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I'm curious now, would these people be good material for their own thread?

Probably not, most of them are only interesting in passing and don't do enough to warrant threads. I've actually done a few "Logophile Spotlights" in this thread:
  • Jonathan "YoshiLove5000" Connors
  • Dave "davemadson" Madson
  • Erik "MGHSHour" Mokracek

Since this thread was recently revived there was a fourth person I was planning on doing one on, so I'll probably post it here some time this week when I get a moment.
 
A lot of them have a hate-boner for Harry Partridge all because he poked fun at Go!Animate. One of those spergs even went as far as to announce in the comments that he had flagged the video. A lot of these people also seem to make really pointless videos in which they ask viewers what they think of certain songs or cartoon characters. Their autism knows no bounds.

I'm curious now, would these people be good material for their own thread?
Oh dear yes. They're not organized but dear god they're easy to find on youtube.
Now lets get this thread back on topic before everything goes aloof.
 
Bring out your autism bingo cards folks, because we're going for a blackout. I may have already used that joke in a previous post here.

Logophile Spotlight: Liam "bluetennant1998" Salisbury
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Liam Salisbury is a 17-18 year old Kiwi (the New Zealand kind). His vices include Doctor Who, The Wiggles, The Sims, and creepypasta. His favorite television logo is the Village Roadshow one. He has uploaded a staggering 954 videos and counting to YouTube, most of them being... well... shit like this:

"Strong Feelings for Hunter", a 30-part Doctor Who fan episode created in a Spyro the Dragon game. :story:

He's been at this game for some time as some of his earliest uploads from 2012 mention that they are reuploads from 2010-2011, meaning that Salisbury got hooked on logos at a young age and thanks to autism he's probably not going to give it up any time soon. Salisbury is the final form of logophilia, as he is literally a combination of all three previous Logophile Spotlights all rolled up into one weird as shit kid.

Echoes of Dave Madson

Remember Dave Madson, the "logo bloopers" guy who made 92 episodes of the Looney Tunes logo doing the most autistic shit imaginable? Meet that man's #1 fan. Picking up where Madson's legacy left off, Salisbury created a sequel to the "Screen Gems S From Hell Bloopers". Stick around until 1:15 for the funniest goddamn thing I've seen this week.

That's not all, though. Madson also had a running gag called "Fugitive Television" that I didn't cover in my previous post. Salisbury took the notion of the "Television" portion of "Paramount Television" running away and just went apeshit with it.

Oh, by the way, Salisbury made his own Looney Tunes logo video, too. Two of them. No wait, three. Make that four.

Wiggler Wednesday

Let me be straight with you, I don't know who The Wiggles are or anything about them. I was about 20 years too old for their song and dance by the time they came around. The most I know about The Wiggles is from this near decade-old video uploaded at the dawn of YouTube. Salisbury seems to love them, though, and created whatever the fuck that thing up there is. "Greg Wiggle"? Are their names "Wiggle"? Why is Greg selling me an Apple computer running Windows? What the fuck is even happening anymore?

Also yes that's GoAnimate. Salisbury is one of those autists.

Here's another Wiggles video he's created. This one is some kind of news report about a "Tim Wiggle"? I can't understand what Bugs fucking Bunny is saying -- or why he's the one delivering the news -- but what confuses me more is the presence of the black dude and the blue guy as one of the Wiggles. Aren't all of The Wiggles a bunch of white dudes?

Here's an airline safety video for New Zealand Airlines featuring The Wiggles that Salisbury made in GoAnimate. Typing that sentence was about as hard as it was watching the video.

Dreaming About TV Logos

A "dream logo" is a lot like a "dream team" in sports; take your favorite all-star players, put them all together, and you can't lose. The same works with logos; take the ones you like, smash them all together into a cacophony of animations and sounds and you'll end up with the "dream logo" above that combines DIC and BBC into the type of thing you'd see at the end of Sonic the Hedgehog if it aired across the pond. DIC and BBC? DTF? ASL? KTHXBYE. (Also be sure to check out the comment from SegaGamer28 on that video.)

Salisbury has also done some "remakes" of logos, namely the simplistic ones that can easily be redone using Windows Paint and Windows Movie Maker. The results are on par with what you'd expect; Salisbury is the only person I know who can make a letter "S" look like a football that got hit with a lawnmower. In what I can only call, pound for pound, the most autistic thing possible, Salisbury remade the Viacom "V of Doom" logo. In GoAnimate.

Also, for someone who lives in the UK he sure does have a weird obsession with a markedly American brand of television.

Crappypasta

Recently, Salisbury has taken up creepypasta as a hobby. In the video above, you can pretty much tell he did this on a whim one day by downloading a bunch of shit tier creepypasta games, but couldn't quite pull the trigger on that New Super Mario game. He starts this video by singing along to the Sonic theme. Also, "simpsons prank calls".

