lmao there's only 24 hours in a day and no one's gonna fucking work 50 hours straight unless they're doing a jam, and even then, realistically they're working closer to 36 hours.

I would not have complained about not getting in the top 10 for 50 hours of work for a 30 second cartoon, if my literal last cartoon which was ELEVEN SECONDS LONG and took only 18 hours to make had not gotten daily 3rd and WEEKLY 4th. That's quite a lot less time and shorter length.

I feel like I'm coming off as defensive here, which is weird because you've given this 4 stars so it's not like you're even being negative, I just think it's really fucking funny and bizarre. I've been submitting content to this site for over 10 years now so I think I have a good idea of how something will typically perform, and it's just caught me so off guard because the last several things I've submitted (aside from the obvious shitpost steven universe one) have done super well, despite me expecting the worst, so now when I don't have ANY expectations, but i still put a fuckton of time and love into something, it suddenly goes back to me passing judgement with less than a fucking 3/5 and then getting burried because people will think it's shit and not give it a watch. Also iirc this is the first time since I started getting awards that something I actually put effort into didn't make it into the top 10. At the very least I'm usually in the runner ups, unless it's an insanely high-scoring day, and today was absolutely not a high scoring day, so on all accounts it just doesn't make sense.

I'll get over it eventually, but it's definitely gonna still be bumming me out for the time-being. Thanks for checking it out at least!

tbf I don't know how it took 50 hours, I thought I was going pretty fast, but it does sound like a lot for only 30 seconds, but considering the first shot is 20 seconds long of smooth, constantly moving animation, that's a lot of fucking frames, and each one took like 12-18 minutes to draw because the movement is so subtle. I know for a fact it took 50 hours (actually 51) because I've been recording how long it takes to make things for a while now, after being curious. It took 51 hours over 13 days to make this. The cleanup animation took 31.5 hours alone.

Fuck, I was about to hit enter but then noticed the rest, how did I miss that? Guess I'm just so fucking bitter I keep missing important details lol

Funnily enough, this wasn't initially inspired by the state of the world right now, but as I was making it, the meaning evolved into encompassing that, because I started getting more worried as time went on, and I've just realized I should just be making stuff. People need stuff to watch, and I need to make stuff. I was kinda hoping people would actually WATCH since it does have that hopeful message, but I guess I can't really control that.

I'm gonna keep making stuff regardless, but I'm probably gonna continue being bitter about it, 'cause I have to put up with so much shit already I don't really care anymore. Which probably isn't a good idea, I'm just gonna end up embarrassing myself.

At least I can always count on you to watch and review lol, so thanks for that.

damn I can't believe you got to watch it on newgroudns first.

those backgrounds were actually super rushed lol, maybe it was for the best though, they do have a charm to them.