![]() A timelapse of the process received over 29,100 upvotes in /r/touhou and 16,500 upvotes in /r/place in ten days (shown below). In July 2023, /r/Touhou animated the entirety of the video during the 2023 installment of /r/place collective art project on Reddit. The video (shown below, right) received over 497,000 in two years. On May 27th, YouTube user dethi uploaded a version animated entirely with the Among Us Twerk GIF. For example, on February 6th, 2021, YouTube user Lamp posted a video in which Bad Apple was played using bots posting emoji in a Discord chat, with the upload gaining over 983,000 views in two years (shown below, left). In 2021, several more videos in which Bad Apple!! was re-animated in peculiar ways went viral online. On October 10th, 2020, YouTuber Treyzania uploaded a video in which they played Bad Apple!! on a moving herd of sheep in Minecraft, with sheep alternating their colors between black and white, achieved viral status, accumulating 6.6 million views on YouTube in two years and contributing to the comeback of the meme format in a major way. ![]() 2020s Resurgenceīad Apple!! saw a massive surge in popularity during th early 2020s, with new videos in which users played the animation in various mediums going viral online. While others, pertaining to a Japanese fad called Hiite Mita (弾いてみた) or "I tried playing it" can be considered as covers and can feature nearly every kind of instrument.Īnother peculiar fad on Nico Nico Douga involving a song meme, Utatte Mita (歌ってみた) or "I've tried singing it" involves people singing the tune, recording and posting it to Nico Nico Douga or other video streaming sites. The duet performance gave birth to more than 100 videos of people following the dance, featuring either human beings or 3D characters. It first began on June 27th 2009 when two Japanese boys uploaded themselves dancing to the song on Nico Nico Douga. In a manner similar to the Fukkireta meme, the Odotte Mita (踊ってみた) or “I tried dancing it” fad on NND took hold. Dance Videosīefore the 3D shadow MAD, "Bad Apple!!" was already popular on Nico Nico Douga as a dance fad from people inventing a dance fitting the song. However, in it, the reporters mistakenly credited the stop-motion alteration as being the initial video describing how the Stylized Shadow one has been made, which prompted negative comments from Touhou fans. While most of the parodies, remixes, and MADs were made by people knowing at least a little bit about what Touhou is, the rest of the world was bound to discover the stop-motion animation clip when CNN made a report about it on January 30th 2010 : One of the most popular MADs of "Bad Apple!!" uses stop-motion animation where the director printed out every individual frame of the shadow video and uses contextual frame placement, published January 2010: This was first translated by videos featuring other Japanese CGI models, mostly Miku Miku Dance related clips: While that video clip was far from being the first one in history to employ shadow and light in an artistic manner, this silhouette art instance launched its own trend of parodies. In addition, the original Nico Nico Douga video became the first to reach 10 million views, making it one of the most watched videos in the Japanese video-sharing community at that time (English subtitled version shown below).Īs a result of the video's success, many Touhou articles were published, mostly praising it as an art form. This video, made with 3D moving models and silhouette shadow art featuring a great amount of the female cast from the Touhou series was posted to YouTube the same day, with the upload garnering over 11 million views in 14 years. "Bad Apple!!" achieved virality on Octowhen Nico Nico Douga user Anira (あにら) released the last draft of his work on the video, inspired by the 2008 fan version. ![]() His video has accumulated more than 3 million views on Nico Nico Douga in 15 years (translated YouTube version shown below).Īs the idea began to spark interest, the first draft video was uploaded on October 26th, 2008. On June 8th 2008, Nico Nico user Μμ made a video featuring a storyboard with precise details of what he considered would be the best video clip for the "Bad Apple!!" song. While its peak has likely passed, MADs based on the song are still being published on YouTube to this day. One of the first MADs of "Bad Apple!!" was uploaded on March 28th, 2008. On May 20th, 2007, Masayoshi Minoshima, the founder of well-known, Touhou-affiliated doujin club Alstroemeria Records released a remix of "Bad Apple!!" featuring the voice of Japanese pop singer Nomico in an album called Lovelight. "Bad Apple!!" was originally included in the soundtrack of Level Stage 3 in the 4th Touhou Project game Lotus Land Story, created by series designer ZUN and released in July 1998.
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