Introduction
In an era long, long ago... Before monetization, before algorithms, and before advertisers, there was a time when passion-driven fan content thrived prominently in fandom spaces on the early internet. Many series captivated viewers and inspired a generation to show off their own creativity. Much of this independent art was crafted using nothing but talent, personality, and Adobe Flash. While there are hundreds of different series I could talk about today, I wanted to focus on one particular genre of content that shaped my childhood—one that involves Kirby fan characters, sprite sheets, and early 2010s internet humor.
Characters portrayed from left to right: Aege (DestructionSeries), Kirby (HAL Laboratory lol), and Saito (LoneAlchemist).
Logo created by LoneAlchemist, character art and background edited by myself.
History of Video Game Sprite Animations
To explain the history and lore behind Kirby sprite animations, I need to set up the stage by explaining Flash and sprite-based animations as a whole. Back in the Stone Age, many web pages were nothing more than just plain text with maybe a few images or gifs sprinkled around. In fact, they looked a lot like the early class assignments I did in HTML for my web design class in high school.
Eventually, a company known as FutureWave created a vector-based animation tool known as SmartSketch in 1993 for computers running PenPoint OS. However, when PenPoint went under, SmartSketch was then ported to Windows and Mac OS. As the internet was becoming more and more popular, FutureWave modified this SmartSketch tool by adding frame-by-frame animation features and rebranded this tool as FutureSplash Animator.
In December of 1996, FutureSplash was then acquired by the now defunct Software company, Macromedia, who again rebranded the program into Flash, what we know it as today. With Flash, also came Flash Player, which was huge as it allowed viewers to watch these Flash animations natively within their web browser. This program would continue to gain traction and receive more updates and was eventually acquired by Adobe in 2005.
The biggest site that was known for taking advantage of these Flash tools was Newgrounds. Newgrounds originally started as a Neo Geo Fanzine site, but its identity started to blossom beyond that with the growing popularity of Flash. Using Flash, the founder of Newgrounds, Tom Fulp, was able to create his own indie games and host them on his site in a section he called “The Portal.” These games were a lot more edgy and pushed boundaries beyond what you’d see at the time, such as the infamous Pico’s School, Club a Seal, and Teletubby Fun Land.
Pico’s School
Eventually, Fulp allowed Flash animations and games to be submitted by people other than himself. And eventually, people came flooding in to contribute their own games and animations. Over time, Newgrounds formed to become a bastion of creativity, that hosted content by anyone for anyone, and people would create anything their hearts desired and express themselves in this blooming format. Regardless of how crude, excessively violent, or overly sexual some of these creations would be, it was a place essentially free of the usual moral judgment and censorship.
While a lot of the games were impressive in their own right, I want to focus primarily on the animations, as these animations would gain massive notoriety. Newgrounds would serve as a springboard for many peoples’ careers, such as Arin Hanson, Christopher Niosi, and MeatCanyon. Some of them even moved to make professional TV shows, like PsychicPebbles and Michael Cusack, the creators of the Adult Swin show, Smiling Friends.
Smiling Friends is a really good show by the way, it has a lot of the same vibe and feel as these older Flash animations in the best ways.
One of the most notable users back in 2002 though was Joseph Blanchette, originally known as LegendaryFrog. He was best known for his more conventional sense of humor which didn’t overly rely on shock value. He was also known for his signature art style which was clean and appealing to look at, while also standing out a lot compared to other users. His most popular content was his video game parodies like his FF Tribute - Chocobo Song which was extremely popular on early Newgrounds. His parodies would consistently reach around a million views and played a big role in popularizing the video game parody animation genre on Newgrounds.
Screenshot taken from LegendaryFrog’s The Return of Ganondorf
Another big player in popularizing video game parody animations was the late Randy Solem. He was one of the first animators on Newgrounds who uploaded animations that featured sprites from video games. Many people looked up to him he even garnered enough of a fanbase to host his own site called Video Games Director’s Cut. He rose to prominence with his most popular series, Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom, an animation series where Mario is murdered, and all of his friends storm Bowser’s Castle to exact their revenge.
