thank goodness they didn't. we'd be getting 4 hour documentaries about how evil the adult voice actors were and how the kids were all secretly abused..Glad that we have nothing but positive and innocent memories tied to this
I recently made an elementary style test as a joke for my coworkers, and I drew a person on the page to emulate this popular style. Everyone recognized it and thought it was a very nice touch.
Imagine my shock when I figured out this video was actually quick and concise and wasn't 10 hour slop for something that could've been figured out with a few Google searches
@@BartEnder2006 Video Essays were cool until they became the next big trend and got saturated with idiots who endlessly stretch it out like nobody's business.
@@The_Alpha_E just different stuff in them I mean hell when I was in elementary there were projector boards that could project the computer screen onto it and replaced the calk board
@@The_Alpha_Eit seem like back then, schools were more lively and happy as teaching styles were different compared to today. It feels like back then, things were more happy as they were good teachers AND students with fun ways to teach important subjects like using games to learn math. But now, things just became shitty with a bunch of unqualified teachers in a behavioral and moral sense, with a lot dogshit students who have been brain rotted to the point where they are also EXTREMELY behind the usual grade standards with the lowest scores in schools.
Oh my gosh, that "close eye" and "huge smile" art style absolutely PEPPERED my childhood. Preschool, grade school, church, whatever. I've been waiting for someone to make a video on it!
this art style is adorable and comforting. seeing it again makes me feel happy. i was in elementary school in the late 2000s-early 2010s but even that late this style was still everywhere. at 19 i got a job as a janitor at an elementary school and some classrooms still had this artwork in them. truly a timeless style. it’s so iconic in fact, that whenever i think about months of the year, an image of their birthday calendar designs flashes through my head without fail every single time. january was blue with the snowmen, april was green with the ducklings, september has a school theme, etc.. im in my 20s now and the art still continues to be in my mind.
They sure didn't get the credit they deserve, but they probably didn't want it. Leave your mark on the world, secure the bag, and then disappear. It's probably the noblest way to get rich.
I love it when TH-cam randomly shows me a video that answers a very specific question that I didn't even know I wanted to learn about. As soon as you showed those pictures it dredged up some very pleasant memories of my young school days. Thank you!
Man these drawings seemed almost to just exist in no matter what school I went to in the early 2000s and 2010s too! They really need more love and respect.❤
I appreciate how straight and to the point this video was. Gave all the needed info and only covered the history that was necessary. It didn’t spend an extra 20 minutes going into the history of the American education system or the founders’ entire childhoods to pad out time or something. Excellent work
@@debbieganger And there are people who may not want that right then, or in general. There are always long form essays, short AND to the point is rare nowadays.
@@debbieganger no no valid. I'm not hating on long video essays, they're certainly fun (I will drop everything to watch a six hour defunctland video don't get me wrong). I meant to comment on certain essayists specifically who use unrelated info to either pad out runtime or sound more intelligent on a topic that's really straight forward.
I got flabbergasted when I clicked this video and didn’t see a PNGtuber, dramatic music at unnecessary moments, a vhs filter, or a cassette sound effect
1991 baby here-seeing this thumbnail was like a blast from the past, because yes, absolutely! My preschool was decorated top to bottom with this artwork. I always associate it with my earliest grade school years. Thank you for the info, and for answering a question I never knew I had!
I actually respect that you answered the question you posed in the title and that's it. You don't waste our time meandering for 20 minutes about your personal experiences, and trying to spin the answer into some kind of allegory.
Even now I still see those characters in elementary school classrooms. I remember them vividly from when I was in elementary school and they’re haunting.
Yes they are. I was never able to understand why people liked them. It’s like they are only ever posed staring straight into your soul. It’s even creepier when there’s a group of like 6 or more. When I was little it always gave me the vibe that they were trying to force me to be happy.
I wish I could tell these artists how instantly nostalgic this art is for me, and how it formed my memories of school. Thanks for posting this video, I might’ve never known their names!
