Bart The General Timeline

(All times UTC)

August 5, 2006

16:31 - Lowtax posts the proposal and link for promoting the original Bart the General Youtube link and "Maaaarge, your breaking my heart" line. Goons begin watching soon after.
16:39 - 128 votes recorded on the original video.
16:39 - The video has already been posted to BYOB.
16:49 - Ville Valo suggests using YTMND.
16:49 - Swamp Fox reports the existence of the second episode.
16:49 - reflir makes the first mention of a 'conspiracy theory': "The backstory has to involve a schizophrenic person who watched nothing but simpson episodes for 12 years, escaped his asylum, started doing acid and then created this video."
16:50 - Slybo posts the first image macro (link)
17:02 - Jigglyman posts the first image macro explicitly containing the words "Marge, you're breaking my heart.
17:05 - Stabbing Spork posts the first Digg thread.
17:13 - Steve Higginson first proposes "Hey, I'm Mr. Burn Get Outta Da Way" as a secondary slogan.
17:14 - The first use of Homer getting hit by a brick.
17:16 - Mr. Mojangles is the first to point out the actual source site (link).
17:20 - The first macros hit 4chan.
17:20 - The digg link is up to 20 diggs and 7 comments.
17:50 - elfelfbaby claims the first Bart the General avatar.
18:01 - Senor Bambos posts the first YTMND link (link)
18:03 - 5 bookmarks on del.icio.us.
18:33 - An unknown goon begins 'revealing' the 'plan' on Youtube. It is marked as spam shortly thereafter.
19:31 - 3 YTMND sites have been made.
19:44 - Mr. Mojangles reports the first contact with the creator. He later posts the log (link)
19:52 - 5 YTMND sites have been made.
20:06 - 7 YTMND sites have been made.
20:28 - The thread breaks 10 pages.
20:57 - zeroskill posts the soundtrack from the movie.
21:33 - 9 YTMND sites have been made.
22:42 - The movie is the highest rated for all time on Mirth Canal (9.3ish at this point)
22:53 - Gyruss points out the cleaner version posted on Youtube.
23:03 - Technorati reports 12 blog links in 12 hours.
23:11 - 15 YTMND sites and 33 image macros have been made.
23:12 - SpaceBadger begins to propel "Im gonna give you a trick you'll fucking hate it" as a possible slogan.

August 6, 2006

00:13 - 16 YTMND sites have been made.
00:29 - 17 YTMND sites and 45 image macros have been made.
01:02 - The first non-goon YTMND site possibly made.
01:22 - Approximately 15,000 views of the Youtube video have been made since Lowtax posted the thread (started around 11,000 views and up to 26,000 views). Also, about 250 diggs have been made to the Digg article.
01:56 - 'warpylol' begins spamming the 'truth' to Youtube.
02:24 - 'DiggHatah' begins to spam the 'truth' to Digg and take screenshots of the thread.
02:57 - The original video is uploaded to Google Video
03:02 - 'rafjuden' begins spamming the 'truth' to Youtube.
03:18 - 20 YTMND sites and 45 image macros have been made.
03:21 - Shii posts the first anti-Famicon YTMND site.
03:57 - MokBa makes the first suggestion of a live-action version.
04:36 - Technorati reports 20 links.
04:46 - The thread breaks 20 pages.
04:53 - The first counter-fad YTMND site is reported.
05:11 - 22 YTMND sites have been made.
05:30 - The first Bart The General game is made.
05:42 - 25 YTMND sites have been made.
06:04 - The first 'truth-spreading' video response is posted. No text can be read.
06:21 - The first counter-'truth-spreading' video response is posted. It is a dog.
07:27 - DiggHatah attempts to squelch the 'plan' with his own Digg article.
07:46 - twid posts the 'misinformation' SA image.
08:58 - The 'plan' is outed on Metafilter.
10:11 - The video makes #92 on the most-discussed entertainment videos of all time.
12:20 - Reports begin to come in of non-goon spread of the meme.
17:34 - Reports begin to come in of non-goon spread of the 'truth' meme.
17:45 - U-235 first proposes the misinformation campaign.
18:12 - 37 YTMND sites and 69 image macros have been made.
20:27 - The video has received over 50,000 views, 3,000 ratings, and 750 comments.
20:37 - The meme is first spotted on Usenet.
21:35 - The video is uploaded to VCDQuality by The pHo.
21:51 - The thread breaks 30 pages.
22:17 - Technorati reports 29 links.
22:18 - The flash version of the game is posted.
22:48 - The flash game is posted to NewGrounds.
23:43 - The flash game is blammed on NewGrounds.

