Jamster: The Ringtone Scam Company

[@KudosREAL]

buy all my pants before the pants are gone and replaced by new pants (the new pants, while stylish, leave you longing for the original pants that you can't get because you left it too late): fantasydivision.online/

[@distractedFreek]

Was absolutely devastated that there weren't any actual pants (especially a pair with +1 to not shit myself) to go with the FD gear. The shirt and hat are fucking amazing though, so it balances out.

[@sunnydancer2299]

Will the dragon design on the poster be available as a shirt or was that just an ad?

[@SpinaTube1]

I wanna watch a video on a scam company and immediately get spammed with scam tier merch ads at the beginning. The lack of self aware great

[@lordbarron3352]

*boiy uoll moiy pents befoah the pents ah guone ind reploiced boiy nyew pents (the nyew pents, whoile stoilish, leave you longing foh the oreegeen'l pents thet you cawn't git because you lift it too laite): [link]

[@CombatWombat1212]

WHEN WERE YOU PLANNING ON TELLING ME THERES A SECOND CHANNEL

[@MrLeeFTW]

When I was a teenager, we all glossed over these shitty text sounds in favour of a recording I made just saying "Texty Texty" that somehow became so popular amongst my peers that nobody knew which of us actually received a text. I hope it's still floating around somewhere out there.

[@felsiccanis]

That's awesome bro, you were the main character that era

[@twanam3943]

That's legendary as a Jamster/jamba fan

[@ennayanne]

​@@felsiccanisnormal people don't think like this

[@felsiccanis]

@@ennayanne whoops, better pack up guys, fun police is here. No jokes allowed anymore

[@ennayanne]

@@felsiccanis That's what you think a joke is?

[@marcusmelville4111]

Every middle aged man in the pub had a ringtone that was always something along a warning whenever their wives called.

[@Funcijej]

My father had the imperial march lmao

[@MoctorDac]

WARNING! WARNING! IT'S THE WIFE! IT'S THE WIFE!

[@yourdadhasadogfilter2505]

A colleague of mine had one 😂

[@lakisha4598]

My dad had one of those for a week as my mom had a warning husband calling as a joke. He out did her with it xD so i started with warning man/dad is calling xD as a kid i thought I was being funny

[@DragonNexus]

Begging heteros to marry someone they like.

[@niemandfaxenmindestlohn]

Saying "Anna Blue was basically a original vtuber" is hitting my memory receptors like 9/11

[@a_sea_of_serpents]

6:10

[@Mediocrityexe]

Can't forget Damien Dawn!

[@DoobisMan]

never forget that they literally castrated Crazy Frog.

[@cypherial]

Never forget what they took from us

[@baut1]

I remember being a kid with no phone and seeing this ads thinking "wow that must be soo cool, like, people hear it and think you're hilarious" thank christ I was too young I avoided embarrassing myself like that

[@KassRedFox]

Erik Wernquist looks like he's in physical pain trying to remember working on Crazy Frog.

[@GimmeAweapon]

He’s fighting through the mental blocks he put on himself

[@rastas_4221]

It's like when Oppenheimer talks about the creation of atomic bomb

[@bahdfuhkinclanoficicla]

it wasn't him he never lost control.

[@Bluespark_animation]

Jamster gave Erin a lobotomy

[@mikerotch42069]

cringe furry

[@robertwinston5669]

As a parent of two kids under 7, I can tell you that Gummibär lives, with merch, a Xmas special, and many covers of classic 90s Eurodance tunes.

[@Treppy_Gecky]

His music kinda slaps I can't bring myself to hate it

[@Speed_Zamaa]

don't forget the webseries "Gummibear and friends", pretty shitty, 10/10 would watch again

[@TurtleMarcus]

The Crazy Frog sound is a pitch-shifted version of a recording made in 1997, by a Swedish 17 year old student, Daniel Malmedahl, imitating a two-stroker moped. This became a national meme. The animator who made Crazy Frog is also Swedish, but he didn't know that the originator of the sound was a fellow countryman. Malmedahl is now 44 years old and still lives in Sweden, but he has no online presence. We know that, at the height of the Crazy Frog craze, 20 years ago, he was a computer pars salesman who occasionally did musical comedy.

