Can somebody explain what was the deal of all those mid-2000s ROMhacks focusing on crude sexual jokes & hating on Quaker Oats and mr.Diabetus AKA Willford Brimley as obnoxiously as possible?

Wow you are too young to be posting.

Because crude sex jokes were funny when we were teenagers.
What a stupid fucking thread. Fuck you.

I know where you live and am going to kill you OP

>>11809024 (OP)
I had forgotten about that. Damn that was funny the way we would say Dia-BEE-tuss. I don’t remember what started it all I know is it was hilarious. I think it was his night time diabeetus 1-800 infomercials and I want to say that’s what started it. Could be wrong but it was damn funny. Hopefully the dude embraced it if it even ever got back to him.

>>11809026
Nah senpai, I'm just an ESL subhuman born after the Czecho-Slovakia secession who didn't have access to the internet before late 2004.

>>11809029
How can any of this shit be considered funny to anybody who wasn't a literal zoomer of a singular digit age around A.D.2002?

>>11809053
>zoomer
>2002
Try harder to not be a buzzword spouting retard if you want to be taken seriously.

>>11809036
>>11809024 (OP)
They were memes at the time. Wilford Brimley because of the stupid diabetes testing supplies ads which were omnipresent on TV back then, in which he pronounced it like "diabetus." I forget why the Quaker Oats guy was meme material back then, probably an offshoot of one of those online comedy writers or SomethingAwful bullshit. Another memed man from the 2000s was GEORGE ZIMMER FOUNDER AND CEO OF THE MEN'S WAREHOUSE, though that was more of a mid 2000s 4chan thing and probably didn't make its way to the ROMhack fad.
Weird old games, particularly NES games, and edgy goofball ROMhacks were all the rage among SA goons back in the day, and since SA was the primary nexus of memes, the two would often intersect, like Nigga Stole My Bike and Monster Party in general.

>>11809053
I've been to Czech, they speak English fine there.

One of the first things I did when I discovered the sprite viewer in Nesticle was draw dicks

>>11809026
>Wow you are too young to be posting.
This

A large chunk of the internet was filled with teens all making their own sites about whatever on geocities, angelfire or homestead. Take a bunch of kids from around those age groups rying to be edgy with the general mentality of what was funny in the late 90s/early 00s and you get this. These kinds of hacks existing make perfect sense if you was on the internet around that time.

>>11809029
>Because crude sex jokes were funny when we were teenagers.
Also this

>>11809053
>How can any of this shit be considered funny to anybody who wasn't a literal zoomer of a singular digit age around A.D.2002?
Simple:
Kid trying to be edgy + likely lived around people that would have scolded them for even saying "hell" + internet access where said kid can hang out with other similar kids and they realize they can do pretty much anything there without their parents having the faintest clue = "Wow! Look at me I am so edgy! Fuck fuck fuck ha ha ha! Gay, Weed, Hitler, Shit, Cocks ha ha ha!"

I remember seeing a flash animation called "Fuck Shit Piss".... which was someone just saying "Fuck! Shit! Piss!" over and over for about 1-2 minutes of stick-figure barely animated random nonsense.

It was a bunch of kids that were basically able to escape adult supervision and trying to act edgy... for what would have been considered edgy 20 years ago by children.

It's also the reason why there were hundreds of very simple graphics hacks of NES games, usually Super Mario Bros, where the graphics all just replaced with weed or penises or swastikas. Nothing was edgier to kids back then than swearing, dicks, saying gay/fag, weed, and bringing up Hitler, which the internet and especially romhacks and flash animations let them easily do.

Also not much has changed in terms of people finding dicks funny. The oldest known cave drawing was of a penis and to this day dick jokes are prominent.

Romhacking was new to a lot of us who weren't reprogramming FDS games with Family Basic hackery (so all of humanity pretty much), and the first people to try it out were the teenagers and kids who were cursing at each other on gaming forums away from the stress of real life responsibilities.

>>11809324
>CUM FU
>BABY DODGE BALL
>DICK DUG
>ASS CLIMBER

>>11809324
>It's also the reason why there were hundreds of very simple graphics hacks of NES games, usually Super Mario Bros, where the graphics all just replaced with weed or penises or swastikas. Nothing was edgier to kids back then than swearing, dicks, saying gay/fag, weed, and bringing up Hitler, which the internet and especially romhacks and flash animations let them easily do.

