Salad Fingers Explained: An Analysis of Broken Imaginations

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The Original Series: • Salad Fingers (Every e...
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Intro - 00:00
Series Rundown - 3:03
An unnecessarily long disclaimer - 29:02
The actual theory part of the video that took over 40 minutes of needless talking to get to - 41:31
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@Wendigoon
@Wendigoon 2 жыл бұрын
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@owengette8089
@owengette8089 2 жыл бұрын
i like the banana shirt today. I guess since the series is… bananas
@invaderrusty1177
@invaderrusty1177 2 жыл бұрын
omw
@mr.neodymuim
@mr.neodymuim 2 жыл бұрын
nice job 👍
@yaboideway3500
@yaboideway3500 2 жыл бұрын
Love you wendigoon :)
@Furgison
@Furgison 2 жыл бұрын
I love you
@katiedoesart2578
@katiedoesart2578 2 жыл бұрын
“Salad fingers is British, poor guy” to me a Brit, salad fingers is a very accurate representation of a typical British day. I love seeing my day to day life animated.
@mikadosannoji553
@mikadosannoji553 2 жыл бұрын
he has friendlier neighbors tho
@jackmurphy1081
@jackmurphy1081 2 жыл бұрын
Are you guys ok?
@meishe9917
@meishe9917 2 жыл бұрын
@@jackmurphy1081 They're British
@ch34pwoowoo7
@ch34pwoowoo7 2 жыл бұрын
this feels like a tumblr thread
@edenpffen
@edenpffen 2 жыл бұрын
salad fingers loves spoons, hes just like me xx
@hannahluke9381
@hannahluke9381 2 жыл бұрын
Other people might be disappointed that salad fingers has no greater meaning, but I for one think it’s really funny to imagine David firth sitting at his computer going “and then salad fingers goes on a date with the corpse of a dog. But alack! The dog is half his age! Imagine the controversy!”
@notmocka
@notmocka 2 жыл бұрын
YESSS not meaning anything is my favorite part
@thebaseandtriflingcreature174
@thebaseandtriflingcreature174 2 жыл бұрын
Oh god it’s exactly like a kid going “and then…” that’s brilliant
@kayeoffers4339
@kayeoffers4339 2 жыл бұрын
I remember hearing theories about this but with every episode, I'm just convinced it's not all related with a defined narrative. It's too random and it felt forced ascribing an overarching story to it.
@rexonatyleer3500
@rexonatyleer3500 2 жыл бұрын
thats legit hilarious though
@anniekurkovych9956
@anniekurkovych9956 2 жыл бұрын
I would be terrified if salad fingers had a moral lesson.
@RT-qd8yl
@RT-qd8yl Жыл бұрын
I showed my dad the first salad fingers episode when I was a kid, and he cancelled our internet for 6 months.
@carmelopai4833
@carmelopai4833 8 ай бұрын
lolz - and the poor man STILL can't unsee it. My mum found him as adorable as i do. She's 70. We also like Die Antwoord...
@thechosenpit
@thechosenpit 7 ай бұрын
this is so fucking funny i’m so sorry but it made me crack up
@LiL_Orenge
@LiL_Orenge 6 ай бұрын
That's rough buddy
@SgtKOnyx
@SgtKOnyx 6 ай бұрын
For the best
@solomonheppner
@solomonheppner 3 ай бұрын
Good thing you weren't watching Happy-Tree-Friends
@eddie4324
@eddie4324 Жыл бұрын
My brother showed me this cartoon when it was released. I never really thought too much of it, but my brother seemed quite enamoured by the stories and character. Unbeknownst to me at the time, my brother had been suffering with schizophrenia. May be he could relate to this cartoon in his psychotic state.
@arareanddifferenttune3130
@arareanddifferenttune3130 Жыл бұрын
I’m sorry to hear of your brother’s suffering. My brother has schizophrenia as well. One of the first signs of his mental illness he showed was ascribing meaning to shows and commercials that wasn’t there. Not like how we are thinking “what does this mean?” about Salad Fingers, but in a bizarre, way off way. I hope your brother finds peace, as well as you and your family. I know how hard it can be. ❤
@meltedWax169
@meltedWax169 Жыл бұрын
I found out i have schizophrenia a few months ago.. explains alot.. and my well, similar to your brother's.. strange enamouring of this series. It always.. hit something at home
@Tw0Dots
@Tw0Dots Жыл бұрын
@@meltedWax169Not pity here at all, but I wish you all the best. What you’re dealing with sucks, whether its you or watching a family member struggle. 🖤
@robertleavy8562
@robertleavy8562 Жыл бұрын
That was my thought as well! It gives schizophrenia vibes of a child during WWI... It also kinda reminds me of flashback episodes of Bojack Horsemans mother
@toxickle
@toxickle Жыл бұрын
My brother also showed me this when I was a kid. I didn't think it was anything more than a joke that I didn't get, considering he was also showing me Jerry Jackson cartoons. Had no idea it was an ongoing series.
@davidfirth
@davidfirth 2 жыл бұрын
Wait until you see the next episode, it explains EVERYTHING.
@HuntressVivian06718
@HuntressVivian06718 2 жыл бұрын
I’m calling rn that it’s a rickroll
@NolanEgbert
@NolanEgbert 2 жыл бұрын
I highly doubt that David
@mostynjefferson8111
@mostynjefferson8111 2 жыл бұрын
Oh shit. Is there genuinely a new episode coming?
@thestrangah9690
@thestrangah9690 2 жыл бұрын
YO LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@versebuchanan512
@versebuchanan512 2 жыл бұрын
Did you ever learn how to draw? I never did.
@Marylily2
@Marylily2 2 жыл бұрын
David Firth is basically the walking embodiment of “it’s not that deep”.
@Web720
@Web720 2 жыл бұрын
@@ghostcat11 Won't stop others from doing it tho.
@lainiwakura1776
@lainiwakura1776 2 жыл бұрын
@@Web720 Damn internet autism.
@mitchconnor9748
@mitchconnor9748 2 жыл бұрын
For salad fingers but his other shorts do have a obvious critique on mental health in the uk. Maybe 😆
@tigershav
@tigershav 2 жыл бұрын
@@mitchconnor9748 agreed, many of his shorts make critiques on mental health/society in the UK
@reedman0780
@reedman0780 2 жыл бұрын
@@ghostcat11 "yea cause it ain't" One might ask "Why do you pay so much for old alcohol?" and the other would be the only one of the two to appreciate such "Old alcohol" Its depending on your perspective, if you're shallow and take the animation as something simple and think everything's on the surface, then you do you, it'll look like something superficial. Look into it deeper and you'd understand the story of it, thats the whole ass point. It does not make sense and not even in chronological order when telling something
@aster2788
@aster2788 Жыл бұрын
When I started making my own theories about salad I got the idea that he represented someone born into trauma, which is why he finds things like rust and other odd things lovely. I recognized when I got older that the things I was around in my traumatic childhood are things that I now find soothing. The scene where salad is in the cage and then pulls down the curtain to fly away on the tap in my mind 100% represents dissociating/detaching from traumatic situations
@daseapickleofjustice7231
@daseapickleofjustice7231 Жыл бұрын
I agree but hate the way people speak about trauma like it's a phenomenon caused by some evil deities curse in modern time. Words to describe trauma today sounds like a science just like identity terms are used, disgusting, I think people rely too much on the vague idea of being scientific and end up sounding like members of a cult.
@lunawolfheart336
@lunawolfheart336 Жыл бұрын
That makes sense that he could be a child dealing with trama or something. Maybe he's dealing with a traumatic childhood while a war is going on who knows.
@lunawolfheart336
@lunawolfheart336 Жыл бұрын
@@daseapickleofjustice7231 who's speaking about it like it comes from some evil being? I've never heard of that and I very often talk to my friends and my therapists and watch and read other stories of trama. No one is saying that the people who inflicted it are some evil force or anything. Unless you stumbled apon that one KZfaqer something swan who is using that crap to build up a cult. But other then her no one is acting like it's some bad force. And the labels are just to better explain things so people can get the help they need. For example labeling an experience disassociation can help people understand that what is going on is triggered by something and that they are not going crazy.
@daseapickleofjustice7231
@daseapickleofjustice7231 Жыл бұрын
@@lunawolfheart336 It's a cult and you're a follower.
@febrieze
@febrieze Жыл бұрын
@daseapickleofjustice7231 so... youre mad people are learning and using proper terms for the trauma and symptoms they have experienced...? wild
@estarosengold3620
@estarosengold3620 Жыл бұрын
I know this may sound weird, but Salad Fingers is somesort of comfort character to me. He has this childlike innocence, approaches everything with a curious mindset, despite the horrible world he is living in and the potential abuse he has gone through. I don't know why but it makes me happy to see a character be able to be happy besides everything.
