Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’

Post by Kiro » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 9:17 PM UTC

epiccoleman wrote: post #18

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #14

Important to note that the paper the article is referencing [1] is titled: "Salad Fingers: Pre-YouTube digital uncanny and the ‘weird’ future of animation" So, the actual data is about PRE-Youtube weird internet. Baffling why they chose to focus on YouTube instead of Newgrounds like the original paper does I think I'm reacting like this because I'm actually unaware of anything that originated on Youtube that fits int…

Maybe MeatCanyon[1], or Joe Cappa's stuff[2], could fall into the modern "YouTube weird" - but I think a lot of the particular "weird" vibe of the early days of the modern web is pretty much dead - or at least not mainstream enough for me to know about it. There was a much more amateur bent to a lot of the old viral flash stuff, which I think just wouldn't stand out today. These two are a sort of new kind of weird -…

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Post by dekken_ » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 9:25 PM UTC

adamrezich wrote: post #34

Loughla wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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"

Post by zikduruqe » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 9:26 PM UTC

afavour wrote: post #21

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #14

Important to note that the paper the article is referencing [1] is titled: "Salad Fingers: Pre-YouTube digital uncanny and the ‘weird’ future of animation" So, the actual data is about PRE-Youtube weird internet. Baffling why they chose to focus on YouTube instead of Newgrounds like the original paper does I think I'm reacting like this because I'm actually unaware of anything that originated on Youtube that fits int…

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.

Post by andygcook » Fri, Dec 01, 2023, 9:29 PM UTC

adamrezich wrote: post #34

Loughla wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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"