Should also add, this was further made popular/easier due to Nesticle being the most popular and well known NES emulator at the time (Which the name and and of itself is an example of the humor of teenagers at the time, to say nothing of the "company" that made it being called Bloodlust Software and one of the creators going by "Shitman: The Fecal Lord") had a built-in sprite/tile editor. It was very basic and could not mess with many more advanced games, but it was enough for much simpler games like Super Mario Bros, which had literally thousands of such romhacks for it because of this. It also massively helped that any changes you made you could see in real-time as you was editing them, even while the game was running. It was how I and I am sure many others realized that the bushes and clouds in Super Mario Bros were actually just the same graphic but with a different pallet and how some sprites were just half a sprite flipped and mirrored.

>>11809324
>I remember seeing a flash animation called "Fuck Shit Piss".... which was someone just saying "Fuck! Shit! Piss!" over and over for about 1-2 minutes of stick-figure barely animated random nonsense.
you chase Solo, we drink Ritalin

It's called humor, you wouldn't get it, considering such stuff isn't allowed anymore

>>11809024 (OP)
Because they could.

Fansubbing scene had equally stupid shit in it back then. Excessive swearing, early newgrounds memes, random ESL shitposting and just tryhard cringe humor.

>>11809324
That Evil Dead hack looks like fun.

>>11809390
>you chase Solo, we drink Ritalin
Funny thing, my original post mentioned that animation too and how the creator acted like he was friends with Hitler in there as another example of teenage edgy humor back then, but I had to cut it to make the post fit within the 2000 character limit.

>>11809443
It's no Mr. T Ate My Balls but at least it's not another Wilford Brimley romhack.

I kind of miss old newgrounds. NES felt impossibly old and memeworthy in 2002, and yet tye NES was getting new games like dragon warrior IV just a decade previously.

Do young people looking back at 2015 feel it was a whole other era, the way it was for us looking back from 2002 to 1992? It seems so little has changed in the world in the zoomers lifetime.

>>11809474
I remember the portal being full of ridiculous games and animations, Super Gangsta Bros in particular encapsulates that era.

>>11809441
>One group did it so that means they are all guilty DERP!

>>11809441
God, Hank's such a peice of shit.

>>11809498
I remember one of the anime I saw as it was being fansubbed was pretty infamous too. .hack//Sign, which has an infamous "Feel the pain of feeling the pain" line and intro lyrics that were nonsense.

One of the episodes had characters calling another "a retard" so it was hardly just one group, or even from the very early days of fansubbing since this anime was from the 2000s.

>>11809451
Like tears in rain, anon.
>>11809441
had totally forgotten about 'candy-ass'.

>>11809278
Wilford Brimley appeared in Quaker Oats ads, starting in 1987.

Oats have far fewer hulls now. I used to get at least one per serving, now it's almost never.

>>11809531
That was one of The Rock’s phrases, right?

>>11809498
>one group did it
Fuck no, it was more than a few. But with that said:
Many series only had one group period, you just watched what you could get in the laye 90s. Even on a popular series like DBZ your options were limited. Either you got a really chingrish version that used chinese/gook names of characters (Ng and Li shen and other barbaric fuckery), or you got a vhs copy of a copy copy full of tracking lines put into a 20mb real media file, or you got the cringe localization with the swears and "humor" added in a decent quality avi file.

>>11809557
yeah, it stuck in my mind as one of the wordfilters here.

>>11809474
>Do young people looking back at 2015 feel it was a whole other era
Yes, it and 2016 were the last years the internet at large had any sense of free speech

>>11809024 (OP)
The internet wasn't as serious back then. People were allowed to have fun.

>>11809640
I remember watching absolute dogshit quality copies of Nippon Golden Network's DragonBall subs. They were professional quality subtitles, unsurprising given the source, too bad they apparently didn't finish subtitling DBZ.

>>11809738
The world’s been going downhill ever since Filthy Frank stopped making videos.

There's still a few brave souls keeping the dream alive.
https://www.baddesthacks.net/

>>11809024 (OP)
no, because anyone who needs to ask wasn't there, and I don't interact with zoomers

>>11809024 (OP)
MEN EAT OATS!

>>11809474
I installed Macromedia Flash on school computers to play Defend Your Castle

>>11809738
8 FIERCE FUCKERS TEARING ASS AFTER ASS!

