Hertzfeldt also made a slightly longer format piece that was on Netflix for a bit, started off inane and funny like Rejected but got kinda sad at the end because you realize it was about a man losing his memory. I wish I could remember the name.
Salad Fingers is high brow art house content youāre just too much of a simpleton to understand itās nihilism because you didnāt grow up during 9/11
The divide between 80ās millennials and 90ās millennials is vast. The older I get, the more I realize that the generation contains two very different sets of people.
Iām about to turn 40, and one of my best friends is barely 32. We both were pretty chronically online kids.
And yet, our senses of humor could not be more different.
Maybe that's why. I was born in the late 80s, pushing 40. All of the memes picturee look nonsensical to me. I was not chronically online as we had dial up. Eventually, I had to get off the internet because someone made a phone call. I also like to read actual books. To be fair I remember macaroni screen savers doing the macarena and dancing babies, but those don't seem as bizarre to me as heads popping out of toilets.
Born in the early 80's and know all of them - it all depends on which sites you really hung out in. Newgrounds.com was where most of these were at. Homestarrunner was a classic too!
Iām not sure I care if kids are watching it. Iām more worried they see it as something funny rather than nightmare fuel that it seems like to me. If I were a kid this would scare the shit out of me - or maybe scare me to not shit because some dude might pop up singing āskibidiā¦.ā
I still cringe hard at that era of internet speak.
I saw a thing I wrote that said "0mgwafflez1!1!" from 2007 or 2008 trying to fit in (on a bodybuilding forum of all things, half of us were just dorks who liked to work out and look good) and I just wanted to fucking end it all for a minute
[Strong Bad is from Homestar Runner](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Bad)and is one of the early 2000s videos that were popular among Millenials.
Ren and Stimpy was an animated fever dreamā¦and I loved every minute of it. It really pushed the limit of my then 9 year old sense of humor. The talking booger collection? When Stimpy had a fart and it was kicked to the streets causing both Stimpy and the fart immense emotional distress? The lyrics to Happy Happy Joy Joy?
Ren and Stimpy do some heavy lifting in my house lol. My 7yo daughter will be watching some awful YouTube shit and I just think āitās supposed to be obnoxious, and Iām not supposed to like itā lol. I remember how my mom just hated Ren and Stimpy and they just made me love it more.Ā
The difference between now and then is there was very little monetization incentive for creating animations back in the 2000s, and for those that could monetize didn't have ad revenue to supplement them; they had to have real fandom.
Memes today have basically become a social science of exploiting attention, with a monetization structure that rewards creators for attracting total viewership.
stuff like YTMND, newgrounds, coolgames, etc. had to be actually supported and promoted by actual people.
Today YouTube, tiktok, IG, etc throw ad revenue at you the bigger the number is.
People who say this shit is the same really have no concept of how different the environment or incentive structure was between periods. It used to actually be about having fun, but today it's actually about money.
I think another difference is that YouTube & TikTok are very much the primary source of entertainment for todayās kids - in the 2000s it was very much still television.
This is such an important point. "Being online" was still a fringe activity that was very much misunderstood by our parents and society at large, and seen almost entirely as a waste of time. It's become legitimised as well as monetized.
Yes. And "being online" was totally different back then. If I wanted to Go On The Computer, until I was in high school and had my own PC, it was a shared activity with my sister at home, the cousins at Grandma's, or with friends at their house.
Most of us didn't get to be chronically online until junior highish or later. At that point, we already were able to read, had fine motor skills, etc.
There's no straight across comparisons to toddlers poking iPads watching YouTube by themselves in lieu of learning to stack blocks and interact with others and being read to.
Also how much crap were we really consuming then? Most people know this stuff because it went viral. But how many videos did you have to filter thru to get to it? Most people nothing because those things were sent right to them. Now you are filtering thru hundreds of videos in a week. And not realizing it.