@mywaterco0lerromance
@mywaterco0lerromance Жыл бұрын
same here
@bigpapamagoo8696
@bigpapamagoo8696 Жыл бұрын
I honestly find him kind of endearing. He reminds me a little bit of Yellow Guy from DHMIS
@yuigiluigi2866
@yuigiluigi2866 8 ай бұрын
I find him terrifying and unsettling because of how he reminds me of someone who had a messed up life then got Alzhemiers
@peachdoesart7175
@peachdoesart7175 7 ай бұрын
Salad deserves the world
@JoshuaAndres
@JoshuaAndres 29 күн бұрын
He has a weird charm to him
@crowmudgeon
@crowmudgeon 2 жыл бұрын
"I also have to mention that Salad is british, the poor guy" almost made me spit out my food
@pooposocko1478
@pooposocko1478 2 жыл бұрын
It's upsetting to see no one commenting on that bit lmao
@FeenieVonKarma
@FeenieVonKarma 2 жыл бұрын
I missed that but, I'm British and I have to agree with him lol
@jr637-1
@jr637-1 2 жыл бұрын
Bri’ish
@thehypest6118
@thehypest6118 2 жыл бұрын
It is so bleak and miserable here
@pooposocko1478
@pooposocko1478 2 жыл бұрын
@@thehypest6118 WELL ATLEEEEEEEEE-
@coasterfreakist18
@coasterfreakist18 2 жыл бұрын
No human being has ever had bigger “cool high school history teacher” vibes than this man
@hernandez4856
@hernandez4856 2 жыл бұрын
mmh hm hm ☝️
@jamescanjuggle
@jamescanjuggle 2 жыл бұрын
its the beard that does it for me. Its just so dense and smooth, perfect history teacher beard right there
@ItsNessaTho
@ItsNessaTho 2 жыл бұрын
@@jamescanjuggle so accurate lol my history teacher had a nice beard too 😂
@username.not.known2473
@username.not.known2473 2 жыл бұрын
True dat - double true
@Dogstarman99
@Dogstarman99 7 ай бұрын
So pretty❤
@uhhh_beans
@uhhh_beans Жыл бұрын
I feel like the “apocalyptic hellscape” that salad fingers lives in might be inspired by Salvador Dali’s desert landscapes in his paintings. It’s like a blank space for the subconscious and all the weird stuff that happens here.
@maschinka_
@maschinka_ 10 ай бұрын
Yes i keep thinking Dali as well. Also got vibes like goyas black paintings to me
@uhhh_beans
@uhhh_beans 10 ай бұрын
@@maschinka_ oh I totally see that.
@CreepyAF
@CreepyAF Жыл бұрын
Here's an alternate theory: Salad Fingers was a boy who grew up in a household where he was exposed to things he was not old enough for. For instance, his parents would watch mature TV shows while he was around, and they would argue about things that he did not fully understand as a kid, but like in Wendigoon's version, it normalized things to the point where when he would play make-believe, he would imagine the weird sorts of situations we see, like accusing someone of being after his daughter and sleeping with someone half his age. Then, the war comes, and his oldest brother is sent off to fight in the war. The war goes poorly, and the opposing side ends up nuking the place where Salad Fingers live. At the time of the show, he is an adult and from living alone in a post-apocalyptic world, his experience of reality and imagination have begun to run together. What we see is what he experiences, somewhere in between reality and imagination. Alternatively, to better work in the glass brother portion, for a while afterwards, some of his family, including his mother, a brother (glass brother) and a little sister survive, but then he makes a mistake that gets his little sister killed. His mother and brother lock him up in his room, leaving him with finger puppets, where his imagination begins to take over, possibly helped on by some effects of radiation. Then one day they take away one of his finger puppets, so he breaks free in his anger and kills his mother and brother, which he rationalizes as escaping from them and smashing the mirror against the floor until he no longer sees his mother, when he was really smashing something against her head until he could no longer recognize her.
@canis_machina7280
@canis_machina7280 2 жыл бұрын
This is not so much a theory, but more or less why the series freaks me out. Everything that Salad Fingers says is identical to something that my grandmother would say while she was struggling with dementia. She would often bring up "The war" since she was born in the late 20's and lived through WW2 as an adult. She would make refences to extremely disturbing medical practices that have been outlawed for decades, such as bloodletting, lobotomies, etc. She would get irrationally mad at random objects. She would talk to my grandfathers empty chair years after he had passed away, and lastly she would always call you the wrong name and when she did this it would be some kind of crazy old English name since she grew up in Scotland. Im almost 30 now and she passed away a few years ago, but its always so hard to watch anything Salad fingers related. Im sure my experience is not the only one like this, but it still feels very personal.
@jeremiahfyan
@jeremiahfyan 2 жыл бұрын
I experienced this with my great grandmother, except me and my siblings were the only people she was able to recognize in her later days. She used to win stuffed animals in games with the other seniors, then she would give them to us when we could come visit. She would tell us old iroquois stories, kept us connected to that part of our heritage. But yea i remember hearing some crazy stuff as a kid about her not recognizing people and having issues with Alzheihmer's I believe
@jamescanjuggle
@jamescanjuggle 2 жыл бұрын
I can see how that would be traumatic for a person yeah 😕
@babydolI
@babydolI 2 жыл бұрын
funny enough i was thinking the same thing. salad reminds me a lot of dementia patients. im sorry you had to experience that, i worked in a nursing home and some things are def hard to see. im sending you love!
@perhaps7046
@perhaps7046 2 жыл бұрын
This is incredibly interesting and makes sense when I think about it
@Julia-qt5wd
@Julia-qt5wd 2 жыл бұрын
You’re making a lot of sense!
@dannytheman1313
@dannytheman1313 2 жыл бұрын
You know David has been laughing his ass off at people who have been trying to find the hidden meaning to this series.
@Tw0DrunkGuys
@Tw0DrunkGuys 2 жыл бұрын
exactly, Salad Fingers just shows what regular life is like here in the UK. People are really just "like that" over here. Its basically just a documentary, theres no deeper meaning.
@fishgard4008
@fishgard4008 2 жыл бұрын
@@Tw0DrunkGuys y'all just walk around eating finger puppets and talking to ya self🤨
@tengunano9417
@tengunano9417 2 жыл бұрын
@@fishgard4008 yup
@alteregobruh
@alteregobruh 2 жыл бұрын
@@fishgard4008 Seems accurate enough
@icetanker8062
@icetanker8062 2 жыл бұрын
@@Tw0DrunkGuys one discrepancy, they mention that they like France. This is a clear inaccuracy as no Englishman likes the French.
@VirgilAspect
@VirgilAspect Жыл бұрын
"Broken imagination", "polluted wonderland" this script goes hard Goes the hardest
@kafrink
@kafrink Жыл бұрын
I interpreted this as salad fingers having something similar to dementia? And is suffering from a very intense loss of memory and creating his own world and own universe. The barren wasteland universe resembles his psyche deteriorating and the general theme of decay/rotting/rust is him grappling with slowly losing his grip on reality. Our brain tends to hold on to our most revisited/traumatic memories so those are the ones he keeps being forced to revisit- being left behind in the war, his mother berating him and favoring his brother, perhaps even a miscarriage? (I’m trying to figure out what that baby thing was tbh). The characters and experiences he can still remember are warped now and he speaks for them the majority of the time because they are not fully there or fully what they used to be.
@kafrink
@kafrink Жыл бұрын
Ok back back back it up- has salad ever been gendered? I think that maybe salad is/was (?) a woman who has some sort of traumatic sexual experience with someone much older than her and had a very traumatic miscarriage, an eating disorder (constant illness, forcing yourself to eat awful things only to throw them up, being obsessed with what you see in the mirror) I also think some of this happened on her birthday? Birthdays are important to salad somehow. Salad underwent many traumatic experiences as a child is now being forced to relive them in a very distressing/visceral way as their mind and reality is slowing decaying around them.
@HedgeLockedonallplats
@HedgeLockedonallplats Жыл бұрын
@@kafrink we are quite sure it’s schizophrenia
@clairehann2681
@clairehann2681 Жыл бұрын
@@kafrink it comes off as a pretty male character
@skyd4rth
@skyd4rth Жыл бұрын
@@kafrink omfg stop with the gender shit
@PartyPoison3371
@PartyPoison3371 2 жыл бұрын
Since “Glass Brother,” I’ve thought of it as a story about a guy who was severely abused as a child and exposed to unspeakable horrors that no child should have to experience. As a result, he’s developed a sort of dissociative disorder, maybe schizophrenia, in order to process all of the senseless horrors he’s been exposed to. A young child can’t comprehend why their brother is never coming back from the war, or why their mother is so mean all the time, so they manufacture their own understanding of these situations in the only way they can.
@silencerodriguez9115
@silencerodriguez9115 2 жыл бұрын
Me too but I thought he has Autism. Based off personal experiences.
@MsMtheory
@MsMtheory 2 жыл бұрын
This.
@trapizonn3603
@trapizonn3603 2 жыл бұрын
Yes i remember this theory being a thing back in the day 😂
@supercomputerz
@supercomputerz 2 жыл бұрын
schizophrenia is not a dissociative disorder
@PartyPoison3371
@PartyPoison3371 2 жыл бұрын
@@supercomputerz Sorry, my phrasing made it sound like I meant they were the same thing. I just meant that he’s unable to differentiate between reality and his delusions.
