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

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Post by javier2 »

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…

I think Salad Fingers is very good, but surrealism was not invented in 2003. Surely there must have been earlier animated films with surreal themes. It could have a place as early internet art, and I don't understand how novel it really is, but I am not a art historian either.

On the contrary, I think many of us miss a bit of the internet that was before 2015. Todays walled gardens of stalker ad agencies and mega corps feels very different to the internet I knew.

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

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Post by anigbrowl »

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.

Really? I think it's pretty smart and funny, despite being in my 50s. Y'all need more Ma-Ma-Max Headroom in your lives.

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

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Post by Solvency »

salad-tycoon wrote: post #87
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.

First video podcast I ever got on my iPod. Amazed I could watch movies. At least I think I got it from iTunes, might have been limewire. Who knows. Reading this thread is great. I’m sharing the classic viral videos with a younger person now. Going through the classics like: -double rainbow “look at that rainbow!”, -GI joe PSA “hey kids I’m a computer, stop all the downloading”, and, -End of the world “hoookay here’s…

Little compudah

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

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Post by quickthrowman »

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.

I have fond memories of watching .avi files of the Fensler Film GI Joe edits before YouTube was a thing.

Here’s a YouTube playlist with all of them!

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvETWzme3Z_bjJs3lPoH9M5PC...

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

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Post by earthscienceman »

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…

"Unaware of anything that originated on Youtube that fits into this category"...

What?! Currently the most watched animator on youtube falls squarely into this category. You don't know about it because you're old. TBF I only heard about it from an elementary school teacher. Here's a summary for the old folks, aka everyone here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K50D_P4kpZM

First video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzD9OxAHtzU

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

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

earthscienceman wrote: post #126
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…

"Unaware of anything that originated on Youtube that fits into this category"... What?! Currently the most watched animator on youtube falls squarely into this category. You don't know about it because you're old . TBF I only heard about it from an elementary school teacher. Here's a summary for the old folks, aka everyone here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K50D_P4kpZM First video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…

I have children and am unfortunately aware of Skibidi toilet

so while you are correct that I am old, I stand by my comment. This isn’t genre defining stuff

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

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Post by mid-kid »

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.

asdfmovie is from, like, 2010
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