Diary of a Wimpy Kid's LONG LOST Origin!

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Greg Heffley is a name known across the world, but it wasn't always like that. Diary of a Wimpy Kid actually has a secret origin story that almost nobody remembers, and it's what kicked off the series' popularity. Let's dive in to the ORIGINAL Wimpy Kid books!
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@Vailskibum 3 жыл бұрын

please tell me I'm not the only one who remembers this

@josepho3366 3 жыл бұрын

Vailskibum94 no you aren’t.

@lioncourt3826 3 жыл бұрын

I remember

@rydercartoonanimations 3 жыл бұрын

@Vailskibum94 You aren't.

@charlenebrooks1867 3 жыл бұрын

Nah

@also_arles 3 жыл бұрын

I still have these books

@protocol37-t1n 3 жыл бұрын

Diary of a Wimpy Kid's LONG LOST Origin Creepypasta Writers: Write that Down, Write that Down!

@TheBoy2007_ 3 жыл бұрын

Creepypasta Writers After Watching The Video: What the fu-?!

@Shahtheking540 3 жыл бұрын

lol good 1

@floweytheflower236 3 жыл бұрын

Hey u humans are pretty funny!

@protocol37-t1n 3 жыл бұрын

@@floweytheflower236 bi-bi-bill......ci-ci-cipher, didn't i-i-i de-de-defe-fe-fe-te-te-ead yo-yo-you, didn't uh-uh-uh di-dipper and uh-uh ma-mabel defeated yo-yo-you??

@justsomeponywithamustache8731 3 жыл бұрын

Bill Cipher Gtfo you Discord wanna be

@kjmanimations 3 жыл бұрын

2:53 Jeff Kinney has said in interviews that the first draft of DOAWK was intended for adults who were nostalgic about middle school, but the publishers wanted to change it to a kids book

@PowerAnimationsPACStayAnimated 2 жыл бұрын

Holy crap, I wasn't expecting to see you here

@Aryeed 2 жыл бұрын

@@PowerAnimationsPACStayAnimated why

@kjmanimations 2 жыл бұрын

@@PowerAnimationsPACStayAnimated someone sent me a fuckin screenshot of this on discord lol I don’t remember even commenting this

@lunas_gamingworld9422 2 жыл бұрын

@@kjmanimations that's probably because its a year old i defiantly dont remember my comments from a year ago

@mr.jamster8414 3 ай бұрын

Yea, Greg's a total asshole in that version lol

@host23 3 жыл бұрын

Last time I was this early Zachary Gordon still played Greg Heffley

@Chayse9134 3 жыл бұрын

Last time i was this early The Long Haul movie was not existent

@nintenvlogz 3 жыл бұрын

Chayse oof

@DarcyWalker 3 жыл бұрын

Definition of perfect casting

@shadaytaylor 3 жыл бұрын

Minty Coco so basically, many years ago

@5h4d_9 3 жыл бұрын

Last time I was early 11 minutes ago, the cheese touch didn't exist

@WyattOlingerYT 3 жыл бұрын

I read the entire online book in one sitting.

@eankotadia 3 жыл бұрын

same

@johnstar8841 3 жыл бұрын

Same read it yesterday

@onix2723 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@toadthebreakvan4518 3 жыл бұрын

so? its pretty much just the same book beside minor changes.

@WyattOlingerYT 3 жыл бұрын

@@toadthebreakvan4518 Nope, imagine the first five books combined into a 1,285 page mega-book.

@justsomeponywithamustache8731 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure I remember this in the Wimpy Kid movie Diary... Apparently there’s like 1900 pages of original material on a sketch pad somewhere...

@Frostorm777 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@Mael_Str0M 3 жыл бұрын

Omg I owned the movie diary.