@shadei1142
@shadei1142 2 жыл бұрын
Wendigoon: The creator says Salad Fingers has no narrative English Teachers: The red door is meant to symbolize conflict.
@justin2308
@justin2308 2 жыл бұрын
@don't be surprised Yep, it sure is.
@Julia-tk2em
@Julia-tk2em 2 жыл бұрын
‘The curtains ruffled gently in the wind.’ This symbolizes the conflict the heroine feels over the loss of her job, and the stress surrounding the intergalactic concert she has to attend.”
@D0NTST4RT
@D0NTST4RT Жыл бұрын
when my sister was getting married, we both laughed remembering that scene with Salad wearing a veil looking at the mirror
@Jadeelmao
@Jadeelmao 9 ай бұрын
Awesome lmfaooo I love that :”
@hugoalynstephens9166
@hugoalynstephens9166 7 ай бұрын
"yyyYou look so beautiful!"
@trashpanda3544
@trashpanda3544 11 ай бұрын
I always theorised that salad fingers is about a old person with dementia. The reason for the strange behaviours and weird events is because it's the disjointed memories of an old person who's mind is disintegrating. The ww2 memories, the abortion, the party, the angry dad, it all seems like someone who can't quiet remember everything clearly. Also age regression is pretty common with dementia patients.
@trinity3272
@trinity3272 4 ай бұрын
I like this one
@Itsfrawgdawg
@Itsfrawgdawg 2 жыл бұрын
I’d actually love to see a Wendigoon deep dive into Courage the Cowardly Dog. Like maybe his thoughts on what the creatures’ real life representations might be for a couple episodes.
@musict4379
@musict4379 2 жыл бұрын
That would be fucking dope!!
@Itsfrawgdawg
@Itsfrawgdawg 2 жыл бұрын
@@musict4379 if anyone could do the task justice, it’s Wendi
@ashmondthesoutherntrashmon2210
@ashmondthesoutherntrashmon2210 2 жыл бұрын
he could probably use the inner child healing after all his crime icebergs
@captainhowdy9297
@captainhowdy9297 2 жыл бұрын
and afterwards, Ed, Edd and Eddy
@hunni2968
@hunni2968 2 жыл бұрын
Yes NEXT 👏🏽VIDEO👏🏽 sometime soon…I wonder what would be his take on why the computer is the only helpful character (& why it talks) and that weird embryo scene that traumatized everyone’s childhood 🤔
@ruileite2634
@ruileite2634 2 жыл бұрын
I bet the guy that does the "wendigoon out of context" videos is going to have a lot of fun with this one
@Jolis_Parsec
@Jolis_Parsec Жыл бұрын
I like how Salad Fingers himself isn’t the monster of his universe, even if due to his own childlike personality, he inadvertently gets a couple other characters killed. He’s just making the best of living in post apocalyptic Britain while having a bright and positive attitude in the process. 😋
@DuskNinjaKenji
@DuskNinjaKenji 11 ай бұрын
As someone who works in Disability Care, I have seen a few of my clients with some characteristics like Salad Fingers’. There are many times I’m on the job and wonder in dread what must have happened to have them say the disturbing or child-like things they’re saying or wonder how they see the world. So if Salad is an adult, he could be an adult with a behavioural or mental disability and a traumatised past that fuels his child-like imagination. But I really like the child theory too.
@avadae9126
@avadae9126 Жыл бұрын
speaking of personalized horror, the thing that scares me the most is the utter loneliness that salad goes through
@tt-cy1hb
@tt-cy1hb Жыл бұрын
Yes. The episode with the taped hairs, the demanding radio, and the cabinet is the most uncomfortable for me. It emphasizes the feelings of isolation, anxiety, and a profound sadness therein which I've struggled with much of my life, in ways I can't fully describe.
@mamaslittleman6104
@mamaslittleman6104 Жыл бұрын
@@tt-cy1hb Though I am sorry to hear it, I can't deny that its nice to hear someone else goes through that too. Anxiety and Depression Rule my life and I know that so much of that comes from never being able to grasp relationships and hence have spent my 36 years alone. Respect to you and I hope things get better for you.
@corning1
@corning1 Жыл бұрын
@@mamaslittleman6104 3rd this. Except add alcoholism, insane gambling and I like drugs. Talk about getting dealt a crappy hand in life. I’m 36 as well. Actually just canceled a shotgun I purchased when I was very drunk. I’m just about done with life. Are either you on anti depressants? Or benzodiazepines? I would go in there and DEMAND clonazepam or something. It’s what I take. I can function fine with it. It’s just getting started with life again and again. I am so wore out. You both need to go get on a benzo. They don’t like to give them out though so get ready for a fight. I wish I had some positive news to add but I don’t. I’m so used to the isolation and loneliness now it doesn’t matter. I just can’t ever get out of bed. Need to find a da,n job to get back into some normalcy. Good luck fellas.
@corning1
@corning1 Жыл бұрын
@@mamaslittleman6104 not trying to personal, but you’ve never been with a woman? Like even just holding one? There are lots of self help guides right here on KZfaq. Use them. Learning basic body language is very important.
@Asignuva
@Asignuva Жыл бұрын
Its not that bad
@burntchickenleg3504
@burntchickenleg3504 2 жыл бұрын
I want to also add that PTSD in children often has the children re-enacting events that are traumatic through mediums like play, which is what it kind of seems that salad is doing
@faelyn.
@faelyn. Жыл бұрын
As someone with C-PTSD developed at the age of 6, the games I would play and scenarios I would imagine myself in to rationalize and normalize the trauma I endured were absolutely nightmarish. I look back on these memories disgusted at how a child can be exposed to such horrific thoughts at such a young age. In order for the child's brain to continue functioning though, it processes the traumas as normal, innocent, everyday occurrences- sometimes creating games and even fantasies in which the same events, if not worse, repeat over and over again. There's a dissociation that comes with it as well, putting the mind in this purgatory state in which you are aware of all the traumas happening to you, but completely unable to change or stop it, and unaware of the fact that every person you see is not experiencing the horrors you do on a daily basis. So, you start to play with these thoughts. You interact with the things that have happened to you like any other child. But soon, your friends don't want to listen to your stories anymore. You tell "funny" stories of your life, and your friends act confused, and tell you that THEIR dad doesn't do "funny" things like watch them in the shower. That their brother doesn't "take cough medicine" by putting needles in his arm and falling asleep. That their mom doesn't get "sad" like yours does. Their house doesn't have a "punishment room". They say the games you play are weird. They don't want to play house with you anymore, they say the way you play is scary. Why is it scary? It's normal to you.
@elimidd6626
@elimidd6626 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, when wendi was talking about how these kids play these games I was thinking about how children kind of understand stuff and deal with it by integrating it into their play. So it makes sense for a child surrounded by these things to treat them as normal and explore them by acting these things out, even if it appears disturbing to adult eyes.
@soulkeeper7691
@soulkeeper7691 Жыл бұрын
and that makes sense as he is talking about the "great war" as war is a large cause of PTSD
@hoddtoward1076
@hoddtoward1076 Жыл бұрын
I scrolled down specifically to see if anyone had mentioned this. My imagination was like this as a kid with cPTSD. I was exposed to a lot of messed up stuff, didn’t understand it wasn’t normal, and would integrate those themes into my play and daydreams. I got in trouble a lot in school for bringing disturbing themes into our pretend play sessions, had no idea why everyone was upset. I get it now though. And now I’m wondering if any of this has something to do with why I LOVED Salad Fingers as a teen. Brains are weird!
@srdf990
@srdf990 Жыл бұрын
I used to volunteer at a mental facility called Shadow Mountain in Tulsa for troubled kids or mentally disturbed children - I remember a boy and girl, both very similar. I'd rather not dive into what they told me, both being sexual trauma that actually brought me to tears - comparing them to games or stupid activities we did as kids. We had this stupid game called "Suicides" and no, it does not have anything to do with self-harm or ending your life. It was literally mixing drinks together or the absolute worse things together, and chugging it. The boy ruined the idea of suicides for me as well. Some parents that do this shit to their children should be shot on sight.
@suburbanvibes3466
@suburbanvibes3466 Жыл бұрын
My theory is he has war trauma and dementia, and he uses images of war (dead bodies) and items from the nursing home (puppets, bugs, etc.) to represent all the faces he forgot the details of.
@SHDW-nf2ki
@SHDW-nf2ki Жыл бұрын
I have a profound respect for Salad Fingers Purely because it remembers what makes horror good. Mystery
@kirstinyasmine1068
@kirstinyasmine1068 2 жыл бұрын
Salad Fingers reminds me of a person with Dementia and Alzheimer's. The "adventures" he goes on every episode are disjointed and distorted pieces of memories he once had - or imagined he lived through. These "memories" reach the forefront of his concouisness in no particular order other than spontaneous association. That's why there is no continuety, why he thinks he is giving up a child only to then forget about it and identifying it as a sponge to clean windows with. Thats why he goes on delusional memory-episodes and just suddenly forgets that he's supposed to hold the oven door open. That's why the names of the puppets change. Somewhere, in all of the confusion that is his brain, there was once a man with a life's story, but at this point, no one, not even himself is able to figure out what has once been real. He may also be a ghoul creature in postapocalyptic Britain, but that's not the main point.
