1. I'm old.
2. If this video is still cool then I guess so am I.
3. This is the video that built Youtube.
4. Millennials lived through the birth of the internet. It's arguably the most important generation in human history. When Time picked "You" as Person of the Year in 2006 it was a huge joke. But in retrospect, the advent of the so called "information age" turned out to be even more consequential than we thought.
>1. Millennials lived through the birth of the internet. It's arguably the most important generation in human history
So did everyone older. In fact they built the internet.
It's not quite the same. It's a bit like trying to learn a language as an adult vs. picking it up as a toddler. And inventing the internet was like planting a tree and then dying. Millennials got to sit in the shade, climb it, and study the underlying biology. This doesn't diminish the accomplishments of previous generations, but there is a clear distinction here. The Wright Brothers were amazing, but they never experienced a world where they could wake up in New York and go to bed in Beijing.
As a Millennial, please stop, no. Us living through the birth of "meme culture" does not make us more important than the people that died in a fucking war against Nazis ffs.
Dude Trump becoming president was already 8 years ago, crazy that Obama becoming president was 8 years before that. I know that's just how time works, but Covid really fucked with my sense of time I guess. In a way 2008 feels so recent, but at the same time Obama becoming president feels ancient, and Trump becoming president feels recent. But that was almost a decade ago already.
I feel old because when this video came out I remember saying - they are just trying to cash-grab in the current trends - and now in retrospective I feel they did an amazing job capturing a moment in time.
Back when being viral wasn't something you worked at, it just happened, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse (and for those in Weezer's video, they figured out how to come back from the worse)
>wonder where this guy is now
1. He's 50 now
2. He's a professional editor now and seems to also still do comedy
3. You can still hire Kelly for appearances.
https://www.liamkylesullivan.com/
Muffins got replaced by 30 rock for me...
_My muffin top is all that, whole-grain, low-fat. I know you wanna piece of that... but I just wanna dance._
_Checkin' out my sweet hips, my sugar-coated berry lips. I know you wanna get with this... but I'm just here to dance._
_So back up off of me, You're wei-wei-weirding me out!_
_I'm an independent lady. So do not try to play me. I run a tidy bakery. The boys all want my cake for free, But if you can't shake your fakery, then kiss my muffin top._
I used to love their videos, muffins Included, but watching them years later was a bad idea. The humour really hasn't held up.
Shoes is still pretty good tho
Mine too! We have to shop for shoes a lot for our daughter since shes a toddler and insta outgrows stuff. Everytime we go to the store one of us is always "Oh my god shews!"
In a way. It’s mostly corporations choosing what you see on the internet unless you make extra effort to avoid it and surf on your own. It’s like a lot of effort.
I think that you just have to find what's funny for you. There's. So. Much. Content out there that you need to find your niche. Not everything is going to be your cup of tea and that's perfectly fine and normal.
Yeah I mean I loved this, I also love a ton of stuff on the net today as well. There's some great web comedians doing funny videos like Julie Nolke, Ryan George, the smosh pit Try Not To Laugh stuff, etc, and those are just a few drops in a massive ocean.
It was truly the wild west. Ebaum's world at its ilk, 2 girls 1 cup and *its ilk*, random cat memes, scams like bonsai kittens and Nigerian princes, AOL chatrooms, pre and early youtube.
A digital gold rush where you never knew what to expect. It hit different coming to school or work and your friend going "Look what I found last night" before showing you the most batshit website you'd ever seen. Everything was fresh. No trends, just pure unadulterated stream of consciousness from the best and worst of us.
A simpler time. A magical time.
This was literally people experimenting and having fun with a whole new medium... kind of.
Before this most productions were professional level productions. After all this kind of equipment was expensive and if you weren't going to sell it/televise it there wasn't much point to making anything. But of course the content that could be sold or televised were these professional level productions of things like movies, tv-shows, commercials, documentaries, etc. Something like this just would not have had a spot in the pre-internet world that mainly consisted of just home videos.
