A Brief History of Homestar Runner
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- Опубликовано: 4 дек 2014
- In a collaborative video Hank and Ryder introduce you (or re-familiarize you) with the majesty of Homestar Runner. In a lot of ways it was the very first broadly successful online video project. Pretty much everything we do here on RUclips is in some way based on trails The Brothers Chaps blazed. Our history, people! It is here!
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I remember one night around 2004 (estimated to be, as I forgot the exact year), I wrote an email as a 13-14 year old boy. I wanted to profess my love for the Strongbad emails, but didn't want my mom to know (as we weren't allowed online at that time). With that said, I just mashed my palms against the keyboard in the box where you were supposed to enter your name. I figured it didn't matter, as I thought I would never have my question posted. To this day, the email I sent is saved under the title "i love you". I have bragged about it to friends for 10 years, and will probably never stop. Homestar Runner fans will understand this..
What I love about Homestar is that it always feels modern and fresh, even stuff released in the early 2000's feels new and exciting, their jokes are timeless, they don't reply on modern pop culture references and each of the character's personalities are strong enough to hold up even today
Here's a fun fact: Strong Bad's Cool game for Attractive People is what caught the interest of Robert Kirkman into collaborating with Telltale Games and making the Walking Dead video game.
I spent a good deal of time in college reading Strong Bad's emails. I can't believe there are so many people saying they've never heard of it.... come on fhqwhgads.
Seeing all these comments like "I have never heard of this," makes me feel SO old. My brother showed me the site when we were both still in high school, back around 2001 or 2002. Homestar Runner is pretty much a part of my soul now. I still catch myself singing some of the songs or doing impressions of certain phrases. (Usually "That sneakity sneak all day loooooong!" or "Coach Z, how come you don't dance no more?" or "The system... is down.")
I'm 18, so I'm used to my peers not knowing what Homestar Runner is, but it's still so sad to read all these comments about how unimportant HR is just because someone's never heard of it. It seems kind of egocentric and unimaginative to assume that just because you've never heard of something it's unimportant to other individuals or the evolution of online entertainment.
I'm cuddling my Kick The Cheat doll and smiling really goofy right now, and I'm a 31-year-old woman.
Hurts to watch this in 2023 knowing that they've hardly made any new content. The hype at the end of this video came to fruition in some other time or place, but not ours.....
Hey Hank and John - never commented on a vlogbrothers video before (sorry about that) but thought it was important enough to echo what some others are commenting here: your silence on Michael Brown and Eric Garner is really conspicuous. I'm hoping you're still working on finding the right words; the excuse that you've addressed it on Tumblr strikes me as pretty flimsy. I remain a big fan, but unless we hear from you guys on this, I think it will really hurt your credibility.
Man, talk about nostalgia. Homestarrunner was "viral video" before anyone had ever uttered the word. And now I feel old for having been on the Internet in 2003.
In a collaborative video
Thank you so much for bringing ABH onto the Vlogbrothers channel, Hank! It is genuinely a dream come true :)
"Rejoice everyone, Homestar Runner is back!"
Burninating the countryside, burninating the peasants. Burninating all the people AND THEIR COTTAGESSSSS.
I'm pretty sure this video has set a new world record for "Most Words Spoken In 4 Minutes."
Homestar Runner is the greatest thing the internet has ever produced and is still god damned hilarious well into my 30's.
This is what we killed time with in High School. We still quote it all the time, including spontaneous Cheat inspired light switch raves. This made me so happy, thank you.
My favourite thing in homestar runner is that one strong bad mail episode where he's like "Y-O-U-R. Y-O-U-apostrophe-R-E. They're as different as day and night. Don't you think day and night are different? What's wrong with you?"
HOMESTAR RUNNER WAS MY CHILDHOOD. He was the start of my addiction to the internet & videos. Strong Bad was the absolute best oh my gosh. THE NOSTALGIA
Nick Carter is doing a tour, there's a new Pokemon game just released, a Star Wars movie is coming out next year and Homestar Runner has new content... WHAT YEAR IS THIS?!!!