For most of the 2000's people and before YouTube people indulged in flash media. It was the ultimate era of independent entertainment. Internet was not really a right as it is today.
Flash games where just epic and Chad compared to those pretentious indie games.
When I was 10 years old I embargoed on flash animated media with my mom. Her friends showed me Albino Blacksheep and it was just perfect from then on. There was a comedian talking about how bathrooms are uncomfortable. I don't know what that cartoon was but it was just hilarious. Full of bad words and sex. My mom would not allow me to see them.
That wouldn't stop me from viewing them though.
I enjoyed it all so much. Boy vs Robots, Mortal Kombat funnies, Neil Cicerega, Spoofmonkey, you name it. I watch. Spring of 2007 was one hell of drug.
I remember Animutations very fondly as this wacky world of Japanese music and lyrics.
Then there was the Barney Bunch. This would not fly by today. Incredibly homophobic and scatological. I'm certain this is what my mom yelled at me for in my internet history one day haha.
I once even got my dad to get my Hollywood friend to get me a compact disk of Flash 8. I would be sure to join the Flash craze. But never did because I wouldn't be allowed to.
Then I got competitive about enjoying flash cartoons and then outgrew it. Flash cartoons got really ambitious and epic.
Nowadays we have animation memes and those call back to those incredibly crappy funny animal animations with the rave music and anime styles. Just stick to porn guys
Quest for Ikambokem was my fave game.
Also Strawberry Alarm Clock was just awesome to.
Eventually by 2008 it felt as if everyone moved on from Flash media. Well mostly I did. This was do to a number of reasons. Nowadays I just do art.
But Flash media of the 2000's will be remembered with grand fondness.