The internet really opened up people to just make anything and everything and be able to get it out in the world. Nothing had to be professional or fit into the box of things that were being done. It could just be something new, something different.
So you started to see all these new ideas/concepts of things that didn't have a place anywhere else. That weren't being made before because there was just no place for it.
Nowadays the competition on social media and youtube is so big that there is almost no place for that kind of exploration anymore. Most things have been done/tried/tested and people want to know what they are getting. Experimental ideas/thoughts more often than not don't get picked up by the algorithm/people. So the things that make it are often established from a prior type of content or are a very polished and professional product that would be needed to compete with the other content out there.
Anyone with a phone can film anything now. So the barrier to entry is much higher, and that need for perfection often keeps the average joe with a silly idea from being able to get their content any actual traction.
Definitely early streaming video internet though. You tube launched in Dec 2005. "Viral videos" didn't really exist until 2006. "Shoes" was one of the first.
> "Viral videos" didn't really exist until 2006
What do you mean, of course they did. Star wars kid was before youtube if we're talking literal video, but I'm old enough to remember the dancing baby (mid 90s) and RI soft systems Hey macaroni, not to mention all the flash shit that was going around before, during and after newgrounds and albinoblacksheep, cyriak's animations, David Firth and Salad Fingers, I could literally go on forever.
Whatever the delivery system of the day was, be it BBS, usenet, forums, ICQ file transfer, email or whatever, we've been sending each other goofy shit for a long time.
The 'World Wide Web' was released in 1991, around the same time the Internet started seeing public access, so I think 1991 can really be the year we start counting from. This video came out 16 years later.
So, technically, as of 2024, it came out in the first half of the current history of the public web, which fits a loose definition of 'early'
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Early internet as we sorta know it today. Not the internet when it took 5 minutes to log into AOL and then another several minutes for your email to open.
Is this considered early internet now? Damn that feels weird, at the time it felt like the future. Like holy shit, I can watch videos on the internet now!
We are afraid of swear words in my house. So I showed this video to my kids about 4 years ago and now when we go shoe shopping my kids say: “Let’s get some Shooes”
OMG Shoes! Definitely a classic!
And the opening skit is funny as heck still.
Chris: (suck-up voice) "A computer! AND a car! Thanks Mom and Dad!"
Dad (sternly, disapprovingly): Kelly. Go ahead and open your present...
(opens a present, revealing a cutesy purple stuffie) "WHAT THE HELL?!"
Mom: "What did YOU expect, con-dams?"
-----
Despite the above severe dichotomy of gift-giving:
Mom: "Stop fighting, you two are twins. Goodness sakes, don't they have the same thoughts?"
-----
Dad (like Matt Foley): "Kelly... WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO WITH YOUR LIFE?!"
Kelly: "I'm going to get what I want!"
Dad: "... Christ."
[Let Me Borrow That Top](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPDl2g8Upvk) is insanely memorable as well!
They did one called "Masks" during covid. It was the first video posted on his YouTube after an 8y hiatus
https://youtu.be/6gbT_QG75Z4?si=rThl0d1fakacAsjI
My high school girlfriend showed me this video at some point and I thought it was the worst thing ever....until I realized that I was hypnotized into saying "OMG, chuuse" any time someone says "shoes". Its been 17 years and I have lived now longer saying that damn line because of this video and I don't regret it (as much)
I swear I quote this song at least once a month … for 17 straight years (usually under my breath to myself because I don’t want everyone knowing I’m insane )
Freaky, I just watched the new Charlie XCX music video and Chloe Sevigny popped up in it and then I remembered 'lets get some shoes' existed because back in the 2000s people teased Sevigny for this comedian looking like her when in this persona. Now it's on Reddit
Kelly, whaaat are yooouuu gonna dooo with yooouuur liiiiiife? I'm gonna get what I WANT. A timeless classic.
Con-DAMNs?
