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If other parents are like mine were: it was an extremely easy way to not have to parent your kid while convincing yourself it's good for kids to learn how to use a computer.
yea, mine care all of a sudden (which i don't blame them for) even though they let me have unrestricted internet access when i was as young as 7.. and i'm 17 now lol
Also,,, gay people. The mention that a lot of the "male" dress up games being intended as eye candy for straight people made me laugh because I'm willing to bet that a lot of the consumers of dress up games are either queer girls looking for an excuse to stare at pretty girls in thigh-high stockings or trans people living vicariously through the people they dress up. It's me I'm the thigh-high-appreciating lesbian
I count myself extremely lucky for being into GGG before “pregnant Elsa needs dental work” and other games like those became popular. I never knew how good I had it
@@VultureSkins I don't think these games ever became *popular* at least not to players probably popular to the devs cause they could just copy and paste and glueing a new character in it to cheaply mass produce
@allyfalse5718 lmao yeah it was a LONG while ago but I think I got reported. I was a dumb kid asking where people were from and I guess someone thought I was a pedo 🤷🏻♀️ Edit: also they really didn't like some words, they censored "terror" and I complained about it loudly on site lul
Imagine the girlies 15 years from now saying “oh I used to play Elsa visits the dentist and lasik eye surgery sim” in the same casual cadence as us talking about baby krissy
I am not a full adult but I am one of those kids who played these weird games!! Honestly it's moreso feverdream-ish than horror but there definitely is some concern as to how we managed to go so long playing them without our parents seeing and going "wtf" lol
I've never clicked on a video so quickly! I'm a guy who grew up playing these kind of games. The bright colorful and sparkle-filled vibe made me more attracted to these rather than the dark, muddy and boring "boy" games. I thought those "boy" games were boring and way too violent for my taste. What if I just wanted to dress up a girl in the best outfit I can put together? Plus, girl cooking games were always better made than boy ones. I was so obsessed with girlsgogames and DressUpWho and they thoroughly shaped my childhood. These bright pink havens were my go-to. I will die on this hill of "girl" games are the best, no matter how repetitive and lack luster most of them are.
stardoll had me on a chokehold at the time, i had my own house pretty build and had a huge amount of clothes and money, i mined it like there was no tomorrow... good times.
As an adult, it makes me so happy to know that other kids had the same childhood as me. Right down to the nitty gritty of chewing on Polly’s clothes and being pissed off by the fact that the on dress up games the CLOTHES WOULDN’T SNAP INTO PLACE 😭 Your videos make me feel so nostalgic. I’d love to hear you talk about VideoNow if you haven’t. The little portable DVD players with like two episodes of a show.
Those fetishy kind of games are pretty much the elsagate content farm of flash games tbh, it's hard to believe they're even made by humans at this point. I remember when I was in that mini phase of being fascinated with medical based games I tend to play a lot of the Surgery Squad games as they're quite in depth and educational though they can be a bit too realistic at times lol but boy I loved them. I would also like to bring some more light for the "slacking" genre of girly flash games as I think they've been overshadowed by the kissing genre despite usually having a lot more to do to fill up your window of opportunity
Was looking for this comment, it's all part of the gross Elsagate pandemic. I wouldn't be surprised if many were AI generated now. My kids are gonna play the good old dress up games on Deviantart and enjoy it!
@@hildisvini_9622 Yeah I hope to god most of them have been purged by flash’s discontinuation and that no one in their right mind would want to preserve that stuff. Would probably be one of the only good things to come out of it😅
I played flash games and it’s weird to see how gross the doctor games got. I was staring to see them when I was just getting out of playing flash games, like around 2012 so, but usually it was just a cutified version of the medical procedure. They didn’t get weird til like Elsa got big. I was however weirdly obsessed with the medically accurate surgery sims made by that one company I can’t recall the name of. Jacksepticeye played them. They were like, not game games and were supposed to be demonstration tools but I loved them.
Girly flash games were a quick way for me to play video games on my family pc as a kid. I really loved the Korean flash games with their cute designs and music (even if the music length was too short and kept looping) and were the most iconic games for me when asian culture was growing in the 2000's.
0:19 the mixing up in my head of fireboy & watergirl and sharkboy & watergirl is something i only ever thought happened to me for some reason so this makes me very happy
The game is played on two levels: in-game, the goal is to not get caught kissing your lover, but at the same time, you're also trying to not get caught playing the game in real life.
Random point, but I LOVED the games where outfits didn’t snap together. Lining them up perfectly always felt so much more interactive than ones that you just clicked. There was one ballerina one on Girls Go Games that I visited almost weekly and went through ever outfit combination because it felt so good.
I feel like the picrew and meikor craze right now (I'm part of this lol) is the transition from girlsgogames or other girl game sites to adults today. Something scratches the brain right by clicking buttons and making neat designs.
i had this same epiphany watching the beginning of this! like ‘oh my cool picrews are really just dress up flash games 🤯 ??’ real big brain moment right there
I always try to find picrews to make the characters from my writing with but the homepage is always like the same 5 anime makers 😭 it’s really hard to find good ones for characters that are from the 1800s since most only have modern clothing options
Did anyone else use the old dress up games as a kid when their art was still developing to make characters with? I loved these games as a kid and just opening one and dressing them up then writing up some bio for them to be in the series i was totally going to write before they got lost to obscurity, truly peak enjoyment as a kid
Honestly, I still do this sometimes even as an adult with a developed art style. Sometimes it's hard to come up with good clothes for a character, so those games give you room to experiment with different outfits.
i’m surprised i never did that but i was in my furry phase so that’s probably why i couldn’t draw anything but animals and my animal jam avatars at the time 😭
YESSSS SOME GAMES2GIRLS REPRESENTATION!! Girlsgogames really does come up the most as the paragon of feminine flash games, but i was always a Games2Girl. The Korean Sue games were my absolute favorite, though. Also shout out to Cartoon Doll Emporium, another classic lost to the march of time.
