Do I just tweet at StrongBadActual on Twitter? Is there a hashtag I'm supposed to use? Will they actually see it?

That was the lightning.

"Looking a day under 10 years ago..."

Yeah, it feels a titch last-minute compared to the others, but it's still very funny, we got Preshy and Rafferty back, and we got the perfect costume for Homestar as well. I loved it and I'm eternally grateful for The Brothers Chaps.

Like seriously, it fits so well

Because I do. Although there are still videos being made, they're very scarce, especially compared to years ago, back when I wasn't even born. There's no waiting anxiously for the next toon or short or sbemail next week, you just to go about your business until an video is randomly updated some time of the year. I get it, the Brothers Chaps have more things to do these days than Homestar Runner, but after watching all the Homestar Runner videos that were already uploaded years ago, it feels like I've got into the series too late.

Or is my brain just completely melted into beef stew

https://youtu.be/AXnWlooxUIg?si=67GM0FJ8rDHP905d

They didn't delete the first time, so here's another cool guy video.

From left to right I see Nebulon (despite nobody liking his style) the Zeenin logo a groupie a glowy box a snake thing Troggie Zeen BAD GUY rocket launcher StroBro album cover SLOSHY CAKEMAN Wormdingler rock fingers and the best for last THE FO REAL DEAL and it’s me in an Uncle Sam Hat

I don't exactly know why I'm writing this here, I guess I'm just curious if anyone relates to my experience. I suppose I feel like if your on a subreddit for a largely defunct webcartoon almost 20 years after its heyday, you must be/have been obsessed with it as I was.

I've recently been going back and binging a ton of toons and sbemails and at 32 with a family and a big grown up job and whatnot I've been thinking about why these cartoons were/are so damn important to me. Again, I find myself browsing a subreddit so that I can find people who know the inside jokes constantly running through my head. Why?

Well, I was raised excessively Christian. The evangelical youth group type. As such, I was pretty limited as to what media I was allowed to consume. Anything with swearing was out the window. Enter my older siblings showing me Homestar Runner around Grade 6. God damn, I was hooked.

All of a sudden here's something me and my friends find funny that I'm allowed to watch. No more people talking about family guy and the simpsons and me feeling left out. I'm hooked on the randomness and callbacks. It's so clever, and the continual world building has me constantly waiting for new content.

Following this it gets a little sadder. I'm in grade 8 now. My friends start to grow up. They're going to parties, they're sneaking into movies. Their drinking and experimenting with weed. I'm still a Christian at this point and very much a rule follower. I simply can't do the things they are doing. They by no means "abandon" me, all my friends still talk to me at school, we hang out occasionally. But we grow further and further apart as they invite me to things that I continually say no to.

Throughout all this is a little website keeps me company. My friends are out partying halloween night. I just can't wait for the new halloween toon to drop. Refresh, refresh, refresh.

HomestarRunner was my friend when I had none. When I couldn't keep up with everyone else. A lifeline that told me that there were people out there like me, who liked the same things I liked.

So 20ish years later it remains in my brain. A world built that I could escape into where everyone wasn't moving on without me. Some part of me will always stay frozen in that world I suppose - I'm thankful the bros chaps built such a wonderful world for me to visit.

There hasn't been any sign of it happening this year! No teaser shorts with the characters in silhouette or anything. About now is the time for them to be releasing the actual cartoon, either today or tomorrow at the latest. The only thing I can think of is them going back to the old days when there were no teaser shorts, they just released the short. I think the last such proper Halloween toon was "Happy Hallow-day", way back in 2006! Unless you count "Which Ween Costumes", in which case it would be 2010. Or maybe, just maybe, they are going to wait until the very end of Halloween itself, around November 1, to release it, like they did in 2005?

I saw some other Touhou Project artwork on this subreddit that inspired me. So, I took it upon myself to draw Strong Bad dressed as Marisa Kirisame. Let the jibblies commence!

I haven't carved a pumpkin in years, I wanted to do something really meaningful! Can't wait for next year!

We could all use that wholesome spoopy energy.