History YMMV / SaladFingers

* {{Applicability}}: Any person who has been on the recieving end of physical/emotional abuse from their family can strongly relate to SF's predicament in "Glass Brother", and his protection of Hubert Cumberdale neatly corresponds to those people who work to defend their younger family members/children from suffering the same fate.

* IncestSubtext: In "Shore Leave," Salad Fingers appears to be flirting with his little brother Kenneth. Of course, it could just be Salad Fingers being his usual {{Cloudcuckoolander}} self.

* FauxSymbolism: A point David Firth tries to enforce. In fact he announced before its release that episode 11, "Glass Brother" would purposely debunk all the theories people kept sharing online to "explain" the series. This announcement notably happened after his reaction to the "Salad Fingers Explained" videos of ''[[WebVideo/GameTheory The Film Theorists]]'', which quite displeased him. David specified that he felt "honoured" to have his work "pulled apart and speculated over", but that the conclusions reached in the videos were not in the least what he was aiming for.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: In the episode, "Glass Brother," Salad Fingers is making food with instructions on ingredients from the Glass Mother. One of the things she tells him to add is "spider milk." While it may sound like something made up for the series for the sale of sounding creepy and weird, [[https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/spider-milk-044322/ spider milk is not only real]], but it's also four times more nutritious than cow milk.

* [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct He Really Can Act]]: While David Firth has always been considered a pretty good voice actor as well as an animator (as he's done voice work other than SF), his performance in "Glass Brother" is truly exceptional, wherein he expresses intense emotion in the titular character's plight with his family, horror at Hubert Cumberdale's kidnapping and TranquilFury upon retaining him.

* [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Salad Fingers rescuing Hubert Cumberdale in Episode 11 from his "Glass Family". After being called weak and useless for the whole episode, he manages to cleverly outsmart them and break off any communication with them -- all while subverting how he usually accidentally harms everyone he comes across!

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The creator even has the words "Welcome to my Acid dungeon" at the top of his home-page.

* DiagnosedByTheAudience: A large number of viewers interpret Salad Fingers as having schizophrenia, owed to his patterns of self-harm, his tendency to hear voices, and the fact that he lives in a state of near-constant delusions and hallucinations.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Where to begin...who, or what is Salad Fingers? A ShellShockedVeteran who experienced war? A survivor of the earth AfterTheEnd? A simply delusional madman who looks ThroughTheEyesOfMadness? Nobody knows, except the creator himself, [[ShrugOfGod who won't be giving any answers anytime soon]].
* AluminumChristmasTrees: In the episode, "Glass Brother," Salad Fingers is making food with instructions on ingredients from the Glass Mother. One of the things she tells him to add is "spider milk." While it may sound like something made up for the series for the sale of sounding creepy and weird, [[https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/spider-milk-044322/ spider milk is not only real]], but it's also 4 times more nutritious than cow milk.

* DiagnosedByTheAudience: While Salad Fingers is never confirmed in-series to have a mental illness (mainly because his point of view is our primary perspective), it's pretty clear that there is something ''very'' wrong with him. He appears to have symptoms not only of Dissociative Identity Disorder (i.e. flipping between multiple personalities, sometimes mid-thought) but also of severe Schizophrenia -- self-harming, hearing voices, and living in a state of near-constant hallucinations.

* DiagnosedByTheAudience: While Salad Fingers is never confirmed in-series to have a mental illness (mainly because his point of view is our primary perspective), it's pretty clear that there is something ''very'' wrong with him. He appears to have symptoms not only of Dissociative Identity Disorder (i.e. flipping between multiple personalities, sometimes mid-thought) but of severe Schizophrenia-- self-harming, hearing voices, and living in a state of near-constant hallucinations.

* FauxSymbolism: A point David Firth tries to enforce. In fact he announced before its release that episode 11, "Glass Brother" would purposely debunk all the theories people kept sharing online to "explain" the series. This announcement notably happened after his reaction to the "Salad Fingers explained" videos of [[WebVideo/GameTheory The Film Theorists]], which quite displeased him. He specified that he felt "honoured" to have his work "pulled apart and speculated over", but that the conclusions reached in the videos were not in the least what he was aiming for.

** A few people who watch this think Salad Fingers is just too creepy, others find him creepy but also endearing. What both sides can agree on is that he is a truly pitiful creature. The "Cupboard" episode, especially, as there's a scene where he's crying and some fans said they forgot he's scary because they felt bad for him.
** It seems that David Firth had picked up on this interpretation of the character and subsequent episodes had made Salad Fingers a more tragic figure by focusing more on how hopelessly oblivious he is to [[CrapsackWorld the state of the world around him]]. Then we learn in "Glass Brother" that he might have a FreudianExcuse judging on how he envisions [[AbusiveParents his mother]].

* RealismInducedHorror: Salad Fingers is an obviously mentally ill man ([[AmbiguousDisorder the exact specifications never clarified]]) and outside of the SurrealHorror imagery and art, the scariest moments of the show are often from him unintentionally hurting [[SelfHarm himself]] and the people around him, including [[DeathOfAChild children]], as a result of his delusions.

** The strange concoction that Salad’s glass mother forces him to eat in Episode 11.

* HarsherInHindsight: In "Post Man," SF stops for a moment in realization and states: "It's almost three weeks until the Queen's birthday. How she must feel!" About half a year after the episode aired, Queen Elizabeth II would pass away on 8th September 2022, aged 96.