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# No Art Here! just stumbled across this re: Happy Toasts gif
www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/can-you-hear-a-noise-in-this-gif-of-electricity-transmission-tower-jumping/news-story/4d45f395fcd3c1da85de4229037f9752
(I helped save b3ta! R2Dtard Poor kids are as smart as white kids, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 12:38, archived)
# the internet took over a month to go around the world and back
I am a tad disappointed
(macroscian (1 like), Sat 20 Jan 2018, 12:52, archived)
# figures..
my service provider is mainly a pile of kangaroos and wombats holding hands and playing chinese whispers so it takes a bit sometimes
(I helped save b3ta! R2Dtard Poor kids are as smart as white kids, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 13:13, archived)
# yes, it apparently went "viral" (as the kids call it these days) last month
10 years after I made the gif I was suddenly being asked to do newspaper and even radio interviews in Canada, America, New Zealand, India, France, Germany.. Quite strange how these things are suddenly popular again
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 14:16, archived)
# Exposure-tastic
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 14:19, archived)
# the massive upsurge in b3ta users as a result is clear proof of how valuable exposure is
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 14:26, archived)
# 4 people have signed up so far today, this is a golden age
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 14:30, archived)
# oh, sorry that was me just creating some test accounts
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 14:32, archived)
# Have we done an 'extend an album cover' challenge in the past?
(Paint! Another one lost, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 14:44, archived)
# not for ages
b3ta.com/challenge/album_art/
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 14:47, archived)
# Ahhhhh been finding loads online
thought they were prolly from here
(Paint! Another one lost, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 14:48, archived)
# A lot of great stuff in there
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 14:53, archived)
# A few music sites grabbed all the images and posted them in their own galleries
www.nme.com/photos/album-sleeves-as-you-ve-never-seen-them-before-1405982
I guess those old lost b3tans retired on all the exposure
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 15:05, archived)
# Amazing that they bothered to mention the source, I just kind of take it for granted now that anything decent will be stolen, scrubbed of watermarks and rehosted
Ten years ago though, the world was a very different place
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 15:11, archived)
# i finally cracked imgur last month and got 500,000 views in like 4 hours..
with a gif of a girl kissing an otter, was a little surprised as any original content i've posted on there in the past just gets downvoted
(I helped save b3ta! R2Dtard Poor kids are as smart as white kids, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 15:54, archived)
# are you rich now, or did the otter hire wipe out your profit margin?
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 16:10, archived)
# thats an otter story all together
(I helped save b3ta! R2Dtard Poor kids are as smart as white kids, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 16:36, archived)
# Dam good pun sir
(Paint! Another one lost, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 16:50, archived)
# lol, that's my dog's name
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 18:05, archived)
# must be a sausage dog to have a name that long
(I helped save b3ta! R2Dtard Poor kids are as smart as white kids, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 18:59, archived)
# lol, it's only 3 letters
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sun 21 Jan 2018, 2:19, archived)
# lol, sit
(I helped save b3ta! AgentMuu hentai coordination, Sun 21 Jan 2018, 9:09, archived)
# 10 years ago? I think it was "Nuts" and "Zoo" who did it back then. They were pioneers, if you think about it.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 18:05, archived)
# If only 25% of them buy an icon, rob could buy a whole cup of coffee
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 16:21, archived)
# Rob hasn't put his hand in his pocket since 1982
(Paint! Another one lost, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 16:51, archived)
# Well, he WAS married for some of that.
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 18:01, archived)
# What about other people's pockets?
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 22:04, archived)
# We don't mention those
(Paint! Another one lost, Sun 21 Jan 2018, 10:34, archived)
# Pylons was a good image challenge
(I helped save b3ta! The Twisted Omentum vidi vici veni, Sat 20 Jan 2018, 15:43, archived)
# Next thing you know, people will be impersonating you in bars.
:)
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Sun 21 Jan 2018, 12:24, archived)