F___ you, Nintendo

[@lwfilms207]

Whoa! I totally remember you and your awesome artstyle. I was SnowyOwl on Flipnote Hatena. I still have several of your flips saved on my old DSi, like the Hatena Carol story. This was a really moving video - I too often wonder what friends from Flipnote are up to now. It was a truly special community and I don’t think there will be one quite like it again.

[@Boetacular100]

This might be dumb of me to say, but I think I saw one of your flipnotes, the DSi Safety Parody 2 one, on a digital horror channel called “The June Archives & Restoration Project.” It was a hidden video. By the way, this channel takes classic flipnotes & makes them into, as I said, digital horror.

[@lwfilms207]

@@Boetacular100 You are absolutely right - I was the original creator of “DSi Safety Parody 2”! I am a big fan of the June Archive and was honored that my Flipnote was included!

[@CSGhostAnimation]

OH WTFFFF WHY DIDN'T KZbin NOTIFY ME ABOUT THIS COMMENT?? I remember you!!! I think I drew your character in the hatena carol!! This is definitely a +1 to the 100 people, hahaha. Anyway, how ya been??? What are you up to nowadays?

[@lwfilms207]

@@CSGhostAnimation Yep, you did indeed draw me in “Hatena Carol”! I remember being so excited when I saw that, and very moved by your flipnote’s message of kindness and tolerance. I’m doing great, thanks for asking! These days I’m doing writing and set design for theater and escape rooms. I have Flipnote to thank as a major reason I’m in those fields - being on Hatena made me want to continue working with people who value creativity and art! I checked out a bunch of the other videos on your channel a few weeks back and had a blast watching them. It’s so cool to see people here in the comments section sharing fond memories and connecting with your story. Cheers!!

[@kamra702]

@@CSGhostAnimation add it to the description

[@robkies]

"bruh that hair tho" "i made that design when i used flipnote" "understandable, have a great day"

[@jonthegamerplays4833]

y e s

[@nairzD]

Great

[@minktanker9705]

lol

[@dad5draco]

Oh, childhood? I get it now. I understand, don't change it for anyone.

[@drowzee4425]

Ghost if you see this please search Sudomemo and how to use it

[@Cyranek]

I need to learn how to make flipnote style animations on pc. I spent way too much time on my DSi animating.

[@CSGhostAnimation]

It's lowkey hidden in the video :) 1:29 on the whiteboard.

[@lmarcii]

Didn't expect to see you here

[@shyswitch6055]

I was really hoping this video was made on flipnote. I would have been a jillion times more amazed. I cranked out my 3ds this year to make flipnotes and this would’ve inspired me

[@CSGhostAnimation]

@@shyswitch6055 hey it's still pretty hard to make :)

[@victorguerrero4461]

@@CSGhostAnimation you won a Mexican subcriber today :3

[@kwgibb8977]

This was a true ”Cya tomorrow bro - Last online 4 years ago” moment

[@Obsi399]

At the end is finding that same username in a different game

[@plwushii]

IKR VFDG BFBFB

[@harumayamazaki7453]

congrats on 1k, bud had to help myself to it

[@alejandropetit6573]

I will always miss my bff in club penguin (i forgot his username)

[@Nugcon]

Sad

[@lylosar]

HOLY SHIT NO WAY, i know im 4 years late, but i remeber watching ur animations all the time on flipnote, im so sad that my old dsi has broken, but im still around in the 3ds comunity and i still animate on flipnote from time to time for the hell of it. UR ANIMATIONS WHERE SO FUCKING COOL!! i randomly came across this video in my feed and i was like "theres no way i reconize that art style from somewhere.." AND LOW AND BEHOLD UR STILL AROUND, i had been looking to see if you and a few other flipnote animators where still around but gave up after a few years after flipnote studio shut down. this video is SO fucking well produced and animated, and im so glad that ur still animating CUZ UR SO FUCKING TALENTED!!! this brought back a wave of old memries of all the time i spent just waiting to go home in school to go animate on my dsi, and watching all the cool stuff other people made. dude i am so happy that your still around, i hope that u continue to animate and do what u love cuz ur a fuckin legend.

[@akri5045]

ghost needs to see this

[@chikengamer9906]

@@akri5045 100%

[@Kylow9]

@@chikengamer9906holy shit ghost u GOTTA see this

[@ruinknightsir]

Aseprite is pretty good for this style of pixel animation if you are still looking. 20$ on steam

[@cats-d7y]

#CS Ghost Animation

[@ItsJJOLO]

Glad to see kekeflipnote isn’t the last person I know of that has some connection with Flipnote Studios

[@mr.reddishmanperson7156]

It’sJJOLO me too

[@truebaguetteguy173]

It’s like air bending nowadays

[@Aurelius_unofficial]

M e .

[@itslogan4778]

Haha tail go ↙️↘️↗️↖️↕️↗️↙️↩️↙️↘️

[@rutiacotheyuty3045]

I like kekeflipnote lol

[@Qoride]

God the way his voice trembled when he said he had lost friends broke my heart, I haven't seen any of my flip note friends since 2013, gone.

[@elimcgamerguy]

it's things like this that make me wish I was old enough to have a Dsi 'round 2012. as it stands I would've been 7 in 2012.

[@thegamingknight5118]

Aye me too but I did have a dsi at the time just never really new about flipnote till later on in life

[@izumi1532]

I honestly felt that..

[@oz9849]

I made so many flip notes and meet some really nice people who I consider to be friends and I just realized I probably won’t be able to communicate with those friend I had, this warmed my heart

[@dyllpickleproduces9588]

@@elimcgamerguy exact same with me

[@1ChomperChain]

Man that's heartwarming, glad you found each other.

[@nyx3659]

Your profile picture is perfect

[@duskyduck5949]

Why did we get recommended this again i need answers

[@vibrant4068]

I watched this subscribed and have been watching him since. Wish I've know him longer

[@Modn4r]

that moment when the music started going and the reddit comments came up, gave me goosebumps.

[@dakidsgarku386]

I'm glad I found his channel.

[@zorian]

I watched flipnotes ALL DAY as a kid, I was 7 years old in 2009 and i didnt really know how to draw but i really wanted to (more importantly i didnt know how to learn to draw, i didnt have a phone or computer access). Stick fight animations blew me away, I was always so confused how others could make those animations with a DSI, the same thing I had. I would always save the stick fight animations and edit them to try and reverse engineer how they where made. Seeing this video for the first time really made me feel heard. I've missed the communities and animations and I have never felt that same type of home since. I find myself binging on nostalgic flipnote compilations from time to time. Its comforting knowing others feel the same. This is maybe my 5th time rewatching this (and your other videos too, theyre so good), and i dont see it being the last time either. This video is like a bedtime story that you can listen to over and over again. Take my thanks ⭐

[@FirstNameLastName-ym7so]

KZbin: Would you like a wholesome story during these trying times?

[@legna3407]

Eh sure

[@mrmcnulty8813]

I'm amazed by KZbins algorithm

[@dorkfishieSailor]

Me: Uh… yes, actually?

[@casulal_m6900]

Yes

[@Ibaraki_DX]

Yes²

[@randomyoutubeactivist942]

This is the only vidoe where the comments that say 'I cried' are legit.

[@stubbs5622]

Uhhh Can I get a motherfucking haircut

[@quillclock]

@@stubbs5622 hasha ty i needed that. Jesus i was not expecting this silly vid to make me cry but ill be damned if tears of joy aren't running down my face right now.

[@GeneralEggo]

You probably arent very old if you cry at this. Its either you're a kid or a tennager. If you are tennager and crying you're probably just have very high emphanty. Well me? I just fucking dont care that much and kill everyting in videogame to get some good loot. Oh your child just got executed but you have a good loot in your inventroy? Bang.

