown in this video, to the music and also the presentation. SUPER cool
The songs you used are amazing and fit perfectly with the video's theme
Vaporwave/"Weather Forecast"
Feel nostalgic af
In Indonesia, smoking caterpillars are also popular
Commonly called "Ulat Rokok"
Well, there is no context in it and usually it's just an absurd image that is included in the absurdhumor format
usually have something like "Whangsaff" or whatever that is
@@riflya6012 Wangsaff is Absurdhumor, which is a pun on an application called WhatsApp, I don't know the context of the meme
REHAN WHANGSAFF
REHAN WHANGSAFF
Rehan Wangsaff
I am indonesian but never heard of it anjiirr populer pas kapan sih ini ulat rokok 😭😭😭
i live in scotland, and finding out the barney image is from scotland terrifies me
it will find you
it’s coming
i got my eye on youuuuuu
Ive been to story book glen and have tons of photos of me beside all the horrors from when i was like 5, i loved the place as a kid and even now seeing it again i love it equally as much but for different reasons
go to the barney image immediately! This is very important.
Great video and impressive work!
"Who is Michael and why is he alone" hahaha, great XD
my gen z humor is so severe that tears are rolling down my eyes LAUGHING at the first segment of this video 😭
The first image of the guy with the pigtails solved a decades long mystery for me. I had used Kai's Power Tools on Windows 98 as a child and had been searching for that program for so long but was scared to make a post about it anywhere seeing how obscure and generic "old Windows 98 photo editor" sounded.
Creepy Ugly Guy was huge in the pre-CZcams days. I think I saw it the first time in the Schfifty-Five music video, over 20 years ago.
Albino black sheep !
Gonads n strife
WAT U SAY?
Schwam
Doo
TWO AND HAIF
Scheven
@@mathphysicsnerd Four teen-teen
Only just discovered you and I'm glad I just subbed. These types of videos are my favourite.
this has been a really interesting vid, I'd love to see a part 2.
I remember back in elementary school of a presentation at what I think was the auditorium when they showed the first image as a warning of who you talk to online
8:11 useless knowledge for you today: The “当家” in ”麦当家” basically means “in charge”, so it can be translated to “麦” is in charge.
“麦” pronounce “Mai” I guess that’s why they called it Michiel. 9:06 later it changes from 麦当家 to 我当家 “我” means “I”so now it means “I’m in charge”
Thank you for posting this! I only know very basic Chinese so I recognized the characters and their meaning but I didn't know enough to connect it to the English name.
Look at me...look at me. I'm the captain now...and I'm lovin' it.
So, it's real, lonely Michael is in charge, because there is no one else
So perhaps Alone is a mistranslation of "to be in charge" and Mai is the manager's name?
Seems more like an edited version of McDonald's chinese name, which is 麦当劳, but they changed the last character to 家. And later when they noticed the flipped logo looked like a W and changed the name to Wicheal, they also changed the name to 我当家 because 我 is usually written as Wo with Latin alphabet.
18:20 this is the very first time I’ve even heard of this caterpillar 💀
how
Same
Great pacing too the video kept me engaged the whole time nice work!
18:05 literal wallpaper material
I had it as my phone wallpaper when I was like 10
I used the creepy ugly guy image in a PowerPoint comic when I was 6 or so and now it's an inside joke between me and my sister. I thought it was funny as hell I never knew it was this popular
Same kinda schitck here I’ve always just known it as a picture that exists it’s never really spooked me
Same. this thing looked like it was in 2022 but it was older then I imagined. This is funny and hilarious
please make more videos just like this. there are so many obscure random images like this and this is a really good video
I just started watching, and I gotta say these videos are awesome! Congrats on 100k, you deserve it!
The first time I saw "Creepy Ugly Guy" was on metalsludge in the late 90s. It was used as the image for one of the writers, Bastard Boy Floyd.
I am not Bastard Boy Floyd, as evidenced by the fried egg, but I wish I was so that you could have a cool internet reunion.