@johnstar8841 3 жыл бұрын

I read it all

@therichard27 3 жыл бұрын

0:52

@k4tzz_cc 3 жыл бұрын

I've seen u before..on that adult swim BLM vid

@ThatOneGhoul 3 жыл бұрын

In one of the books Greg talked about beer and another showed people smoking

@stegotyranno4206 3 жыл бұрын

What book was it again?

@rayanomar9262 3 жыл бұрын

smoking is there even in the new kid version tats there

@smugsdeadchannellol6184 3 жыл бұрын

“Nobody remembers” Me, who has both read and bought the movie diary: *I am four parallel universes ahead of you!* Also, iirc, the book is still up today.

@SyntaX7777 3 жыл бұрын

RandomRows yeah I read the whole thing it’s pretty good

@srimam3839 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@mirela1133 3 жыл бұрын

@theharrbear Жыл бұрын

About that…

@user-oq9pz6tt9x 3 жыл бұрын

Who else has realized how great Diary of a Wimpy Kid continuity is? You've really got to hand it to Jeff Kinney. There's consistant characters, locations, and more always filling their designated roles, which are built on as the books progress. Now all we need is some grand, climactic Diary of a Wimpy Kid crossover event, like Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Endgame. And you know Manny would be the villain.

@jinxysaberk Жыл бұрын

Ngl the fact Jeff Kenny isn't just shitting out a book every few months is good, I think he could easily tune out much more of the books but one a year feels so reasonable

@tomysshadow 3 жыл бұрын

Yep, I remember this! If you've read the first three Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, you aren't missing much. It was basically just the first three books, but online like an e-book, scrambled around a bit and combined into one book, with an ad every ten pages or so. This existed before the published versions that most people are familiar with. Jeff Kinney was also responsible for the creation of Poptropica on the same website.

@hunterolaughlin 2 жыл бұрын

With little bits of stories from the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 8th books.

@johark 2 жыл бұрын

out of all people i did not expect to find you here

@tomysshadow 2 жыл бұрын

@@johark I'm sorry, but I don't recognize your name.

@johark 2 жыл бұрын

@@tomysshadow oh, im a friend of matthiew parizeau, i remember you because you made some osts for the mbu pc port

@tomysshadow 2 жыл бұрын

@@johark I see. Yes, I am the same guy who wrote those. I used to watch this channel because of my interest in lost media. But I don't really follow it anymore

@mafuu432 3 жыл бұрын

The day Greg Heffley goes to high school is the day my childhood ends

@wubbzyandsesamestreetfangirl 2 жыл бұрын

And also the day he also goes to college

@KSCGGuy14 2 жыл бұрын

The moment Fun Arcade was showed, my mind immediately thought back on those days in late elementary school to early middle school. I recall playing a game that had Wimpy Kid styled characters throwing snowballs.

@theodoro3188 3 жыл бұрын

I watched Diary of a Wimpy Kid last night just to remember the tortures of _my_ middle school life

@sxes 3 жыл бұрын

Poptropica, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Funbrain. Jeff Kinney is a god.

@generaldwightd.eisenhower6505 3 жыл бұрын

He’s such a chad. A great guy who dedicates his life to helping kids to have fun. I’d donate all I had to him if I could, and I probably can

@electricspinel9047 3 жыл бұрын

Poptropica and Diary Of A Wimpy Kid we’re part of my childhood

@Masterknightboy 3 жыл бұрын

@@electricspinel9047 My too!

@thesheto8962 3 жыл бұрын

Last time I was this early Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Movies were funny and good

@DanklingBS 3 жыл бұрын

Last time I was this early people had original things to say

@motionpotion607 3 жыл бұрын

Last time I was this early aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

@DanklingBS 3 жыл бұрын

@@saintlander Last time I was this early, people could understand how to use quotations

@stonestonestonestonestone 3 жыл бұрын

Last time i was early, people didnt argue in comments.

@bluevoid0 3 жыл бұрын

last time when i was this early, the earth didn't form yet

@ColinCartoons 3 жыл бұрын

The phrase “Diary Of A Wimpy Kid’s LONG LOST ORIGIN” is such a weak mindset. You are ok with what happened, losing, imperfection of a craft. When you stop getting angry after losing, you've lost twice. There's always something to learn, and always room for improvement, never settle.

