no one knows who created skull trumpet (until now) 

just a couple of things: 1. I am now aware that it is infact "tineye" and not "tinyeye". It is the strongest mandela effect I have encountered, but alas: it's tineye. 2. some have pointed out that cathy didnt create the original 3D model. that is true, and I would love to know the origins of that! but that isn't what I wanted to figure out with this video; i set out to learn who created the GIF specifically, i.e rotated it, edited it, made it into a .gif and posted it online. 3. I've seen some expressing concerns about doxxing, and I want to address that: firstly, all the graphics are "incorrect", for example, the animated map (35:40) is of a completely random place, and screenshots have been altered in various subtle ways like changing peoples names with photoshop etc. that being said, I understand the concern, and I have now gone through the video with youtubes built in editor and blurred out a couple of sections. again, these parts were already anonymized in various more or less subtle ways, but better safe than sorry. thank you for watching.

A 40 minutes RU-vid documentary about a 2 seconds GIF has better storytelling than 90% of what's on Netflix

"going SUPER deep into a research rabbit hole to give credit to the creator of a relatively small thing that nonetheless became a huge cultural touchstone" is my new favorite genre of youtube video

Thank you, Mrs. Skeltal. Rest in peace, Cathy.

I had a similar experience, but managed to contact the artist. He was a graphic designer for Star Wars games, and he says I'm the only person to have ever found his Easter egg. Star wars has it's own alphabet, yeah? So for in-game computer screens, signs, posters etc the artists need to fill it with something. Sometimes cool technical info, sometimes jokes, poems, sometimes nonsense. So I was looking at a screen in a certain Jedi game reading the blurry letters and translating. (I learned the alphabet in middle school or something when I was bored) Some words on the screen were pointing to parts of a machine labeling them "doodad" and "thingamabob", but at the top of the screen was a name, a short number, and a misspelled type of tree. Having seen this pattern thousands of times delivering pizza, I immediately recognize this as a street address. This artist had literally signed his work. Now, my wife is a paralegal, and used to make a living tracking people down to serve them for personal injury cases and the like, so she knows how to find contact info from old addresses. I corrected the spelling of the tree name, entered the address and game release date, and the names matched. Obviously the number and address were out of date, but another website gave some potential newer numbers (all public info btw) and a reverse phone book website narrowed that list to two. I made a group text with both numbers, introduced myself and asked if either of them were [John Doe] and if they'd worked for lucasarts around that time. And luckily, one of the numbers was his cell! 20 years later! I explained the Easter egg I found, sent a screenshot of it, and asked how many people had noticed it. I didn't want to ask a million questions because I could already the mayor of creeper Town at this point. He said he had worked at the developer company of the game (not lucasarts, so he wasn't just playing along), that the address was a tiny duplex he rented for around two years, and that he'd completely forgotten putting that info there, because no one brought it up in all twenty years. I told him it was friggin hilarious, thanked him for responding, and left it at that. Felt pretty cool being the only one to find it.

How dare you make me cry over a jazzy skeleton? Fantastic video. Thank you for making it.

Thank you for making this video. I wish I had known about Cathy and her art at the time and I regret not being able to properly credit her in the youtube video description and in that Gawker article. Very sad to hear that she has passed away. I would like to retract what I wrote in my last message in the video as both you and Cathy put a lot of thought and effort into The Mystic Trumpeting Skull.

This video goes in with my collection "Who wrote the Disney Channel theme tune" by Defunctland, these uncoverings of forgotten artists are heartwrenching. It fills me with bittersweet joy to see the artists behind cultural landmarks be finally recognised and appreciated.

0:22 Wow! I was actually the Wikipedia editor who rewrote that article's "Origin" section back in 2022 (it has stayed around the same since). It was entirely unsourced and poorly written before, so I gathered some sources and gave the section the treatment it deserved (the rest of the article still has a lot to improve). So happy to help you and see over a million people be informed in that video introduction, even just for a minute!

I love the genre of RU-vid where you solve a mystery you didn't even know existed

Internet dinosaur here. I don't think this is easy to understand nowadays, but this kind of animation was kind of a big deal back in those early years - if you built your website, you HAD to put in there a few animated gifs, a midi song and, for those fancy enough, a visitor counter and a guestbook. So people like Cathy were actually performing an important public service, by allowing anyone to get an interesting GIF to plaster their Angelfire/Geocities website with. So, thank you Cathy, your legacy lives on. Doot doot.