I remember those drawings back in elementary school. I thought they were indeed interesting as a kid, but now that I'm an adult, I realize just how important they were in color and character.
As a millennial, this art was my childhood. Just seeing those illustrations brings a huge wave of nostalgia. I miss those days. A time when shows like The Magic School Bus, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and Zaboomafoo educated me on cable tv and VHS, my Kindergarten teacher encouraged me to pursue art, and my 5th Grade teacher read amazing books to the class.
The ‘90s classroom art was still around when I was in elementary school in the late 2000s and early 2010s. I feel lucky to live through the era of classroom art
when I was a kid, I remember distinctly disliking this artstyle. I felt mocked by it. In fact, I felt mocked by a lot of things then, because at that age regular human function was still out of my grasp. Now I adore this art. I like the big smiles and goofy eyes. I feel this style is reflected in my own work. It definitely influenced me.
@@hannahbg1852 definitely. I draw big smiles and small eyes on smiley faces. I had to draw a bunch of smiles for my volunteer work and I realized after that they resembled this style!
Seeing a lot of this shit tickled my brain. Time, memory, the lack therefore is all so fucking insane. Great video btw, can't believe it was only 2 minutes it was really fleshed out
Not only was that art everywhere in school as a child, whenever my mom and her sisters and friends did arts and crafts to make holiday or scrapbook decorations, they imitated that art style. It’s become a part of many happy childhood memories. This video answered fun childhood questions I didn’t even know I had. Thank you!
Idk if it's just me but they kinda creep me out. Seeing everyone and literally everything so happy and having the same exact facial expression feels so peculiar, dystopian even.
So that's where that art style came from! What a blast to the past. I was in elementary school from 2011-2016 and this art style was still everywhere, so I grew up seeing it in my elementary classrooms. Even though it was recognizable, I could never put a name to it. I wonder if some schools still use the decorations and papers with those drawings.
Aaaaaa! The demonic perpetually smiling faces return! Well, at least there isn't a single official animated short in this art style that anyone knows of.
In the middle of a Defunctland video, one about "kid cities", he explains getting investors and the screen display some animated stock-like videos illustrating what he's talking about, in this style… Maybe they released some stock videos?
The amount of nostalgia is insane. Its like it reached to the back of my mind and found the hidden memory from long ago and brought it back up. So happy that i remembered these stuff.
Really love how short and to the point this video is. So many creators nowadays make videos stretching topics to 20 minutes when they could just be as long as this.
‘08 guy here and it was still around when i was in elementary school. thanks for bringing back a distant memory that frankly wasn’t that long ago but i never paid much attention to it then
Hey, thanks for keeping this video 2 minutes. I feel like any other youtuber would've stretched this thing out for 10 minutes, but I walked away learning everything I needed to without feeling like my time was being wasted.
This is a truly lovely short, informative video that's really brightened my day in these dark times. I remember this artstyle being all over my school classrooms in the 2000s.
Thank you TH-cam for this video As someone who just in college, we were talking about many different artist, and now I want to know other artist especially these people who made all the art that build elementary school to be a fun place. They still used the art when I was in elementary in 2011. All brings back memories for me ❤
I remember this, even though I had at some point clearly blocked it out. First thing I thought of when seeing this art again was one of my elementary school's "punishments", which was to pull different colored cards whenever you misbehaved. Everyone started on green, then yellow, orange, and red. Green was good, yellow was like a verbal warning, orange meant not only did you get warned again but lost recess time or got sent out to the hall, and red meant you got sent to the office and someone would call your parents and you would have to explain to them on the phone why you got in trouble, and if it was bad enough/you constantly pulled cards down to red, they would not only make you call your parents and explain you were in trouble, but tell them that you were being sent home for the day for misbehaving, and ultimately suspension if it continued. Anyways, the wall hanging that had all of the student's cards (it was kind of like a cloth timesheet card holder thing) had a bunch of those characters surrounding it at each corner, two per corner, that were facing each other and were holding a string of letters that said some sort of "positive" word/phrase, like KINDNESS, or RESPECT, MANNERS, FRIENDSHIP, etc. and it felt like the most mocking, condescending shit, even as a child. That, and that they had seasonal themed decorations for the classroom using them that would be appropriately rotated around, and like 99% of the time whenever we were given a coloring activity sheet, it was usually from one of their coloring books, too.