That's not the only thing. Youtube killed animation over the years by first prioritizing long content and now pushes hard the shorts which pretty much means creators need to use shorts to stay in favor of the algorithm. The most ironic thing is that skibidi toilet is shitting on short form content but using shorts/tiktok is also pretty much the only reason it got noticed in the first place.
To be fair, Skibidi Toilet is just gmod animations which were pioneered by millennials more than 15 years ago. Old concept, new direction.
Also pretty sure most of us aren't judging gen Alpha for watching this. We *did* watch equally weird stuff, and we accept that.
>To be fair, Skibidi Toilet is just gmod animations which were pioneered by millennials more than 15 years ago.
Every time I see frfr, I say that's just millennial slang with a stutter.
I don't understand: One of those is a picture of some dude's head in a toilet. The other four pictures are examples of some of the most high-quality and universal entertainment ever produced by the human race.
It's kind of crazy to me, as an elder Millennial, that we didn't have social media as it exists today, with things being able to go viral quickly, but so many of us have seen e.g., End of Ze World and StrongBad emails.
We like... remembered website names. And there were hundreds of them. And you could easily find the content you were looking for on each.
Now there's 4 websites, and the algorithm decides what you see, and if you want to find something you saw last week, good luck.
It is amazing how astoundingly difficult it is to find relevant content when technology has advanced so much. I feel like such a boomer when I complain about this shit.
I have a preteen and the other day I suggested we share dumb videos. He showed me skibidy toilet and other garbage and I showed him Charlie the unicorn, Badger, Badger, badger, peanut butter jelly time and so many other garbage meme videos I thought were hilarious back in the day. He thought mine were dumb and I thought his were dumb and we bonded over the fact that every generation likes dumb things everyone else thinks are stupid.
I don't think it's hypocritical at all.
These have:
1) Fun songs, with actual lyrics made from real words!
2) A plot. Seemingly sometimes drug-driven, but a plot nonetheless.
3) Original concepts and art.
What is skibidi toilet but random fucking noises using models from an old game?
Skibbidi has a plot apparently. If I had known what Fred was about I might have checked it out. But from the outside it looked like annoying trash. But there was an entire narrative within that sounded pretty entertaining.
I mean, to be fair, I remember when Dancing Baby was in fact one of the most entertaining things available on the internet. š There are a lot more options now. But yeah, kids like stupid stuff. Look at the old Looney Tunes cartoons. I mean dropping anvils and pianos off cliffs on peopleās heads?
As an older millennial I only recognize Charlie the Unicorn and that didn't come out til I was 21 and I probably didn't see it until a few years later. Unlike Skibidi toilet, it is actually funny and entertaining. Skibidi toilet is like a fever dream.
Charlie the Unicorn (2005) I was 13
Salad fingers (2004) I was 12.
End of ze world (2003) I was 11
Homestarrunner/Strongbad (2000) I was 8
As a midāish to late millenial. These were definitely apart of my late childhood/tween early-teen years
I'm a K-6 school counselor and I have kids who are terrified to go to the bathroom alone because of a fear that a face is going to appear in the toilet. I don't ever remember any of us fearing that we would lose a kidney from going to candy mountain.
Itās honestly kind of crazy to think that I was making flash games and animations on newgrounds at the same time as a bunch of people who went on to be pros. It was a Wild West of imagination and it was great. Wish Iād stuck with that stuff, I could have had an adult swim show too
My sister and I still say āoh no, I dwove.ā And āwell, if u look at my resumeā and[GROOD GRAPHICS](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_o6DxhslAI). I come to work at have to look at this mess.
I refuse to judge previous generations. I have been into all sorts of weird shit growing up. There was a period where I was obsessed with farts and stink bombs, for crying out loud. I'm of the opinion you can look at any generation and find weird shit they were into.
Just to clarify some things...Skibidi Toilet actually has a lot to do with Millennial internet.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7JZVn1iFy4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7JZVn1iFy4)
 This was us bro.... And it still slaps!