Chinese language teacher here, if you look at the original Michael place the first Chinese character in the name is 麦 pronounced "Mai" and often used as the first character in the Chinese version of Michael 麦克. The name of McDonalds in Chinese is 麦当劳. If you look at that the first two characters are exactly the same as in the original Michael Alone except the last character is 家 instead of 劳. The name was obviously put through a computer translator like Google Translate (which is ass for translating Chinese, don't let anyone fool you). The three characters 麦 （Michael) 当 (dang which sometimes means alone) and 家 (jia which means family) and you get something like Michael is alone in his family? Utter nonsense so the computer translator broke its little algorithm on it.
Now there was obviously a lawsuit somewhere because its name shifts from 麦当家 to 我当家. 我 (wo) just means I or me but starts with a W so they did a tricky little change to Wichael instead of Michael. Shit like this happens in China all the time even with Chinese chain brands. It's always IPviolate o'clock over there.
The more you know 🌈
That is very interesting. Thank you for the more in-depth explanation. 😄💖
Thank you for the explanation. Based on that information, I assume it was supposed to be a phonetic transcription, and "Mai"/"Mike" was supposed to be "Mc" while "Dang" was supposed to be "Donald's"?
I enjoyed watching this. Very laidback atmosphere! Keep it up!
Congrats on 100k subs man
that first pic is still scary after all these year, is the perfect representation of uncanny valley
are you like 10 or smth
No
lmao what
That first one is such a throwback 😂 i didn’t know other people remember that weird ass pic
I really enjoy your videos. Thank you for making them.
6:30 i went to that park as a kid lol, that memory just randomly came back to me
9:37 I like how these serious questions are transitioned by some dude breakdancing for no apparent reason (accompanied by very fitting music)
This feels comforting to watch. Internet staples from many years ago take me back
I really enjoy the way you edit! very unique and different from other creators. :p
For the first image, im sure it was the eyes that terrified us to death😭
For me, i think it was the eyes and the smile...
I think it's worth mentioning that "Michael/Wichael Alone" isnt a translation of the Chinese name. The Chinese name is "我当家" ("wo dangjia") which translates to "I'm in charge". Idk too much about this but I've noticed that oftentimes where I live Asian-run businesses will have a name in English but a completely different name in their native language, both names next to each other and sometimes on the same sign. Idk much about this, but being a resturaunt in China for a Chinese audience, the business and locals likely thought of it as 我当家, not Wichael Alone. My best guess is that the English name was just used as little more than decoration to help with the whole American burger shop vibe.
Out of curiosity I did put 我当家 into Google maps and got a Ramen place called Ramen Nagi in LA? Japanese Kanji does use Chinese characters and even though I zoomed out and hovered over China I'm on my phone so it probably brought me to a place that's relatively closer to where I live so it's not too weird, I guess.
That makes sense, you could totally imagine a Chinese restaurant in the west having a sign with chinese characters spat out by google translate with the actual name in English.
I've never seen that picture in my life so this is indeed a first time jumpscare
"First time?" 😏
bro, I like your videos! especially sound design
I love your editing style and your music choices! Very good video :D
"I'm like it" is an extra brilliant tagline, because not only is it an obvious bootleg mutation of "I'm lovin' it," but Wichael Alone is similar to McDonalds - or in other words it's "like McDonalds," hence "I'm like it."
Of course, I'm 99% positive only the first part of that was intentional on the owner's part.
I looked around for any info on the gangster Spongebob image and I also couldn't find anything conclusive on its origin, BUT I also searched the name "Bob Esponja cholo" (that's how it's known in Spanish) and according to its page on Memespedia, it would have (allegedly) been made by "Mother Yolanda's Designer T-Shirts", a now defunct eBay store, in 2006. Sadly it doesn't cite any sources, but I thought it would be interesting to point it out.
Also about the gangster spongebob, I grew up on an Indian reservation (Native American reservation) in America, and there were sellers that would pop up in towns or at pow-wows that had those kind of gangster images on blankets and tshirts. There were pictures of SpongeBob, Tupac, Stewie Griffin, Dora the explorer, etc. all thugged out. I can’t pinpoint the exact date but I would say at LEAST 2005 or so. I doubt it originated there, but maybe you could get some info. It was in North Dakota by the way.
