Internet provides entertainment! People are hanging around in the addicting worldwide web, anywhere and anytime. Nowadays, you don’t even have to have a television to watch TV. Just log in to your MacBook, also called a computer and start watching TV series. Other than watching Friends or Pretty little liars (please could someone tell me who is A? Yet another frustrating season finale coming up soon) we are provided to seek entertainment from YouTube, oh the mother of all the ridiculously annoying Fads that just keep filling your news feed day after a day. Why wouldn’t you check out the famous FAD animation series, SaladFingers? The animation (created by David Firth) gained rapid internet popularity in 2005. It even got ranked in the Top 10 pop culture phenomena of 2005 and it premiered in Australia in 2007 at the Sydney underground movie festival. Talk about visibility there! A simple idea based around the main character SaladFingers, who is presented as a mentally troubled man inhabits in a desolate world. Sounds boring? Yes it does, but as the statistics show, the first episode, which is called, Spoons (SaladFingers loves to touch spoons...) has had almost 18 million viewers, I’d say that’s quite a range of eyeballs.
What is it here that catches our attention? Humor based on mental illness does not sound that appealing to me? Vice versa, but still, the secrets of successful FADs remain unclear.
The SaladFingers series can be found from YouTube, here’s the link to the first episode called: Spoons!!
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