I watched this with a friend just now, and after we finally hung up I just immedietly broke down into tears. As an artist myself, still adoring your craft is a hard task, and I hope that Cathy spent the most of her life creating. I hope she knew how this silly little gif brought many people together in many ways, even if the purpose was simply so silly. May she rest peacefully, and wherever she is and whatever she may have believed in, know she inspired a lot of content by other artists. A doot to Cathy.

I was first getting online as I teenager/young adult when Cathy was making the art we looked at in the video. As soon as you stopped at 2011 I was like "nooooo that website is ten years older!!! don't stop!" This whole video reminded me of the older women who were online and running all kinds of important stuff at the time and are now not just forgotten individually but as a class of people who were even there. Family websites, blogs, art and hobby pages, genealogy pages, forums for anything you could think of. Some of my first online friends were women in their 30s-50s (30 was old to me at the time lol). Anyway. Thanks for reminding everybody and hopefully teaching some other young people that the internet was pretty great before social media 😂

It is really amusing to me in a morbid way that the final point of contact, the Nephew, is like "please share which of my aunt's works touched you" and the reply is basically Mr Skeltal Dooting at him.

Oh man, Cathy's gifs were hugely popular back in the day, everyone I knew in the early 2000s would go to one of her sites to download 'em so they could use 'em on MSN Messenger Plus, including jazz skeleton.. I didn't know its origin was considered "obscure", guess people forgot about her when Tenor rolled around (which is weird since she was a guest of honor at a few conventions and was talked about on quite a few blogs). RIP Cathy, you were a big part of Internet history

Rest in Peace, Cathy Jarboe. I hope those that loved her know how much impact she had on so many people

This came into my recommended feed & I thought to myself, why on earth is there a 40+ minute video about the origin of a gif? Well, I figured I give it a go & just click off if it was boring... This was an absolutely beautiful & informative video. I had a feeling Cathy was going to be deceased as the search for her progressed, but even then, when it was made official, my whole body broke out in goosebumps as my heart sank into the floor. This video was not only informative & highly entertaining, but it was a beautiful tribute to an artist. Thank you for making it.

Finding out you had found the right source but accidentally disregarded it was like tearing your house apart looking for your glasses only to find they were on your head the whole time.

If only you had asked me, I would have told you right away, that gif was made on an Amiga2000 with a very old and basic 3D program and ported to a 286 with windows 3.11, some (or many i can't remember) years before the internet. The trumpet was animated with Aldus Photostyler 2.0 (bulge effect) , the frames were assembled with a program (I don't remember, Gif Movie Gear?) and assembled as 256-colour GIFs. I was in contact with Katy at the time, this video made me fly out of my chair! (I remember that her site had a different name, Katie's World, but the data in my brain is vanishing)

There's only two videos on RU-vid that have ever made me cry, Defunctland's 'Disney Channel's Theme: A History Mystery', and this. Bravo man, this was beautiful.

Allthough i don't know how i feel about the last part where you tried to contact the family i do want to say that i think it was a great video over all. I can't even imagine how much time you must have spent on research and i think it is great to see another obscure part of internet history cleared and brought to light

I literally cried at "in memory of Cathy Jarboe". I often get told I put insane amounts of work/research into my videos, but it's videos like this that humble, inspire, and infuriate me at the same time. This better have a million views the next time I see it.

Cathy getting the classic artist treatment of her work becoming such a huge sensation years after its creation without her knowledge.

I just absolutely love little cinematic intros like that for video essays. It shows that some real effort was put forth in making an entertaining video yet still informative

Thank you for making this. I cried while watching. Your production quality is so incredible. This video got recommended to me for MONTHS and i finally watched it today. Normally I like to play videos in the background while gaming but...the first few minutes hooked me and i turned off my game to fully pay attention to you. This video has been one of the best videos I've seen this year.

Cathy Jarboe has achieved true immortality in a way most of us can only dream of. Thank you for sharing her story.

As a now old dude who remembers the beginning of the internet, this video made me cry with not only nostalgia but how touching it is. I knew a middle aged lady just like Kathy who obsessed over her “homepage” back in the mid 90s

i like how you said that you were a "small youtuber" with 5,000 subscribers and just a few weeks later you gained almost 100k. keep up the good work! (we have the same birthday dude! sick!)