[@originalchristianvogt]

Jamster (Jamba) was a german company, which makes this the second worst thing we did.

[@SeanORaigh]

If my phone said "excuse me, text message" I would spike it directly into the ground in front of me.

[@NoxDolore]

Yes. Like, how dare you condescend me, I don't want to talk to anyone

[@frankpavey6568]

Most monophonic phones had a feature where you could compose your own ringtone, which meant you could just compose the tune from these ads yourself rather than pay $3 for them. Polyphonic felt like a downgrade to me because I couldn't self-pirate ringtones

[@juliawolf156]

That feels so distant, i would believe you if you told me Tchaikovski learned how to make music on a Nokia.

[@ennayanne]

can't believe ancient nokias had a midi sequencer

[@danzirvine]

@@ennayanne It wasn't quite a midi sequencer as you think of it now, there was no piano roll.

[@beardedbear9901]

Crazy Frog guy feels like the victim of a Monkey's Paw. Like, when he speaks he's remembering the finger, slowly, painfully, closing toward the palm. _"I wish to make something to be remembered for generations..."_ And to his unending horror, his wish, indeed was granted...

[@deyedrah]

You just unlocked a deep memory. I used to have a text tone that would just say “Message” over and over, getting louder and increasingly annoyed the longer it went on, until it was screaming MESSAGE at you. I was apparently an unhinged teenager.

[@tenyokensekia8088]

Yeah, I think my brother had that one. I definitely heard it a few times. I found it funny at the time. But, like most novelties, its appeal didn't last long and it just became really damn annoying.

[@supersmilyface1]

I saw the ad for the "So Alone" ringtone as a kid and lemme say the video LODGED itself into my brain for YEARS until I stumbled across the German version of the song on KZbin a while ago. I was genuinely really happy to have found it. Honestly I love both versions.

[@MynicknameisViolet]

Oooo were you on Annas side or Damian Dawn? i thought Anna was so cool looking

[@supersmilyface1]

@@MynicknameisViolet I never did check out any of the Damian Dawn stuff ^^; Also, yeah, Anna looks really cool :D

[@DandilynGoyette1001]

We didn't have cell phones when i was a kid, but we could technically change the error messages on the apple computers at school by recording our voices. There were so many instances of someone getting an error and just hearing a child screaming. Good times.

[@Zerathil]

The semi-delayed Dr. Disrespect jumpscare at 5:25 hit good.

[@The_Red_Scare]

*5:21 And same

[@jaymevosburgh3660]

The only thing I ever knew about that Guy, Guy, was that by wearing that wig & mustache he just *looked* like he was trying to get the pd-file look down. And he definitely nailed it!

[@deviantneko953]

Im taking a shit and watching a kudos video about jamster ringtones. This is living.

[@xxzzertt3187]

Same

[@kombatwombat6579]

We're definitely living in a future.

[@MostlyNotDps]

I had a client many years ago who owned a company that did these “text for a ringtone” things. People don’t know just how much money those things made. Dude, himself, made 7 figures a month. Then lost all of it overnight.

[@GoldenGreene]

How'd he lose it?

[@DiscoTimelordASD]

Please finish the story - how did it end?

[@MostlyNotDps]

@@DiscoTimelordASD oh my bad. It was wild. Between some class action suits and a change in the law, his business was rendered illegal, essentially, overnight. Him and his wife survived as long as they could, but when they came to me, they were on food, stamps, and unemployment. he was in his mid to late 60s and he had a unbelievably attractive wife who was half his age. But she really loved him. It wasn’t just for his money, she stayed with him even on food stamps and unemployment. The nicest guy but he literally lost everything.

[@nqk_0662]

@@MostlyNotDpswhy did the law change so fast ? Was it because theses companies were using bad tactics?

[@ennayanne]

​@@MostlyNotDpsnobody who makes 7 figures a month is nice lmao

[@hamishfox]

18:37 That's loud enough that it would cause permanent hearing damage in less than 8 hours. Possibly as little as 15 minutes. 72 hours would fuck you up.

[@rudebega1494]

Yeah, if you have to raise your voice to be heard, that’s above 80 db, which in workplace safety is the point at which you’re supposed to start wearing ear protection. 80+ db for 72 hours straight would almost certainly lead to some permanent hearing damage.