@Hannah-gh4by
@Hannah-gh4by 2 жыл бұрын
That's the vibe I've gotten from it too! I started thinking more about it once I noticed how odd his mood swings are: one minute angry, two seconds later happy, then scared, and the cycle continues. He's just moving through time in a nonlinear fashion and jumping from emotion to emotion accordingly. I appreciate all interpretations though, this one certainly isn't all encompassing lol
@maiafinlayson7495
@maiafinlayson7495 2 жыл бұрын
it reminds me of like a weird dream. I saw an interview from David Firth were he said he got bored of making narrative stories and likes the vibe of dreams flowyness from one thing to another without explanation, and is inspired from his dreams.
@nineteenfortyeight6762
@nineteenfortyeight6762 Жыл бұрын
Right, he's a zombie in the post-apocalypse with only his disjointed memories of a dysfunctional family and a great war.
@karlturner5678
@karlturner5678 2 жыл бұрын
I love the respect given to the series while also giving out his personal theory, stating it could be entirely incorrect, but just one that he likes. I love how Wendigoon gives this respect universally too
@dillonwalshpvd
@dillonwalshpvd 2 жыл бұрын
Wendi seems like a top bloke
@theghoulishgrabber
@theghoulishgrabber Жыл бұрын
I know I'm late to the party but here's my take: Salad Fingers is the shared imaginary character of 3 children, Hubert, Marjory and Jeremy. He exists sort of as a way for their trauma to have a happy ending because they're kids and Salad is always happy as a way for them to twist their pain into something fun and joyful. Anyway, the main thing that made me think this was "The Cage" episode. I think one of the children was stalked by a boy and then forced to perform a sexual act on him (given the way Salad rubs his hands around the bars in an up and down motion). The reason the curtain drops and everything goes back to light and upbeat is because as a SA survivor myself, you kind of wish for a curtain drop moment like that when you reflect. Ok that's my take, it's definitely not perfect but its the one that resonates with me :)
@edgarramirez4053
@edgarramirez4053 Жыл бұрын
Damn I'm even sadder now
@jesuschristbutafab9923
@jesuschristbutafab9923 Жыл бұрын
Thats a really cool theory and im adopting it now :))
@Livireadsandwrites
@Livireadsandwrites Жыл бұрын
thats genius /srs
@yourdreams2440
@yourdreams2440 Жыл бұрын
@@Livireadsandwrites I am living in your walls /srs
@mywaterco0lerromance
@mywaterco0lerromance Жыл бұрын
i really like that theory
@Things-with-wings
@Things-with-wings Жыл бұрын
Honestly, I appreciate that you respected the fact that the series isn’t anything bigger, just a spooky little thing. We honestly need more stuff like this
@disaceter1130
@disaceter1130 2 жыл бұрын
I always saw Salad Fingers as a combination of the 2 biggest theories: A nuclear wasteland destroyed by war, and an imaginative man going on playful adventures. Imagining Salad being so alone, so distraught by the loss of his family, that he assigns friendly/familial roles to other mutated survivors and tries to include them in his playdates in a desperate attempt to recreate some sort of normalcy is so depressing to me.
@mabelsan1133
@mabelsan1133 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah out of all of the theories involving salad being human/a being on planet earth. Those two combined make the most sense
@mr.kittysavestheworld695
@mr.kittysavestheworld695 2 жыл бұрын
This was basically the interpretation I always had, and I think it's one of the most common.
@cluborronn
@cluborronn 2 жыл бұрын
all of david firth's work is surreal and dreamlike/nightmarish. Salad fingers is just a continuation of that. It's absurd and surreal like a dream, or a nightmare, and it's not much deeper than that
@alexis_electronic
@alexis_electronic 2 жыл бұрын
​@@cluborronn eh. could be. at the end of the day the idea you come away with is the right one.
@karenamyx2205
@karenamyx2205 2 жыл бұрын
@@alexis_electronic I agree. The beauty of this surrealism is it means whatever it meant to you. I see a lot of comments saying "you're missing the point, it doesnt mean anything". And while I think that's partly true. I think THEYRE missing the point, because in its purposely ambiguous nature, I think its not meant to mean nothing, but actually meant to mean WHATEVER you want.
@mattguy1773
@mattguy1773 2 жыл бұрын
Wendigoon is that one random guy that explains stuff you don’t know that much about but he does it perfectly and gets you interested
@couchman-sw6jy
@couchman-sw6jy 2 жыл бұрын
That’s exactly what made him so popular. He’s like a guy at a party sitting next to you on the couch and telling you a bunch of crazy shit. I mean this in the best way possible.
@daisyjoy242
@daisyjoy242 2 жыл бұрын
His like that one teacher in school, that makes learning fun
@auntyglocky
@auntyglocky 2 жыл бұрын
he reminds me of that one friend you don't even gotta drink or smoke with, just his genuine presence brings a natural fun and his stories are just so fulfilling and the way he tells them, been stuck since the icebergs vids LOL...
@AlmostCoolGuys
@AlmostCoolGuys 2 жыл бұрын
More like "Don't know shit about" this series, the analog horror, the James Dean timeline
@theraginmexi
@theraginmexi 2 жыл бұрын
Frfr
@sarah-annecarney7552
@sarah-annecarney7552 Жыл бұрын
I've always been curious as to the undertones regarding parenthood and birth and infants. The milk and nettle, the pram, the foetus, the loss of a child is repeated. Maybe it symbolises the loss of a child, perhaps the loss of innocence and his own childhood due to trauma.
@sleepy_alice
@sleepy_alice Жыл бұрын
The series always exuted loneliness to me. Especially looking back at it now, as an adult. I think a lot of it comes from my own experiences, but it really comes off that Salad just wants a friend. But due to social anxiety, and just being a weird person, people just kind of avoid them, or act distant. A big thing for me is when Salad gets just kinda scared when someone actually responds. It's reminiscent of the many times I tried to talk with people and the conversation took an unexpected turn. Just a weird person in a weirder world.
@rhysjames9686
@rhysjames9686 2 жыл бұрын
I always thought of Salad fingers as an exploration of the kind of innocence that exists in a profoundly disturbed mind. He has the mind of a lonely and deluded child, lost in a grotesque and decaying world, with only haunting memories to keep him company. He seems like a survivor of terrible abuse and the horror is in speculating as to what the reality of the situation is. I was only ever aware of 2 episodes "Salad Fingers", from when I was at school. But when I saw the Ryan Reynolds movie "The Voices" fairly recently, I was reminded of it. Salad Fingers is repulsive, but we feel sympathy for him.
@baller999100
@baller999100 Жыл бұрын
I saw the voices the first time when I was super sick it was like a fever dream literally terrifying
@james-nw9up
@james-nw9up Жыл бұрын
I agree!!
@verycoolloser
@verycoolloser Жыл бұрын
hes not replusive?i think hes kind of cute ,like a little cousin or smth
@dem0litionsss
@dem0litionsss Жыл бұрын
@@verycoolloser a disturbing little cousin that ur kinda freaked out by but love and find endearing anyway
@dylanlewis5113
@dylanlewis5113 Жыл бұрын
The Voices is severely underrated.
@drewwarner552
@drewwarner552 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Dad for once again covering the interests I’m too scared to go through myself
@arandomcomic2993
@arandomcomic2993 2 жыл бұрын
Its not that bad, its more surreal than scary, at least for me
@drewwarner552
@drewwarner552 2 жыл бұрын
@@arandomcomic2993 I definitely get that- Salad Fingers specifically nails the timing and voices that set off my anxiety perfectly so it’s a little too much to watch through on my own lmao
@daisyjoy242
@daisyjoy242 2 жыл бұрын
He reminds me of an uncle
@throneisbed7833
@throneisbed7833 Жыл бұрын
I will be honest. When you gave the thought experiment to think back to the first time one experienced something horrific, I tried to think back to that for myself. I thought and I thought but try as I might, I couldn't pinpoint an exact moment. All I got was vague options that I could barely recall details of. Then it struck me. I have a pink sketchbook from when I was maybe five, I don't remember ever obtaining it or drawing in it. But I remember finding it years later and giving it a flick through. That sketchbook is full of little stick-figure sketches of people being tortured. A lot of it is simplistic, understandably, but there are little notes here and there on what's being depicted, written in my child self's chicken-scratch, describing the sorts of both physical and psychological torture shown in the pictures, in some cases going into more detail on the effects, such as the intention of one method being to push the stick figure to the point of collapse, but not allowing them to. Or one I remember better than most of a stick figure having their limbs torn off and random replacements being stitched onto the open wounds, with a little note explaining the stitches aren't going to be cleaned and the wounds are going to get infected. I didn't expect a video on Salad Fingers to make me realise I had a warped imagination when I was a lad, but here we are.
