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Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by vinberdon on Friday December 01, 2023 @03:21PM (#38491787)
Okay but there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with Homestar Runner. Well... yes there is, but there's nothing wrong with the site aside from it being built in Flash.
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Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by I_Am_Nous on Friday December 01, 2023 @03:42PM (#38492062)
I remember them making a metajoke[1] about Flash being dead and Strongbad was trying to rapidly learn HTML5 as a result lol

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0nuQ5o2DYU

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Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by bombcar on Friday December 01, 2023 @03:41PM (#38492048)
There is a Poopsmith.

I have to assume that us quoting Strongbad seemed as weird to our parents as this skibidi toilet or whatever is gem these days.

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Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by smcl on Friday December 01, 2023 @04:52PM (#38492987)
Honestly I would have struggled to describe to my parents why on earth I was howling with laughter when "homsar" became a thing on Homestar Runner. I'm quite happy that Gen Z have their own weird humour like skibidi toilet that is impenetrable for older people like me.

There's even a level that I can genuinely enjoy this little universe too - I have no idea if these tweets and replies are made by someone invested in the whole toilet thing or poking fun at it (likely the latter) but I loved them: https://twitter.com/nleglopnar/status/1679676790401380357

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