[@it_is_i_deo]

The Donner kebab woman is like the chocolate grandma from SpongeBob back when she was in her prime.

[@rosennacht7624]

Thats the best description of that kebab woman lmaooooo

[@tenyokensekia8088]

@@rosennacht7624 Oh god, I see it. I think she actually looks less creepy as the very definition of: "Shriveled"

[@batfastard916]

You unlocked some repressed memories, you bastard!

[@8bitRemakes]

He fucking did - Mine's from fifteen or twenty years ago, went to Poland for one of those "this isnt mandary, but we'll call you a nazi forever if you refuse to go" kind of school trips. Anyways, turns out you could pay to get hentai on your phone - as per advertized on TV. I wonder if they managed to make money off of that.

[@oh_sweet]

I remember when crazy frog and his dangler were featured on cartoon network, not adult swin, cartoon network

[@bigweed]

ding, ding.

[@wayzerz2799]

Yep they absolutely advertised it to kids here in the Netherlands too

[@EdenNeedsAYoutubeHandle]

iirc cartoon network would blur out that dongle of his, but the blur still made it clear what was going on there.

[@oh_sweet]

@@EdenNeedsAKZbinHandle i remember it being completely uncensored, i may be misremembering but i doubt it

[@lilosmosis]

We used to have a player on our local NHL team who used the gummy bear song as his goal celebration song and it was absolutely wild

[@admiralron]

Putting on vanilla WoW and chugging a 4Loko to really complete this 00s culture dive.

[@persomiissleepy]

I grew up during the 2000s and 2010s these ads are painfully engraved into my brain.

[@tomtheconqerur]

I got a Vietnam-style flashback when the Family Guy ringtone ad showed up.

[@mightysucc4017]

Kodus referencing oneyplays makes me autisticly happy

[@bille7359]

I could see Chris goin nuts over the monkey

[@rxblackpill]

the guy legit sounded like oney's guru larry tho

[@mightysucc4017]

@@rxblackpill I thought he put in a oney clip, till he said it sounded like one

[@ShermTank7272]

How is that different than "regular" happy

[@captainsunshine64]

​@@ShermTank7272Connections to other media makes the serotonin spike

[@ConductorCatnip]

This is something I didn't ask for but needed so badly

[@ThePinkOne]

I HATE how tempted I am to make garbage like Jamster's 3D stuff. When I go insane to the sound of high pitched voices, I will blame you

[@marsdeath12396]

Been a big fan since I came across you on an “In the Field” Keep up the good work mate

[@marsdeath12396]

I got to the yummy yummy fat fat part and want to rescind my original comment. Why would you expose me to this? Keep in mind since I was born in 96 I was legally obligated to watch 😂

[@KudosREAL]

Been a big fan of you ever since I read this comment, thanks homie!

[@marsdeath12396]

@@KudosREAL well fuck me homeslice, you might be my biggest fan 😂😂

[@Jane-oz7pp]

@@marsdeath12396 nah bro he can't be. Because I am 😳😳

[@lucidity1353]

watch this video in 144p for the full experience

[@shripperquats5872]

In highschool I downloaded my own custom ringtone I cropped up in a sound editor, and it was Sloth from The Goonies shouting 'hey you guys'. but one day during a test a guy spam texted me and I knew I had to change it.

[@mishXY]

bro I live in the origin of Jamster (aka Jamba) - Germany at some point MTV was playing 6-8 minutes of Jamba ads straight back to back. Here every pop song was being sold as a ringtone.

[@admiralpoi2903]

My dad used to have an automatic weapon ringtone The amount of times I heard that shi at 2am oh my god

[@SonofsamSJF]

Thanks. I did a good job forgetting all this shit and you’ve dragged it all back up PissBoy Deluxe.

[@harusaurus]

i distinctly remember these ads playing on nickelodeon and other kid channels when i was watching cartoons so they really weren't beating the "not advertising to kids" allegations, at least in the US

[@NatSpectrum]

I was actually genuinely glad when Jamster came back as a music label with more songs by Damien Dawn and Anna Blue, because it would've really sucked for their music careers to end after only releasing one song each.