[@quillclock]

@@GeneralEggo im 29 so maybe I have more empathy than most. I'm an emotional dude at heart. if I was in public I prob wouldn't have reacted so hard.

[@GeneralEggo]

@@quillclock ah, the magic everyting in the internet is you cannot trust nobody, if you are 29 than congrats you have a high empahty, i guess But your video is kinda 29-ish i guess that you are 29 that have a high emphanty great job, Never seen someone actually 29 and not some kid pretending to be 29.

[@IncredulousTriangle]

Dude this shit was definitely worth it, and everyone could see the passion you put into it. Can't wait for part 2 tomorrow

[@NioXoiN]

wait, part 2, what

[@CSGhostAnimation]

No part 2, all part 2 would be is a condensed version. labeled (I reunited with a lost friend on Reddit and animated the PMs) but this never was completed. I originally abandoned the project because of abysmal views (3000) for many months. I just thought nobody was interested in my story.

[@stracklyshot]

What do you mean a part 2

[@s3vva]

Guys it's a joke, he's embodying the KZbin "watcher" community that just wants the next video tomorrow (as ghost said in the video)

[@lucierogge4807]

The ending is really cute I like it

[@Le_Codex]

Discovered you through your machining video, then watched your 1k$ PC one This one hit like a truck. I wasn't in as big of an online community (or any real one, for that matter), but I absolutely understand the loneliness that must have been. Losing contacts like that is viscerally haunting, but it makes the reunion all the more cathartic Thank you for making this, for recording this down. I may not have been able to hold back tears during your reunion with Carter, but they weren't tears of sadness

[@_sola1re_]

I had the same experience. The algo sent me his machining video which was hilarious, then the 1k pc one was awesome...and now I watched this and I'm...I'm not crying, you're crying!

[@BLOBBYBLOB.]

⁠same exact thing here

[@LARAUJO_0]

I was expecting an actual rant on Nintendo and the stupid business decisions they've been making. Instead, I got so much more

[@jonathanmanson4855]

Same story dude

[@fadyashraf2164]

Bro!

[@SENTRY456123]

Most KZbin videos are just like that. A negative title which leads to shit tons of arguments, 10 or even 20 minutes talking shit just to gain more ADs and money, you name it.

[@Joseph-ej3ez]

@@SENTRY456123 yeah but this, is such a precious story. I hope netflix won't ruin this

[@Ttegegg]

@@Joseph-ej3ez well he now has a half stable job

[@Brmemesrule]

Just got this in my recomended for no good reason, not even into drawing or anything, but this warms my heart.

[@hallowmallow22]

Same here.

[@kiachaelchild]

Same lmao

[@AxolinaAxolotl]

i think it got recommended to me because i’m also an animator

[@memeicusgaming2197]

Same (sorry I have nothing original to say :/)

[@the_furf_of_july4652]

Agreed

[@welcometoelijahvale]

The raw emotion in Ghost’s voice at 9:59,,, I’ve had cases where old internet friends disappeared and then and only then did I realize I really the only means of contact with them I had was through the internet. There was once a time where one of my close internet friends with a history of night terrors and depression texted me “I had a nightmare,” before just disappearing off Google Hangouts for months. I was horrified, and this reminded me of that. Good on you man, I’m tearing up.

[@rubixdude1067]

I remember playing with a friend on playstation and then one day be said his dad told him they were gonna go somewhere and he didn't come back online.

[@lolellordfiera3771]

@@rubixdude1067 damn

[@lukeyyw]

Losing internet friends is the scariest things, it happens so often. You can simply lose someone just by an app or program shutting down, brings me to tears knowing I lost so much people and everyday I just hope one day I meet them again.

[@inqurity]

@@lukeyyw my first internet friends were on some Minecraft PE server

[@COLSTERYouTube]

This inspired me to start looking for my old Wii U friend from 2016. Ever since Miiverse shut down and the switch came out, I lost interest in my Wii U and moved to my laptop. It’s been 5 years and everyone has been offline, I think it’ll be impossible to find him.

[@starfire7538]

i found this from a GMOD add-on called "FµCK NINTENDO!" along with a few others on Gmod's Front Page for workshop. as a Nintendo based smuck, all i wondered was "what did Nintendo do this time." but all i found was this. as it stands, i still remember Flipnote Hatena! i still have my brother's DSI that we used to go on it, altho.. we sadly had moved on, and i never really got to recognize an exact individual from there. (other then a few.) as for the trend of telling Nintendo to "Fµck Off," i have no clue where it came from or why. I'm just glad that Flipnote Hatena is still well remembered, and being thrown back to the side of Flipnote Hatena that i remember of community assembled notes made by multiple creators merging animations together, random trumpet animations, sometimes it was just art. is something that ill never really forget. and altho i know now, that if i dare try to go back and connect to Flipnote Hatena again that nothing will happen. and I'm okay with that. as the memory's we all made in Flipnote Hatena, and the people from there, are not gone. and still around just in another place. as for me, what do i know. i left Flipnote Hatena long before it even shut down. and my ranting always gets too long anyway. (oh! and on 4:15 there's a short clip of an animation you shared. i won't say i 100% remember it, but i can say it dose strike a memory from a animation very similar to one we saw when we did use Flipnote Hatena. but thats all i can say i know.)

[@starfire7538]

Flipnote Studio is a art style you will recognize just by seeing it. @kekeflipnote was an animator i could tell used Flipnote Studio before i even saw what their name was. and altho a sadly cannot say i saw many (if any) of your animations. with the (at least few) people who Ive seen who have never actually got to see Flipnote Hatena, I'm just glad I'm barely old enough to say i was apart of it, even if only a little. also, as for your animation in this, its great! and very smooth! something that alone is better then anything me or my brother ever really did. and that smoothness alone should be good enough here.

[@crow2596]

same, actually!

[@eskimopython2807]

The Gmod add on was a result of Nintendo taking every Nintendo mod off of the game via copyright strike

[@internetdoggo4839]

This video is a *MASTERPIECE* The facial expressions, the movement, the music, the editing, it all just fits perfectly together and it is gorgeous! The best art is the one that is made while its author truly feels what he's trying to depict in his work; And in this video, you can really _feel_ what CS Ghost felt at the time. I have never made an animation, nor owned a 3DS; hell, until very recently I never had internet friends! But nonetheless this video made me cry like a bitch, and that goes to show how good it is. Idk if you'll see this amongst all those 4.3K comments (as I post this), but if you do: Be proud CS Ghost, you have created something _amazing_ !

[@photosynthesise8889]

You are a nice person

[@sweetbeetyourfriend1808]

Sobbing crying "Carter and I talked for 8 hours straight" sobs wails I wasn't there for that community, even though I was more than old enough for it. I'm glad you could find a home there, it's a shame the places we truly find as homes on the net are torn down to much faster than they're put up. I hope you find the other 97!

[@hobbitplac6534]

96 ;D look at description

[@sweetbeetyourfriend1808]

@@hobbitplac6534 Didn't notice, it just got better!

[@marsultorem3207]

I am not Old enough for it but damn that sounded awesome

[@aqua-bery]

I wasn't old enough. I wish I was there.

[@nolifenick4976]

Why doesn't this man have more subs wtf - EDIT back a year later and happy to see him at 50k 100% deserved it :)

[@hylwicks]

because good animation takes time, and people don't want to wait

[@CSGhostAnimation]

@@hylwicks People can wait, but KZbin doesn't

[@CriticalAdventure]

Mutant Cupcake His videos aren’t popular enough to get normally recommended to people :/ I found this channel when I was searching up pubg or some shit and found this pubg tutorial made by him and started watching his videos

[@forbiddentictactoe1734]

@@CriticalAdventure Yeah same for me i was searching csgo

[@requiem165]

CS Ghost Animation lol 50k rn

[@ashuradafloofy]

Dude I literally cried watching this when you reunited with your friend I dunno but just tears of joy hit me like a truck, the boys getting back together is a great thing.

