What's With Flash Sites Getting On Tv?
<div class="IPBDescription">Rant, rant</div> What's with this recent craze of showing popular flash websites on TV? Firstly it was Weebl and Bob on MTV, actually there have been a few on MTV. I have seen them StickDeath animations on TV too.
Just recently I saw an advert for Crusha (Milkshake stuff) and it was the "RatherGood.com" singing kittens.
WHY?! They are a commodity on the Internet, but I don't want to see something which might be remotely funny on the Internet on TV. How is two weebl toys on a purple background rocking backwards and forwards for five minutes entertaining on TV? They work on the Internet because they are time wasters, for when you are bored at home/work/School/College/Uni/whatever.
There have been more flash things on TV too, I just can't remember.
Just recently I saw an advert for Crusha (Milkshake stuff) and it was the "RatherGood.com" singing kittens.
WHY?! They are a commodity on the Internet, but I don't want to see something which might be remotely funny on the Internet on TV. How is two weebl toys on a purple background rocking backwards and forwards for five minutes entertaining on TV? They work on the Internet because they are time wasters, for when you are bored at home/work/School/College/Uni/whatever.
There have been more flash things on TV too, I just can't remember.
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Y'know, other people have preferences other than your own. I love W&B, lots of other people do. It's popular so it's spread to other mediums. No big deal really. If you don't like it, don't watch it mate.
Although, i have to agree with you on the singing kittens, ok, when he did the first one that was pretty much ignored, the second one was mildly amusing, then they just got worse. Except the Spong Monkeys.
<i>That</i> made it on to TV?! lol. I saw it once on some obscure looking website. Maybe not so obscure after all.
How can you watch Weebl and Bob on TV? I watched the first 7 or so on the Internet then it became hideously unfunny. My rant isn't against the actual show, it's the whole point of bringing some 6 frame/2 colour/badly cutout images to TV. It's also a rant at companies who think, "that's "cool" let's put it on TV and make money."
For the record, I don't watch it.
Flash may be media, but it is designed for the Internet, not TV... That's my opinion.
How can you watch Weebl and Bob on TV? I watched the first 7 or so on the Internet then it became hideously unfunny. My rant isn't against the actual show, it's the whole point of bringing some 6 frame/2 colour/badly cutout images to TV. It's also a rant at companies who think, "that's "cool" let's put it on TV and make money."
For the record, I don't watch it.
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Jonti actually did special episodes for MTV as well as airing the "classics". I still find W&B funny to this day, as do a lot of people.
The whole 2 colour thing is a style issue, it's not a "omg we can't draw backgrounds, lets just make it 2 colours" decision. He wanted to keep it simple, so he did.
And i think it's absolutely fantastic that MTV offered Jonti 5 figures for producing this show for TV, if anything it shows that the Internet is not a worthless medium and it's finally becoming a fully accepted and intergrated part of media and day to day life.
I WANT MY WEEBL!
LOL new weebl and bob.. it gets a little TOO japanese.....
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It was MTV Europe that commissioned Jonti to do it, so seeing it in the US is quite unlikely. Also ontop of that, because of it's distinctly British sense of humour, i don't think they'd see it financially viable to broadcast to the US.
Definately, as i said above, these are animators and artists too, just working on a different medium. I'm a web designer, am i any less a graphic designer purely because i work for the internet and not paper?
I support internet artists infiltrating common forms of media, just because us net-heads saw them first, doesn't mean we own them.