The June Archive: A Pixelated Post-Apocalypse
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Hm. Night Mind isnt a four eyed cat anymore.
He's a *gay* four eyed cat. Neat.
Bisexual, but yes ~
Many such cases.
@@NightMindthat's HOTTTT!! and I'm jelly 😭.
@@NightMind I'm ok with being technically wrong in that.
He's always been a bisexual four eyed cat, tho. This isn't new news.
I imagine Nick wears three piece suits around the house causally and his boyfriend just wears sweatshirts.
so true hitoshi san
He had to get me to be more comfortable with wearing things that were more comfortable.
Reminds me how RTGame likes to stream in a suit or half-tux; could be playing the most memey game in existence and look dapper as hell the entire time
@@NightMind that’s adorable 🥰
@@NightMind Yeah... relatable I dressed like a punk and my boyfriend was a stick in the mud church kid... when he moved in with me he brought no clothes. He had a shirt he liked that he would do athletics in, that is it.
This isn't just a spooky ARG using a nostalgic framework, it's a genuine eulogy for Flipnote Hatena. GOD, I miss that place so much. Baby's first social media
I genuinely believe it was the best social media for any kid to be on tbh. It was pretty well moderated so the likelihood of seeing something nsfw was low and the site had a strict privacy policy where no user could use their real names or provide any way to find their address.
Plus when it came to posting content you pretty much HAD to make something and be creative. It didn’t matter how skilled you were at art or animation, it was just a really fun place to check
Then there's us Miiverse babies, not even comparable to Hatena but still a close second
Theres still Sudomemo, and you can post regular and 3d flipnotes :3
@@cisrotthe only scary part of it was that if you were on it at a certain point in the early 2000’s you might come across THE Christian Weston Chandler 😭😭
I still remember the day it shut down. I was barely there, but I have such memories.
Also, side note. The character at 27:55, that's a very popular character from Flipnotes. I don't think he has an official name, just often I hear him called "The Hero", a swords man who will "Never be afraid again, will fight until the end, can walk on water, can fly, and will fight till he dies". It's one of the most popular Flipnotes out there, and so seeing him set up as a hero from inside the city that willing to fight is very fitting. The flute playing is even a slowed down version of the song most usually connected to him.
The feeling i got when he appeared is probably the most excited i've ever been for a character reveal ever
"The song most usually connected to him" - it's literally Basshunter's "I Can Walk On Water", which that description is lyrics from.
@@MCOmegaX123 Thank you, I've seen a few different names for it so I didn't put one. Thank you
It was a real 'oh shit' type moment.
Feels like a Sergio Leone film
how you gonna have a whole kitty meowing in the background at 14:10 and not even acknowledge and show us the kitty??? THERE ARE RULES HERE MAN
internet cat tax, Nick, you know the rules
This exchange made me happy. Thanks y’all, have a good one!!
It's just Nick's Eldritch-Cat-to-Human translator not quite working all the way, that's all
This is just Nick voice cracking. He is a Eldritch cat, after all...
I guess there are a lot of cat-like characters in the topic, but yeah. Pay your cat tax, Nick!
Not only is the animation for this seriously impressive, but the freaking voice acting for the cat??? This is some seriously quality work here.
I seriously for a second thought the cat (assuming we're talking about Fuzz the Cat, mascot for the June Archive, and not CatDaddy) was Rob Paulsen. It sounded like a blend of his Raphael voice from the 80s TMNT cartoon and his Yakko Warner from Animaniacs.
The webseries or the video?
@@MCOmegaX123I was trying to remember what the voice reminded me of! You are very much spot on!
he kinda sounds like chris chan
the fact that Fuzz The Cat is a creation from the creator's previous projects adds so much depth into his character.
Oh hey! I made the original Flipnote that inspired the hidden June Archive segment at 19:22. It’s amazing and surreal to have a 12-year-old animation of mine play a small part in this unfolding narrative.
I have a lot of great memories of Flipnote and this series is using the characters and iconography in brilliant ways. It feels like an emotional epilogue for the entire platform, and the themes really resonate.
