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Doctor Who Fan-Made PSA Web Original
Has any YouTuber ever spoofed the "don't drink and drive" public safety announcements, and all the times the titular character of Doctor Who wrecked the TARDIS by regenerating inside it, by making a Gallifreyan "don't fly and regenerate" public safety announcement?
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Edited by Miss_DesperadoKingdom Hearts Fanfic Web Original
There are a couple Kingdom Hearts fanfics I’ve been looking for. I’ve tried searching different combinations of things I remember from the stories, but no luck so far.
The first one was a song fic where they’re all in highschool. Sora gets to school before everyone else and goes to the auditorium to play “Fireflies” by Owl City on the piano. The lyrics were all written out and everything. Then Roxas (I think) shows up with some other characters (who specifically I don’t remember) and they talk about something for a bit before Sora comes back crying and says “Kairi...she...she broke up with me!” And then Roxas sings a censored version of Greenday’s “American Idiot” to cheer him up. Like following him around the school singing.
The second fanfic is also a school au, probably not the same one since it seems to be more of a crack fic. I remember there was a running gag of Namine always wanting to burn things, until she creates a “Blade Key” in art class and accidentally drops it down a vent? A shaft? or something, where she yells for it to come back. Meanwhile, Adora is running a high fever and stumbling around the hallways looking for someone. Maybe it was her, but I can’t remember.
The last one is also a school au, where Roxas (I think) is autistic and gets bullied by a member of Organization XIII (which one I don’t remember, but he had two lackeys with him, one may have been Larxene?) who yells that “we just want to...have some FUN!” in Roxas’ face.
I think they were all on Fanfiction.net, but I could be wrong. I don’t remember them being particularly good. They could’ve been taken down for copyright reasons (especially the first one) but I don’t know. Has anyone heard of these fics?
Pokemon fan animation with Albuquerque Web Original
I remember when I was a kid, back in 2008-2009, I saw a video that was a Pokémon fan animation with the "box of crazed, starving weasels" lyrics from Albuquerque playing. From what I remember, a Pikachu was the protagonist, a Treecko was the guy at the donut shop's counter, and the weasels weren't any Pokemon, they were just weasels. I can't seem to find this video anywhere, but I asked my brother and he told me he remembers it, so that means this isn't just something I hallucinated. Also, maybe more of the song was animated in this video as well, but that is all I remember
Edited by KingofNightmares[SOLVED!] Animation hosting site Web Original
I remember signing up for an animation hosting website. I forgot the name and the names of the series on there. It was a website where you could add your independent animated web-series and upload episodes to the site. The website also had a live stream for episodes of series. It was just a webcomic hosting site except for animators.
Edit: It was NOT Newgrounds. The layout seemed more like Netflix or Hulu.
EDIT: Never mind. I found it! It matched most of the descriptions I gave.
(UNSOLVED) Really good but terrifying Five Nights at Freddy’s Fan Animation series Web Original
A while ago I saw this FNAF fan series on You Tube starring children in the restaurant. It was SUPER creepy, but well animated and well executed. It was 2D animated and had no dialogue (There probably was, but I just never got to that part). I also know a LOT of the scare factor came from some of the children finding other children with wide open mouths shaking their head back at fourth while staring RIGHT AT THE VIEWER. I think the titles were also in Spanish. If anyone could tell me what the series is, who made it or just straight up post a link if that’s humanly possible, I would greatly appreciate it. I’ve been trying to find this thing for 2 years with no luck.
Edited by hackdashSnarky Caustic LP of Watch_Dogs Web Original
Basically what it says on the tin. A Lets Play of watch_dogs that make fun of how unsympathetic aiden pierce is, how dumb the mechanics are, etc. It's very similar to the Super Best Friends Play, but it's not them and it's not made by a channel I usually watch, so i lost it
Horror website/story presented as bestiary [FOUND] Web Original
This is from a while back, about 3 years or so. The website was a bit like the SCP foundation in that it told a story through the description of monsters/anomalous beings, though it differed in that it had art to go along with the descriptions and was only made by one person, as far as I could tell. It featured variations on a worm-like monster, which had different subcategories depending on a given variation's attitude towards humans - these groupings were done through the humors (sanguine etc.). The pages for each type had a description of the general behavior of it, along with anatomy and sometimes sound clips of how it sounded. There were also descriptions of encounters for some of the types, most of them written in a horror-esque style. There were also "secret" pages, with more philosophical or poetic descriptions for the more eldritch types. EDIT: Nevermind, I've found it through a bit of digging - it was the Goodbye Strangers and the Fearful Frontier.
Edited by 27firefliesdiscord Web Original
I want to know if Discord, the online chat website/application, has a TV Tropes page, I can't seem to find one.
