Change Da World... My Final Message
Added 4 years ago by Adam • Updated 3 months ago by andcallmeshirley
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Type: Catchphrase Image Macro
Tags: rat phrase comfygang white noiz lemon'smemes nitro.if windows 95 pc shutdown rats rodents racing lagoon dawatercup
Additional References: Meme Generator Urban Dictionary
About
Change Da World… My Final Message refers to an image macro series featuring bizarre characters captioned with the catchphrase "Change da world… my final message. Goodb ye." After the first iteration featuring a rat smoking a cigarette spread, a Twitter user made a video edit pairing the image with audio, leading to the creation of multiple other iterations.
Origin
The origin of the image is unclear. The rat appeared in /r/CursedImages[1] on August 25th, 2018 (shown below, left).
Several months later, on October 12th, Tumblr [4] user dawatercup shared the image with the phrase "Change da world… my final message. Goodb ye" written in a digitally-altered, blue and white caption box. The post received more than 27,000 notes in less than one year (shown below, right).
Spread
On November 14th, 2018, the rat paired with the caption appeared on Imgur.[2] On August 16th, 2019, Twitter[3] user @comfygang posted a video of the image set to audio (post deleted). The clip uses a robotic voice reading the text over the song "White Noiz" from JungleJungle: 1989 – 1999 Sample Pack[5] and the Windows 95 PC start-up sound. On January 19th, 2021, Twitter[6] user @st1llstand posted a number of images and videosrelated to @comfygang's involvement with the meme (shown below).
In this thread, i am going to prove that @stjarnbrand made the original "Change the world, my final message goodbye" video, and here is the uncompressed original video as provided by her and i will provide more examples of proof in this thread. pic.twitter.com/mvJaedcIqO
— roscoe :) (@st1llstand) January 19, 2021
The clip inspired others to remake the image with various other characters and set the image to comfygang's audio. Other examples include a video posted by Nitro.IF that gained over 6,400 views (shown below, left) and an example posted by Lemon'sMemes that showed Nelson the Bull Terrier that gained over 1,600 views (shown below, right).
Various Examples
Template
Search Interest
External References
[1] Reddit – /r/cursedimages
[2] Imgur – I want these memes
[3] Twitter – @comfygang's Tweet
[4] Tumblr – tatzanx' Post
[5] YouTube – Don't Watch Okay?
[6] Twitter – @st1llstand's Tweet
Comments ( 17 )
good shit, very pleasing.
What in the world have we stumbled onto? Btw does anyone recognize the textbox used? I feel I saw it somewhere before
It reminds me of the text shown in Sonic Adventure 2's cutscenes
me after saying my final message and goodbying
Melancholic and inspiring.
Note: there is no Windows 95 shutdown sound. You refer to da startup sound instead.
What is it specifically doing the voice?
I ended up looking through the wayback machine for the deleted Twitter URL.
And I found it: https://web.archive.org/web/20190901181059/https:/twitter.com/comfygang/status/1162411014639489024
which program he used for voice
Man this feels so… unsettling. The robotic voice feels like it would actually be a part of windows 95, but I know it's not. There's something oddly nostalgic about it, even though it's not actually old. Then the analog synths that sound like they belong in a 90s house or jungle track gives it even more of a nostalgic feeling. On top of that, the text looks like something from a mid 90s RPG game. The best way I can describe this is "lost art". It gives off the feeling that you've found something that was completely lost though time.
And then there's the message. It sounds as if someone from the past is telling you that he found something horrible but he can't directly tell you what it is, so he leaves off with the ominous message "change the world" as a sort of warming.
The actual origin of this meme is even more unsettling, you can read it here https://youtu.be/Ee0s_H4SpXw it's the pinned comment.
Link's brok. Was is a suicide note?
This meme reminds me of Nicholas Fedorov. Full stop.
change da world
It reminds me of the text shown in Sonic Adventure 2's cutscenes
Hey. comfygang himself confirmed that it wasn't white noiz what he used in the background qouted as saying:
"the track isnt actually white noiz but some crap arp that was sampled off a jungle track from the 90s i shat over with effects".
Please fix this.
https://twitter.com/comfygang/status/1175515631271206913
Huh, I thought it was legit a video game reference with bad voice acting, like the "Goodbye friends." of house of the dead 2.
sounds like an AI sacrificing itself for humanity
I really wish people would shitting this dumb meme on every white noiz video.
Link's brok. Was is a suicide note?
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