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About

Billy Herrington is a bisexual American actor affectionately called “Big Brother” (兄貴 aniki) among the Nico Nico Douga community. He’s the center figure of many MAD movies based on various clips of “Workout Muscular Men 3” and other works where he is featured wrestling in panties as a comical relief for “Gayroll-ing” the original content of a video or theme.

Such videos are often deliberately mistagged “Wrestling Series (レスリングシリーズ resuringu shirīzu))”, “Forest Fairy” (森の妖精 mori no yōsei) and “Philosophy” (哲学 tetsugaku).

Origin

Interest in Billy sparkled when 2chan users started to post some of his videos on YouTube and Nico Nico Douga in 2007.

It was a common bait and switch tactic to trap other people, like RickRolling, which displayed a video of Billy practicing what they call “Gachimuchi Pantsu Wrestling” in which the loser has his pants taken off. A few months after that, the first MAD movies were produced using the footage in various ways such as spanking sounds for rhythms in music based MADs or videos featuring a 3D model of Billy himself. Some of the videos are also known as “Gachimuchi”.

Sources :
On Nicodouga (japanese / free registration required) :
- ordered by recent comments : http://www.nicovideo.jp/tag/レスリングシリーズ
- ordered by view count : http://www.nicovideo.jp/tag/レスリングシリーズ?sort=r
- ordered by upload date : http://www.nicovideo.jp/tag/レスリングシリーズ?sort=f
レスリングシリーズ, in Nicodouga encyclopedia (japanese) : http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/レスリングシリーズ

Popularity on Nico Nico Douga

Billy Herrington was nicknamed “Fairy of Forest” (森の妖精 or “Mori no Yousei”) because in one of his works he appears coming from the forest and fairy (妖精) can be utilized as a jargon term for a homosexual. He is known as the “first fairy” of Nico Nico Douga, and one of four other great fairies.

Billy would eventually be asked to visit Japan to participate in a live Nico Nico Douga online event. At the event, model kit makers Good Smile Company announced they would manufacture a limited-edition Herrington figure to be released February 2009.

Derivatives

Kirby MAD

Touhou

Hentai Game Opening Parody

Caramelldansen

Eureka Seven

Toradora!

Naruto

Bleach

“Toxic” 3D Model

Vocaloid x Billy Herrington x Initial D

K-On!

Bayonetta

Reaction to Internet Fame

The Nico Nico Douga event that Billy attended become the subject of many blog posts, including a YouTube video of an interview prior to the show:

Here is a translated version of the original Japanese article about it.

A transcript of the event divided in 3 parts, can be found on YouTube as well as Nico Nico Douga. More than 10,000 fans gathered to see their idol:

Billy Herrington at Akihabara, part 1

We can also have a glimpse at the official Aniki action figures in it.

There was also a night talk show from the same day, divided in 4 video parts on Youtube:

Part 1

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Krystelmeth
Aug 23, 2010 at 06:02PM UTC , Krystelmeth wrote:

Btw, Check Out the user…

Enough Vids to make you go gay…

Krystelmeth
Aug 23, 2010 at 06:01PM UTC , Krystelmeth wrote:

BAYOLANTE – Stylish Gay Wrestling

jason24589
Jul 25, 2010 at 01:45PM UTC , jason24589 wrote:

Please add this on Encyclopedia Dramatica link. http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Ultimate_Muscle_Roller_Legend

Ubiquitial
Mar 08, 2010 at 08:32PM UTC , Ubiquitial wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR4MdUSk9VU
Aniki X Disappearance of Miku Hatsune

Ubiquitial
Mar 08, 2010 at 08:30PM UTC , Ubiquitial wrote:
Ubiquitial
Mar 07, 2010 at 10:09PM UTC , Ubiquitial wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8_xE4STBFY
Aniki X Seikan Hikou

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O970X6U91I
Flight of the Bamboo Cutter X Aniki. Notice the use of Spanking Precussion

Ubiquitial
Mar 07, 2010 at 10:03PM UTC , Ubiquitial wrote:

My, My, here’s a place to dump all my aniki videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVdz0u_9hsg
Bad Aniki

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa9i934vBCk
Aniki X Nursery Rhyme (Japanese Dating Sim) OP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDk208PH8gM
New World Symphony X Aniki (New World Aniki)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdnn13r2Nm0
Aniki X Little Busters

Tomberry
Dec 03, 2009 at 06:57PM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

Great job on it.

G0 DVL
Dec 03, 2009 at 06:02PM UTC , G0 DVL wrote:

Thanks Tomberry :)
- Reference added in intro paragraph
- Google insight added (though, I still don’t know how do I google insight correctly)

Tomberry
Dec 03, 2009 at 04:59PM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

“Doesn’t show up”, I meant…

Tomberry
Dec 03, 2009 at 04:58PM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

For some reason, the edit button dosen’t whos up when someone else post a picture or a comment in your article, but you can’t edit it by typing /edit at the end of your article URL.

G0 DVL
Dec 03, 2009 at 04:49PM UTC , G0 DVL wrote:

I would if the “Edit” button would popup :/
Dunno why it doesn’t show up. I know it exists because I could edit RED_ZONE before.

Tomberry
Dec 03, 2009 at 03:07PM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

And also, I think it’s relevant to show the google insight for search concerning “Billy herrington” because Japan is where there is the most results, twice more than America.

Tomberry
Dec 03, 2009 at 03:04PM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

Very good entry on it G0 DVL !
If I have a suggestion, it’s to mention than the origin of the video featuring Billy Herrington that provoked all the parodies is “Workout muscular men 3” or something like that, dating from 1998.
It’s that peculiar video that launched the meme around 2007 in Japan, and that’s where most of the cutscenes reused in the parodies are from.

G0 DVL
Dec 03, 2009 at 12:42PM UTC , G0 DVL wrote:

I didn’t get very far for this, (compared to other entries). Any suggestions is welcomed :)

Blah-tan
Dec 03, 2009 at 08:09AM UTC , Blah-tan wrote:

Yes, someone made a decent entry on Aniki. Hopefully this wont be deleted like the last one.

Good job on the research by the way.

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