I heavily relate to your experience. Seeing all of the positive comments surprised me because I’ve been creeped out by these drawings for as long as I can remember.
@@dogfaced_boy Lmao, I'm very much not a child. I was in elemetary school during the 90's and 00s. And I was actually very well behaved in school, probably due to the fact I was an AP nerd who skipped grades when I was younger. I just never cared for the artstyle. Hell, I'm pretty sure my mom has some wooden painted chistmas ornaments still that use the artstyle. They're little angels playing trumpets.
OH MY GOD A VIDEO THAT RESPECTS THE AUDIENCE’S TIME, GETS TO THE POINT, EXPLAINS EVERYTHING IN A COMPREHENSIVE AND UNBIASED WAY, ISN’T GAUDY AND PRETENTIOUS FRAUDULENCE, AND ISN’T OBNOXIOUS!
I was elementary school in Texas from 1987 to 1993 ........... this unlocked so many memories! Omg thanks for this video. Every year in every single classroom this was all we used for decor
It's insane how much of an impact these folks had on education, including mine. Just looking at them invokes the feelings of arts and crafts or doing simple multiplication problems.
I wish I grew up with their inspiration. All we got were beatings for failing to learn.. and to this day, no one from my generation went to jail or are homeless. They made us tough.
Thank you so much for keeping this short and consise instead of stretching it out to 10 minutes with unnecessary filler like so many other video essays.
What it made me feel was forced happiness, like even if I got yelled at by a teacher there would still be at least 50 of these things staring straight at me from all angles of the room smiling.
The constant smiling felt so forced and disconnected, but also, no one has a smile that wide and upturned along with eyes that are that small and close together. I remember trying to smile like that with friends at recess as a joke and we just couldn't do it.
These characters are everywhere in elementary school. I think I saw some of these characters in middle school too. Thank you for finding the actual creators behind these.
This brought back great memories. Carson Dellosa's classroom artwork was used a lot at my school. Almost every teacher had it. The cute designs, as well as the bright colors, were very engaging. It was strangely comforting. 😊
The art on that first original book is so charming! I get that when you replicate a style it almost needs to become uniform but compared to the original, the mass-produced art looks like a mutation of it
I feel like a fish out of water in this comment section because even as a kid I never actually had a problem with this art style, and today, it’s kind of like a comfort for me, it’s really nostalgic, and it reminds me constantly of an easier period where things went slower and were less stressful…
Well if it helps at all, it seems most of the comments now are about positive memories with this art style! Interesting how much of a dichotomy there is, maybe it's influenced by something like how good of an environment the school was for that person specifically
As an autistic and ADHD person, I hate that "rules for good listening" poster. Like yes, I know what they mean by those rules. Don't talk out of turn, pay attention, do your work, and don't interrupt others. But what it actually says is things like hands are still (no fidgeting). If I need to fidget with some small quiet thing in my hands while occasionally looking out the window, then I will do so. I can still listen to the teacher just fine.
This speaks to me! I get it, i always wanted to do something while listening to the teachers but only I’d be touching the carpet too much and polling it 😅
For real this kind of stuff made school way harder than it should have been for me. Like literally who cares if you're moving your fingers a tiny bit as long as you're still listening and not being disruptive about it.
Janet Dellosa's Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/GalVanizedbyEeron?ref=usf_2020
in my restless dreams i see those posters
Love the reference.
You promised to teach me my ABCs one day, but you never did
@@drea7474 Well... I'm alone there now, in our "special place"...
"Our special place? The schoolhouse?"
