Badger Badger Badger

2003

Date: September 2003 · Place: weebls-stuff.com · Figures: Jonti Picking (Weebl), animator, UK · Tags: Flash, Loop 01. Badger Badger Badger Badger Mushroom Mushroom Jonti Picking, a British Flash animator working as Weebl, posts Badger Badger Badger on weebls-stuff.com in September 2003. The loop: pixelated badgers doing calisthenics, a low-fi song chanting BADGER BADGER BADGER, occasional cutaways to a mushroom and then a SNAKE, IT'S A SNAKE. The page is set to loop indefinitely. Open it, walk away, come back, the badgers are still doing calisthenics. Office firewalls block it; office workers find proxies. 02. Weebl Becomes a Brand Picking follows with Magical Trevor (2004), Kenya (Africa), Weebl and Bob, Salad Fingers' cousin in the early-2000s Flash diaspora. He becomes one of the few Flash-era animators to make a sustainable living from the work; he later scores Adventure Time episodes. Badger Badger Badger is the proof-of-concept for the loop-without-payoff as an entire creative form. Two minutes of badgers, no story, infinite replay. "Mushroom, mushroom." — Badger Badger Badger, weebls-stuff.com, September 2003 Sources • weebls-stuff.com, Badger Badger Badger • Guardian, 'The cult of Weebl' (2005) • KnowYourMeme, Badgers