Same!! And if you liked Sue, Li Speaks - the creator Jelly mentioned who made the video about kissing games - has a deep-dive into Sue’s history as a Flash icon. I highly recommend it!
For anyone looking for a cool horror series inspired by girly flash games like these, the Lacy's Wardrobe video and its sequels are pretty cool. Everyone likes Analog Horror, but I think Digital Horror has a lot of potential too.
The cooking puzzles in the Nancy Drew games are of such variable quality. The jam cookie decorating one is addictive fun, meanwhile the baking at Shadow Ranch made me pull my hair out. 😂
seeing the haircut game again and realizing "the strange symbols" i was so confused by as a 5-year old is actually just Korean clicked the pieces of a puzzle in my brain ahah, so satisfying
First of all, drawing elaborate maps of your dream home is so fucking real tho… I did mine in MS Paint. Thank you for reminding me that I did that as a kid. Reading the other comments and seeing our shared experiences gives me such a warm feeling. Second of all, I was too much of a proud tomboy to allow myself in girly flash game sites, but I played girly games on armor games or mofunzone to save my dumb childish pride. It’s interesting to see how everyone talks about this now that it IS old and mostly lost media, but was such a huge and normal part of our childhoods years ago.
I remember playing the Barbie and Polly Pocket games as a kid. And I was so pleased to see you include clips from the game with Polly growing plants and the game with the dress up car in it. I particularly loved playing the dress up car game
I didn’t know the word for it back then but flash games always gave me such an uncanny valley feel like something wasn’t quite right, almost like I was playing bootlegs that tried to gaslight people into thinking they were legit. Despite being fun, the repetitive music in some, the awkward silence in others, vague titles, incorrect voices for copyright infringed characters, oddly rendered or drawn versions of them and poor audio design gave it this weird nefarious feeling to me. It really felt often like I was expecting some sorta “Lacey’s flash games” type of thing to happen out of nowhere.
13:50 Oh yes, I love Doll Divine's work. ... Doll Divine is probably my most perused femme flash game maker. I actually don't really recall any others by name.
My theory on why there's so much weird shock value stuff in modern low-effort kid's content is that they're leveraging the "obsession over something that scares you" effect
i am male and i unironically frequented these game sites often as a kid because i really liked dress up games [Edit: one I frequented a lot was an AtLA one and I would, like, element swap the characters and construct weird AUs out of them (one of my favorites was the Airbender Katara AU iirc), I was like 11]
to me it feels like i activated some dead neurons on my brain and and remember how much i like the girly cooking games (generally because i like the cooking) i own to my sister for that
I'm a guy and my go-to was always GirlsGoGames. Got teased about it when friends found out in 8th grade but bro they were so fun. Loved the Devil Hairdresser game, loved all the cooking/cake-making games, loved the quality of the dress ups (good for designing characters) I sank soooo many hours into that site! A lot of the games you mentioned I played, I completely forgot about "Haircut" lol, what a nostalgia trip
The 2000s and 2010s were just a fantastic time (Social networks, music, the environment, true happiness, etc.) We miss it just like the baby boomers miss the 80s.
I love your video essays so much. Your little visual jokes are so funny and your content is so informative. It reminds me so much of my childhood, too. Gets me nostalgic 😩🤌
Rinmaru, DollDivine, and AzaleasDolls were the holy trinity of dress up sites. I would spend hours using rinmaru's fantasy creator to make my characters
As a guy, I mostly played on more neutral sides, but I did check out girl flash game sites myself back when I was between 8 and 10, I really enjoyed the dress up games there, but most of the sites just seemed to chaotic back then, they often had more ads and lower quality designs of everything. But maybe that was just a german thing.
I remember playing a lot of dress up games as a preteen boy. But often not much longer than it took to undress the character as far as they could go, or find the most revealing outfit that I could.
At first I wasn't going to comment because my only memory of these is seeing girls play them and thinking they were boring at the time. However, seeing a John Cena dress up game in this video was COMPLETELY unexpected. I only knew it was him because of the clothing items, there was empty space where his model would have been
I literally talked about this yesterday reliving the Polly Pockets Roller Coaster game, stardolls, and all of the makeover games on girls go games! I’m not sure why but I remember really judging the art style but still playing them. The makeover games had like 3 common versions of art: the pretty polished one, the ones that just had absolutely no shading and was purely color filled shaped to make a face, and then just bad hahaha Stardolls was more consistent, but it still also had the (what I call) “bad wax version” of a celebrity ever so often and it was like a jump scare!
i very rarely comment on youtube videos, but i've spent the last few days binging all of your content and i wanted to let you know how much comfort your videos have brought me. my grandmother passed away recently, and when i when i look back on my younger memories with her, they always involve hanging out in her computer room and playing all of these silly early 2000s games. watching your videos have made me feel like i can connect with her again in the same way i used to when i was younger. thank you for bringing back those pleasant memories, and keep up the good work !
ah yes, another girly nostalgia 30-minute session !! i love the li speaks video you mentioned, it was the first girl-flash-game related video that i ever watched, later on i found out your channel, jelly
As a person who grew up feeling patronized by the pink isle and scorning "girly" things, I missed out on a lot of these. As a now less judgy older person who was also chronically online (Neopets games were my love) - I love being taken on these deep dives :D You're soothing, entertaining, and interesting all at once Dream Jelly! A gelatin-gem
Does anyone else remember the site with the tiny pixel art dolls that had pages and PAGES of like... goth and scene clothes that looked like they belonged in a night club?