Salisbury comments on all of his creepypasta videos with a YouTube account named "SONIC.EXE". I know the account is his, because it has only one video uploaded and it's a Sims 2 video about kissing... of which Salisbury has a disgustingly large amount of on his primary account.

He plays Sally.exe in this video, though to be honest I'm more interested in looking at that goddamned mess of a desktop. It just cycles through Sims screenshots. He introduces a scarecam in the video for IHATEYOU.exe where his mug covers up a full quarter of the video. The last creepypasta video he uploaded was... Minions.exe. We're done here.

In Closing
Dude's fucked. Salisbury is doomed to live a life full of children's cartoons, TV logos, and abandoned computer games. To him, that's heaven since he doesn't know any better. To the rest of us, that's a hell we wouldn't wish on our worst enemies. Maybe ADF, though. Here are some final goodies from bluetennant1998's extensive footprint:

BONUS CONTENT: GANGNAM STYLE
Liam's mother, Esther, has a YouTube channel of her own. Here's a video she uploaded of Liam dancing like a fucking spaz to Gangnam Style. While dressed as Doctor Who.


BONUS CONTENT: DORA THE EXPLORER FUCK DOLL
This probably isn't a fuck doll but I'll be damned if he hasn't at least felt it up once or twice.
 
Here's an airline safety video for New Zealand Airlines featuring The Wiggles that Salisbury made in GoAnimate.
I finally mustered up the courage to watch that and... Jesus Christ. That should be used as a pro-abortion PSA. Someone in the comments bought it and claimed it was "rare".
 
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Remember Dave Madson, the "logo bloopers" guy who made 92 episodes of the Looney Tunes logo doing the most autistic shit imaginable? Meet that man's #1 fan. Picking up where Madson's legacy left off, Salisbury created a sequel to the "Screen Gems S From Hell Bloopers". Stick around until 1:15 for the funniest goddamn thing I've seen this week.
Is it sad that I find the "Screen Jews" bit to be the funniest part of the video?
 
The CLG Wiki used to have a page entitled "What Logo Scares and/or Annoys you?". It was deleted over four years ago due to "Major problems". However, revisions of the page can still be found. Here are some of my favourite highlights.

LogoWriter (remake of the list):

I have seen a lot of more, so I change a list a bit. So here is the most scariest logos ever!:

*VID (1990-2001) SSF mask: No matter what I said, no one should ever look at the mask, it will scare the crap out of ya, you know why. Because I was formerly not scared of the logo, but when I look up a Wikipedia article of VID, there was the logo, it has been wider, which I hate. And then suddenly, the face scared the c**p out of me! When I saw this, I don't know why the creator of the company was dead in 1995, and the killers are unknown. Maybe they hate the logo too as well as me, which the Killers came from Russia I think.

(...)

Used to scare me:

*The Powerpuff Girls- When I was small, I first saw this show on cartoon network I first saw powerpuff girls, I saw a crying little baby a smart idiot and a fierce dummie, I thought they will kill me and they did. , skip it! But the second time, it was scarier. i might be the crybaby.

And this is a "remake" of his list? I can't bring myself to look at the original. So he wasn't scared of a logo until he saw it stretched wider than normal? That's my best guess; his writing style is so hard to follow. He has no regard for past/present tense, either. Also, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that The Powerpuff Girls is not a logo.


"Yoshidude987" gives us his thoughts:

K-C SSF: WHAT IS THIS?! This face has scared me! Especially my friends. Well, that logo is so upsetting. Although, they stopped in 2003 to have the 'Rooster' logo. Now they continued the SSF (shudders)! Later the logo stopped today. The site has the SSF in the Home Page. Maybe this logo is going to be replaced by a mellower one in 2010 or 2011.

The overuse of acronyms means that most people won't have a clue what he's talking about. I've tried deciphering his post and I think he's talking about this. There's nothing more "upsetting" than a collage with some googly eyes talking in a robotic voice. Every time I see the logo, I weep. But I don't think it's for the same reasons as this fellow.

'Snee OOSHH !' music: I can't believe by that . So , the totem bird logo of Hey Arnold scares the crud out oddly! Hey Arnold! is a good sight of the Nick channel.

"Scares the crud out oddly" is my new catchphrase.


Here's a quote from "Gladiator42"

2nd Barney Home Video logo - The animation is WAY too scary!

It says something when you're so deprived of anything scary in your life that you have to watch a Barney logo in order to relieve the monotony.

If you're curious as to what other fun is present on this page, here is a link.