[@soaricarus]

I--- HOLY???? I COULD SWORN I RECOGNIZED YOUR CHARACTER??? I NEVER TALKED OR DID FANART OF YOUR CHARACTER BUT OH MY GOD I USED TO LOVE YOUR STICKFIGHTS????? HOLY GOD?????? WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF EVEN FINDING ONE YOU LIKED YEARS AGO?? AND HOLY THAT LAST PART--- GOD, MY MAN, I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!

[@CSGhostAnimation]

THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN

[@amxterxsu138]

@@CSGhostAnimation HELL YEAH

[@jSyndeoMusic]

This video and the comments here are so dang wholesome. Happy you all are finding each other again.

[@ky-aj-m]

Bro straight up love this comment section

[@nekjotti]

@@CSGhostAnimation FUCK YEAH BABY

[@Gitosan]

Dad: Why are you crying?? Me: The stickman found his friend dad. He found his friend.

[@amy5932]

Incogito-san Same, i dont even know how i got here but that moment made me smile so much

[@craftminerCZ]

Dad: *starts crying too*

[@ryanlopez3945]

My diluted dirty brain: SHIP IT!!!

[@obfys2654]

i was like "damn my man didnt hear from the boys 😭😢"

[@carterd2446]

Im just find it interesting me and him have the same name but it made me cry

[@rom319yt7]

*last seen: 4 years ago...* genuinly sad.. i hope you'll find some other friends you had on hetana..

[@samsonrules855]

I loved hatena and flipnotes as a kid. I had just worked up the courage to stop downloading and observing and try to actually start making my own flipnotes to post online, but as I went to figure out how to do that, was right around when they shut it down. It's still so nostalgic to see old flipnotes and seeing this style, and the fact that the community still holds it near and dear to their heart, even though the community is so fractured, really makes it something super special. What you said was 'so accurate' though. It was a community of creators, not a community of watchers, it was something super special and I'm sad it's gone now. I love your style so much and I'm gonna stick around. Anything that preserves and continues the legacy of flipnote hatena and continues to make continued that originally was there is something I want to stay and continue watching.

[@tropicalexile1681]

Okay so, shortly after Hatena died, a new service which carried over all of your art was created, and it was called Sudomemo. Even tho the gallery was discontinued, you can still use Sudomemo to this day. Seeing the demise of Hatena made me sad, but I remember my happiness when I saw Flipnote Sudomemo. Like so he can see this, I'm honestly surprised there are no comments about this

[@Xenofinite]

How 2 download? Lmao

[@ye4439]

I think the point was the community died

[@mrawesomeface4174]

@@Xenofinite I believe you just need to change something in your internet settings. Something like this, kzbin.info/www/bejne/j6mmaoGAadd-gbc

[@Xenofinite]

Oo

[@iceneko9170]

@@Xenofinite its a proxy server on the dsi. so its just a simple edit of your internet settings, no hassle.

[@DashFlashTheLife]

Me: Thinks it’s gonna be a video essay about Nintendo *discovers new corner of the internet instead*

[@nagiuhti]

Same. Not at all let down. The exact opposite

[@Nugcon]

I expected a memey rant video, got something even better

[@Butter_Warrior99]

Fucking based

[@lordman5497]

Yeah

[@maxgommers4436]

Hah, me too man have seen stick fights before but never seen the community around it.

[@LiamQuantum]

I love how the internet was shown as it’s own city, with buildings for creators, commenters walking down the streets, dm’s represented as regular old letters. Really great video man!

[@CSGhostAnimation]

thank you :)

[@CSGhostAnimation]

This is really about the only comment that gives appraisal to the City I depicted. Some of it is 3D animation I needed to use to get it the way I wanted. If you notice, Ghost passes a Cafe, and Carter/Ghost are chatting in the cafe in the credit scene (blurred)

[@taureon_]

@@CSGhostAnimation you did a good job at the city! thumbs up!

[@السراقالمجهول]

@@CSGhostAnimation the fucking city man, that interpretation was so cool man the way those assholes belittled you and you moving to a new apartment being a shell of what you used to fame wise, remembering the old days with your friends, that analogy was so on point it touched me, it really felt like a kid needing to move from their old house, their old life because their dad lost his job, it was so on point man, I never saw anything so creative like that on youtube, you just made me regain my passion for animation again, it was a trip like no other, thank you.

[@naoeveel]

And like twitter is a newspaper company

[@parchedcoma9939]

This actually made me cry. The amount of online friends I’ve lost over the years have been slowly breaking me. Pals I’ve told life secrets to and had the best moments of my life with, gone never to be seen again… I used to animate on flipnote too, nothing crazy, but it was still a very important part of my childhood. I remember watching your stick fights when I was a kid, and the nostalgia I am feeling right now is bringing me to tears. Thank you ghost, for bringing me back my childhood. ❤

[@Katharoni]

Some people: "Ech cringy design" Me: wow the whole thing is animated!

[@WeluvOwen]

Godzilla had a fucking stroke trying to read that and died.

[@quark_yi3576]

Hyperion383 G O Z I L L A

[@Tire_iron]

Hyperion383 same

[@Katharoni]

Fuck, dyslexia, let me fix it-

[@boredaf5782]

The jacket and hair even have animated physics

[@justanoldernorton1421]

The ending hit hard because it encompassed the feeling thats so euphoric , the feeling of relief when you find a long lost friend , it closes the door to stop your mind from having to ask "I wonder what happened to ferocious, why'd he disappear" whenever you see a old screenshot or just having that type of 3am, hell im still missing most of my friends from xbox 360 but every once in a wile ill get a comment on a video or a dm on discord saying "NORTON, I FOUND YOU" then followed by hours of conversation , it feels like you fixed a grand tragedy , it leaves me with a intense joy and feeling of relief, I truly find it hard to put in more detail then that , its something you can really only understand if you've felt it , ferocious , sam , Natalie we'll meet again , im waiting on it

[@voidjockey82]

Huh, so FlipNote had an entire community around it? I only knew of it as that one free DS application with a neat style. Granted I was very much not familiar with the internet at that point. The only way I even got the software or DSi-ware as the shop called it (Gosh, the nostalgia is swelling up.) was through my older brother being the only one even slightly familiar with the internet and it's technology. We would always use the router at our grandparents' house as the one home was foxed to the wall so we couldn't read the code. We had no idea what were doing and felt amazing with just those three free wares we could get. Anyhow, guess I have a lot if catching up to do now. Thanks for the wake-up call. Go find those other friends.

[@dioiandthings]

man this hit me in the feels, I didn't have a ds but I had a cousin who did and he had flipnote, I saw the amazing stick fight animations and I felt inspired, a few years later I discovered you, you were basicly my childhood. keep your head up and continue life, because it can go anywhere!

[@NeppyNeptune]

AAAAGHH! What an honor to have my art featured in this!!! Anyways, long time Hatena creator here. We spoke about this before. I have yet to go through my old Flipnotes saved on my DS and I'm procrastinating because I'm not ready to cry. Y'all know I sorta avoid this topic. There is so much nostalgia looking back on my old art, and I miss the community a lot. It truly felt like home. The lack of community I had post-hatena drove me nuts, and when I finally settled down into a new one, Vinesauce, I felt a lot better. But it goes to show that everything is so much more wholesome when we all have our own "homes". For a lot of us, Hatena was our first, and was the breeding grounds for our talent. Sometimes I come across amazing animators and then eventually learn that they used to be on Hatena as well. Figures. We all have our own Hatena-ish vibe, even if we attempt to shake it off. Nothing will completely resemble Hatena ever again, but that's okay. I am just lucky to have been apart of it (Even though I had issues with all the edgy teenage drama lol). Thank you Ghost. I'm always excited to see more of your content. I don't even know how you did the 3d stuff with the buildings and pie chart, and I'm scared to find out if you did that all by hand. Absolutely petrified.

