YouTube?! Surely you mean Flash! This came from the creator Weebl who had a ton of great Flash animations on his website. Actually I can't believe it, but the website is still up in 2024!
I remember watching this pre-youtube as well, but it was in ebaumsworld.com
It looked very different back in the day.
Another classic song is the llama song. I remember a friend showing that to me in '04.
Also used to muck around with Frog in a Blender and Gerbil in a Microwave Flash games all around the same time as badger badger badger….ahh memories ….when the internet was simply for nerds 😂
I used to listen to it for hours and a weird quirk of Flash animations was that often the audio track and the video were milliseconds off so over time it would get very out of sync.
To jump on the bandwagon, OP's showing their age. I can't remember where I first saw Badger Badger, but it was definitely pre-Youtube (or at least mainstream Youtube) when Flash was all the rage
I remember seeing flash video like "End of the World" and "Bunny Kill" series on Miniclip and then later ArmorGames. I didn't even consider how far they predated YouTube until now lol
Hampsterdance is one of my earliest memories of using the internet at the age of 4. I remember it being used in random videos a lot like Paralyzer and Dreamscape were.
I found basgerbadger a long time after caramelldansen. Helicopter parents of the 90s/early thous with all the time limits and website blockers a parent could easily get their hands on lmao
A large part of my journey of becoming a nerd was figuring out how to disable those haha.
I had time limits, until my dad became too much of a drunk to care, and my mom was too disabled and incorrectly medicated to do anything.
Anyway, I was not introduced to carameldansen until dating an extreme weaboo girl who insisted on dressing me up as L from Death Note... whereas I found badgerbadger years earlier.
Oh yes, I remember them. Every few years I remember the Badger song and play it for a while + some other catchy old Weebl's stuff like Amazing Horse, Where can you see lions (only in Kenya)... Oh god, the more I think about them the more I remember.
Yore, pfft, not sure on the exact year but predates badgers by some I'm sure. From rathergood.com/b3ta.com. My zimmerframe is parked in the corner btw!