@@blakethesnake6686 It'll be tough, but I think I can restrain myself from stealing it and selling it on the streets becuade I care if he loses his hair
Neil Cicierega is one of the most famous people that no one knows and it saddens me. He has had such an impact on so many people, and they never realised it was him.
Neil Cicierega is at the absolute CORE of the internet. He's like. The heart of this entire operation. It's kind of incredible how much reach a single person has, even if you don't realize they're the one behind the scenes.
@@peanut05 Ifkr. "First" song I heard from him was My Trains from Aimkid's animation. But we all know the first ones would either be Harry Potter Puppet Pals or The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.
Neil's work is weird. With other people, you find their work because you actively seek it out. With Neil's work, it seeks out you. I find it so funny how everyone seems to have a similar experience with it.
He's like Warwick Davis, or Jim Cummings. They're in everything, you recognize their voice, you've grown up with their omnipresence in everything you love, and yet you don't know their name until one day either you look it up or someone points it out to you.
hes also responsible for shrek becoming a meme with his video "mouth", brodyquest inspired the whole shooting stars meme, he made a few cut songs from gravity falls, he made the legend "two trucks", he made the monster breeder game, and MORE- this guy has shaped my and many others childhoods
I met Neil Cicierega on his Potter Puppet Pals tour, at a library in Indianapolis. Half the crowd was kids, and the other half was in their 20's, like me. We all joined in the goofy songs and laughed and had a great time. Some dude and I in the crowd had a long conversation about weird old videos we saw in the early internet days, like Fishmaster (that Nightwish misheard-lyrics video), and he introduced me to Van Canto (an acapella metal band). In that place there was just such a concentration of love for the weird and the curious and the creative, a love and childlike joy that Neil espouses. Neil was a real awkward dude, just like in this video, and when I spoke to him for a second at the merch table, we didn't talk much. I think I asked him about the Neville puppet or something, and I thanked him for such a fun memory in my childhood, and for doing this free concert just for the love of his art. I found out later that he did the Ultimate Showdown, one of the most oft-quoted internet things of my friends and I back in middle school. I had the same reaction we all have... "Wait, what? That was him TOO??" It's just such an amazing thing to think about... he was one of the very first pioneers of the weird and wild possibilities of the internet. If this thing ever gets a true hall of fame someday, he deserves to be among the first inductees.
WAIT actually listen to i am become christmas listen to i am become christmas (listen to the other albums too of course but listen to iambc first, it's short and it is the perfect time to listen to it rn)
Neil Cicierega shaped my life too. The first thing I ever saw on the internet was potter puppet pals. Later on, I started listening to lemon demon, and I have been listening to him for the past 7 years. I also connected the dots when I was going back to watch the mysterious ticking noise again because duh, nostalgia. I saw the channel name and kind of recognized the voice and boom, childhood made.
for real, oh my gosh. i genuinely had the same reaction when i connected the dots in my head that he made all of that historical internet content that defined my childhood. haha
My friends and I usually pass the term "Cici'd" around when we discover that one thing we like was made by an artist who also made another work we like without realizing for a long period of time. If there's an actual term please let me know, otherwise I'll take all royalties thanks.
@@Norsilca replies to year old comment like a boss 😎. Also this came out a little over a month after mouth dreams (which I was obsessed with at the time) and no mention was made of it in the video.
i found out a similar way. i found out that lemon demon was neil cicierega, recognised that name and came across harry potter puppet pals again after a decade. this dude has shaped my humour into what it is today since i was 7 years old
I'm 12 and I found Neil a few days ago with two trucks and then yesterday spent like two hours straight listening to spirit phone and I'm obsessed at this point. This is already consuming my life, so yeah. This is my life now. I want to eat macaroni with Neil in his basement next to his trains now.
lol somehow i managed to avoid all of those things except puppet pals,,, My first song was two trucks, my friends had showed me which i promptly ignored, then last year My "first song" was 8th wonder and now he's my hyperfixation 😫
I've seen a handful of videos of this ilk, talking about how many different popular things Neil Cicierega has made, but I appreciate this video because of how emotionally driven/personal it feels-- this video is clearly a personal narrative first and a documentation of Neil's career second. With the more documentary-style videos, it always bugs me when they only talk about the really popular stuff... Speaking of which, if you're ever scrolling through Neil's youtube channel, I'd recommend checking out some of the videos that don't have a million+ views. One of my favorite Neil products is the web series "new kids on the rock", as well as guaranteed* video, which are made by Neil and two of his friends. Or, like, many of the less popular lemon demon songs are still catchy and worth listening to.... There's a lot of good stuff out there, and I feel like a lot of it gets overlooked
I was really afraid that you were about to say that Neil also made Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom, and if that were true I'm not sure my brain would've been able to handle it.