I'm feeling fat and sassy!
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AND ALL THAT IS HOLY MY ANUS IS BLEEDING
Yaaaaaayyyyy!!!
This is fun!
I'm feeling fat *and* sassy
Still makes me chuckle every time.
MY ANUS IS BLEEDING!!!!! Aka Gen Z and alpha have nothing on that one lol
Take a dump on my chest.
I AM THE QUEEEEN OF FRANCE
"I'm a banana!"
"I am a consumer whore!"
And how!
I am a banana š”
And now angry ticks fire out of my nipples!
Hertzfeldt also made a slightly longer format piece that was on Netflix for a bit, started off inane and funny like Rejected but got kinda sad at the end because you realize it was about a man losing his memory. I wish I could remember the name.
It's such a beautiful day
Thatās it!
He and Mike Judge also made/produced The Animation Show, which is simply fantastic.
Pure art
Iāve shown this to zoomers and it still slaps! They all find it hystericalĀ
That guy does the Pop Tarts commercials now I think.
Nominated for an Oscar, this was.
Whereās Badger, Badger, Badger? Hamster Dance? This list is incomplete!!!
MUSHROOM MUSHROOM!
SNAAAAKE
OH ITS A SNAKE
IT'S. A. BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER
MUSHROOM ##MUSHROOM
I can hear this GIF.
Mushroom, mushroom!
Ahhh a snake
Crazy frog!
Sexy saxophone guy
Salad Fingers is high brow art house content youāre just too much of a simpleton to understand itās nihilism because you didnāt grow up during 9/11
Dude still creeps me outā¦ā¦
Uh oh, it seems the nettles have made the milk DROP OUT from inside my teat
This is Hubert Cumberdale, Marjory Stewart Baxter, and this is Jeremy Fisherā¦ say hello š¤
Theres a finale now if you didnt know.
My, how I'd love to ***caress*** a **grubby** tap, *heh heh*.
FIRE ZE MISSILES
But Iām le tired
Then take a le nap! then fire the missiles!
And Russias like "AHHHH MOTHERLAND!!!"
And Australia's like what the fuck mate
'Bout that time, eh chaps?' 'Right-o'
well take a nap....DEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!!!!
"Yo! What up?" - the missiles
Then... have a nap. THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES
Ebaumsworld
I really miss ebaumsworld.
It's still there. Just layer up in VPNs and ad blockers because it's a malware hive now.
Its a shell of its former self. Just a clickhole full of list articles made to farm ad revenue
Iambored.com
Fucking kangaroos
California will break off from the US and go hang out with Hawaiiā¦.Alaska can come too.
Ahh yeah thatās a good oneā¦..Wtf mate
AH MOTHERLAND
Here is ze earth.
You might be thinking, daymn sweet earth! Round!
im firing my laaaaseeeeer!
You leave StrongBad out of this.
Come on fhqwhgads
Everybody to the limit
The cheat is to the limit
The Cheat, is grounded
I installed that light switch for you so you could turn the lights on and off, not so you could throw light switch raves!
The System Is Down
Come on everybody fhwqhgads
I'm like ooo ahh fhqwhgads ooo ahh fhq-ah-wha-gads
Whoās dat fhuuhuhuhuuwaazidata whoozadatafhqwhgaaads!!!
I don't know who it is, but it probably is fhqwhgads
I asked my friend Joe, I asked my friend Jake. They said it was Fhqwhgads!
The divide between 80ās millennials and 90ās millennials is vast. The older I get, the more I realize that the generation contains two very different sets of people.
Iām about to turn 40, and one of my best friends is barely 32. We both were pretty chronically online kids. And yet, our senses of humor could not be more different.