YES was looking for someone talking about this in the comments!!! My sister STAYED on that one lol. They were tiny, and... gif like? I believe they had like, flashing gif type backgrounds you could put them in... they looked like Bratz but Jersey Shore but Hot Topic & Spencer's, but Hollister & Abercrombie and even Victoria's Secret, but JNCO jeans and Skateboarder brand clothes... yeah... I think I explained it pretty well... 😅 I went on it years back and it was still up, going to search it out now!
Bluemaxima's Flashpoint also has tons of the girly games u know and love archived onto it as well. it rules. It has the weird house renovation game i always used to play because I was normal child :3 theres also the scary elsa surgery games tho so stay safe on there.
My fav flash game was a game along the lines of ‘goth get ready’ or ‘goth makeover’. I was OBSESSED! No prizes for how I look now 😂 also I never found any enjoyment in dressing any male characters or celebrities, just the girls 😂👀
I believe DollDivine is working on preserving all of their flash games along with Rinmaru's. I remember spending a ton of time on those sites in 2015 to 2017 or so. I was on DeviantART a lot back in those days and used various dress up games to create different versions of my ocs
I feel like we are the same person... like every video you pump out had something to do with my childhood. 😂 But I am obsessed with your channel and this video just puts the cherry on top. So glad I found you the other day and I can binge your content. Also, thank you for bringing up those realistic surgery games. 😂I was totally obsessed with them growing up. Maybe that was one of my many telltale signs I was going to go into the medical field... I'm now a senior nursing major so HAHAHA
Such a great dive into this topic! It felt wild to see some of the flash/dress up games I played growing up featured in your video. What a fun wave of nostalgia! I can't believe the amount of time I would spend playing that stuff lmao. Those current games look horrifying to me!!
they weren't flash games, but my two favorite "girly" games as a kid were the CD barbie magic hairstyler game and later Girlsense. my cousins and I were obsessed with the barbie game, we would play it all the time at our grandma's house. and girlsense was a random discovery, but I lived on that site after I stopped playing club penguin. so sad it shut down!!
19:57 this!!!! This dug up vague memories of a pet adoption… breeding? Game? With hamsters or something ?? The human memory is truly amazing and also, really bad lol
Girl Games Club mentioned! To this day I’m surprised that site is still around. I was a Doll Divine main, but Girl Games Club and Dress Up Who were definitely a close 2nd and 3rd.I often gravitated towards the dress up games and made my own characters and stories with them. Those were fun times. Specific shoutout to this one game on Dress Up Who that I think was called Cute Emo Dress up. Made characters on that one for days lol.
You're definitely right about the celebrity dressups. I remember someone the Justin Bieber one on the school computer and amassing a small crowd of kids to look at him in his boxers.
The part where u talked about the "new" girly games was really interesting bc I'm 16 almost 17 and when I was 7 to 10 (2014 - 2017) I grew up on the pregnant elsa, help Dora's teeths stuff, and for me at least I liked them bc you helped them and made them "pretty" again as a young girl gamer I found the older websites like girlsgogaming to be very boring in comparison to the crazy gross ones I did play my fair share of the normal fashion/makeup games on the app store but unfortunately the gross borderline creepy games are not a new thing or a gen alpha thing I love your videos btw keep making them!!
this awakened a lot of repressed memories from before i started thinking i was "too different" and "too good" to enjoy girly games and tried to pretend i never liked them, but would still play the barbie babysitting flash game at my friend's house "ironically". the grocery shopping part was my favorite
Ayy Charger Escape! Seems like the English girly games reached the Polish side as well. Now, does anyone else here remember (not necessarily limited to girly websites): - some dolphin rollercoaster/water slide thingy? or just dolphin doing tricks, jumping through hoops and stuff? (could be My Dolphin Show, Dolphin Olympics or a similar game - oh, Uphill Rush! yeah, that also seems familiar) - Cat vs Dog - Mutant Fighting Cup... why, dear child, is that where you went if you weren't drawing gore and funky villains? - The Cute X Hospital family of games!!! Cute Pet Hospital, Cute Jungle Hospital, Cute Horse Hospital (you could walk around there iirc, so that's nice)... - the Bomb It series - Strikeforce Kitty and its game family
The Strawberry Shortcake Ps2 Ship Race music in the background is getting my childhood nostalgia brewing, I always played that Berrylicious Bake Off flash game too on girlsgogame too. Man I even had an Agame account, which is the boy version of grilsgogame, because I wanted my progress not to reset every time I played Bombit and unlock stuff every time I got an achievement. When I wasn’t on the more violent flash game websites like Games Butler, Friv, or especially Y8, I always visited girlsgogames for all the fun dress up games like the Fashion Designer games; which were ads for the DS games of the same name. Being a boy never stopped my from enjoying them anyway hehehe
girlsgogames and games2girls were my MAIN to go sites, but i also LOVED playing on doli doli (usually for the escape games, the toto’s blankie games, or just the cleanup game… I also VIVIDLY remember that one game with sisi and toto cooking things and it was like a cut the rope type thing) & playpink as i usually played for the cooking games
As a kid, I used to play on a site I remember being called Bonnie Games. I spent so much time on that website, but nobody ever mentions it 😅 It had a very anime aesthetic, and I think hosted Korean dress up games.
Finally! I thought I was the only one who remembered BonnieGames! Of all the random dress up game sites I played on, I adored BonnieGames the most. Probably because the owner of the site had a beautiful anime art style, and the avatar, Bonnie herself, was so pretty to me. Thank you for mentioning it!