[@CratthewF]

I have zero connection to any of this. I mean, i messed around with flipnote a little bit when I was way younger, but i never uploaded anything or became part of the community. I still burst into tears at “CARTEEEEEER”

[@bobhoskins1790]

Damn same I wish I joined flipnote haneta when I was younger

[@BloomerMindset]

Same

[@CiromBreeze]

Likewise. Sure, I used Flipnote, but I was mostly just an observer kid with no real connection to anything. My home was elsewhere, in an Animal Crossing community. Yet, I still have some Flipnotes downloaded, and I do heavily miss Hatena.

[@xSwiftblade_]

I tried to boot up flipnote for the first time in a while, it turns out that it had been shutdown for only a month and I had barely missed it I wasn’t an animator but boy did I love browsing hatena This hit home real hard

[@psirensongs]

Same

[@MonsterOfTruth]

I have seen this video on my recommendation for a while... Don't know why I never clicked on it.... But fuck, I'm so glad I did, this was such a great video and made me cry, I never had a Nintendo in my life, only started to be a Nintendo fan last year, buying myself so many consoles like switch, Wii, DSi 2ds 3ds, cuz fuck all their games are so good..., I saw flip note and I was super curious so I went to search on yt some animations, I knew I saw u before, ur animations were so fucking good back then and still are, I hope u can find more people... I have the same feeling but in a different way, it's about PlayStation Home, I had so many friends there and everyday we met there... Until in 2015 I stopped playing... Then I came back later in months and it was gone... Not even knowing that it was gonna shut down.. lost so many friends there..one day I hope I can find them back... So good luck ghost, you got this, love ur character too 💝

[@KennethV2000]

Reject Humanity, Become Monke

[@mihailmilev9909]

@@KennethV2000 lol

[@kierahuskarl]

There's so much genuine passion in small art communities, but sadly that's swallowed up on social media. When I saw your style though it was obvious you'd been a flipnote hatena stick fighter animator. The "simple" figures are so effortlessly expressive, with Carter's music the ending got me all teary eyed and nostalgic for those "talking for 8 hours straight" wild human connections that happen in the most unexpected places.

[@linktheheroofhyrule2498]

I came here expecting a shitpost and left in tears.

[@Hat-]

Same. That ending was beautiful.

[@cicada8817]

I like never cry but like when the reunion happened- *distant sobbing*

[@أحمدمصطفىشلبي-ج2ه]

@@cicada8817 same

[@wolvezzz3671]

Same

[@WasatchWind]

Hello, my fellow hero

[@masi31777]

REMEMBER PEOPLE,GHOST FINDING HIS OLD FRIENDS IS WHOLESOME.

[@taxevasiongaming]

True

[@notreallygudetama]

Yes

[@0luc83]

what

[@nqrtzy8765]

One might even go far as to say it’s Wholesome 100- just kidding, that meme sucks

[@skibidicumsigma2016]

agreed

[@1nsanem0ss]

"A community of creators, not a community of watchers" literally got me there. Edit: Man, nice video, ngl it's totally heartwarming.

[@cosmicdraconian6712]

Truw

[@goofyahdemoman1134]

I don’t like wholesomeness, because I like chicken cannons.

[@lallelol9516]

I rewatch this every so often, it was the first video of yours i watched (followed by, like, all of them), the animation is genuinely so nice, AND you’re my kind of humor But most of all this is a comfort video, you made it to my elite favourites playlist, congrats I get a rush of flipnote nostalgia from the style of your animation, i didnt even know there was an online community, i was so little i thought the short demos in my gallery were made by my nintendo or living in it or something; but it was where i animated my first things ever, and if i had known about everyone else, it would’ve been my first home too So what im trying to say is thank you for making this, starting 5 years ago, and im so happy it reached so many people, creators and watchers alike :,)))

[@gavart4509]

I can’t say I can empathize with the struggles, but the human emotion, sound, and music made it tangible- I nearly cried. Good luck to finding the rest of the legends.

[@bladehunter1097]

I legit did cry cause I'm missing out on ever having these experiences.

[@Awesomejojo]

Well said.

[@owenleaman7306]

Mirrors my sentiment toward this video EXACTLY. Well said, stranger. Well said.

[@smartstuf1026]

not sure if I can empathize but I empathize with this

[@gavart4509]

Smart Stuf I meant empathize as in I don’t have the experience he lists, but he makes the emotion front staged so it’s easy to connect and sympathize with

[@scdcanis]

I REMEMBER THE STICKFIGURE STYLE THERE WAS A ENTIRE SERIES AND EVERYTHING DUDE IM SO GLAD THIS POPPED INTO MY RECOMMENDED SO GLAD YOU MET YOUR FRIENDS JUST OH MY GOD

[@niqsy6116]

O boi the nostalgia of wartching stick man animation... I fucking love the one with the story! I only remember one only one of them with the story... It's about 4 or 3 stickman in a group and one of them always talk using meme the one with the biggest head and the shortest out of 4 of them

[@poisonmelonz3933]

the modern version of that is just Alan Becker

[@meikireid1660]

CS Ghost: Great Animation Carter: Great Music Together: Great Friends

[@idiokit]

carter here, thanks for the kind words :)

[@meikireid1660]

@@idiokit bro I loved your song it was great

[@anustin3439]

hotel: trivago

[@CSGhostAnimation]

My soul

[@bunfey]

I loved how your showed your journey and it shows that you came back stronger. Love your animation and ngl I was crying half the time I was watching this. Hope you and your friend carter have lots of fun! And the others you have found or will find and make. Theres still lots of other animators you can meet out there and so many different mediums. Yours is just one unique style that has pieces of your experiences and life and how you've grown its beautiful to watch And I hope this one little positive comment among the many others helps push you forward. (From a fellow animator who has yet to debute

[@DabBat]

“Look at your profile picture, is it weird unique or some kind of inside joke?” No, Baguette makes for a good sandwich

[@anawkwardbean165]

Also a useful weapon in food fights

[@shtwick]

Im french and i can relate

[@nuui2hou]

@Juan 2.0 24601 🤝 🥖 _the council will decide your fate_

[@AmantePatata]

Nothing about some good food

[@davidarruda8400]

Toucan good

[@ShapeshifterFin]

"Is your profile pic weird" Well I wouldn't say weird...

[@Croxy115]

your profile picture is mesmerizing

[@ShapeshifterFin]

It's the most beautiful thing in the world.

[@Jamessouthern]

Gorgeous

[@theyeetinator894]

The profile pic look kinda sexy ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) no homo

[@sansispunful893]

Arousing

[@HikariDana]

Dude, I felt this video so hard like you wouldn't believe. I'm one of the very few 'Homeless Hatenians' as you put it. One of the smaller ones, so uh, you likely have only seen me once ever. But just, considering I was going through so much shit around my last year of middle school, learning that Flipnote Hatena was due to shut down the very day I was guaranteed my Summer Break, the ONLY time I would have had to catch up on my animations and show what new ideas I had in store?? It fuckin broke me. It broke my heart. And I sat there for those few years hoping that 'Flipnote Gallery' would finally release and I would be able to climb back on that high horse for the greatness I had earned for all the damn hard work I put into my animations, after building off of my mistakes and learning my own style. And yet it never came at that time, and I could do nothing but settle for this 'Sudomemo' that was created in its place by someone who wasn't any better themselves as far as whatever darkness people found out about 'em. Dunno if the rumors were true but, personally I couldn't find much of a way to like them anyhow. And then Flipnote 3D was announced. You wouldn't believe how fuckin fast I scrambled onto that Nintendo website to get my free code for that shit. I was so damn excited to get to animating right away, to see what people would create, to make new friends and start sharing creations again! But yet again. Nintendo had put a block down and make online interaction unavailable. It was just another animation program. I mean hell, I don't mind a free animation program with all sorts of fancy new possibilities. It's just... when you make an updated version of a past program and you cut off any amount of contact you could've had with old creators, it just hurts y'know? I mean at least you could find your old flipnotes again which was cool if you wanted to redo any of them or die of cringe(y'know, for the little bit of time they had that function running. Can't do it now apparently.) tl;dr: I can almost never feel at home with just any animation program, no matter how hard I try. Because when the Original Flipnote Hatena was the best thing in town, it let me connect with the few people who I still talk to-to this very day, people who's shoulders I cried on during hard times and derped off with in the brighter times, and we're almost like brothers and sisters. Flipnote 3D is fun and all? But it's just not the same. Nothing else could ever be the same. Thank you for making this video, honestly. It honestly brought back a lot of nostalgia. Also, big congrats to you finding a long lost friend! And to you making this video for that long holy shit. Well wishes to you friend, and I hope you can find more of your creative friends.

