The first one is "Tsuyokunaritai!", meaning "I want to get stronger!", a misheard line from a brief exclamation by Danny Lee which is quite unintelligible.
Two other famous lines pertaining to the meme aren't uttered by Billy Herrington but by actor/dancer Danny Lee, nickname Kazuya by Japanese fans of the meme, during the wrestling scene. There is also "Ass We Can", based on Barrack Obama's well known line "Yes We Can". Ankake Chaahan became a well-known tag used for Gachimuchi/ Touhou crossovers. Those three lines represent the three major beliefs of the “Fairy Philosophy” (妖精哲学, Yousei Tetsugaku).Īnother famous misheard line is "How do you like that huh?", which became "Ankake Chaahan" (あんかけチャーハン?), meaning fried rice with sauce on top in English. The Three Major Principles of the Big Brotherīased on three specific phonetic translations of the dialogues between Herrington and other actors in the films, a set of principles emerged to seal Billy Herrington's persona on the Japanese web as a philosophical guide embodied in the Big Brother nickname. Ultimate Muscle Roller Legend is a 3D animation video in which two Gachimuchi muscle men chase down and defeat the road-building, steam-rolling Kagamine Rin, characters from the second installment in the Vocaloid2 series. As of June 2012, there are more than 11,000 videos tagged with the label on Nico Nico Douga. Eventually, the videos featuring Herrington's underwear wrestling scenes became known as "Gachimuchi Pantsu Wrestling" videos. One of the more complex video-editing memes on the site, the footage was remixed in many different ways, including phonetic translation, sampling the sound of butt spanking, as well as remixes featuring 3D model characters and fanart of the actors. Herrington's videos spawned an extensive collection of MAD remixes numbering in tens of thousands on Nico Nico Douga. Titled "Professional Pants-Wrestling" (本格的 ガチムチパンツレスリング), the video gained more than 5.5 million views in less than five years.īilly Herrington's homoerotic wrestling clips soon emerged as a popular source for bait & switch trolling on 2channel in similar vein to Rickrolling that became widespread through the English imageboard site 4chan.
However, his internet fame began many years later on September 30th, 2007 with the upload of a video clip from Herrington's "Workout Muscular Men 3" via video-sharing community Nico Nico Douga (NND). In the following years, Herrington modeled for French nude calendars and starred in a number of hardcore adult films that made him one of the best known same-sex adult films stars of the late 1990s. put that in your non-phallic pipe and smoke it, socio-techno-genderpunk scholars.Born and raised in Long Island, New York, Herrington began pursuing his acting career after his high school graduation in 1996 when one of his nude submissions won him Playgirl magazine's "Real Men of the Month" contest. But it is interesting to note that while the internet fanboy culture of Japan was giving rise to near-softcore totally gay Nico Nico Douga sensations, our snickering pizzafaces were still mired in the outre-heteronormative playground of "2 Girls, 1 Cup." So. I'm not sure what, if anything, this says about Japanese people and their culture. He threw his shirt into the audience, slapped a few asses, and said his famous catchphrases ("You are sloppy recently!!"), to the shrieking delight of its manga-weened audience. Sparkle the best way they knew how: by creating whacked-out, aural-seizure-inducing internet video mashups, that were uploaded to their insane Japanese version of YouTube, Nico Nico Douga.Īfter two years of bizarre internet fame, Herrington was finally invited to come to Japan a couple of weeks ago to appear on an internet talk show. So Japan being Japan, in 2007 they decided to honor this curious Mr. It seems that the Japanese-not just the gays, but all of 'em- have a special fondness for Herrington's butt-smacking wrestling videos and the way he says certain American phrases ("you got me mad now", 'Like embarrassing me, huh?") that sound like something completely different in Japanese ("you are not distorted" and "you are sloppy recently", respectively). In Japan, he's a video mashup internet meme hero. From the Department of Mysteries: Billy Herrington is a beefy gay porn star whose career peaked ten years ago in the United States.