Great job covering this, Night Mind. I’m eagerly watching along with other JA fans to see how the story unfolds!
damb, better try to get copyright for when the june achive inevitably gets huge/j
Cool!
small piece, THAT VIDEO WAS A GAME CHANGER!!! You ended up contributing quite a lot, even if it doesn't seem like that.
Night Mind covered a series I voice in! 🙏
Good work!
Thank you!! 💕
Bro genuinely fantastic work everyone did amaizng on this
Wait what voice did you do?
(Love this series by the way)
I love how he just casually put in, “My boyfriend-“
I’m just so used to horror commentators just be.. commentators. It’s really nice when they sprinkle in a bit of their personal details in their videos! It’s just a surprise whenever they just suddenly say, “So I’m married with 5 kids,”
I never expected you to cover the Flipnote series
It's good ::P
@@NightMindzest fest
@@NightMind Hell yeah it is!
I had secretly hoped to see it.
@@RattifyRBLX”zest fest”
Roblox TH-camr:
Flipnote, horror, and eldritch boyfriends? Yeah this is gonna be a banger.
Wish I had an eldritch boyfriend
@@realcrownedcryptidmood
Wish I were the eldritch partner u.u I missed my chance
The boyfriend doesn't *sound* that eldritch. He sounds more like what I'd think a young Plague of Gripes would sound like.
@@nonyabidness8676 iunno, Plague is extremely eldritch
It’s a grieving that nightmind is describing at the end. This was a huge chunk of those peoples’ lives. It was an actual “place” to them. Where they formed memories and friendships and skills. And that place ceases to exist now. They can’t even go back to visit. That’s sad.
I have a theory that the vials themselves are the data of the flipnotes people downloaded before the server shutdown. They’re the life boats of flipnote, and the perfect place for a parasitic memetic entity to transfer over to keep infecting others. Hence the unlock, do not destroy phrase. Look at it, but don’t delete it, because it’s gone forever. But yeah, I grew up with flipnote (I never had access to Hatena but my brother did) and I’m glad people have caught The Hero standing on the building, because I sure recognized him.
Could explain what that cat is transferring. It's transferring the world according to who desires it. Though, why did he want one, if he just wants to leave. Seems odd to gather data instead of letting it pass, infected
The vials look very much like the “ink” bar you’d have when you make flipnotes
According to a flipnote veteran I met the vials are from the very early betas of flipnote and they were used to show the people using flipnote how much “memory” on the memory card was left (on the day memory cards were like sd cards but for dsis) so it would show the creator how much memory space they have on their memory card so it basically symbols how much memory left there is and I’m guessing it’s important because you use the vials to show the memory data to others and make others remember because just like the knight said memory is the key to reality
I love the June Archive so much, there's something so endearing and nostalgic about flipnotes, and yet they have the capacity to be terrifying
I never thought the message 'where did they go? is it my fault? :(' scribbled on a screen on a Nintendo DS would wrench and shatter my heart so brutally, but here we are.
Utterly marvellous.
How did I not know Nick had a boyfriend? Lmao, I'm a moron. It was very cool to see them join in on this project! Love the video; nostalgic horror is so much fun.
I was immediately like- FELLOW HOMO!?!?!?
I think I heard of it first when he played minecraft on this channel.
@@BlackMoonHowls ?
No, literally same! idk why but that makes me like these guys even more ❤❤❤
we'll you're not the only one who didn't know about that
My impression is that Fuzz didn't exist until _after_ Hatena shut down the servers. The 'wound' left by the service's destruction and the psychic energy being invested in it by the former userbase acted as a lighthouse, drawing Fuzz from beyond space & time. He coagulated in that 'wound' - but it was already too late. The server was dark.
So Fuzz started to reach out from this dungeon-realm he'd found himself in. He rifled through the minds of his unwitting summoners, and through the history of Flipnotes itself.
Except that Fuzz isn't human. He didn't understand the difference between code and flesh. As he tried to understand what Flipnotes had been, the 'wound' began to fill with the fruits of his labors: data dredged from the server's past, corrupted by Fuzz's alien energies and the gathering memories of those who remembered Flipnotes.
