Spoken like someone who has never animated something in flash.
Go ahead and try to make an animated music video in SVG. Tell me how easy it was. It’s it something a middle schooler could pick up easily after a couple hours?
Spoken like someone who has never animated something in flash.
Go ahead and try to make an animated music video in SVG. Tell me how easy it was. It’s it something a middle schooler could pick up easily after a couple hours?
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ok, tell me: How many people make animated music videos and publish them on Youtube, versus how many people make animated music videos and publish them as Flash videos in 2025?
How many people did that in 2015 in Youtube vs Flash videos?
Nobody cares about Flash because it sucks. Even back in 2012 Flash sucked. It was a really bad tech and by 2015 it was mostly used by people to dumb to learn real programming languages and frameworks.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Where do you expect me to get actual numbers from?
But as a proportion of content creators, back in the early 10s a huge proportion of content creators were submitting content to places like newgrounds. And itch.io equivalents all used flash.
And around 2015, the total number dropped, but didn’t have a corresponding increase in non-flash equivalents.
Why? Because what few tools existed to do so had a much much much higher bar for entry. So the content simply never got created.
Flash sucked as a content consumer because the plugins had mediocre support and were full of vulnerabilities.
But as a creator, it was great.
Eww. that’s elitist as fuck.
These people aren’t software devs. They shouldn’t need to learn to code in order to animate a video.
For absolute shame. Wow.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You know what, I can give you numbers:
seo.ai/blog/how-many-videos-are-on-youtube
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrounds
(Had to resort to German Wikipedia, because their stats site has been down for a long time and wasn’t saved in Webarchive.)
So you see, even at the height of their popularity, they had about 1/1000 of the content of Youtube and compared to now, it’s 1/10000. And that’s only Youtube, not counting Facebook, Reddit, Tiktok, Instagram and all those other platforms people use to share their content.
So yes, there has been a massive, massive increase in non-flash video content, so much of an increase that flash looks like a tiny spec of a niche of internet history.
In fact, most of the old flash videos have more views on youtube than they ever had in their original forms.
And now you are getting onto something. No need to program when making a video for Youtube.
Flash was abandoned as fast as possible as soon as newer, easier and better alternatives arrived.
Those who wanted to code, left for JS. Those who wanted to make videos left for Youtube and the likes. Those who wanted to make games left for Unity and other engines.
Flash was just outdated, old technology. Nothing else.
You have been elitist as fuck throughout all your comments in this chain, thinking that you are somehow better than everyone else because you got stuck in some old software and didn’t manage to migrate to something better.
If you aren’t a developer, don’t claim to be.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
how many of those are animated video. holy willful misinterpretation.
what point do you think you’re making here?
this whole thread is lamenting the fall of interactive animation. you cant hide a funny mouse-over easter-eggs in a youtube video, like OP is talking about. The file sizes are huge.
except that the alternatives that fulfill the wants of OP are way harder to make the equivalent art.
Only because, as you demonstrated in the other thread, you’ve (willfully?) misread what I’ve said. meanwhile you’ve just told people “learn to code or pick up a camera, fuck the art that you actually wanted to make”