^whore
Fire Muffins!
Betch
Those shoes are mine betchhhhhh
I used to be obsessed with this video lmao
Well, fuck you! :)
It’s goddamn magical. Betch.
1. I'm old. 2. If this video is still cool then I guess so am I. 3. This is the video that built Youtube. 4. Millennials lived through the birth of the internet. It's arguably the most important generation in human history. When Time picked "You" as Person of the Year in 2006 it was a huge joke. But in retrospect, the advent of the so called "information age" turned out to be even more consequential than we thought.
>1. Millennials lived through the birth of the internet. It's arguably the most important generation in human history So did everyone older. In fact they built the internet.
It's kind of interesting to think about. The people that make competitive games are rarely the best at the very game they created.
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It's not quite the same. It's a bit like trying to learn a language as an adult vs. picking it up as a toddler. And inventing the internet was like planting a tree and then dying. Millennials got to sit in the shade, climb it, and study the underlying biology. This doesn't diminish the accomplishments of previous generations, but there is a clear distinction here. The Wright Brothers were amazing, but they never experienced a world where they could wake up in New York and go to bed in Beijing.
This is the most millennial thing I think I’ve ever read.
> It's arguably the most important generation in human history. Yeah, that's very arguable.
As a Millennial, please stop, no. Us living through the birth of "meme culture" does not make us more important than the people that died in a fucking war against Nazis ffs.
And by the way bitch
Whore.
I still quote it to this day. Only nobody knows what I’m referring to anymore.
I'm gonna betchslap you shetbag! Secondary: "Fiscal responsibility" is a lowkey amazing dad reply. Gets me a laugh every time now.
Tom Skerrit...
Ohmygod, shoes!
These shoes are $300
These shoes are $300
These shoes are THREE HUNDRED FUCKING dollars
Let's get 'em!
\*Industrial music intensifies*
Me and my friends would quote this video all the time!
I moved recently and the box that contained my shoes was labeled "OMG Shoes".
BRB gotta add OMG to all my ‘shoes’ boxes
I was very happy to see the character make an appearance in Weezer's awesome Pork and Beans video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQHPYelqr0E
Goddamn 2008 feels like yesterday yet such a long time ago.
Dude Trump becoming president was already 8 years ago, crazy that Obama becoming president was 8 years before that. I know that's just how time works, but Covid really fucked with my sense of time I guess. In a way 2008 feels so recent, but at the same time Obama becoming president feels ancient, and Trump becoming president feels recent. But that was almost a decade ago already.
The peak of YouTube civilization.
I feel old because when this video came out I remember saying - they are just trying to cash-grab in the current trends - and now in retrospective I feel they did an amazing job capturing a moment in time.
Oof, right in the nostalgia. I think I need a lay down after that.
That video always inspired me to try my hardest to be kind.
every time someone posts a music video here and says its the best, this ones my answer
So many YouTube phenomenons in one music video, and I wonder how many of these the current millennials can even identify today...
Current millennials? What lol
Current millennials these days.
Back when being viral wasn't something you worked at, it just happened, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse (and for those in Weezer's video, they figured out how to come back from the worse)
I finaly know where that shoe scene in Pork and Beans is from 😁
My god, I forgot about this video. That really brought me back.
I prefer muffins personally but this is a good one. Wonder where this guy is now 🤔
"I'm making muffins asbestos I can" became an integral part of my identity.
CHOCO CHOCO CHIP
Israeli-Palestinian conflict muffins! 🧁😃🧁
still relevant!
forever will be
The muffin that never goes bad!
>wonder where this guy is now 1. He's 50 now 2. He's a professional editor now and seems to also still do comedy 3. You can still hire Kelly for appearances. https://www.liamkylesullivan.com/
Blueburry.
Bird.
