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Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’

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I love Hank of the Hill. Green Wedding and some of the Toy Story ones still get me too. https://youtu.be/Rf7MCiei9uI

Love the KOTH YTPs, gotta throw one of my favorite one-offs out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7WtkdLQ6PM

This one is fantastic, it's a great example of a lot of the "tricks of the trade" that were standard in a lot of YTPs.

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Skibidi Toilet is 100% worth calling out - very in line with that DIY weird vibe of the Newgrounds/AlbinoBlackSheep era. Has to have been Garry's Mod or probably these days, Source Filmmaker (SFM). Makes me feel old, though - that's a meme from my kids generation, which I know about only because of them.

There's a YouTube channel called BuiltByGamers that does nothing but post absurd fake podcast clips where two guys pretend to argue about FNAF and Skibidi Toilet and get all the lore wrong. I think it's interesting because I've never thought of trolling elementary schoolers as a business idea. Watching them feels like getting a lobotomy though.

That reminds me, tangentially, of the videos with deepfaked voices of Obama, Trump, and Biden playing video games together. For me it gets stale fast, but I will admit there's something pretty hilarious about the whole setup.

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Aeon Flux is wonderful. About 20 years ago Peter Chung curated his favorite episodes for some animation festivals. Pity it never was released on Blu-Ray from what I can find via the Blu-Ray.com forums.

Guessing you mean you want a hard copy, but it's on Paramount+ at least if you want to watch it.

You can watch them for free on MTV's site @ https://www.mtv.com/episodes/scyb0g/aeon-flux-utopia-or-deut...

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

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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 -…

Check out Conner O'Malley's stuff on YouTube. He did some really great stuff around the 2020 election.

He just posted a new video. NSFW. Uses AI images and voices. https://youtu.be/pQs26c1klAU?feature=shared
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