Screenshot taken from Randy Solem’s Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom
To say that “these sprite animations were hugely popular” would be an understatement. They not only lowered the barrier for people to create their own animations but also fostered a stronger connection with the audience. Seeing their favorite characters animated in the same art style as their native games made the animations more relatable, enhancing the viewers' sense of nostalgia and affinity for the characters featured. It was akin to reading a doujin based on a series you like, and the doujin artist was perfectly able to replicate the art style of the source material. This medium didn’t stop at just animations though, people also made sprite comics, and some even dared to post their work on the elusive up-and-coming site, YouTube.
Despite these being parodies made by amateurs, they were very impressive in their own right, even to this day. A lot of them had top-notch fight scenes, clever writing, and great humor; you can tell the creator put their blood, sweat, and tears into producing these works. When a creator uploaded, it was like a big event, and they were sharing a piece of themselves. These animations, to me, had a lot of technical work that put them almost toe-to-toe with something you’d see on TV, but without any of the drawbacks or limits. They felt more personalized and since they were related to video games, they were naturally more relatable to the people who browsed the site.
Now then, let me put you in my shoes: I first discovered many of these sprite-animated series back when I was probably around 10 years old. As a kid, I had an autistic hyper-fixation with the Mario series and watched tons of Mario-related videos. I watched a lot of comedic parody-type videos, like SMG4’s early works, numerous Super Bros Bros sprite animated blooper series, and Brawl Taunts. …since it had Mario characters in it.
Screenshot taken from Kirbopher (Christopher Nioshi)'s Brawl Taunts. He also worked together with a user named CasyTheVA, who you may know as Casey Mongillo, and Rina-chan who you may know now as Kira Buckland.
However, one of the first animated series that legit blew me away was Super Mario Bros Z, an animated series created by Mark Haynes. It featured Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi teaming up with Sonic and Shadow to find the Chaos Emeralds and stop Mecha Sonic from destroying the Mushroom Kingdom. The fight scenes blew me away, and I always looked forward to them, and this is coming from someone who was never really interested in animated fights. I’m telling you, the fights were something you’d expect out of a high-budget battle shōnen.
Not only were the fights great though, but the story was also very captivating. It always kept you on your feet and wondering what was going to happen next. The characters were also really entertaining, and I loved their interactions and chemistry. Before then, I never really saw Mario and Sonic interact outside of the Olympics and Smash Bros, but in this series they worked really well together, same with the rest of the cast. Overall, this series showed me that these animations could be more than silly comedy skits, and were able to tell more compelling and captivating stories and be a viable vessel for creating genuine works of art rivaling official media.
After watching through SMBZ, I went off searching for other similar creators. Over time, I slightly fell out of watching Mario animations and eventually found a cute sprite-animated series on YouTube known as Strikeforce Squad, which featured characters from the Kirby series.
The Strikeforce Squad
Now, let’s talk about the Strikeforce Squad. Firstly, as a disclaimer though, “Strikeforce Squad,” mainly just refers to the group that consists of the three main characters, and what I use as a general term to describe the videos about them. Technically, the creators made other series with different names, like Dreamcrossers, but Strikeforce is the most common name that I see other people use when describing the general series.
As a quick premise, these animations are video game sprite animations that utilize sprites based on the GBA Kirby games: The Amazing Mirror and Nightmare in Dreamland. The most common type of animations features Kirby as well as numerous Kirby fan characters—or FCs—appearing in animations that range from light-hearted comedy skits to isolated fights to 2-3 part story arcs. Many fans have made their own iterations and animations, but the most popular series features Kirby, alongside his two friends, the FCs Saito and Aege, working together in a mercenary group known as the Strikeforce Squad and they undergo numerous missions where a lot of references and slapstick ensues.
There isn’t much continuity or a central plot beyond that; many of these animations are just isolated stories. What is consistent, though, are the characters and their personalities. To start, I want to talk about the leader of the Strikeforce Squad, Kirby.
While in the games, Kirby is largely an innocent, cheerful, and hungry little guy, Kirby in these series functions almost as the straight man of the group, usually breaking up fights between Saito and Aege. He’s very level-headed, calm, kinda cynical, and rational. All of his skills and abilities are the same as they are in the games; he can float, inhale enemies, copy their abilities, ride Warp Stars, and so on. As a kid, I really liked this depiction of Kirby, it was such a juxtaposition of his regular depiction in the games.
For the next character, let’s go back to August 11th, 2009 for a moment. A user by the name of DestructionSeries uploaded a video called “New Kirby Character - Aege,” which was created using Macromedia Flash 8. This video was a simple video that featured the titular character, Aege, beating the shit out of a bunch of unassuming Kirby enemies. This video also featured a basic rundown of Aege’s abilities, which was just described as “space and time distortion."