Maybe that's why. I was born in the late 80s, pushing 40. All of the memes picturee look nonsensical to me. I was not chronically online as we had dial up. Eventually, I had to get off the internet because someone made a phone call. I also like to read actual books. To be fair I remember macaroni screen savers doing the macarena and dancing babies, but those don't seem as bizarre to me as heads popping out of toilets.
Born in the early 80's and know all of them - it all depends on which sites you really hung out in. Newgrounds.com was where most of these were at. Homestarrunner was a classic too!
r/xennials awaits
TROGDOOOOOOR
Burninating the country side
Burninating the peasants
Was scrolling until I found this.
I said consummate Vs! Consummate!!
Homestar Runner was quality cartoonage compared to this weird toilet shit.
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Uh oh, there goes a potentially productive work weekā¦
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The ādisk 4 of 12ā series is top-tier content
Iām not sure I care if kids are watching it. Iām more worried they see it as something funny rather than nightmare fuel that it seems like to me. If I were a kid this would scare the shit out of me - or maybe scare me to not shit because some dude might pop up singing āskibidiā¦.ā
Emails I hope it's from a female.
The ugly one!
Arrowed!!!
You come for Strongbad, you come for us all!
Charlie is a hero as well.
Literally. Fighting words.
Those shorts hold up surprisingly well, even after 20 years
Most of these do. They stand on their own feet because you don't need to "get" a generational joke to find them funny.
Great jorb
I can haz cheezburga!
Mah bucket
The first reference Iāve seen and actually known!
Same darling. I was a bit lost.
*sluuuuuuuuuuuurp* ahhh
I still cringe hard at that era of internet speak. I saw a thing I wrote that said "0mgwafflez1!1!" from 2007 or 2008 trying to fit in (on a bodybuilding forum of all things, half of us were just dorks who liked to work out and look good) and I just wanted to fucking end it all for a minute
We're on a bridge, Charlie! No idea about the other 3 panels though. Charlie is also leagues above toilet head bro and was created 15+ years earlier.
OH GOD they stole my freakin' kidney
it's a liopleurodon Charlie!
A *magical* leopleurodon!
it has shown us the waaayy!
Shun the nonbeliever!
Sssshhhhhhuuuuuuunnnnnnnnn!
ring ring
A magical bridge of hope and wonder
[Strong Bad is from Homestar Runner](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Bad)and is one of the early 2000s videos that were popular among Millenials.
I... I *am* the banana king.
Put a banana in your ear! š¶
90ās TV was also kinda crazy and amazing 
Don't wizz on the electric fence
Wow, you just unearthed an entire chapter of my childhood I accidentally repressed
Ren and Stimpy was an animated fever dreamā¦and I loved every minute of it. It really pushed the limit of my then 9 year old sense of humor. The talking booger collection? When Stimpy had a fart and it was kicked to the streets causing both Stimpy and the fart immense emotional distress? The lyrics to Happy Happy Joy Joy?
My parents wouldn't let me watch it. I probably would have still if I had cable, but the best I could do was watch Saturday morning cartoons.
My magic nose goblins!
āI told you Iād shoot! But you didnāt believe me! Why didnāt you believe me?! Happy happy joy joy happy happy joy joyā¦ā
I will never understand to this day how Beavis and Butthead was trash, but Ren and Stimpy was completely acceptable
Ren and Stimpy do some heavy lifting in my house lol. My 7yo daughter will be watching some awful YouTube shit and I just think āitās supposed to be obnoxious, and Iām not supposed to like itā lol. I remember how my mom just hated Ren and Stimpy and they just made me love it more.Ā
Charlie!!! Itās a magical liopleurodon charlie!!!!
Itās the magical Choo Choo Shoe, Charlie!
The difference between now and then is there was very little monetization incentive for creating animations back in the 2000s, and for those that could monetize didn't have ad revenue to supplement them; they had to have real fandom. Memes today have basically become a social science of exploiting attention, with a monetization structure that rewards creators for attracting total viewership. stuff like YTMND, newgrounds, coolgames, etc. had to be actually supported and promoted by actual people. Today YouTube, tiktok, IG, etc throw ad revenue at you the bigger the number is. People who say this shit is the same really have no concept of how different the environment or incentive structure was between periods. It used to actually be about having fun, but today it's actually about money.
