My old pinned comment disappeared for some reason so here's a new one FAQ: 1: These are my own characters. No they are not from homestuck, deltarune, eddsworld, etc. 2: You can read the comic for this animation here! www.respawnstory.com/ 3: TWs for the comic can be found here if needed: www.tumblr.com/respawnquestions/716420139532402688/what-are-the-tws-for-this-comic-it-seems-fun-from 4: I do not own the song. The song is "The Moss" by Cosmo Sheldrake 5: Please do not reupload! If you make an edit that is fine but please do not claim that the original is yours. Link this video in the description! (also, feel free to tag me I love seeing edits!) 6: Yes I know I misspelled it. It's been 4 years since I uploaded this. 7: This was made on flipnote 3d for the 3ds! Thats why its called a flipnote 3d animation. 7a: Unfortunately, I didn't make the video with the 3ds's 3d function in mind, so it doesnt give the 3d effect (I used the multiple layers for coloring and sketches. So if you turned 3d on youd be able to see hints of the sketches)

woah thanks for using my song

*hide in the mountains* *wait for a while* *die of old age* Congrats, you're now immortal

The fact that I come back to this video like once every few months or year, just shows how much I enjoy this type of aesthetic and the visuals, brings an sense of peace in some way

Do I know exactly what's going on in this video? No. No, I do not. Is this still my favorite animation on KZfaq? Yes. Yes, it is.

HOW MANY FRAMES *_JESUS, I'M JEALOUS_*

Biology teacher: ok how does photosynthesis work. Me: WHEN THE SUN BEAMS DOWN ALL THE PLANTS THEY EAT THEM WITH THEIR LEAVES.

This song has been able to scratch a musical itch for me. Not too slow, not too fast, not too loud, and not to soft. Just perfect.

Your typography skills are absolutely unparalleled, the way the lyrics fit into each frame and work with the surroundings and against them??? I die

Me who has no idea what any of this means: *Oh no the green guy died at the end..I really liked him*

I couldn't help but repeatedly say ''this is so cool'' while watching this-

gotta be honest, i wasnt prepared to hear such a masterpiece of a song, and to read such a masterpiece of a comic, although it takes a bit to get into it, it is well worth it. every death makes the reader feel like a part of them has shattered(even if it was on for less then 10 frames) and it always keeps its stakes high, its the best webcomic ive read in really quite a while and the song was the break ive been unknowingly waiting for for a while.

When the beat dropped at 0:30 and all of the bright colors started to flash, I literally GASPED. It’s so gorgeous and so fluidly animated! And I love how I can see the story happening but it’s just enough of a mystery that I am intrigued and wanting more! Going to read the comment immediately now

1900: I wonder what will music be In the future,.. 2019: an epic animation about moss growing

2:00 _He-he’s just standing there! _*_Menacingly!_*

Why does this feel like childhood? This is the second time I've heard this, the first time was last year, and I swear it just captures the mystery and magic of being a child. Perfect.

I found this on accident because I forgot to stop the auto playlist that KZfaq made, and I'm damn glad I did, because it's pure gold, I love the song, and the animation fits oddly well, and includes the lyrics, too

i'm pissed. I did the math and shit, and on the second "Spins on an axis of 23 Degrees", YOU DREW THAT ANGLE, AT 23 DEGREES

This is like trying to remember a dream, you think you understand until you start questioning your own sanity.

talking into the void cuz i really wanna talk about this this animation inspired me so so much in early middle school. i was really afraid of the future, not sure what my life would become. i wasn’t sure who i would be, what i was put here to do. and lmao covid made that soso much worse then i found this animation. i then realized what i wanted to do. i wanted to tell stories. be they real or fiction, i wanted to create my own small worlds, ones so minuscule yet expansive. it’s been five years since then, and now i’m a sophomore in high school. so much has changed, so much has occurred. and even now my dreams of creating something predominate in my mind. it sounds corny but in a way this animation let me realize who i wanted to be. thank you, from the bottom of my heart

