It’s the summer of 2006 and my 13th birthday is coming up. We’re in a holiday resort in Spain, and my friend has joined us on the trip. The lobby is a relic of the 80s with horrible carpets, flickering lights and stains from tourists falling in from the bar summer after summer. My friend and I sat down at an old computer every evening to pass the time while our parents drank and sang karaoke. He showed me so many silly videos that proved seminal to my early infatuation with the internet. There was The Ultimate Showdown — a song with an accompanying cartoon about a battle between a bunch of different heroes, monsters and villains from all sorts of franchises. From Godzilla to Mr. Rogers, we just thought this was the catchiest thing we had ever heard. Brilliantly, the accompanying cartoon had so many references in it that we had it on repeat, constantly stopping to point out something new. From there I was introduced to SMOSH. Ian and Anthony have gone on to do all sorts of content in…
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