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Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’

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Re: Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’

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Post by pram »

RankingMember wrote: post #46
saurik wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was at UCSB when Don did Rejected and the idea of it having much of anything to do with the Internet is mind-contorting... he didn't use any computers to film it and I see it premiered in person at ComicCon. But like, AFAIK, we had all gotten to see it in the theatre, as part of some campus-level film showing; though I think he later got to be on our Arts and Lectures circuit, and I feel like it was shown at the ca…

It was super popular on web forums like SomethingAwful's and was shared as big ol' hosted video files, probably in xvid format and usually direct-linked off someone's web provider's meager hosting space.

Yep I got it from somewhere on SA in like 2002. Wasn’t that obscure, a ton of it was quoted all the time.

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Re: Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’

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Post by wslh »

Not comercially successful but I produced a Flash animation between 2000s and 2001 [1].

It ended up in a very successful and original Latam TV channel called Locomotion [2].

[1] http://swain.webframe.org/zeek.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotion_(TV_channel)?wprov=...

Re: Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’

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Post by meanginlessT »

“Weird YouTube” “Science Twitter” “Gay Instagram”

I wish we would stop pretending topics inside generic social media constitutes some unique community. It’s the same site, used by the same people; there is nothing unique or special about it.

But everyone has to pretend “their thing” is special.

Re: Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’

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Post by thequadehunter »

I don't know if I buy the Skibidi Toilet thing. It reminds me more of Badgers than Salad Fingers. I remember it used to be really commonplace for spam groups to make loops over songs in single flashes or collabs as well. Back in the glory days where we all hated Wade for trying to do his job...

Re: Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’

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Post by canjobear »

CivBase wrote: post #24

> 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.

Bear in mind that "children's" shows like Ren & Stimpy were still fresh in people's minds when Salad Fingers appeared.

Re: Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’

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Post by serf »

epiccoleman wrote: post #60
j33zusjuice wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dude, that is the best shit on YT right now. I think it’s more “absurd,” than “weird,” though. It’s more in the spirit of Tim & Eric than Salad Fingers. I haven’t checked MeatCanyon, but I will be soon.

Maybe so, and I even agree - but if being in the spirit of Tim and Eric doesn't qualify as weird, idk what does.

my personal rule of thumb : if they're going for the eccentricity, it's absurd -- but if they just act that way and they lean-in they're weird.

Tim & Eric and similar acts are absurd -- the people themselves are somewhat normal and put on a show when the gong sounds; this is obvious in their 'normal' productions.

Bjork, Steven Wright, Emo Phillips, Andy Kaufman, Tom Waits -- they roll out of bed 'acting that way'.

Re: Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’

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Post by thequadehunter »

sublinear wrote: post #110

Is this a paid post or something? Weird and avant-garde compared to what? The reason most of this crap never got archived is because it was the purest of crap, not the death of flash or other silly excuses. Similarly nobody cares about the vast majority of YTMND or Vine. There absolutely was a certain type of "nerd" into the junk on Newgrounds and they were probably the same loud minority who flocked to Facebook unti…

"Nobody plays those terrible NES games anymore, so who cares?"

Re: Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’

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Post by doublerabbit »

themagician wrote: post #94

Pre-YouTube internet largely didn't exist anymore. Flash is gone and one-by-one the old sites fall with no usable archive. A lot of the old culture is just GONE. It is now myth or legend. The stories only exist verbally. Stile, Encyclopedia Dramatica, LiveJournal, Geocities. Much of the culture content from the early internet is just gone.

YTMND is still around-ish.
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