Ultimate Muscle Roller Legend

When confronted with this video, every user of the internet is heard to utter the exact same exasperated phrase: WTF? Indeed, what the fuck are you watching? What the fuck is it that has caught your eye and pulled you in as surely as if it were the event horizon for the human eye?

This piece of insane YouTube brilliance has the profound ability to not only out do itself during the course of its 1 minute and 49 second run, but it also makes leaps of an almost legendary, nay even exponentially mythical amount of absurdity.

From the first moment when you are accosted by the silly music, you are asked to suspend belief in any sort of creed, government, or God and you are compelled to witness the video's odd and exceptionally twisted sense of reality. Two quick ass-slaps later, then the adventure truly begins.

Why is this sweeping and epic monument to illogical preposterousness set on auto-play? The answer is simple: Encyclopedia Dramatica doesn't want you to scroll past this masterstroke of genius. When asked if you have observed this tour de force, there can be only one reply and one reaction: what you are seeing is YouTube's magnum opus...after seeing this video, all other things shall fall away and become like nothing.

So, to answer that original question you asked yourself at the beginning of this video: WTF? Well, Encyclopedia Dramatica can only offer one such answer, if there can ever possibly be such a thing, to this question: You are currently witnessing the Alpha and the Omega of YouTube. There is nothing more.

Description and History

Source Vocaloid video, starring Kagamine Rin:

One of many videos featuring Billy Herrington in action:

The inspiring piece of art by bta_funset:

“	Billy and his funny friends lived deep in the forest of Shin-Nippori. It seems that he lived a peaceful life while training his body and playing music. However, the wave of development has also hit the forest. The one who makes everything a road. Kagamine Rin has arrived. I have to stop the construction before the forest is turned into a road… If so, it's the first step to the construction site. I borrowed from the distortion ne comment. Thank you very much. When I went to see Transformers, I accidentally did it… I borrowed the sound source (sm1924663) Kagamine Rin model was based on Mr. bta_funset's majestic drawing. The original 8 head and body AA (sm7936201) I never thought I would be covered by this story. Made by Blender and REAPER. Hajimeteno sound tinkering	„
—Ashitoko, from the video's description

When one takes the time to track down Ashitoko's original Japanese description for the video and then use Google to machine translate it from moonspeak to English, it becomes evident that the video isn't a WTF piece of random media; rather, it's an agglomeration of several pieces of meme-y media that come before it, assembled together to create a masterpiece greater than the sum of its part. Well, that's what a jackass, no-life nerd who did took the time to investigate all this would say, but you're a busy man: work to do, children to feed, deets to leak, etc.

Firstly, the video is one of several thousand mash ups spawned on the viral Japanese website Nico Nico Douga where, for some reason known only to those wacky Japs, a bisexual porn star by the name of Billy Herrington (Japanese 日本語 Birry Hairinto) became one of their most popular memes. The current reasoning for Herrington being featured as part of the meme is the fact that so many of his lines of dialog have been mistranslated into things that Japanese find funny… Like inserting living crustaceans into various human orifices. Another, more likely scenario, is that Japanese men are all homosexuals and worship Herrington's body.

In the background, Kagamine Rin sings an Eurobeat parody of Vocaloid tune Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru called Bucchigiri ni Shite Ageru. Ashitoko used Blender to craft a model of Rin based on how bta_funset depicted her in his glorious artwork.

As for the poses and antics of Billy and his male co-star, Ashitoko found inspiration in a MikuMikuDance video he or she watched and augmented it with audio of Billy slapping the ass of his male co-star in one of his porn films among other various noises.

Suckers for all things Vocaloid, all things Billy Herrington, and any mash-up of two said entities, Nico Nico Douga users quickly fell in love with the video and its viewcount skyrocketed. As with all things viral, the dopes at 2chan got a hold of it and it was a quick and easy jaunt over to 4chan that made the video a true internet legend.

Cracked gets involved

Michael Swaim, also known as that guy on Cracked who makes the videos that are actually funny by anyone who's seen any of the other videos they have, posted this video about UMRL. It's actually worth a look. It's both humorous and informative about UMRL's star, Billy Herrington, although informed minds can't help but notice the absolute absence of information regarding the other elements of the video, namely the Vocaloid side of things.

Gallery

Creepy just isn't a big enough word for what is going on.
The climax
Basis for the riders?
You too can own a muscle roller!
Billy flexes for his Japanese fans
One of several wrestling videos that make Japanese men giggle until they wet themselves.
Full action figures are available.
Some Muscle Roller Legend fan art.
Billy doesn't get the joke, but he's loving every minute of it.