 Whoa, that's a full rainbow all the way. Double rainbow, oh my god. I saw God. I saw God and put it on YouTube. Hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your hood because they raping everybody out here. I don't even know how to explain it, like, because I'm pretty much all over the place. I'm a taxidermist. I do really good work, see? Oh no, there's a bear in my bed. Nope, Chuck Testa. I'm Jay Maynard, Tron guy. I am most famous for Nyan Cat. I heard it was like meme central here, so I figured I better get my meme-y ass down here. At first, it was kind of frustrating, you know, you get scared, especially if you've never been in this type of situation and no one ever taught you the ropes. For six months solid, my phone rang as fast as it could ring. And I knew it was going to go viral. I sent it to everyone I knew and said, send this to everyone you know because this is going to be a viral video. It had just like extremely blown up. I had never experienced anything like that. Gingivitis has been eroding the gum line of this great nation long enough. It must be stopped. I did get 833 votes in the New Hampshire primary this year. It put me in third place. The first couple of weeks after I became famous, it was very negative. It wasn't until the larger mainstream media started taking an interest in me that it turned positive. A lot of people, they can't relate to my reaction other than to explain it by being high, but they don't know my reality. I was not high on the Double Rainbow video, but I was high on the video before. The real quality in something comes when people sit and think about what other people have done before. So there's kind of like this two-stage process that kind of involves nostalgia and reflection and copying, you know, the whole thing about copying and pasting on the internet, the remix culture. It has the reflection in her eye. Let's run this through video enhancement. I've been working on this reflection. Someone's reflection. Supercuts are, as coined by Andy Baio, are kind of obsessive fanboy videos. It could be a word or a phrase or an action. It focuses on television and film. There's some crossover to audio projects. I try and kind of give it some kind of story or make it more like a song or something. I like there to be some kind of meaning to the video. I think that definitely there's a hypnotic kind of element. You want to hypnotize people. Yeah, I think there's the initial kind of laughter where people are like, oh yeah, I've seen that a bunch of times, but never really cared about it, and now I hate it. I can't put my finger on it. It's like this meditative moment where you, you know, when you hear something and it makes sense or even when you read a word on page, like if you look at it long enough, it stops making sense. You're like, that's not how that spell that makes this word no longer makes any sense. I myself struggle with calling myself, you know, referring to myself as an artist and then trying to apply that to other people's work and saying, that's not art. This is not art. If something is successful or popular or divisive or just interesting for any other reason, it probably has a good as evens chance of being preserved forever. But sometimes we don't know what was good until years later. We don't know what was interesting. Right now, lately, I've been actually working on Nancat, Nand.cat, the official website for Nancat. That's, that's most of what I've been working on. Aside from like my full-time job, which takes most of my time. When I'm not Tron guy, I'm a computer consultant. I travel for customers that want me there and pretty much all over the country. I've had several that have thought it was the neatest thing around to have Tron guy come in and do their system setup. I've had a couple tell my employer that no, they didn't want me after finding out that I was Tron guy because they didn't think they could take me seriously. To which my response was, okay, you're lost. Hey, buy my t-shirts, I'm sorry, at my website, ohightaxidermy.com, because I'm broke. I just like it, you know, I want to do everything. The sky is not the limit anymore. It's been giving me lots and lots of love. I've received just amazing amounts of recognition, appreciation. Oh, sure, sure, sure. Thank you. People talk about me as being the elder statesman of internet memes, and that to me seems just kind of weird. It's only been eight years, and in one regard, that's not a lot of time. In another regard, I can't hardly remember any time when I wasn't famous. But, you know, like I said, I really don't think that there was anything I could have done differently. If I'd tried running away from it, it would have simply taken off without me. So we're really grateful because, you know, the alternative is what? Nothing? You know? So anyway.
 Whoa, that's a full rainbow all the way.
 Double rainbow, oh my god.
 I saw God.
 I saw God and put it on YouTube.
 Hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your hood because they raping everybody out here.
 I don't even know how to explain it, like, because I'm pretty much all over the place.
