When the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan we seriously fucked up their people for the rest of eternity. How else do you explain their obsession with pornstar Billy Herrington?
OMGBlog first tipped us off to this phenomenon, but after doing some YouTube research of our own, we are completely dumbfounded. It appears that there are thousands of remixes of footage featuring late-'90s porn star Billy Herrington circulating the internet. According to the ever-reliable Wikipedia, a video of Herrington found it's way onto Japanese video sharing site Nico Nico Douga (which is like YouTube, but user comments are laid over the video) and worked its way into an internet meme.
In these clips, footage of Herrington, referred to as the "fairy of the forest" or "big brother," is overlaid with Japanese cartoons, commercials, or some other things we can't translate. The action of the movie is often used to mimic the syncopated beats of pop songs and babies' heads are used to block out any penises. The last time we tried to block our penis with a baby's head...well, let's just say the charges are still pending.
But seriously: What the fuck? How did this become a huge phenomenon, even in a gamma-ray-riddled country like Japan? A Colt muscle man and babies' heads and cheesey techno music? That is some really weird shit. Anyway, Herrington is now a pseudo celeb in the land of the rising sun and he's going to visit later this year. They're even releasing a Billy Herrington action figure.
So, here's the challenge. The first homo to post a mashup featuring a current pornstar with footage of "Jem and the Holograms" and Sheila E's "Glamorous Life" and posts the YouTube link in the comments gets a used porn DVD and a blowjob (some restrictions may apply).