[Verse] Legend has it that the moss grows on The north side of the trees Well, legend has it when the rains come down All the worms come up to breathe Well, legend has it when the sunbeams come All the plants, they eat them with their leaves Well, legend has it that the world spins round On an axis of 23 degrees [Chorus] But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon? Or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon Or she, who leapt up mountains, while whistling up a tune And swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few From that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe Or the girl that sang by day and by night she ate tear soup Or the man who drank too much and he got the brewers’ droop [Bridge] Come listen, all ye fair maids, to how the moral goes Nobody knew and nobody knows How the Pobble was robbed of his twice five toes Or how the Dong came to own a luminous nose Or how the Jumblies went to sea in a sieve that they rowed And came to shore by the Chankly Bore where the Bong-trees grow Where the Jabberwocky’s small green tentacles do flow And the Quangle Wangle plays in the rain and the snow [Chorus] But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon? Or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon Or she, who leapt up mountains, while whistling up a tune And swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few From that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe Or the girl that sang by day and by night she ate tear soup Or the man who drank too much and he got the brewers’ droop [Verse] Legend has it that the moss grows on The north side of the trees Well, legend has it when the rains comes down All the worms come up to breathe Well, legend has it when the sunbeams come All the plants, they eat them with their leaves Well, legend has it that the world spins round On an axis of 23 degrees [Chorus] But have you heard the story of the rabbit in the moon? Or the cow that hopped the planets while straddling a spoon Or she, who leapt up mountains, while whistling up a tune And swapped her songs with swallows while riding on a broom Well, we can all learn things, both many and a-few From that old hunched-up woman who lived inside a shoe Or the girl that sang by day and by night she ate tear soup Or the man who drank too much and he got the brewers’ droop

I get that there's some Homestuck looking things in here but can we stop talking about it and start talking about how incredible these OC's are. Like we only get small pieces of their stories and designs but it truly reminds me of one of those amazing dreams with a whole world and cast, but you're missing too many details so it has a meloncholy mystery behind it.

You know what the most amazing thing is? THIS WAS DONE ON FRICKEN FLIPNOTE! You have my undying adoration.

happy rather belated 4th birthday to the animation that changed the way i construct funny little animatics within my brain. i'm SO happy this popped off, ABSOLUTELY deserved! seriously this owns i can't believe it's only existed for four years, it feels like it's been around for literally forever in the best way possible.

I dont think I've ever been more thankful to get such a random video recommendation on a 2am youtube rabbithole. I keep coming back to this. The song and the animation combined are such a wonderful thing, and I truly can't express the rare sense of calm this brings me. Thank you to both artists for their incredible work.

nobody: yt captions: [music] shoes [music]

Can we just- "Legend has it when the sun beams down they eat them with their leaves." *Shows some spicy cacti*

I'm revisiting this after a few years because of a KZfaq mix, and it's still super stunning!!! I'm gonna read the comic now :]

I love how this was made on flipnote because flipnote was a big part of my childhood.

great job op, this is fantastic and a favorite of mine. it's so smooth and neat.

Amazing, just wow. Now i want a full story.

1:04 has to be one of the best pixel hands ive seen that isnt just drawn and than converted into pixels.

This is honesty one of THE best flipnotes I've ever seen, I've never been so impressed by animation????? Everything just absolutely blew me away, amazing job!!

usually, no matter how great something is, it eventually gets less exciting over time, but i'm on the 7th watch and it's the exact same level of majestic as the first time

You're telling me, this, is, made, on f@!?ing flipnote!?

The satisfaction you get after being able to piece events together and understand this animation after reading into the webcomic and the info around it feels good. I'm absolutely following the webcomic's development!

I have little idea of what is happening in this video but everytime I watch I get kinda... sad? I don't know why but it feels like a tragedy that I only know bits and pieces off. Amazing work and I honestly want to learn so much more.

everyone: hmm what does this mean. Me: cool drawings

I love the aesthetics of this...the art style and custom text looks amazing. Limited resolution & intentionally limited color palettes remind me of cinematics in NES games...this really gets the (creative) juices flowin'.

