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severalowls:

I think people sometimes forget that the Crazy Frog was literally a TV ad spot for a novelty ringtone. Which is such an unbelievably specific bygone era that its easier to imagine it as some kind of internet meme animation.

And then it was so wildly popular that the creators overlaid some of the sound effects onto bestselling 1984 movie soundtrack song “Axel F” and it was SO popular that people just imagine the song was written for the ringtone ad frog. From when you paid for ringtones. On TV.

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