The Blue Ball Machine is a legendary piece of internet history that originated on the website YTMND in 2005. It features a massive, isometric Rube Goldberg-style animation where countless blue spheres are processed through an impossibly complex factory. Created collaboratively by artists from the Something Awful forums, the animation became famous for its seamless loop and hypnotic quality, often accompanied by the 'Breakfast Machine' theme from Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Today, the meme is primarily used to represent intricate but repetitive processes, the feeling of waiting forever, or simply as a nostalgic nod to the golden age of collaborative web loops and pixel art.