[@CSGhostAnimation]

I appreciate that you appreciate the video the video :)

[@peek1288]

Broooo I tried Sudo and the community was so ehhhh it made me dip

[@Dreamurkai]

Friendships that transcend time ... as someone who is trying to do animations I can't imagine how amazing this community would have been ... I hope you find the rest of your old friends, and you continue to share memories with them (I legit was on the verge of crying when your old showed up) ... by the way ... your hairs awesome dude, I like it ... makes you stand out 😋💙💜💙💜

[@SummerNose]

I never thought a story about a nintendo software could be so sad.

[@arbiter1178]

When I first saw stick figure animations I was in awe at this beautiful animation style and I had no clue who made them so I was sitting here on KZbin many years later and saw that you were the creator of these animations so this is going to be my small, hopefully impactful, thanks. ( excuse my grammar and good luck to all of your future endeavors )

[@Villager6883]

I get the nostalgia with Flipnote and the friends part totally not relate to that :/ I know I'm being neutral about this

[@eeee69]

paying for comments is kind of like colored stars 🤔🤔

[@aangeles21]

@@eeee69Hes just supporting the creator

[@eeee69]

@@aangeles21 i am nostalgiaposting is all

[@MsScarletwings]

@@aangeles21 lol it’s a reference to an actual feature that we had back in the days of OG Hatena

[@MattMathisSoftwareGuy]

Used to ride bikes with my best friend in primary school all over town. We would bring our DS's to places with free WiFi to download flipnotes of stick fights and trade pokemon on the GTS. Some of the happiest memories I have. This video was like a nostalgia trip, and then you brought it all home with the ending. Love the art and this video. Thank you!

[@A_Professional422]

This is one of those where you stare off into the distance thinking after watching it

[@juanluis21monsanto98]

As another Flipnote creator, I did not consent to calling out my feelings like this, LOL XD But this was definitely something that resonated with many, and for me, especially the ending, and I was extremely lucky to have made contact with a group of my friends again about a year after shutdown, all because they had posted on their deviant-art our role-play stories by reminiscing and googling my old Hatena name to see what would happen and it would've been the only time too, I had become resigned at that point, had it been before that post, I may have never found them again, and, those people I've met online are some of my closest friends, I wouldn't say my style, or animations were all that good, or just don't hold up as now, but it wasn't about that, it was the friends made along the way, the interactions, a *community* that was thriving, and the stories, and art they wanted to share, but at the end of the day, I'm happy to have managed to stay in contact with some of them after all this time, and had been part of the Hatena community, I'm still missing some friends, and I hope they're doing well. If any of you are also hoping to find them, good luck, this is Juan Link an old cringy Zelda/Kingdom Heart themed Hatenian that was a roleplay junkie. P.S. It really sucked about the 3DS thing, for that year, getting one was an aspiration I grew purely to reunite with my friends, but it would've been a dead end based on an empty promise.

[@alejandropetit6573]

Same, I didnt use flipnote that much (i was about 6 years at the time, I probably didn't even know what the word animation meant) but I still liked to see the animations other people made But now, im 14 and will soon have to do a lot of things I know will be very difficult for me to do. I don't want to grow up

[@Obi-WanGaming]

“Nah, like that’ll ever happen.” Memes aside, this is one of the greatest things i have EVER seen. People on the internet just constantly disappear and are never found again

[@bogymanthedark]

I lost so many friends over my lifetime but the saddest one was my steam friend that used to play tf2 with me all the time, he would literally quit whatever he's playing to join a game with me. at first i found it to be an annoyance because he would follow me wherever I go in the game but I got used to it and became pretty much the only way I would play tf2 but one day he suddenly disappeared and never came back, I felt like i lost something precious and I could no longer enjoy playing tf2 without him and I also quit

[@regtrey9251]

@@bogymanthedark I feel that

[@kims555edits]

Bogyman the dark some anime shit, that made me cry like it was the end of an anime series I love

[@Antonete2005]

Imagine playing with a friend on Ps3 when it came out, and today find him in a game, like if nothing happend. So... yes, sometimes you find people that you tought you'll ever see

[@njkg108]

웃웃웃웃웃웃웃웃웃웃웃웃웃 Holy shit! IT'S THE GHOST! Man, I remember seeing your old flipnotes on Hatena when I was 6. I remember all of my friends claiming they made it but i knew damn well that they couldn't animate like you could. Man, if you, 100%, and BoSS made a collab i would shit myself. Flipnote was something I'll never forget in my lifetime EVER. I make stickfights, but i can't post them anywhere due to my 3ds' limitations. I've taken so much inspiration from stickfighters like you, and i think I've made some amazing things. Of course, I wouldn't be able to if it weren't for you, BoSS and your stickfights. -Best regards, 7even (id:7evenflipnote)

[@CSGhostAnimation]

I never collab, but you can talk to boss. He's on Twitter, click on my twitter, his name is like, Kevin Do. He loves old fans.

[@pompomaddons]

How does this have 1 reply

[@MandraMockups]

@@pompomaddons i was thinking the exact same thing

[@스폰짓수]

한국어로 뭐래는거야

[@thermalanimation884]

flipnote hatena is still around its called sudomemo

[@bdscharmeleon]

Flipnote Hatena was my only form of the recreational internet I had for a very long time, and I may have a fuzzy memory but I feel I do remember your animations on there. I may not have engaged at all since I didn’t know how to aside from adding stars, but wow the nostalgia trip is super heavy. I thought flipnote would’ve been great on the WiiU as well but sadly they was a pipe dream. I made my own flipnotes so long ago…and yeah they aren’t great but I had fun. And I’m happy you had fun with the community you shared with so many fellow animators. KZbin can be brutal with what is here and what is advertised, animators don’t get enough love from this site, it’s pretty sad. But I am happy that you met your friend after so many years. I could imagine that felt magical to you. ❤️

[@TRVladdy]

flip note wasn't just an app. It was childhood. Even I made some animations and Im sure that I even watched some of yours.

[@oleemalbon]

I started animating on flipaclip not so long ago and then i came across the flipnote community on youtube. I was amazed! I wanted to be a part of this community but i couldn't find where to go. Now i know i'm way too late but still! If i could've had flipnote i would've gone crazy with it! But nvm now. Um... Sorry for that... Bye.

[@swikbox4276]

I used to animate on flipnote, I was under a different alias. I saw the that title and that character and thought it couldn't be, I clicked and the found out that he still made stuff. I thank him for make some of my earliest child memories, flipnote may be gone but it will always live on in our hearts. In the future I hope that flipnote animations get the same love that Xbox 360 messages are getting now. I doubt that Nintendo will ever bring back flipnote studio (considering that they seem to be leaving the DS era behind.) I will always remember the stick fights that I watched with my cousin. I salute to all the flipnote animators.

