Fun fact: in the 1993 animated series The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, the voice of Dr. Robotnik was performed by a famous English-Canadian blues singer named Long John Baldry. During his lifetime, Baldry produced over two dozen albums and had multiple Billboard-charting hits. After his move to Canada in the 1970s, he got into cartoon voice acting, taking on roles in shows like Star Wars: Droids, Captain N: The Game Master, ReBoot (did you ever wonder why Captain Capacitor sounded familiar?), and of course, Sonic the Hedgehog. In his personal life, he lived as openly gay starting in the early 1960s – a time when male homosexuality was still considered a jailable offence in the UK – and was reportedly friends with Elton John.
So every time you queue up a YouTube Poop? You’re hearing the voice of this man right here:
We’ll never know how Baldry would have felt about one of his most enduring pop-cultural legacies, as he died in 2004, several years before YTPs became well-known. I’d like to think, however, that he would have had a sense of humour about it!
Yes, Long John Baldry is indeed the man behind the pingas.
Apparently he was also the inspiration behind Elton John’s “Someone Saved My Life Tonight.” Which, boy, that’s a weird mixture of cultural legacies to leave behind…
It’s still very strange that the creator of minecraft, arguably the biggest video game released in the last decade – something that has had an immense cultural impact worldwide – went on to become a sheltered, miserable and lonely racist billionaire. The creator of an immense achievement that has inspired millions – who also hasn’t had anything to do with it for years and spends his time regurgitating /pol/ right wing talking points on twitter as he lounges in his mansion, all alone. He sends the tweet and closes his phone, discouraged by the bloated pockmarked face he sees staring at him in the reflection, before attempting to clear his mind with a visit to his candy room.
It is an unsuccessful venture. The candy room can’t soothe him – none of his excessive, wasteful wealth can. “.. a car showroom, vodka and tequila bars, a 54-foot curved glass door that opens onto the pool, eight bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, apartment-sized closets, and a movie theater..” This opulence does not bring him relief, but he hoards it regardless – it’s his, damn it, and he deserves it. He will die in this mansion – this tomb – in bathroom #6 of #15, on the toilet, in the middle of writing a racist inflammatory tweet, because that is the closest thing he gets to human contact anymore. A real connection.
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I dint understand people who would have a mansion and NOT move in like, 15 of their best friends.
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