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The worst thing about this ringtone is that my 3 year old has started copying it.
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My phone can't play it, but I'm tempted to get an upgrade so that I can and annoy more of these losers. What a lot of miserable bastards! It's incredibly funny, especially if you've actually owned (or better yet had a mate with) one of those little souped up bikes. I have knawed away my fists as a result of this infuriating noise. At first I thought it was the stupidest thing I had ever heard but now I reckon it is genius. I love it! I can't help laughing everytime it's on TV. But you know I have no influence of the broadcasting of commercials, that's out of my hands."īut the question which cannot go unanswered: can he still make the noise?Īdd your comments on this story, using the form below. Many people find it funny and appreciate it. So will Daniel spare a thought for those who are going round the bend listening to his two-stroke moped? "People have very high expectations," he says. Sadly, though, the company's reaction was just to wonder if the Crazy Frog had "lost it". So I sent it to a who would investigate if it could be a hit." "It sounds very funny and I had to imitate it. One sound he recorded was based on an old Amiga game. Then, with a combination of "sshkkkkks" and "ennngggsss", he demonstrates his imitation of the opening of a spaceship's door. It could be anything - even a door opening." "I always tend to imitate a lot of stuff in my environment, at work, at home, with my friends. So what next? There's more where the Crazy Frog came from. It's such a little creation, it's less than a minute and I would guess that most people actually would have no idea that it's an imitation of a two stroke engine." "I'm very, very, very stunned that it's gone so far, almost too far. He's more pleased at the attention his sound has got. "Actually that's none of your business, but no it's not going to make me rich." But I don't think it's even a little percent of how much they are making from it." "It's one of the best-selling ringtones in the world. "Actually Jamster is making a hell of a lot of money," says Daniel. The good news is that both men are making some money of their creation.
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In 2003, Daniel's fellow Swede, Erik Wernquist, drew the now familiar animated frog to go with the sound, christened it The Annoying Thing, and put it on his website for download.Īnd then the final piece in the tale came late last year, when ringtone company Jamster contacted Erik and Daniel for permission to sell it as a download for phones. Although he didn't know it at the time, his funny little recording would one day become the Crazy Frog.ĭaniel Malmedahl: 'I don't know if I can apologise.'įrom there, it was used on various websites, particularly on one called the Insanity Test, which had the sound playing alongside a picture of a racing car, with the challenge for people to listen without laughing. It was Daniel who, as a 17-year-old in 1997, sat down in front of his computer and recorded himself imitating his friends' souped-up mopeds. "It's driving people to distraction?" he says.
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"The world would be better off if this wasn't constantly played on its TV screens," he says.īut it's a frustration not completely shared by Daniel Malmedahl, a 24-year-old computer components salesman from Gothenburg, Sweden. Weblogger Tim Ireland, who has written on his site Bloggerheads about Crazy Frog's development, is just one of those who is very clear about what this irritating creature does to his head. And yet at the same time, it's strangely compelling. The frog is irritating to the point of distraction and back again. Now a dance mix has been recorded and played on Chris Moyles's Radio 1 breakfast show. far, far too familiar.Īdverts for the Crazy Frog mobile phone ringtone have played hundreds of times on certain TV channels over the pastįew weeks it has earned an estimated £10m, and according to the company selling it, is the most successful ringtone in the world. In fact to most of them it's too familiar. The sight of a strange blue-grey frog with a helmet and goggles, revving up an imaginary motorbike while making an infuriating "ding ding dididing" noise, is familiar to much of the country. The Crazy Frog in its original incarnation on Eric Wernquist's site