dude i watched the harry potter puppet pals in middle school and then found myself being obsessed with Lemon Demon in college. this dude has been making gold for so long, and seeped into my childhood in a unique way that no one else has. and i STILL enjoy his content.
I come back to your siivagunner video because it's such a well put together video on a thing I like. I just saw at the end that it had a card for a video about Neil Cicierega. Of course I click through because Neil is a cultural juggernaut, pretty neat to see a video incarnation of that realization that happens in the comment section of almost any one of his works.
Neil is my role model. I've always wanted to learn how to do everything, I draw, I paint, Im kind of teaching myself how to make music, I tried animation for a while, this summer im going to start selling my art, I sew, and I want to start a youtube channel. It's fucking awesome that he makes a living off that, just doing different stuff online. I really hope I can do something similar - persue different creative endevors forever - for a living. He's so cool, and I love him.
Quite literally the flash animated potter puppet pals were one of my earliest inklings of the internet. It's bizarre to see not only someone else who has had that exact same experience that I did but multiple people in the comments. It's as though the realization that all of these things trace to one singular creator- one who makes FANTASTIC MUSIC AND SKITS BY THE WAY- struck me as an absolute epiphany. It's like Neil inadvertently raised a lot of us. It's so weird knowing this sort of thing is exactly why everyone suddenly knows who Neil is now
same except to a slightly lesser extend, the "realisation moment" was when I saw two trucks in a meme, thought it was actually a pretty catchy song despite the lyrics, looked up the band behind it and instantly plunged down a rabbit hole
I love how at first I heard of Neil as a guy who made Touch-Tone Telephone, then the guy who made The ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny, then I found rest of his songs and in the end I see this
The funny thing is I don't think this is even particularly unusual. I actually don't know Potter Pals at all, but there's an incredible through-line of his music for pretty much the entire timeline of popular internet at this stage.
I had a similar horrific realisation when I got into Deltarune and listened to Spamton playlists for the hell of it. So, yes, this all took place a year ago and I don't have too many early memories of being scarred by Neil's beautiful abominations. I kept on noticing, however, that they kept on including songs by "Lemon Demon". No matter who made the play list, it was "Lemon Demon" "Lemon Demon" and I thought I was safe when I read "Neil Cicierega" until someone informed me "no, that's still Lemon Demon". So, out of shame and feeling that I needed to prove something, I listened to more of his music. No word of a lie, that man has changed the trajectory of my life in little but a year. Before listening to his music, I was a quiet, scared stereotype, and now I'm making an animatic of Aurora Borealis where I'm trying to actually reign myself in for making it too disturbing. Tangent aside, I later googled him in similar fashion and it all struck me like a brick. He even wrote the demo for the unused Bill song in Gravity Falls. I've been whistling the little ending diddy in the Draco Malfoy episode of HPPP. This man has and always will continue to consume my entire life and I know I am not his only victim.