 I'm a taxidermist.
 I do really good work, see?
 Oh no, there's a bear in my bed.
 Nope, Chuck Testa.
 I'm Jay Maynard, Tron guy.
 I am most famous for Nyan Cat.
 I heard it was like meme central here, so I figured I better get my meme-y ass down
 here.
 At first, it was kind of frustrating, you know, you get scared, especially if you've
 never been in this type of situation and no one ever taught you the ropes.
 For six months solid, my phone rang as fast as it could ring.
 And I knew it was going to go viral.
 I sent it to everyone I knew and said, send this to everyone you know because this is
 going to be a viral video.
 It had just like extremely blown up.
 I had never experienced anything like that.
 Gingivitis has been eroding the gum line of this great nation long enough.
 It must be stopped.
 I did get 833 votes in the New Hampshire primary this year.
 It put me in third place.
 The first couple of weeks after I became famous, it was very negative.
 It wasn't until the larger mainstream media started taking an interest in me that it turned
 positive.
 A lot of people, they can't relate to my reaction other than to explain it by being high, but
 they don't know my reality.
 I was not high on the Double Rainbow video, but I was high on the video before.
 The real quality in something comes when people sit and think about what other people have
 done before.
 So there's kind of like this two-stage process that kind of involves nostalgia and reflection
 and copying, you know, the whole thing about copying and pasting on the internet, the remix
 culture.
 It has the reflection in her eye.
 Let's run this through video enhancement.
 I've been working on this reflection.
 Someone's reflection.
 Supercuts are, as coined by Andy Baio, are kind of obsessive fanboy videos.
 It could be a word or a phrase or an action.
 It focuses on television and film.
 There's some crossover to audio projects.
 I try and kind of give it some kind of story or make it more like a song or something.
 I like there to be some kind of meaning to the video.
 I think that definitely there's a hypnotic kind of element.
 You want to hypnotize people.
 Yeah, I think there's the initial kind of laughter where people are like, oh yeah, I've
 seen that a bunch of times, but never really cared about it, and now I hate it.
 I can't put my finger on it.
 It's like this meditative moment where you, you know, when you hear something and it makes
 sense or even when you read a word on page, like if you look at it long enough, it stops
 making sense.
 You're like, that's not how that spell that makes this word no longer makes any sense.
 I myself struggle with calling myself, you know, referring to myself as an artist and
 then trying to apply that to other people's work and saying, that's not art.
 This is not art.
 If something is successful or popular or divisive or just interesting for any other reason,
 it probably has a good as evens chance of being preserved forever.
 But sometimes we don't know what was good until years later.
 We don't know what was interesting.
 Right now, lately, I've been actually working on Nancat, Nand.cat, the official website
 for Nancat.
 That's, that's most of what I've been working on.
 Aside from like my full-time job, which takes most of my time.
 When I'm not Tron guy, I'm a computer consultant.
 I travel for customers that want me there and pretty much all over the country.
 I've had several that have thought it was the neatest thing around to have Tron guy
 come in and do their system setup.
 I've had a couple tell my employer that no, they didn't want me after finding out that
 I was Tron guy because they didn't think they could take me seriously.
 To which my response was, okay, you're lost.
 Hey, buy my t-shirts, I'm sorry, at my website, ohightaxidermy.com, because I'm broke.
 I just like it, you know, I want to do everything.
 The sky is not the limit anymore.
 It's been giving me lots and lots of love.
 I've received just amazing amounts of recognition, appreciation.
 Oh, sure, sure, sure.
 Thank you.
 People talk about me as being the elder statesman of internet memes, and that to me seems just
 kind of weird.
 It's only been eight years, and in one regard, that's not a lot of time.
 In another regard, I can't hardly remember any time when I wasn't famous.
 But, you know, like I said, I really don't think that there was anything I could have
 done differently.
 If I'd tried running away from it, it would have simply taken off without me.
 So we're really grateful because, you know, the alternative is what?
 Nothing?
 You know?
 So anyway.