The ending, with the entire monologue set over your IRL recreation of the gif on canvas, was wonderful

one small correction, when you were going over that "dragon" kid's profile, they didn't actually mention chess but rather skulls. in polish words can be modified somewhat to alter their meaning (zdrobnienie i zgrubienie), primarily to make them seam small or large, example: kot - cat, kotek - small cat/kitten, kocur - large/unfriendly cat. the word for skull, czaszka can be changed to czacha (plural - czachy) to mean large/bad skull, that is most what they were talking about. the word for chess, szachy is very similar, likely thus the error.

The message from Ben brought a tear to me eye. A woman who never knew how far her art went. A family who genuinely, almost innocently asked about which of Cathy’s art touch you, not knowing the extent of distance her art really travelled. A forgotten world wide known artist will now be remembered for all time because of you - so thank you.

Well that was a real tear jerker. What a rabbit hole you went down. Love your storytelling/writing. Can't wait to watch more of your stuff.

youtube kept hounding me to watch your final destination video and when I finally caved I went "oh, that's pretty good" only to then discover you've kept getting so much better my goodness!

The fact that she passed not too long ago gives me hope that she did know but it also hurts how close you were to telling her

Cathy managed to achieve what many artists dream of: Be immortalized through their art by having the creation outlast the creator. RIP Cathy, your artistic legacy lives on

Wow! Excellent production value. I'm blown away. Thanks man! ❤

Wow, you spent weeks to find out were a simple gif originated... THIS MAN HAS DEDICATION!

A real shame that Cathy never knew how much her art reached the world.

As soon as your video got to the section where Cathy wrote about herself, i knew she was likely gone from old age. She was part of a unique online generation of older early adopters. People that had money and skill and creative drive that ended up making most (if not all) of the early gifs. People made those cool spinning skull gifs, flame gifs, and it was an awesome subculture that revolved around making them, collecting them and sharing them. I was too young to make my own gifs back then, but i had a website just like Cathy's (and many, many other geocities websites) where i showcased gifs made from other people. when i say my website was like Cathy's, i mean in its general design; i never created my own gifs. And i'm not sad that Cathy probably didn't know about her art becoming a meme because her art WAS quite popular while she was making it. This isn't a case of an artist becoming popular after their time, but its a case of art going through multiple phases of popularity starting from when it was created. JoJo has had a similar experience where it has had generations of various memes starting in the 90's when it was released. Also i knew people from Cathy's generation that were online back then, and they all kind of went offline at a certain point. Basically, the internet just went a different direction and they generally didn't go with it. Its like all the people who were obsessed with BBS posting, but never even bothered signing up for any forums that used the World Wide Web (having an actual webpage). I think Cathy is an inspiration to try new technology as you get older, and to not just stick with whatever was cool when you were 20.

in this house we stan the idea of cathy jarboe

Phenomenal video. Truly, I watch a lot of this sort of content and yours stands alone, head and shoulders above any others I can think of. Great writing, narration, vfx, and more. Just incredible visual story telling and the fact that it also finally shines the light in the right place is a delectable cherry on top of a delicious cake. Wonderful stuff.

This video has genuinely changed my perspective on everything I see on the internet. Every image, every gif, every video, every song, every piece of audio, every single piece of media on the internet has a creator, a mind behind it that thought something up and put it out there for the world to see. So many other things on the internet have a backstory just as in depth as this one has, and I personally find that remarkable. Say what you want about the modern state of the internet, or AI, but none of that can take away from the human creativity and passion we can witness all across the internet, even for the dumbest of things.

Someone should make her a wiki page and include all of her art! It is worth immortalizing

Wow what incredible work you've done. I'm so glad to have stumbled upon your channel!

Great video. Subbed! Crazy how I can't sit still to watch a movie but time to watch watch documentaries like this. Love these kind of videos.

God bless Wayback Machine. I hope that archive remains for generations to come. This really touched me as a small-time artist online. Cathy made something that became a part of the landscape of the internet itself and you gave that thing more meaning by crediting her and sharing even more of her work. It's good to know that someone can get so passionate about things that seem so small and everyday, to create a dedication to it, and to see that shared with so many others. Well done :)

Brilliant work, so cool to see a mystery solved like this

I found your channel through 10Tapes around the time Night Mind covered it. I saw this video pop up in my recommended and thought you looked familiar but only made the connection after watching your other vids. Happy to see your channel is taking off!