i’m only in high school & my parents didn’t allow me to have much internet access when i was very small so one might THINK i would never have heard of anything neil-related. HOWEVER in second or third grade i was on the bus & a girl one year older than me somehow ended up talking to me. she told me to do something. she would repeat “snape, snape, severus snape” & i would say “dumbledore!” at the correct intervals. i had no idea what she was doing but i had no one else to talk to & i had read some of the harry potter books so i played along. eventually i had the bright idea to scream “VOLDEMORT” instead. when i did she was dismayed. “you can’t do that!” “why not?” “because that’s not how it goes.” we didn’t really talk after that, & i forgot about the whole thing for a while. skip to three years ago. i was discovering neil. i learn he made something called “potter puppet pals.” i decide to watch the most popular video… & all of a sudden everything made sense. i happen to still be acquainted with that girl. i don’t think she knows neil’s name, & i’ve been waiting for an opportunity to talk about it. anyway insert jurassic park quote here blah blah blah
I saw a ghost-like hallucination that looked like him. But I only got a quick glimpse at his head, and I recognised the head shape and hair. I’m probably gonna think about that a lot. Edit: but like, I did kind of see the sitting position, either that he was in a chair or he was kneeling down. I was also listening to his album “Spirit Phone” at the time. And this was only yesterday at around 11:30pm when I was trying to go to sleep. It also wasn’t pitch black,since two lamps were on, so I could see the figure pretty well. I was most likely just sleep deprived since after 20 second of having my eyes closed since they were starting to feel odd I opened them and saw him. What a weird time that was. If anyone sees this like a week or so after this comment, here’s the date it happened: 23/6/21(AUS)
I love it when people realize how much he's done. For me the first things were the Animutations and then years later realizing Ultimate Showdown and then Puppet Pals was also him. It got to the point where I always check to see if he's involved in something I like that goes viral... but I also have an unhealthy crush on his sister. Hat=$
The first work I ever saw of Neil is Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny!~ 😄😄😄 I used to think Lemon Demon was a band, I was genuinely shocked & surprised to know it was all one dude making all those bops!~ ☆☆☆😎😎😎😄😄😄🤘🤘🤘💜💙💖💚⚡⚡⚡🏅🏅🏅
Oh man, I used to binge the heck out of his channel along with his friends Ryan Murphy's and Max Pacheco's (somehow never got around to Kevin James')! Good times! Each of their channels gives me major nostalgia.
Holy shit that ending, I knew Brodyquest was from my childhood but I thought that was his only major influence. But that Puppet Pals song unearthed some ANCIENT memories of kids singing that in elementary school WTF Neil
It's funny, I expected this to start with Animutations, which I saw back around 2000 in the Internet stone age. Finding out years later that was him, and also that he was my age was an extra mindfuck. I was just a kid when I saw those, but so was the kid making them!
believe it or not my love of gravity falls lead me to Neils work so here is a chart to demonstrate how interests inspired interests gravity falls -> axolotls axolotls -> this one animator called sir fluff sir fluff -> this one song she made a amv for called sleepwalk touch-tone telephone showed up in my recommended
did- did you know neil made a song for the show, it didn't end up getting into it, but also his sister worked on the show, small world man and yea neil just always ends up coming full circle
"how neil cicierega gave me childhood trauma"
honestly if someone told me neil cicierega handmade every single meme, at this point id just believe them
If u told me Neil founded my elementary school I’d believe them like “ yea this might as well happen”
If someone told me I was actually adopted my real father was Neil cecierega i’d be like yeah that tracks
I prefer to call this phenomenon
"your first Neil cicerega song isn't really your first Neil cicerega song"
There is a reason this comment didnt have any comments, and it's because he's not wrong
Yes
what's in the toaster
"Fenomenom"
phenomenon
Can confirm, I actually listened to my trains before getting into LD
Neil is the collective father of every single person on the entire internet
the only thing you can strive to be on the internet is somebody who doesn't steal neil's medicine (the stuff he takes to keep his hair)
@@blakethesnake6686 It'll be tough, but I think I can restrain myself from stealing it and selling it on the streets becuade I care if he loses his hair
omg your top comment haha hi
@@adp7583 whoa I'm top comment? I had no idea hHa
"As your father I expressly forbid it"
-Neil Ciceriega AKA lemon demon
Every perception of Neil Cicierega is personalized
We all have our own traumatizing memories of Neil's content
"do not research this"
Every perception of anything is personalized, if you really think about it
@@Otra_Chica_de_Internet yeah- it is! 😄😄
it would be so cool if neil was real
Neil Cicierega: Internet Person
Niel Cicierega: Internet G O D
Neil Cicierega is one of the most famous people that no one knows and it saddens me. He has had such an impact on so many people, and they never realised it was him.
"when you do something right, it will be as if you didn't do anything at all"
- God Cicierega
The real eighth wonder.
Neil Cicierega is at the absolute CORE of the internet. He's like. The heart of this entire operation. It's kind of incredible how much reach a single person has, even if you don't realize they're the one behind the scenes.
Yeah
me: *listens to one lemon demon song*
also me: *this video*
Me 💀💀💀
Y e s
it might not even be your first lemon demon song that’s the thing yk
@@peanut05 Ifkr. "First" song I heard from him was My Trains from Aimkid's animation. But we all know the first ones would either be Harry Potter Puppet Pals or The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.