@Luce72 3 жыл бұрын

ColinCartoon omg it’s ninja’s tweet.

@thatoneperson7127 3 жыл бұрын

I simp for ZachoryZaxor pls stop

@Luce72 3 жыл бұрын

SKiTS! *visible confusion*

@gooolixx 3 жыл бұрын

ninha

@Frostorm777 3 жыл бұрын

There needs to be a Diary if a Wimpy Kid *animated* movie!!!

@lumberIShere 3 жыл бұрын

*F A C T S*

@kkthecooldudegaming1207 3 жыл бұрын

Frostbite just did a big brain move

@CoalDiamondandhisawesomeness 3 жыл бұрын

That's what The Long Haul should've been. If they wanted to do a big feature film recasting the characters, they should've made it animated so people didn't associate it with the originals

@CoalDiamondandhisawesomeness 3 жыл бұрын

@Oscar Guerrero yeah

@christhecustomcharacter1409 3 жыл бұрын

I don't think anyone would like that

@joearl4901 3 жыл бұрын

OMG FunBrain. That was my childhood. I too remember seeing the Diary of A Wimpy Kid ads while playing Mighty Guy.

@Djmandude 3 жыл бұрын

Did anyone truly recover after never seeing the end of the fun arcade

@TrueAphexTwinEnjoyer 3 жыл бұрын

Mighty guy is the og Henry stick man

@xykleogd7180 3 жыл бұрын

Lol p.s, it's Henry stickmin

@DominikPac-Boy 3 жыл бұрын

Stickmin.

@ka.BLAMM0 3 жыл бұрын

Stickmin*

@LH_Creations 2 жыл бұрын

*Stckmin*

@metar9006 2 жыл бұрын

What

@AverytheCubanAmerican 3 жыл бұрын

Wayback Machine, the friend we turn to for some good nostalgia

@davids.7567 3 жыл бұрын

Sadly, it runs on Flash, which is going away in 2020.

@hamzamohamed9862 3 жыл бұрын

why are you everywhere

@somethingiguess1157 2 жыл бұрын

@@davids.7567 Nope, they changed it to html5

@adenlarios 3 жыл бұрын

Hearing funbrain gives me nostalgia about something *let’s play treehouse builder, and learn how to add heights*

@giroandkarin2822 3 жыл бұрын

Seeing that old FunBrain website..... Nostalgia is kicking in!

@biancamo10 3 жыл бұрын

I love and remember using FunBrain during this exact era and I really enjoyed these books, but I never made the connection that the content actually started there! Interesting to know!!

@PeterPancaked 3 жыл бұрын

I remember reading the whole thing about a year ago, and I was connecting the dots from these stories to the books.

@calebgoodman2076 3 жыл бұрын

I remember this. The free online exclusive version of the book had a calendar to choose which day in the book you want to read.

@krystalmendez2994 3 жыл бұрын

I used to love playing games on funbrain and knew the wimpy kid book was on there, but I had no idea there was a new page uploaded every day!

@edizepeda 3 жыл бұрын

Why did I read "Diary Of a Wimpy Kid Dies a Virgin"

@guppiepoweryt9951 3 жыл бұрын

I have no idea

@Purry_Franklin 3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, my favorite Diary Of a Wimpy Kid book.

@bakrobertjohnston4889 3 жыл бұрын

He did :D

@takyia9353 3 жыл бұрын

@SuperHankinsBros no

@c-king2794 2 жыл бұрын

Funbrain was the best, and Mighty Guy was probably my favorite game on that website as a kid! Still couldn’t believe Mighty Guy and that one series of games from Funbrain was never concluded.