[@captainsunshine64]

I've been on a nostalgia trip recently, playing Pokemon and binging old episodes of Top Gear. This video has been the cheaply-animated dancing cherry on top

[@disturbeddonut2151]

Old top gear is on loop 24/7 in my house, it’s seriously a huge mood booster for me. The trio practically raised me. My all-time favourite episodes have got to be the invincible Hilux, the one where Clarkson reviews the reliant robin, and of course the Africa Special.

[@KaguyaHimex]

Because I’m a filthy American and we don’t have doner kebab here I genuinely thought the meat was a skewered turd

[@thecrispymaster]

I was a teenager when these things were big. Trust me, loads of kids in the UK have mobile phones and back then ringtones were one of the things that really could make you seem cool or funny. I knew kids who literally changed their number to try and get out of the Jamster subscription because they couldn't figure out how to do it and were too embarrassed to tell their parents. In hindsight, this was pretty predatory stuff. There was a kid in our class who had a ringtone simply called "teenage buzz" that was a really annoying sound that was apparently at a high enough frequency that many adults couldn't hear it. They'd share it around and people would use it to wind up people in class while the teacher, with no idea what's going on, is telling the complaining teen to stop messing around. Simpler times 😅

[@stasbear_says]

I went to Europe in the summer of 06 and can confirm these Jamster commercials were playing constantly. No exaggeration possibly during every commercial break. I was in non-English speaking countries though so a lot of it sounded like absolute nonsense to me to add to the madness 😅

[@Trowelhands]

The original Crazy frog sound with the F1 cars picture/insanity test was hosted on a site called Tekzoned Polyphonic Ringtones were literally just midi files being crunched through the phone's awful midi library That you could easily just put on your phone without downloading them. You were paying money for midi files.

[@tylerbennett3673]

My text tone is the sexiest sound known to man, an M1 Garand Ping…

[@StummerVogel]

When I was a teen I worked part time at a mobile game dev company for QA and stuff and they made games for some of those mascots. But they were all the same fucking game, just the sprites were replaced. So I played the same shitty game not once, not twice, but four times over the course of WEEKS and I had their theme songs stuck in my head the whole time. Seeing Schnuffel still makes me wanna curl up and cry. You cannot imagine my immense hatred for those abominations.

[@Speed_Zamaa]

if its not too damaging for your brain, can you tell me more about those games please? what were those games about?

[@StummerVogel]

@@Speed_Zamaa From what I remember they were basically Pacman clones. Just level after level of collecting items in labyrinths. There was no story, just running around mindlessly.

[@Speed_Zamaa]

@@StummerVogel Ive seen some jamster games online, but i never expected pacman clones to be in that list :'0

[@Peregrine1967]

Erik Wernquist in those interviews looks like J. Robert Oppenheimer reflecting on his role in the Manhattan Project

[@Renigen]

0:17 Using a Nokia notification sound... On it's competitor Sony Ericson's phone? You like to live your life dangerously, sir. I respect that.

[@Ermagerdddrohernnnn]

I programmed my own poly ringtones back in the day, and suckers paid for them.

[@DiscoTimelordASD]

I was probably one of them lol

[@TheMostOrdinaryPersonOnEarth]

Well this set off childhood memories of ads i didn't know i didn't want to relive. I remember being like 6 years old and crying because I thought they weren't going to play the hamster dance at some stupid disco I was going to. Hadn't thought about that in decades and now, damn. Props

[@PointsofData]

Why wouldn't they play the hamster dance? I wouldn't go if they didn't play the hamster dance ngl

[@LikaLaruku]

These were already old by the time they made their way to youtube. I remember seeing them on cable TV in 2001 - 2002.

[@ZAWFUL]

The worst ring tone was the one my dad had on his razer flip phone back in the day it would have an alarm that shouted "warning it's the wife" whenever his wife called and he would show it off to his buddies whenever he saw them. He thought he was so cool.