[@whys_onyx]

I’m Freaking CRYING that’s so sweet, I never got to experience Hetena since when I got a dsi it was shut down. I wish I could have seen Flipnote in its glory days, heck some of the Flipnotes in the background I still have saved

[@AnonUsername473]

I feel you so damn hard you have no idea

[@Azzyzazz]

Flipnote Hatena was such a massive part of my life eons ago and that era closing scattered everyone there to the winds, but every now and then I see videos and such from people who were there, and it reminds me that those times mattered- and those people are still around, and were just as impacted by and loved Flipnote as much as i was/did. I kind of wish we had something like that nowadays, it was such a unique occurrence because of the DSi- unique to it because it was a mass produced gaming tool that just happened to be good for doodling on, and that spawned such a creative community. I'm turning 28 this year, feels like Hatena was just five minutes of my life but man were those some good five minutes.

[@Parker-nm9cg]

hey hey!! if you still have your DSi, there's actually a recreation of Hatena you can join, called Sudomemo. it takes a little bit of wifi setup, but after that, you use it like normal. the community is super active and it's pretty awesome. at the very least, it's a walk down memory lane.

[@2009samiy]

youtube mary and jesus in the quran and mohmmad in the bible and the Torah and the scientific miracles of the quran and mohmmad in hindu scripture

[@2009samiy]

@@Parker-nm9cg youtube mary and jesus in the quran and mohmmad in the bible and the Torah and the scientific miracles of the quran and mohmmad in hindu scripture

[@HypeXtra]

Looking at your PFP, wouldn't watching 8:45 make you mad?

[@MidnightDrake]

@@HypeXtra It's supposed to be a parody of youtube in the olden days, from what I can tell. ugh.

[@haziqhafizuddin8038]

This is beautiful man, I was expecting something like your PC vid, but this honestly blew me away. I hope you find the rest of your hatena friends, Ghost. I grew up on the stickfight community as well and seeing someone still using this style is amazing for me. Keep on making this content man, you da best

[@John-yr1ww]

This was in my recommended today, seems to be showing up for lots of people. Great video, almost made me cry.

[@quillclock]

SAME! except i bawled tears of joy for a good min or too. i guess the mighty algorithms decided today we needed some feels. ill be damned damn it was't right as hell

[@rudollf-9156]

Me too dude...me too:(((((

[@rudollf-9156]

If you(bouth of you)see these...lets maje a group so we can be feriend maybe:)))

[@oreo-postraphe]

DUDE YESSSS

[@pickleplayer33]

Same here man. Now I've been scrolling through the comments to see if there are any usernames I recognize. It's been so long and I wasn't very well known in the community, but if there's anyone else like me that hasn't changed their username or avatar since then, maybe I'll get lucky.

[@wurro]

holy shit how is it possible to feel this emotional and nostalgic about something i never experienced

[@Sean-wv4jd]

Same bro. Although I used flip note only once or twice

[@Goat_gamering]

Because it isn't just flipnote. Its all the lifelessness of the current internet somehow seeping through the video, possibly because you are literally using one of those places.

[@MukundaMadhavaDasa]

Wow same here. I am literally tearing up.

[@MukundaMadhavaDasa]

I agree. Watching this actually made me think of my own experiences on WoW or even old CoD. Making friends that were legit although virtual@@Goat_gamering

[@elmosworld1345]

Same

[@hatena360]

Wow, dude. I remember seeing your stuff years ago and wanting to be that smooth. I’ve been looking down on Flipnote for years now as just a “beginner’s software” but I’ve just forgotten the community that was there and how little some of them had outside of Flipnote. Guess I just needed a refresher. Low key makes me want to find some of my old friends from Flipnote now lol

[@_implying]

didn't expect to see you here

[@n0m4r22]

I expected to see you here

[@ryanics2291]

I never really experienced Flipnote Hatena, but Im glad I found you here. I love watching your videos and your art style is awesome. You are keeping a tradition that most people have forgotten or don't care about/think about any more. I hope you keep growing and I hope you dont change. Thanks for being an authentic you, rather than an advertisment slave, pushing for the best looking style to bring in as many people as possible for as much money as possible. Im glad the youtube algorithm finally sent me the link to your channel. It's an inspiration for me.

[@thegraveyard1858]

Finding you and KeKeflipnote on KZbin is just such a blessing, I miss Hentena so much. I was really young when it came out and I remember things I regret, I wasn’t necessarily a hater but I wasn’t the best person on there and I wish I could change things or at least enjoy it now without me being a messed up little kid. I had a friend on there too, I have no idea how to contact her or if she’s ok but I hope she’s doing well. I’m so glad you’ve found some of your old friends, that’s amazing! 💖 Thank you for the wholesome content and keeping the nostalgia of Hentena alive, hopefully one day they could release it again or something, maybe I could make up for the person I once was.

[@snjert8406]

I found Keke on twitter and thought someone had stolen his animations and almost flipped when it was actually him still truckin on :) good times. I miss that platform so much.

[@ellalinko]

I don’t understand why anyone would give hate to you for doing what you love, I think your style and motive to keep the memory of flipnote alive is amazing! I wish I had a ds so I could’ve lived through those amazing flipnote days, I’m jealous you got to enjoy that. I really really love your content, please don’t ever get discouraged from hate, what your doing is absolutely amazing!

[@B4D3ST]

It's internet. Anything can happen in here

[@omniscientbarebones]

Ever heard of cancel culture.

[@BravenKnight]

Good news though: Sudomemo revived the community and Flipnote 3D became a thing on MyNintendo, so the community never really died it just lost a lot of viewers.

[@lexer2297]

Sudomemo saved a good part of flipnote hatena users, not everyone, but just a good bunch. Anyway, I remember 3 years or 4 ago when i was searching for some proxy server of flipnote "hatena" and Sudomemo just made me so happy. I wish Sudomemo becomes the hatena of years ago.

[@lexer2297]

@Dragos Domini idk

[@superintendentvergil9928]

I came to this video expecting a funny story about some copyright claim or something. I didn't expect to find an amazing, heartbreaking story about one person looking to reunite with his friends who were forcefully separated by Nintendo... I truthfully believe KZbin needs more honest stories like this one.

[@craftminerCZ]

Yo I just got this recommended and I had no clue such a community existed but I miss it now. I genuinly cried what the hell man.

[@BullettPsycho]

SAME

[@ShadedAkumu]

first vid on yt to even make me cry, way too wholesome

[@cosmicdraconian6712]

Bro that was wholesome

[@alejandropetit6573]

I sued to have a blue nintendo ds xl and my older sis had a pink one, we used to talk in pictochat and do silly stuff like that, and I sometimes animated in flipnote as well (even tho I sucked)

[@MsScarletwings]

You know, I didn’t wake up today expecting that I would find myself crying my eyes out over some stick figure animations, but here we are and it is not an unwelcome surprise.

[@ShiroNyankotv]

I'm literally crying. It's a shame I've never had any amazing encounters like this when I was younger. Would be nice to be in a community that cares instead of feeling deadpan all the time

[@MrAlaxUA]

True, true, I wish I was a part of a community that shared my interest when I was a child.

[@kaivirin]

Hits too close to home...

[@amanwithnoname4657]

Remove the pan then you're right

[@Gintazzzz1]

when I heard his voice crack at 8:07 (assuming he was almost laying tears) i almost cried for him. damn. what a story.

[@retrobat1631]

I watched this video on a GMod addon titled Fuck You Nintendo. Glad I found this channel.

[@gordyowl9455]

I'm living in 2020, I'm using a smartphone with AMOLED screen and 1080p video, am I in 2010 again? I used to watch Flipnote animations in that era every night in the confort of my bed before smartphones were accessible and yet I was a 13-14 year old

[@maverick4900]

I don’t know why but this made me cry. I’m not even a creator of any sort but damn this made me cry.