August 7, 2006

01:33 - Pepper posts the anti-Shii YTMND.
01:38 - GUI posts the Doom 3 Breaking My Heart mod.
02:03 - Technorati judges the film as #6 of the most discussed videos.
02:55 - A new non-Goon Digg article is reported.
04:08 - Tipps posts his version of the transcript of the video.
05:09 - The new non-Goon Digg article makes the front page.
05:34 - The new non-Goon Digg article is buried from the front page.
08:21 - The video is marked as #39 for most discussed entertainment video of all time.
10:24 - Another flash game is made.
16:16 - The thread hits 40 pages.
16:49 - spacejelly also proposes to spread multiple conspiracy theories.
18:54 - Rockhopper suggests reposting the video to YouTube.
19:13 - Draeudon is the first person to mention the viral marketing conspiracy theory in the thread.
20:06 - Cardinal_Sin reposts the Youtube video.
20:46 - The new video has 14 views but is #60 on the top-rated Comedy videos.
20:58 - The new video is ranked #78 for most discussed comedy video for the day, #30 for top rated video of the day, #9 for top rated comedy video of the day, and #93 for top favorited comedy video of the day.
21:36 - Tom Cheat reports himself as the second goon to IM the creator.
23:06 - zeverken reports that the video made it to a big Belgian blog.
23:32 - The new video is ranked #16 for most discussed video of the day, #4 for most discussed comedy video of the day, #9 for top rated comedy video of the day, #34 for most viewed comedy video of the day, #11 for top favorite of the day, and #3 for top favorite comedy video of the day.

August 8, 2006

00:41 - The new video is ranked #9 for most discussed video of the day, #4 for most discussed comedy video of the day, #10 for top rated comedy video of the day, #34 for most viewed comedy video of the day, #8 for top favorite of the day, and #2 for top favorite comedy video of the day.
01:31 - The new video is ranked #7 for most discussed video of the day, #3 for most discussed comedy video of the day, #8 for top rated comedy video of the day, #32 for most viewed comedy video of the day, #7 for top favorite of the day, and #1 for top favorite comedy video of the day.
02:06 - AltF4's misinformation video on 'viral marketing' is posted.
02:24 - 3 misinformation theories are known.
03:23 - The new video is removed due to terms of use violations.
04:15 - A sponsored link on Google for 'marge you're breaking my heart' is reported.
05:45 - The original video is removed due to terms of use violation.
05:55 - Another 'new' video reports ranks of #26 for most discussed entertainment video of the day, #88 for top rated entertainment video of the day, #49 for most viewed entertainment video of the day, #94 for top favorite of the day, and #33 for top favorite entertainment video of the day.
13:48 - All videos on Youtube have been taken down for terms of use violations, and Youtube is reported to be actively taking down new posts in a timely fashion. The second part and Google Video remain up.
15:17 - Lowtax begins to edit the video under the assumption that the sex scene was what was the terms of use violation.
15:45 - 64 YTMND sites have been made.
16:36 - Lowtax terminates the plan, due to the conclusion that it was a copyright violation filed by Fox. Over 100,000 views had been made of the original video, and it has started with only 3,000.
17:20 - The thread breaks 50 pages.
20:52 - "And to bring things home, our Technorati end tally for the test period is 46 links, including one post of the preferred alternate link, one in German, one in Russian, and two (count 'em, two) killjoy posts to Metafilter that made no difference in the end."