Fabulous Secret Powers

So, here's the backstory with this video. We made this video in 2005 and posted it to the Something Awful forums:
http://www.slackcircus.com/storage/re...

In 2006, dkilzer2000 posted it to youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Nc8R...

We finally got around to posting it to our own page in 2007 (you are here).

Then, in 2010, in the process of redesigning our company web site, we posted it to Vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/8564338

We did not disable the "Download the source video" option on Vimeo, nor did we leave our watermark on the video as we had on the YouTube version. From Vimeo, people grabbed the "high quality" version, edited out the intro and outro (which included all of our credits), and posted it again to YouTube.

As it turns out, removing the intro and outro was a very smart and viral-y decision by ProtoOfSnagem and others, because the video got over 26M views in this abbreviated form. We tried for over a year to get ProtoOfSnagem to at least credit us for the video, but he never responded -- in fact, it seemed to be a dead YouTube account -- so we flagged it.

UPDATE 11/15/12: We retracted the claim on ProtoOfSnagem''s version this morning. We feel like we broke part of the Internet and that's shitty. All we wanted was to have him add our NAME to the description, we didn't realize YouTube was going to pull down the whole thing, along with all your comments. We're very sorry. It will be back up as soon as YouTube gets around to re-enabling it. When it comes back up, it should be here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ5Lpw...

11/16/12 -- ProtoOfSnagem's version returns to YouTube. Life returns to normal.

Now, there's even a 5-HOUR looped version!
http://youtu.be/6GggY4TEYbk

All of this is to say, we are extremely happy so many people have enjoyed this video over the years. And if you're here watching the original, sitting through the smooth intro tones of my Yamaha DX7 (aka the Doogie Howser-o-matic, which you can pry out of my cold, dead hands) we appreciate you!

Love,

Slackcircus

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[FabulousSecretPowers]

HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA!!!!

[MrAce2493]

I finally found the orginal video.

Praise the gods.

[21krizchristensen]

HAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH­A

[becky curce]

and I say heyeyeyeyey! heyeyeyeyey! yeayeayea what's goin on peps

[Duncan Zundel]

No, praise the Masters Of the Universe.

[Antonijo Bobic]

Serious. This is the best song I heard in my entire life! HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA!

[Scout Carnby]

Whoever sang this song deserves a medal.

[Josh O'fortune]

Who sang this version of the song?

[mittfh]

"Now it's time for cake."

To which I have to mix memes and reply: "The cake is a lie!"

[Silulaya]

WHATS GOIN ON?