[@2doot]

MWAHAHAAHAHAHA 😈 Get MOLEY on your PHONE 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@arguekayes]

What i used to do as a kid to get a music ringtone was do an audio recording/voice memo. Wait for the song to come on the radio station and put the phone up to the speaker get a few recordings. Then set the best one as a ringtone. The quality was really shitty

[@mitsuyodafox3755]

god, i remember how René la Taupe ( the mole shown in the vid) was so popular in france that, as a kid, it was such a popular song they put it on 1) the radio, 2) in super market and 3) during the many school dances i attended lmfao they also had Bébé lilly..... please don't ruin your sanity out of curiosity for this comment

[@ainsleighwalter8862]

I actually keep up with Anna Blue after the jam adds, and I supported her on kickstarter and ended up being mention in her graphic novel… tbh it was not good. But I also got a signed CD so that’s dope

[@revkun]

Lmao same I remember she had like 3 more songs in like 2019 that were actually decent then I’ve never seen or heard from her again

[@logeymusic]

"Awh man New Zealanders are so sweet and funny" Also NZ'rs: *Crazy Frog Caravan*

[@GeorgeDundalli]

4:52 I thought this was your laugh until you said it was a fake laugh, if you never mentioned it i would have gone my whole life assuming it was you laughing at the song

[@Buckle89]

Back in the day like 2007 I was at work browsing my cell phone store for ringtones and the website would charge you while you were using it so you would have to pick the ringtone quickly so you can pay too much money for it. Well, my district manager happened to walk in while I was browsing, and I stuck my phone in my pocket and sat there for an hour and it burnt up all my data I couldn’t make any phone calls or anything

[@darkninjafirefox]

My parents were sure to tell us exactly how much trouble we'd get in if we tried to get these ringtones and run the bill sky high

[@Norristhelegend]

Ahhh the early to mid 2000's, where you would bluetooth mp3's to use as your ringtone at school, as opposed to now where i get annoyed if my phone makes a noise Also 9:57 is an impression from a British Sitcom called Little Britian, it was one of the biggest programmes of its time, i remember loving it as a teen. Not really relevant to the video but I wanted to drop some Britisha TV lore

[@Lavthefox]

Commenting on, cell phones being given to kids in 2005: another big thing to remember from this time is that you had limited minutes and texting was generally very expensive back then. For most of us in high school, your cell phone was only to be used in emergency situations, or to contact your parents. A lot of us would turn our phones off when we got to school and wouldn't even turn them back on until we got back on the bus.... There just was nothing to do on a phone anyways!

[@Jyobi]

Seeing Erik Wernquist talk about crazy frog reminds me of a picture of Psy I saw being in such turmoil trying to make something after the immense success of gangnam style. like the shame on his face is so palatable as he reminisces about making a stupid frog with his little donger out

[@cappuccinocappy]

Omg I loved Schnuffel when I was a little child, I had a plushy of him too that my Father won at a claw machine. I still can clearly remember waking up once at 4 am as a 7 year old to watch some TV and all of these ads where going ON LOOP the entire time and the Schnuffel ones where always my favorite lol

[@n-kap4064]

I'm looking forward to Temu getting Exposed in years to come, fuck those ADS.

[@AllNoneBlakCox]

I can’t believe Anna Blue had *a entire KZbin channel* when music videos and character interactions I always hope they would do more with that character

[@princesskristan]

The Snufflebunny song had a chokehold on me in high school. I had the whole song downloaded on my ipod, and I thought it was so cute

[@ColourFreakz]

Oh no. They did 'schnuffel' dirty with the english version xD They didn't even give him a proper english name. Poor rabbit 😂

[@Filthma]

21:32 Oh god if I'd seen this funny rat descend onto a rake and go boioioioioioioioing as a kid I would have immediately received irreparable brain damage from lolling.

[@Astar24653]

Fascinating peek into another culture. Ill have nightmares for days, the kebab lady will haunt me forever.

[@cyberneticsanity]

I didnt know about Jamster existing, but I was obsessed with Schnuffel bunny as a kid

[@monodragoon]

I don’t know about you, but I come exclusively for Andrew’s soft and supple edits. Read into that as much as you want.

[@TedCruzisthezodiac]

If you dive further back you can talk about Colombia house stamp ads where you could get like 8 cds or cassettes for a penny then they charged you a subscription. That had a similar lawsuit for that.

[@darkangel2347]

I brought the Crazy Frog, Schnappi, Schnuffel Bunny and Gummi Bear CD’s. And I still own them. They were ripped to mp3 format and then synced to an iPhone and an iPad and used on long transport trips lasting up to 12 hours.

