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Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by afavour on Friday December 01, 2023 @03:19PM (#38491766)
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.
Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by pjot on Friday December 01, 2023 @03:33PM (#38491950)
Too Many Cooks, I think, originated on YouTube.
Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by quickthrowman on Friday December 01, 2023 @03:39PM (#38492030)
Too Many Cooks was produced by Williams Street and aired on Adult Swim.
Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by zikduruqe on Friday December 01, 2023 @04:26PM (#38492666)
> Charlie the Unicorn

Shun the non-believer....

Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by magicalhippo on Friday December 01, 2023 @05:30PM (#38493444)
Caaaaaarrrrl[1]...

Ending of that series caught me off guard a bit, got really down for a while first time.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJOwdrTA8Gw

Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by galangalalgol on Friday December 01, 2023 @06:23PM (#38493983)
We can stop linking YouTube now, wasm and rust and some awsome people brought back flash at newgrounds

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/280260

Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by _kb on Friday December 01, 2023 @06:18PM (#38493935)
Don’t forget strong bad / trogdor and end of the world. Classics of the era.
Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by blackshaw on Friday December 01, 2023 @09:50PM (#38495427)
So much nostalgia in this thread!
Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by quickthrowman on Friday December 01, 2023 @07:05PM (#38494332)
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’ by quacksilver on Friday December 01, 2023 @09:45PM (#38495389)
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.

Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by liamwire on Saturday December 02, 2023 @03:23AM (#38496980)
Magical Trevor never ceases to throw me straight back to memories of being 12.
Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by gvurrdon on Saturday December 02, 2023 @03:43AM (#38497097)
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).