The tragedy of messinwithbigfoot

It has been recently unveiled, ironically on the 13th anniversary of the original video, that NKassad is, in fact, not the creator of the beloved Oh yeah Mr. Krabs meme, but rather, messinwithbigfoot is.

It all began on May 4, 2007. Youtuber messinwithbigfoot, which we're guessing had virtually no subscribers at the time this was posted, uploaded the original Oh Yeah Mr. Krabs video, titled "Multimedia message (mr krabs.3gp)". Messinwithbigfoot has not uploaded anything since, nor has he made an edit on his videos, commented anywhere, or said anything about what happened afterwards. The video received only 3,600 views over its 13 year lifespan before being rediscovered.

2 years later, on March 4, 2009, NKassad would reupload the original to his channel. It is likely that at this time, NKassad wasn't expecting the meme to blow up, and only reuploaded it like many users did. However, he made the choice to put "the original" in the title.

Between this, NKassad had decided to take things a few steps forward and actually titled his channel as "the maker of oh yeah mr krabs", and changing his profile picture to Mr. Krabs himself. What happened later in 2015 is when things started to get crazy. The "Oh yeah Mr. Krabs" meme was quickly exploding. People were googling the meme, trying to locate the original, as Oh Yeah Mr Krabs was a very popular reupload. Fortunately for NKassad, the REAL original did not even have "oh yeah mr krabs" in its title or description. Even better, it was included in NO playlists, and had comments turned off. It was more or less lost media as far as he was concerned. Therefore, according to him, and everyone else, the 'original' video was by NKassad. So NKassad's video exploded, getting millions of views, eventually putting it straight on top of the algorithm. It was featured as the "original" video in Behind the Meme's video, Google prominently used it as the original example in their search algorithm, giving it an enhanced embed. Even Knowyourmeme.com had NKassad's video listed as the original. Honestly, could you blame them? By all rights, there really was no way to know it wasn't the original unless you were a longtime fan of messinwithbigfoot, which, as it would appear, he didn't have any.

NKassad still took it further. He started uploading more videos, even starting a series of his own with Mr. Lobster. Some noticed his voice sounded different but this was easily excusable due to the fact that the newer videos are almost 6 years apart from the original. Either way, NKassad more or less had the entire world fooled. His video soared even far past 2016, the height of the meme, now having well over 9 million views.

Until, on May 5, 2020, a Reddit post made by guitarsnake18, points out that the original video was not made by NKassad. (Note: If you happen to find an earlier post or Youtube comment that has it found before this, please let me know). Soon after, hundreds upon hundreds of users began commenting on NKassad's video. Many called him out as a liar but quite a few spread the word that this wasn't the original video. Sure enough, NKassad quickly began to loose subscribers and messinwithbigfoot gained hundreds, currently at 1,250. Messinwithbigfoot's video went from 3,600 views to 125,000 in 8 months. Comments are still turned off for the Mr. Krabs video and thus many comments were being posted on messinwithbigfoot's only other video, "toe joe".

Currently, neither NKassad or messinwithbigfoot have made a statement on this. Again, messinwithbigfoot has not been on Youtube since 2007, and its likely he's grown up and gotten a life, not even aware that his video became a meme. Hopefully with the increased traffic on his channel he may get a notice from Youtube, but its unlikely we'll ever hear from him again.

Sometime during April 2020, NKassad bit the bullet after he was exposed and deleted his channel, taking down all his videos. Soon after, a fan-made channel surfaced, NKassad Archives, dedicated to reuploading NKassad's other Mr. Krabs videos, but fortunately not 'the original' reupload. This fan-made archive, while preserving the Mr. Lobster series, respectfully has a link to the original video by messinwithbigfoot on their channel page; also rightly calling it the original video.

You have to wonder, though. Without NKassad, it's very possible the Oh Yeah Mr Krabs meme would have gotten nowhere. NKassad's video blew up, unlike all the other reuploads and copycats. NKassad, though he lied, pushed the meme further, making sequels. You have to give a little respect for NKassad for getting the meme to where it is today, even if it was just a simple reupload.

We all hope for the day when messinwithbigfoot makes his grand return...