Dang dude, congrats on the channel blowing up! Hadn't seen your stuff before (to my memory) but saw several of your vids today on the little side reccs list after watching a Jacob Geller vid and figured I'd give this one a shot lol Seeing you say in the vid you were nearly at 5.5k subs and then scrolling down to see 110k with over 1.3m views had me double and triple checking this vid's release date. Hope the increased attention is treating you well!

I like to think Cathy knew but she liked a quiet life and decided to keep her cards close to the vest. She didn't want fame; she just wanted to know that people loved her artwork.

May Cathy's spirit jazzily live on along with her legacy for as long as time.

The quality of this video is above 99% of youtube content and even many films. Thank you for taking so much time to create this piece.

The fact that I just watched a 42 min video on skull trumpet just shows how great of a story teller you are! Great video man! :)

Honestly, this feels so much like all the artists I learned about when I was an art major in college and had to take art history courses. This is EXACTLY how a lot of their art was discovered or made. A lot of them died starving and unappreciated having never known of the impact their art would have. It’s a genuine travesty that she joins that list of unappreciated legendary artists. It feels like I’m witnessing art history in the making.

well done, excellent sleuthing

know everytime i see this gif anywhere, my heart hurts for Cathy and this story that somehow effected my emotions so well 😭its such a random topic, let alone such a random gif, but this whole entire story has just genuinly effected me, great job Jeffiot 👍

You’re just about to hit 150k now! Well deserved imo. This was a fantastic video.

I hope that, when cathy won an award for her Jazzy Skull GIF, she might've imagine her work going around the wolrd and being an internet sensation on the daily for this many years since and beyond.

I'm an illustrator myself and have recently been thinking that I should give up because it's not getting me anywhere. I know that boost that Cathy mentioned when people appreciate your work. You never know who it will touch and it really is always worth it to keep creating. Thank you for this video and thank you for this memorable little gif that's made me laugh so many times, Cathy ❤️

absolutely beautiful piece. RIP Kathy, and thanks to you Jeffiot for existing.

crazy good editing good job!

God dammit, I was beginning to worry Cathy had passed away and was deeply saddened when that ended up being the case. It's unfair she never got to see one of her artworks blow up and touch so many people. But such is the life of an artist, I suppose. I think she would've been overjoyed. May her legacy live on.

Its amazing how a "derpy little gif" can have such an extensive backstory and make me cry. In the comments it is quite clear Cathy knew how popular her gifs were. Rest in peace Cathy. Doot Doot.

This video came upon my RU-vid homepage, and I gotta say, this is art, I enjoyed every second of the video, you got me hooked into a theme I didn't even know, I'm glad I watched it. I'm hoping for more content. Take care uwu

This is an amazing video. Great structure, pacing, idea, everything. Awesome!

This is beautiful. People need to be credited for their art. No matter how long it takes. Thank you for giving Jazzskull back to it’s creator.

Oddly enough, I had a similar thing happen recently to the end of this video. I use my voice, editing know-how, and sound design skills to dub fan-comics. Because of a problem with RU-vid I had to remove the descriptions of my videos earlier in the year. I took this last week off of work, so I decided to re-write the descriptions for all of them. Since many of my videos are over 6 years old, I decided to check all the links to make sure they were working. Many unfortunately weren't, and while Wayback Machine saved some of them, not all were so lucky. A couple days ago I finished, but just before I did, I came to a comic I dubbed back in 2020 a bit before my multi-year burnout hiatus. I checked the links to the original artist's account and the last post on the account was from a friend of their's, stating the artist had passed and providing an image of a Russian Death Certificate. I did a little digging through the friend's accounts to be sure, and it looked legit. Of course, the Certificate was entirely in Russian and it was late, so I went to bed. The next night, the 30th, I decided to run the image through a translator, maybe for closure since it had been nagging at me all day or maybe out of some morbid curiosity. This revealed the deathdate, which opened up a whole line of thought. I checked my DMs with the artist where I asked permission and realized I had asked a month, almost to the day, before they passed. And the video itself, which they had asked to see when it was finished, wasn't out until almost 3 months after their passing. I had sent a link, but never got a response. Of course, that happens all the time, so I thought nothing of it, but it was such a shock to realize this. To see that art, which touched me enough to make a video about, and which touched many more through my reinterpretation of it, had already been an echo of the thoughts and feelings of a life snuffed out, at its end, before I even finished my work with it. It's a strange feeling, but I'm also happy to know that it means this art was able to take on a new life beyond her own. I think that might be why art is worth so much more after the creator's death. Not just because the supply is now limited, but because they're the echoes, the words, the dreams of minds now lost, etched into reality after they expire, in stone, or wood, or canvas, or ones and zeroes. I think it's the same reason we look into the eye sockets of a skull with such curiosity. We want to know what they have left to say. After all, they were just like us, and soon, we'll be like them too. Memories and creations, and copies of tendencies and eccentricities copied into all the people we've influenced in our short time, and copied into the people they influence, and so on.

crazy too see you go from 4k subs to posting this video and blowing up, congrats dude

Amazing video! I loved the editing, the writing and the storytelling! top notch!

