Post by SonicKade2048 on Mar 19, 2021 21:09:08 GMT
Hey there. I'm SonicKade2048, also known as KirbyLover2048, Kirb Berry, or just Kirb for short. For a brief introduction, I joined these forums a short time ago earlier today, and I've been interested in lost media for a long time now. I first got curious about lost TV, movie, and other kinds of logos for media (such as the infamous T.A.T. star logo animation). I've also seen videos from blameitonjorge. However, I've come here for a different reason:
I want to bring light to a lost flipnote known as Gravity Factory. It's a flipnote based on (and using) a song uploaded to YouTube that mashes the title theme of the cartoon Gravity Falls with a fan-made song based on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic called Rainbow Factory. The flipnote itself featured Dipper Pines and Mabel Pines, two of Gravity Falls's main characters, interacting with a third, more powerful character named Bill Cipher (also from Gravity Falls). Bill is a magical demon, though, and in the flipnote, possessed Dipper while having Mabel locked up somewhere away from him. She wakes up and escapes the place she's in in search of Dipper, who is also animated to be singing along with the lyrics to Rainbow Factory. You can find the current upload of the standalone song here and an extended version of the flipnote here, albeit in a lower quality.
I also (strangely) have a couple higher-quality screenshots saved on another site called ROBLOX, an online game creation community mainly marketed towards kids. I don't remember why I uploaded them to my account, but these are the most high-quality images I can supply right now. I'll give the individual image links as well, even if they're a bit crunched.
Now here's the meat of the situation: Even though there's a 10-minute / extended version on YouTube, it's actually not a direct software capture. It's someone recording their console playing it while they hold up a separate video camera and manually replaying it for the extent of the video. As well, the original YouTube video that does have this flipnote does not seem to be posted to YouTube anymore, and I theorize that the channel it was hosted on went down with it. Any results beyond the 10-minute version and original song seem to be miscellaneous or unrelated videos, 80% of the time being real-life "factories" doing gravity-based experiments. In other words, only a pinch of videos found by searching "gravity factory" or "gravity factory flipnote" reveal related videos (like the ones I linked above), but sadly not the true video itself. This (combined with my very bad short-term memory) also means I can't remember what the name of the YouTube channel was. If someone would be willing to dive deeper into these results or try some other method of finding the flipnote (or even the original creator), be my guest, but I've sadly uncovered nothing so far.
On a positive note though, I do have an MP3 capture of the song from a YouTube to MP3 / MP4 site from back then, so if you want to take a listen, I'll lend a file link here. Admittedly I wish I downloaded the video version too, though I didn't feel a need to and only wanted it for the music... oh well.
TL;DR: Gravity Factory is an old flipnote that no longer exists on YouTube in its original form (as far as I'm aware). Only an extended but poor-quality version remains on the site, not even being direct capture footage. I provided screenshots of what it looks like as well as the 10-minute video so you have a good idea of what it looks like. I've been somewhat busy lately but my research has come up dry. If anybody has any sort of lead, please reply down below or send me a PM.
Thank you, and have a great day.
~SK