This may be hard to believe and might make you feel old, but Metro is reporting that it’s been 20 years since the world’s most irritating sound – the one that became the voice of Crazy Frog – first invaded earholes.
The story goes a little something like this: Swedish student Daniel Malmedahl originally recorded himself making the noise in 1997, where he was trying to replicate the sound of an internal combustion engine. He posted it online, but things really began to kick off in 2003 when fellow Swede Erik Wernquist came across the recording, and was inspired to create a character based off it named ‘The Annoying Thing.’
After the animation picked up traction online, it eventually landed in the hands of mobile phone corporates in 2004, who renamed it ‘Crazy Frog’ and began pimping it out wherever possible. Crazy Frog was thus a true pioneer of viral content, with the character becoming the basis for video games, merchandise and three albums, while an ‘Axel F’ remix hit Number.1 on the charts in Australia, Sweden, Belgium, France, Ireland and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTEKeUrEDjw
In fact, Crazy Frog got so big that people lodged complaints for him having his dick out in public, and Campaign reports that there were “complaints that television ads for the animated ringtone character showed he was endowed with ‘inappropriate and embarrassing’ genitalia.”
Sometimes the truth really is stranger than fiction. Play these songs on repeat for the rest of eternity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3oaRulKTXw
