"Stickflip" from Flipnote Hatena user Stickguy1994
Jun 7, 2018 1:51:15 GMT
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Post by troutos on Jun 7, 2018 1:51:15 GMT
Sometime around the early 2010s, a wonderful community emerged, called "Flipnote Hatena". A social media pairing of the free Nintendo DSi application "Flipnote Studio", Flipnote Hatena ("FH") was a service that allowed you to post your creations online to hundreds of other users. It was very popular with kids (specifically, the "deviantart" kids); me included. It closed its doors in 2013.
One of the relatively popular users of FH was "Stickguy1994". He'd done some other stuff on the site I unfortunately don't remember, but one I do remember quite well is his "Stickflip" series. It consisted of three main characters: "Blackhair", "Redhead", and "Pinkette", all crudely drawn stick figures, going through the motions as teens, doing typical melodramatic, random, deviantart-esque things you'd expect from late 2000s-early 2010s culture. There was an episode focused on ice skating, another on the romantic relationship between "Redhead" and "Pinkette", another on the inventions "Redhead" (or "Blackhair", I forget) made, one with something related to biker gangs, one on one of the main cast getting drunk, and other scenarios.
The format of each episode consisted of a comic-like format; a bunch of single frame pictures would flash across the screen, and you would have to pause the "flipnote", and go though each one frame-by-frame to read them all. Using this format, the series consisted of around 20-30 "episodes". The ending, as I speak from recollection, was of either "Pinkette" or "Redhead" moving away, causing them to decide to wait for each other to grow older, and meet once more. Flash forward to the future, and they randomly see each other again at a baseball game, and live happily every after.
Now, I know you all might wonder why I would care about something so obscure, and quite obviously made by a kid in his free time? Simple nostalgia. I happened to remember this series a month ago, and tried to search it up, only to come up short. I found a similar series made by the same guy, "Stick Persons", that can be found in its entirety on YouTube (https://youtu.be/Yvs7Anm0Q1U).
His entire internet history is scrubbed. His YouTube channel is deleted, but by utilizing the wayback machine, I can see he posted a new episode of said series; this implying that is lost as well. Everything apart from his Hatena account has been wiped (funnily enough, his hatena accounts description just links his deleted accounts). his hatena links to an episode of "Stickflip", but as the servers of the site shut down with the closure of FH, this is a dead end. Any archival effort of FH never includes "Stickflip", maybe do to its niche comic-formatting nature. I'm at my witts end with this search, but my rampant nostalgia for late nights watching MV's and writing in the chatroom flips (It consisted of a single picture saying "chat room", with the comments being the root to chat in; yes I know its cringey in retrospect ) compel me to find this. Those flipnotes got me through some tough stuff back then, I just want to see them once more.
Stuff of note:
One of the relatively popular users of FH was "Stickguy1994". He'd done some other stuff on the site I unfortunately don't remember, but one I do remember quite well is his "Stickflip" series. It consisted of three main characters: "Blackhair", "Redhead", and "Pinkette", all crudely drawn stick figures, going through the motions as teens, doing typical melodramatic, random, deviantart-esque things you'd expect from late 2000s-early 2010s culture. There was an episode focused on ice skating, another on the romantic relationship between "Redhead" and "Pinkette", another on the inventions "Redhead" (or "Blackhair", I forget) made, one with something related to biker gangs, one on one of the main cast getting drunk, and other scenarios.
The format of each episode consisted of a comic-like format; a bunch of single frame pictures would flash across the screen, and you would have to pause the "flipnote", and go though each one frame-by-frame to read them all. Using this format, the series consisted of around 20-30 "episodes". The ending, as I speak from recollection, was of either "Pinkette" or "Redhead" moving away, causing them to decide to wait for each other to grow older, and meet once more. Flash forward to the future, and they randomly see each other again at a baseball game, and live happily every after.
Now, I know you all might wonder why I would care about something so obscure, and quite obviously made by a kid in his free time? Simple nostalgia. I happened to remember this series a month ago, and tried to search it up, only to come up short. I found a similar series made by the same guy, "Stick Persons", that can be found in its entirety on YouTube (https://youtu.be/Yvs7Anm0Q1U).
His entire internet history is scrubbed. His YouTube channel is deleted, but by utilizing the wayback machine, I can see he posted a new episode of said series; this implying that is lost as well. Everything apart from his Hatena account has been wiped (funnily enough, his hatena accounts description just links his deleted accounts). his hatena links to an episode of "Stickflip", but as the servers of the site shut down with the closure of FH, this is a dead end. Any archival effort of FH never includes "Stickflip", maybe do to its niche comic-formatting nature. I'm at my witts end with this search, but my rampant nostalgia for late nights watching MV's and writing in the chatroom flips (It consisted of a single picture saying "chat room", with the comments being the root to chat in; yes I know its cringey in retrospect ) compel me to find this. Those flipnotes got me through some tough stuff back then, I just want to see them once more.
Stuff of note:
- His Hatena ID was "Sonic94XL"
- His old Youtube is m.youtube.com/user/StickGuy1994
- He had a twitter and deviantart of the same name
- I also remember him making a trailer for a YouTube flash animated series, the only noteworthy thing about of being an offhand joke about a characters breasts; something my puberty driven mind remembered.