Neil's work is weird. With other people, you find their work because you actively seek it out. With Neil's work, it seeks out you. I find it so funny how everyone seems to have a similar experience with it.
Yeah
his work is like that island from A Series of Unfortunate Events
in one of his interviews he's asked how to find his youtube channel, and he said 'just go on the internet, you'll find me eventually'
Everyone knows him but not everyone knows that they know him
He's like Warwick Davis, or Jim Cummings. They're in everything, you recognize their voice, you've grown up with their omnipresence in everything you love, and yet you don't know their name until one day either you look it up or someone points it out to you.
i’ve heard neil cicierega’s name pronounced so many different ways and it’s hilarious
Nelson Candlelight,,,,,
Neon rice crispy treats
nail ceciregan
@@strideryourself neoclassicism
bro,
neal sissy reagan
hes also responsible for shrek becoming a meme with his video "mouth", brodyquest inspired the whole shooting stars meme, he made a few cut songs from gravity falls, he made the legend "two trucks", he made the monster breeder game, and MORE- this guy has shaped my and many others childhoods
And his sister is also a storyboard artist for the show gravity falls
he made mouth??
@@nikonijn yes
I really appreciate the spoiler alert for “Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom” 😂
Spoiler unneeded, I was reciting the whole story together with him 😂
Nice profile picture :)
how a 34 year old man raised an entire generation of people
He's 34 and hasn't aged a day
I met Neil Cicierega on his Potter Puppet Pals tour, at a library in Indianapolis. Half the crowd was kids, and the other half was in their 20's, like me. We all joined in the goofy songs and laughed and had a great time. Some dude and I in the crowd had a long conversation about weird old videos we saw in the early internet days, like Fishmaster (that Nightwish misheard-lyrics video), and he introduced me to Van Canto (an acapella metal band). In that place there was just such a concentration of love for the weird and the curious and the creative, a love and childlike joy that Neil espouses.
Neil was a real awkward dude, just like in this video, and when I spoke to him for a second at the merch table, we didn't talk much. I think I asked him about the Neville puppet or something, and I thanked him for such a fun memory in my childhood, and for doing this free concert just for the love of his art.
I found out later that he did the Ultimate Showdown, one of the most oft-quoted internet things of my friends and I back in middle school. I had the same reaction we all have... "Wait, what? That was him TOO??" It's just such an amazing thing to think about... he was one of the very first pioneers of the weird and wild possibilities of the internet. If this thing ever gets a true hall of fame someday, he deserves to be among the first inductees.
what would you even say to neil lemon demon cicierega???
@@clemclemclemclemclYou go OH MY GOD NEIL CICIREGA 😍😍 (reference)
YES! I watched potter puppet pals, then brodyquest, then ultimate showdown, and now I'm obsessed with spirit phone
same!
listen to view monster listen to view monster
listen to dinosaurchestra listen to dinosaurchestra
WAIT actually listen to i am become christmas listen to i am become christmas (listen to the other albums too of course but listen to iambc first, it's short and it is the perfect time to listen to it rn)
@@pixeliien I've listened to basically all of Neil's discography, (save for mouth moods idk why) but I really like view monster and dinosaurchestra
i call him "Internet-Man" because he is ANYTHING YET EVERYTHING you find on web
I remember Watching the mysterious ticking noise and it was really messed up
it was funny though
My primary school made us preform it.
@@AmpersandsDeadChannel YOU TOO??? oh my god i thought i was going insane we had to sing it in music i think
I hope Neil sees this, I feel like he'd appreciate it :)
Neil Cicierega shaped my life too. The first thing I ever saw on the internet was potter puppet pals. Later on, I started listening to lemon demon, and I have been listening to him for the past 7 years.
I also connected the dots when I was going back to watch the mysterious ticking noise again because duh, nostalgia. I saw the channel name and kind of recognized the voice and boom, childhood made.
neil cicierega actually invented music and the internet so good job neil
real
I LOVE HOW UR EVERYWHERE 😭👾
THIS DUDE IS GOING THROUGH THE EXACT SAME EXISTENTIAL CRISIS AS I DID LAST YEAR
This is why I call Neil an omnipresent god.
this phenomenon is called "Wait, its all Neil Cicierega?"
for real, oh my gosh. i genuinely had the same reaction when i connected the dots in my head that he made all of that historical internet content that defined my childhood. haha
I swear, I had this exact same epiphany last week. Weird timing.