Edited by pointycatearsChecking Shoes for Hazards Spoof Web Original
I remember this YouTube video, probably animated with MS Paint, about the dangers of not checking your shoes for implausible creatures, such as eels or a "very flexible honey badger" replacing your shoelaces or spider-scorpion hybrids hiding in the toes (or their parents making more of said hybrids). The unseen narrator had a British or faux-British accent, he narrated the actions of a brown-haired everydude who hears a strange noise outside his house, decides to investigate, arms himself with his flimsiest stick, puts on sunglasses to protect his eyes from the strong moonlight, and then proceeds to start putting on his shoes before the narrator stops him to deliver the long-winded warning. There might be a link to the video somewhere on this very wiki, but I wouldn't count on finding it that way, I didn't see any entries on Hand in the Hole or Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action or Mix-and-Match Critters or Sunglasses at Night.
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Edited by Miss_DesperadoPBS Kids online safety astronaut game. Web Original
Pretty straightforward. It used to be on pbskids.org but... y'know. Stuff changes. The main character was an astronaut and it kinda reminds me of Among Us with how they're designed... wonder if the Among Us devs got inspo from there.
EDIT: Nevermind, I found it. It's Webonauts.
Edited by FriedBakaFanfiction of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic Web Original
A short story fanfiction: Pinkie Pie and Rarity share a hot tub, Pinkie Pie is in there to soothe her tummy ache from eating too much black licorice, and only too late does Rarity notice the "Out of Order" sign. When Rarity realizes exactly where the bubbles are coming from, she has a Freak Out and gets hauled away in a straitjacket. I'm pretty sure I read it on fimfiction.net
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Edited by Miss_Desperado"It has chosen to impliment psychological warfare by cutting it's own head off repeatedly" Web Original
Not a lot to go on because I can only remember one thing. But it was a live action TV show or web original with sci fi elements. The bit I remember barely is one of the main characters is watching a creature they have trapped and the character (an anxious man) is reporting back on it's capture, saying something like "It has chosen to implement psychological warfare by repeatedly cutting off it's own head to intimidate me" or something similar. I have no idea about anything else besides the fact that it has very good, modern, witty wordplay, and I found this bit VERY funny. Thanks if you know what the hell I am talking about
Help finding a website about bad movies Web Original
There was this site that's now obsolete but still available on the wayback machine. I found it a while back but can't remember the name or URL to search for it. The name was something like "(name starting with "S")'s World Of Really Awful Movies", and he rated how bad the movies were on a scale of 1 to 4 black cats or something like that.
edit: SOLVED I just found it, it's Severen's world of really awful movies. (you need to wayback machine to look at it though.
Youtube video about the elements Web Original
From 2007?-2009ish, I looked up many videos of Tom Lehrer's The Elements. One video I found that was not related to Tom Lehrer was this one skit which starts off with Doc Brown showing up in a De Lorean. He asks this 20-30something guy (or guys, there might have been two) for plutonium. The guy(s) looks for other elements, and for silicon he found someone with silicone implants. At the end, one of the people says "I'll just go with sillicon" or something like that. Someone also says something like "What about Uranium, it's named after Uranus"
Edited by jgrif57003Newgrounds Animations Web Original
This was a Newgrounds animation. Two characters are fleeing a smoke/blob monster which may or may not have been purple. It appears they are fleeing it on a Giant tree of some sort. They then fight the monster in an abandoned vilage in the tree. I feel like it was sometime in the last 4 years.
Edited by jjjj2Two videos in a reaction vid Web Original
In this reaction video, Craig is watching clips. The first one at 0:15 shows an old man take in a dog and return him to his owners. The second one at 4:22 shows a young boy being raised by his father, and at the end the boy realises his father is actually blind. If anybody could help me find the original videos, it would be much appreciated.
Terrible Lion King Acapella Web Original
Years ago, I saw this video in You Tube of an adult group, maybe five or six people, singing an a capella cover of The Circle of Life. They were all wearing either differently colored really bright shirts, or vests. Here’s the important part - they were TERRIBLE. It’s been at least 10 years, and I can’t find it anywhere. Does anyone know what I’m talking about, and have a link?
Weird YT video with both CGI and live action Web Original
Tried Reddit for this one but no luck so far (even though that might be where I found it in the first place).
I saw this video a year or two ago; it began with a render of an apartment complex, like those visualisations used to present an upcoming building. We see inside one of the apartments itself, and I think there may have been a TV on the wall.
The video then cuts to a desert, a real satellite image this time, and zooms in on one of the large crosses used as part of the Corona satellite programme, built into the desert in Arizona. It was a Reddit thread mentioning these which reminded me of the video again.
