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2006 Blue Ball Machine
2006 Blue Ball Machine

The Blue Ball Machine is a series of animations featuring tiny blue balls being passed around a variety of devices and situations.

The Blue Ball Machine originated on the Something Awful Forums near the end of 2004, and was popularized by the website YTMND. It became a YTMND fad and inspired numerous imitations and parodies.

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History

The first Blue Ball Machine idea was created by Something Awful forums member Andorion in a thread posted on October 15, 2004, with instructions on how to create the tiles. That thread resulted in 38 tiles with no unifying theme. It was well-received, but didn't circulate much outside of Something Awful.

The second Blue Ball thread was posted on October 15, 2005. The instructions remained the same, to maintain compatibility with the earlier tiles, except for the addition of two rules: 1. The balls must not be destroyed or otherwise obscured, so that one could visually follow each ball all the way through every tile. 2. There would be a unifying visual theme, that of a factory or research facility.

It was this thread that saw the introduction of the lab-coated scientist character.

While the second thread was active, Andorion created large animated GIFs compiling every tile that had been made up to that point in that thread. One of these GIFs from relatively early in the thread was posted on the website YTMND, accompanied by a loop of Danny Elfman's "Breakfast Machine" from the film Pee-wee's Big Adventure. This GIF contained 30 of the eventual 56 tiles created in 2005. It was this version that gained widespread attention, being posted in numerous blogs, eventually racking up over 4 million views on YTMND. The Blue Ball Machine has received media attention, mostly through YTMND, in various magazines and newspapers including Wired and The Wall Street Journal.[1][citation needed]

A third Blue Ball thread was posted on November 1, 2006, by Something Awful forums user Akumu. The rules are unchanged from 2005. Due to the attention the Blue Ball Machine got in 2005, many more people participated, with over 40 tiles completed in the first two weeks, compared to 56 in three months in 2005 and January 2006.

References

  1. ^ Lee, James (2006). "1 Web Site, 250,000 Idiotic Clips. LOL!". Retrieved 2007-04-22. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • blueballfixed.ytmnd.com — YTMND - Blue Ball Machine
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