[@volticleux]

same bro

[@NekoTiki]

you don't know how the hell i cried oof

[@nastynecro]

Bro this deserves more hype

[@lers0305]

But you're probably one of us watching and seeing these stick fighters in the same timeperiod :D

[@furushaanrasheedh913]

let me suck those tears for you man no homo

[@Micha-Hil]

9:33 These three seconds are my favourite moment of the entire video CS Ghost stands up, ready for combat, almost like he finally was getting a taste of stick fighting once more, but... it's not combat. It's just the love and adoration that random people online gave to his comic. That alone deserves a like.

[@gapplssb]

Thats a flashback*

[@sushikitty2086]

Genuinely made me cry, i remember flipnote hentena being something I used every day and has turned into me being the artist I am today. From the anime community, to lost in the shut down, to art school. It's so good to see that other people have these fond memories, and I do remember seeing some of your flipnotes. One of the first places I ever felt a sense of community.

[@photosynthesise8889]

I swear, some game companys and devs are like "oh wait, i did something right" and ruin it

[@Kristian-jk2ww]

Well this isn’t exactly Nintendo’s fault. The DSi, and subsequently, Flipnote Hatena had been out for 11 years at the point when it shut down, and it was most likelly not profitable keeping it up for the 100 people still using it. While it did bring out a massive community of creators, it was surely declining fast, and Nintendo pulled the plug. Now Flipnote Gallery World was most likelly shut down due to the short lifespan of the 3DS, as well as the release of the widely successful Nintendo Switch a year before it shut down.

[@lebens3585]

@@Kristian-jk2ww Yes

[@spiritgate0444]

@@Kristian-jk2ww They should put on the switch hopefully.

[@Kristian-jk2ww]

Spiritgate 04 They could, but there isn’ exactly a huge market for that. Nintendo is a corporation and their first and foremost out to gain profit.

[@puparoonis]

I can’t believe this was a year ago. Istg this is so wholesome near the end, I’m so glad you guys found eachother. I wish I found this more sooner. Amazing animation and work, you’ve gain another supporter.

[@jakeySquarre]

I didn’t know other people were watching this years later too

[@hielum1337]

It got recommend to people now

[@obamascum4153]

Everyone else: has meaningful avatars and names close to them. Me: yes...

[@thebrickinquestion]

Lmao my profile pic is my dog with hella filters lmao

[@cbadefghijklmnopeyt1799]

And me

[@SchmidleMcDingle]

Yes

[@leafyeaveeey]

I found my people

[@_1V4N]

My avatar is just a roblox avatar lmfao

[@ItzFlanman]

This video made me slightly tear up, man I remember the day Nintendo shut it down, I died a little on the inside but I'm so glad I found this channel

[@kyrauniversal]

I'm literally crying right now. People usually say that "Internet friends aren't real friends" but... they don't understand the shit that happens when those friends are lost. The void that just crushes you. The hole in your core that just expands every time you think about a pleasant interaction you've had with them.

[@josephfickenscher9420]

Sometimes it is simple as an online game.

[@KingLaZrButBad]

I have a roblox friend (galaxycatcar) who got taken by a scam bot and started advertising free pets in adopt me (I don't even play adopt me) it was sad to see one of my friends reduced to a STUPID SCAM BOT! It literally made me cry. She was a real person. Interacting with me and having fun. Now, she's gone. She was a real person. But now its just free pets this free pets that. She's gone.

[@vurrunna]

Back in high school, I became involved in the fan-art scene for the game Starbound. I was still new to art at that point, but the community was beyond supportive. I found myself in the middle of a group of artists and art-enthusiasts (i.e. forum members who didn't draw, but followed artists on the forum), all of whom were wonderful people. Chief among these was a very popular artist who constantly gave me advice and encouraged me to keep going with my art. Eventually she drifted away from the forums, as did many others of the forum members as Starbound lost popularity--these days, there are only a handful of active users, only a couple of whom were part of the Old Guard. It's been years since the forum's heyday, and every now and then I'll get sentimental thinking of all the good time's we had. I don't think I'll ever have another community quite like we had in those forums. But the story doesn't end there. Recently, I saw one of my posts got a like from the artist I used to be friends with. I immediately PMed her, and the two of us started messaging again. Turns out she's actually been in close touch with several other members of that old community--in fact, not only did they all end up sharing a house together at one point, she even went as far as to get married to one of them! The two of us are keeping in touch and sharing art again. I may never get the Starbound forums back, but it's good to know I haven't lost all the friends I made along the way.

[@juliethompson8208]

@@KingLaZrButBad locked out?

[@KingLaZrButBad]

@@juliethompson8208 idk. But its sad to see her loose her account (or not and she is just playing while the bot is doing its thing)

[@jinx2292]

A few years back, I had a group of friends from all across the Western Hemisphere. We all played together on Hypixel, and I hade friendships that would have lasted a life time.... but controlling parents got in the way, and they took away my pc. 6 months later I came back- but all except 2 were gone, out of the group if 20.... the one I had the strongest connection too, vanished, with out a trace.... And I really miss him... so, HannahTheBanana_ if your out there, hello! (I was also very dyslexic, and a slow typer... these guys helped me with that. I mean Hannah is the way I learned to spell Banana... xD) The reconnecting in the video made me cry..... My best friend, and honestly, my other half, and I really reconnected recently, and that made me very happy, Were trying to track down the rest of our group.

[@CSGhostAnimation]

Hey this comment is really a lot like a conversation I had elsewhere about this video. I'm Theghost129 in the thread: imgur.com/gallery/F6P0Kzw What was your old Username? I'll put it in the imgur post. If she googles it, she might see it. Good luck on finding her. -CS Ghost Animation

[@mousse.mousse]

It seems like HannahTheBanana_ is still an active minecraft player, apparently she changed her name several times (last change in January). She is now called Saltybirbs in minecraft.

[@trickytreyperfected1482]

@Pea-In-The-West I doubt I'm the Trey you're looking for since I never changed schools, but I might as well say something just in case.

[@CenturianTale_Halo]

I HAVE AN IMPORTANT QUESTION BECAUSE I HAD A HYPIXEL FRIEND WHO SEEMED DYSLEXIC AND A SLOW TYPER AS WELL! ARE YOU xXSABERONEXx?! PLEASE I NEED TO KNOW!

[@CenturianTale_Halo]

I really need an answer (I know I just commented but still) I swear if it's you, Sabe, I'm gonna cry-

[@Maxsmack]

Why Tf am I crying over a animated stick character with blue anime hair

[@i_have_friend6639]

Yeah why I’m crying to

[@organsnatcher8395]

A year later this man is still liking comments Absolute legend who deserves these subs

[@MrOgone4ek]

i rarely write comments and im far from animation, but this video is soulful. especially music at the end of "life is strange" fits like never before

[@zed1877]

I haven’t cried like this in a long time. Thanks, ghost.

[@zed1877]

I almost forgot about such a huge piece of who I am. Thanks for making this content so flipnote can be remembered, Ghost.

[@matthewjungmann12]

This video really perfectly captured how precious childhood friends are. The stuff you did when you were a kid always has the potential to bring you right back to an easier time in your life. Life happens, people drift apart, but speaking to an old friend is something just nothing at all can compare to.

