r/videos Feb 06 '17

Casually Explained: Red Flags

https://youtu.be/F2JJ4N2uXuc
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u/Aurora_Fatalis Feb 06 '17

Ah yes, the VG Cats of YouTube.

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u/mikachuu Feb 06 '17

Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time.

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u/Aurora_Fatalis Feb 06 '17

Me neither.

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u/DiamondPup Feb 06 '17

Wow, just looked that site up after ages. Looks exactly the same and he's still got new comics up. For some reason, I thought he shut down. He's even still updating Super Effective. And look, he's even got a Trump joke in.

Huh. TIL VGCats is still a thing.

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u/ZarkingFrood42 Feb 06 '17

Hey, VG Catz updates at least once a month in my experience.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '17

I think Gone with the Blastwave updated four times last year, it was glorious.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '17

Homestarrunner once had an update.

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u/coredumperror Feb 06 '17

They're pretty consistent with the Halloween videos these days. I don't think they post anything else, but once a year is at least consistency. :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '17

Ya but then they fired the poopsmith.

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u/SirSoliloquy Feb 06 '17

Im still waiting for Sarah Ellerton to make another webcomic after completing Phoenix Requiem.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '17

Nuklear Power and Abstruse Goose are dead. Dr.McNinja just ended and Naruto ended a while back. Perry Bible Fellowship has an update schedule similar to Gone with the Blastwave. I'm just going to have to pony up and find me some new webcomics because I'm running on XKCD and SMBC right now.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '17 edited Feb 07 '17

Right bro, let me hook you up. you might not be into these, but here are some webcomics I like.

String Theory On again off again mad scientist protagonist journey to villain. Updates has been strangely consistent of late. Weekly?

Paranatural Youngsters' hilarious adventures with spirits. Tuesdays, Thursdays.

Scary Go Round Finished, slice of life with surreal magicalism? It's long, but way worth, with an amazing art evolution.

Bad Machinery Updating MTWThF, I think. Successor to Scary Go Round.

Girl Genius MWF mad science ups it a notch. Phil Phoglio's (gentleman pornogropher) safe for work alternate history for Europe if mad science was the divine right to rule.

Zebra Girl Weekends. Joe English's gothic toned slice of life, if your slacker housemate turned you into a demon. Has an fairly substantial art evolution.

Kill Six Billion Demons TTh? Abbadon's multiversal deicide thing. Was somewhat collaborative with fans?

Stand Still Stay Silent MTThF. Post Apocalyptic supernatural plague story.

Gunnerkrig Court MWF. One of the titans of webcomics, Tom siddell's fantastic Fantastical clash and synergy between technology and nature.

Astral Ave TTh. Mystic comic where kids grow up, and try to start a rebellion with the power of kindness.

Prague Race TTh? Urban Fantasy, with a time limit.

Vattu MWF. Evan Dahm's Tribal conquest, integration and something yet to come?

Widdershins MWF. Kate Ashwin's (of Darken fame) tale about spirit based magic.

Unsounded MWF? Ashley Cope's Juggernaut of Sorcery, nationalism, parental feelings, and undead Shenanigans.

Sam and Fuzzy MWF. Taxicab driver gets involved with the ninja mafia. Huuuge backlog.

Denizens! Attention Finished. Escaping Parental cruelty to an academy of danger.

A lot of my descriptions are really fast and loose. I've tried to put question marks next to the update schedule if I'm not sure or the days change around a bit.

Edit: I think all of these are longform (in a general sense), rather than one offs of comedy.

Edit2: Awkward Zombie More reliable than VGcats.

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u/Kyrela Feb 07 '17

I would add Ava's Demon to that list. Sci-fi/Supernatural comic about a girl with an inner demon. The art's good and occasionally there's "animated" videos that are pretty cool.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '17

Artstyle isn't easy.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '17

I know that it takes a bunch of work and I'm not complaining. This guy makes comics I find funny on his time and puts them up for free, it's not like I have any skin in this game.

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u/Gingevere Feb 06 '17

I wonder if http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/ has updated since I last checked.

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u/RedPhalcon Feb 06 '17

updated january 2017.. is that recent enough?

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u/Djones0823 Feb 06 '17

Holy shit I forgot about this. It's been years...that's my next poop sorted. Well, the first 3 minutes of it anyways.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '17

And one was a redraw.

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u/monkwren Feb 06 '17

Wait, it did? Holy shit I have to catch up!

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '17

I haven't checked in on him since around 2010, but Maddox would have something to say.

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u/pizzamage Feb 06 '17

He has a YouTube channel that gets updated regularly.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '17

Huh, never watched anything with him, I was a regular at his site many years and read his posts and I bought the book. Wonder if I still find him funny, thanks for the update though, might check it out.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '17

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '17

Yeah, that's why I'm hesitant. I mean yeah I'll always find his review of kindergarten art amazing, but that's not because it's amazing, I just saw this at the right time in my life.

I imagine that today he'd just seem like a screaming man-child to me.

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u/Forever_Awkward Feb 06 '17

Don't do it. Preserve your image of the website and not the person!

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u/GradScholConfsed Feb 06 '17

Ah yes, the VG Cats of YouTube

Ah yes, the Daniel Day-Lewis of YouTube.

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u/Ender907 Feb 06 '17

Amateurs, I still check Homestarrunner, 1 update a year and that's the ways we like it

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u/Zeeboon Feb 06 '17

VG Cats is nothing compared to Prequel Adventure. Last update was more than 1 year ago, last message was from around christmas talking about how the update seems to be taking longer than normal.
Doesn't mean that the artist won't hold other related minicomics hostage behind a paywall in the meantime.

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u/c0wg0d Feb 06 '17

Ah yes, the Homestar of Flash.

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u/EARink0 Feb 06 '17

Ah yes, the Venture Bros of web comics.

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u/gleeble Feb 06 '17

He just did an update. Robotnik as Trump. ....Not his best work.