That's what the red city is: a could-have-been, a place that isn't, where old memes and nostalgia have been alchemized into living, thinking creatures. As Fuzz starts dragging the clock hand back, away from midnight, the red city grows and its denizens become more aware - and that awareness tends to breed chaos, confusion, and fear, because they're all trapped inside the half-remembered shadow of a dead world.
Can we just stop and talk about that nostalgia monologue? That shit sent CHILLS down my spine. The VA for fuzz deserves so much credit.
I love how we've moved on from Analag Horror to Digital Horror. The next generation of technology being used that is still nostalgic enough.
Can't wait for Windows 10 horror lol
Soon, VR horror.
cant wait for chatgpt horror in 2043
@@solalabell9674 aint that just I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
It's good, short but good, will take a lot to top the Mandela catalogue... genuinely fkin frightening analogue that was, do you remember I am Sophie?
Time to see flipnote-made horrors beyond man's comprehension!
Ah, sweet
Analog horror is nostalgic to a certain group, but flipnote was my childhood. Digital horror hits different.
It’s good to hear the rain, I love watching the VODS, but I love the mainline videos as well.
the way the june archive plays with themes of moving on from the past is so incredibly interesting and poignant to me. like, i've seen the concept covered in media before, i'm sure, but the specificity of the nostalgia really makes the feelings unique. more raw, i guess i could say? i really worried that people who weren't part of that hatena community back in the day wouldn't resonate with it as much, but with the incredible craftsmanship on display, and the universality of those core themes, i hoped it could reach across that bridge, and i think your covering of it proves that
after watching this i don't remember if you mentioned it, since you did mention sudomemo at one point, but last year, the people behind that site were able to put up a flipnote archive. they managed to secure and display almost every flipnote that was uploaded to the original hatena. it made me so so emotional when i first saw it, because it broke my heart that so many hours of work and passion from young artists had seemingly been lost to time. so much of that media that was so important to so many of us is no longer lost, and for that i am incredibly grateful
What a throw back. I remember spending 6 hours on a stick-figure music video to "Party Rock" before the battery died and I forgot to save. It killed my 12 yr old heart. I've been thinking about that a lot lately while working my way out of a depressing time and trying to find purpose. Huh. Cool video!
This is the first Night Mind video where I _haven't_ had to stop and rewatch the entire series beforehand because I'd already been following it, and I consider that an achievement.
The loss of Hatena did a major hit to my mental health. As a kid I dealt with serious mental issues and Hatena and the communities on there was my safe space. When it was gone I kinda had nowhere to go to escape for a while. And man, the joke that was the 3DS Flipnote was just a nice lemon squeeze in the wound.
I love the evolution of Nick mentioning his boyfriend every once in a while, to being a bit more open about it, and now the bf appearing in a vid! You love to see it
Why am I kicking my legs under the table haha, like the little interview section was so cute. I’m a pretty new subscriber but I fell into this channel hard. It’s helped me out along this year. I guess I just want to say I’m really happy for Nick and his bf because creating work together and sharing it with us is something we all should keep close to our hearts. Truly beautiful and grateful to see such a cool person be open with an audience. So thank you and happy for the both of you!!
Jesus Christ calm down you acting like he solved world hunger
@@DiamondWorldTH-cam it’s less about him having a bf and more about Nick feeling comfortable with the space that has been created. I was simply saying thank you for sharing something that can be quite personal for most. Imo it’s just nice to see visibility in a community I care about that is all.
as a june archive fan, yall don't understand how happy this makes me
Really didn't think I would be crying, but the line "it was more than flipnotes" really got me flipnote was a home. It was the only place where I had friends, it was a place to shield myself from the crushing loneliness of the real world. And now that it's gone, there's just a hiole.
the clock cat reminds me a lot of Galactic Nova from Kirby. Intentional or not, this design choice definitely helps feed the nostalgic feeling the series has, with kirby super star ultra being a key release from the time (specifically '08)
Yes! Birthday Night Mind, let go!
Happy Birthday!
@NightMind Thank you! (Never really know what to say other than that) also, wow, this project is a banger. Now if you'll just tell all of us from the live if you sealed the deal with Wally, my day will be complete!