@KylerWulff 3 жыл бұрын

I used to go on Funbrain all the time! And I would see ads for the Diary of a Wimpy Kid webcomic whenever I would go on there just to solve random math problems. I remember wondering if it was one of Doreen Cronin's "Diary of a..." books (e.g. Diary of a Worm, Diary of a Spider, I don't know if anyone remembers those). After I started reading the books, I looked back and wondered if it was simply an ad for the first book. And now I know what it REALLY was! Thanks for explaining this old memory of mine!

@chaes64 3 жыл бұрын

I know this has nothing to do with the video, but dude I never knew you knew what LISA was! That’s so cool!

@InvasionAnimation 3 жыл бұрын

I remember that site. It reminded me of that site, before I became elderly. By elderly I mean every part of me hurts constantly, and I can barely remember what happened 2 minutes ago.

@InvasionAnimation 3 жыл бұрын

Around that.

@KoopalingMayhem 2 жыл бұрын

27?

@megaknighty 3 жыл бұрын

Deep within the brain of MegaKnight, he suddenly remembered funbrain

@PaperThinArmor 3 жыл бұрын

Great now I remember being in the computer lab during elementary school just playing Poptropica.

@superkoopaproductions7489 2 жыл бұрын

I like these kinds of videos. I subscribed for that

@PutrickStir 3 жыл бұрын

I actually remember going on fun rain when I was little, and reading diary of a wimpy kid on the website, a lot of the stuff from the website version carried over to the books.

@lanzo236 3 жыл бұрын

This is my favorite book series

@snarkiwi 3 жыл бұрын

I ALWAYS wanted to know what the "coming soon" on funbrain was going to be too! Funbrain, CoolMath, Dragonfly TV and Poptropica were my first websites! I remember reading another comic on Funbrain that I really liked called Silent Kimbly and I loved looking at the updates!

@QuintetMagician 3 жыл бұрын

I used to read these all the time! Even as a kid I noticed the differences. I always wondered why that was!

@g_4sp 3 жыл бұрын

I remember going to FunBrain during the early 2010s. Never thought he would make a video about this

@nintenvlogz 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Never knew this until now! Love it 😊

@thorwhoisacat 2 жыл бұрын

Dude I used to LOVE gun rain as a kid, thank you for reminding me of the name

@Its_PacFan 3 жыл бұрын

This is actually very interesting... Considering I'm a avid fan of the books, I never knew that the Wimpy Kid books were actually first published on some online website, and I certainly didn't know that there were brand names and alcohol references in it. But the actual first version of the book was actually around a 1190 page sketch on a cheaply made sketchbook made in the late 90's or early 2000's? Yeah, anyway, Good video!

@mmrw 3 жыл бұрын

I wanna read this version so badly, it kinda sounds like the difference between Regular Show and Close Enough. Or more accurately, what Regular Show was going to be originally.

@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 3 жыл бұрын

Petition for Vail to talk about Pyongyang Racer

@ryannuneschannel 3 жыл бұрын

I remember being forced on this site in middle school. My math teacher wouldn't let us go on any site besides cool math games. But Diary of A Wimpy Kid was the only thing I looked forward to besides the penguin canon game. Years later when it was turned into a book series & film, I was happy to see it reach a larger audience.

@GD_Zimmeh 3 жыл бұрын

I remember this! I visited this site in school when I was in the 2nd grade

@coolssh3979 3 жыл бұрын

Early Funbrain: Hey, man, I missed you! Me: _cries of happiness_ I missed you too...!

@adrianv.4793 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Vailskibum94 i'am a fan of your videos and i wonder if you knew that the third Spongebob movie is heading to Netflix!!! Can you make a video on that?

@anomymous1286 Жыл бұрын

Funnily enough, the funbrain version was what I grew up with. I never bought the books because I figured they were the same… and by the time I realized there were too many of them for that to be true, I felt I was too old to read them. Hilarious that it took me until today to look up what happened after the ending of the online version, surprisingly the wish fantasy at the end was immediately retconed in the series proper. Oh well! I liked the original ending.