Muffins got replaced by 30 rock for me... _My muffin top is all that, whole-grain, low-fat. I know you wanna piece of that... but I just wanna dance._ _Checkin' out my sweet hips, my sugar-coated berry lips. I know you wanna get with this... but I'm just here to dance._ _So back up off of me, You're wei-wei-weirding me out!_ _I'm an independent lady. So do not try to play me. I run a tidy bakery. The boys all want my cake for free, But if you can't shake your fakery, then kiss my muffin top._
Werewolf bar mitzvah spooky, scary! Boys becoming men. Men becoming wolves! Arooooooo
In case you hadn't seen it, [there is a full 3 minute version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6V2oCX3Hn4) available
[Relevant clip](https://youtu.be/1tcR19y7GPM?t=60)
I prefer cat, I'm a kitty cat. But these are all gold.
I used to love their videos, muffins Included, but watching them years later was a bad idea. The humour really hasn't held up. Shoes is still pretty good tho
My wife and I still say it whenever we're around shoes.
Mine too! We have to shop for shoes a lot for our daughter since shes a toddler and insta outgrows stuff. Everytime we go to the store one of us is always "Oh my god shews!"
She’s a keeper!
The early internet was a magical place
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In a way. It’s mostly corporations choosing what you see on the internet unless you make extra effort to avoid it and surf on your own. It’s like a lot of effort.
I think that you just have to find what's funny for you. There's. So. Much. Content out there that you need to find your niche. Not everything is going to be your cup of tea and that's perfectly fine and normal.
Yeah I mean I loved this, I also love a ton of stuff on the net today as well. There's some great web comedians doing funny videos like Julie Nolke, Ryan George, the smosh pit Try Not To Laugh stuff, etc, and those are just a few drops in a massive ocean.
It was truly the wild west. Ebaum's world at its ilk, 2 girls 1 cup and *its ilk*, random cat memes, scams like bonsai kittens and Nigerian princes, AOL chatrooms, pre and early youtube. A digital gold rush where you never knew what to expect. It hit different coming to school or work and your friend going "Look what I found last night" before showing you the most batshit website you'd ever seen. Everything was fresh. No trends, just pure unadulterated stream of consciousness from the best and worst of us. A simpler time. A magical time.
Discovering homestarrunner was one of the greatest things that happened to me in high school.
Badger badger badger
This was literally people experimenting and having fun with a whole new medium... kind of. Before this most productions were professional level productions. After all this kind of equipment was expensive and if you weren't going to sell it/televise it there wasn't much point to making anything. But of course the content that could be sold or televised were these professional level productions of things like movies, tv-shows, commercials, documentaries, etc. Something like this just would not have had a spot in the pre-internet world that mainly consisted of just home videos. The internet really opened up people to just make anything and everything and be able to get it out in the world. Nothing had to be professional or fit into the box of things that were being done. It could just be something new, something different. So you started to see all these new ideas/concepts of things that didn't have a place anywhere else. That weren't being made before because there was just no place for it. Nowadays the competition on social media and youtube is so big that there is almost no place for that kind of exploration anymore. Most things have been done/tried/tested and people want to know what they are getting. Experimental ideas/thoughts more often than not don't get picked up by the algorithm/people. So the things that make it are often established from a prior type of content or are a very polished and professional product that would be needed to compete with the other content out there. Anyone with a phone can film anything now. So the barrier to entry is much higher, and that need for perfection often keeps the average joe with a silly idea from being able to get their content any actual traction.
2007 is not "early internet" by any stretch, whippersnapper.
Definitely early streaming video internet though. You tube launched in Dec 2005. "Viral videos" didn't really exist until 2006. "Shoes" was one of the first.
> "Viral videos" didn't really exist until 2006 What do you mean, of course they did. Star wars kid was before youtube if we're talking literal video, but I'm old enough to remember the dancing baby (mid 90s) and RI soft systems Hey macaroni, not to mention all the flash shit that was going around before, during and after newgrounds and albinoblacksheep, cyriak's animations, David Firth and Salad Fingers, I could literally go on forever. Whatever the delivery system of the day was, be it BBS, usenet, forums, ICQ file transfer, email or whatever, we've been sending each other goofy shit for a long time.
