The earliest known usage of this meme stems from “Danksmash” remix of the Squidward Dab (shown below), which was uploaded to Vine on January 27th, 2016. In the anime, the song can be heard during the final few minutes of the “Phantom Blood” and “Battle Tendency” arcs to get the viewer hyped up for the next episode, before it was subsequently replaced by “Walk Like an Egyptian” in “Stardust Crusaders”. “Roundabout” was originally released in 1971 as the lead single of the British rock band Yes’ fourth studio album Fragile, which peaked at 14th place in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, though it gained much of its online popularity through its inclusion in the 2012 anime adaptation of the Japanese manga series Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. Due to its heavy usage in the first two arcs of the popular manga-anime series Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, the song has been frequently used by JJBA fans in various Vine and YouTube remixes, along with the “to be continued” graphic logo featured in the manga-anime series, typically at the climax of the video for comedic and suspenseful effects. “Roundabout” is a 1971 progressive rock song by the British rock band Yes. On February 15, 2011, YouTuber MrYaridovich uploaded a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic parody of the original Moonbase Alpha video titled “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Provides a Realistic Simulation of Life in Ponyville”, which received over 1.8 million views within 18 months. On August 16th, Redditor TorpedoJones submitted a post titled “Moonbase Alpha: The Pinnacle of Online Gaming” to the /r/gaming subreddit, which linked to a Moonbase TTS video by YouTuber BenCJoker titled “Moonbase Alpha: The Astronaut Chronicles” (shown below). Within two years, the video received over 1.6 million views. On July 17th, 2010, when YouTuber motdef uploaded a video titled “Moonbase Alpha Provides a Realistic Simulation of Life on a Natural Satellite”, featuring three players using the TTS engine to shout random phrases using the monikers mot, mastergir, and Horatio. DECTalk is also capable of singing by a specific set of instructions based on phonemes and frequencies. DECTalk was made popular by Stephen Hawking and, of course, Moonbase Alpha. DECTalk was a speech synthesizer and text-to-speech technology developed by Digital Equipment Corporation in the early 1980s. The TTS engine used in the game is a modified version of DECTalk. Within two years, the video received over 103,000 views and 230 comments. On July 7th, 2010, a YouTube user named ABadFeeling uploaded a video of several players using the game’s TTS engine to say humorous phrases (shown at 1:50 below). Moonbase Alpha was released for free download via the Steam digital distribution service July 6th, 2010. The game became popular due to its text-to-speech ( TTS) engine, which was humorously used in gameplay videos on YouTube. Moonbase Alpha is a simulation video game developed by Army Game Studio in conjunction with NASA Learning Technologies.
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