I love how you couldn’t recognize him in each picture because neil is eternal
sadly when i hear “neil cicierega” i think of his music but mostly the “OOOHH MY GODDDD NEIL CICIEREGA”
You forgot to mention Two Trucks.
Built up by Cicierega and shattered by SiIvaGunner. A proper pincer attack of bizarre musical mixes.
My friends and I usually pass the term "Cici'd" around when we discover that one thing we like was made by an artist who also made another work we like without realizing for a long period of time.
If there's an actual term please let me know, otherwise I'll take all royalties thanks.
i'm stealing this thanks /j
me too
Happened to me with ScottFalco,Super Mario Hydein is still a fever dream on the back of my brain.
You better listen to Mouth Dreams and all the other Mouth albums he made for that matter
The album covers for Mouth Silence and Mouth Moods are in the video. He knows.
@@Norsilca replies to year old comment like a boss 😎. Also this came out a little over a month after mouth dreams (which I was obsessed with at the time) and no mention was made of it in the video.
@@JerryFilms I don't discriminate
another title: neil cicierega gave me trauma when i was 9 years old
i found out a similar way. i found out that lemon demon was neil cicierega, recognised that name and came across harry potter puppet pals again after a decade. this dude has shaped my humour into what it is today since i was 7 years old
i learned Neil existed and then he was everywhere and everything
I'm 12 and I found Neil a few days ago with two trucks and then yesterday spent like two hours straight listening to spirit phone and I'm obsessed at this point. This is already consuming my life, so yeah. This is my life now. I want to eat macaroni with Neil in his basement next to his trains now.
MORE ALBUMS IMMEDIATELY
Alternate title: Neil Cicierega traumatizes a child numerous times over the course of their life and turns it into a career
He was literally part of my creepypasta phase and that BLEW my mind
This is my exact experience
lol somehow i managed to avoid all of those things except puppet pals,,, My first song was two trucks, my friends had showed me which i promptly ignored, then last year My "first song" was 8th wonder and now he's my hyperfixation 😫
how does neil cicierega
he just does
@@pixeliien yeah
yes
No.
Neil Cicierega made Minecraft
i'd belive that tbh neil and his shenanigans
I've seen a handful of videos of this ilk, talking about how many different popular things Neil Cicierega has made, but I appreciate this video because of how emotionally driven/personal it feels-- this video is clearly a personal narrative first and a documentation of Neil's career second. With the more documentary-style videos, it always bugs me when they only talk about the really popular stuff... Speaking of which, if you're ever scrolling through Neil's youtube channel, I'd recommend checking out some of the videos that don't have a million+ views. One of my favorite Neil products is the web series "new kids on the rock", as well as guaranteed* video, which are made by Neil and two of his friends. Or, like, many of the less popular lemon demon songs are still catchy and worth listening to.... There's a lot of good stuff out there, and I feel like a lot of it gets overlooked
Neil cicierega gave me childhood trauma and I would marry him
I was really afraid that you were about to say that Neil also made Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom, and if that were true I'm not sure my brain would've been able to handle it.
omg neil cicierega 😰😰😍
dude i watched the harry potter puppet pals in middle school and then found myself being obsessed with Lemon Demon in college. this dude has been making gold for so long, and seeped into my childhood in a unique way that no one else has. and i STILL enjoy his content.
I come back to your siivagunner video because it's such a well put together video on a thing I like. I just saw at the end that it had a card for a video about Neil Cicierega. Of course I click through because Neil is a cultural juggernaut, pretty neat to see a video incarnation of that realization that happens in the comment section of almost any one of his works.
As he said in ‘as your father I expressly forbid it’, “IM YOUR DAD😡”
yea, except I only recently discovered him like 2 years ago
Neil is my role model. I've always wanted to learn how to do everything, I draw, I paint, Im kind of teaching myself how to make music, I tried animation for a while, this summer im going to start selling my art, I sew, and I want to start a youtube channel. It's fucking awesome that he makes a living off that, just doing different stuff online. I really hope I can do something similar - persue different creative endevors forever - for a living.
