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“Weird YouTube” owes a lot to Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation. It spawned shows like MTV’s Liquid Television.
Still remember seeing the first episode of Æon Flux on late night MTV when I was 13. Good stuff
“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.
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 :)
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI
This is the era terms like "lolrandom" were invented for.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/im-so-random-lol-so-random-so...
See also: ROFLcopter, AEIOUAEIOUAEIOUAEIOUAEIOU, making funny noises with text to speech.
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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 -…
It may not be as aberrant as MeatCanyon, but I would say that Felix Colgrave is defining his own genre enough to be considered weird. https://www.youtube.com/@FelixColgrave
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Green is not a creative color? https://youtu.be/9C_HReR_McQ?si=hPwd3zmnOx21ww1L
I'm fairly certain that played on British TV and was subsequently uploaded to YouTube (though the sequels did originate there).
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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.