{"id":240088,"date":"2023-07-17T04:04:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T08:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=298383"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:40:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:40:57","slug":"what-was-the-star-wars-kid-one-of-the-first-internet-memes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/what-was-the-star-wars-kid-one-of-the-first-internet-memes\/","title":{"rendered":"From Internet Sensation to Mystery: The Untold Story of the ‘Star Wars Kid’ Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the early days of the internet, even before the “\u00a1Y lo sabes!” memes, small viral videos began to emerge that still survive in collective memory<\/strong>: the animation of “Badger, badger, badger,” Edgar falls, “They’re taking the hobbits to Isengard”\u2026 a rather clean humor that was completely shattered when in 2002, we all decided to laugh at one of the first major internet memes: the Star Wars Kid.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Overnight, a kid imitating Darth Maul from ‘Star Wars<\/a> Episode I: The Phantom Menace’ in his garage with a golf club appeared on everyone’s computers, whether downloaded in Realmedia, found on a magazine CD compiling “the best of the internet,” or through eMule. Nobody knew who that kid was; it was cruel but innocent humor, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, Ghyslain Raza doesn’t think so<\/strong>. At the age of fifteen, this student from Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, Quebec, saw his life turn into a nightmare overnight. In fact, the garage was the video studio of his high school, where he recorded the tape over a basketball<\/a> game and then accidentally left it forgotten in a basement. A classmate found it, another digitized it, and a third one uploaded it to the internet under the name “Idiot_starwars_funny.wmv.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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