Heyya, most of you know this meme:
The funny german kid raging at Unreal Tournament, because the game is loading longer than he would like to.
But did you know he was an actor? Did you know he was such a genius Entertainer, that was over a decade ahead of the internet culture?
Nowadays, he would be a successful YouTuber/Streamer/Tiktoker with a video and talent like that, but the history is darker.
When he was 13 years old, Norman, The Angry German Kid, got a camera for his birthday.
Quickly he made several videos that have gotten viral in the german internet and in the german youth with Videos like:
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Which showed his passion of making other people laugh.
After his rapping Video went viral, someone named "Hack_Panther" paid him to make a video where he rages really hard while playing his character he portrays in his short videos.
He waited until his parents where gone, started his computer and his camera and the rest is history....
Yes, this was the birth of the Angry German Kid meme in 2005.
Though funny and him being a really good actor, many people quickly thought he was serious and has mental issues.
But it gets WORSE.
After his video went viral, there was a school shooting.
Quickly in german media video games got portrayed as "Killer Games" by Boomers and Parents. Gamers are portrayed like addicts that are waiting to be a school shooter
And the Angry German Kid, which everyone believed was serious about raging and destroying his keyboard, getting mental was the PERFECT fuel for those medias.
A really shitty news station called "Focus TV" went as far and made up a story about the angry german kid being from an asylum in Amsterdam where he broke out, portraying gamers yet again as individuals that are dangerous, trying to frame Games as turning kids into kids like the Angry German Kid.
This of course, was not good for Norman himself. He got heavily bullied in school and even after he finished school a couple years later, he could not find a single job. No one wanted to employ the Angry German Kid, that everyone believed was serious about going mental.
He was able to redeem himself by going to the gym for over 2 years, wherafter he found a job, a girlfriend and started living his life succesfully, nerfed by being misunderstood and wrongly framed by media that should be sued to oblivion.
Only recently he was able to explain his story and everyone sympathized with him, which is a happy end at least.
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