LaurieWired Fun fact: Strong Bad cartoons are still made using Flash. Web versions of the toons use Ruffle, a Flash emulator written in Rust… but I’d guess that most people watch them on YouTube nowadays. Here’s a clip of the latest episode:

I really miss .swf (shockwave flash) as a format. Literally a chain of bezier paths. Scale to any resolution. Oh, and it loads progressively with its own virtual machine (ActionScript Bytecode). No modern filetype comes close. Vector video was a special era.

@lauriewired @StrongBadActual are you telling me not only that Strong Bad is still around but people actually still watch it?!

@lauriewired @StrongBadActual Wait, Strong Bad is still going??

@lauriewired @StrongBadActual My brother introduced me to StrongBad probably 30 years ago. Crazy it even still exists.

@lauriewired @StrongBadActual Most small animators still use flash (Animate)

@lauriewired @StrongBadActual @Hppytreefriends were made using Flash as well

@lauriewired @StrongBadActual A new generation will discover these on YT

@lauriewired @StrongBadActual Wow no way. This is mind blowing and awesome at the same time. Thank you

@lauriewired @StrongBadActual Homestarrunner must have lost a lot of viewers between the time Flash was deprecated and Ruffle being possible (WebGL/wasm/Rust being mature).

@lauriewired @StrongBadActual 🎶Trogdor was a man🎶

@lauriewired @StrongBadActual "Checkin the eeemael. Oh what's this?!.... Deleted"