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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.

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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.

Magical Trevor never ceases to throw me straight back to memories of being 12.

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).

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...

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

So much nostalgia in this thread!

> Charlie the Unicorn

Shun the non-believer....

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

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

Too Many Cooks, I think, originated on YouTube.

Too Many Cooks was produced by Williams Street and aired on Adult Swim.

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