Loved it.
I adore this flash, you've put your message across with an excellent flash, best way to do it on Newgrounds. :P
Graphics were brilliant, voices were fantastic, and the things they said were hilarious. I enjoyed the characters and the concept of this flash too, excellent work.
Thanks! I'm very glad to hear you enjoyed the cartoon so much! And I appriciate you taking the time to write a review with feedback! =)
Heh, some Wikipedia hating here o__O
First of all, the graphics in this flash were very good. Good animation and lip sync as well. The sound, the background music was fine, but I didn't like Fred's voice much. Second, heh, this flash about Wikipedia and what they're doing wrong. Well, I'm not sure if Wiki will change their minds about flash authors, but heh, this flash did give me a bit of a laugh. BTW, sorry to say this, but I like using Wikipedia often. Nice work on this flash.
-Bahamut
Thanks for the review! I don't have a problem with Wikipedia or using it, but I just feel they need to rethink their ways of deleting entries. Posting simply "non-notable" and "fails" is not a valid way to tell people they are not big enough to be in their encyclopedia. At least, not to me.
Anyway, glad you liked the cartoon!
It is pretty funny
But I think you are behaving childishly and stupid. How can you not get that wikipedia isn't a showcase for "works by aspiring artists" but it is (trying to be) an encyclopedia with entries on stuff worth mentioning! Yes, loads of articles ARE deleted every day and even if I think this cartoon is pretty funny I do simply not think it's big enough to have a Wikipedia entry. The best example to this is probably the fact that you, the creator, is so desperate to have one that you'll actually make a (admittedly pretty funny) movie to try and force wikipedia to keep your article! And why do you want it so bad? Because it is a recognition? Well, if you're forcing people to recognize you what's the point of it?
Wikipedia is not about stuff that "brings a bit of happiness to thousands of people worldwide". Did you not know that Wikipedia is run on no-profit principles, completely ad-free and the only money they have to use for bandwith etc is what users donate to the organization? If every Tom, Dick and Harry wants to have their own entry in Wikipedia because they think their worth it, do you understand what an incredible increase in cost it would be? There must be rules on what can be included, and sometimes you might find them unnecesarily though (not in this case though) but generally it's for the best of Wikipedia! Wikipedia is a wonderful experiment bringing information and power to people who previously had no way of accessing it. I think Wikipedia will truly have an impact on modern history. Please don't fuck around with it just because you feel important. But keep on making good funny animations and maybe one day Fred the Monkey will actually be big enough to warrant an entry. But it's going to take you more than just some egoistical flash campaigning...
Okay, well first of all, I really couldn't care less if Fred the Monkey is in Wikipedia. I don't really give a crap if anything I do makes it in. As long as the cartoons I do are making people happy, that is A-OK with me.
What I DO have a problem with is the way Wikipedia folks are going about deleting things. You don't tell someone they are "non-notable" just because YOU don't think they are. Sorry, but that doesn't sit well with me. That IS the reason most people give up their dreams. And it just isn't right.
They have no authority to judge people's works themselves without doing any research first. Half of the people who decide whether something is deleted or not are simply saying "Fail" or some other harsh meaningless word, and how would that affect you if you were just starting out? Perhaps it wouldn't but I can tell you with certainty that many people WOULD be devestated by such heartless idiocy.
If Wikipedia is non-profit and ad-free (much like FredtheMonkey.com is) then good for them, but I'll cry no tears if they run out of bandwidth because they have too many entries and are TOO popular. Boo hoo, they get lots of people who use their site? What kind of sense does that make? Sorry, doesn't work for me.
Anyway, I'm glad you liked the cartoon, and sorry we can't agree on this subject. Thanks you very much for taking the time to voice your opinions about Wikipedia to me, because it has been very helpful information, even if I still don't agree. =)
sok
The Green Guy And Platapus were the only cool thingz
But Fred dressed UP in a platypus outfit, doesn't that count?
Oh well, glad you at least liked Clydex and Space Chicken! Thanks for the review!
Not bad
While I disagree with you on the issue I apprecaite that the animation itself was well done.
Well thanks. I'm happy to know you can step back from the issue that we disagree on and judge the cartoon fairly for its animation and such. That shows a lot of class and maturity. Thumbs up.
Thanks for taking the time to leave a review!