Are kids making cartoons on the internet anymore?

Animutations were the best
youtube.com/watch?v=hcw0M8kEgaw

>Ben Franklin's head on Chris Farley's body

People are still making animations but whether they're still making them as much as before is another question. I think the culture of making memey internet animations for fun has survived better in Japan.

>Neil Cicierega

God among men.

Like this
youtube.com/watch?v=EdFiI_Jcl58

youtu.be/MB8v5HWCXjg?t=135

Apparently country balls have become the new Hetalia for teenage girls. It makes me nostalgic for the deviantart days.

I miss when the internet was like the Wild West

It all went downhill after Facebook became popular

Countryballs is one thing, they managed to turn them into something infinitely weirder - countryhumans. It's countryballs but with human bodies. And for some reason they're crazy appealing to teenage girls, like furries or something.

I don't really know why? Easy to draw? Simple template?

I love it. I don't know whether to laugh or be frightened. Yet again, kids manage to romanticize and fetishize goofy anthropomorphisms of world history, genocide, and war. Wasn't there also that Humon comic too, about the Scandinavian countries? Something about anthro countries just gets girls going I guess.

It's seriously weird, polandball is a meme from fucking krautchan and now it's tangled up in shipping and filling the same niche as furries among teen girls.

I'm definitely going to dive down this rabbit hole now.

Report back when you find something or formulate a theory or something.

I cant believe Internet Golden age actually ranged from 1999-2008.And even then that was subpar content

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I don't know but speaking of cartoons made by kids I alwasy liked this one:

newgrounds.com/portal/view/318918

I mean, literally a child made this all by himself. It's legit as fuck it's actually pretty impressive.

I miss old newgrounds when people were actaully puttin effort into submissions.

Back in the day, SWF was super bandwidth friendly and animations were one of the few ways, if not the only way, to deliver video to people. Flash was used for everything.

But now, internet speeds are fast enough to stream 60 FPS video at 1080p, and there's basically only one video hosting site in town.

For the first point, that means more competition. Live action has always been cheaper than animation when it comes to concepts like sitcoms or whatever, so the rule is that you use animation to do fantastical things that live people can't do. So far so good, except...

Youtube is the only video hosting game in town, and Youtube wants to maximize ads. So they just don't promote animators because they take longer than the creepy pedophiles lurking on Youtube Kids to make more videos. The more volume the site has, the more as farming they can do.

So there's no incentive to do animations at all. Video viewership in general is more saturated, and you'll never get seen for putting all that work in. This is also why we don't see content like Rocket Jump or anything else cool anymore. Anything that takes time and expertise to make is a waste of time on Youtube and nobody bothers with it anymore, because it's not fun for you if every video you post gets less than a hundred viewers and meanwhile you see some autistic Swede getting millions of hits for his latest "meme review".

No they make tik toks and tweets

Those... Are not memes.

>before Youtube started paying people
>tfw some kids made some shitty ms paint videos over a decade ago and it has millions of views now
Early Youtube content was basically a fucking investment

>Early Youtube content was basically a fucking investment
Does that video have ads? I didn't get one. I'm not sure it's even monetizable.

Meme means "jokes" to the newfags now

I feel like this kid used to watch Bonus Stage.

Either way, that's pretty damn good for a kid in 2006.
It's more than what I can do now.

Here, watch this: youtube.com/watch?v=1ARU3cXVjWc&t=1s

In the early days of Youtube the punishments were even more random, if you can believe it. I think there was some animation about potted plants competing in a reality TV show that got millions of views, but the whole channel was banned from running ads because they used a Kevin McLeod song and some random-ass third party laid an automated copyright claim on them.

Years later and the ban was never repealed. So, I mean, it was always kind of a shitty website and you relied a lot on luck not to be taken down by their bots. It's just now you also only get promoted by bots, so nothing good ever gets done.

Being passionate about stuff is cringe. Just watch your favorite streamers watch various things instead.

We need a revolution in video compression and/or storage so viable free competitors to YouTube can exist. Something like DTube is a really cool idea, but videos only lasting months makes it worthless for anyone to use.

>not watching reaction reaction reaction videos
If you can still make out the original content, you aren't going far enough.

I make some animations, but the most recent one I'm working on flash crashed the file REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I've seen some animations from kids on youtube, mostly animation 'memes' or short skits featuring their favorite characters animated in flipaclip.

Here's a random one I just found from some 13 year old: youtube.com/watch?v=TxnU-hVCzy4

Kids still like to do these things, it's just in different formats you don't notice because you're not a kid anymore.

