Curated rabbit hole

Flash-era songs that colonized your brain

Before playlists and feeds, a tiny animation with one unstoppable chorus could occupy your brain for a decade.

1997 · Web post

Hampster Dance

A page full of bouncing hamsters and a sped-up earworm: that was enough.

2003 · Video

Badger badger badger badger. Mushroom. Mushroom.

2002 · Video

A dancing banana and four words were enough to permanently alter snack-time vocabulary.

2004 · Video

A llama, a duck, a potato, and one extremely committed nonsense song made Flash feel like its own tiny musical genre.

2004 · Video

A tiny wizard, a disappearing cow, and one relentlessly cheerful loop made nonsense feel like a complete genre.

2009 · Video

Narwhals, narwhals, swimming in the ocean: one tiny animated song made sea mammals permanently quotable.