Alright if you’ve been living under a rock and Don’t know what Tracking is let me enlighten you. UvT and Mrod have started a new internet sensation that is simply putting music to an animated gif…and it’s awesome. We’ve been going back and forth with each other trying to one up the previous post. MRod came hard with it and UvT threw it down with an Espys related track. I gotta step my game up so that’s why I’m dropping 2 in todays post. Check it after the jump.
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History according to Code 2: Planking
Alright iNternets I’m here to set the record straight on this new “Planking” fad that is sweeping the internet. If you haven’t seen it yet you’ve either been too busy trying to get an invite to google+ or you just don’t own a computer. It’s everywhere.
Planking is simple. Just lay facedown on any object and take a picture. Upload it to your facebook, twitter, tumblr, myspace whatever and enjoy. Simple enough right?
Where did this fad come from? How did it start? Well gather around boys and girls and I’ll tell you a tale.
It was the summer of 2000. A pre-9/11 American Utpoia where a young man could be anything he wanted. There was a certain young man, only 14 years of age, a High school freshman. He was sitting on his couch, watching MTV, eagerly awaiting the upcoming school year. Little did he know that this very moment his life would change and he would be instrumental in starting one of the biggest fads to ever hit the internets.
As I mentioned, he was watching MTV. What show you ask? The Tom Green Show…observe (Fast forward to the 55 second mark)
Although it was a very miniscule and short part of the show it cemented in our heros mind. He knew it was something special. The school year began and the young man spent his days in class and his lunch period entertaining his fellow students in the lunch room laying down flat and stiff as a board on the tables, chairs, ground, and once…only once, on the food counter.
Years past and he outgrew this childish prank, started doing it less and less as it fell by the wayside. He grew up, went to college. The golden years full of partys, drinking, and most importantly. The boogie.
Not being the most gifted dancer he was forced to resurrect his former go to move break it out during dance battles and special occasions. He called it “The Dead Man”. Noone could compete.
Remembering the good times back in high school and noticing how receptive people were to the dead man he began doing it more and more again. It was like he never stopped. “Dead manning” all over the place. Spreading his love of the dead man everywhere. Bars, Partys, even the middle of a busy street.
Our friend is still doing the “Dead Man” in the Chicago suburbs. He is the first to “Plank”. The Neil Armstrong of this internet Meme.
Why should you care? Why Have I taken the time to tell you this tale? The Answer is simple. You know the young boy from this story. He is now a man, and you know him better as El Capitan….
Prove it? Done.
I present Exhibit A: The first “dead-man” or Plank caught on film
Taken straight from facebook. Dated August 21, 2008.
Exhibit B:
Deadman/Plank in the middle of Division in Downtown Grand Rapids, MI. The birthplace of planking dated March 20, 2009. St. Patricks day…
You may think planking started with the lying down game which did not gain popularity until well after El Capitan started doing it. So I implore you. Give credit where credits due.
El Capitan of Code 2 Avenue is the originator of Planking.
- Jonny D
umm what?
Over here at code 2 we are all about equal opportunities. We’re down with the IDA….but….Some people just need to stay away from the iNternets.
I dare you to watch that and not draw wood.
[Via H8torade]
- Jonny D
Them Internets…
Party people,
The boy Royal is back and plans to fuck you up with some truth in the coming minutes. So take the internets…Remember the days when all the internet was good for was research, checking emails, and chatting? Remember how that spiraled into downloading porn, and stealing the mp3′s? (napster/limewire…know damn well your stealing something right now). Its funny how rapidly the internets went from being a tool used for useful purposes to being an instrument that has made fools rich and famous (for five minutes). I remember those times previously mentioned above. I remember being back at home downloading music from napster overnight on moms computer, only to wake up and see them shits sitting at 96% done and being pissed because only 5 out of 16 songs were completed. What was even more wild was dial-up phone connections…
Pause. Speaking of having dial-up, this past semester I had a professor straight up tell the class that because she lived in the boondocks (no Riley, Huey, or Grandad) she didn’t have high speed internet and could only have dial-up. Upon hearing this I was dumbfounded. I know for a fact that there is now high speed internets via satellite, and if your making the decision to live in the middle of no where’s (already plural I know, just stick with me) then you should adjust your means of living with the rest of the party people out here…especially if your a professor dealing with dumbass college students (like myself) who shoot e-mails from their blackberries asking when assignments are due. Fuck a syllabus. No more excuses, America’s Obama’d…step your internet game up.
The internets has been hitting fools in the head with entertainment for the majority of the new millennium. I’ve jumped on the train. Whats great about them internets aside from stealing music/movies/porn/identities (for free) is the fact that with nonsense operations like youtube, you can catch negro-nonsense at its finest.
Now if you’ve effed around and used a computer in the past 2 years, then there is no need to explain this:
If not then, then proceed to learn the definition of negrononsense by viewing this:
Yes. I know what your thinking…Why am I dropping this on fools when its been around them internets for 2 or 3 years?
Sheer hilarity. Thats why.
This video have over 10 million views on youtube. This video is so ridiculous, hilarious, and unfortunate, that the homies over at Southpark (Matt and Tre what up) sampled it.
I’ve almost reached a point where I’ve stopped watching T.V. aside from sports and sportscenter. The internets are way more entertaining and promising. Hell where else can u act a fool in real life, load it to them internets, show it round the world, get noticed, and remade for a popular television show?
Exactly.
Before I finish the homie Drew from work hit me with this a couple weeks ago and I thought it was hilarious:
I see Toby Jones and feel like I’m looking into the future….
Them Internets.
