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her remember the talking frogs and the was up guys 20 years ago the Super Bowl was a showcase for the absurd funded by companies like Budweiser but in the decades since the Super Bowl ad has lost its weirdness what once would've felt strange now just looks normal who killed the Super Bowl ad well the Internet is the likely culprit in 1995 Super Bowl ads were one of the few venues for high-end oddball short films for most of the country but overtime TV channels like Cartoon Network's Adult Swim cornered the weird market inspiring a generation of young YouTube video makers leading to the ages of anti humor weird Twitter in parody videos Molag Nancy this beloved Nancy Superbowl commercials are restrained by time and regulation can't compete with this let alone this that's youtube poop anyway brands haven't totally been left behind companies like Denny's and Sega have released their inner weirdness onto Twitter where millions of Superbowl viewers turned for entertainment during commercial breaks for good reason who needs puppymonkeybaby puppymonkeybaby when we have Sonic the Hedgehog throwing actual shade of course the Super Bowl still contains plenty of juicy weirdness for the discerning viewer you just have to feed the event to the Internet machine where it will be recontextualized by brands and normal people alike and it's been this way for a little while now remember the rise of left shark that wasn't done by Budweiser it was done by us this is the democratization of awareness in 1996 the Super Bowl was an opportunity for bud in 2016 the Super Bowl is an opportunity for everyone