@@drea7474 yuo pormsied to theac me my acbs oen day, but yuo nvere did
Could my pencil still be there? In that dusty classroom?
I’m kind of surprised they never made a preschool show out of those character designs.
Totally Agree
thank goodness they didn't. we'd be getting 4 hour documentaries about how evil the adult voice actors were and how the kids were all secretly abused..Glad that we have nothing but positive and innocent memories tied to this
@@Nonyah123 Agreed.
@@Nonyah123 what if that never happened...
Caillou
Finally a positive ending story for the creators, no family destroyed, no harassment, no drugs, nor deep hate for their creation. I'm happy for them
No getting screwed over by a larger firm, or a mad CEO ruining everything after the company got bought out.
@@thevisitor1012 Yeah that's what I was expecting lol
They cut those parts out.
I recently made an elementary style test as a joke for my coworkers, and I drew a person on the page to emulate this popular style. Everyone recognized it and thought it was a very nice touch.
Rules for good liminal pictures
Imagine my shock when I figured out this video was actually quick and concise and wasn't 10 hour slop for something that could've been figured out with a few Google searches
But I like long videos
This guy gets it. Typical video essays would be written like a high schooler, probably be 30 minutes long, and have a sponsor in the middle.
@@BartEnder2006 Video Essays were cool until they became the next big trend and got saturated with idiots who endlessly stretch it out like nobody's business.
HUH
There's a right and a wrong way to do a video essay
its crazy how stark the difference between the educational environment today and back then has changed
How so
@@The_Alpha_E just different stuff in them I mean hell when I was in elementary there were projector boards that could project the computer screen onto it and replaced the calk board
@@The_Alpha_Eit seem like back then, schools were more lively and happy as teaching styles were different compared to today. It feels like back then, things were more happy as they were good teachers AND students with fun ways to teach important subjects like using games to learn math. But now, things just became shitty with a bunch of unqualified teachers in a behavioral and moral sense, with a lot dogshit students who have been brain rotted to the point where they are also EXTREMELY behind the usual grade standards with the lowest scores in schools.
@@somerandomguy8541 Both blackboards and projectors are still in use to my knowledge.
@@somerandomguy8541
I HAD ONE OF THOSE IN 1ST GRADE
when i went to elementary school in the mid-late 2010s it was still there. im happy one of the teachers started selling her art when she became older
Yeah one of my friends has a younger brother who says that they still have this kind of art all over the school. Some things don't change I guess.
Same here!! Saw these styles everywhere and I loved them!
Sounds like you're a bit younger than me but I'm so glad to hear that elementary school classrooms haven't changed much. ☺️
I was terrified of them
Same here
Lmao the random cursed Peter Griffin in the thumbnail
You noticed it too!
I THOUGHT I WAS GOING CRAZY BRO
The one of Steven Universe had me in stitches
The 2005-2013 range had these too. These were everywhere on those bulletin boards
@@paulgilbert5278 omg yes 😭😭 even a little after 2013 I saw them everywhere
The last time I remembered them was in 2009. I’ve seen a similar style since, but it wasn’t these ones
2015, straight up miss them, saw them everywhere.
I think even after 2013, like around 2018 they were kinda there too
@@faerie_ann true, even now i still see some teachers still use them for the younger grades(in my school)
Oh my gosh, that "close eye" and "huge smile" art style absolutely PEPPERED my childhood. Preschool, grade school, church, whatever. I've been waiting for someone to make a video on it!
this art style is adorable and comforting. seeing it again makes me feel happy. i was in elementary school in the late 2000s-early 2010s but even that late this style was still everywhere. at 19 i got a job as a janitor at an elementary school and some classrooms still had this artwork in them. truly a timeless style.
it’s so iconic in fact, that whenever i think about months of the year, an image of their birthday calendar designs flashes through my head without fail every single time. january was blue with the snowmen, april was green with the ducklings, september has a school theme, etc.. im in my 20s now and the art still continues to be in my mind.
born in 2010, and its STILL HERE
I was born in ‘06 and I love that artwork! 😊💛🖼️
Yeah man!!!