If a "reaction" is good enough to be worth watching, surely watching someone react to the reaction without the original content is approximately just as much fun.

Surely reaction channels aren't just thinly veiled piracy that Youtube openly endorses.

Reactions must be on the downswing, though. I don't know if there's enough original content left on the internet to do them anymore. I think now they do Reddit drama, or "hot take" bullshit on whatever personal implosion other Youtubers are having.

Even if I subscribed to this, I'd never get a notification about any of this kid's videos.

It's not about age. This shit is systemic.

>I think now they do Reddit drama
There's a huge amount of channels that just post reddit threads as videos. It's disgusting, but inherently monetizable.

Well the key on that site is to just keep posting barely watchable content all the time. One person cannot come up with enough real ideas, so first people posted video games. Then they tried stealing content to "react" to it. Now they post Reddit threads that other people made.

What kills me is that Youtube recently released a statement clarifying their whole subscriber situation. They only send out subscription notifications for content that they think is valuable to the website because when they started pushing everyone to spam the site, it turned out users don't like spam. Users got annoyed and turned off notifications completely.

Instead of realizing that spam sucks, they kept encouraging it, but broke subscriptions so now it's just another aspect of the site they control and that users can't control. That way you don't get notified if your favorite channel uploads a new video, but you also don't get annoyed by being pinged thirty times a week for every dumb video.

And actual content gets fucked with hard without subscriptions being a mess. Apparently you can't say "Stalin" over a certain number of times in a historical video, and bleeping it out makes it okay.

people have already said well enough in this thread already but there are still some talented kids out there I'm sure

I know Battle For Dream Island is still a thing although I don't know if I'd count that since that started back in 2010 and they sure as hell aren't kids now

other than student projects I can rarely find decent animation.

Reaction vids make me feel so old. I clicked on out of morbid curiosity, expecting the comments to be nothing but abuse and instead i see people excited and giving them recs for stuff to "react" to. I don't get why these people aren't getting the same treatment reply girls did? They make me long for the days of reply girls. At least they had cleavage.

I think it's a kind of groupthink. These kids don't see a scummy pirate ripping off Cyanide and Happiness. They see a celebrity getting millions of views and ultimately millions of dollars for just watching content someone else made. Like Ryan's Toy Reviews or Pewdiepie, the massive view counts give those people an aura of authenticity that in all truth they haven't ever earned.

Apparently, these days the number one things small kids say they want to be these days is professional Youtuber. They see someone making money and being watched by thousands of viewers, and the kids don't see the robots behind the scenes. They don't understand that 60% of the viewership may not even be real. They don't understand the whole thing is just a front to prop up an ad farm. They see success and fame, and they want to be successful and famous, so they encourage it because if King Chucklefuck can do it, so could they.

Don't you know? All the kids are into water these days.

>Apparently, these days the number one things small kids say they want to be these days is professional Youtuber.
I really hope this isn't true. What happened to a child's naive, unrealistic career ambition being something like astronaut or even artist? [/spoiler]Yes i know i sound like a whiny boomer faggot

>Fucked the spoiler
I'm out

Here's how to do a reaction properly.

youtube.com/watch?v=BJgLa3eKMYs

Kids just want to be successful things, and on Youtube you can be successful doing things kids already know how to do, like opening boxes, playing with toys, or playing video games. Youtube is an ambition that suits the inborn skills of a five year old.

Meme review is just the new =3 and Pewds only started doing edgy shit because his kids viewerbase became a teen viewerbase, btw

He started doing edgy shit because Youtube decided he shouldn't be their flagship anymore and they stopped auto-subbing new accounts to his channel.

The edgy shit is so he gets talked about and doesn't fade away. Because the man has no talent, he can do literally nothing else to stay relevant. It's the same for almost all the "top" Youtubers. They have no ability, so have to resort to stirring the shit when the bots move on.

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>Are kids making cartoons on the internet anymore?
Yes, well atleast in the stickfigure community they are.

Newgrounds is still alive, somehow.

It's like searching for a diamond in the rough, but totally worth it if you have the time.

Which nobody has anymore.

>It's like searching for a diamond in the rough
>p-bots daily pick
>the portal
>front page
>fucking Tom's best of X month posts

nibba finding new and good stuff on NG is easy its not like it gets thousands of flashes'n'shit uploaded daily

Is Neil the secret benevolent god of the early internet?

you make tiktok videos.

Those are not jokes, either. They are short music videos.