Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’

Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by epiccoleman on Friday December 01, 2023 @04:23PM (#38492623)

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.

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Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by quacksilver on Friday December 01, 2023 @09:42PM (#38495375)

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.

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Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by astrange on Saturday December 02, 2023 @01:46AM (#38496505)

There's a YouTube channel called BuiltByGamers that does nothing but post absurd fake podcast clips where two guys pretend to argue about FNAF and Skibidi Toilet and get all the lore wrong. I think it's interesting because I've never thought of trolling elementary schoolers as a business idea. Watching them feels like getting a lobotomy though.

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Re:Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’ by epiccoleman on Monday December 04, 2023 @09:43AM (#38517866)

That reminds me, tangentially, of the videos with deepfaked voices of Obama, Trump, and Biden playing video games together. For me it gets stale fast, but I will admit there's something pretty hilarious about the whole setup.

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