I have a very interesting piece of information regarding the haircut game. It originates actually from a site called "Say Hi Kids" which had a bunch of games with that little girl,called Ayse. I think the original name was "Ayse haircut" so it's not that really far fetched 😅
as a guy that literally grew up with flash games I assure that girl games were the best ones! I thank my big sister for introducing them to me, like, there’s pictures of lil three old me in my sisters lap, learning how to play games on GirlsGoGames
I was a games2girls main too. I understand the name as games for girls, which made sense to me as a kid, because in Danish, 'for' would be 'til', but 'til' can also be 'to'. So it totally made sense to me that it's games til/to/for girls! Idk who the original owners are or where they're from, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it was a reason a bit like that and less than stellar English skills which led to the name. I do remember the egg frying game was Danish though.
the adult parasocial feeling that we should be best friends is upsetting. Your growth is awesome, my friend and I had an EEp! moment when they told me they also watch your videos
This isn’t really related but still inspired by flash animation. There’s this web series called “Bugbo” which is a comedy series that’s inspired by educational children’s flash animations. I 100% recommend it. It’s genuinely a good series
i think if you were a little older you would have LOVED kisekae dolls. the pinnacle dress up game of the 90s. i loved flash games especially the dress up games on doll divine
Not only were these games prevelent in my childhood, but now they also hold a place in my adulthood. I used to hunt down my favs and play those instead of doing school work in college.
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I cried when Flash prevented me from playing bad piggies in Y6
It’s as if we ALL had the same childhood with these games 😂 love it
you realize you are a true girly dork, right?! RIGHT?!
Needs more Bimpy.
Duolingo is better
Unrestricted internet access was a very very strange idea that early 2000s parents just unanimously agreed on
...and now the internet is five websites and a chicken.
If other parents are like mine were: it was an extremely easy way to not have to parent your kid while convincing yourself it's good for kids to learn how to use a computer.
and arguably one of their worst
yea, mine care all of a sudden (which i don't blame them for) even though they let me have unrestricted internet access when i was as young as 7.. and i'm 17 now lol
yea we were a no tv no games household but unlimited computer time
Girly flash games are part of every chronically online woman’s childhood
Brony: "Cough fat beard 50 years old guy like it Cough"
So true
So real
It's true, as a chronically online gay girly, I can confirm that this was my internet 101.
Also,,, gay people. The mention that a lot of the "male" dress up games being intended as eye candy for straight people made me laugh because I'm willing to bet that a lot of the consumers of dress up games are either queer girls looking for an excuse to stare at pretty girls in thigh-high stockings or trans people living vicariously through the people they dress up.
It's me I'm the thigh-high-appreciating lesbian
girlsgogames was my first exposure to videogames. Was it weird most of the time? Yes. Did it have a weird amount of birth-based games? Also yes.
I count myself extremely lucky for being into GGG before “pregnant Elsa needs dental work” and other games like those became popular. I never knew how good I had it
I remember getting banned off GGG as a kid lmao
@@VultureSkins I don't think these games ever became *popular*
at least not to players
probably popular to the devs cause they could just copy and paste and glueing a new character in it to cheaply mass produce
@@SouthernGothicYTYOU CAN GET BANNED?? How??
@allyfalse5718 lmao yeah it was a LONG while ago but I think I got reported. I was a dumb kid asking where people were from and I guess someone thought I was a pedo 🤷🏻♀️
Edit: also they really didn't like some words, they censored "terror" and I complained about it loudly on site lul
Imagine the girlies 15 years from now saying “oh I used to play Elsa visits the dentist and lasik eye surgery sim” in the same casual cadence as us talking about baby krissy
I am not a full adult but I am one of those kids who played these weird games!! Honestly it's moreso feverdream-ish than horror but there definitely is some concern as to how we managed to go so long playing them without our parents seeing and going "wtf" lol
“helping barbie care for animals sushi-train style at the vet” really got me
For me it was the Edward Cullen DM “hey spider monkey, you like Debussy?” I had to pause cause it I’m still laughing
I've never clicked on a video so quickly! I'm a guy who grew up playing these kind of games. The bright colorful and sparkle-filled vibe made me more attracted to these rather than the dark, muddy and boring "boy" games. I thought those "boy" games were boring and way too violent for my taste. What if I just wanted to dress up a girl in the best outfit I can put together? Plus, girl cooking games were always better made than boy ones. I was so obsessed with girlsgogames and DressUpWho and they thoroughly shaped my childhood. These bright pink havens were my go-to. I will die on this hill of "girl" games are the best, no matter how repetitive and lack luster most of them are.
OMG girlsgogames! That was my sibling's and mine main site to play on!
Girlsgogames goes hard
What about papa's? Those felt way more neutral to me :))
@@systematicirony666the pizzeria games? :0
@@pinchetii6555it’s a variety of cooking games but the pizzaria I do believe is the first I think
Omg I was obsessed with Stardoll, you could create/dress up your own character AND celebrities, I loved to dress up Avril Lavigne and Hilary Duff😭
Same girl (or boy lol) , stardoll was my childhood
I used to dress like Ke$ha and Cher Lloyd, which really is a sign of the times hahahaha
stardoll had me on a chokehold at the time, i had my own house pretty build and had a huge amount of clothes and money, i mined it like there was no tomorrow... good times.
@@cinnapjsi played almost everything😭 my childhood was lowkey iconic
As an adult, it makes me so happy to know that other kids had the same childhood as me. Right down to the nitty gritty of chewing on Polly’s clothes and being pissed off by the fact that the on dress up games the CLOTHES WOULDN’T SNAP INTO PLACE 😭 Your videos make me feel so nostalgic.