@Meli_monster 3 жыл бұрын

Oh wow. Seeing the games really took me down memory lane. God I feel old.

@NoahMDub Жыл бұрын

Funbrain and Poptropica were big nostalgia for me in elementary school! I remember playing the games during computer lab and eventually reading the first Wimpy Kid book. I now have every book of the series in my collection over a decade later! 😊

@electricspinel9047 3 жыл бұрын

Poptropica and Diary Of A Wimpy Kid we’re part of my childhood

@moonfroog 3 жыл бұрын

This video brought back memories I didn't even know I had

@DreamerJoy 3 жыл бұрын

I actually read the web comic first, as I found out while I was on funbrain. I spent a long time going though the dates despite the fact that I didn't really like it that much, though I still enjoyed it, reading the books was amusing since a plot would come and I was like like "I remember that!" but one plot never came up, something about getting cards to get new stuff, I specially remember Rowley asking Greg if he wanted to play, Greg originally didn't want to into Rowley said it had the cards, and he jumped off the couch saying he would take one of the figures.

@izzyssaltedrice 3 жыл бұрын

dude you just unlocked a deep deep memory i forgot i even had

@inactive_acc_ Жыл бұрын

I read this on Internet Archive and people were commenting things like, "It's just the first few books combined" or "This is such a rip-off!" Are you serious? I mean, it's the ORIGINAL DRAFT, of course it's going to be the first few books combined!

@Cereal_Ki11er 3 жыл бұрын

There is supposed to be a new book this November called Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End

@emmyciyat9904 3 жыл бұрын

I am a 2010's child, but I do remember the teachers assigning us to use Funbrain, and thinking that everything we were doing was educational. The teacher would say "once you finish, go on to Funbrain," and that was our cue that learning time was over.

@DavidTheJohnson 3 жыл бұрын

For a second, I went in thinking it'll explain the origins of the character instead of the origins of the book.

@aaronballs 3 жыл бұрын

I completely forgot about FunBrain that was literally the most fun website I played as a kid in school

@thenexva 3 жыл бұрын

Is it ironic that I found the origins, like, a day before this video came out? Like, I thought I had just found a long-lost treasure.

@davids.7567 3 жыл бұрын

You know, I wish they kept the hidden adult themes in the book, so that adult readers wouldn't get bored reading.

@masterspark9880 3 жыл бұрын

They kept some of it. There’s underage smoking in the first book, underage drinking in rodrick rules and sex ed in the ugly truth

@davids.7567 3 жыл бұрын

@@masterspark9880 That got me thinking. Why don't kid cartoons in 2020 have the same type of hidden adult content like they did back in 2004? Because to me it looked as if Jeff Kinney had balls of steel back in 2004.

@reeseruss 3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, why are adults reading Diary of a Wimpy kid?

@tommarnt 10 ай бұрын

Kids aren't allowed to learn adult content@@davids.7567

@dragonkeys2860 2 жыл бұрын

Damn when you said Funbrain and went to the website on what it looks like back when I was kid I had a flood of memories in elementary school playing mighty guy and then you showed the game play of it I was smiling so big. Yes I do remember the Wimpy kid billboard in the mini game too. I did take interest and bought the book when I was kid too. Never thought that Mighty guy would lead me to that.

@redstreak9430 3 жыл бұрын

I remember the other webcomics on there like On the Rocks and a space comic that parodied sci fi movies like Star Wars and Planet of the Apes (I can’t remember what it was called)

@theweirdislandkid2705 3 жыл бұрын

Some already mentioned this but all of the story in this web version was written and drawn in a black sketchbook along with the original concepts for Greg Heffley’s character design.

@thePontiffsSnickerdoodles 3 жыл бұрын

I remember checking funbrain on a daily basis for Mighty Guy 3. But it's like you said, there were never anymore games added. But funbrain introduced me to Poptropica, so there's that. Until flash died that is.

