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by bigjump 3224 days ago
It's on the front page - because it's awesome!

Had me mesmerised and took my mind off thinking about the next new JavaScript thing.

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But to be fair, he's not exactly wrong.

I usually just point people who complain about my submissions to the site guidelines, but this was the first time I actually thought "well, I probably got carried away and shouldn't have posted it" and was fine with people flagging it off the front page.

I suspect the song being well choreographed with appropriate background noise was the memes' vector here.

I was "stupid lego video, how did it get so many votes", so watched it and actually enjoyed it.

It had something to it that was unusual brain candy. That was the hack part. Intentional or not.