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Dunno maybe this was localized but
Tunak Tunak Tun was declared the anthem of my California middle school computer graphics class. Lots of FlashMX tribute animations and such.
It apparently went way beyond that, as we saw the Draenei rocking that dance in WoW: Burning Crusade. :D
It still freaking slaps. :D
It was a great time for foreign music, as Gary's silly dance and lip sync to the "numa numa" song was proliferating everywhere.
I wonder if a lot of this was from all the fun file sharing and explosion of P2P networks going on? I don't miss how easy it was to catch malware but I do miss some very particular feeling about those days...
There's been an HD version for a few years now
https://youtu.be/viMEhOWcxd0
That's beautiful. It's looks like how I remembered it, in the same way our brains up-rez our memories of N64 games! :D
Okay the insanity of this. I do not recall EVER hearing of tunak tunak tun. Like I just have no memory of anyone showing it to me, sharing it with me, nothing. But I read the words, and the beat starts, rhythmically perfect...
Fun story: Someone said he was only popular because of the pretty girls in his videos, so he dropped this banger with only himself in it.
Seems like a pretty popular song where its from too. Here's awesome band Red Baraat covering it!
https://youtu.be/fLlgTYZsc8o
Don't check his Wikipedia page if you still want to enjoy that song.
After all these years I still don't understand if what he did was amoral-- the "human trafficking" listed on the page was to smuggle people into the US, but that's as much information as I can find. If he put those people into nefarious circumstances that's one thing, but if he basically acted as a conduit to get people into the US who otherwise wouldn't have had the opportunity it's a different matter entirely.
I'd love some clarification on the issue.
From what I can find, he took money from some people to get them into Canada and the US illegally then did nothing, then he took 2 groups into the US as his tour dancers so they could enter the US illegally.
He's no sex trafficker as far as I can see, but taking money from people trying to get out of their country then not doing it is a cunt act, even if they were gonna be going into the us illegally.