Honestly any time a thing is named after a guy I just assume the guy is dead. Especially if it was more than a decade ago. It’s true 90+% of the time and saves a lot of research.
Wellington? dead. Washington? dead. Tupper? dead. Ferris? dead. Mesmer? dead. Galvani? dead. Fuchs? dead. Maverick? dead. Sax? dead. Speedycake? apparently following me now what the fuck
it’s like 70% funny people think I’m dead and like 30% distressing only because it might lead to less bookings
hopefully people look into the post a bit more, there’s a couple corrections to the lore of it all I should address at some point later on
If it makes you feel better I’ve got like a dozen anons in my inbox yelling at me about how you’re not dead.
Hey do you consider it to technically be a Nightcore remix? As I understand it the term originated in 2002 referring to the output of a specific Norwegian group, and it wasn’t until much later that it caught on as a meme and started being used as a generic term, but nowadays it seems to be used to refer to anything sped up to 110-130% of the original tempo…
I’m really sorry about the anons, I hope they cut you some slack after seeing our exchange.
In terms of considering it nightcore I wouldn’t, it’s from a trend that predates that as the flash loop community was doing this already for years. The predominant thing at the time was just calling it speedy mix. The lore of the term speedycake, and subsequently my own alias originates from this. In 2005 there was a online radio project derived from 4chan called /b/radio, I was a regular broadcaster there playing songs I liked and the occasional livemix, both forms of the term DJ. At the time I went under the alias “cake” as a reference to the somethingawful meme of making porn worksafe and a particular image where a eromanga was edited to have pieces of cake over the genitalia and the replaced text it is delicious cake I must eat it, I am cake, eat eat eat. At some point I did a set featuring a lot of eurodance like smile.dk, papaya, caramell, aqua, etc. I sped up everything at a higher tempo and pitched everything to match tempo. After that broadcast people asked for some of the stuff I played and I obliged, original tracks though. They were unsatisfied with what I uploaded wanting faster versions like what they heard, a member of the /b/radio message board uploaded a sped up caramelldansen and added speedy mix to it but it wasn’t close to the tempo I played it at so I sped it up to what I had it at and called it speedycake remix.
There’s more story too but that is for another time.
Honestly any time a thing is named after a guy I just assume the guy is dead. Especially if it was more than a decade ago. It’s true 90+% of the time and saves a lot of research.
Wellington? dead. Washington? dead. Tupper? dead. Ferris? dead. Mesmer? dead. Galvani? dead. Fuchs? dead. Maverick? dead. Sax? dead. Speedycake? apparently following me now what the fuck
it’s like 70% funny people think I’m dead and like 30% distressing only because it might lead to less bookings
hopefully people look into the post a bit more, there’s a couple corrections to the lore of it all I should address at some point later on
hi yeah i found out recently that the popular caramelldansen (you know. the one you know.) is actually a fucking nightcore remix and this is the original
forbidden knowledge
Caramelldansen is the ultimate relic of the past because it wasn’t just a meme song it was a Nightcore remix meme song that got even more popular than the original.
Even darker secret knowledge the original dance also isn’t that version either. Most can see the original dance in the background of a scene in Fast&Furious: Tokyo Drift.
It’s not Nightcore, it predates Nightcore. The term you are looking for is Speedycake. After the late* DJ Speedycake.
The dance used in the vast number of 2d anime-esque caramelldansen vids has nothing to do with Caramell; it came from a gif on 4chan referred to as “Popotan dance” that started as fanart of an adult visual novel because of course it did. Speedycake was making his remixes at the same time as people were making popotan dance gifs of everything, and the memes converged into a compound supermeme that swept the internet.
The video above is yet another fan-made video, using 12 characters from the iDOLM@STER series. (Hint: the band that created the song is Swedish, so anything obviously Japanese did not come from them).
The first official video released by Caramell was this version, six years after the song was first released and two years after it started to spread as a meme:
I know there’s already a similar post floating around, but I had already planned on making my own, and I had very specific breed headcanons! Also, this one includes the most recent cats :3
