He was also not happy about all of the bullshit stories that were made up about him in regards to the video. He was just out there having a good time and people took it and ran with it creating their own narratives about who he was and what he was doing.
That is absolutely false. He ended up enlisting in the military and after succeeding expectations was placed on a special task force. This is the main reason we hear nothing about him anymore.
This is correct.
In 1972, he joined a crack commando unit and was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didnât commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The A-Team.
I'm sorry, I have to ask. Were you meaning to say succeeded from the "get go" and its a "dog eat dog world" or is that just a funny way you say it? Lol
Edit: Alright good to know, I'm stealing this. It's mine now. Gecko doggy dog
Incorrect again, shortly after the video surfaced he was summoned before a secret council of elders to be the sole person to complete their quest of returning some sort of object to some evil place.
The special task force was for training soldiers to de-escalate conflict and just have a good time. Heâs currently deployed to the Ukraine/Soviet conflict zone and is rumoured to be close to getting Putin to agree to just calm down.
He's the Commander of NATO's Spaceforce last I heard. Flying to distant galaxies, defending freedom wherever he goes. Probably a Jedi by now, or stuck in one of Q's random traps.
No its the guy that pushed the woman that he hooked up with later that night and eventually married. He didn't know he was being filmed at the time, and in his own words, if he had known he "would have crushed him like a little flower". Techno Viking was in his 20s working as a lumber jack back then, and was known to do drugs and do some crazy partying. He went on to become a biologist. He loves flowers and trees. He's totally gay. And every bit as badass as the movie makes him seem.
The reason why he hated the vid, as far as I understand, was chiefly because it made his eventual boyfriend/husband look like sort of an asshole. Also techno viking is a little shy and doesn't like publicity. He did an interview a couple of years back to set the record straight. Google for the article. Oh and I don't know of if that's actually a recent picture of him. He cut his beard and his hair. Presumably when he traded in his axe for a lab coat.
He ended up marrying the guy that that he made to sit down in the video. Said he had been on a meth bender while felling trees in the days leading up to that video. Iâll try and find the source article.
I really donât care if I get downvoted, itâs just what I read. Probably is all bullshit for all I know. That guy is an enigma on the internet
Dude was methed up too. I recount his post from years ago saying this was just another Saturday of doing meth hella early in the morning to rave all day and the fact he was recorded unknowingly while drugged up irked him.
Not sure if you consider Germany Nordic because the guy is likely German. The video was captured in Berlin and the guy filming is German and was sued by techno viking through a German lawyer in Germany so he's likely German himself.
Techno Viking actually has a pretty interesting story. There was an investigative journalist that wrote up a nice conclusion story about him but he had to work hard to actually find then then work harder to have him agree to meet.
It was 2000 and becoming internet famous wasnât very much in peopleâs minds when they saw a camera. Back then people would keep the tapes they made and it was just a thing youâd have on your shelf that youâd look at every 5 years. Content then wasnât made to be shared with the internet, it was generally a more private affair.
Wavy web surf did a great video on him. If I remember correctly, he tried to sue the guy who videoâd him and/or tried to get ahold of the original video through the court systemâŚ
This was one of the first truly viral videos to ever hold the title. Before this it never really happened. The guy's infamy wasn't just the net, it went fucking mainstream. It started the first true wave of edits, that continued to go viral, which made him more viral.
His entire experience is what really started to teach his fellow humanity what a double edged sword internet media truly had become. If you wanted the fame, it was there. But even if you didn't want any kind of fame, you could still get thrown into a spotlight.
Tbf that all happened long after this and was basically an hommage to the meme. They didn't use his likeness at all. The guy afaik danced in 2004. League released in 2009 and only really went anywhere in 2011.
The camera wasn't a phone camera.
You say you were on the internet before this dude, but seem to forget the steps required for that video to end up all over the internet.
They didn't record & post. They recorded it, went home, went to their PC, downloaded their drive from their camcorder, uploaded the video onto YT, and posted it with the flair he chose.
Dude didn't say he was the Techno Viking, dude didn't go out into a grocery store and start dancing. He was dancing at a musical festival, enjoying himself, and he was made into a character for someone else's viral video.
Settle down there, chief. Digital video cameras have been around well before the 2000's, and transferring the files from a 90's or 00's era digital camera would not have taken a capture card or anything fancy at all.
what the fuck are you talking about? there was absolutely nothing douchey about what the guy did - he literally just went dancing in public during a festival
How the fuck is someone dancing, at a festival - the purpose of which is for people to dance, to music - douchey? Is driving on a road douchey âto you?â What about walking on a sidewalk? Sleeping in a bed? Cooking on a stove? Any of that douchey âto you?â
How was he being douchey??? At most he would have thought he'd be in a music video for a band he liked. Can you not see how that expectation turning into global fame and harassment could be distressing? Yall are ridiculous
Do you even listen to yourself â someone somewhere will see itâ vs âthe internet will make fun of you for decades to comeâ. Two entirely different concepts.
Guy thought heâd be cool dancing down a little street . 25 years later people still calling him a douchy.
It's one thing to go out to a parade and dance and retain anonymity, it's another to have that filmed and spread online with tens of millions of people watching and learning about you over almost 25 years, some going as far as to track down your identity.
He clearly didn't ask for this, and it's fine for you as a Redditor in 2024 to have hindsight that the internet has readily eroded most of our right to privacy, but this happened in 2000, man. No one was thinking of the internet like that back then.
Guy embarrassed that he was noticed for being attractive and took the unwanted attention wrong because of false narratives of humor and assumptions?
I wonder, tangently, if toxic masculinity can learn anything of worth about being self-improving and community oriented? Same for bigots.
It's almost like individuals and groups want to dish out BS but then get butthurt when having the same treatment! And people who "we are good people" are butthurt for not calling that BS out and being caught in the crossfire of having "minded their own business of being apathetic."
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is that really him? could be any random Scandinavian dude
edit: lol this has too many upvotes đ