@@RuinedDreemurr thank you so much
I swear your voice should be prescribed as an anxiety treatment. It's one of the few things that manages to soothe me when my anxiety is about to knock at my brain's door.
as a longtime viewer of this series, i would say that the best way to view this series is on a real dsi or a modded 3ds with flipnote studio on it. not only do i think it provides a nice atmosphere to the series, but there are also several secrets accessible by downloading and viewing the flipnote in the editor, mainly by turning off layers. an example i can think of is the “hatena bye bye” flipnote, where by turning off one of the layers certain letters are highlighted in red.
This is such an awesome project. As someone who was on DeviantArt in its glory days and has seen what it's become, this hits home even though I'm largely unfamiliar with hatena and flipnote.
if theres anything we can learn from the june archive and welcome home, its that we should stop starting "restoration projects" for the rest of time
I love that you and your boyfriend have the same laugh pattern.
I love the heart and nostalgia put into this project. It's especially nice knowing the creator was also prominent on Flipnotes back in the day.
I refuse to believe I was the only one who didn’t know night mind had a boyfriend
I like that the main villian is a charming, charismatic, yet manipulate villian. I don't think I've seen that in internet media like this yet, so this is really a treat
I was genuinely **upset** when I found out this was a creepy pasta. I was SO LOOKING FORWARDS to assembling all the old flip notes to try and find some of the old classics!
yay new nightmind to listen to while i draw :) haven't caught it so early before!
i was only involved with flipnote through youtube uploads but its always baffled me how incredible and creative these animators are. the composition on all of these videos is so good
NICK LIKES MEN?
REJOICE, HE'S ONE OF US
I genuinely love the june archive, one of my favourite horror series on youtube (and twitter) right now
My friends and I refer to nostalgia as "the sweet poison."
Personally, I would not go back. I had an epiphany in 2017 that one of the major antagonists in my depressive disorder was living in the past; I killed that internal demon. Never again.
NIGHTMIND, I HEARD YOUR CAT. I HEARD THE MEOWS.
WHERE?? Please, timestamp it! I need to hear it too! EDIT: nvm found it, thanks for giving me an excuse to listen to this again! It's at 14:10
Having Graffi explain the details helped me understand a lot more than I would have, as I didn't know anything about this scene. You ought to bring him on stream some, if you haven't already (sorry, I'm not too much into streaming, either as I'm old and fear new things, lol). You two have good chemistry, I guess it's obvious why y'all are together, lol.
omg NM is a part of the Skittle Squad LESSGOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! /gen /lh
Thank you Mr. NightMind sir for this video, have a good day.
It reminds me of Homestuck in the best way, but with way more creep factor and loving labor put into it
I love how stuff gen z grew up with is being used for horror projects it’s so damn cool!
Man the art and animation in this is INSANELY GOOD like holy shit
And using an incredibly limited color palette too. Chef KISS man!!!
Also unrelated but i always love how you make sleep tight sound like a threat
SPECIAL GUEST BOYFRIEND! Woooooo!
Can we have him on more often for his nerdy goodness?
I never used flip notes, as I didn’t have a DS until the 3DS came out, but I still resonate with it deeply. I used to frequent an Oekaki board as a kid. It was essentially a image board with a built in art application, where you could draw and share your work, and other users could even watch a demo of your entire process for each piece of art or edit it themselves if given permission. It was a pretty great community, and I miss it dearly. The board in question is long gone, and the oekaki boards that are still up (at least the ones I could find) are practically inactive. It was a time and place sort of thing, a period of my young life I won’t get back, a thing I took for granted until years after it was gone.
13:42 so I’m new to your content NightMind, but I absolutely love several things about your channel.
First and foremost, you support creators that are driven and work really hard to make spooky content.
Second, your voice is amazing and you sound very flirtatious.
And third, I really just love to watch your videos, thankfully I have a large backlog of stuff to catch up on!
They really turned Clavicus Vile into an evil date meme cat.
Night mind boyfriend cameo, let's goooo
Nick's voice is so soothing it's 50% of the reason I watch his videos
Someone who wants to watch flipnotes doesn't need to know tHE WORKINGS OF A TIME MACHINE
I kinda love the existential dread mixed with the horror here. It kinda reminds me of this fever dream Adult Swim had a bit ago called Pibby's Playhouse(?) Or i suppose Pibby's reminds me of this. Not a fan of all the sharp sounds.