Aege, also known as The Chrono Breaker, has a design that features a bright greenish-turquoise. He’s outfitted with a white baseball cap with a purple brim and a headpiece that looks kind of like the scythe.
He’s a lot more of the brooding type who can be very easily angered and hot-headed at times. A lot of this hot-headedness comes from his interactions with Saito, who tests his patience frequently. In addition to space and time manipulation, he can also teleport, create afterimages, and is exceptional in standard hand-to-hand combat. Conversely, he’s unable to ride Warp Stars, copy abilities, float, or any standard Kirby ability.
The video that first featured Aege was very well received, with some people in the comments even comparing the animations to that of Super Mario Bros Z.
With the popularity of the video, DS was very much motivated to create and get to work on his next animation. In September of the same year, THE CRAZIEST KIRBY FIGHT EVER was uploaded. This video was a big step up from the last one, and it was apparent that DS had improved greatly in Flash between videos. This video featured his character Aege, as well as Kirby, and another character named Saito, beating the shit out of one another. The lore that explained this fight was that the three characters were simply playing a game of Monopoly. Saito was losing horribly and flipped over the board in his rage. This angered the other two, who were quite enjoying the peaceful game.
During the fight, Kirby accidentally hits Aege with a Master Spark, which pisses him off and turns this 2v1 into a free-for-all. As the title of the video suggests, this Kirby fight was, in fact, the craziest one on YouTube at the time, and like the previous video, it got a lot of praise and notoriety. DestructionSeries would continue uploading more videos like THE CRAZIEST KIRBY FIGHT EVER 2 and THE CRAZIEST KIRBY FIGHT EVER 3. He would also start his own series, Dream Crossers, lasting two episodes.
Next, let’s talk about Saito, a character made by the user known as LoneAlchemist, but we’ll call him LonAlk, for short. According to the lore, Saito knew Kirby from the past and was introduced to the Strikeforce Squad after Aege when Kirby invited him. Saito is a yellow Kirby distinguished by his green eyes, white wings, a raccoon tail, and his rosy red shoes.
Saito is characterized by his carefree and ditzy attitude. He’s frequently seen getting distracted easily and coming up with random scenarios that he and the Strikeforce Squad are put in. His primary ability is to take flight, taking full advantage of high speed and air manipulation.
From what I gathered, LonAlk got his start on the now-defunct webcomic hosting site Smack Jeeves. On there, he ran a sprite-based comic series known as Kirby’s Quest. Eventually, moving to YouTube, he uploaded Kirby: Dilemma in the Stars, which was a spin-off of Kirby’s Quest.
This video was a slideshow a sprite-based comic that featured Kirby being lured into a trap set up by King Dedede. The king sends a Waddle Doo to lure Kirby to a remote location with the intention of killing him. Kirby is easily able to kill the Waddle Doo though and afterwards calls Saito to learn what he’s up to. Though, Saito doesn’t make much of an appearance in this video outside of a quick scene of him flying.
LonAlk’s next video, Kirby Hates Bats, was uploaded on November 2nd, 2009. This would be LonAlk’s first attempt at a Flash animation, and it was created with the help of DestructionSeries showing them the ropes. This video features Kirby walking in a forest where he gets accosted by a few bats. Saito then flies in and fends off one of the bats. Aege then joins the party and another character named Irby, a fan character created by LonAlk’s friend from Smack Jeeves named, uh, Irby.
LonAlk would then move on to creating Kirby Hates Bats 2 as well as some other comedic one-off videos. On Jan 27th, 2010, he would then release his most popular video, Strikeforce Squad!! The Golden Egg Part 1 (Kirby Sprite Animation). With this video, the Strikeforce Squad moniker was established, by which most people remembered these characters.
The video features the titular mercenary group members Kirby, Saito, and Aege coming in to meet their newest client, Irby. They are given the mission to go to Yoshi’s Island, retrieve a Golden Egg from the center of the island, and return it to Dreamland. This video would only really cover the mission debriefing as well as their failure to avoid getting caught on the island. This saga wouldn’t get a sequel until part two dropped three years later, and then the finale part three dropped as recently as 2020.