Dang I would have loved a gangster Dora blanket
i absolutely love the editing and video style nd random clips in this video lol keep it up
The surreal and unique editing style has only become more of "your own" as you upload more
I was never scared of the first image, if anything, I find it funny in a weird way.
im always behind you
@@imjonathan6745can we mаже оцт then lol
@@imjonathan6745that would've been frightening had your pfp been the picture 😔
I had such a bad fear of the first image when I was little it still scares the hell out of me…
0:17 my brain during a test:
I remember first seeing the “creepy ugly guy” picture in an Exploding TNT video lol.
Proud to say I’ve never seen any of these except the first one.
I love this style of editing in the video dude
8:10 This makes me think of Michealsoft Binbows for no reason?
The first time I encountered the first image was seeing it in a gaming/PS1 magazine with the caption "If true, this is the real face of Paul Frank." or something along those lines. I remember I was just like 6 or 7 years old and my older cousin was playing Chrono Cross on the PlayStation.
Almost every 90s, 2000s kids have seen this image. Its basically in the early internets hall of fame images
Makes me feel so old seeing you reminiscing about images / memes from only like 5 years ago 😂😂😂
this is peak content, thank u for making this 🙏
Love the reoccurring bit of Jerma appearing in these videos, rather to discuss actual Jerma lost media or just making a cameo like at 8:50
Wow! I haven't seen that 'creepy ugly guy' image in so long! My grandmother had a newspaper clipping of the face on her fridge many years ago. It never creeped me out since I had been seeing it quite often for years. I've always wondered where it came from.
creepy ugly man picture was my childhood nightmare i still remember how it traumtized me and still.
Great video and thank you very much for not using a click bait thumbnail that isn't even in the video like so many other people do.
This is like a nostalgic trip back to my child hood I actually shed some tears looking at some of these images remember my old self
5:02 This sound effect is genuinely so whimsical and magical, I've fallen in love with it.
18:04 Honorable mention.
I just accidentally stumped upon your channel and your editing style is gold
Congrats on 100K!!
I have literally only seen the first image in my entire life, and Ive been terminally online since 96.
Real
Oh thank goodness I’m not the only one. Exact same situation-I’ve been online since ‘96 or ‘97 and I have never seen any of these other images past the first one.
Damn 😳
I suspect I found an address for Wichael Alone. About 15-20 miles east of Cenxi City is Sinopec Jinzhu Parking Area, a rest stop that is home to a bathroom, a Sinopec gas station, and a few places to get food while you fuel up or wait for a bus. Among them is 我当家 (Wodangjia), the same Hanzi we see on the sign, which is listed as a fast food restaurant. It is also nearby to both Wuzhou and Guangzhou. No street view is available and Google Maps seems to have the map overlay and the satellite image misaligned, the former is about 1500 feet NW of the latter, but it's the best lead I have. Sadly, my brother is not Porter Robinson, so I cannot afford a plane ticket out there, but if anyone else wants to investigate, you have this info now.
Is it this one? maps.app.goo.gl/688s52v92QtB9F2E9
i love this editing style sm
Origins of viral images or pictures is definitely a very fascinating topic, we mostly don't give them second thought, but looking back at some of them it sometimes makes you wonder what the sorce was, it's like internet "archeology" of sorts.
Wouldn't mind seeing more of these, also your editing and transitions are really cool.
18:22 yea I've seen that one before
LOL
Me too tbh
Such a fun concept for a video, like how "serious" the discussion was in the video when looking at a broccoli man chilling in a hot tub
i love your editing style and music choice
3:56 Great. I had to go and watch Schfifty Five for the first time in 21 years and now I've got it stuck in my head for the first time since I was a teenager.
Aside from the video, I just found your channel and love your aesthetic. I love the filler clips of old commercials, graphics, fonts, etc. Very vaporwave-y and nostalgic! Definitely deserves a sub. :3
Image #1 scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.
17:30
It’s possible the wichael alone in this mall is in a different part of the mall than what is pictured in street view
image 1 was my signature on gaia online for like a month back in 2006 lol
The gold old days
Tokyo bambam.
Admiral Dunkin donuts.
Dj dib membranes was my user names