This is beyond impressive how clear the picture comes out, despite how few colors they used to animate this.

Me: *doesn't understand the meaning of the animation at all* Me: man this is deep

This is too perfect for this world-

for being four years old This animation is clean

i can't explain it better, so i'll just say that the vibes are immaculate, and the aesthetic is on point

Oh my goodness that was beautiful! I didn’t think I could be more impressed by this flipnote, but I was definitely wrong. Watching this really makes me want to see some lore about the characters in it!

This carries that vibe of a story that lives on forever and forever because it's so unforgettable it's not allowed to die. This feels like TAZ and Homestuck and all other stories you've either come to love or heard enough about to know they mean something to people, but not enough to know why. Idk what it is exactly but whatever it is.. It's fucking incredible and you nailed it.

Why does this bring so much nostalgia despite never seeing anything like this before?

can't stop watching this, the way the words go onscreen looks amazing

How in the hell could you make this so fast and so GOOD

can we just say it. this is like basically the official music video at this point

hi!! i dont know if you do and why would you but if you still read comments... i dont know how to express this and i dont really know the words for it but you are just something amazing, i cant get my head around this artistic skill, thank you for this experience!!

No one is going to read it here? Good. This story, the Flipnotes, the music, they remind me of those months before the pandemic, just after I joined Uni, waiting at the bus stop of that weird City... I don't miss that chaos, but I do miss the ways I used to give myself solace...

Damn that animation must have took forever to do. Everything was practically silhouettes and the audience could still tell what was being shown, that's hard to do.

I JUST STARTED READING THE COMIC AND THOUGHT "HUH THIS STORY FEELS REALLY FAMILIAR, I SWEAR IVE HEARD OF SOMETHING LIKE THIS BEFORE" AND THEN I REMEMBERED THIS ANIMATION AND I WAS LIKE "WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF TWO THINGS BEING SO SIMILAR, MAYBE THEYRE CONNECTED" AND WHAT DO YOU *FUCKING* KNOW, I WAS RIGHT! excuse the aggression it's 12 am and I feel like I just put together a 50 thousand piece puzzle with my arms tied behind my back

Just recently found your channel again after four years, This vidio four years ago introduced me to cosmo sheldrake who is now my favorite music artist ever , thank you for making Dutch an AWESOME AMAZING animation, keep up the great work man this was and still is a huge inspiration to me . Keep it up!!

this is an incredible animation and genuinely adds to the song rather than simply interpreting it. fantastic job.

the lyrics being perfectly timed with the words on screen is really satisfying o_o

I love how abstract this is. I can tell there's a story, but I can't quite figure out WHAT it is, because it's not simply handed to viewers within the video. There's just the right balance that you can tell something is happening, but aren't certain what it is. I absolutely LOVE that. The color choice is also really well done. The colors are all really bold and at the same time, they are used in such a way that they complement each other rather than being too sharp of a contrast and hurting viewers' eyes. The entire video is just really good. I love it so much. Extremely well done job! Sincerely, C

ive been waching this sooo many times but my shitass eyes cannot understand the animation (both how smooth it is and how jam packed it is with lore. making time to read respawn soon :D)

this has more views than the original song

I'm disgusted. you are underrated, this animation is absolutely stunning and you deserve more recognition edit; heck. when I first watched this video "the moss" it had a few thousand views, now it has so many! hell yeah!

PLEASE make this into a webcomic. The background sounds awesome for a story and your artstyle looks so smooth and cool. If this became a webcomic i would cry tears of joy.

This is what Nintendo took from us. An entire community of artists and animators gone. Such purity. Such light. Such creativity scattered across the Earth.

“Nobody knew and nobody knows” such a great line

I was taking a test and a question was that axle does the earth rotate at and this song popped up in my head and it's been stuck in my head for 2 days now

This gives me homestuck _and_ Steven universe vibes! (Mainly because of the multicoloured alive arm things)

This animation has given me so much inspiration over these past few months, thank you for making it! :)

You know that the moss grows on the north side of the tree. One of the greatest convo starters

sees one monocolor person with glasses, immediately goes "is this... homestuck" anyway the animation is amazing!