@MoodyMickey 3 жыл бұрын

I feel like I remember the name funbrain, but I don't remember ever going on the website. It kind of makes me think of those fun websites teachers allow kids to go on at school. Like coolmath4kids or something

@Pajanimations 2 жыл бұрын

I remember the pilot called "Igdoof" which had a character named Igdoof (which splitter into Greg and Manny) in many comics. Sadly, Nobody liked the idea. They found one of the characters named "Greg Heffley" so they used it for the main character in the DOAWK series.

@JaceTheDon 3 жыл бұрын

I remember funbrain and the Poptropica maps that were centered around the Wimpy Kid universe

@toad.8556 3 жыл бұрын

Is there a way to print this so I can make it look like another one of the wimpy kid books in my collection

@chuualwayswins 3 жыл бұрын

omg funbrain I remember playing the games on there. and I remember the DOAWK islands on Poptropica! the dog days one was my fav

@ktoon4725 3 жыл бұрын

No way, I remember playing this, I thought no one knew about this stinking site

@Cometpuffs Жыл бұрын

Funbrain was pretty much erased from my mind until this video lmfao

@chrissyb8234 3 жыл бұрын

Same, I’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting but those new games never came :(

@JesusMartinez-rr2ry 3 жыл бұрын

I found it really weird that alcohol is somehow allowed in the Funbrain version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, but not in the book.

@zeekboii9073 2 жыл бұрын

3:32 i haven't seen or thought about that game in years holy shit the nostalgia

@emptyspotlight 3 жыл бұрын

I remember the original origin. Yeah I remember though fun brain website we used to play it all the time and I am so sad we never got to the end of the board

@BrimmySP 2 жыл бұрын

I didn't know where the footage of 1:38, 2:02, 2:13 and 3:00 were from until I watched Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Class Clown.

@djlinton5456 3 жыл бұрын

Man, That Mighty Guy Nostalgia Hit Me Like A Wrecking Ball.

@purplepeak8575 3 жыл бұрын

Coming soon. That part hurt.

@starkillerscp0493 3 жыл бұрын

Wasn't there another website for kids called fun school or something like that

@melodysafo5437 3 жыл бұрын

Funbrain

@aaronaryee7758 3 жыл бұрын

bro i feel you i used to play mighty guy this wa the first games i ever played in my life

@themixelzone9968 3 жыл бұрын

I read every page of this once or maybe twice

@britishchick09 3 жыл бұрын

I remember this, but I never read the online ones. Now I probably will! :D

@smartistepicness 3 жыл бұрын

its just the first 5 books mashed together with minor diffrences

@deepsouthcardcollectors5689 3 жыл бұрын

Omg I played funbrain in 1st grade, the memories 😭 (I’m a freshman now)

@_Artistofhell_ 3 жыл бұрын

I used to love funbrain I used that when I was 7 and I was learning how to read at that age

@ilikebread206 3 жыл бұрын

I want to read it! Edit:I found the book and am currently reading it but I still want to read the 1998 notebook.

@cooki3908 3 жыл бұрын

this guy is destined to become the english teacher who creates hidden meanings in books

@birdboy16 3 жыл бұрын

That stickman game has you move the mouse to control? Could that have been the inspiration for Poptropica’s control layout?

@eliyosouses05l95 3 жыл бұрын

Why you gotta make me remember The penguin game & mighty guy my dude? Bought to deadass make me cry right now from Nostalgia 💗💗💗

@vonnie543 3 жыл бұрын

bruh i loved funbrain along with brainpop jr and andkon.... this really just hit me with nostalgia

@bewuga Жыл бұрын

Damn hes playing pokemon now good job Greg must be addicting

@Meli_monster 3 жыл бұрын

Woah. Fun brain looks sleek in 2020

@dominicburke8908 2 жыл бұрын

I dude I remember this, I was in the second-third grade when they were posting pages online, I remember reading instead of playing math games or whatever I was supposed to be doing 😂😂