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

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Post by FranzFerdiNaN »

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…

2000s internet was so much better than the current, social media dominated, shit where every page looks the same.

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

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Post by ciroduran »

wslh wrote: post #133

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=...

That's awesome!, I loved Locomotion at its time. Only place in TV that was showing Neon Genesis Evangelion :)

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

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Post by gvurrdon »

quacksilver wrote: post #149
afavour wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Salad fingers and weebl and bob were both on weebl's stuff AFAIK http://weebls-stuff.com/ back in the day but got put on to youtube so that he could reach a wider audience. (and with the downfall of flash player). Edit: Reading up about it, salad fingers had a different author 'Badger! Badger! Badger!', scampi, magical trevor etc. were also from there. It was a favourite site of my friend group when we wer 12 and spe…

Those were excellent. Such was their popularity that their (badgers, Weebl) creator was invited for a presentation at the Holywell Music Rooms in Oxford; I can't remember exactly when but it must have been 20 years ago. This was fairly well attended (including the entire bioinformatics group from my institute).

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

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Post by birracerveza »

sidlls wrote: post #56
macNchz wrote: post #17

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.

I think there's definitely a qualitative difference, though. Salad fingers, at least, had better quality "stories", and the weirdness was less "basic." Skibidi Toilet is an excellent representation of the hyper-ADHD-ification of kids due to rapid-fire content consumption brought on by newer social media platforms.

Meanwhile, 11 years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzMq5_thk4o

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

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Post by [deleted] »

sidlls wrote: post #74
wayfinder wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tbh this kind of sounds like that old man saying music in the 80s was the best and it’s never been good since.

And this sounds like a convenient way to dismiss criticism/comparisons of new vs old. Not every such thing is an old man raging at change he doesn't understand. Sometimes there actually is some merit to the criticism.

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