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This reminds me of zombo.com.

It's interesting how old memes stick with us and have a nostalgic feel to them. Things like "Harambe", the "such wow" doge, YouTube shorts, etc. don't make such an indelible impression. Homestar Runner, zombo.com, and "all your base" elicit actual feelings.

Maybe it's getting older, or maybe it's the fact we're now increasingly innundated with content. Perhaps both.

> Homestar Runner, zombo.com

Memes that have truly earned their classification.

I had the same association pop in my head, I just didn't think anyone would know what I was talking about. Bravo.

Very occasionally I'll run across something which makes me think of the 'You can do anything at zombo com. The only limit is yourself.' line.

To your point, I think it's definitely a combination of both. The interwebs are so large now that it's less likely others see the same content. I remember the exact circumstances of when I saw the superfriends wazzup[1] video, laughing at Robin's shaking hands, where as I couldn't tell you anything about most of the top 10 memes of 2015.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44rjg3H2rqA

zombo.com was the first thing I thought of when I saw this. I was like, is this related somehow?

Or maybe it's just your perception of it. I still have fun referencing Zombo com and Teen Girl Squad on a regular basis, and find doge just as entertaining.

"The impossible is possible, at zombo-com"

Which led me back to "End of the World" and a bunch of other Flash animations. Back when Flash was used by animators and not advertisers and malware authors.

I enjoy Peter Welch's "Still Drinking" blog for its genuinely fun content, but aside from that, one of the reasons I keep going back to it is its title tag: "Have a nap. THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!"

I grew up with Eddsworld myself. The phrase "Do you know how many monkeys I had to tape together to make that monster? MANY!" Will never not be funny.

I also grew up with the solo efforts of Tom Ridgewell, and Bing. Yeah, I'm pretty young.

Hey, anybody remember freddiew before RocketJump?

You can do anything at zombocam!

> Things like "Harambe", the "such wow" doge, YouTube shorts, etc. don't make such an indelible impression.

Uhh, based on what? The only difference is the nostalgia

I think things like 'such wow' might have more long-term purchase.

Part of the difference is that viral things and memes of old had a longer time to 'burn' and didn't go through the flash overnight explosion that modern ones do. All your base would be posted umpteen times on a forum as it reverberated around the internet. Now all that happens in a day, and people get tired and burnt of it. It also helps that news organizations try to get in on it, which helps to kill off viral things (Harlem Shake, Gangam Style, etc).

I have tremendous borrowed nostalgia for things I wasn't around for. I don't know how this works, but I do. But yeah, I only saw such wow, AYB, Zombo, and whatnot later. But they still ellicit nostalgia.

You know what else I missed and saw latter that ellicits nostalgia? The Show. Any Sports Racers out there?

I am sure that kids of today will have similar nostalgia for the memes of their youth.

Interesting to package this as a firefox plugin. But the filters are pretty basic. Most can be implemented using an open library:

http://evanw.github.io/webgl-filter/

https://inspirit.github.io/jsfeat/

Next step is definitely trying face detection in the pipeline. So you can do Snapchat style filter art ;)

But its super hard getting it to run in web media stream capture at even 30 fps!

WebCV: https://github.com/jamt9000/webcv

...So is the only limit to the effects yourself?

http://gomboscom.com

I'm a zombo.com evangelist, few things do it for me like zombo.com.

Zombo.com amazingly still gets something like 600k visits a month according to similar Web.

Well, I mean, you can do anything at zombocom. The only limit is yourself.

Doesn't seem to work with Google Hangouts, so I guess they don't use WebRTC.

It would be useful if the plugin saved the filter settings from last it was used.

There seems be a race condition with Zombocam on Google Hangouts, give it a couple of refreshes and it might show up!

works really well with https://appear.in! agree on the saving filters.

Google Hangouts in Firefox use a plugin, but in Google Chrome they use WebRTC.

I preferred zombocom.com

It's just http://zombo.com/, but yeah :P

Welcome to Zombocam. The only limit is yourself.

Needs mirror effect in distortions & intensity sliders for color filters.

The 'Try Live First' button does nothing for me on Chrome 53

Why?

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