The Flipnote Studio Iceberg, Explained

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  @chu-chuns · 4 years ago

  does anyone else remember the manga series where you had to go through the flipnote frame by frame to read each panel...

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  @ssscout · 3 years ago

  i miss the flipnote days with my entire heart and soul

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  @sudofox · 4 years ago (edited)

  Hi, I made Sudomemo. Wow, super cool to have a video about Flipnote... that doesn&apos;t gloss over Sudomemo! Haha. Here&apos;s some corrections, clarifications, and notes ESPECIALLY on the completeness of the archive and how much of an super-duper-zooper-awesometastic guy James is. <br><br>- Hatena Diary was closed and all of them migrated to new Hatena Blog blogs (the active blog service)<br>- It&apos;s pronounced Sudo-MEH-mo not Sudo-ME-mo<br>- Oh, we have all of the ones uploaded to FH, excluding any where people opted out of having them transferred to the Nintendo DSi library<br>- To my knowledge there was never a star mystery pack, rather, they were sold as &quot;star boxes&quot; and still are. You can get blue stars from the top four boxes, purple stars from the top three available for sale, with a guaranteed purple star in the top two IIRC. I&apos;ve purchased all of the different boxes at least once. You can still get them here: https://www.hatena.ne.jp/shop/star<br>- Flipnote Studio&apos;s Japanese name is (literally) Moving Memo Pad/Ugoku Memo-chou/うごくメモ帳 but also known as Moving Notepad<br>- Similarly, Flipnote Hatena&apos;s was Ugomemo Hatena/うごメモはてな<br>- As far as I can tell, Gallery: Friends was closed as a precaution, I think as a PR move really, after the Swapnote incident. I&apos;ve never run into any information about Flipnote Gallery: Friends being used in such a manner.<br>- There are remnants of the original design in the app, such as the calendar (to which you can associate Flipnotes) which really doesn&apos;t make sense for something meant for animation, but makes perfect sense if you consider the note taking use case<br>- To clarify, James&apos; Playnote Studio is a viewer, not an editor.<br>- I and a couple of the others at both Sudomemo and Kaeru were also involved in the Flipnote Switch prank. It wasn&apos;t just James, but he ended up taking the fall for it as he was the one that posted it on Twitter. It wasn&apos;t meant to blow up in the way that it did; it was meant as something to prank our communities. We used our background knowledge of the way Nintendo and Hatena work to make it very convincing, down to CI-generated build numbers in the UI, font style and whatnot, even drawing some from Sudomemo&apos;s more-distinctive &quot;sticker&quot; styling, along with making original artwork for it.<br>- Furthermore, you have to understand that James has had an integral role in development for Flipnote-related things for years and years, including Sudomemo. He&apos;s an awesome dude and he didn&apos;t deserve the blowback.<br>- Hatena works with Nintendo a lot more than you might be aware of. However, Flipnote Hatena was very much a strategy to get new users for Hatena as well as a way to break into Western markets. It didn&apos;t really go as planned in terms of retention; and while they were at first planning to work with Nintendo for the 3DS release, things fell through for reasons that I&apos;m aware of but can&apos;t disclose. <br>- Again: We have EVERY FLIPNOTE that was uploaded to both FH and FG:W (FG:W will not be publicly available, at least not at first). Unless someone explicitly opted out during the period prior to them being uploaded to the Nintendo DSi Library, which was not super common afaik, it&apos;s there.<br>- This has come at a great personal financial cost to me. Donations will be accepted at some point, but I&apos;ve always been iffy and uncomfortable about asking for money so that&apos;s not really happening yet.<br>- You missed something right at the end ;) go to http://flipnote.hatena.com and look at the page source code and you&apos;ll find a special message from the developers. 🐸<br><br>Thanks so much for the awesome video &lt;3 if you&apos;d like to pin this comment, that would be cool.