SAME but only in elementary:/
had to think that one over because my brain thought you were like, 6, but no
@ nah I saw them sence day 1 at school
They sure didn't get the credit they deserve, but they probably didn't want it. Leave your mark on the world, secure the bag, and then disappear. It's probably the noblest way to get rich.
I totally agree. Not everyone wants/needs to be famous
If they didn’t want it then they wouldn’t have any info of them anywhere Nor a company with their last names on it
Fuck that shit. Give them credit
@@thellewelynmossthis is real! I always thought I needed fame to be recognized but now I want to be just out there and not expect everyone to know 😊
@@Yee-h4fI think it’s more some people don’t look it up all the time or don’t know where to start
I love it when TH-cam randomly shows me a video that answers a very specific question that I didn't even know I wanted to learn about.
As soon as you showed those pictures it dredged up some very pleasant memories of my young school days. Thank you!
Man these drawings seemed almost to just exist in no matter what school I went to in the early 2000s and 2010s too! They really need more love and respect.❤
They are ugly garbage
Same! I hope they get more recognition too, the art is so cute and colorful🩷
When life was good
@@nuclearpugg got that right!
I appreciate how straight and to the point this video was. Gave all the needed info and only covered the history that was necessary. It didn’t spend an extra 20 minutes going into the history of the American education system or the founders’ entire childhoods to pad out time or something. Excellent work
Long video essays are fun tho. :(
Edit: And learning about supposedly unrelated stuff is fun too.
@@debbieganger And there are people who may not want that right then, or in general. There are always long form essays, short AND to the point is rare nowadays.
@@debbieganger no no valid. I'm not hating on long video essays, they're certainly fun (I will drop everything to watch a six hour defunctland video don't get me wrong). I meant to comment on certain essayists specifically who use unrelated info to either pad out runtime or sound more intelligent on a topic that's really straight forward.
@@oliviab4079 Video essays are trash.
I got flabbergasted when I clicked this video and didn’t see a PNGtuber, dramatic music at unnecessary moments, a vhs filter, or a cassette sound effect
This art is so nostalgic, nice to see a happy ending! It was also very thoughtful to include Janet Dellosa's etsy page, very cute paintings and mugs
1991 baby here-seeing this thumbnail was like a blast from the past, because yes, absolutely! My preschool was decorated top to bottom with this artwork. I always associate it with my earliest grade school years.
Thank you for the info, and for answering a question I never knew I had!
I actually respect that you answered the question you posed in the title and that's it. You don't waste our time meandering for 20 minutes about your personal experiences, and trying to spin the answer into some kind of allegory.
Even now I still see those characters in elementary school classrooms. I remember them vividly from when I was in elementary school and they’re haunting.
Yes they are. I was never able to understand why people liked them. It’s like they are only ever posed staring straight into your soul. It’s even creepier when there’s a group of like 6 or more. When I was little it always gave me the vibe that they were trying to force me to be happy.
I’ve seen some of these that are actually very cute
@@omegawario7479 the knockoff versions were even worse.
I wish I could tell these artists how instantly nostalgic this art is for me, and how it formed my memories of school. Thanks for posting this video, I might’ve never known their names!
I remember these fondly
I'm literally meandering the line between Gen Z and Gen Alpha and yet I still saw that art style in my early school years.
bro's 12
@Ice-0n-F1rea lotta people think that gen alpha started in 2010, so.
@Ice-0n-F1re14 or 15. Take it or leave it.
I’m 15 today and I’ve seen this style in my school rn
Nice pokemon pfp
this art style is the butterfly that caused the whirlwind of my severe anxiety
It always felt like a slap in the face for these smiles to be plastered all over such a miserable place.
@@GoldenGrenadier exacty
That art-style still puts a smile on my face.🙂
I miss this back in my childhood in school. It made the classroom more welcoming
I remember those drawings back in elementary school. I thought they were indeed interesting as a kid, but now that I'm an adult, I realize just how important they were in color and character.