@james-nw9up
@james-nw9up Жыл бұрын
One word that comes to mind whenever I watch a salad fingers episode is demented. Which leads me to think that salad fingers himself is just that. Alot of the time dementia patients kind of revert back to this childlike state while also keeping some of their adult understands/experiences. Like for example that one episode of Bojack Horseman illustrates this perfectly, with recalling memories thru flashbacks with pieces missing, his mother also getting attached to a stuffed bear and caring for it like a child, her drugging holly hock with diet pills and so on and so fourth
@wowza1217
@wowza1217 Жыл бұрын
Children with perverted childhoods tend to find comfort in perverted things. When I was a child, I had a difficult time falling asleep. So, in order to help this problem, I would imagine a zombie patrolling outside my door. The zombie would have a cart, and if I had my eyes open, it would kill me. Surprisingly, I felt comforted by the zombie's presence. Your explanation as to why Salad fingers is happy in his perverted imagination rings true.
@scarletbard6511
@scarletbard6511 Жыл бұрын
I used to always believe that if I didn't think of and worry about something bad happening, then it would happen. So a lot of my free time growing up was spent thinking up convoluted scenarios involving my serious death or injury. Which somehow comforted me, now that it wouldn't happen/if it happened, I'd be prepared.
@diip-ali1228
@diip-ali1228 Жыл бұрын
​@@scarletbard6511 no way, i do the exact same thing! I've always had the shittiest luck so my thought process was that if I envision the worst case scenario, I'd sort of "outsmart the system" when things turned out better than I imagined. By that logic, I'm actually pretty lucky!
@coolaid4662
@coolaid4662 Жыл бұрын
I used to imagine monsters standing over my bed that would eat me if I moved because then they knew I was awake,, I always thought it was weird that I would scare myself to sleep, good to know I'm not the only one lol
@Zowiezo101
@Zowiezo101 Жыл бұрын
I think this is to somehow confirm your anxiety, stress and fears. Many people with trauma don't feel taken serious and daydreaming or thinking about gore and other horror situations gives you the feeling you are allowed to feel what you feel..
@tomaslehane3536
@tomaslehane3536 Жыл бұрын
Yooo I thought I was the only mf who did this 💀
@fbmb1337
@fbmb1337 2 жыл бұрын
I still remember when MatPat dropped his own big Salad Fingers theory video, only for David Firth to basically go "Lmao nah." Edit: oh hey, somehow didn't expect it to be brought up, but considering Wendigoon's take it makes sense to bring it up in passing.
@ulqinaku8471
@ulqinaku8471 2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing and based
@redikaicore
@redikaicore 2 жыл бұрын
I still like MatPats theory
@echoflame4279
@echoflame4279 2 жыл бұрын
Although MatPat does a lot of reaching in his theory videos--his made the most sense. Especially if there WAS a deeper narrative here. I'm convinced the reason David Firth reached out to specify like he did, was because MatPat was the closest to getting it 100% right.... However, like Wendigoon said: That'd be bad for Firth if people ended up figuring out his series as a whole. He probably just wants to come across as if he never had any intention to tie these things together to make it less "predictable" or "pretentious", but his work absolutely says otherwise. Especially with the repetitive themes, terms, and environments that show there's already some degree of backstory which has at least psychologically affected the main character.
@clarie4497
@clarie4497 2 жыл бұрын
I get not agreeing but I personally think David was kind of an ass in response. (He's Brit tho so you know how sarcastically aggressive they can come off)
@pifilixxiv3192
@pifilixxiv3192 2 жыл бұрын
@@echoflame4279 honestly I kinda hate firth for that, trying to downplay a theorist just they made a "theory" which sums up the series well, like... How is that bad?
@lern2reed
@lern2reed Жыл бұрын
45:09 You perfectly described my reaction to 9/11. I was five at the time, and the way I made sense of what my mother described to me would easily make for a darkly surreal cartoon. I imagined bad men with evil laughter mind controlling the pilot to crash his helicopter. I knew there were people on flight but didn’t really comprehend it. I felt bad, but in a superficial way, as I ran off to play immediately after my mom told me what happened (basically just that bad men made a pilot crash into a building, nothing more explicit than that).
@manifestgtr
@manifestgtr Жыл бұрын
Salad Fingers was my introduction to “disturbing content” on the internet. Of course, I’d seen shock sites and gore sites in high school but Salad Fingers was a new form of surreal insanity. Oddly, it’s also one of the few series whose meaning I don’t really care to learn. All of the analog horror stuff, ARGs and all that…I’ll philosophize on those all day. But Salad Fingers never really needed it…I’ve always been comfortable just taking it in and enjoying David’s unique, whacked out pastiche.
@dabeztaround4065
@dabeztaround4065 2 жыл бұрын
My interpretation has always been that of an abused child as well, given the imagery of children and of characters getting pregnant accidentally, it led me to believe that his mother the one from episode 11, was abusive toward him, leading him to have all of these horrific experiences and for it to seem completely normal, the child being left out in the cold, lots of death and what not. But that’s what’s great about interpretation art can mean whatever you want it to mean
@aerodixx777
@aerodixx777 2 жыл бұрын
I personally had a similar idea looking back at it, especially because of episode 11 and the consistent theme of child mistreatment. My interpretation is that the older men in his family went to war (with his older brother dying in the war), leaving him stuck home with his abusive mother. That would explain (at least in my idea) why the world is so disturbing. Then again, I'm honestly open to any interpretation, such as the idea of war ptsd. That was just my experience.
@PadChennington
@PadChennington 2 жыл бұрын
boards of canada's "beware the friendly stranger" may be the most itchiest song ever made. works perfectly with salad fingers
@crogsmash1611
@crogsmash1611 2 жыл бұрын
Itchy is.. a very apt term for it
@greglane334
@greglane334 2 жыл бұрын
Yo pad watches Wendigoon too. I don't know why but I love it when creators I enjoy watch each other's stuff
@toquixi
@toquixi 2 жыл бұрын
Geogaddi as an amazing album, julie and candy never fails to give me goosebumps
@Ryo7_7
@Ryo7_7 2 жыл бұрын
The flashbacks from seeing some of this on Cid...totally forgot about this.
@vox_numbskull
@vox_numbskull 2 жыл бұрын
Hey Pad!
@evieasterwynauthor
@evieasterwynauthor Жыл бұрын
I remember watching Salad Fingers years ago! "The feeling of rust... on my salad fingers... is almost... orgasmic!" Yep, I still remember hearing that line and cracking up laughing. Creepy, strange and unsettling series.
@margarinesnatcher
@margarinesnatcher Жыл бұрын
There is something about Salad Fingers that just makes me say with certainty that it will stick with me until the end of my life, long after I've even forgotten its name and despite not having watched it that many times all things considered; Its depiction of a quiet and almost peaceful apocalypse is engraved on my very soul.
@divaprincess98
@divaprincess98 2 жыл бұрын
I think it was for the best that David didn’t bother to try to come up with a story or take any of the several fan theories and make it cannon. He would’ve ended up making the same mistake as Scott Cowthon; stitching together a bunch of loose threads to create a nonsensical chimera of a story that adds a new limb every time a Game Theory video comes out.
@Drekromancer
@Drekromancer 2 жыл бұрын
This is the sickest burn on Game Theory I've ever seen
@alexandriadiangelo6037
@alexandriadiangelo6037 2 жыл бұрын
As someone who isn't a big fan of Game Theory, I approve, 😂
@arson7012
@arson7012 2 жыл бұрын
As a fan of both stories, honestly yeah. Salad Fingers and FNaF are two entirely different types of beasts from a narrative perspective. Salad Fingers' mystery comes from its unknown, surrealistic nature that relies on audience interpretation of events. FNaF's mystery comes from its convoluted plotline and how every piece does (or is supposed to) fit together, but the exact ways that they do are unknown (to both audience and creator, same as Salad Fingers). When FNaF comes with new content, you _know_ it's supposed to fit somewhere, but theories can completely overhaul and mix around current theories with just a minor plot detail. When Salad Finger comes with new content, it's generally understood it won't pertain to a central story. Both stories imo are intriguing in different ways.
@theinfernoburns
@theinfernoburns 2 жыл бұрын
This is literally the reason I stopped watching GT, Matt gained so much influence from actual game developers his channel ended up being the genesis of the theories he was "elucidating us" on, like a self perpetuating machine. I exaggerate only slightly
@muttonchops2232
@muttonchops2232 2 жыл бұрын
@@theinfernoburns finally someone else see's it.
@Goodpizzaa
@Goodpizzaa 2 жыл бұрын
Dude salad fingers was extremely creepy back in the day I can't believe I haven't thought about it since. Thank you for reminding me about it! Much love goon~
@aleisterlavey9716
@aleisterlavey9716 2 жыл бұрын
Was?
