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added Jun 06, 2009 at 05:55AM UTC

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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.

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.

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jordi (nYc)
Jun 28, 2010 at 08:24AM UTC , jordi (nYc) wrote:

Goodness, someone created an archive just of those flash loops. Old school HTML frames, nicely done.

http://www.anonpartyhard.com/

jordi (nYc)
Jun 28, 2010 at 07:53AM UTC , jordi (nYc) wrote:

What about all the BAZILLIONS of flash animations in 2007 on and onward featuring “anonymous*”? (on /f/ obviously, as opposed to /b/)

Examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWL8Nndahxc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBxlDgQ2CHQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCegoVYs9P8

(*visually based on ZONE’s 4chan tribute flash animations, which itself is based on the green-skinned-faceless-man-in-a-suit image often associated with “anonymous”)

lolwut9000
May 26, 2010 at 09:13AM UTC , lolwut9000 wrote:

Andrew WK is awesome!

HeavyMetal202
May 23, 2010 at 08:10PM UTC , HeavyMetal202 wrote:

i love that song!

Sweatie Killer
Feb 27, 2010 at 03:32AM UTC , Sweatie Killer wrote:

lol Best meme ever.

Jest
Sep 12, 2009 at 04:44AM UTC , Jest wrote:

This was the first meme I ever came across on my first days on 4chan. Scary scary days…

Keegan
Aug 29, 2009 at 09:17PM UTC , Keegan wrote:

I laughed so hard at the Code Geass one!

Anthan
Aug 27, 2009 at 09:53PM UTC , Anthan wrote:

I always shout YES! when I hear of people making fun of (protesting against) the ‘church’ of scientology.

This is an epic song and deserves this epic meme.

Captain Blubber
Aug 26, 2009 at 11:31PM UTC , Captain Blubber wrote:

I hate days where Chris adds a bunch of photos and I have to add a bunch just to catch up.

This is one of those days.

Chris Menning
Aug 26, 2009 at 11:18PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Woot. I found out this was from SomethingAwful and rewrote the thing.

I love days where I find out what was commonly believed to be a /b/ original turns out to be goon work.

Frketson
Aug 25, 2009 at 06:06AM UTC , Frketson wrote:

cybergon i found it!

cybergon
Aug 22, 2009 at 02:25AM UTC , cybergon wrote:

last month i saw a hilarious pic of a transformer with a massive erection with the caption “PARTY HARD” i’m still searching for it…

gopherchucks101
Aug 08, 2009 at 04:46PM UTC , gopherchucks101 wrote:

I was surprised that the Porygon image wasn’t uploaded on here. Considering “Party Hard” is related to seizures and there’s the banned epi of Pokemon for seizures, I really thought that the Porygon image would have been up here.

Jan
Jun 15, 2009 at 01:27AM UTC , Jan wrote:

a definite meme, there are also LOADS of flash animations featuring PARTY HARD, gonna add those if I find ’em

Jackal Lantern
Jun 09, 2009 at 07:55AM UTC , Jackal Lantern wrote:

This is one of my favorites! :D

LETS GET A PARTY GOIN
LETS GET A PARTY GOIN
NOW ITS TIME TO PARTY
AND WE WILL PARTY HARD

LETS GET A PARTY GOIN
LETS GET A PARTY GOIN
WHEN ITS TIME TO PARTY
WE WILL ALWAYS PARTY HARD

Richie McNuggets
Jun 06, 2009 at 04:54PM UTC , Richie McNuggets wrote:

This has links to the Chanology – Operation: Party Hard; does it not?

Punctuation poster uses correct punctuation marks and he doesn’t afraid of any grammar

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