Diary of a Wimpy Kid's LONG LOST Origin!

[@Vailskibum]

please tell me I'm not the only one who remembers this

[@josepho3366]

Vailskibum94 no you aren’t.

[@lioncourt3826]

I remember

[@rydercartoonanimations]

@Vailskibum94 You aren't.

[@charlenebrooks1867]

Nah

[@also_arles]

I still have these books

[@kjmanimations]

2:53 Jeff Kinney has said in interviews that the first draft of DOAWK was intended for adults who were nostalgic about middle school, but the publishers wanted to change it to a kids book

[@byrondoggofficial]

Holy crap, I wasn't expecting to see you here

[@Aryeed]

@@byrondoggofficial why

[@kjmanimations]

@@byrondoggofficial someone sent me a fuckin screenshot of this on discord lol I don’t remember even commenting this

[@lunas_gamingworld9422]

@@kjmanimations that's probably because its a year old i defiantly dont remember my comments from a year ago

[@mr.jamster8414]

Yea, Greg's a total asshole in that version lol

[@protocol37-t1n]

Diary of a Wimpy Kid's LONG LOST Origin Creepypasta Writers: Write that Down, Write that Down!

[@TheBoy2007_]

Creepypasta Writers After Watching The Video: What the fu-?!

[@Shahtheking540]

lol good 1

[@floweytheflower236]

Hey u humans are pretty funny!

[@protocol37-t1n]

@@floweytheflower236 bi-bi-bill......ci-ci-cipher, didn't i-i-i de-de-defe-fe-fe-te-te-ead yo-yo-you, didn't uh-uh-uh di-dipper and uh-uh ma-mabel defeated yo-yo-you??

[@justsomeponywithamustache8731]

Bill Cipher Gtfo you Discord wanna be

[@WyattOlingerYT]

I read the entire online book in one sitting.

[@eankotadia]

same

[@johnstar8841]

Same read it yesterday

[@onix2723]

Same

[@toadthebreakvan4518]

so? its pretty much just the same book beside minor changes.

[@WyattOlingerYT]

@@toadthebreakvan4518 Nope, imagine the first five books combined into a 1,285 page mega-book.

[@host23]

Last time I was this early Zachary Gordon still played Greg Heffley

[@Chayse9134]

Last time i was this early The Long Haul movie was not existent

[@nintenvlogz]

Chayse oof

[@DarcyWalker]

Definition of perfect casting

[@shadaytaylor]

Minty Coco so basically, many years ago

[@5h4d_9]

Last time I was early 11 minutes ago, the cheese touch didn't exist

[@justsomeponywithamustache8731]

Pretty sure I remember this in the Wimpy Kid movie Diary... Apparently there’s like 1900 pages of original material on a sketch pad somewhere...

[@Frostorm777]

Lol

[@Mael_Str0M]

Omg I owned the movie diary.

[@johnstar8841]

I read it all

[@therichard27]

0:52

[@k4tzz_cc]

I've seen u before..on that adult swim BLM vid

[@smugsdeadchannellol6184]

“Nobody remembers” Me, who has both read and bought the movie diary: *I am four parallel universes ahead of you!* Also, iirc, the book is still up today.

[@SyntaX7777]

RandomRows yeah I read the whole thing it’s pretty good

[@srimam3839]

Same

[@mirela1133]

ye

[@theharrbear]

About that…

[@Mayonnaise-m8h]

Who else has realized how great Diary of a Wimpy Kid continuity is? You've really got to hand it to Jeff Kinney. There's consistant characters, locations, and more always filling their designated roles, which are built on as the books progress. Now all we need is some grand, climactic Diary of a Wimpy Kid crossover event, like Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Endgame. And you know Manny would be the villain.

[@ThatOneGhoul]

In one of the books Greg talked about beer and another showed people smoking

[@stegotyranno4206]

What book was it again?