Teacher: Does anyone know in wich side of the tree the moss grows? Me: *Legend has i-*

i fcking love this asthetic and i love your work

i got CHILLS from the animation

I am both confused and in awe. This is all sorts of amazing

Oh my god I need the backstory now it's too good not to know

insane. easily my favorite animatic of all time

this song is just, perfect for my ears. I don't know why but it is

At this point this song is just pure concentrated nostalgia, it feels so magical. I remember seeing it when it first circled the recommended, and seeing it grow and get the attention it deserves is so satisfying. Gotta say, when I think of KZfaq as a whole this is one of the first things that come to mind

You managed to tell an elaborate story with AMAZING shots using nothing but colors and a song. That is incredible!! You just got yourself an instant sub my dude! (Edit: I FORGOT I WAS ALREADY SUBBED 😂😂😂)

The Nostalgic feeling this gives hits really hard these days. Btw, the comic is really good too!

Beautifully made. No idea what it’s supposed to be but whatever it is, it’s gorgeous. I loved this song and it only adds to this video. Truly a piece of art

Closed captions make it better. "The muscles grow on the side of the cheese"

i can see a pattern in these type of vids, 1. underrated animator 2. cool animations 3. is based off their own works 4. good music edit: ok so i have only seen 2 videos like these edit 2: damn yall give really good videos that follows this pattern

I just realized that there is 6 total colors used in this whole video. Nice.

I CANT BELIEVE I FORGOT ABOUT THIS VIDEO ITS TOO GOOD

The first thing I thought once the chorus hit was that this is the perfect song to explain the importance of stories. And of Bards who tell those stories. The common trope is they're bed hoppers who sing and mess around- but really there's so much power in a story and people overlook that.

This song has the vibe of that one dream that you can’t really remember but you know that it was super nostalgic... I love it

I used to repeatedly watch this animation over and over I love it edit: I still do HEAVILY

I remember first watching this 4 years ago being so inspired, glad it holds up

So, I used to listen to this song *ALL THE TIME* And I randomly stopped listening to it and forgot about the song. Then I saw this in my recommended..and I got slapped with nostalgia, and now I listen to this amazing song again! I just wanted to thank you for making this, so thank you. Also this is animated incredibly, all the colors go well together and the song just works so well. The silhouettes make the animation seem mysterious and I love it. Please never stop animating😫👏

At first: "aw :( its all pixelly" 45 watches later: fuck yea. for real, this is AMAZING! I stumbled on this by complete accident and got my mind blown. Thanks for sharing your wonderful art and ideas!

There are a lot of unique characters in this, I especially like the Jaberwocky one, it looks almost mechanical but also has an imposing feeling that's hard to mistake. I like the shapes of the eyes for the characters as I don't think they express not emotion but rather their personalities, their intentions are displayed through the world around them rather than it being force fed like a lot of characters these days. I hope to more of this someday.

I feel like I have to come back to this every once and a while this feels so nostalgic like it was made 5 years ago

Legend has it this animator will continue to be more succesful

After watching this at least 15 times over, my brain is only now starting to piece together the plot. _the scenes were color coded the whole time, smh me_

first saw this when it came out 4 years ago. thanks for introducing me to cosmo sheldrake! i still see the "came to shore" scene you drew in my head every time i hear that part.

dude, this animations still gets me 😭 I remember watching this on my WiiU when if first came out, 5 FRICKIN YEARS AGO. And it's still so good to this day 😭

It's been a bit, and I find myself thinking about this a lot. You made something that sorta Sticks in your head, y'know? Whether it's because of the cool music or the excellent animation or both I can't tell. All I know is that my brain keeps it in the back of my mind, and I'm drawn to it like a compass for some reason. Ya did good, kid.

Dude, I loved the part where all the arms were running 2:59

This feels like the song equivalent of “that’s not even a word yet somehow I know exactly what it means”

I NEED THE LORE. *slams fist on table* Genuinely incredible storytelling and visuals. Don't know how i JUST found this. New sub