>>11809079
zoomers gen starts in 1996 retard.

>>11809036

Diabeetus showdown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BME0639IP5g

>>11810383
Man I cried a little I laughed so hard. Better times

>>11810216
That meme really did go far and I was familiar w it. I wasn’t familiar w all the hacks but that’s probably because I was working by then and people forget how intense the stream of games were especially the ps2/xbox/gc era along w pc holdovers w still huge gameplay bases like for me personally unreal 99, which I don’t think I played until well after the year 2000. This is all bringing me new ground vibes and that squirrel thing you would torture and he would just talk shit to you until he usually exploded. Kinda fucked up looking back now.

>>11809053
>born after the Czecho-Slovakia secession (presumably January 1st 1993)
So you were about 9 in 2002, doesn't that make you also one of said "'zoomers"' that you're malding about then?

>>11809474
>Do young people looking back at 2015 feel it was a whole other era, the way it was for us looking back from 2002 to 1992?
Absolutely not. Time stopped moving in the mid-2010s, and now we're all locked here, forever.

>>11809029
MOTHERFU-BLEEP-

Gen x and millennial humor is why everyone hates them and wants them lynched

>>11811268
This!

>>11809498
Is it the same group with that one original Dragon Ball sub with credits like
>[random real life name] is banned from the anime store, you know what you did

>>11810391
I took that picture of diabeetus graffiti in 2012 btw if that helps with reconstructing the meme timeline.

>>11809053
idk anon that pic made me smile a bit

>>11811268
>flossing intensifies

The world didn't begin when you were born, OP.

>>11811285
I know we used it at the bar I worked at because one of the managers had diabetes and we would just yell it out during busy hours when everyone was to drunk to care, but that was 2016 ish. That meme had to have been around at the latest 2001-2003 right? I guess I could check the date of those commercial releases but nes romhacks and those kind of memes definitely fit w late high school early college for me (a lot of people go to college for 7 years!) and by the 360 I don’t think of any of us who were obsessed w new grounds and these memes still messed around w that stuff by then. Now I’m curious when the first of these romhacks dropped. Also most of if not all internet culture even to this day w memes and words like kek were all unified under vanilla wow especially barrens chat which is still infamous to this day, which again was what, around 2003?

>>11811268
I am going to hoad and le GROOM the alphies into fiercly hating z**ms

>>11811339
You don't have to. It will happen naturally, as part of the whole "rebelling against older siblings" thing, just like how zoomers now hate millennials and late Gen Xers, despite themselves having grown up with YouTubers of that vintage as their surrogate friends and older siblings. Like how many of them now probably think of YTers like Pewdiepie, PeanutButterGamer, the GameGrumps crew + JonTron, AVGN, BrutalMoose, Chuggaconroy, etc etc as being cheesy and lame, even though they directly shaped a lot of zoomer humor and would've constituted daily viewing for many a 13 year old zoomer.

>>11811382
Millennials constantly cringed and dictated what was cool and not despite being very cringe and uncool themselves. It's only natural.
Years of xoomer and millennials talking about how goofy and cringe the 80's were and making fun of it, people later embraced it.

>>11811658
You're a kid who has no idea what it was like. 80's music, movies and TV serials were beloved even as we were kids ourselves. Nothing was considered lame, to the point many cultural highlights from that time showed up later in broadly-understood entertainment.
You're very obviously someone raised in environment, where liking things is "cringe" and can only be done "ironically". On the other hand, people your age think nigger culture, complete with haircuts and trying to appear cool by loudly playing nigger rap using those bluetooth speakers. The degradation of language, shitting on your own parents while no longer having any will to fight for your own, not even militarily, but treating corporate dystopia and immigrants they inundate us with as your biggest dream - to work as a good goy cog in the machine designed to destroy you as a nation.

>>11811847
The only thing we considered lame as kids was obviously lame stuff like Barney. Barney parodies to a 90s kid were the height of comedy.

>>11810651
MAMA-BEEP-KER!!

>>11810651
>>11812181
Man, back then the censor beep triggered a Pavlovian laughter response within me because of things like this. I remember opening up the mp3 of City Escape and beeping out words to make it sound lewd and laughing at it until I was doubled over.