He's so cool, and I love him.
Quite literally the flash animated potter puppet pals were one of my earliest inklings of the internet. It's bizarre to see not only someone else who has had that exact same experience that I did but multiple people in the comments. It's as though the realization that all of these things trace to one singular creator- one who makes FANTASTIC MUSIC AND SKITS BY THE WAY- struck me as an absolute epiphany. It's like Neil inadvertently raised a lot of us. It's so weird knowing this sort of thing is exactly why everyone suddenly knows who Neil is now
neil is the internet
i had this same realization like a couple months ago it was terrible yet intriguing. now im like hopelessly obsessed with neil's content
same except to a slightly lesser extend, the "realisation moment" was when I saw two trucks in a meme, thought it was actually a pretty catchy song despite the lyrics, looked up the band behind it and instantly plunged down a rabbit hole
If our world is a video game, then Neil is the player.
THE HAIRCUT SONG IS NOT SIX YEARS OLD, IT CANT BE, HOW DARE YOU, HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME FEEL OLD
Hate to break it to you, but it's actually 10 years old
@@Parsnips001 That's not true! That's imposible!
God this video gave me the vibe that you were talking about lmao
I love how at first I heard of Neil as a guy who made Touch-Tone Telephone, then the guy who made The ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny, then I found rest of his songs and in the end I see this
NEIL CICIERGRA IS EVERYWHERE. HE MOLDED US ALL INTO WHO WE ARE
11:56 I heard the ticking and immediately thought you were going to start playing Dinosaurchestra
The funny thing is I don't think this is even particularly unusual. I actually don't know Potter Pals at all, but there's an incredible through-line of his music for pretty much the entire timeline of popular internet at this stage.
You guys are gonna freak out when you find out Neil made a scrapped Gravity Falls song that Bill was gonna sing
I had a similar horrific realisation when I got into Deltarune and listened to Spamton playlists for the hell of it. So, yes, this all took place a year ago and I don't have too many early memories of being scarred by Neil's beautiful abominations.
I kept on noticing, however, that they kept on including songs by "Lemon Demon". No matter who made the play list, it was "Lemon Demon" "Lemon Demon" and I thought I was safe when I read "Neil Cicierega" until someone informed me "no, that's still Lemon Demon".
So, out of shame and feeling that I needed to prove something, I listened to more of his music.
No word of a lie, that man has changed the trajectory of my life in little but a year. Before listening to his music, I was a quiet, scared stereotype, and now I'm making an animatic of Aurora Borealis where I'm trying to actually reign myself in for making it too disturbing.
Tangent aside, I later googled him in similar fashion and it all struck me like a brick. He even wrote the demo for the unused Bill song in Gravity Falls. I've been whistling the little ending diddy in the Draco Malfoy episode of HPPP.
This man has and always will continue to consume my entire life and I know I am not his only victim.
everybody feels like this about him eventually
And then FNF was created, and Lemon Demon was shoved back into the unknown closet, as the search results were flooded with one overrated character.
so true 😔
i hate this
I was obsessed with Brodyquest to an unhealthy degree
this video in a nutshell
talks about childhood
talks about neil cicierega
conclusion neil cicierega good
im only 12, but i think i can safely say the same. i absolutely love neil bro
The ending of the video is how we all felt, an existential crisis about "WHAT THE FUCK HE MADE THIS TOO?????"
i’m only in high school & my parents didn’t allow me to have much internet access when i was very small so one might THINK i would never have heard of anything neil-related.
HOWEVER in second or third grade i was on the bus & a girl one year older than me somehow ended up talking to me. she told me to do something. she would repeat “snape, snape, severus snape” & i would say “dumbledore!” at the correct intervals. i had no idea what she was doing but i had no one else to talk to & i had read some of the harry potter books so i played along. eventually i had the bright idea to scream “VOLDEMORT” instead. when i did she was dismayed. “you can’t do that!”
“why not?”
“because that’s not how it goes.”
we didn’t really talk after that, & i forgot about the whole thing for a while.
skip to three years ago. i was discovering neil. i learn he made something called “potter puppet pals.” i decide to watch the most popular video… & all of a sudden everything made sense.
i happen to still be acquainted with that girl. i don’t think she knows neil’s name, & i’ve been waiting for an opportunity to talk about it.
anyway insert jurassic park quote here blah blah blah
What a fascinating story you got there
@@clausluger4570 thank you!
