I think Salad Fingers is very good, but surrealism was not invented in 2003. Surely there must have been earlier animated films with surreal themes. It could have a place as early internet art, and I don't understand how novel it really is, but I am not a art historian either.
On the contrary, I think many of us miss a bit of the internet that was before 2015. Todays walled gardens of stalker ad agencies and mega corps feels very different to the internet I knew.
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I think Salad Fingers is very good, but surrealism was not invented in 2003. Surely there must have been earlier animated films with surreal themes. It could have a place as early internet art, and I don't understand how novel it really is, but I am not a art historian either.
On the contrary, I think many of us miss a bit of the internet that was before 2015. Todays walled gardens of stalker ad agencies and mega corps feels very different to the internet I knew.
Tangentially related, but as someone who watched Salad Fingers when it came out (I was ~20) I have the feeling it didn't age well.
Somehow much of the stuff I found really funny in the 00s seems kinda pointless to me now. I rewatched Scary Movie and thought it was disgusting.
People say, yes that's because you're old now, but it's not true for everything, and especially not for stuff that came before the 2000s.