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  @Legendary_ET · 4 years ago (edited)

  Flipnote was honestly the biggest part of my childhood, i remember showing my friends the flipnotes i had on my DSi XL and their minds were blown when i showed them the stickfigure fights that they begged me to borrow my internet connection just to see hatena. After showing them how to connect to the internet and how to use the DSi Shop we would laugh our asses off at the hilarous flipnotes all evening and be impressed by some of the cool flipnotes, coming to my house on a friday evening after school viewing through hatena then going outside playing with nerf guns and watching the new episodes of Adventure time/ Regular Show/ Ninjago etc were some of the golden days, It was really sad when it shut down back in 2013 where i knew it was the end of an era especially since me and my friends started growing up, started new hobbies, moved and went on with our lives. and just thinkin about those memories as a kid makes me shed a tear today. <br><br>I know you can get flipnote on your 3ds using my nintendo rewards &nbsp;but it just isnt the same without hatena and the fact that the &quot;Dsi Library&quot; (basically any flipnotes originally on Hatena could be found there) was only up for a limited time just makes the app feel dead.<br><br>Also im surprised famous users like Gizmo, Mcboo Blitzman, Y-Dog, Axetoday, or Nico Blue weren&apos;t mentioned here.<br><br>Sorry about the long comment, i just wanted to share my nostalgic memory using Flipnote it was a big part of my life and bought me and my friends together to have a laugh. Amazing Video dude 👍

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  @kekeflipnote · 4 years ago

  Amazing video! <br>Lot of nostalgia and l sure won&apos;t stop animating on it anytime soon ❤

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  @Shade1602 · 4 years ago

  Man.... this was a nostalgia trip. Flipnote &amp; Hatena were the reason I got started as an animator and how i met so many friends I&apos;m still best friends with nowadays.

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  @ITSGOOD2BKING · 4 years ago

  Its so weird thinking about it now; but back then there was never really any remembrance on the community aspect of flipnote, because it was all so separated, of course you had the people who always dominated the popular pages, like Anthony, Squirt, Gizmo, BosS, there&apos;s so many names out there but there was also smaller-scale creators, groups, and drama that will likely never be resurfaced because we lost all contact with every flipnote and comment. I would PAY to see all the old chats I used to have with friends, I can&apos;t beleive its been more than 10 years already, I cherish these memories like it was yesterday.

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  @mynameisjack0618 · 4 years ago

  I’d like to point out that Shoop da Woop originated from an old web animation called “The Laser Collection” that inspired stuff like asdfmovie and others. And “Elmo Knows Where You Live” originates from a Simpson episode in which he says the line to Homer because he owes them money and they threatened to kill them if they didn’t pay up.

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  @Oretal · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBERslc08MA&amp;t=1150">19:10</a> AH DANG IF YOU HAD SCROLLED DOWN A BIT MORE MY SPACE FLIPNOTE WOULD&apos;VE MADE A CAMEO

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  @Paragon13 · 3 years ago

  A Flipnote Smash stage would be amazing. They could even have a competition where fans can draw hazards for the stage. The only problem I can think of is if it suffers the same fate as Miiverse.

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  @PhantomNoir · 4 years ago

  When you see your own animations in this video 👀👀

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  @gengaraproved8435 · 4 years ago

  I’m fairly sure that back in 2010 and 2011. Some channels were run by Flipnote creators. Any Flipnote creator with a bronze medal or higher could host a Flipnote channel. Sadly that ment that channels could either shut down, because they pulled the plug themselves or because they got (false) reported, though I’m not certain about the last. <br>For example back in late 2010, early 2011 you had the Black Eyed Peas channel. That channel was run by a popular European creator called Valentin Delattre. Some time in 2011, the channel suddenly was no more with zero announcement before or after it. It’s very likely the reason had something to do with Valentin moving on from them. Because the channel shut down more or less around the time Valentin stopped making Black Eyed Peas Flipnotes. This goes to show that I’m at least 90% sure some channels actually were user generated.

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