[@rayanomar9262]

smoking is there even in the new kid version tats there

[@briankausshen6792]

​@stegotyranno4206 you tell me 😊

[@corneliaswqftie]

And he said “the pig was walking like it was drunk or something”

[@jinxysaberk]

Ngl the fact Jeff Kenny isn't just shitting out a book every few months is good, I think he could easily tune out much more of the books but one a year feels so reasonable

[@tomysshadow]

Yep, I remember this! If you've read the first three Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, you aren't missing much. It was basically just the first three books, but online like an e-book, scrambled around a bit and combined into one book, with an ad every ten pages or so. This existed before the published versions that most people are familiar with. Jeff Kinney was also responsible for the creation of Poptropica on the same website.

[@hunterolaughlin]

With little bits of stories from the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th books.

[@johark]

out of all people i did not expect to find you here

[@tomysshadow]

@@johark I'm sorry, but I don't recognize your name.

[@johark]

@@tomysshadow oh, im a friend of matthiew parizeau, i remember you because you made some osts for the mbu pc port

[@tomysshadow]

@@johark I see. Yes, I am the same guy who wrote those. I used to watch this channel because of my interest in lost media. But I don't really follow it anymore

[@sxes]

Poptropica, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Funbrain. Jeff Kinney is a god.

[@generaldwightd.eisenhower6505]

He’s such a chad. A great guy who dedicates his life to helping kids to have fun. I’d donate all I had to him if I could, and I probably can

[@x0electricspinel0x]

Poptropica and Diary Of A Wimpy Kid we’re part of my childhood

[@Masterknightboy]

@@x0electricspinel0x My too!

[@theodoro3188]

I watched Diary of a Wimpy Kid last night just to remember the tortures of _my_ middle school life

[@mafuu432]

The day Greg Heffley goes to high school is the day my childhood ends

[@wubbzyandsesamestreetfangirl]

And also the day he also goes to college

[@KSCGGuy14]

The moment Fun Arcade was showed, my mind immediately thought back on those days in late elementary school to early middle school. I recall playing a game that had Wimpy Kid styled characters throwing snowballs.

[@ColinCartoons]

The phrase “Diary Of A Wimpy Kid’s LONG LOST ORIGIN” is such a weak mindset. You are ok with what happened, losing, imperfection of a craft. When you stop getting angry after losing, you've lost twice. There's always something to learn, and always room for improvement, never settle.

[@Luce2004]

ColinCartoon omg it’s ninja’s tweet.

[@thatoneperson7127]

I simp for ZachoryZaxor pls stop

[@Luce2004]

SKiTS! *visible confusion*

[@gooolixx]

ninha

[@Djmandude]

Did anyone truly recover after never seeing the end of the fun arcade

[@Asheto320c]

Last time I was this early Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Movies were funny and good

[@DanklingBS]

Last time I was this early people had original things to say

[@motionpotion607]

Last time I was this early aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@DanklingBS]

@@saintlander Last time I was this early, people could understand how to use quotations

[@stonestonestonestonestone]

Last time i was early, people didnt argue in comments.

[@bluevoid0]

last time when i was this early, the earth didn't form yet

[@joearl4901]

OMG FunBrain. That was my childhood. I too remember seeing the Diary of A Wimpy Kid ads while playing Mighty Guy.

[@extraordinary.obsess7on]

I read this on Internet Archive and people were commenting things like, "It's just the first few books combined" or "This is such a rip-off!" Are you serious? I mean, it's the ORIGINAL DRAFT, of course it's going to be the first few books combined!

[@Frostorm777]

There needs to be a Diary if a Wimpy Kid *animated* movie!!!

[@lumberIShere]

*F A C T S*

[@kkthecooldudegaming1207]

Frostbite just did a big brain move

[@CoalDiamondandhisawesomeness]

That's what The Long Haul should've been. If they wanted to do a big feature film recasting the characters, they should've made it animated so people didn't associate it with the originals

[@CoalDiamondandhisawesomeness]

@Oscar Guerrero yeah

[@christhecustomcharacter1409]

I don't think anyone would like that

[@edizepeda]

Why did I read "Diary Of a Wimpy Kid Dies a Virgin"

[@guppieishere9951]

I have no idea

[@MonkBeatbox]

Ah yes, my favorite Diary Of a Wimpy Kid book.