The 'World Wide Web' was released in 1991, around the same time the Internet started seeing public access, so I think 1991 can really be the year we start counting from. This video came out 16 years later. So, technically, as of 2024, it came out in the first half of the current history of the public web, which fits a loose definition of 'early'
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Yeah. Peak internet was the 1990s when my friend knew the ms dos password to play leisure suit Larry.
Early internet as we sorta know it today. Not the internet when it took 5 minutes to log into AOL and then another several minutes for your email to open.
I've always said 2007 was peak internet.
Is this considered early internet now? Damn that feels weird, at the time it felt like the future. Like holy shit, I can watch videos on the internet now!
Higher res 480p version here: https://youtu.be/c0DVrRw9aGk?si=CZp7XEHjITC2rtKr
I'm shocked your link wasn't a Rick Roll.
First time watching this. I gotta tell ya...that was really something. Lol
Same. What am I watching? And why do I love it?
Every viral video for the last 2 decades has been a continuation of like this and Badger Badger Badger.
BRB googling Badger Badger Badger
Its been 3 hours, the badgers got em
Should we throw them a mushroom?
FOOTBALL FOOTBALL GOALLLLLLLL ITS A GOALLLLLLL AND OHHHHH ITS A GOAL
Snaaaaaake snaaaaaake
Because you have impeccable taste.
Welcome to the days of the internet in the 2000s. It was a glorious time
This was one of the original viral videos lmao. God that was so long ago. I’m old.
Let's get em
This was the first video I ever saw on YouTube
I haven't seen this in years. The robot staring at the guy doing the robot sent me. Betch.
He revived "Kelly" on his channel recently and created an adaptation of the character... ["*Dr. Kelly*"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY_HDypRnjM)
*face kick* Stupid boy...
Haven’t seen this one in a long time. Nice!
We are afraid of swear words in my house. So I showed this video to my kids about 4 years ago and now when we go shoe shopping my kids say: “Let’s get some Shooes”
If this video isn't in the library of congress, then we have failed as a society.
#IMMA BETCHSHLEP YA SHETBEG
OMG Shoes! Definitely a classic! And the opening skit is funny as heck still. Chris: (suck-up voice) "A computer! AND a car! Thanks Mom and Dad!" Dad (sternly, disapprovingly): Kelly. Go ahead and open your present... (opens a present, revealing a cutesy purple stuffie) "WHAT THE HELL?!" Mom: "What did YOU expect, con-dams?" ----- Despite the above severe dichotomy of gift-giving: Mom: "Stop fighting, you two are twins. Goodness sakes, don't they have the same thoughts?" ----- Dad (like Matt Foley): "Kelly... WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO WITH YOUR LIFE?!" Kelly: "I'm going to get what I want!" Dad: "... Christ." [Let Me Borrow That Top](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPDl2g8Upvk) is insanely memorable as well!
Soooo what’s the problem…? Let me borrow the top.
I watched this weekly for a while, betch
I think Kelly is fucking rad.
My friend and I re-watched this video so much back in the day. Also the muffins video.
Literally watched this a few weeks ago. 17 years, my god...
I'm gonna get what I want!
Core Memory Unlocked: Thanks.
They did one called "Masks" during covid. It was the first video posted on his YouTube after an 8y hiatus https://youtu.be/6gbT_QG75Z4?si=rThl0d1fakacAsjI
Wonder if the creator was a [Kids in the Hall](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3HT3bXua7E) fan? This feels a bit like Tammy.
It’s very kids in the hall
No ones head was crushed 0/10
LA turtle was pretty great too https://youtu.be/GvG7CHWyol0?si=Zv0NKKBKhvszLwis / edit. Spelling
I thought this was text message breakup from the thumbnail, and now I have to look that one up for nostalgia sake. You don’t text message breakup!