[@ragingultimate1003]

I can't believe that I'm only remembering this now instead of six months ago, when I first watched this. So, back when I was five or six, my mother had bought me a Nintendo DSi for me. I was... quite ecstatic about it, actually. I loved that ol' thing like a firstborn child. I loved taking crappy pictures on it, and I loved playing the DS games on it. However, one day I was toodling around on the DS, bored out of my mind, when I saw Flipnote. For... some reason, I had never gone that far into the DS 'library' (if you will). I never really had the reason to. But, after seeing that orange frog, I decided 'why not?' and opened up the app. I remembered being blown away by the animations - though I never hopped onto the Internet to look at the stick figure animations (look, at that time I was living a sheltered life... I didn't know about the concept of Wi-Fi until I was about ten. Yes, you read that right.). However, I was still blown away by the usual animations that were pre-installed along with the app - you know, that one animation with a parade of animals with the last animal/human (I forgot) being squished by an elephant's foot. And then I found my mother's animations. They were quite short - maybe about five seconds each - but those few animations... I loved them. At that time, I didn't know that they were my mother's - I thought they were also pre-installed - and so... I just let it be. Fast forward to about 2017 - I was fooling around on my school laptop when I saw The Cliff 5 being recommended to me on KZbin. Being curious, I decided to click on it, and I was thrust back into the world of animation. Now, admittedly, it had been quite a few years ever since I last saw my mother's animations, so at that time, while it did ring something in my head, it didn't do anything more than that. However, I became really interested in the community - I even tried to animate stick figures a few times (to no avail - I have no animating talent unlike my mother lol). Fast forward again to six months ago, when I saw this video for the first time. That orange frog began to stir up something within me, but then again, I also had some really spicy Indian food and mistook it for 'mama-mia my stomach's about to explode'. Didn't look back on it further. However, I was now very knowledgeable about the stick figure community - Hyun's Dojo, Alan Becker, Zeruel82Mk2, and CS. I'm honestly ashamed that it took me SIX FRICKIN' MONTHS to finally put two and two together - that Flipnote was the name of that one app (probably should have figured it out the moment I set my eyes on that frog) and then, right after that, I remembered my mother's animations. Even though this is a completely different story... It still struck me as humorous that CS has a point - the Flipnote community is still here. They were displaced, but they never really left the fans. The community is still alive and kicking on all social platforms - Facebook, Reddit, KZbin - and I would dare say that a lot of relevant stick figure animators were at least indirectly influenced by the stick figure community on Flipnote Hatena. Rest in Peace, mom. Thanks to you, I met a community that I will never forget. You'll always live on in my heart. As for the DS... I unfortunately lost it in South Korea about a few years back. Biggest mistake of my life. But to anyone watching this and scoffing, just - please - know this. The Flipnote community was... something. It wasn't - isn't - something to look at with disdain just because some bad people decided to do some really messed up crap. It's to be looked at like how archaeologists look at previous civilizations. One last thing. Admittedly, since this was a very long time ago, all of my memories aren't fully there, of course. Some are lost to the noggin that is my brain, but some - SOME - little tidbits refuse to just let go. And those little tidbits are what made me who I am today.

[@CSGhostAnimation]

bruh this comment reads like a novel. I didn't want to stop reading it.

[@boethjelle8769]

@@everymanjack8492 ............................................dude I can't even with this comment. I'm not gonna go all 30 year old grown man on you (yes I am) but what a "that quote from Billy Madison (I don't even like that movie)" level of dumb thing to say. Generations of humans are different because of when they existed relative to what part of capital T Time they existed in, but uh, beyond that we've basically been the same for about 50,000 years. wow. grow up. Jesus.

[@Zaxster_-3-]

Thanks for sharing all of this

[@MistahShootrES]

@@boethjelle8769 LMAO what did they say i wanna know now

[@KeltonAwesome]

I’m in fucking tears rn

[@kyanhluong]

Clicked for Nintendo criticism, stayed for "Draw my life" story

[@Dreamy.tsu_]

I don't know how, I don't know why, but for some reason, this video was the only one on this platform that ever made me cry. I could really feel your emotions brother.

[@drinkingsoap]

6:02 We live in a world where most people idolize people for how cool they are but rather not idolize the work this person had done That’s my thought I guess

[@CSGhostAnimation]

Good guess, and I think that scene of freely open to interpretations. But I sorta was going towards this direction: Everyone on the site is like you. It's a collective of everyone liking animation because everyone tried animation. They value animation far more. When an animation is posted, its remembered for several months. People on KZbin like animation, but they've never tried it. They simply value animation. They view the animator as an individual. And because everyone is individualistic on YT, there's never anything special about an individual. I lurk thru a lot of my commenters- they don't really post animations. Their individuals, just like me and you. And more so, KZbin and their viewers tend to view their works as disposable. TL;DR. Community understands, Audience does not.

[@marianoherranmarco3494]

CS Ghost Animation I agree with you. I like how you perpetue KZbin like a big city, away from hometown. It’s hard to connect with an audience that can’t see the hard work behind or the value that has for the creator. I hope you keep growing.

[@szxpx]

Ayyyy

[@breadguyy]

@@CSGhostAnimation theres a similar way of this but with scratch, everyone knew how limitng the drag n drop system was hard to make, and how hardly scratch ran stuff like animations so while some games may not look impressive to others, to scrathcers it was different

[@HellfireDoesCringe]

That last part reminds me of my elementary years Antonio, I don’t know where you are or how you’re doing. All I know is I haven’t seen you in 3 years and I’m still looking forward to our reunion. Best of luck for ya dude. You’re always gonna be the King of Derps in my eyes.

[@ErikStensrud]

I was really surprised by the turn this video took. Looks like you put so much work into it! Flipnote will forever be in our hearts. :)

[@CSGhostAnimation]

Hey mcboo, glad to see you :)

[@KyleRoy]

👋🏻 hey old buddy :) -Blaster

[@ErikStensrud]

@@KyleRoy Hey Blaster! Good to hear from you. :D

[@gamereevee9163]

I can tell this video means a lot to you. A callout to a once thriving community. It’s nice to know you’re finding those lost friends and I do hope you find all of them. Most would give up after all the hate but you find immense joy from those who once knew the past that brought so much fun. I sincerely do wish you find fun with the things you do.

[@BeerMoneyGames]

I think you animated your feelings and emotions perfectly when you were no longer able to connect to that part of your life. As an artist, it touched me how you were able to reconnect with so many people because of your talent. Beautiful!

[@CSGhostAnimation]

thanks so much!!! - i crie every time

[@cardless5777]

@@CSGhostAnimation That you still answer to comments after all these years is one of the most heartwarming things I have ever seen on this platform. I'm in tears right now!

[@ReKonstructor]

Youre going on slide 3 lol

[@bigdadbeefsticks]

I REMEMBER YOU! I use to watch those animations with my younger sister. I was super young back then but I looked up to you guys. And Flipnote definitely helped foster my love for animations. I hope you find all your friends. (Also yes the hair and name is infact how I remembered you)

[@HumanAnalyst257]

Holy shit… you were one of the first ones… It’s only a few months ago that I found your channel. I thought the art style was familiar, but I assumed it was just some shitty computer software paint style. Watching this I realized that hit me like a shotgun blast to the chest. Things from the old ways like flipnote are… well they’re something that my vocabulary can really articulate. It was more like real interaction. When any modern social media platform talks about new features designed to “let people express themselves,” that indescribable ‘thing’ is what their trying to achieve. The problem is that nobody can do it anymore. Old message boards, video games like RuneScape, flipnote, they were like worlds within worlds. In the new ways, I can’t find something like that anywhere. There’s a million things people will try to blame, but it’s not simple enough for a human to explain. Moving through the internet in the new ways is like walking through a lonely wasteland, but its paradoxically populated by a few billion people. The phrase “self expression” has been reduced from something that people fought wars over to a buzzword used to drag people into lifeless digital wastelands. I couldn’t really remember what it was until I saw this. Now I’m sad, truly sad. I’m almost never upset, much less sad, but this causes true sadness and lament. I can’t explain what I’m really thinking with words, but I think anyone who knows what I’m talking about will.

[@thedanopgaming9521]

I was never a part of a community like the flipnote community, but I have had dreams of it all the time. I really miss when people felt like people...

[@sacred_needle]

the sheer power you have whats going on your mind and bringing it to the table with such accuracy and animation skills. This was wonderful to watch. Hope you find em all x)

[@tuxsoda]

And they said internet friends aren’t real. This shit is wholesome af.