[@bakrobertjohnston4889]

He did :D

[@takyia9353]

@SuperHankinsBros no

[@YeatParedes]

Mighty guy is the og Henry stick man

[@xykleogd7180]

Lol p.s, it's Henry stickmin

[@DominikPac-Boy]

Stickmin.

[@ka.BLAMM0]

Stickmin*

[@LH_Creations222]

*Stckmin*

[@metar9006]

What

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Wayback Machine, the friend we turn to for some good nostalgia

[@davids.7567]

Sadly, it runs on Flash, which is going away in 2020.

[@hamzamohamed9862]

why are you everywhere

[@somethingiguess1157]

@@davids.7567 Nope, they changed it to html5

[@DavidTheJohnson]

For a second, I went in thinking it'll explain the origins of the character instead of the origins of the book.

[@megaknighty]

Deep within the brain of MegaKnight, he suddenly remembered funbrain

[@giroandkarin2822]

Seeing that old FunBrain website..... Nostalgia is kicking in!

[@Terrencetheterrible]

Hearing funbrain gives me nostalgia about something *let’s play treehouse builder, and learn how to add heights*

[@biancamo10]

I love and remember using FunBrain during this exact era and I really enjoyed these books, but I never made the connection that the content actually started there! Interesting to know!!

[@BrimmySP]

I didn't know where the footage of 1:38, 2:02, 2:13 and 3:00 were from until I watched Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Class Clown.

[@krystalmendez2994]

I used to love playing games on funbrain and knew the wimpy kid book was on there, but I had no idea there was a new page uploaded every day!

[@calebgoodman2076]

I remember this. The free online exclusive version of the book had a calendar to choose which day in the book you want to read.

[@chaes64]

I know this has nothing to do with the video, but dude I never knew you knew what LISA was! That’s so cool!

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Petition for Vail to talk about Pyongyang Racer

[@PeterPancaked]

I remember reading the whole thing about a year ago, and I was connecting the dots from these stories to the books.

[@c-king2794]

Funbrain was the best, and Mighty Guy was probably my favorite game on that website as a kid! Still couldn’t believe Mighty Guy and that one series of games from Funbrain was never concluded.

[@PaperThinArmor]

Great now I remember being in the computer lab during elementary school just playing Poptropica.

[@JesusMartinez-rr2ry]

I found it really weird that alcohol is somehow allowed in the Funbrain version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, but not in the book.

[@KylerWulff]

I used to go on Funbrain all the time! And I would see ads for the Diary of a Wimpy Kid webcomic whenever I would go on there just to solve random math problems. I remember wondering if it was one of Doreen Cronin's "Diary of a..." books (e.g. Diary of a Worm, Diary of a Spider, I don't know if anyone remembers those). After I started reading the books, I looked back and wondered if it was simply an ad for the first book. And now I know what it REALLY was! Thanks for explaining this old memory of mine!

[@davids.7567]

You know, I wish they kept the hidden adult themes in the book, so that adult readers wouldn't get bored reading.

[@masterspark9880]

They kept some of it. There’s underage smoking in the first book, underage drinking in rodrick rules and sex ed in the ugly truth

[@davids.7567]

@@masterspark9880 That got me thinking. Why don't kid cartoons in 2020 have the same type of hidden adult content like they did back in 2004? Because to me it looked as if Jeff Kinney had balls of steel back in 2004.

[@reeseruss]

To be fair, why are adults reading Diary of a Wimpy kid?

[@tommarnt]

Kids aren't allowed to learn adult content@@davids.7567

[@MetalJuggalo]

Rodrick drinking alcohol, sounds about right

[@Miss.Mozzarella82]

I noticed that the drawings looked different

[@lanzo236]

This is my favorite book series

[@x0electricspinel0x]

Poptropica and Diary Of A Wimpy Kid we’re part of my childhood

[@thorwhoisacat]

Dude I used to LOVE gun rain as a kid, thank you for reminding me of the name

[@ryannuneschannel]

I remember being forced on this site in middle school. My math teacher wouldn't let us go on any site besides cool math games. But Diary of A Wimpy Kid was the only thing I looked forward to besides the penguin canon game. Years later when it was turned into a book series & film, I was happy to see it reach a larger audience.