I’d love to hear you talk about VideoNow if you haven’t. The little portable DVD players with like two episodes of a show.
Those fetishy kind of games are pretty much the elsagate content farm of flash games tbh, it's hard to believe they're even made by humans at this point. I remember when I was in that mini phase of being fascinated with medical based games I tend to play a lot of the Surgery Squad games as they're quite in depth and educational though they can be a bit too realistic at times lol but boy I loved them. I would also like to bring some more light for the "slacking" genre of girly flash games as I think they've been overshadowed by the kissing genre despite usually having a lot more to do to fill up your window of opportunity
Was looking for this comment, it's all part of the gross Elsagate pandemic. I wouldn't be surprised if many were AI generated now. My kids are gonna play the good old dress up games on Deviantart and enjoy it!
@@hildisvini_9622 Yeah I hope to god most of them have been purged by flash’s discontinuation and that no one in their right mind would want to preserve that stuff. Would probably be one of the only good things to come out of it😅
I still remember playing "pregnant elsa" games...dark times
the sue games series, yknow girly with the pink space buns, was truly the backbone of 2010s flash games on girlsgogames
I remember myself struggling because some of them had no translation from japanese? I was like omg I don't get itttt
AVATA STAR SUE! I love that girlie so much...
She even has a youtube online series! (Its in korean tho)
I played flash games and it’s weird to see how gross the doctor games got. I was staring to see them when I was just getting out of playing flash games, like around 2012 so, but usually it was just a cutified version of the medical procedure. They didn’t get weird til like Elsa got big.
I was however weirdly obsessed with the medically accurate surgery sims made by that one company I can’t recall the name of. Jacksepticeye played them. They were like, not game games and were supposed to be demonstration tools but I loved them.
YESSS!!! I also played the surgery games! Now I’m going into healthcare lol
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hi fellow dragon ball pfp user
I remember the surgery games! I think they were part of this "operate now" series
@@allyfalse5718that’s awesome though the surgery flash game to medical professional pipeline is a very real one
EdHeads!!!
Girly flash games were a quick way for me to play video games on my family pc as a kid. I really loved the Korean flash games with their cute designs and music (even if the music length was too short and kept looping) and were the most iconic games for me when asian culture was growing in the 2000's.
Omg I would religiously play every Sue game on every website I could find!!! the memories
Lol literally like even if it was fully in Korean I still understood what I was doing 😭
0:19 the mixing up in my head of fireboy & watergirl and sharkboy & watergirl is something i only ever thought happened to me for some reason so this makes me very happy
Man I felt that hoping no one walks in while you're playing the kissing games on such a personal level. 😂 Described my childhood free time perfectly
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The game is played on two levels: in-game, the goal is to not get caught kissing your lover, but at the same time, you're also trying to not get caught playing the game in real life.
@@ZuxtronI was going to say the same!
Random point, but I LOVED the games where outfits didn’t snap together. Lining them up perfectly always felt so much more interactive than ones that you just clicked. There was one ballerina one on Girls Go Games that I visited almost weekly and went through ever outfit combination because it felt so good.
oh my god, yes! looking back at how I would meticulously cycle through every. single. outfit. was definitely an early sign that i had adhd😂
I feel like the picrew and meikor craze right now (I'm part of this lol) is the transition from girlsgogames or other girl game sites to adults today. Something scratches the brain right by clicking buttons and making neat designs.
i had this same epiphany watching the beginning of this! like ‘oh my cool picrews are really just dress up flash games 🤯 ??’ real big brain moment right there
Picrew is totally the gender neutral/not marketed to girls version of the dress up games for sure.
true, I can't be the only one who prototypes designs for my ocs using picrew
I always try to find picrews to make the characters from my writing with but the homepage is always like the same 5 anime makers 😭 it’s really hard to find good ones for characters that are from the 1800s since most only have modern clothing options
@@phantomology13meiker has a lot of 1800s options :)
Did anyone else use the old dress up games as a kid when their art was still developing to make characters with? I loved these games as a kid and just opening one and dressing them up then writing up some bio for them to be in the series i was totally going to write before they got lost to obscurity, truly peak enjoyment as a kid
Honestly, I still do this sometimes even as an adult with a developed art style. Sometimes it's hard to come up with good clothes for a character, so those games give you room to experiment with different outfits.
I did! Also trying to make the dress up character look as much like one of my favorite cartoon characters as I could was fun too. (
i’m surprised i never did that but i was in my furry phase so that’s probably why i couldn’t draw anything but animals and my animal jam avatars at the time 😭
I remember my childhood best friend and playing a kissing game on her family computer in the basement and it felt so taboo 💀
I was a girlsgogames kid and it always made me kind of mad that under the “skills” category of game they were all love tester games
Lol, I used to play love tester games like they could actually tell my future. 😂
YESSSS SOME GAMES2GIRLS REPRESENTATION!! Girlsgogames really does come up the most as the paragon of feminine flash games, but i was always a Games2Girl. The Korean Sue games were my absolute favorite, though. Also shout out to Cartoon Doll Emporium, another classic lost to the march of time.
Same!! And if you liked Sue, Li Speaks - the creator Jelly mentioned who made the video about kissing games - has a deep-dive into Sue’s history as a Flash icon. I highly recommend it!
I LOVED Cartoon Doll Emporium, one of my favorite sites as a kid. Hope someone makes a video about it someday :’)
I played the snack Sue game too much
@risxra ty for the recommendation, bc of her video I was able to actually succeed at the sue cake game for the first time in my life
For anyone looking for a cool horror series inspired by girly flash games like these, the Lacy's Wardrobe video and its sequels are pretty cool. Everyone likes Analog Horror, but I think Digital Horror has a lot of potential too.
