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Female (she/her)/ASD/28/INFJ/Demisexual - A girl with a love for cute things and drawing! Check out my "About Me" link for more info about my likes and such! Credit info in my "About Me". My art account is ZootyCutieArt (link in About Me).

This mom on tiktok made a video suggesting that if parents are tired of the terribly annoying music that’s set to these videos aimed at little kids that they should just put the videos on their TV and put it on mute and then play their own music over it because it will usually match the beat. People responded by suggesting songs for which this could not possibly work and I cannot stop thinking about this video in particular

I think people sometimes forget that the Crazy Frog was literally a TV ad spot for a novelty ringtone. Which is such an unbelievably specific bygone era that its easier to imagine it as some kind of internet meme animation.

And then it was so wildly popular that the creators overlaid some of the sound effects onto bestselling 1984 movie soundtrack song "Axel F" and it was SO popular that people just imagine the song was written for the ringtone ad frog. From when you paid for ringtones. On TV.

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Wait, it WASNT meme animation?? I thought it was just like that gummy bear song 😭

So I have some news for you about the gummy bear song...

The 80's were wild because they would turn any goddamn thing into a badly-animated Saturday morning cartoon.

If that whole Tide Pod Challenge thing had happened back in the 80's you can guarantee that some cocaine-fueled TV executive would have been like, "Kids love Tide Pods! Get the cheapest animation studio we can find and turn that shit into a cartoon. Call it The Amazing Tide Pods, it'll be about magical flying laundry detergent packets with faces that fight, I dunno, The Dirties, they're monsters that make your clothes dirty or some shit. Kids will watch it, they'll watch any fuckin' thing if you put it on the TV at 7 AM on a Saturday."

It would have been absolutely terrible and canceled after 8 episodes. But they'd still have made it.

Hold on, this is fascinating. Reblog this and tell me in the notes how old you are and if you ever had typing lessons.

What in God’s good name is a “typing lesson”

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I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not

I’m serious what is a typing lesson? What would they teach you? To type? My brother in Christ it is like writing with a pen but technically easier.

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Before home computers were very common, people typically only typed for business-related things, so the only people that actually knew how to use typewriters and word processors were authors, secretaries, accountants, etc. These people would take classes for typing bc it was seen as a skill. This gradually fell out of fashion, much like teaching kids cursive

Typing is only intuitive to gen y & z bc most of us learned through computer games or had someone tell us where to rest our fingers. People who never learned to type use just their index fingers, hit one key, take a long time to find the next letter, hit it with an index finger, and repeat until finished

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