Miscellaneous Memes
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About Misheard lyrics have been around forever. This phenomena predates the internet; but the internet gave the public a forum in which to share them. The meme surfaced in many disconnected places on the internet because the compulsion to share misheard lyrics is a common human experience.
Phonetic Translations
About Alpha Kenny Body is a deliberate mondegreen or homophonic transformation of the phrase “I’ll fuck anybody”. The phrase was initially embraced by the North American Filipino YouTube community as a popular prank to play on parents, played out by writing the phrase on a piece of paper and asking parents to recite it. Origin Alpha Kenny Body and other deliberate mondegreen’s such as “I am sofa king we Todd Ed” (I am so fucking retarded) have existed for years.
Alpha Kenny Body
Ken Lee
About Ken Lee (“Can’t Live”) is a phonetic interpretation of Mariah Carey’s 1993 cover single and Badfinger’s classic love song “Without You” performed by Valentina Hasan, a contestant who auditioned for the Bulgarian TV show Music Idol in February 2008. Although Ms. Hasan didn’t make the cut to the next round of competition, her audition clip quickly spread through Bulgarian internet hubs and gained over four million views within the first month of debut on YouTube. Origin Valentina Hasan appeared on Music Idol’s second season audition on February 7th 2008.Editor’s Disclaimer: If you suffer from epilepsy or any related conditions, it is advised not to watch these videos as they’re known to trigger such medical conditions. About A portmanteau of “animation” & “mutation”, Animutation is a vast array of pop culture references thrown together to create a humorous and often shabby-looking video. Generally, the animation is set to foreign or gibberish music that lends to the structured randomness of the video, the creator occasionally giving “misheard” English subtitles (known as soramimis ) for the video a la Phonetic Translations . Also known as Fanimutations, these videos often employ similar characters, pictures, gimmicks or techniques. See Recurring Animutation Characters below for more information.
Animutation
Rainbow Stalin
Background All this Love- The Similou Misheard Lyrics “All This Love” is a simple electro love song from The Similou, a Swedish pop group, that falls victim to the Misheard Lyrics fad. The actual lyrics As you can hear “Rainbow Styling” can easily be interpreted as “Rainbow Stalin ”.
Dancing Baby
About Dancing Baby , also known as “Baby Cha-Cha,” is a viral video of a 3D-rendered baby dancing to the intro of “Hooked on a Feeling” by the Swedish rock band Blue Swede. Widely cited as one of the earliest examples of an Internet phenomenon, the Dancing Baby became globally popular via e-mail chains in 1996. Origin The original “cha-cha” dance file was developed by Michael Girard and Robert Lurye.