@cyleleghorn246
@cyleleghorn246 2 жыл бұрын
When something is so strange, the brain just represses it lol
@ticket2space621
@ticket2space621 2 жыл бұрын
Are you John Wayne?
@kingofcomedy1700
@kingofcomedy1700 2 жыл бұрын
My man saying "back in the day", it feels like just yesterday I watched salad fingers
@jackrylebonclaw7270
@jackrylebonclaw7270 Жыл бұрын
I'm glad you highlight the concept of 'personal horror'. It's something I've been trying to achieve as a creator, on and off, for years. It took a long time (without actually talking to anyone else about it) to even grasp the concept of it, of leaving blanks that the minds of the audience could fill with their own particular unpleasantness. And to realise that I was doing it myself when I read/watched such things, and why when I tried to explicitly include the things that I imagined in my own stuff, they lost their power. Having them exist in that swimming, malleable state of one's own imagination kept them unsettling, but committing them to a definite form and explanation robbed them of that ability to continually pose unsettling questions. And it's that that's really the big takeaway here; basically, fear of the unknown.
@LazuliScarab
@LazuliScarab Жыл бұрын
I think it's remarkable that Firth was able to make a series so surrela and unsettling but still frames Salad Fingers kind of compassionately. He never means harm and as a result you can identify with him a lot in some abstract ways.
@DyxoXinoro
@DyxoXinoro 2 жыл бұрын
I remember as a kid I took everything at face value and just assumed that Mr. Fingers was some sort of intelligent cryptid and this was what he saw normal humans as. Though rewatching it leading up to this video, I actually imagined that Salad might actually be a parent whose mind just broke after losing his child by some unknown means. It would explain all the weird symbolism around children, and maybe some of the situations shown are him being guilt ridden and trying to explain what happened without knowing how to confront it. Now how the fuck this ties into him very clearly boning a dead dog I have no clue. But hey, no theory is perfect.
@harpsekai
@harpsekai 2 жыл бұрын
Could be that the dog symbolizes the child's mother. Disapproval for an inappropriate relationship would also explain the lack of support from those around them.
@williamladine7591
@williamladine7591 2 жыл бұрын
Story works if the dead dog is a symbol for the girl, who could have died during childbirth.
@brettoelschlager8249
@brettoelschlager8249 2 жыл бұрын
Her dying could also be why he said, "You weren't ready to lose your daughter" to Baby Head Dog.
@Web720
@Web720 2 жыл бұрын
The dog was Finger's spouse.
@lukullberg955
@lukullberg955 2 жыл бұрын
Bro the kid theory is legit trash. Doesn't explain how Salads has the ability to tap in morse code or anything, obviously he has had a part in the war
@kruggsmash
@kruggsmash 2 жыл бұрын
didn't realize I wanted you to do a salad fingers video so badly
@timmythy2887
@timmythy2887 2 жыл бұрын
I didn't expect my favourite DF youtuber in this comment section but here you are. Imagine that.
@haydenb4235
@haydenb4235 2 жыл бұрын
Ay it’s Kruggsmash
@Sunflower468
@Sunflower468 2 жыл бұрын
Any ideas on finding a Salad Fingers based Dwarf Fortress mod?
@danielchequer5842
@danielchequer5842 2 жыл бұрын
Ay the greatest bearded bastard of all
@Chrischansbentduck
@Chrischansbentduck 2 жыл бұрын
Wasn't expecting to see you here Adam. 🎉
@user-cd4bx6uq1y
@user-cd4bx6uq1y Жыл бұрын
It's one of those things we'd watch as kids like 6-7 years ago and no one would understand it. It was interesting and peaceful. It was supposed to be scary for us, but we didn't care about that. It was our thing in our time, completely different from anything else going on in the "real and important" parts of life. For us, it really was, not that it was anything, it just was, for real and for us. And you won't know anything from this comment, but it will mean a lot, enough to understand.
@bexta89
@bexta89 Жыл бұрын
I watched the eps the first time last night because of this video, and my immediate thought was some sort of mental illness or someone with alzheimers - like the odd sayings and quick changes of what Salad says just felt like a family member talking to you as though you were someone else they knew, etc. It's certainly interesting to think about it all, and unsettling to watch.
@ArLobo12
@ArLobo12 2 жыл бұрын
I fucking loved this series it’s so oddly comforting yet off putting like he means well but just does awful things I think he doesn’t understand other living things have consciousness
@BlisaBLisa
@BlisaBLisa 2 жыл бұрын
oh man yeah thats a v good way of putting it, that's something about it that disturbed me a lot when I watched it as a kid lol
@meltedWax169
@meltedWax169 2 жыл бұрын
The scary part is that there are people like that
@Vicari0usly
@Vicari0usly 2 жыл бұрын
@@meltedWax169 yes, those are what we call ‘Sociopaths’
@luka620
@luka620 2 жыл бұрын
@@Vicari0usly I wouldn’t say that. Sociopaths generally know what they’re doing and don’t tend to feel guilt about committing horrific actions, because they can’t. Salad could probably be considered somewhere within the dissociative/delusional sphere, if you wanted to put those kind of classifications on something so unclassified as Salad Fingers.
@fizziz_1035
@fizziz_1035 2 жыл бұрын
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@internetduck1520
@internetduck1520 Жыл бұрын
As someone with a host of mental problems, such as PTSD, autism, and being British, I found that many things about this series were relatable to my experiences with those issues.
@nineteenfortyeight6762
@nineteenfortyeight6762 Жыл бұрын
😂
@thisismyusername193
@thisismyusername193 Жыл бұрын
Being british😭😭
@Domura
@Domura Жыл бұрын
I'm sorry for your disability. I know it can be hard to be British, but things will improve one day.
@Xepent
@Xepent Жыл бұрын
As a man who has never been British I'll never understand your struggle. But chin up, g'uv'n'or
@Jb-du5xt
@Jb-du5xt Жыл бұрын
Have you looked for treatment options? Being British should be something you live with, not suffer from.
@Toddbergstrom
@Toddbergstrom Жыл бұрын
Thank you for dusting off and presenting this hidden gem to people that have never seen it or have seen an episode or two a long time ago. This video auto played after another one of your videos and a few minutes in when you said to stop this video and go watch them first, that’s exactly what I did because I remembered that it was so abstract that I had to have the whole thing fresh in my mind to “get” and appreciate your analysis
@paul_warner
@paul_warner Жыл бұрын
I like your analysis of "there is no analysis". Abstract art can be good and good art can be abstract. I also like the "Salad is an imaginative traumatized child" theory.
@lillykoroluk6620
@lillykoroluk6620 2 жыл бұрын
he goes long periods of time without uploading, then hits us with a double. What a guy
@notmocka
@notmocka 2 жыл бұрын
He literally uploads weekly tho?
@matthewmcguire224
@matthewmcguire224 2 жыл бұрын
Eh, it’s never really much longer than a week in my experience, he’s pretty regular. But yeah when he hits us with two in two days is awesome.
@fort809
@fort809 Жыл бұрын
@@notmocka it’s been 3 weeks
@CatLover-lk9gz
@CatLover-lk9gz Жыл бұрын
The "Personallized" horror idea is honestly a really cool idea. What scares you? War, welp, that's Salad Fingers, Post Apocalypse, Salad Fingers. Scared of loosing your mind and grip on reality, Being left clueless to your own reality, That's Salad Fingers
@noises4978
@noises4978 9 ай бұрын
i am not scared of loosing my mind, whatever that means. it would be scary to lose my mind though
@toysoldiernerio7172
@toysoldiernerio7172 11 ай бұрын
Zdzisław Beksiński is one of my favorite painters for similar reasons you describe in your analysis segment. He refused to name any of his paintings so as not to pre suppose meaning upon them and rob the viewer the experience of the piece. also glad im not the only one who gets the courage the cowardly dog vibes from Salad fingers.
@caydeofspaydes
@caydeofspaydes Жыл бұрын
I love how you’re able to see the animation improve when you watch it all in sequence
@skeletonsinscarves3965
@skeletonsinscarves3965 2 жыл бұрын
Going off your theory, there's a thing with second hand trauma when learning of tragedy as a kid. You make believe that you're going through these scenarios so you can make sense of things in your own way if you act it out. Sometimes when you're surrounded by death growing up it becomes normal, enough that you might see the decaying as toys or add it to your art if it was a prominent part of your life. Personally I grew up around a lot of tragedy and death that it became normal and essentially had a fascination with it that I saw a kind of beauty with it. I can see this theory making a lot of sense because it lines up with what is happening
@meltedWax169
@meltedWax169 2 жыл бұрын
I've developed some interest or viewing of death and violence as a form of art or beauty, i grew up with a shit ton of my mother's friends dying around me. There are so many more things that i cant put into words
@skeletonsinscarves3965
@skeletonsinscarves3965 2 жыл бұрын
@@meltedWax169 I feel like when you see it as a kind of beautiful natural thing you want to show others its not so bad and to not be afraid when the time comes. It's a type of understanding we grew up with and learned to be better people from it. Tragedy happens and it's difficult to shield children from something like that without them trying to figure out why something happened at all. There's a show called bluey that touched on this and all the while the bird that was dying was hardly shown on screen but we learned the main character didn't have the understanding to go through what was happening. she acted it out at home the exact way it happened because she wanted to understand her feelings of this random bird dying even when it was given care.