The cooking puzzles in the Nancy Drew games are of such variable quality. The jam cookie decorating one is addictive fun, meanwhile the baking at Shadow Ranch made me pull my hair out. 😂
now i want a dream jelly video all about nancy drew 👀
@@realbattyYES I WILL PAY FOR A DREAMJELLY DEEP DIVE INTO ND GAMES OMG
Oh no! You picked fruit that wasn’t ripe, yet!
don't even get me STARTED on the White Wolf ones. That game was SO HARD 😭
seeing the haircut game again and realizing "the strange symbols" i was so confused by as a 5-year old is actually just Korean clicked the pieces of a puzzle in my brain ahah, so satisfying
In addition to dress up games, room decorating games were super fun as well.
Honestly, despite the stereotyped themes, I’m so happy we had girly games. They bopped!
Such a niche shared experience. So nostalgic. Thank you for your content. It’s like a warm hug and a cup of hot choccy.
First of all, drawing elaborate maps of your dream home is so fucking real tho… I did mine in MS Paint. Thank you for reminding me that I did that as a kid. Reading the other comments and seeing our shared experiences gives me such a warm feeling. Second of all, I was too much of a proud tomboy to allow myself in girly flash game sites, but I played girly games on armor games or mofunzone to save my dumb childish pride. It’s interesting to see how everyone talks about this now that it IS old and mostly lost media, but was such a huge and normal part of our childhoods years ago.
I have a very distinct memory of my sister and our neighbor getting a virus on the neighbors computer from a princess horse game 😂
lmfao
I remember playing the Barbie and Polly Pocket games as a kid. And I was so pleased to see you include clips from the game with Polly growing plants and the game with the dress up car in it. I particularly loved playing the dress up car game
I didn’t know the word for it back then but flash games always gave me such an uncanny valley feel like something wasn’t quite right, almost like I was playing bootlegs that tried to gaslight people into thinking they were legit. Despite being fun, the repetitive music in some, the awkward silence in others, vague titles, incorrect voices for copyright infringed characters, oddly rendered or drawn versions of them and poor audio design gave it this weird nefarious feeling to me. It really felt often like I was expecting some sorta “Lacey’s flash games” type of thing to happen out of nowhere.
11:16 I remember opening a bunch of games in separate tabs and sorting thru them to weed out the non-dress up ones lol
I used dress up games to make characters I'd write/imagine writing stories about, some still live rent-free in my brain.
Me too! I’d make sure I had multiple dress-up games lined up in other tabs so I didn’t lose momentum with the plot lol
love your content
13:50 Oh yes, I love Doll Divine's work.
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Doll Divine is probably my most perused femme flash game maker. I actually don't really recall any others by name.
My theory on why there's so much weird shock value stuff in modern low-effort kid's content is that they're leveraging the "obsession over something that scares you" effect
Yeah agreed
i mean, the translated title at 19:29 is technically correctly "나는 미용사" just means "i am a hairdresser"
I thought I was the only one who chewed on Polly Pocket clothes! I'm happy to know I'm not. Makes me feel less weird.
Me three 😂 I swallowed a Polly Pocket shoe as a little kid and almost died lmfao 😅 my babysitter saved me!
I can still remember the way they squeaked against my teeth lol
The glitter ones tasted really badly though
I did the same thing. 😂
i am male and i unironically frequented these game sites often as a kid because i really liked dress up games
[Edit: one I frequented a lot was an AtLA one and I would, like, element swap the characters and construct weird AUs out of them (one of my favorites was the Airbender Katara AU iirc), I was like 11]
to me it feels like i activated some dead neurons on my brain and and remember how much i like the girly cooking games (generally because i like the cooking) i own to my sister for that
I'm a guy and my go-to was always GirlsGoGames. Got teased about it when friends found out in 8th grade but bro they were so fun. Loved the Devil Hairdresser game, loved all the cooking/cake-making games, loved the quality of the dress ups (good for designing characters) I sank soooo many hours into that site! A lot of the games you mentioned I played, I completely forgot about "Haircut" lol, what a nostalgia trip
The 2000s and 2010s were just a fantastic time (Social networks, music, the environment, true happiness, etc.) We miss it just like the baby boomers miss the 80s.
the fashion designer new york game was MY FAVORITE. i’m so happy I saw it in the thumbnail
i can't escape josh hutcherson he's everywhere
I love your video essays so much. Your little visual jokes are so funny and your content is so informative. It reminds me so much of my childhood, too. Gets me nostalgic 😩🤌
I LOVED Rinmaru and DollDivine. Deviantart also had some cool dress up games.
Rinmaru, DollDivine, and AzaleasDolls were the holy trinity of dress up sites.
I would spend hours using rinmaru's fantasy creator to make my characters
As a guy, I mostly played on more neutral sides, but I did check out girl flash game sites myself back when I was between 8 and 10, I really enjoyed the dress up games there, but most of the sites just seemed to chaotic back then, they often had more ads and lower quality designs of everything. But maybe that was just a german thing.
Oh yeah, the sites were always littered with ads! Very weird and obscure ones, too
I remember playing a lot of dress up games as a preteen boy. But often not much longer than it took to undress the character as far as they could go, or find the most revealing outfit that I could.
19:57 The maker of this hamster game has an art youtube channel now, DoodleDate!
