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I always thought of salad fingers as like one of those weird flash videos but as a YouTube series. Anybody remember albinoblacksheep.com? I'm sure there were others too, maybe ebaumsworld but I'm not sure if those were as weird
Yes, very much :) that‘s also where I first saw Salad Fingers and The End of the World is still on my mind today.
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Yeah, this threw me too. Salad Fingers is absolutely pre-YouTube. I remember watching that, Weebl and Bob, Charlie the Unicorn etc etc, all as Flash videos.
Too Many Cooks, I think, originated on YouTube.
Outside of YouTube, the dawn of "weird web" for me is Homestar Runner [0], and Don Hertzfeldt's Rejected [1]. 0: https://homestarrunner.com/main 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSb-nV8l2QY
Jesus Christ, nothing makes me reminisce about college quite as much as homestar runner. That site was the beginning of my love affair with all things weird and esoteric on the internet. I got scroll buttons as the day is long.
for me it's "dag, yo"
and, whenever I see "Ontario": "On-tah-REE-oh, CAH-nah-da—ooh, a little south of the border flavor"
I recently heard about Skibidi Toilet being the latest sensation among teenagers and had a very old person "what is wrong with kids today" moment when I watched some, before remembering that 20 years ago my friends and I were all watching Salad Fingers, Sick Animation, Homestar Runner and other dumb flash cartoons on albinoblacksheep.com.
Okay but there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with Homestar Runner. Well... yes there is, but there's nothing wrong with the site aside from it being built in Flash.
I have to assume that us quoting Strongbad seemed as weird to our parents as this skibidi toilet or whatever is gem these days.
I recently heard about Skibidi Toilet being the latest sensation among teenagers and had a very old person "what is wrong with kids today" moment when I watched some, before remembering that 20 years ago my friends and I were all watching Salad Fingers, Sick Animation, Homestar Runner and other dumb flash cartoons on albinoblacksheep.com.
Okay but there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with Homestar Runner. Well... yes there is, but there's nothing wrong with the site aside from it being built in Flash.
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Jesus Christ, nothing makes me reminisce about college quite as much as homestar runner. That site was the beginning of my love affair with all things weird and esoteric on the internet. I got scroll buttons as the day is long.
what H*R quotes do you find yourself unconsciously quoting to this day? for me it's "dag, yo" and, whenever I see "Ontario": "On-tah-REE-oh, CAH-nah-da—ooh, a little south of the border flavor"
> While it looks and feels like a children’s show, Salad Fingers does not conform to the norms of children’s television. What part of Salad Fingers could the author possibly be referring to that "looks and feels like a children's show"? Every part of it - colors, character designs, animation, voices, music, story subject matter, everything - is designed to be extremely discomforting.
There were other shows that went for that vibe only to subvert it (happy tree friends or what it was called, I was not a fan of it at all), but Salad Fingers is not that.
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Jesus Christ, nothing makes me reminisce about college quite as much as homestar runner. That site was the beginning of my love affair with all things weird and esoteric on the internet. I got scroll buttons as the day is long.
what H*R quotes do you find yourself unconsciously quoting to this day? for me it's "dag, yo" and, whenever I see "Ontario": "On-tah-REE-oh, CAH-nah-da—ooh, a little south of the border flavor"
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Jesus Christ, nothing makes me reminisce about college quite as much as homestar runner. That site was the beginning of my love affair with all things weird and esoteric on the internet. I got scroll buttons as the day is long.
what H*R quotes do you find yourself unconsciously quoting to this day? for me it's "dag, yo" and, whenever I see "Ontario": "On-tah-REE-oh, CAH-nah-da—ooh, a little south of the border flavor"