Badgers (animation)

The Badger phenomenon is due to an underlaid with music and pointless text flash animation by Jonti Picking in the wriggling rhythmic badgers (English: Badger ), fungi and a snake occur.

After the animation was released on 5 September 2003 in the weekly B3ta newsletter and shortly afterwards in different languages ​​fora, including the well-known for their flash animations site Albinoblacksheep.com, showed up, she quickly became part of the Internet culture, similar to the hype about "All your base are belong to us ". Meanwhile, the lines of text (usually " Badger Badger Badger " ) is often used for this purpose, to indicate the absolute Dadaist content of the subsequent postings.

There have already been devoted to this phenomenon, an article on the website " Ebaumsworld " and several episodes of the comic book series " User Friendly ". In addition, the original animation has now been reprocessed in many ways and also copied by fans.

In the MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot, the song is cited as a " tip" in the loading screen. Moreover, it is possible to address some of the occurring in the game badgers with " Badger Badger Badger ", what answer it with " Mushroom ... MUSHROOM! " Or " Snaaaaake ... a snake! ".

In the end erschienenem 2011 game Postal 3 a Bagdersaw exists. The protagonist gets this from time to time " Badger Badger Badger Badger Mushroom Mushroom " when using.