A "dream logo" is a lot like a "dream team" in sports; take your favorite all-star players, put them all together, and you can't lose. The same works with logos; take the ones you like, smash them all together into a cacophony of animations and sounds and you'll end up with the "dream logo" above that combines DIC and BBC into the type of thing you'd see at the end of Sonic the Hedgehog if it aired across the pond. DIC and BBC? DTF? ASL? KTHXBYE. (Also be sure to check out the comment from SegaGamer28 on that video.)

Something weird I've discovered about the Logo fandom is their tendency to latch onto their "dream logo" combinations and swear blind that they're real. You'll get people saying that an old Hanna Barbera logo appeared at the end of a Spongebob episode, or that some fly-by-night VHS company from the 1980s distributed an episode of Family Guy. I don't understand what these people get out of mashing together logos/shows like this, but I imagine it has some connection to Pooh's adventures and its ilk.
 
I want to get in these people's heads and understand why they think that cartoon companies were intentionally distributing shit to freak kids out back in the day. It's like they can't figure out that if even most kids don't think it's scary (in fact, no kids outside of their tiny community think that logos are scary) then maybe they are pussies or have unresolved psychological problems.
 
Thanks for bumping my only featured thread.

What's your favorite logo?
I wish I knew, logos use to be great decades back when everyone wanted Saul Bass to design their logo or one in a style of his.

Saw this one recently that impressed me, I probably haven't seen it since I was 7.

Autism.

Really though it likely has something to do with the pervasiveness of acronyms and broadcast call signs (WGBH, etc) in television. Logophiles have also given arbitrary acronyms to nicknames for logos, like the "Super Scary Face" (SSF) Klasky-Csupo logo. It only makes sense to the people who come up with them, really.
I can see how acronyms and call letters would be easier for them to latch onto. That was how you knew what channel a show was on for instance (if not mentioned by number).
 
Since Trilby bumped this question, I figure I'd throw my hat in the ring. While it's technically not a logo, I've always been partial to this:
Unfortunately, many logo spergs have latched on to it like flies on shit.
I'm sure the General Cinema Corp. logo of the 70's brings 'em in too!

Now that I'm thinking of it, Cool Cat's starting to remind me of Cinemark's Front Row Joe!
 
So, recently the wiki had a "Civil War" (yes, that's what people are calling it) over a single logo. More specifically, the "Cokeburst" variation of the Columbia Pictures logo (which, according to the Lost Media wiki, was thought to be an urban legend until someone finally found it earlier this year). I'm not sure how this lead to a supposed site-wide meltdown, but given the people we're dealing with here you can never be sure.

In fact, it was so upsetting that it apparently caused several longtime members to leave, as seen here (archived):

ryanasaurus0077 said:
I never thought it would come to this.

I'm leaving.

That's right, I am LEAVING.

And it's all that BASTARD Tim Sun Yei's fault for what he did.

The terrorists have won. I will not put up with it anymore. Ever since he discredited Richard, things have gone downhill, and relations between the CLG and its owners have deteriorated. Until what time, if any, the criminals known as D.L. Chandell and John Coffey are ousted from the CLG, I will have no further part in this community.

GOODBYE. *storms off in a huff*

I'm not entirely sure he was serious. In any other context, maybe.

For context - indycar then said:
It is very disappointing that we are losing him. It was also disappointing when we lost SaganStrikesBack and Supermarty-O for the same reason. To me there's an issue here when we are losing good users like that all for the same petty reason.

The only explanations for all this drama have come from bits and piece from random TV Tropes pages, such as the following:

Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things said:
The Closing Logos Group Wiki is suffering a severe case of this due to the Cokeburst Civil War.

Finally, it should also be mentioned that ryanasaurus pimped his own thread on TV Tropes as well:

ryansaurus0077 said:
When Ryanasaurus0077 left the Closing Logo Group over escalation of the Cokeburst Civil War, he left this farewell message in which he called the troll Tim Sun Yei a bastard. To put it in perspective, he did so on a G-rated site.

Aren't you a little rebel.
 
Closing logos are serious business, from the looks of it. So this doesn't surprise me in the least. People tend to get pretty overworked over something that lasts, at best, 30 seconds or less.

But bringing up terrorism is just a whole other can of stupid in and of itself. I wouldn't equate an internet "war" with that unless there were actual terrorists involved (which never happens).
 
I found a little more context - it seems that someone is trying to deny the existence of the Cokeburst logo.

Unperson (from TV Tropes) said:
Any mention of the Columbia Pictures Television "Cokeburst" logo on the CLG Wiki's CPT page will earn the one who makes such a mention a permaban from the Closing Logo Group.

Flat Earth Atheist said:
Drayton Lumumba Chandell of the Closing Logo Group has picked up this reputation due to his staunch refusal to believe the Columbia Pictures Television "Cokeburst" logo exists despite obvious evidence to the contrary.

Never seen someone implicitly compare a logo wiki's administrators to Joseph Stalin, but there you go.
 
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