Did not expect to come out of this video crying. I will forever think and congratulate Cathy anytime I see Jazz Skull from now on. May her art live on. Fly high Cathy 🕊️

Fun fact, TinyEye is actually TinEye, and it's a reference to Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn novels, where the word refers to people whose magical power is that they can trace others by eating small amounts of tin. The whole magic system in those books involves eating metal

Beautiful. I cried. Thanks for putting in this work. Thanks Cathy for making the mystic trumpeting skull.

My one complaint with this video is that you shouldn't have called their phone and have your friend drive to their house without the homeowner's knowledge. Put yourself in their shoes, imagine you get a call from a foreign number and US number multiple times, and then days later someone you've never seen before pulls up to your house unprompted. I know that was not at all your intention, but stuff like that you gotta put into consideration.

I was a gif obsessed child and somewhere between 2006-2008 I stumbled upon Cathy's website several times and always knew it as the origin of the "brown beckoning skull" and "swamp ghoul" but completely overlooked years later that this was also the skull Trumpet creator. The entire halloween gifs world is only getting more buried as years go on and needs saving! Certain midi files I have heard and will probably never find again!

This is an amazingly emotionally moving video about a subject that initially seemed little more than a vanishingly minor piece of information, of interest only to a vanishingly small number of people. But somehow, out of left field, you managed to not only hold my attention for 40+ minutes, but choke me up pretty good at the end there, and turn that small piece of information, into a thoughtful, powerful meditation on what it means to be an artist in a medium (i.e. the internet) that feels so completely impermanent, but in fact has the capability to communicate with people well into the future, in ways that I'm sure Cathy never imagined. Thank you for being an artist yourself, and I have no doubt that this, one of your own pieces of art on the same impermanent medium, will have an equally remarkable effect on some future information historian. Thank you for making it! 😃

This was a really lovely, thoughtful video. Thank you, Cathy!

I can't help but remember a quote by David Eagleman: “There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.” I believe now that Cathy will never truly die thanks to this video, at least not until the last time someone remembers Jazz Skull. Thanks for this video, it was very well put together and I hope your channel takes off because of it.

She was an artist that was very much in tune with the online landscape. Trust me, even though Cathy was probably in her later years, she definitely knew. I hope you sent this video to her loved ones, I'm sure they'd love to see all of the loving comments made for Cathy by people that adore her work. Even if they choose to not respond, and even though the loss may still deeply affect them, they can at least be comforted by the thought of millions of people having seen and genuinely appreciated something that Cathy invested a lot of time into and enjoyed creating.

that was a huuuge video dude, congrats. its really THE best one ive seen yet in the whole internet regarding meme documentals

I think this is the most beautiful and important piece of media I've ever seen. I clicked on the thumbnail with the intention to use this as silly background noise while I worked on a project, but you had my full, dedicated attention for all 42 minutes of this video and managed to bring more than a few tears to my eyes. The internet, through it's many flaws, is a weird and wonderful place. We always hear warnings like "Be careful what you post online, because it will never go away". And while that is good advice to follow, I think that concept is pretty beautiful. JazzSkull will always be a part of the internet's history. More importantly, Cathy and her passion and creativity will be here forever, too. And now, thanks to you, her creative legacy will live on in the minds of millions. JazzSkull is forever. Cathy Jarboe is forever. Thank you, Mr. Skeltal.

So, I was a fairly early adopter of the internet back in the day (1994ish, initially) and I... can't even imagine if someone contacted me now about stuff I did back then. I can still remember my first website... neon blue and fuschia and COVERED in animated gifs, all coded by hand in notepad. I was so fortunate to be involved at that point, and to have watched how the internet has evolved over the last 30 years has been mind-blowing. I'm glad that Cathy's work has become such a huge part of internet culture, and it's finally been linked back to the proper person at last.