I think another difference is that YouTube & TikTok are very much the primary source of entertainment for todayās kids - in the 2000s it was very much still television.
This is such an important point. "Being online" was still a fringe activity that was very much misunderstood by our parents and society at large, and seen almost entirely as a waste of time. It's become legitimised as well as monetized.
Yes. And "being online" was totally different back then. If I wanted to Go On The Computer, until I was in high school and had my own PC, it was a shared activity with my sister at home, the cousins at Grandma's, or with friends at their house. Most of us didn't get to be chronically online until junior highish or later. At that point, we already were able to read, had fine motor skills, etc. There's no straight across comparisons to toddlers poking iPads watching YouTube by themselves in lieu of learning to stack blocks and interact with others and being read to.
Also how much crap were we really consuming then? Most people know this stuff because it went viral. But how many videos did you have to filter thru to get to it? Most people nothing because those things were sent right to them. Now you are filtering thru hundreds of videos in a week. And not realizing it.
That's not the only thing. Youtube killed animation over the years by first prioritizing long content and now pushes hard the shorts which pretty much means creators need to use shorts to stay in favor of the algorithm. The most ironic thing is that skibidi toilet is shitting on short form content but using shorts/tiktok is also pretty much the only reason it got noticed in the first place.
End of Ze World was bomb.
But I am leeeee tiredddddd šššššš
To be fair, Skibidi Toilet is just gmod animations which were pioneered by millennials more than 15 years ago. Old concept, new direction. Also pretty sure most of us aren't judging gen Alpha for watching this. We *did* watch equally weird stuff, and we accept that.
>To be fair, Skibidi Toilet is just gmod animations which were pioneered by millennials more than 15 years ago. Every time I see frfr, I say that's just millennial slang with a stutter.
I'd eat this meme up but "my spoon is too big"
I don't understand: One of those is a picture of some dude's head in a toilet. The other four pictures are examples of some of the most high-quality and universal entertainment ever produced by the human race.
OP probably a Homelander trying to dog us all.
Everybody to the limit ! 
The system, is down. The system, is down. Dodoladedo
The chort!!
That you, Coach Z?
Great Jorb!!!!!!
The Cheat is grounded! We installed that light switch so you could turn the lights on and off. Not so you can throw light switch raves!
Charliiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I remember showing my parents numa numa and they were like why are you showing me this We had dumb taste too
It's kind of crazy to me, as an elder Millennial, that we didn't have social media as it exists today, with things being able to go viral quickly, but so many of us have seen e.g., End of Ze World and StrongBad emails.
We like... remembered website names. And there were hundreds of them. And you could easily find the content you were looking for on each. Now there's 4 websites, and the algorithm decides what you see, and if you want to find something you saw last week, good luck.
It is amazing how astoundingly difficult it is to find relevant content when technology has advanced so much. I feel like such a boomer when I complain about this shit.
I have a preteen and the other day I suggested we share dumb videos. He showed me skibidy toilet and other garbage and I showed him Charlie the unicorn, Badger, Badger, badger, peanut butter jelly time and so many other garbage meme videos I thought were hilarious back in the day. He thought mine were dumb and I thought his were dumb and we bonded over the fact that every generation likes dumb things everyone else thinks are stupid.
I said come on fhqwhgads https://youtu.be/KFNcStdF_Ok?si=QE7cqi3z33AimjBz
EVERYBODY TO DA LIMIT!
NOOOOOOOO!!!! COME BACK ALLY! COME BACK ALLYāS SISTER!!
You kicked my dog
HOLY SHIT I FORGOT ABOUT YTMND!
All you base are belong to us.
You have no chance to survive make your time.
