The Rise and Fall of Crazy Frog.
551The story of an odd creature.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:07 Erik and Daniel make an annoying thing
4:17 Jamba was a ringtone company
8:48 Crazy Frog mania
11:38 Axel F mania
15:00 Jamba was a scummy ringtone company
20:28 Artistic sacrifices to capitalism
23:19 Reborn in the ashes of irony
25:19 Beating a dead frog (reprise)
References and Additional Reading: https://pastebin.com/hsw9Avys
Music List: https://pastebin.com/4p8uAi44
Videos Used: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO3aubNRwK7vBqLVHSqpUMC_Q45HBYeEy
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This video was very fun to make! It was not originally intended to be half-an-hour long, but as I started reading more and more, I kept having more and more questions that I wanted to find the answers to, and I was surprised by how limited most existing information was. For the most part, 90% of work about Crazy Frog seems to only cover the initial origin story that I go over in the first few minutes, but after that - especially that gap from "haha funny ringtone guy" to "number 1 pop single that's everywhere" - the story seemed unexplored. My next few videos will probably be a bit different from this, but I really enjoyed exploring an old internet phenomenon. Look out for my next video!