【MMD】Ronald McDonald brainwashed the VOCALOID【ドナルド】

I spent a lot of time as a dumb kid unassumingly watching the nastiest MMD garbage video's ever made, but this one was different. This thing horrified and fascinated me in equal measure. I'm also pretty sure this video lead me to discovering Ran Ran Ru directly after.

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These boys are supposedly "stuck" in the backstage of a theme park ride while it is in operation. The ride was my favorite, but this video made me terrified to go on it for the longest time. Nowadays I find it an extremely charming time-capsule of the Netherlands in the 2000s.

SUSHI PACK

This one has particular significance to me even though it's virtually unknown. I was really into Sushi Pack as a kid, I discovered it through the internet. The kids in this video are probably about my age around that time. I liked this thing so much I got my dad to download it to my mp4 player.

MMD - KAITO gets down with the Lazers

In the bus coming home from a school trip I told the boy in front of me about this video and to my shock he recognised the description (though he was probably thinking of a different "geddan" video rather than this exact one). That boy became one of my best friends to this day.

Die Natla (a folk song)

Every single one of my Tomb Raider hyperfixation phases goes paired with having this song in my head on a never ending loop.

Sunclub Boom Boom

The song that sounds like how a 2000's European primary school kid imagines their future to be like. I remember listening to this with my best friend who had a swing in her bedroom, and daydreaming about what hot sexy and gorgeous women we were going to be.

Final Fantasy Sonic X6 Opening

You're on NeoCities, you know what this is. Suffice it to say I would save 5 minutes of my precious 1 hour of alotted internet-time per day to go online and watch this intro before my parents would send me to bed. Rest in Peace BlackDevilX.

Waluigi's FAKE!!!

The videos about confirming or debunking Waluigi's presence in Mario 64 DS are probably the first conspiracy content I ever interacted with in my life. This one I'm pretty sure used to have 'Blue' by Eiffel 65 playing, but that might have gotten lost to copyright over the years.

[KarenT] Joker (feat. Hatsune Miku) / turnastudio

Kid me was absolutely mystified by the undeniably sapphic undertones of this video. That aside, this is extremely impressive work for something animated in MMD.

Animusic 3 - Sneak Peek

Was I fooled by this title as a kid? Yes of course I was.

Dagje Efteling

This video is unbelievably iconic to me and probably me alone. Admittedly it doesn't all hold up today, but it's another neat little capsule of the life and humor of 20-year-olds living in 2010's NL. This also deeply influenced my editing style in my pre-teen years.

RCT3 Water Kingdom - Indoor WaterPark HD

I wanted this game so bad I would drool over videos like these. Now that I've played it as an adult I can say that this is incredibly impressive work.

Super Scatman 64

Another stone-cold classic, though, it has way less views than I would have predicted.

kingdom hearts (original)

Whenever I'm asked what my favorite video on YouTube is, I tend not to waste time actually thinking about what a monster of a question that is and just point them to this. It's an absolute classic, and it has never failed to make me grin from ear to ear.

Bram Stoker's DRACULA: Jonathan's Late Night Bite

Imagine yourself as a young Game Theory fan scrolling down to the channel's very first uploads and finding MatPat's old theatre stuff, among which, there's this rather... explicit video. Imagine what that does to the brain of a 10 year old. This has to be a shared experience, right?

LED Hula Hoop Rap Song

When I was younger I wanted to learn how to hula hoop flow dance. Not much of a rap this, but quite charming and catchy in it's sheer dinky-ness. I find myself humming this whenever I encounter a hula hoop in the wild.

CineMassacre 200

As a young filmmaker in the 2010's with an interst in the low-fi this was pretty much one of my holy texts. I remember using James' life story as he tells it here as the basis for a graded fictional storywriting assignment in middle school.

Alexa Vega - Game Over (lyrics)

This song plays in the credits of Spy Kids 3D and after catching it on TV one time I rushed to the computer to listen to it again. As a small videogame obsessed kid this was the coolest thing ever to me.