As a millennial, this art was my childhood. Just seeing those illustrations brings a huge wave of nostalgia. I miss those days. A time when shows like The Magic School Bus, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and Zaboomafoo educated me on cable tv and VHS, my Kindergarten teacher encouraged me to pursue art, and my 5th Grade teacher read amazing books to the class.
The ‘90s classroom art was still around when I was in elementary school in the late 2000s and early 2010s. I feel lucky to live through the era of classroom art
This and "Precious Moments" were the bane of my annoyance as a child in the late 1990s.
Finally, a video asking a question I’ve actually wondered before, AND it’s not 30+ minutes of unnecessary info!
when I was a kid, I remember distinctly disliking this artstyle. I felt mocked by it. In fact, I felt mocked by a lot of things then, because at that age regular human function was still out of my grasp. Now I adore this art. I like the big smiles and goofy eyes. I feel this style is reflected in my own work. It definitely influenced me.
@quietyotto That's really interesting!! I like how it flipped the switch in you, maybe you were subconsciously influenced by it?
@@hannahbg1852 definitely. I draw big smiles and small eyes on smiley faces. I had to draw a bunch of smiles for my volunteer work and I realized after that they resembled this style!
❤️
Seeing a lot of this shit tickled my brain. Time, memory, the lack therefore is all so fucking insane.
Great video btw, can't believe it was only 2 minutes it was really fleshed out
Not only was that art everywhere in school as a child, whenever my mom and her sisters and friends did arts and crafts to make holiday or scrapbook decorations, they imitated that art style. It’s become a part of many happy childhood memories. This video answered fun childhood questions I didn’t even know I had. Thank you!
I always loved these posters as a kid, on the last day of school my teacher was giving them away to anyone that wanted them so I took one
finally a video that tells us just the right amount of info and isnt needlessly stretched out for hours too long.
TH-cam needs more people like you.
Such a nostalgic art style :-)
Idk if it's just me but they kinda creep me out. Seeing everyone and literally everything so happy and having the same exact facial expression feels so peculiar, dystopian even.
I've always wondered where these iconic drawings originated from.
My heart is pouring out for nostalgia
I hated this art style, thanks for reminding me
I work at an elementary school - this stuff is STILL everywhere! The legacy continues~
So that's where that art style came from! What a blast to the past. I was in elementary school from 2011-2016 and this art style was still everywhere, so I grew up seeing it in my elementary classrooms. Even though it was recognizable, I could never put a name to it. I wonder if some schools still use the decorations and papers with those drawings.
Good video , quick and straight to the main point
Aaaaaa! The demonic perpetually smiling faces return!
Well, at least there isn't a single official animated short in this art style that anyone knows of.
In the middle of a Defunctland video, one about "kid cities", he explains getting investors and the screen display some animated stock-like videos illustrating what he's talking about, in this style… Maybe they released some stock videos?
And the drawings only look at you, I’ve never seen them looking any way except for directly in your soul
I pray to God that the universe is devoid of videos of that art style.
The amount of nostalgia is insane. Its like it reached to the back of my mind and found the hidden memory from long ago and brought it back up. So happy that i remembered these stuff.
I went too elementry school in the late 2000,s to mid 2010,s i saw this style.
Really love how short and to the point this video is. So many creators nowadays make videos stretching topics to 20 minutes when they could just be as long as this.
These artworks were still used in my elementary school in the early 2010s; I had no idea that they had such a long history beforehand
‘08 guy here and it was still around when i was in elementary school. thanks for bringing back a distant memory that frankly wasn’t that long ago but i never paid much attention to it then
we need to revive this
Hey, thanks for keeping this video 2 minutes. I feel like any other youtuber would've stretched this thing out for 10 minutes, but I walked away learning everything I needed to without feeling like my time was being wasted.
