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Meme Status Confirmed Type: Viral Video Year 2009 Origin YouTube Tags viral
video, non-english, variety show, vokaliz, vocalise, response, remix, lol,
russia, tv, rickroll, eduard khil Additional References Encyclopedia Dramatica
Urban Dictionary Wikipedia


ABOUT

Trololo is a video of the nationally-honored Russian singer Eduard Khil (AKA
Edward Khill, Edward Hill) performing the Soviet-era pop song "I am Glad, 'cause
I'm Finally Returning Back Home" (Russian: Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец,
возвращаюсь домой). The video is often used as a bait-and-switch prank, in
similar vein to the practice of Rickrolling.

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ORIGIN

On November 26th, 2009, YouTuber RealPapaPit uploaded a video clip titled "I am
very glad, because I'm finally back home." The performer singing in the video
was identified as Eduard Anatolyevich Khil, a Soviet-era vocalist once
celebrated as the "Honored Artist of the USSR" in 1968 and "People's Artist of
the USSR" in 1974. The song is an example of the Vokaliz tradition, a style of
singing similar to the pantomime and American scat singing of the 1920s. The
video was later renamed "Mr. Trololo original upload" and received over 26
million views and 48,500 comments over the next eight years.




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On December 20th, 2009, an isolated clip of the laughing section from the
original video was uploaded by YouTuber KamoKatt. Within three years, the video
accumulated over 6.6 million views. On January 27th, 2010, Redditor gn3xu5
submitted the video to the /r/WTF[4] subreddit in a post titled
"Trololololololololo", which received over 580 up votes and 95 comments prior to
being archived. On February 19th, the viral content site BuzzFeed[10] published
the video in a post titled "Lyrical Genius." Two days later, The Huffington
Post[8] included the video in an article titled "Is This Weird Russian Guy the
Best Lyricist of All Time? No." On February 26th, the single serving site
Trololololololololololo[7] was launched, which featured an embed of the original
video on autoplay.




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On March 4th, YouTuber RayWilliamJohnson featured the video in an episode of his
web show Equals Three (shown above, left), in which he suggested the video
should be "the next Rickroll." On August 25th, YouTuber 24KaratGoldFish uploaded
a time stretched version of the video titled "Trololo – 800% Hyper Extrended
Mix" (shown above, right).

In 2014, the song was covered during the opening ceremonies in the Winter
Olympics in Sochi,[17] Russia (shown below).

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KHIL'S REACTION

On March 11th, 2010, YouTuber DileSoft uploaded a video of Khil watching several
YouTube parody videos of the performance. On March 26th, Khil was interviewed by
Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty[6], mentioning that he discovered his video's
Internet fame after hearing his grandson humming the song. Khil's relatives have
made him an official YouTube channel called saitEdHil




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ENCORE PERFORMANCES

On April 13th, 2010, YouTuber Murinskiy uploaded a video titled "Trololo man
now", featuring Khil performing the song on a snow-covered street (shown below,
left). On December 22nd, 2011, the video was submitted to the /r/videos
subreddit, accumulating over 10,800 up votes and 620 comments prior to being
archived. On January 7th, 2012, YouTuber DavidSM123 submitted a video of Khil
performing the song at a Russian variety show (shown below, right).




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KHIL'S ILLNESS AND DEATH

On May 28th, 2012, the world news site Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty[5]
reported that Eduard Khil had been hospitalized after suffering a stroke. The
following day, the Russian entertainment news site RT[11] published an article
titled "Trololo man in critical health condition", stating that Khil had
suffered irreversible brain damage and was in a coma. The article went on to
report that Khil may survive if he underwent immediate surgery, but doctors
could not guarantee recovery. On June 4th, Khil died at a hospital in St.
Petersburg, Russia, one week after suffering from the stroke. The death was
subsequently covered by various news sites including The Washington Post[13],
NPR,[19] Ria Novosti[14] and The Huffington Post.[15] The same day, a Reddit[16]
post titled "Eduard Khil ('Trololo Guy') dies in St. Petersburg, aged 77"
reached the front page, accumulating over 18,000 up votes in 11 hours.

2017 GOOGLE DOODLE

In honor of Khil's 83rd birthday on September 3rd, 2017, a Google Doodle was
released featuring an animated version of the original video (shown below). The
following day, The Telegraph[18] published a retrospective on Eduard Khil and
the "Trololo" video.




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Earlier versions of the song have been uploaded to YouTube as well, including
performances Valery Obodzinsky (shown top, left), Koós János (shown top, right),
Sovie-Azerbaijani singer Muslim Magomaev (shown bottom, left) and another by
Eduard Khil (shown bottom, right).




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EXTERNAL REFERENCES

[1] Odd Culture – Edward Gil Rissian Crooner

[2] 3QuarksDaily – Edward Anatolevich Hill on 3 Quarks Daily

[3] Lurkmore.ru – Lurkmore Wiki

[4] Reddit – trololololololololo

[5] Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty – Mr. Trololo Hospitalized After Suffering
Stroke

[6] Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty – Mr Trololo Reflects On His Internet
Success

[7] Trololololololololololo.com – Trololololololo

[8] The Huffington Post – Is This Weird Guy the Best Lyricist of All Time? No

[9] Boing Boing – Я оченÑŒ Ñ€ад, ведÑŒ я, наконец, возвÑ€ащаюсь домой

[10] BuzzFeed – Lyrical Genius

[11] RT – Trololo man in critical health condition

[12] Reddit – The Trololo guy is still going at it, 37 years later

[13] Washington Post – Soviet crooner Eduard Khil dies in St. Petersburg
hospital shortly after stroke aged 77

[14] Ria Novosti – Mr. Trololo' Dies in St.Petersburg, Aged 77

[15] Huffington Post – Trololo' Singer Dead: Viral Star Eduard Khil Passes Away
At 77

[16] reddit – Eduard Khil ('Trololo Guy') dies in St. Petersburg, aged 77

[17] Russian police cover Daft Punk, Trololo song plays during Sochi

[18] The Telegraph – Eduard Khil How the singers epic trololol song became a
YouTube meme

[19] NPR – Internet Sensation, The Trololo Man, Dies


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