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Salad Fingers Is Back With New Episode Dropping Soon

Salad Fingers Is Back With New Episode Dropping Soon

The green creature with a love of rusty spoons is heading back to the Internet

Rachael Grealish

Rachael Grealish

The early noughties were a wonderfully weird era for Internet users. Everything was still relatively new and possiblity still seemed ripe for new ideas - although, admittedly, many things that seemed weird at the time probably come across as pretty straightforward by today's standards.

Back in 2004, however, the world was introduced to Salad Fingers - undoubtedly one of the weirdest things you'll ever have seen, even compared to the videos and memes cooked up by today's fertile imaginations. Well, here's some good news for fans of the bizarre show: now it's back.

Salad Fingers was the creepy green humanoid creation of David Firth - coined from an in-joke between him and his friends, and equipped with a fascination for rusty spoons.

Teens of the noughties loved it, of course, and Salad Fingers swiftly became an Internet sensation while people were still figuring out what the term 'gone viral' meant.

Fifteen years on, Firth is back, having announced a new episode of Salad Fingers would be dropping on 30 January.

He released a promo video for the episode, and anyone who saw the original cartoon will immediately pick up on how dramatically technology has advanced in the last decade.

via GIPHY

The video shows Salad Fingers talking to his reflection in a mirror, saying: "Well, hello there Mr Fingers. There you are."

The clip then cuts to various scenes that see the character swimming, squeezing another gross-looking creature and smashing a mirror (seven years' bad luck, eh?) before finishing with the ominous and creepy line: "I think you're about ready to grow up a little."

Fans of the strange web show seem thrilled by Salad Fingers' return.

One person commented: "Fantastic! Finally, some positive news in the world."

"Finally, some great news for the generation that grew up with this animation!! Kids these days will never know what a great show is until they see salad fingers," another commented.

Salad Fingers.
David Firth

While a third said: "OMG YES! I've been waiting for some new salad fingers for a while, new animation looks awesome."

Firth has relaunched his wonderfully-weird character with crowd-funded support via Patreon, meaning the show could be paid for without being 'watered down by advertisers'.

The Patreon page states: "This stuff is all really hard work. YouTube ads are a small help, but unless you are putting multiple vids a week, they pay very little. An average project takes WEEKS to MONTHS of solid work, yet roughly makes around $1 per 1000 views in ad revenue.

Salad Fingers.
David Firth

"That isn't much, especially as YouTube doesn't tend to feature much animation since the 'viewer engagement' doesn't typically reach their standards. To make a living from YouTube revenue I would have to really start cutting corners and making broader stuff to get more views. That is not my style."

Currently Firth has reached 1,651 patrons - with a target of 3,000 - who'll get early access to the new episode of Salad Fingers before it's released to the public.

The flash animation web series released ten episodes between 2004 and 2013.

Featured Image Credit: David Firth

Topics: TV and Film, UK Entertainment, Weird