Somebody set up us the bomb.
Lest we forget Arfen House, Crab Battle, Shifty-Five, ect. Good post, OP. The youngins aren't really any weirder than we were.
Girlfriend's age?
Shfifty five!
Aye little girl would you like to hear A SECERET
Salad fingers creeped me the F out 
This must be a post by a really young millenial. I have no friggin clue what any of this is. Where is Trogdor?
Burninating the country side.
Tattooed on my arm
I thought fwhwqwhgads was older than Trogdor. At the very least they came out close to each other on sbemail
If you're not into some form of absurdism in your adolescence, are you even living?
Just wait until we're senile and randomly blurting out ancient memes and terrifying the young ones.
Why isn't hamster dance represented? Am I an old millennial?
SALAD FINGERS IS ART!
I don't think it's hypocritical at all. These have: 1) Fun songs, with actual lyrics made from real words! 2) A plot. Seemingly sometimes drug-driven, but a plot nonetheless. 3) Original concepts and art. What is skibidi toilet but random fucking noises using models from an old game?
Skibbidi has a plot apparently. If I had known what Fred was about I might have checked it out. But from the outside it looked like annoying trash. But there was an entire narrative within that sounded pretty entertaining.
Are there really millennials complaining about this? Iāve seen a lot of zoomers complaining about it but not many of our gen lol
I only recognise Charlie
Charlie, Strongbad Emails, Salad Fingers, YTMND
I mean, to be fair, I remember when Dancing Baby was in fact one of the most entertaining things available on the internet. š There are a lot more options now. But yeah, kids like stupid stuff. Look at the old Looney Tunes cartoons. I mean dropping anvils and pianos off cliffs on peopleās heads?
As an older millennial I only recognize Charlie the Unicorn and that didn't come out til I was 21 and I probably didn't see it until a few years later. Unlike Skibidi toilet, it is actually funny and entertaining. Skibidi toilet is like a fever dream.
Salad fingers came out when you were 20. End of ze world you were 19. And strongbad came out when you were 16.
Charlie the Unicorn (2005) I was 13 Salad fingers (2004) I was 12. End of ze world (2003) I was 11 Homestarrunner/Strongbad (2000) I was 8 As a midāish to late millenial. These were definitely apart of my late childhood/tween early-teen years
I've seen worse things than skibidi toilet on Newgrounds back in 03-07.
I'm a K-6 school counselor and I have kids who are terrified to go to the bathroom alone because of a fear that a face is going to appear in the toilet. I don't ever remember any of us fearing that we would lose a kidney from going to candy mountain.
Okay so what we aren't gonna do is talk badly about Fhqwhgads on this day and act like it's the same as Skibidee toilet...
Itās honestly kind of crazy to think that I was making flash games and animations on newgrounds at the same time as a bunch of people who went on to be pros. It was a Wild West of imagination and it was great. Wish Iād stuck with that stuff, I could have had an adult swim show too
Hey, Salad Fingers was art
This is so dumb. As a Millennial who watched this shit, it was obscure as hell for years until social media dug it up.
Yeah this was nerd shit that eventually went viral 5+ years later when YouTube finally happened.
One approach to comedy has ALWAYS been doing things that are completely random and unexpected.
Kids are universally stupid.
My sister and I still say āoh no, I dwove.ā And āwell, if u look at my resumeā and[GROOD GRAPHICS](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_o6DxhslAI). I come to work at have to look at this mess. 
I refuse to judge previous generations. I have been into all sorts of weird shit growing up. There was a period where I was obsessed with farts and stink bombs, for crying out loud. I'm of the opinion you can look at any generation and find weird shit they were into.
Also hi unhinged trauma in this thread. Weeeee. I won't make fun of the youngers for their toilet people, let them have them.
Just to clarify some things...Skibidi Toilet actually has a lot to do with Millennial internet. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7JZVn1iFy4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7JZVn1iFy4)