[@mmrw]

I wanna read this version so badly, it kinda sounds like the difference between Regular Show and Close Enough. Or more accurately, what Regular Show was going to be originally.

[@InvasionAnimation]

I remember that site. It reminded me of that site, before I became elderly. By elderly I mean every part of me hurts constantly, and I can barely remember what happened 2 minutes ago.

[@InvasionAnimation]

Around that.

[@KoopalingMayhem]

27?

[@Roztheclown]

Oh god I just realized, FunBrain Games is a thing inside the Diary Of a Wimpy Kid

[@coolssh3979]

Early Funbrain: Hey, man, I missed you! Me: _cries of happiness_ I missed you too...!

[@Its_PacFan]

This is actually very interesting... Considering I'm a avid fan of the books, I never knew that the Wimpy Kid books were actually first published on some online website, and I certainly didn't know that there were brand names and alcohol references in it. But the actual first version of the book was actually around a 1190 page sketch on a cheaply made sketchbook made in the late 90's or early 2000's? Yeah, anyway, Good video!

[@cooki3908]

this guy is destined to become the english teacher who creates hidden meanings in books

[@thenexva]

Is it ironic that I found the origins, like, a day before this video came out? Like, I thought I had just found a long-lost treasure.

[@Cometpuffs]

Funbrain was pretty much erased from my mind until this video lmfao

[@harmonetheanimationaddict4419]

I had no idea Wimpy Kid started as a webcomic.

[@PutrickStir]

I actually remember going on fun rain when I was little, and reading diary of a wimpy kid on the website, a lot of the stuff from the website version carried over to the books.

[@emmyciyat9904]

I am a 2010's child, but I do remember the teachers assigning us to use Funbrain, and thinking that everything we were doing was educational. The teacher would say "once you finish, go on to Funbrain," and that was our cue that learning time was over.

[@anomymous1286]

Funnily enough, the funbrain version was what I grew up with. I never bought the books because I figured they were the same… and by the time I realized there were too many of them for that to be true, I felt I was too old to read them. Hilarious that it took me until today to look up what happened after the ending of the online version, surprisingly the wish fantasy at the end was immediately retconed in the series proper. Oh well! I liked the original ending.

[@QuintetMagician]

I used to read these all the time! Even as a kid I noticed the differences. I always wondered why that was!

[@DamianMendez-g7o]

I used to play fun brain in 2016. By then tho, diary of a wimpy kid was published

[@snarkiwi]

I ALWAYS wanted to know what the "coming soon" on funbrain was going to be too! Funbrain, CoolMath, Dragonfly TV and Poptropica were my first websites! I remember reading another comic on Funbrain that I really liked called Silent Kimbly and I loved looking at the updates!

[@judychen1038]

What if in the alternate universe where sitcom doesn’t exist and we only get cartoon shows

[@Cereal_Ki11er]

There is supposed to be a new book this November called Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End

[@Goldenswordz4433]

funbrain still has diary of a wimpy kid.

[@Meli_monster]

Oh wow. Seeing the games really took me down memory lane. God I feel old.

[@g_4sp]

I remember going to FunBrain during the early 2010s. Never thought he would make a video about this

[@izzyssaltedrice]

dude you just unlocked a deep deep memory i forgot i even had

[@marmario259]

I played funbrain on the wii browser back in the day

[@starkillerscp049]

Wasn't there another website for kids called fun school or something like that

[@melodysafo5437]

Funbrain

[@ktoon4725]

No way, I remember playing this, I thought no one knew about this stinking site

[@NoahMDub]

Funbrain and Poptropica were big nostalgia for me in elementary school! I remember playing the games during computer lab and eventually reading the first Wimpy Kid book. I now have every book of the series in my collection over a decade later! 😊

[@zeekboii9073]

3:32 i haven't seen or thought about that game in years holy shit the nostalgia

[@GD_Zimmeh]

I remember this! I visited this site in school when I was in the 2nd grade

[@theweirdislandkid2705]

Some already mentioned this but all of the story in this web version was written and drawn in a black sketchbook along with the original concepts for Greg Heffley’s character design.

