14 Aug This Is How LazyTown Star Stefán Karl Stefánsson Was Cured Of Cancer By His Fans

In the fall of 2016, the limits of online Dada-style nihilistic swirling and chaos were tested by a YouTuber called MrMrMANGOHEAD. Sporting a profile image of Monster’s Inc’s very own Mike Wazowski, MrMrMANGOHEAD began uploading a video virtually every single day featuring the LazyTown song We Are Number One.

The song is LazyTown’s villain anthem, with jazzy horns, sang by the show’s primary antagonist, named Robbie Rotten. The mission of Robbie Rotten is to make LazyTown even lazier, but paradoxically, this makes him the most hard-working person in the town. The show is a brilliant character study in how ambition itself often undermines the goals of the ambitious.

MrMrMANGOHEAD’s videos, uploaded nearly every single day, feature increasingly distorted versions of the song We Are Number One, and catapulted the song into legendary status online. The trend caught on, and soon enough everyone on YouTube was releasing remixes and highly-edited shock pieces of Robbie Rotten’s three-minute scene on LazyTown.

This video, one of MrMrMANGOHEAD’s finest, earned over 1.6 million views:

It was all in good fun, until it came to the attention of the YouTube We Are Number One meme community that the actor who portrays Robbie Rotten, Stefán Karl Stefánsson, had just been diagnosed with cancer in real life.

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