ONLY ZOOMERS CAN VIEW THIS THRAD (James LaBrie Big Chungus)

[Buddyhunter1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoHCTSp1R8U

James LaBrie calling me a sussy gamer wasn't on my 2021 bingo card

[TAC]

Are you kmac or Chungus?

[bosk1]

I have no idea what is going on here.

[Sebastián Pratesi]

This never gets old. Here's my favourite edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Dreamtheater/comments/ok26co/im_so_sorry

I have no idea what is going on here.

It seems James was asked to do some singing with the words "Big Chungus", which is a meme. Fans then showcased their creativity with the video on the band's subreddit, which prompted one of the mods to post this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Dreamtheater/comments/okxo03/big_chungus_edits_are_now_banned

[Buddyhunter1]

Are you kmac or Chungus?

I have no idea what is going on here.

I tried to warn you!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dreamtheater/comments/okxo03/big_chungus_edits_are_now_banned

[krands85]

This never gets old. Here's my favourite edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Dreamtheater/comments/ok26co/im_so_sorry

[MoraWintersoul]

My fave thing is how he barely kept it together between the two big chunguses

[hefdaddy42]

OH MY GOD

[porcacultor]

 

This sparks joy.

[Grizz]

I made these

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dreamtheater/comments/ojmxez/the_chungus_of_tuscany/

https://youtu.be/syIZwOOX7g8

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dreamtheater/comments/ojq89l/big_chungus_carries_on/

[Cool Chris]

I have no idea what is going on here.

[hefdaddy42]

I sent these to my 18 year old and the response was

OH MY GOD

[HOF]

Aside from everything else about this video that I don't understand, what is happening with James' facial hair?

[King Postwhore]

Aside from everything else about this video that I don't understand, what is happening with James' facial hair?

He came down with the chungus and it grows weird now.

[porcacultor]

I made these

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dreamtheater/comments/ojmxez/the_chungus_of_tuscany/

https://youtu.be/syIZwOOX7g8

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dreamtheater/comments/ojq89l/big_chungus_carries_on/

This is great work and it is appreciated. #chungus

Also, James seems more comfortable talking about Kmac and Big Chungus than he was talking about Jay Beckenstein and Spyro Gyra, which is great.

[wolfking]

I have no idea what is going on here.

[Buddyhunter1]

[HOF]

Google pointed me to this article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabbit_Twouble

[gzarruk]

[lucasembarbosa]

Big Chungus is real
I finally feel
At peace with the meme in my dreams

[YtseJam]

Aside from everything else about this video that I don't understand, what is happening with James' facial hair?

His idol is Hitler

[IDontNotDoThings]

As a zoomer, I'll use my power to explain some things.

Big Chungus is a meme from late 2018, depicting an out-of-context frame from a Looney Tunes cartoon with a fat Bugs Bunny (this frame specifically). The meme peaked when this photoshopped image was created, which also prompted this guy to make a video were he made a copy of the fake game to sell to Gamestop. As you might expect, there wasn't a lot of other ways you could make it funny, & people quickly got sick of the meme. Over time though, it made a bit of a resurgence, not because people changed their minds about it not being that funny, but because it entered "so bad it's good" territory, where the butt of the joke was the cringe-worthiness of the person making it.

About a year later, a similar effect happened with the popularity of the video game Among Us & the cringe-worthiness of the people making references to it. For those who don't know, Among Us is a party game where one player is assigned the role of "the imposter" & has to sabotage the tasks of the other players without getting caught. The social dynamic of the game led YouTubers to milk lots of content out of playing it with their friends, & thus the game exploded in popularity. Anyway, references to it (like calling people "sus" [suspicious], talking about finding the imposter & completing tasks, etc.) quickly became memes & equally quickly became disliked memes as people found them annoying. At this point a similar thing happened with Big Chungus, where people posted memes referencing the game in as cringe-worthy of a way as they possibly could, & then the appeal of the memes became to laugh at the people making them rather than the references themselves.

Fast forward to today, & someone (possibly Kmac: a music YouTuber that also dabbles in memes sometimes) sent a paid request for James LaBrie to reference both of these things at the same time, & now people are finding it funny out of both ironic enjoyment & laughing at the absurdity of the whole situation.

Hope that helps.

[Sebastián Pratesi]

Also, little known fact: Kmac is a big DT fan. And, two years ago, he auditioned to play "Untethered Angel" with the band on one of their UK dates.

Eventually, the on-stage collab never happened. But, there's the footage of the audition on Kmac's YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/KZnfUoAzsBg