Youtube's cartoons Era.

[dr grim]

hi !

just had this little nostalgia about an old era of youtube, where you could literraly consider it like a tv channel, it was under brands machimina or mondo media and was offering a lot of really cool animated content to watch.

it was really a pleasure for the viewers, as i heard sadly the content creators weren't so lucky.

However, i remember fondly some great series like those :

Dick figures

Sonic For Hire

or others like Deep Space 69..

did you remeber this era ? do you still watch some of it ?

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Do they still make these? I remember most being really well done and others just slightly erotic. At least it brings in the views.
For me it was Battlefield Friends

 

[dr grim]

Do they still make these? I remember most being really well done and others just slightly erotic. At least it brings in the views.
For me it was Battlefield Friends

I know sonic for hire have made two seasons after ending with machimina with other platforms but it wasn't as successful

 

[MonkeyMondays]

It hasn’t really died down, it’s just been drowned in an endless sea of bad content making it harder to find anything good. It's also so much easier now to crank out low quality content.

Some of the more recent good animations I’ve seen are The Amazing Digital Circus, Gaslight District, and Murder Drones. There are others too, though I’m not sure if these are indie projects or studio productions.

When it comes to older stuff, I remember the old YTP sometimes you find gold like The King’s Epic Adventure. I think it had four episodes, though I’m not sure if the humor still holds up today. YTP still exists today but again anything good is just buried.

One indie show I really liked back then was Battle for Dream Island. I really liked Season 1, but I couldn’t get into the later seasons.

 

[bjork]

I remember YT when it was new, but I never really watched cartoons on it. I think it was the beginning of the time for me where I'd hear, "this person made $5 million/yr on YT" and I had no idea who it was. Like Fred. What the fuck is Fred?

 

[Morgana Veil]

I still watch Sonic for Hire as they still make new episodes, albeit slowly. Lately, they are slipping in a lot more ads in their animations. I understand they need to eat, but that’s why I ramped up my ad blocker.
I also watched a lot of the Newgrounds animators when they migrated to YouTube, back when YouTube was cool with anything. Like @bjork, I remember when YouTube was a new platform.

I also still watch Foamy the Squirrel on YouTube, but not as much as I used to.
I used to be a hardcore Foamy fan, but over the years the message hasn't changed, and I have grown bored of it. In hindsight, his message hasn't changed probably in part because humans haven't changed either.

 

[Samatonic Samatonic]

Kid Look Away.

 

[Morgana Veil]

Kid Look Away.

Holy! I forgot about HTF. Some years ago, I figured out how to yank videos off YouTube (since been patched out) and grabbed the whole series at that time anyway.
I used to love the violent little cartoon when I was a teen

 

[Cris_Agev]

There is only two I remember watching at that time.

Cyanide & happiness

and NEGAS(it's a mexican cartoon, so it is in spanish)

 

[trickybus]

What the fuck is Fred?

Ass cancer.

I do remember this era of YouTube and I miss it dearly. This was also before Google's rampant censorship, so animators were allowed to be risky with their content. I know a few creators whose channels were completely gutted by demonitization practices.

 

[ispizzatime]

This channel right here, all of his videos feels almost like a fever dream