i feel like i don’t have the capacity to convey exactly why the video is so funny. you’d go watch it because you'dve heard of the meme, and mostly you heard the ‘half-A press’ part and you’d be like wtf is a half-A press

but then also, at it’s height, there were just utterly incomprehensible in-jokes that were impossible to understand if you didn’t watch the full video. so you’d go watch the video, to finally learn what the fuck a half-A press is. but that part of the video is really only the first, like, 3 minutes

so you learn what a half-A press is, yay! finally! but then he just fuckin goes right on talking, and suddenly you’re learning about scuttlebugs and their homes, and the longer the video goes the more insane each subject he explains is. suddenly you’re learning how to charge up enough speed by dancing in a corner for 2 hours so you can make mario jump off this plane of existence exactly far enough so he doesn’t end up in the cold, unforgiving void of Nothingness 

also just the format of him casually explaining something on top of footage and then being like AND HERE’S HOW IT WORKS and the panflute music comes on again and it’s like you’ve just been sat down at a grade schooler’s desk and you’re too big to fit and it’s really awkward but he’s already explaining the teleportation thing and you gotta take notes or you’re not gonna past the test tomorrow