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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.

pjot 3y ago
Too Many Cooks, I think, originated on YouTube.
- quickthrowman 3y ago
  Too Many Cooks was produced by Williams Street and aired on Adult Swim.
zikduruqe 3y ago
> Charlie the Unicorn Shun the non-believer....
- magicalhippo 3y ago
  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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJOwdrTA8Gw
  - galangalalgol 3y ago
    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 https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/280260
_kb 3y ago
Don’t forget strong bad / trogdor and end of the world. Classics of the era.
- blackshaw 3y ago
  So much nostalgia in this thread!
quickthrowman 3y ago
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_bjJs3lPoH9M5PCIG9rfWBH&si=8yHv1KGIRkirdCVO https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvETWzme3Z_bjJs3lPoH9M5PC...
quacksilver 3y ago
Salad fingers and weebl and bob were both on weebl's stuff AFAIK http://weebls-stuff.com/ 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.
- liamwire 3y ago
  Magical Trevor never ceases to throw me straight back to memories of being 12.
- gvurrdon 3y ago
  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).

pjot 3y ago

Too Many Cooks, I think, originated on YouTube.

quickthrowman 3y ago
Too Many Cooks was produced by Williams Street and aired on Adult Swim.

zikduruqe 3y ago

> Charlie the Unicorn Shun the non-believer....

magicalhippo 3y ago
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJOwdrTA8Gw
- galangalalgol 3y ago
  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 https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/280260

_kb 3y ago

Don’t forget strong bad / trogdor and end of the world. Classics of the era.

blackshaw 3y ago
So much nostalgia in this thread!

quickthrowman 3y ago

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_bjJs3lPoH9M5PCIG9rfWBH&si=8yHv1KGIRkirdCVO https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvETWzme3Z_bjJs3lPoH9M5PC...

quacksilver 3y ago

Salad fingers and weebl and bob were both on weebl's stuff AFAIK http://weebls-stuff.com/ 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.

liamwire 3y ago
Magical Trevor never ceases to throw me straight back to memories of being 12.
gvurrdon 3y ago
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).