[@MattnessLP]

Gummibär and Crazy Frog have been so huge back then, with Gummibär getting a feature film and Crazy Frog a PS2 game

[@sashstaro]

I'm a bit younger so I found out about the gummy bear through early 2010s KZbin brain rot and the fact that 1. it was originally a ringtone and 2. it's still a channel that REGULARLY POSTS AND GETS 100,000+ VIEWS is insane

[@BlueSpiritFire1]

I glanced back at the video just in time to see the universe literally extending at 2:16

[@ghostlydolls]

Hearing you pronounce "Schnuffel" was something I didn't know I needed.

[@oxintoma32dev]

Bro I was so obsessed with gummy bear as a toddler, its nostalgic looking back at it

[@Johndavid-q1z]

These are the most frightening Toons I've ever seen. I probably won't sleep for a week.

[@tenyokensekia8088]

Welp, can't say I miss these! I do miss having completely forgotten them though. So uh, thanks for that.

[@ItsMuffinTimePls]

Hey!! So Lonely and So Sad isn't the same! At the end she says "Wake me with your kiss" (it sends me into orbit every time)

[@2doot]

Calling Ana Blue the first Vtuber is a disservice to Gorillaz (but damn if I wasn't obsessed with Ana Blue as a kid)

[@nerdatello]

THE RABBIT... bro i used to watch these ad nauseam in like 2008 when i was a kid and to this fucking day the lyrics of the one with the carrot are in my head. i haven't heard it in over a decade and if this video rekindles it in my brain i might go insane 💖

[@Deadgirl97]

Bro they ran these ads almost nonstop on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network in the USA. Kids were definitely a target.

[@galelululu]

Starting a video on scams with “get it now while you still can” is a bold move

[@WizardEli420]

its hard to believe ringtone commercials are a thing of the past now, its kinda weird but interesting figuring out what gen alpha wont experience. like red eyes in photos

[@jennycatmystique7139]

Years ago when my younger siblings were around middle school age they tried to show me crazy frog and gummibär. I can not explain the level of visceral reaction I had learning these things were still popular. And their utter bafflement to having this whole ringtone phenomenon explained to them. I think mtv was the channel I remember seeing all of these damn adds on ALL THE TIME. EVERY FIVE MINUTES. I think I tried to get one, don’t remember which one, when I learned it was a subscription. Thank goodness I didn’t manage to accidentally start the subscription- I would have maybe died…

[@GreycatRademenes]

I remember being in high school while these became popular. One of my classmates got himself a 'crazy gorilla' ringtone and it went of during physics class when he was by the blackboard. I remember the teacher (who always was the most stressed out) slowly turn her head towards him in the most menacing way ever. I think he thought he was about to die. X3>

[@Trogdorbad]

10:00 I...Little Britain? They used a Little Britain bit for these? god

[@Sweetcommando]

This the shit i be on rn

[@jordanwalsh1691]

Erik Wernquist made an amazing short film called "Wanderers" which I recommend that everyone watch. It's a beautiful and optimistic visualization of humanity's future in the solar system. Been admiring that video for years, and genuinely never knew he did Crazy Frog until just this moment.

[@MiltonGagliardi]

I remember being scared of Crazy Frog as a kid due to listening to it while I was walking through on of those scary hallway attractions. It was sounding from some place close to the attraction and it was close enough as to sound faintly in the background. That traumatized me at the time 😂

[@DiscoTimelordASD]

I miss my poly version of Futurama's ringtone😔 I bought a Nokia 3310 at a market YEARS ago when 2G still worked and some mad lad had programmed Britney's "Toxic" in freaking mono on it. Mobiles were wacky in the 00's.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

5:23 Nice deployment of the Disrespect.

[@Anthony-vj1nu]

I've genuinely never heard these in the wild, but I do remember the ads all over TV when i was a kid

[@MattnessLP]

Thanks for digging up these repressed memories from the back of my mind. Jamster was called Jamba in Germany btw, but it was very much the same company

[@fizzzycat4389]

snuffle just unlocked something in my brain that i had forgotten was there omg

[@rastas_4221]

My first phone had a 10 second voice recorder, I would use it to record these things as my ringtone.

[@popump2617]

The only time I'll accept a police siren as a ring tone is if it's for work or their boss so they know not to answer on their days off.

[@snowbeast4463]

I keep thinking the 2000s were better than the modern day, then I remember shit like this.