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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’
#142I recently enjoyed the Netflix show I Think You Should Leave, it has some of the absurdist style like weird YouTube but with more budget and mainstream appeal. Recommended.
Re: Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’
#143The Ronald McDonald insanity videos get exponentially more insane each year. The most recent will be the most demented video on all of YouTube.
Re: Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’
#144Way before YouTube and also before Flash, in the late 90s and early 2000s, is when weird and silly animation and video began to pop. Hamsterdance.com, dancing baby, Kompressor[1], and so many others (abevigoda.com) predate the 'weird YouTube' phenomenon with nothing more than basic HTML and a few JPEGs. And because of that simplicity, you can still enjoy them as they were thanks to archive.org.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20020407141113/http://www.kompre...
Re: Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’
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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.
I was there for Max Headroom. Wasn’t impressed by it.
Re: Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’
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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. I am a consumer whore! And how!
Rejected is definitely the OG "weird" internet video for me. I must have seen it a thousand times. There are a few phrases from it that have a permanent place in my vocabulary.
My spoon is too big.
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> 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. The biggest thing right now is DaFuq!?Boom! and the Skibidi Toilet series, which looks like it was made in Garry's Mod or something.
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.
I think it is source filmmaker.
My nephew and everyone in his generation seem to be really into it, even to the extent that I heard kids singing 'tears for fears' songs (from the 80s) used in it in the street the other day.
I tried to show him source filmmaker in an attempt to get him to be interested in messing around / producing stuff rather than consuming it on an iPad, but sadly he wasn't interested.
Re: Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’
#148This comment feed is a lot of people saying "I [dont] like" using fancier words.
Re: Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’
#149Important 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.
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 spent lunchtime in the computer lab at school.
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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.
Don’t forget strong bad / trogdor and end of the world. Classics of the era.
So much nostalgia in this thread!