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False Translations Meme on YouTube

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, October 9, 2008
15 years ago2,419 views

Buffalaxing is a YouTube meme which "translates" songs based on what you understand... of a language which you don't understand. In other words, it's not a translation at all, but just pure mind- and tasteless fun (well, if you think it's fun). You can search YouTube for "buffalax", "buffalaxed", "inspired by buffalax", "fake subtitles" and more to see these (though the user Buffalax didn't invent this on YouTube). This video got over 8 1/2 million views, for instance, with 25,872 comments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw

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