I loved Doll divine well into being a teenager, just checked and happy to see theyre still going
13:54 ah yes what a cute little girly dress up game-
Dreamjelly: XxWAKE ME UP INSIDE!!!!1!xX
Emo fashion is timeless to me idc.
hard agree
My ass was never emo or goth but i remmeber when i was 6/7/8 id always look up goth emo makeover games and they were soooo epic
At first I wasn't going to comment because my only memory of these is seeing girls play them and thinking they were boring at the time. However, seeing a John Cena dress up game in this video was COMPLETELY unexpected. I only knew it was him because of the clothing items, there was empty space where his model would have been
I literally talked about this yesterday reliving the Polly Pockets Roller Coaster game, stardolls, and all of the makeover games on girls go games! I’m not sure why but I remember really judging the art style but still playing them. The makeover games had like 3 common versions of art: the pretty polished one, the ones that just had absolutely no shading and was purely color filled shaped to make a face, and then just bad hahaha Stardolls was more consistent, but it still also had the (what I call) “bad wax version” of a celebrity ever so often and it was like a jump scare!
I may be a grown adult but dress up/character builder games had a grip like no other on me during the pandemic 💀
i very rarely comment on youtube videos, but i've spent the last few days binging all of your content and i wanted to let you know how much comfort your videos have brought me. my grandmother passed away recently, and when i when i look back on my younger memories with her, they always involve hanging out in her computer room and playing all of these silly early 2000s games. watching your videos have made me feel like i can connect with her again in the same way i used to when i was younger. thank you for bringing back those pleasant memories, and keep up the good work !
ah yes, another girly nostalgia 30-minute session !!
i love the li speaks video you mentioned, it was the first girl-flash-game related video that i ever watched, later on i found out your channel, jelly
Daniel Radcliffe's uncanny valley neck is going to haunt my dreams. God damn.
Honey I LOVE your content, THANK YOU FOR THE LOVE
Eeeeee I’m so glad!! THANK YOU FOR LOVING THE LOVE
As a person who grew up feeling patronized by the pink isle and scorning "girly" things, I missed out on a lot of these. As a now less judgy older person who was also chronically online (Neopets games were my love) - I love being taken on these deep dives :D
You're soothing, entertaining, and interesting all at once Dream Jelly! A gelatin-gem
Does anyone else remember the site with the tiny pixel art dolls that had pages and PAGES of like... goth and scene clothes that looked like they belonged in a night club?
YES was looking for someone talking about this in the comments!!! My sister STAYED on that one lol. They were tiny, and... gif like? I believe they had like, flashing gif type backgrounds you could put them in... they looked like Bratz but Jersey Shore but Hot Topic & Spencer's, but Hollister & Abercrombie and even Victoria's Secret, but JNCO jeans and Skateboarder brand clothes... yeah... I think I explained it pretty well... 😅 I went on it years back and it was still up, going to search it out now!
My favorite game was one where you could design nail art and then you could print it, cut the nails and paste them on your nails with tape.
Watching your channel grow this year has been amazing! Keep up the good work, documenting this kind of media is really important!
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Bluemaxima's Flashpoint also has tons of the girly games u know and love archived onto it as well. it rules. It has the weird house renovation game i always used to play because I was normal child :3
theres also the scary elsa surgery games tho so stay safe on there.
My fav flash game was a game along the lines of ‘goth get ready’ or ‘goth makeover’. I was OBSESSED! No prizes for how I look now 😂 also I never found any enjoyment in dressing any male characters or celebrities, just the girls 😂👀
As someone who wasn't allowed on social media until my teens, these games are what make me nostalgic for the internet culture of the 2000s.
I loved rinmaru... There was plenty of neutral and boy character makers! Including two couple makers that let you make queer couples
I believe DollDivine is working on preserving all of their flash games along with Rinmaru's. I remember spending a ton of time on those sites in 2015 to 2017 or so. I was on DeviantART a lot back in those days and used various dress up games to create different versions of my ocs
I LOVED RINMARU, it's a shame the website is dead
@@liv.s.
All of the games are on DollDivine now!
Rinmaru was such a blessing. And thankfully dolldivine has archived most of her flash games, with a lot of em translated to html5.
Them and azalea doll were ones of the most high quality ones.
I feel like we are the same person... like every video you pump out had something to do with my childhood. 😂 But I am obsessed with your channel and this video just puts the cherry on top. So glad I found you the other day and I can binge your content.
Also, thank you for bringing up those realistic surgery games. 😂I was totally obsessed with them growing up. Maybe that was one of my many telltale signs I was going to go into the medical field... I'm now a senior nursing major so HAHAHA
Yeah i feel the same there❤
I was also obsessed with those games and now I am going into nursing school 😭😭😭
That was me with the cooking games, i’m a baker now 👩🏽🍳🥖🤌🏽
Paperdoll Heaven / Stardoll was SUCH a defining part of my childhood
i was a girly flash games kid FOR SURE i loved dress up and i was absolutely on all the different Mattel sites
Such a great dive into this topic! It felt wild to see some of the flash/dress up games I played growing up featured in your video. What a fun wave of nostalgia! I can't believe the amount of time I would spend playing that stuff lmao. Those current games look horrifying to me!!
1:18 azaleas dolls shown. You have my attention
they weren't flash games, but my two favorite "girly" games as a kid were the CD barbie magic hairstyler game and later Girlsense. my cousins and I were obsessed with the barbie game, we would play it all the time at our grandma's house. and girlsense was a random discovery, but I lived on that site after I stopped playing club penguin. so sad it shut down!!
I used to love cooking, dress up and room decorating games especially on dressupgames! The memories!!
