Monsquaz

Submission 17,876

About

Monsquaz is the nickname given to a 3D-rendered model of a naked man originally featured in a flash animation video titled monsquaz.swf. There are two versions of the animation; the original, uncensored edition in which the man's penis is visible and a censored edition wherein his genital is obscured by a green arrow.

Origin

The original animation of the nude character^[8] was rendered using the 3D animation software Poser 6. On December 23rd, 2005, a 4chan user going by the name dusthillguy shared a 3D animation video titled monsquaz.swf on YouTube, which may be seen as a successor to robind.swf, an earlier flash movie made by dusthillguy, with influences drawn from Cyan Helkaraxe, Deven Gallo, Mr Bungle and a french amateur musician. The name "Monsquaz" comes from the song Mr. Bungle – Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz.

Spread

The monsquz.swf animation was originally showcased in full screen on the official website Monsquaz.com.^[3] It has since been expanded with more interactive features. On November 20th, 2007, the monsquaz.swf video was re-uploaded and as of January 2015, it has gained over 30,000 views.^[1] Since the monsquaz.swf file has spread on various other websites, such as swfchan^[4] and other image boards, the aggregate view count remains murky. When YouTube introduced higher quality video-encoding formats, a high resolution copy of the animation was reuploaded under the title Monsquaz (HD).^[2]

In 2007, a Monsquaz Watching Contest was held at a LAN party in Gothenburg, Sweden, during which the participants had to endure watching monsquaz.swf for as long as possible.^[7] A video of the contest was hosted on Google Videos which is now unfortunately gone. Around 20 people joined the contest and the rules were strict, you had to keep your eyes on the screen. After four hours, one of the three remaining contestants suddenly had a nosebleed and had to leave. Then the two remaining contestants sat until 5 hours and 5 minutes when the guy who came second closed his eyes for too long as he was falling asleep, meaning the contest finally ended and the winner was declared.

In 2009, an anonymous user made a post on the bunbunmaru image board about the sunset used as background in monsquaz.swf.^[6] The following posts described further history, such as Deven Gallos involvement and how the idea spawned.

On February 11th, 2012, an album was released in honor of Monsquaz named Fackin' Hardcore.^[5] The Monsquaz community hangs out at #monsquaz @ irc.esper.net. Each year on 23 December, the day monsquaz.swf was created, they celebrate the International Monsquaz Watching Day (IMWD). In 2015, Monsquaz will celebrate 10 years and a large party is being planned.

On August 4th, 2016, The Monsquaz Foundation was founded in order to promote and uphold the status of Monsquaz and the Monsquaz community.