>>11809891
>https://www.baddesthacks.net/

>>11811847
>You're a kid who has no idea what it was like
And you have ED and are balding
>Nothing was considered lame
And are the stereotype of "everything was better when I was 12". People complained about shit that was uncool trash back then, and they continue to do things to this day. Come the fuck on, shut up faggot.

>>11811658
>Years of xoomer and millennials talking about how goofy and cringe the 80's were and making fun of it, people later embraced it
Did you cross over from an alternate reality?

>>11811326
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/diabeetus

>>11811658
nah the only generation we've ever cringed at is you, zoomie

>>11809024 (OP)
This is a classic: http://www.i-mockery.com/romhacks/sesamestreet/

>>11809024 (OP)
SMSNESPSX had some of those romhacks. Pic rel is the only one I can remember.

>>11809024 (OP)
It was about having fun. If you find it obnoxious then simply don't play it, you have to really go out of your way to play a romhack.

>>11813240
It's the lowest form of humor there is and you either find it funny or not. It made me laugh my ass off as I grew up with the originals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cDiuykExvo

>>11809738

>>11809024 (OP)
Some of them are kind of amusing. Like a playable shitpost.

The most ambitious joke romhack I've played was Awful Fantasy 3. All dialog replaced with posts from the Something Awful forum over 20 years ago. Enjoy these highlights.

>>11811276
I believe so

>>11814214
I'm pretty sure that's the idea behind them.

>>11814219
Did it still have an overall story or was it basically just random dialog being said back and fourth that had nothing to do with what anyone was saying to each other?

>>11810465
I'll be honest with you that I fuck up immensly by not looking when exactly that event occured because I was almost 1 by then.
>>11809280
I'm a potatonigger Polak most unfortunately.
>>11811952
Wierd thing to realize that hating on Barney is as old as the mainstream internet itself, always thought it's something that came from the mid-2000s as well.

>>11814758
Barney hate was definitely much older than the 2000s. I remember fucking Animaniacs ripping on Barney and their original run was in the early 90s.

>>11815076
Animaniacs ripped on every show more successful than it, which was most shows.

>>11814584
It loosely follows the plot points of FF6, but instead of Terra turning into an esper, a guy goes super saiyan. Instead of Espers, they're called Furries. The sealed gate opening flooding the world with Espers and raising the floating continent where the Warring Triad is, is now a contaminated flying Xbox that set furries loose on the world, with the of the triad Realdolls(tm).

Plus all the items and abilties have been changed for humorous intent, although it's buggy as hell. You'll notice that the images stop just before the final battle, and that's because by then, battles were so glitchy that the game kept crashing before I could win. To this day idk if that was intentional or not.

>>11815085
Were you playing this on a modern emulator? This was made 20 years ago like you said, it might not work properly in modern emulators, everdrives, or FPGA systems. I have run into Romhacks where I had to break out an older version of snes9x or even zsnes to get them to run properly.

>>11814758
When I was 9 years old in 1995, and hardly anybody(certainly no one I knew) even had home internet, I'd play "Kill Barney" online in the school computer lab. It was like a proto-flash game where you'd click patterns on a black and white Barney and they'd very slowly update into blood smears. Visceral reaction to Barney (and for later kids, Teletubbies) is a normal thing for kids who want to establish they are above baby shit. Just like older teens and things they perceive childish.

>>11809024 (OP)
Just to dig at politicians who think adults can't have fun

>>11809053
>the Czecho-Slovakia secession
How do i respond to this in the most non-english fashion?

>>11810172
*1997
1996 is super-late millennial
1997 is super-early Z

>>11810465
OK, what the fuck does "zoomer" even mean on this board? Because it's not the accepted, mainstream definition that this anon posted: >>11815263

>>11815103
That's a good point. I was playing it on snes9x on my phone during breaks or in waiting rooms, so maybe it's more stable on an earlier version on PC.

>>11812481
It’s if family guy did it in 05 then it was definitely around way longer. Family guy was always late to the punch.

>>11809024 (OP)
>Fuck Wilford Brimley
Okay. Now that's millennial humor. And the reason was because of the prevalence of television commercials. Millennials love satirizing commercial advertisements and informational pamphlets in general.
It was a way of saying fuck you to authoritative media with out becoming hippies and destroying society for everyone else.

>>11815894
The hacker Jomb hated the Wilford Brimley meme