Okay, Fuzz the Cat is so very much filling that Habit shaped hole in my fear centers. The friendly seeming eldritch being that likes to chat. You almost want them to succeed to see what they do with it. It's like having a frenemy.
Learning with pibby actually, it's probably having the actual show being made right now, everything else was teasers
@@alt4388 Thank you. I honestly thought it was just a fever terror i halucenated one day.
i spit out my drink when you said your boyfriend, go you king
This one hits very, very different for me because of my own nostalgia for Flipnote Hatena. I really, really, really hope that, someday, it makes a comeback.
June Archive perfectly screws with me, since I can perfectly recall most of the flipnotes that are being edited from my childhood. It goes beyond just "oh nooo, nostalgic thing we like is being edited and it's creepy ooooo", it's genuinely clever, subversive, and unnerving in a meaningful way. Such a good series so far.
Hi NightMind! Thank you so much for always saying "hi, friends" in the intro. It really warms my heart. Much love from Latin America ❤
I never had flipnote but I do remember quite a few artists who preferred using it over other animation programs (keke- comes to mind)
Pixel art works really well with horror... I think it's partially because it lends itself to corruption edits, but also because simplistic art lets your brain add more details, the same way vague descriptions make your brain add scarier things.
Also I am thrilled that of all songs, the Great Mouse Detective delivered spooks.
Can we talk about how genuienly cool and creative the grandfather clock guillotine is, the blade being the error screen as the past self gets murdered by time and the present reality.
its so simple and direct but still a 'show don't tell' its like slightly delayed symbolism to me , the symbols are clear but you are so taken aback by the act itself that you need another watch through and/or a few moments with the scene to really have it all click after the emotional aspect of the symbols in action, I gobble stuff like that up.
I genuinly love the June Archive
I found myself quoting it more than once when talking about the morality of isolation as a form of punishment
"Memory is the key to reality, if it burns down and no one remembers it, it was never there to begin with"
And when your ARG can be quoted as a political statement you have reached the peak of dialogue writing
That plus the terrifiying line "that's exactly the point", wich always works, is most times good writing
i feel like having been there and being familiar with the references in the flipnotes and the different popular creators' and their styles at the time really elevates the whole experience. this was awesome!
So often, I see projects that use nostalgia as a story vehicle, some reason the protagonist begins to investigate something strange. BEN Drowned revisiting a childhood classic, Angel Hare remembering an old show they loved, really a good chunk of analog horror or stories with video games or something similar. And it's always left me with an ache for someone to tell a story ABOUT nostalgia, for it to be a plot point or central theme instead of just the reason we showed up, and I cannot possibly be more THRILLED with seeing someone finally execute it, let alone so wonderfully!
I love how the very first word we hear from your bf in this video is “nyeah”
Finding out Nick has a boyfriend made my brain have happy chemicals
Great video as always Nick! Common NightMind W
As someone who grew up on Hatena and moved onto Sudomemo, this genuinely made me tear up. It introduced to SO many friends, to art and my love for animation. I was super popular on it as well and I'll still occasionally get messages from people recognizing me. It always saddens me. Reminding me of those better times. I don't speak to many of those friends I made on flipnote anymore. I barely draw anymore. I miss those times.
Also the amount of WORK that went into this. Clearly they made this on a dsi and it's outstanding. Knowing how flipnote work, a 10 second clip could take DAYS to do. I could only imagine how long it took for this to make. This has to be my favorite ARG so far. It's so well made and hits a core with me..
Yesterday is buried, mourn it on the morrow, now is but ephemeral bliss ruin it not with sorrow.
also i have now learned that your voice is naturally the nick nocturne voice
first off, im at the beginning, didn't know NM had a boyfriend, very happy for him
second off: never edited, not much to add besides good video
Man. So I used to be a D-list animator on Hatena back in the day (went by Supa-Lexi* for those curious). I was 14 when I first started using it, met my first long-term friends and husband through the app/site, and had the most fun I think I've ever had within a community that I can remember.