The fact that this guy told it like a horror story is everything
OMG NEIL CICIEREGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I saw a ghost-like hallucination that looked like him. But I only got a quick glimpse at his head, and I recognised the head shape and hair. I’m probably gonna think about that a lot.
Edit: but like, I did kind of see the sitting position, either that he was in a chair or he was kneeling down. I was also listening to his album “Spirit Phone” at the time. And this was only yesterday at around 11:30pm when I was trying to go to sleep. It also wasn’t pitch black,since two lamps were on, so I could see the figure pretty well. I was most likely just sleep deprived since after 20 second of having my eyes closed since they were starting to feel odd I opened them and saw him. What a weird time that was.
If anyone sees this like a week or so after this comment, here’s the date it happened: 23/6/21(AUS)
...Neil said on the commentary that there's a ghost in that album. You should be scared.
Neil is my personal hero
after watching "07/27/1978" literally 82 days in a row i cannot watch any videos like this without thinking of it again
I love it when people realize how much he's done. For me the first things were the Animutations and then years later realizing Ultimate Showdown and then Puppet Pals was also him. It got to the point where I always check to see if he's involved in something I like that goes viral... but I also have an unhealthy crush on his sister. Hat=$
Thank you, Neil. For real.
The first work I ever saw of Neil is Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny!~ 😄😄😄 I used to think Lemon Demon was a band, I was genuinely shocked & surprised to know it was all one dude making all those bops!~ ☆☆☆😎😎😎😄😄😄🤘🤘🤘💜💙💖💚⚡⚡⚡🏅🏅🏅
It technically is a band in a way because for live performances Neil would get a entire band.
I just like how Bo en and jack stauber were also downloaded there too lmao
How is it my dude have can have almost 7,000 Subscribers and usually has less than 200 Views on each video.
he’s underrated
Oh man, I used to binge the heck out of his channel along with his friends Ryan Murphy's and Max Pacheco's (somehow never got around to Kevin James')! Good times! Each of their channels gives me major nostalgia.
Why did I think the ticking was going to be dinosaurchestra
Bro really raised me when my mom decided that she didn't want to
Shout out to this video for igniting my lemon demon / neil cicierega hyperfixation. Almost two years now and going strong
Holy shit that ending, I knew Brodyquest was from my childhood but I thought that was his only major influence. But that Puppet Pals song unearthed some ANCIENT memories of kids singing that in elementary school WTF Neil
It's funny, I expected this to start with Animutations, which I saw back around 2000 in the Internet stone age. Finding out years later that was him, and also that he was my age was an extra mindfuck. I was just a kid when I saw those, but so was the kid making them!
If you haven't yet, watch his XOXO speech. The rabbit hole is never ending.
"Do you know Neil Cicierega?"
"No, who's that?"
"Do you know Lemon Demon?"
"No"
"What about the Potter Puppet Pals?"
"Yes"
I only knew about Potter Puppet Pals until after I knew about Neil Cicierega.
@@tweer64 Me too, but a lot of people I know only have seen Potter Puppet Pals.
@@nofivefivesevenseven I've watched that series quite a few times despite not knowing a thing about Harry Potter.
its just such a collective experience to see who made something you grew up with and just "wait he made that too?"
Fuck man we got parallel backstories
All internet content can at some point be traced back to Neil C
i love how almost everyone has the same experience discovering who neil is
as someone who has been a fan of neil for years, i love hearing the stories of people who have rediscovered his work. it’s so awesome to see
thanks for being like, the best bits of my childhood neil.
HELP THIS IS LITERALLY HOW I FOUND OUT
this has the same energy as that video breaking down how a siivagunner rip made them break down
believe it or not my love of gravity falls lead me to Neils work so here is a chart to demonstrate how interests inspired interests
gravity falls -> axolotls
axolotls -> this one animator called sir fluff
sir fluff -> this one song she made a amv for called sleepwalk
touch-tone telephone showed up in my recommended
did- did you know neil made a song for the show, it didn't end up getting into it, but also his sister worked on the show, small world man and yea neil just always ends up coming full circle
pov: Neil Cicerega is an omniscient god which everyone and no one knows
Neil is a straight-up god at this point and I’m scared