You unlocked a memory burnt in my head from Elementary School
I like how concise and straight to the point this video is.
A mystery I didn’t know I needed solved. Thank you.
I was an elementary schooler in the early-mid 2010s and we had that art style all the time too
A TH-cam video that asks an interesting question and answers it completely and concisely? What is this MADNESS??
I forgot that these existed. Thanks for reminding me
This is a truly lovely short, informative video that's really brightened my day in these dark times. I remember this artstyle being all over my school classrooms in the 2000s.
Thank you, Mr. Llewelyn Moss, I always think of these fondly from time to time.
I used to hate these with a burning passion as a child. I still do ngl.
Thank you TH-cam for this video
As someone who just in college, we were talking about many different artist, and now I want to know other artist especially these people who made all the art that build elementary school to be a fun place. They still used the art when I was in elementary in 2011. All brings back memories for me ❤
If anyone been in elmhurst hospital and seen those weird pictures on the glass I can’t be the only one tweaking about those looking strange
Omgosh, I remember having and/or seeing school stuff featuring that artstyle when I was a kid in the 2000s!😄🤩😎👌
I remember this, even though I had at some point clearly blocked it out. First thing I thought of when seeing this art again was one of my elementary school's "punishments", which was to pull different colored cards whenever you misbehaved. Everyone started on green, then yellow, orange, and red. Green was good, yellow was like a verbal warning, orange meant not only did you get warned again but lost recess time or got sent out to the hall, and red meant you got sent to the office and someone would call your parents and you would have to explain to them on the phone why you got in trouble, and if it was bad enough/you constantly pulled cards down to red, they would not only make you call your parents and explain you were in trouble, but tell them that you were being sent home for the day for misbehaving, and ultimately suspension if it continued. Anyways, the wall hanging that had all of the student's cards (it was kind of like a cloth timesheet card holder thing) had a bunch of those characters surrounding it at each corner, two per corner, that were facing each other and were holding a string of letters that said some sort of "positive" word/phrase, like KINDNESS, or RESPECT, MANNERS, FRIENDSHIP, etc. and it felt like the most mocking, condescending shit, even as a child. That, and that they had seasonal themed decorations for the classroom using them that would be appropriately rotated around, and like 99% of the time whenever we were given a coloring activity sheet, it was usually from one of their coloring books, too.
I heavily relate to your experience. Seeing all of the positive comments surprised me because I’ve been creeped out by these drawings for as long as I can remember.
kids on youtube when they had to experience basic disciplinary policies while in elementary school:
That's crazy, I didn't even know people knew about those years ago, I remember that were from class and shit when I was probably 5, 6 and 7.
"Oh no, you're telling me that kind and respectful people are happy?!" 😂
@@dogfaced_boy Lmao, I'm very much not a child. I was in elemetary school during the 90's and 00s. And I was actually very well behaved in school, probably due to the fact I was an AP nerd who skipped grades when I was younger. I just never cared for the artstyle. Hell, I'm pretty sure my mom has some wooden painted chistmas ornaments still that use the artstyle. They're little angels playing trumpets.
OH MY GOD A VIDEO THAT RESPECTS THE AUDIENCE’S TIME, GETS TO THE POINT, EXPLAINS EVERYTHING IN A COMPREHENSIVE AND UNBIASED WAY, ISN’T GAUDY AND PRETENTIOUS FRAUDULENCE, AND ISN’T OBNOXIOUS!
Short and to the point, I had forgotten all about these kind of illustrations.
I was elementary school in Texas from 1987 to 1993 ........... this unlocked so many memories! Omg thanks for this video. Every year in every single classroom this was all we used for decor
great feature!! i grew up on this style and never once thought about the artists that created it. love to learn it was 2 women/former teachers!! 💕
Memories of this art occasionally resurfaces like some deep sea cetacean. I am so glad to finally find a source.
I remember seeing that artstyle all the time in elementary school. This brings back memories. 😭😭😭
I love how light and airy, but still full of info this video has in just two minutes! You’ve earned a sub!