Omg how could I also forget Stardoll!!
i LOVED star stylin! so glad to see someone else remember games2girls :)
19:57 this!!!! This dug up vague memories of a pet adoption… breeding? Game? With hamsters or something ?? The human memory is truly amazing and also, really bad lol
Girl Games Club mentioned! To this day I’m surprised that site is still around.
I was a Doll Divine main, but Girl Games Club and Dress Up Who were definitely a close 2nd and 3rd.I often gravitated towards the dress up games and made my own characters and stories with them. Those were fun times.
Specific shoutout to this one game on Dress Up Who that I think was called Cute Emo Dress up. Made characters on that one for days lol.
You're definitely right about the celebrity dressups. I remember someone the Justin Bieber one on the school computer and amassing a small crowd of kids to look at him in his boxers.
The part where u talked about the "new" girly games was really interesting bc I'm 16 almost 17 and when I was 7 to 10 (2014 - 2017) I grew up on the pregnant elsa, help Dora's teeths stuff, and for me at least I liked them bc you helped them and made them "pretty" again as a young girl gamer I found the older websites like girlsgogaming to be very boring in comparison to the crazy gross ones I did play my fair share of the normal fashion/makeup games on the app store but unfortunately the gross borderline creepy games are not a new thing or a gen alpha thing I love your videos btw keep making them!!
Just got an intense flashback of playing those Sue games and that Devil/Angel sister game specifically
im a guy who grew up liking traditional boyish things, but goddamn i went hard on those cooking games. that shit went too hard.
this awakened a lot of repressed memories from before i started thinking i was "too different" and "too good" to enjoy girly games and tried to pretend i never liked them, but would still play the barbie babysitting flash game at my friend's house "ironically". the grocery shopping part was my favorite
Ayy Charger Escape! Seems like the English girly games reached the Polish side as well.
Now, does anyone else here remember (not necessarily limited to girly websites):
- some dolphin rollercoaster/water slide thingy? or just dolphin doing tricks, jumping through hoops and stuff? (could be My Dolphin Show, Dolphin Olympics or a similar game - oh, Uphill Rush! yeah, that also seems familiar)
- Cat vs Dog
- Mutant Fighting Cup... why, dear child, is that where you went if you weren't drawing gore and funky villains?
- The Cute X Hospital family of games!!! Cute Pet Hospital, Cute Jungle Hospital, Cute Horse Hospital (you could walk around there iirc, so that's nice)...
- the Bomb It series
- Strikeforce Kitty and its game family
The Strawberry Shortcake Ps2 Ship Race music in the background is getting my childhood nostalgia brewing, I always played that Berrylicious Bake Off flash game too on girlsgogame too. Man I even had an Agame account, which is the boy version of grilsgogame, because I wanted my progress not to reset every time I played Bombit and unlock stuff every time I got an achievement. When I wasn’t on the more violent flash game websites like Games Butler, Friv, or especially Y8, I always visited girlsgogames for all the fun dress up games like the Fashion Designer games; which were ads for the DS games of the same name. Being a boy never stopped my from enjoying them anyway hehehe
girlsgogames and games2girls were my MAIN to go sites, but i also LOVED playing on doli doli (usually for the escape games, the toto’s blankie games, or just the cleanup game… I also VIVIDLY remember that one game with sisi and toto cooking things and it was like a cut the rope type thing) & playpink as i usually played for the cooking games
Fashion peaked with early 2000s dress up games
As a kid, I used to play on a site I remember being called Bonnie Games. I spent so much time on that website, but nobody ever mentions it 😅 It had a very anime aesthetic, and I think hosted Korean dress up games.
Finally! I thought I was the only one who remembered BonnieGames! Of all the random dress up game sites I played on, I adored BonnieGames the most. Probably because the owner of the site had a beautiful anime art style, and the avatar, Bonnie herself, was so pretty to me. Thank you for mentioning it!
the lil sound effects you put in these videos are so funny and i love them so much
I have a very interesting piece of information regarding the haircut game. It originates actually from a site called "Say Hi Kids" which had a bunch of games with that little girl,called Ayse. I think the original name was "Ayse haircut" so it's not that really far fetched 😅
as a guy that literally grew up with flash games I assure that girl games were the best ones! I thank my big sister for introducing them to me, like, there’s pictures of lil three old me in my sisters lap, learning how to play games on GirlsGoGames
I was a games2girls main too. I understand the name as games for girls, which made sense to me as a kid, because in Danish, 'for' would be 'til', but 'til' can also be 'to'. So it totally made sense to me that it's games til/to/for girls!
Idk who the original owners are or where they're from, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it was a reason a bit like that and less than stellar English skills which led to the name. I do remember the egg frying game was Danish though.
Idk why but your videos are the only thing I can watch when I’m having a mental breakdown. Thanks for being here for me during the roughest times 🥲💕
DivaStarz, myScene and PollyPocket were my jams back then!
thanks for the shoutout!! 💖
Of course!! 💗
the adult parasocial feeling that we should be best friends is upsetting.
Your growth is awesome, my friend and I had an EEp! moment when they told me they also watch your videos
0:35 I HAD THAT LITTLE PURSE THING WHEN I WAS A KID, I STILL HAVE IT- EXACTLY THAT
This isn’t really related but still inspired by flash animation.
There’s this web series called “Bugbo” which is a comedy series that’s inspired by educational children’s flash animations. I 100% recommend it. It’s genuinely a good series
i think if you were a little older you would have LOVED kisekae dolls. the pinnacle dress up game of the 90s. i loved flash games especially the dress up games on doll divine
Also, pink. Lots of pink.
Not only were these games prevelent in my childhood, but now they also hold a place in my adulthood. I used to hunt down my favs and play those instead of doing school work in college.
Winx club dress up games were my jam.