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DFTBA

2009-04-23 · song · Hank, Michael Aranda · 4:50 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance, community lore, guest or collab

Hank and Michael Aranda perform a rap song stringing together Nerdfighter-suggested alternative meanings of DFTBA; Hank then credits the Nerdfighters who suggested and illustrated acronyms and Michael Aranda, who turned his lyrics into a song.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Electronic intro with stuttered 'DFTBA' samples

00:00:26 — DFTBA rap: verses of alternative DFTBA expansions, 'please explain: what is DFTBA?' refrain, sampled 'Oh, and Hank' sign-off

00:04:13 — Credits: thanks to Nerdfighters for acronyms and illustrations and to Michael Aranda; subscribe plug; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank says the song was not all his work and thanks the Nerdfighters who suggested DFTBA acronyms and those who illustrated them. — 00:04:13 · Nerdfighteria, DFTBA
  • ★★ Hank credits Michael Aranda as the most important person: Hank wrote rap lyrics but didn't know how to make them a song, so he instant-messaged Michael. — 00:04:13
  • ★★ Hank calls Michael Aranda so cool and tells viewers to go subscribe to him right now. — 00:04:37

In the description and comments

  • ★★★ Hank raps a song, performed with Michael Aranda, made of Nerdfighter-suggested alternative expansions of DFTBA, framed by the refrain asking what DFTBA means. (playful) — video description · DFTBA

Humor (dominant)

  • One of the first DFTBA expansions in the rap. — 00:00:32

    “Do fish take baths a lot?”

  • Another DFTBA expansion after 'Doctor Freud's topic became afflicting'. — 00:00:46

    “Damn Facebook, too bloody addicting!”

  • A DFTBA backronym verse starts 'It's so damn fine to be alive,' then turns on John. — 00:01:28

    “Until your dorky, farting, turdface brother arrives.”

  • 'Dastardly farmers took Bessie away' as a DFTBA line. — 00:01:52

    “But she was destined for the burger anyway.”

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Mentioned

Central: DFTBA · Michael Aranda

Also: Decepticon · Facebook

Only in the description or credits: Stefan Chin

Also centred on Michael Aranda: LEGO Millenium Falcon Fun · Disgusting Cookies - The 2012 Hungry Games · Caviar Brownies - The Second Annual Hungry Games

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