A Million Of Thank You's
Million Of Thank You's is one of the most popular hoops&yoyo e-cards. It has been redistributed, and even modified several times. One of the snapshots redistributed has a whopping 245 snapshots of it and is still being archived to this day, making it the most archived hoops&yoyo flash file. Overall, it's pretty easy to find this E-Card.
It consists of Hoops and Yoyo repeatedly saying "thank you" over and over, with a score above them indicating how many times they say it.
- Estimated Release: July 2006
- Character(s) Featured: Hoops, Yoyo
- Lost Media Status: Fully Found
- E-Card ID/File Name: nfg2687.swf
Versions
This e-card had an official Hungarian translation on a website called cardex.hu. The e-card not only translates the text featured in the image, but also has Hoops' and Yoyo's lines be dubbed over in Hungarian as well. The Hungarian voice actors for all of the dubbed Hoops and Yoyo e-cards are unknown. The E-Card name is Millió köszönetet érdemelsz!, which translates to: "You deserve a million thanks!, similar to the original English e-card. Surprisingly, cardex.hu still has Hoops and Yoyo cards available to view and send, albeit all of these have been converted to video files due to the death of built-in browser support for Flash. Thankfully, many of the original Flash versions of various e-cards, including some hoops&yoyo e-cards, have been archived through the Wayback Machine.
Easter Egg
There's an easter egg that can be found if you resize your Flash Player at the end of the e-card.
It's unknown if this was intended for something else or if it was placed out of bounds intentionally. This message still appears in the Hungarian version, with its English text intact.
Trivia
- This is one of the most popular hoops&yoyo e-cards out there, being redistributed over the entire internet. The second most popular one is the I Love You e-card.
- Back then, people around the world competed to see who had the most thanks. The world record (as of now) has four million thank you's.
- The first ever mention of hoops&yoyo on YouTube was uploaded on August 24th, 2006[1] featuring this e-card.
- There's a mod of this e-card which features of Hoops and Yoyo without their eyebrows, and with the original "Thank You" texts being replaced with crudely-drawn texts that say "Thank You Andy Warhol", "Thank You", and "Andy". This is one of the earliest instances of hoops&yoyo flash modding from 2007.
| The history |
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| The creator for this mod was Miltos Manetas for an Andy Warhol exhibit at the Baltic Art Centre for Contemporary Art. Viewing the .fla file for it (which he had in the site hidden) there's a hidden credit that doesn't show up in the swf.
The credit reads as follows:  "ThankYouAndyWarhol.com by Miltos Manetas, 2007, Unique Edition. Created For "Dazed and Confused Versus Andy Warhol", a exhibition curated by Jerome Sans at the Baltic Art Center, UK. Courtesy the Artist and Blow de la Barra Gallery. London, UK. Based on a e-mail card by hoopsandyoyo.com" Interestingly enough, thankyouandywarhol.com is still registered and active. Going to the site triggers a download of THANKYOU.swf to the visitor's computer, which contains the modified version of the Thank You e-card. The site is otherwise completely blank. Also it's one of the obscure sites, and has weird stuff such as a weird screenshot of a presentation: It has a .exe file as well. |
- There's another mod which was featured on a Brazilian site which talks about annoying animals. They removed the e-card's message and replaced it with "no agentou n?" which translates to "couldn't handle it?", albeit misspelled. And they removed the "is that enough million of thanks?" button. Viewing the animation using the Play button on Flash Player still has Hoops and Yoyo complaining about how they aren't close to be done, and the number counting has a plastered white rectangle on it.