The next part of the video takes place mostly in live action, either on one of the Corona crosses or a military base/runway. It's a kind of performance dance thing, with some corny CGI effects and green screen. I think the video would sometimes cut away to old footage of something, though I can't remember what.
I think the theme of the video had something to do with surveillance, with the whole satellite thing and, though this might be me misremembering, eyeball masks on some of the dancers. I remember being both intrigued and bored by the video at the same time, and it seemed to drag on for about ten minutes. The video ended back at the CGI apartment with the television, and then panned away from the buildings as it had done at the start.
I think the artist had a website or something that you could visit for more information. The whole thing was a very surreal experience and I'd love to find it again. I'm 90% certain this wasn't some weird dream I had and this thing is out there somewhere. The video was definitely more of an art project than some kind of meme video. I've tried searching many combinations of key words but all I'm getting is conspiracy stuff.
Youtuber Web Original
I'm trying to find a youtube channel. The person goes by Jenn, is Australian and made a bunch of videos about their work in retail (stuff customers say to me). They had some videos with the theme "what not to do". For example, what not to do on the bus, what not to do as a customer, etc. I also think that they liked to say jellyfish in their videos. I think this person is LGBTQ.
It is possible that they deleted their channel.
Can anyone please help?
Thanks :)
VERY recent short clip about a genie driving a taxi Web Original
I was watching Hulu (or maybe youtube) not two days ago as of this writing when an ad cropped up. It was a comedy skit of a man having a taxi (maybe an uber?) ride. The driver was an older black man and the two got to talking, and the conversation eventually got to the realization that the driver was a genie. The man promptly wished to get back with his girlfriend (who dumped him after coming to terms with the fact she preferred other women). Queue "I can't do love" from the genie/driver. Eventually he asked the man if he was willing to do "anything" it took to get her back. After saying yes, the man was told to close his eyes and count to 10... after which he was turned into a woman. The cabbie said it was the best he could do, and the (ex) man was perfectly okay with this outcome, and the clip ended with him declaring "She's going to love this!"
It gave me a solid laugh and I wanted to show some friends of mine, but by the time my attention was focused on it... whatever indication of what this clip (live action by the way) was from was gone. A quick search has led to one similar clip (kind of) but definitely not the exact clip. I'm guessing by its length and setup(about 3 minutes) it wasn't from a series or anything, but even still I have no idea where I can watch it again. Any help would be appreciated.
Undertale fanfic; post-game where monsters are enslaved by humans and it focuses on an OC and Sans Web Original
I'm looking for an Undertale fanfic where monsters were enslaved by the human race after coming out of the Underground. The main character is an OC and the fic starts with them seeing a slave owner abusing his slave (Sans) and they buy him off of the guy to save him. They actually got fired from their job for this because they were anti-slavery (MC never told their workplace about rescuing Sans before this).
I remember reading it on Archive of Our Own, but I don't remember the rating.
Edit: It wasn't a recent fic, maybe between 2015-2017 it was uploaded.
Edited by KToonzShort Fantasy Story about Group of AntoHeroes Web Original
A short story I read online a few years ago - a group of Heroes in Name Only are going to defeat the evil dictator who rules their land. It begins in an inn where they’re staying, and they’ve stolen from and/or murdered someone else in the inn under some pretense of them being fugitives or something. When they get to the Overlord, it’s revealed that he’s actually a wise and benevolent ruler, and most of the hatred towards him is because of racial prejudice, and his reforms for tolerance. He’s some kind of orc or something, and one of the group brings up that he eats worms, and he says “speak for yourself, flesh-eater!” I want to find it again cause I can’t remember how it ends!
The Intrepid Drug-Addicted Italian Siblings! Web Original
I remember seeing a Dark Parody of Super Mario Bros. somewhere in Youtube that runs with the popular "Everything was a hallucination" theory. I can't remember which channel it was from (Dorkly? Scott Falco? I don't know), but it was about Luigi having nightmares where he and his brother are former plumbers turned wizened, drug-addicted hobos living on the Wrong Side of the Tracks, where Toads are lamps lying around on the floor, "Power-Ups" are drug tablets, Peach is an ugly prostitute, Bullet Bills are regular cars, many other characters are other poor vagabonds living around the area, etc. Then it turns out that those "nightmares" were actually brief moments of reality where all those things are what they appear, and Luigi reallly is a drug addict whose bright, happy-go-lucky hallucinations have just begun to wear off.
Funny fail video from long ago Web Original
This video is about a couple idiots mixing raw eggs into partially cooked brownies and laughing like mad while another guy, the cameraman, narrates the whole situation. I saw it a very, very long time ago and I just can't seem to find it anywhere. :/