@ke-hc9yd
@ke-hc9yd 2 жыл бұрын
Oh man you just summed up my life. I didnt know there was a word for it! When i was a kid i grew up with a lot of fights, and arguments and what not ( not to me obviously but i would see it everyday) i used to hate it but now it sort of looked cool and pretty in a weird way. I thought i was a psycho or something for thinking like that but im glad theres a word for it!
@skeletonsinscarves3965
@skeletonsinscarves3965 2 жыл бұрын
@@ke-hc9yd don't worry about the reply I didn't think it was an actual thing but that's what it's called, I thought there was an official name or something for that kind of trauma 😅
@smolchungus9213
@smolchungus9213 2 жыл бұрын
Same my childhood had a lot of death and misfortunes the earliest of which was my grandfather dying of cancer when I was just 3. I knew from my parents that he is "dead" meaning he won't wake up again so I understood death as eternal sleep. But I never really understood why. Why won't he wake up anymore? Why is he dressed so nicely if he was just sleeping? Why is he in a box? Why is he being put underground? What if he wakes up then we'll have to dig him out again? Kids are really good at making their own interpretations no matter how nonsensical or far fetched it might be
@emilyhedgehog547
@emilyhedgehog547 Жыл бұрын
As a child my mother watched the soaps everynight and I picked up on some of them, So when I played with my barbies it'd always been some big family drama such as people dying/cheating/whatever its insane what kids pick up on and thats why I think adults need to be careful with what they say around them, you'll never know what they'll sponge up.
@verycoolloser
@verycoolloser Жыл бұрын
lmao honestly the barbie games i played with my cousin were horrible
@jacksonhodge4638
@jacksonhodge4638 Жыл бұрын
Our driving instructor had a neat anecdote about a guy who used his pointer and middle finger to turn the radio dial instead of his pointer and thumb. He thought it was kinda strange, until he saw the guy’s dad was missing his thumb.
@neilcicieregamybel0ved
@neilcicieregamybel0ved 8 ай бұрын
I also did that with my dolls as a kid 😭😭 it was fun
@Emo_Bunny2000
@Emo_Bunny2000 Жыл бұрын
My childhood was corrupted at 2-3yrs old. Watching this theory brought back memories so I had to take a break but I can totally see this theory as what's actually happening in salad fingers.
@SunCannon
@SunCannon Жыл бұрын
A strong point that Wendigoon doesn't mention (but helps his arguement) is that the last episode of Courage, the whole theme of the episode is imagination. And in that episode, Courage is wearing a top hat at the end of the last episode. In Salad Fingers' the top hat scene closely resembles the last scene in courage. I haven't seen ANYONE make this comparison but its so obvious when you put them next to each other.
@SpitfiretheCat16
@SpitfiretheCat16 2 жыл бұрын
My interpretation? Dave's playing a 'yes, and' game of improv with himself. There's no grand narrative, but it's like putting together a puzzle with blank pieces and no edges. He puts random things together in one part, then he has to find new pieces that fit into the old pieces for the next part. I imagine all the fan theorizing infects his own creative process to a degree, and something someone said about one episode becomes a beat in a new episode, but he's not intentionally trying to piece together a narrative. He'll make callbacks, because it's an episodic series and so Salad Fingers will reference Salad Fingers. But every new episode is more just a response to the rest of the series, like playing a game where everybody in the group comes up with a story one word at a time.
@krowpan799
@krowpan799 2 жыл бұрын
Seems like it
@Zeffer32
@Zeffer32 2 жыл бұрын
I remember watching the first couple as a teen and interpreting Salad Fingers as some sort of unethical science experiment left for dead in a wasteland or escaped to this wasteland. I was tickled by the idea of a huge government entity frantically trying to find Salad Fingers believing him to be extremely dangerous and he's just in the desert finding bodies and fondling rust.
@hernandez4856
@hernandez4856 2 жыл бұрын
you were tickled?…
@artomaton776
@artomaton776 2 жыл бұрын
@@hernandez4856 that’s a way of saying they found it funny
@sdrre1925
@sdrre1925 Жыл бұрын
As someone with cptsd, I can definitely see how this could reflect the phenomenon of children representing their trauma through imaginative play. I've certainly played out my fair share of interesting themes.
@moved_accounts
@moved_accounts Жыл бұрын
“Salad is British… the poor guy” THAT CAUGHT ME SO OFF GUARD. I ALMOST CHOKED ON MY FOOD 😭
@baumber1919
@baumber1919 2 жыл бұрын
The perception of how children interpret things in their minds and imagination especially dark subjects that they are too young to comprehend could easily work in Salad fingers with the very confusing visuals and meanings
@skylerhall1537
@skylerhall1537 2 жыл бұрын
Especially because children IRL often use imaginative play to process traumatic/intense events. I used to work as a daycare teacher and I could always tell who I needed to give extra affection to based on how their imaginations were running that week.
@mariokarter13
@mariokarter13 2 жыл бұрын
Or Salad Fingers is an adult with the mind of a child. Someone like Chris Chan, before that comparison became horrifying.
@billieflylish
@billieflylish 2 жыл бұрын
We were Salad Fingers disciples in high school and I can still remember one of our friends writing this huge essay hypothesising the meaning behind Salad Fingers, it involved him being an old army general who had lost his memory and was now living inside this weird fantasy world......? This kid also gradually stole all the clocks in the school and took them all home and hid them in a cupboard, and eventually the school had no clocks and they never replaced them. The 2000s were a strange time.
@username.not.known2473
@username.not.known2473 2 жыл бұрын
That's beautiful.
@mickipou
@mickipou 2 жыл бұрын
Iconic
@thisisgettingold
@thisisgettingold 2 жыл бұрын
They put cages on the clocks at my school and I always wondered why.
@akv215
@akv215 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this fresh take on the horror of the Salad Fingers universe, out of all of them, this one genuinely makes the most sense. I love David Firth's works in general and I've always appreciated the dream-like feel of his "plots" in his videos, where none of it makes sense, but at the same time all of it makes sense. His video Socks Six achieves this feeling the best in my opinion, and I highly recomend giving it a watch ♥
@cadencornobi5796
@cadencornobi5796 10 ай бұрын
I watched the entire series last night, my first time seeing it. I didn’t interpret it as a story or a coherent message, but I got a great sense of loneliness and comfort from it. I think while watching I imbued my own mental issues onto what I was seeing. I felt things that I am not able to describe, and I find a strange easiness despite all the disturbing imagery. The series reminds me of a quote I heard a long time ago. “Art is meant to comfort the disturbed, and disturbed the comfortable.” To me I feel a part of the former category, and I will forever love this series for the emotions it brings me and the comfort it gives.
@kodarpy
@kodarpy 2 жыл бұрын
I’ve gotten extremely desensitized to this series from the sheer amount of times i’ve watched it. However, listening to someone trying to explain the series I’ve, quite literally, grown up alongside is uncanny.
@theartificer1981
@theartificer1981 2 жыл бұрын
Imagination exists in such a weird zone of thought. someone could show you the most horrifying, gut-retching, vile horror beyond comprehension, and it wouldn't be half as scary as something personably tailored by your psyche to be the scariest potentiality of what it could be. I hope that makes sense.
@ShozubonGG_2426
@ShozubonGG_2426 2 жыл бұрын
That's such a good observation i love this take damn.
@beatuwidstik2237
@beatuwidstik2237 Жыл бұрын
really happy you gave us your interpretation, i see a lot of these videos that say "its all meant for interpretation" but never give us their interpretation and i think yours is awesome, personally i always interpreted salad as having DID as i suffer from it, but i still love to see other interpretations cause i really don't think that i am right but its just fun to speculate and share your interpretations with those around you
@laradanan3411
@laradanan3411 8 ай бұрын
Salad fingers will always hold a special place in my heart. I remember me and my friends would freak out in class when the new episode would drop and we would stop everything to watch it together. It has played such a big role in my middle school years.
@essmaxwell
@essmaxwell 2 жыл бұрын
I can assure you I was not expecting such a life-altering perspective on the universality of art as "Through the handiwork of a now-dead artist I can see these blocky features of something that's supposed to be a person [and] for a moment I share the same thoughts that Picasso did all those years ago whenever we both think that this woman has pretty eyes" in an hour-long analysis of Salad fingers
@Armund_Wolffe
@Armund_Wolffe 2 жыл бұрын
right??? ya never know what wisdom the Goon is gonna give us.
@Tom_Hillman
@Tom_Hillman 2 жыл бұрын
shame about him saying "whenever" instead of "when" though 😭
@Atticore
@Atticore 2 жыл бұрын
@@Tom_Hillman it seems to be a southern/Texas thing. One of my online friends from Texas does that when talking in voice chat, and we can't help but giggle about it, much to her embarrassment. We don't mean to laugh, but it is kinda funny and charming in a way.