What makes me real sad is even though nothing bad directly because of this happened to Cathy, it's still terrible that she never knew how much of an impact to the world her little gif had. Especially since it sounds like she just wanted to make art and get recognized. And if Rose and Ben could see this. This is not some weird prank or joke. It's silly that a skeleton going Doot is the thing she made a mark on the world, but it brought some happiness into all our lives. And for that, we not only respect her, but honor her.

It’s crazy how much your channel blew up after this vid. Well deserved 🎉 cheers

This brought me to tears multiple times, and its criminal that you had so few subscribers before this video

RU-vid is being oversaturated with high quality channels like this. Feels wierd to say but the amount of "underrated" channels I came across the last 3 years is huge and there's really no difference between 1 million sub and 50k sub channels other than luck at this point. I can only watch so much. Strange. Good job and I hope you succeed.

Thanks to Tommy Tallarico for finding the origins of the doot doot gif. Surely his mother is very proud.

This is probably the best documentary style video I've ever seen on RU-vid. I was getting into the internet in the late 90's so I definitely remember web pages like this. I'm glad Cathy is finally getting the recognition she deserves for her artwork.

this is one of the greatest videos ive seen in a long time. i cant believe you had such a small following during the making of this. im so glad you are getting the recognition you deserve :)

I did not expect to burst into tears when you announced that Cathy had died. I do not know this person. But your story telling let me feel like I did. This video ended up being a lovely tribute.

It’s so easy to forget that this channel is so small. Your stuff is such high quality Edit: I should have waited til the end to comment. People are behind art and to be remembered is to be immortal. Thank you Cathy, I love how you enjoyed your art, and I love the joy you’ve inspired in others. She will be remembered.

Hi. This video, was my first introduction to your channel. And I know that, I’ve come in a bit late, obviously, but what you showed here… the things you explored, went through, and even felt, was incredible to see. I clicked on this because I thought I’d get a weird story about some internet meme. But the more things that came to the table, learning about Cathy, and the things she was able to do.. it felt like I was there, experiencing all of this along with you. And I wanted to say thank you. I feel like that sort of feeling (for lack of a better term) isn’t something a lot of other content creators are able to give. So again… thanks.

This video genuinely has incredible storytelling, not to mention basically every other aspect of this video being incredibly well made. I didn't know I could be on the verge of tears from an almost 30 year old 2 second video of a skull playing a musical instrument.

R.I.P Cathy. Your art is amazing. A trophy of the past and a mark to tell people "Just do it for fun. Not the Money."

you know, as innocent as this persons intent was to contact the creator. The fact they found a phone number and address from someone who made a gif in the early 2000's.. it really puts into scale how unbelievably easy it is for any somewhat dedicated person/s to completely ruin someone's life via the internet.

One of the best videos I've even seen on RU-vid, thanks Cathy for JazzSkull and thanks to Jeffiot for such an amazing work ❤

Amazing video!! I loved the painting at the end ❤

Ending was painful and sour. Cathy was a myth but she's still alive in our hearts for making great arts that people love. Cathy you were a legend that when nobody knew about internet you made those arts possible. Thank you for this meme....(⁠ﾉ⁠◕⁠ヮ⁠◕⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠*⁠.⁠✧

Hi Jeff, Thank you for making this video. It reminded me a lot of the Defunctland video: "Disney Channel's Theme: A History Mystery", where he tries to find the original creator of a short jingle used on the Disney channel. I am a computer science professor, and always love to find little bits of history to insert into otherwise mathematical lectures. Simple things like why files have a certain structure, who created a tool we all now take for granted, or traditions like using the Lena image in academic papers. It really helps bring things back to a human level, and I'm glad you were able to add a little bit more to the story.

This is legit one of the better documentary type videos that I’ve seen on RU-vid. I love the editing style, and the amount of work you put into it is clear. Plus, the actual idea, of taking a well known meme, and doing a deep dive into its possible unknown origin is such a fascinating idea to me

Man this hits so different, at first I was like this editing is good but it’s unnecessary for such a long video about a gif/meme. But now, I think of it as one of those videos that give you wisdom, give you new feelings. It’s like a sad movie but with inspiration. I almost cried when I heard Cathy had passed and at the end when the speech ended and it said in memory of Cathy Jarboe. This video is the peak of RU-vid. Thank you so much for spending your time making it❤ (Also the painting at the end was really good, are you like a professional artist or smthn? Also who was working with you on it? Props to them too!)