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About

Party Hard is a song by Andrew W. K. released in 2001 that spawned the creation of a meme by the same name.

The phrase “Party Hard” originates IRL, much prior to the release of the album.

For instance, the following is a quote from Terry De Maxim, a British “Punch and Judy” puppeteer, originally printed in the Sunday Mirror in 1996.

BEST TIMES I love the way of life on the beach and I can surf all the time. I like to work hard and party hard.

The line “Party Hard” also appears in the lyrics of a song from the popular 80’s children’s show Fraggle Rock in a song called Gonna Party from Episode 70: “Gunge the Great and Glorious.”

Yeah, Papa, don’t be late.
Don’t hang back when the party’s startin’.
Mama, don’t you wait.
Come and you party hard.

“Party Hard” may have started out as a general expression of one’s partying aptitude or enthusiasm, but after Andrew WK’s release of Party Hard, all related searches tend to reflect people seeking out the song.

SomethingAwful

In June of 2003, a SomethingAwful goon by the name of Buffington Post created Andrew_wk.gif, a 2 frame animated gif of Andrew WK dancing, with the words “PARTY HARD” flashing in alternating red and yellow.

On March 26th 2003, in a thread entitled “In this thread we PARTY HARD!!!!” (SomethingAwful paid membership + archives upgrade required for viewing) a goon name Fuckstick opened the thread with this:

I am always seeing party hard macros everywhere on these forums, but I have never seen them all together in one place. This is the party hard thread! I wish I could actually put the song in here so it would actually feel like a party but oh well. Dig up your .gifs and share them so we can always PARTY HARD!!!!

What followed was roughly 360 replies with multiple Party Hard gifs.

• Paying goons click here to see the thread.
  (PS: even after paying for archive access, most of the images no longer show up.)

Six days later, a goon named Sepherothic created a thread entitled PartyHard.gif the Music Video where he posted a link to a DivX video compiled of nearly all the GIFs found on the site. Multiple users also mirrored the video, but all links today are dead.

Further down the list, Buffington Post reveals that he is the creator of the original:

Yes. Andrew_wk.gif all started in nmp3s last June. paranoidandroid said we needed dancing Andrew WK gifs so I obliged and made the first, which was suprisingly left out of the movie.

Other posts include an immediate foreshadowing that the meme would spread, and all would soon forget that it came from SomethingAwful.

Quango:

I give it a fortnight before we start getting “Fw: FWD: Fw: Fw: OMG BEST VIEDO EVAR!!!@!!!!!! LOL ROFL!!!!! FW: RE: ANEOTHR FARK CLASIC LOL!!!!!!!!.avi.com.lol.vbs”

Roshi:

Great JOB, now the only problem is that this will leak onto the internet as a whole, and cause a party hard craze unlike the ALL YOUR BASE craze!
5!

Buffington Post:

If there was a flash version it would spread fast and become incredibly annoying. Then another forum would claim responsibility for it.

Sepherothic then created a flash video for it, and other users hosted the SWF version, but all links are now dead. Searches for partyhard.swf seem to result in /b/-related materials.

4Chan and ED

The “Party Hard” meme was likely carried to 4Chan upon creation of the site. Today, Dramatica claims that Party Hard is “originally from the chemists at /b/.”

As a part of Project Chanology, Anonymous organized “Operation: Party Hard” with the intent of eating cake in front of Churches of Scientology.

Party Hard on YouTube reflects much /b/ influence.