Time Machine Modulus

About

Time Machine Modulus refers to a video of high school band playing an instrumental track during Monrovia High School 2009 Battle of the Bands. The video is frequently posted in cringe threads on 4chan's music board /mu/ usually as an attempt to ruin threads similar to posting Jerk City comics in /mu/ humor threads and Naked Banana in /b/ YLYL threads. The post is usually followed by replies saying how the video is actually pretty good and not cringe at all.

Origin

The video was originally uploaded in the 12th of August in 2009, uploaded by the band's drummer, Todd Siefke, however, the first post mentioning the video on /mu/ dates to February of 2013^[1].

Spread

The video however became massively popular around late 2014 when it has begun being repeatedly posted in cringe threads and people often commented it was actually great and not cringeworthy^[2][3]. Eventually the video became so popular it is usually posted in cringe threads within the first 5 posts, often evoking disdain from other posters while still getting lots of replies.

According to the archive, the video has been posted on /mu/ over 900 times^[4].

Since November 2014, the view count of the video has skyrocketed from around 10.000 to almost 220.000 views as of February 2017.

The band has barely recorded any material even though they have Soundcloud and Bandcamp pages^[5][6].
Recently an official site with merchandise has been made.^[7]

On the 11th of July 2015, a tripcode user called 'memes' made a thread showing he bought their custom EP on CD and uploaded it on the internet.^[8]

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