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Billy Herrington was an American developed motion picture actor and bodybuilder affectionately nicknamed "Aniki" (兄貴, jp. "Large Blood brother") in the Japanese online communities 2channel and Nico Nico Douga. Herrington'due south cyberspace fame in Nihon began in 2007 after clips from one of his films titled "Workout Muscular Men three" became used equally a bait-and-switch video and the source material for high-quality MAD remixes.

Online History

Built-in and raised in Long Island, New York, Herrington began pursuing his acting career after his high schoolhouse graduation in 1996 when i of his nude submissions won him Playgirl magazine's "Real Men of the Month" contest. In the following years, Herrington modeled for French nude calendars and starred in a number of hardcore developed films that made him 1 of the all-time known same-sexual practice adult films stars of the late 1990s. Yet, his cyberspace fame began many years after on September 30th, 2007 with the upload of a video clip from Herrington's "Conditioning Muscular Men 3" via video-sharing community Nico Nico Douga (NND). Titled "Professional person Pants-Wrestling" (本格的ガチムチパンツレスリング), the video gained more than 5.5 million views in less than five years.

Baton Herrington's homoerotic wrestling clips shortly emerged as a popular source for bait & switch trolling on 2channel in similar vein to Rickrolling that became widespread through the English imageboard site 4chan.

Gachimuchi Remixes

Herrington's videos spawned an extensive collection of MAD remixes numbering in tens of thousands on Nico Nico Douga. Ane of the more complex video-editing memes on the site, the footage was remixed in many dissimilar means, including phonetic translation, sampling the sound of butt spanking, every bit well every bit remixes featuring 3D model characters and fanart of the actors. Eventually, the videos featuring Herrington'due south underwear wrestling scenes became known as "Gachimuchi Pantsu Wrestling"^[ii] videos. Every bit of June 2012, there are more than 11,000 videos tagged with the label on Nico Nico Douga.^[i]

Ultimate Muscle Roller Fable

Ultimate Muscle Roller Fable is a 3D blitheness video in which 2 Gachimuchi muscle men hunt downwardly and defeat the road-building, steam-rolling Kagamine Rin, characters from the 2d installment in the Vocaloid2 series.

The YouTube version of the video was uploaded on August 21st, 2009 and received more than 2.9 million views as of June 2012. According to the video description:

Deep in the forest lived Billy and his mannerly companions. They peacefully honed their bodies and listened to music in that location. But a wave of evolution came upon the forests. One who would turn all to road. Kagamine Rin had come. Billy must cease the construction before all is turned to route.

Billy Herrington wrestling videos are deliberately tagged with misleading labels like "Wrestling Series (レスリングシリーズ resuringu shirīzu))", "Forest Fairy" (森の妖精 mori no yōsei) and "Philosophy" (哲学 tetsugaku). The nickname "Fairy of Forest" (森の妖精 or "Mori no Yousei") stems from a scene in one of his works, where he appears as a fairy coming from the woods. In Japanese, "woods fairy" is a slang term used to draw a homosexual person.

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The Three Major Principles of the Big Brother

Based on three specific phonetic translations of the dialogues betwixt Herrington and other actors in the films, a ready of principles emerged to seal Billy Herrington's persona on the Japanese web equally a philosophical guide embodied in the Big Blood brother nickname.
Those three lines correspond the iii major behavior of the "Fairy Philosophy" (妖精哲学, Yousei Tetsugaku).

Original Line ishear Translation Principle associated wth Darashi Neena The Heart of Admonition rase 最近だらしねぇな!? Saikin Darashi Neena Like embarrassing me huh!? Youfe slacking off these days 歪みねぇな Yugami Neena Yugami Neena The Heart of Praise You got me mad now! It's steadfast That's not rght man 仕方ないね Shikata Naine lt cant be helped Shikata Naine The Heart of Tolerance text font line

Other Misheard Lines

Another famous misheard line is "How exercise you similar that huh?", which became "Ankake Chaahan" (あんかけチャーハン？), meaning fried rice with sauce on pinnacle in English. Ankake Chaahan became a well-known tag used for Gachimuchi/Touhou crossovers. There is also "Ass Nosotros Can", based on Banter Obama's well known line "Yep We Tin".

Two other famous lines pertaining to the meme aren't uttered by Billy Herrington but past actor/dancer Danny Lee, nickname Kazuya by Japanese fans of the meme, during the wrestling scene.
The first one is "Tsuyokunaritai!", meaning "I want to get stronger!", a misheard line from a cursory exclamation by Danny Lee which is quite unintelligible. The other one is "2 can play it!" that became misheard equally 新日暮里! (Shin-Nippori!). Because it sounds like a place name or a station name to Japanese ears, it has become a sacred identify among fans, located somewhere in the eastward side of Tokyo, probably around an actual station chosen Nippori.

Thus, while Billy Herrington is depicted equally a philosophical figure and a leader, Danny Lee is more depicted as a hard-working fellow in this meme'southward universe.

A precise list^[viii] of most of the lines tin be constitute on a Japanese wiki-based page about the phenomenon, even though it doesn't country which thespian/graphic symbol says them. The tags there piece of work as follows:

空耳 = Misheard Phrases
英語 = Original Phrase
発音 = Pronounciation
意味 = Original Phrase Meaning

Reputation

On February 14th, 2009, Herrington visited Japan after he was invited to make an appearance in a special Nico Nico Douga livecast for Valentine'due south Mean solar day. According to the YouTube video description, more than 10,000 fans of Billy Herrington showed up at the Nico Nico Douga event in Tokyo's Akihabara district.

During his visit, Herrington also made other appearances in the media, including an interview with Japanese site Ascii (shown below, left) and a guest spot on a belatedly night talk bear witness (shown beneath, right).
The male person idol has then attended several other Nico Nico Douga conventions in Nippon through out the years.

On the aforementioned twenty-four hours equally the event, Japanese model kit makers Good Smiling Company announced that they would manufacture a limited-edition Baton Herrington activeness effigy^[5] to be released in July 2009. The news quickly spread through the grapevines of both Japanese and English blogs Kakaku^[iv], Ascii^[vi] and Gawker^[3] amongst others.

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Death

On March 1st, 2018, Herrington got into a machine blow and was transported to a hospital, where he died the next 24-hour interval at the age of 48. On March third, pornographic film director Chi Chi LaRue tweeted a memorial tweet for Herrington, which gained over 4,000 retweets and over 1,500 likes in less than 12 hours.^[ix] Shortly after, Herrington's female parent, Kathleen Wood, confirmed the expiry in a Facebook mail which recieved over 1,400 reactions over the same time,^[10] revealing he died in a car accident. The hashtag #ビリー兄貴 ("Billy aniki") was used on Twitter in retentivity of Herrington.^[11]

Chi Chi LaRue @DJChiChiLaRue Follow R I P Billy Herrington. Heaven just got Stronger! Billy Herrington

Kathleen Wood hrs It is with a heavy and broken heart that I want to let everyone know my son Billy Herrin gton has past away Ilove you son, mom text blue font

On March 16th, 2018, content creator MowTenDoo uploaded a tribute video dedicated to Herrington that gained over 400,000 views in ii years (shown below).