@jakedanielsen4512
@jakedanielsen4512 2 жыл бұрын
@@Tom_Hillman It's technically correct to say "When ever he wakes up" but it sounds like he's saying whenever. It's like the difference between everyday and every day, or maybe and may be.
@Tom_Hillman
@Tom_Hillman 2 жыл бұрын
@@jakedanielsen4512 It implies he wakes up more than once. often, he'll say something like "whenever JFK died" as if he died more than once 😭 the way he says it too always misleads me into thinking he's talking about something happening multiple times 😭
@mewdx4339
@mewdx4339 2 жыл бұрын
My personal theory is that Salad Fingers shows the outside perspective of the average day-to-day-life of a British person.
@REDghost97
@REDghost97 4 ай бұрын
It's so sad when people go out of there way to be hateful, just shows how miserable some people are. I've been digging your vids and hope you keep on trucking and making cool content!
@Thorrnn
@Thorrnn Жыл бұрын
I saw the first 2 or 3 episodes back when they first came out, but never knew there were so many. I watched all of them before I watched your video, and my own theories are similar. I remember my reaction to the original few episodes thinking it was a bit disturbing, oddly humorous, and rather terrifying. And I laughed it off, and said things like "have you any...spoooooons" to people at work who usually looked at me like I was in fact salad fingers come to life. This faded to laughter and friendly ribbing as the secret got out and the videos gained in popularity. Having now watched all 12 episodes...all I can say is: YOIKS!! I found myself becoming more and more horrified by the grotesque imagery, the deeply disturbing themes, and had to take to only watch the episodes while not eating any meals. I felt that the entire project was coming from a very disturbed mind, and maybe it did, but after having watched your analysis, I can find certain points of agreement. I felt that the episode "glass brother" lent a certain cohesive underlying theme to the overall narrative, but also that it suggested even more horrifying realities for little salad fingers, or its creator. I had already had the sense that "salad" was living in an alternate, imagined reality, as a form of escapism from the horrors of his own life, (whether from parental abuse, familial abuse, or the horrors of war and deprivation, or something similarly unconfrontable). I appreciate your analysis, and the inspiration to complete the tale. And I am thankful that I will never have to watch it again.
@irrelevantonyt
@irrelevantonyt 2 жыл бұрын
Your theory really hits home for me. As a child I had a hyperactive imagination but also a lot of anxiety. I had made some experiences which brought some not great ideas into my mind and my imaginary worlds were kind of corrupted from that. The monsters I would fight became children stuck in tight places and 'The Naked Man'. Luckily I got through it and am in a much happier place now.
@OddLittleThing
@OddLittleThing 2 жыл бұрын
I had a similar thing! My psych said it was called 'Maladaptive daydreaming' where the mind escapes into its own scenarios but they aren't always 'happy' escapes. E.g. a recurring scenairo i had for a while was being found under the rubble of my collapsed school. Its a weird way that the brain tries to process its surroundings. Im glad you are doing better now though
@dillonwalshpvd
@dillonwalshpvd 2 жыл бұрын
I used to lay under a blanket and imagine being a mummy
@nikhilpranav6915
@nikhilpranav6915 2 жыл бұрын
I had a dream where I was watching TV, but then a giant goat and a giant goat child were destroying the city so I had to drive out, but for some reason we left out my grandmother. But, I got in the car first, and drove to death. I had this other dream where there was a conversation. Child 1: You sure you want this shirt? It'll make you wanna kill yourself. Child 2: Don't worry, I always wanna kill myself. Child 1: Ok, I'll deliver it, then. CUT! Announcer: The competition for creepiest dolls has begun! Policeman: One of these dolls is a skinned child. [IMAGE OF CHILD 1 AND POLICE MAN LOOKING AT EACH OTHER] Then stringed instruments going BA DA BUM!
@orbitaloutcast9878
@orbitaloutcast9878 2 жыл бұрын
Its sort of representative of boards of canada's geogaddi album. You should give it a look, because it's also apart of salad finger's history.
@sprinklesprinkle5313
@sprinklesprinkle5313 2 жыл бұрын
My recurring cursed thought was always that the Devil had my parents and my sister all in cages, and was making me choose one to save and to let the other two die. Usually I had to do something to save the one I got to choose, but I typically just broke down crying at the idea of choosing and tried to think about something else.
@finno5827
@finno5827 2 жыл бұрын
It is crazy at which speeds you can pull off videos that are not just almost an hour long, but clearly well researched and thought out as well, props to you!
@HueyTheDoctor
@HueyTheDoctor Жыл бұрын
Dude your content is almost supernaturally engaging.
@siuraspe4281
@siuraspe4281 9 ай бұрын
Wendigoon your one of the most nuisanced thought processing i see on youtube and i appreciate every video thoroughly thanks!
@nickgeraci9846
@nickgeraci9846 2 жыл бұрын
WOOOOOWWWWW never in my life did I think I would see such a thorough breakdown of my childhood trauma LOL thank you wendigoon
@kidneyfailure33
@kidneyfailure33 2 жыл бұрын
Coming from an abusive household, your theory on salad fingers made a lot of sense to me. I remember coming up with stories using my toys and incorporating topics that I overheard my parents arguing about. Also watching Salad Fingers, my first thought was about how much it resembled Courage. It's like you read my mind with this video. Great work as always :P
@skullkid692
@skullkid692 Жыл бұрын
The theory that its all in courages head makes the series lame. Should be disregarded.
@guen4413
@guen4413 Жыл бұрын
@@skullkid692 no theory should be disregarded. You don't have to believe it. That's why it's just a theory. That's the beauty of things like Courage and Salad that don't ever explain what's really going on. It can mean whatever you want it to mean
@MagicMan3K
@MagicMan3K Жыл бұрын
I absolutely loved this series during high school and it's so cool he keeps making more. 15 years ago was the first time I saw something so disturbing yet so intriguing I wanted more.
@mck421
@mck421 Жыл бұрын
I just came from your video on "no longer human" and man it took me a few minutes to adjust to the words coming out of your mouth.
@ZidaneKayos
@ZidaneKayos 2 жыл бұрын
I always thought that Salad Fingers was a person suffering from some manner of deep delusion, because that was the personal horror and tragedy in the story for me, being so deep into delusion or hallucination that you become unable to tell the difference between the two. As a child I had a great aunt who suffered from dementia, and she was actually very nice, and relatively calm, but she spent almost every waking hour just lost inside her own head, living half-remembered memories and speaking to people that weren't there, or thinking that the people around here were other people from her memories. But it's better that it remain unexplained. To explain the story would ruin the way people interact with it.
@dumbdead8835
@dumbdead8835 2 жыл бұрын
I swear this guy must just constantly be editing, he’s making awesome hour long videos almost every day
@freeloading_toad
@freeloading_toad 2 жыл бұрын
He has an editor named Kate (not sure on her name but he’s mentioned her before). Still amazing seeing as he is also a college student and finals season is upon us
@dumbdead8835
@dumbdead8835 2 жыл бұрын
@@freeloading_toad Well she’s doing a great job lol
@snikklefritz3640
@snikklefritz3640 Жыл бұрын
Salad fingers helped me to remember Boards of Canada and I'm forever grateful for that. Also all of the lovely quotes that come from this show. I think it was on break com fingers first popped up on my internet browsing. Big W for its popularity as it's rightfully deserved.
@dothanoodledance27
@dothanoodledance27 Жыл бұрын
This has been my comfort video for the past year. Thank you Wendi ❤.
@theftking
@theftking 2 жыл бұрын
No way... Wendigoon just dropped an hour-long Salad Fingers video? Amazing! *edit:* oh awesome they gave me my checkmark 😮
@fatalerror6469
@fatalerror6469 2 жыл бұрын
Hey, I like your videos. You're a good growing channel, and if you see this, I wish you the best of luck.
@hirocheeto7795
@hirocheeto7795 2 жыл бұрын
Oh, hey, it's you. Guess I've found myself in a corner of KZfaq with these types of channels.
@NightmareKeys
@NightmareKeys 2 жыл бұрын
hi theft king
@theftking
@theftking 2 жыл бұрын
@@fatalerror6469 thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoy them! I'm just running into you everywhere lately Keys 😆
@Notnoodley
@Notnoodley 2 жыл бұрын
Only Wendigoon would drop an hour long salad fingers video
@KITSUMOX
@KITSUMOX 2 жыл бұрын
personally salad fingers has always hit close to home in a interpretation that salad fingers is a person who's imagination has been tainted by the abused they've gone through and the suffering around them.
@dalatina911
@dalatina911 8 ай бұрын
Bruhh you blew my MIND with this one!! I completely forgot about Salad Fingers until I seen this video. I love your theory and tend to agree with you on it, although I never thought about it that way before. Thank you for this Wendigoon! Also, I hope you’ve done a video on courage the cowardly dog!
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