Watching this, hearing your boyfriend talk about the site back during it's hayday, it woke something in me like I had forgotten just how much I actually missed Hatena and animating. A lot of my animations are lost to the site because my memory card couldn't fit all the ones i wanted to keep (some fans have posted a few on youtube tho). I really don't know how to express just how much the site closing gutted a lot of us users.
That said, there's a catharsis I'm getting watching this, and I'm glad to see it and be reminded of this sort of lost love I had.
This project hits me. HARD. Hatena was my first social media platform. It was my TH-cam, and I would check it daily as if it was. I remember so many of these flipnotes, too. Absolutely crazy seeing these again nearly 12 years later.
It’s 10:30am, I have my coffee. I open up TH-cam and the goat himself posts. I’m not waiting until tonight to watch lol
some of my fondest memories barely scrape back to the time that the flipnote service was still active and i am *ecstatic* that this is the focal point of this video, cannot wait 💙
I genuinely didn't know this many other people also cared about the existence of Flipnote. I used to get frustrated when I would bring it up and nobody ever knew what I was talking about.
Hot dang, I still have my Dsi with a whole SD card FULL of downloaded flipnotes that I used to watch constantly. This inspired me to pull it out and watch some again. What a time that was.
I didn't know Nick had a boyfriend. Ain't that cute?
I’m super surprised I’ve never heard of this series and I’m obsessed with it, it’s so well done and the plot resonates so much with me and I hate that hatena is gone it was such a large part of my childhood. Thank you Nick for covering this!!!
Our favourite Cat Daddy talking with his amazing boyfriend! This is what makes me happy. :) Love you guys!
"the parasite's monologue" would make a killer song name
I was never on a DSI, the SP was my last handheld. But the themes and emotion done through this project is as clear as day. Bravo to the creator(s) for their work so far!
I dont know if you’ve ever told us you have a boyfriend on the yt channel before, cuz it surprised me but made me so frixking happy! I hope you two are happy together and doing well, even outside the crazy horror videos!
I was a 3DS teenager but not in time for Flipnote, but I still ended up being an artist, so this whole project gives me some kind of bittersweet existential longing--like is it better to have experienced an artist community and then lost it, or to never have anything to mourn in the first place? Either way the aesthetics and crunchy audio are SO nostalgic, I love the 3DS to death and it's so cool to see it being used as a storytelling medium in the current day!!
you know what. learning that night mind has a boyfriend completely out of the blue talking about a dsi seems so very night mind that im not even surprised
I've been following the June Archive for a while now and it's amazing, needless to say I was shocked to see it actually be covered by you with a great video to do it justice as usual
holy shit I didn't know my favorite horrortuber was gay. hell yeah my man :D
As someone with no previous knowledge or experience with Flipnote Hatena, this was still a really interesting series to go through as is and then have this deep dive explaining more of the finer details. Excellent as always. 🖤
WOOO GRAPHIIII!!!!! I love seeing you two interact. Your relationship has always been very cute and inspiring
I never thought it before when Night Mind's been using a cat as his channel mascot, but with the art I'm seeing, I'm like 95% sure the dude's a furry xD
That being said I've known someone who goes to furry conventions in a fursuit he designed himself in the style of his fursona but still claims he's not a furry, so who bloody knows anymore? XD
To see more content covering the June Archive is something so exhilarating! I've been interested in the Project since Seagan Hawkes covered it, and I hope this video can bring more WELL DESERVED attention to it. Though, with the theory NM had in this video, I do hope Fuzz isn't able to manifest in reality. I've made a small felted doll of him, he sits on my desk watching me and everything I do online. Regardless, incredible video, and I can't wait for more June Archive Content!
Decided to watch this and I almost choked on my spagetti when a second person was introduced! Nice to know you have someone, Nick, all the best for you two, lol, but you did jumps are me a bit (albeit, not on purpose)
Okay...the first mario video. 400KB? NO way all that audio fits in there. I disbelieve everything now until I see a breakdown of the audio codec used.
Yes way, flipnotes use a 4-bit IMA ADPCM codec at 8182 hz and the video is 31 seconds long so technically the audio size would be around 127 KB
ah jeez it always makes me especially happy to see that a creator i love is also queer haha
i was also a dsi/flipnote kid