I remember this art style so much. Thanks for bringing back these memories.
It's insane how much of an impact these folks had on education, including mine. Just looking at them invokes the feelings of arts and crafts or doing simple multiplication problems.
I wish I grew up with their inspiration. All we got were beatings for failing to learn.. and to this day, no one from my generation went to jail or are homeless. They made us tough.
Short yet informative not to mention interesting!
in case anyone is wondering this art is still commonly used in schools today
These always hit close to home
Thank you so much for keeping this short and consise instead of stretching it out to 10 minutes with unnecessary filler like so many other video essays.
I HAAAAAATED these posters back in the day
Something about those faces made me so angry and I can’t explain why
Yeah idk why. I’m cool with it as an Adult , but as a child I felt mocked for some reason
@@oceanexblve884Probably because the art viewed learning as fun, when school is usually the worst part of the day for a child.
What it made me feel was forced happiness, like even if I got yelled at by a teacher there would still be at least 50 of these things staring straight at me from all angles of the room smiling.
@@Kruegernator123Unironically a skill issue
The constant smiling felt so forced and disconnected, but also, no one has a smile that wide and upturned along with eyes that are that small and close together. I remember trying to smile like that with friends at recess as a joke and we just couldn't do it.
i haven't seen those in possibly 18 or 17 yrs, they're boosting-up nice & relaxin' nostalgia.
That is the art style of evil. It haunts me
These characters are everywhere in elementary school. I think I saw some of these characters in middle school too. Thank you for finding the actual creators behind these.
I was terrified of these because I imagined their mouths opening like upside down drawbridges
These characters have haunted my dreams for years and now I finally know their origins. Thanks man.
Carson-Dellosa illustrations on the thumbnail takes me back to 2014-2016
This brought back great memories. Carson Dellosa's classroom artwork was used a lot at my school. Almost every teacher had it. The cute designs, as well as the bright colors, were very engaging. It was strangely comforting. 😊
Living in Raleigh when I was little. This crap was EVERYWHERE and now I know why lol.
I didn't even grow up in the 90s yet these are still so iconic to me
🦝just the other day I was thinking "whatever happened to that art style?" and thanks to youtube recommendations, now I know
i too remember peter griffin being on a poster in my classroom
I remember my mom hanging these psoters on the wall of our homeschool classroom when I was a kid.😊❤
THANK YOU for not making this a 15 minute video essay
I love this style so much :)
The art on that first original book is so charming! I get that when you replicate a style it almost needs to become uniform but compared to the original, the mass-produced art looks like a mutation of it
I feel like a fish out of water in this comment section because even as a kid I never actually had a problem with this art style, and today, it’s kind of like a comfort for me, it’s really nostalgic, and it reminds me constantly of an easier period where things went slower and were less stressful…
Well if it helps at all, it seems most of the comments now are about positive memories with this art style! Interesting how much of a dichotomy there is, maybe it's influenced by something like how good of an environment the school was for that person specifically
Never thought about it but glad I know. Happy to have grown up during this era
I loved that style I always wondered who did them though
This is awesome, well researched and succinct! Thanks for recognizing these trailblazers - their work was all over my school in the 00's - 10's!
As an autistic and ADHD person, I hate that "rules for good listening" poster. Like yes, I know what they mean by those rules. Don't talk out of turn, pay attention, do your work, and don't interrupt others. But what it actually says is things like hands are still (no fidgeting). If I need to fidget with some small quiet thing in my hands while occasionally looking out the window, then I will do so. I can still listen to the teacher just fine.
This speaks to me!
I get it, i always wanted to do something while listening to the teachers but only I’d be touching the carpet too much and polling it 😅
For real this kind of stuff made school way harder than it should have been for me. Like literally who cares if you're moving your fingers a tiny bit as long as you're still listening and not being disruptive about it.
sit on hands
they hung those poster on the front door and nobody enforced it lol
Cope, twitchy