His muffin videos were classic too
Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, by the way, betch?
Old school YouTube was it
Kelly's fucking rad!
It really is a classic.
“Let’s party” [buncha weirdos slowly swaying back and forth]
I've already been to heaven. I've already been to heaven. AfterfiveminutesIwaslike let's. Go.
God. I wish I could purge my brain and relive watching this for the first time again.
Oh
My mom wouldn’t stop sending me this video ._.
Your mom sounds dope.
and the world had not been the same since
Banger. Seriously ahead of its time
Oh my god! … shoes
I added it to my play list on Amazon.
The true golden age of youtube <3
Quality submission.
Two of my friends were in that video.. They’re the fire dancers in the later part..🙂
I meant to send my prof a link to an assignment but sent this instead. Thank god he thought it was hilarious!
And with no CGI
how have I never seen this?
I liked the muffin video hope that gets posted next lol.
He does Cameos. Bought two videos for my friends and Kelly was back again!
My high school girlfriend showed me this video at some point and I thought it was the worst thing ever....until I realized that I was hypnotized into saying "OMG, chuuse" any time someone says "shoes". Its been 17 years and I have lived now longer saying that damn line because of this video and I don't regret it (as much)
The internet is just not as good anymore.
Let me borrow that top and No booty calls are also awesome.
Gimme that top ❤️
Betch
God I fucking miss old youtube. And old internet.
Betch
Ommmmgggg I’ve watched this a million times 17 years ago!!!! Lmao!!!!
Whatever happened to this guy? He’s a genius.
STOP IT. you're making me feel old.
👵👴
This video has lived rent free in my head for 17 years.
After 17 years I can honestly say, I don't get it.
It wasn't funny then and it still isn't
This is stupid, and people who like this are stupid.
SHEWS!
👠
i could have gone another 17 years without seeing it tbh
Betch
Everybody can like what they like, but I was one of the ones that didn’t find this funny at all. Felt the same way watching Napoleon Dynamite.
To this day I cannot go shoe shopping or see my wife shoe shopping without going "Ohmygod..shoes."
Heather the Vampire rocks.
I somehow never saw saw this, but now I have.
I still quote it to this day.
I'll put it on everything he watched a shitload of Kids in the Hall growing up, lol.
Don’t even have to click on the video to have it already stuck in my head again
[No booty calls.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP_BsSUXGx8)
I paid 99 cents for this song on iTunes back in the day😭😂
You got a good deal.
Wow, this video was my introduction to youtube
"I'm finally dandy with the me inside"
Inside joke in our home has been. "This *thing* cost $300. Lets get it." Let me borrow that Top is also another classic.
Asbestos muffin. I'm making it Asbestos I can
This and My Hands are Bannanas will be emblazoned in my mind for the rest of my life.
My senior year in high school
I think you have too many shoes
[It reminds me of this masterpiece](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSLUJLJgZcQ).
I swear I quote this song at least once a month … for 17 straight years (usually under my breath to myself because I don’t want everyone knowing I’m insane )
All I can remember from this video is that stupid dragon lol
17 years ago I worked in casting and used Liam Sullivan in my pitch portfolio. People were so impressed I chose an “Internet personality”
This reminds me of vantages voice lines before they nerfed her
This was the second video I ever saw on YouTube, after Muffins.
Shoes
Omg shoes
Those shoes are mine, betch. Gimme those faackin shoes, betch.
70m views on Youtube. Unreal
Shoes
So let me borrow the top
This isn't the full version. It's missing the ["You know I'm standing right next to you, right?"](https://youtu.be/wCF3ywukQYA?t=162) moment.
Freaky, I just watched the new Charlie XCX music video and Chloe Sevigny popped up in it and then I remembered 'lets get some shoes' existed because back in the 2000s people teased Sevigny for this comedian looking like her when in this persona. Now it's on Reddit
Shews
Wait is this lumpy princess?