[@smartistepicness]

its just the first 5 books mashed together with minor diffrences

[@Andrisiq]

They updated that version and now it’s just trying to get you buy the book

[@DreamerJoy]

I actually read the web comic first, as I found out while I was on funbrain. I spent a long time going though the dates despite the fact that I didn't really like it that much, though I still enjoyed it, reading the books was amusing since a plot would come and I was like like "I remember that!" but one plot never came up, something about getting cards to get new stuff, I specially remember Rowley asking Greg if he wanted to play, Greg originally didn't want to into Rowley said it had the cards, and he jumped off the couch saying he would take one of the figures.

[@Pajanimations]

I remember the pilot called "Igdoof" which had a character named Igdoof (which splitter into Greg and Manny) in many comics. Sadly, Nobody liked the idea. They found one of the characters named "Greg Heffley" so they used it for the main character in the DOAWK series.

[@moonfroog]

This video brought back memories I didn't even know I had

[@bewearstar9462]

The first sketches of gerg go back to 1998 the first book came out in 2007

[@haileyhoward-fp2zl]

If you’re wondering what grade Greg is in, then the old draft confirmed that Greg is in 7th grade.

[@superkoopaproductions7489]

I like these kinds of videos. I subscribed for that

[@thePontiffsSnickerdoodles]

I remember checking funbrain on a daily basis for Mighty Guy 3. But it's like you said, there were never anymore games added. But funbrain introduced me to Poptropica, so there's that. Until flash died that is.

[@redstreak9430]

I remember the other webcomics on there like On the Rocks and a space comic that parodied sci fi movies like Star Wars and Planet of the Apes (I can’t remember what it was called)

[@deepsouthcardcollectors5689]

Omg I played funbrain in 1st grade, the memories 😭 (I’m a freshman now)

[@GrierYeena]

Fun Brain is like, my childhood, I'm still not able to beat Mighty Guy.

[@evets1726]

If you didn’t play mighty guy in school you didn’t have a childhood

[@rising_dragonsol5332]

Funbrain? FUNBRAIN!? YES! I remember that site.

[@MoodyMickey]

I feel like I remember the name funbrain, but I don't remember ever going on the website. It kind of makes me think of those fun websites teachers allow kids to go on at school. Like coolmath4kids or something

[@JaceTheDon]

I remember funbrain and the Poptropica maps that were centered around the Wimpy Kid universe

[@bewuga]

Damn hes playing pokemon now good job Greg must be addicting

[@djlinton5456]

Man, That Mighty Guy Nostalgia Hit Me Like A Wrecking Ball.

[@Darshy91]

I went to this website in computer lab in 2nd grade

[@dragonkeys2860]

Damn when you said Funbrain and went to the website on what it looks like back when I was kid I had a flood of memories in elementary school playing mighty guy and then you showed the game play of it I was smiling so big. Yes I do remember the Wimpy kid billboard in the mini game too. I did take interest and bought the book when I was kid too. Never thought that Mighty guy would lead me to that.

[@ilikebread206]

I want to read it! Edit:I found the book and am currently reading it but I still want to read the 1998 notebook.

[@famoussession7426]

"You need permission from copyright owners for certain things to be mentioned" Don't shows like South Park reference copyrighted stuff all the time?

[@Rehncohro]

I am still sad about Funbrain never finishing the arcade.

[@LanceOfRenais]

is anyone not going to talk about Rodrick drinking alcohol

[@bloo76]

Aint no way I legit checked the date to see if this was an april fools joke 😭😭😭

[@fernandoortega9932]

The drawings from the online book look more rough