The two creators would continue to make more animations featuring their characters, and they would even include new characters like DestructionSeries’ next character Noll, who can control Phantom Blades with his mind. As well as KlasiqueTV’s character, Jodie, a minor character introduced as a recurring member of the Strikeforce. The creators would improve their respective skills more and more over time and garner more interest from onlooking friends and fans of their animations, who would subsequently contribute to the lore.
While a lot of the focus of these animations was the fights, one thing that kept me invested was the writing. As amateurish and often crass as it was at times, the individual character moments among the central cast were very charming, and many fans feel the same way as I do. The three characters almost give me a bit of an Aqua Teen Hunger Force-type vibe, and the animations themselves had a very similar brand of humor. One of my favorite things about the characters is that, despite his innocent impression, Saito is a complete asshole. I mean, Aege can be a little cocky at times, but for the most part, he doesn’t go out of his way to provoke others. Meanwhile, Saito is just an absolute motherfucker. Saito would just randomly insult and berate Aege for no real reason, and Aege just beats the crap out of him. They bicker a lot, and it reminds me of Cartman and Kyle from South Park. I kind of like to imagine that LoneAlchemist and DestructionSeries have a similar, albeit less exaggerated, friendship dynamic in real life.
Since most of my interest was attributed to character interactions, a lot of the videos that I tended to watch happened to be comedy skits. One that I enjoyed was a 40-second-long video of Saito basically crossing the street, and then all of a sudden an eighteen-wheeler is about to hit him. Then Aege swoops in stops time, contemplates rescuing Saito, then ultimately decides to let him get hit by the truck.
For some reason, Aege commented on this video saying the same thing he says at the end of this video. Then, two years later, he made a separate account, went back to this video, and virtually said the same thing.
Another funny video is a short 49-second clip called “If Kirby Couldn't Float.” In it, Kirby finds a golden Waddle Dee on a higher platform and, unable to float, yells at it to jump down using audio from the infamous "GET THE FUCK DOWN!!!!!!!" video, where a guy yells at his cat.
Eventually, the Waddle Dee does get down only to get beaten up and killed by Kirby immediately after. Funnily enough, I never watched the original video with the cat until a few months ago and for the longest time, I thought the audio originated from this animation.
Back to Dream Crossers, that series features the three titular characters on a peaceful stroll until they discover the Halberd attacking a heavily populated area, Rainbow Resort, which isn’t Meta Knight’s modus operandi at all. Kirby, Saito, and Aege plan to board the Halberd to see what’s going on, but problems arise as Aege is unable to fly. He tries to take Kirby’s Warp Star, but Kirby denies him because every time he takes the Warp Star, he breaks it.
Aege then takes Kirby’s Warp Star by force and predictably breaks it. Saito then flies away on his own. On the Halberd, it is revealed that Meta Knight’s men are revolting against him. He finds Blade Knight who vows to protect him against his men that are turning on him, only for Blade to get mind-controlled by some spell, and turn on Meta Knight as well.
We then go back to the Force’s perspectives where you have Saito getting locked into a boss battle with the Combo Cannon after being mind-controlled, while Aege and Kirby run into Heavy Lobster.
In the second episode, we learn that the mutiny on the ship is being caused by none other than Galacta Knight with the help of a mystery villain with the ability to mind control others. This mystery person also confirms that he’s also looking for a silver-haired person named Apnea, and would stop at nothing to have them pushing daisies.
We come back to Saito who’s getting his wings handed to him by the Combo Cannon. During the fight, Saito shows off one of his special moves: Sirocco.
This move is ultimately ineffective, and Saito flees until he runs into Kirby and Aege. As Aege is walking, he suspects that this must be the work of someone named Narcolepsy, but his thoughts are interrupted as the three run into Galacta Knight. Things start to heat up as Kirby and Galacta Knight exchange taunts, and a boss battle is about to commence.
Unfortunately, this is where the video ends, and I don’t believe there have been any further continuations of this. But if LonAlk was able to conclude the Golden Egg Saga after like 14 years, I’m sure DestructionSeries completing this Usurped Haberd Saga isn’t off the table.
There was also a fanmade dub of this Saga that I’d recommend watching on YouTube; it’s not the best voice acting ever or anything like that, but it’s very entertaining and probably better than a lot of older anime dubs. The dubber, Fudgeworth, also does a lot of improv in this series and it does a good job of adding more character and life to certain scenes without fundamentally changing anything.
DestructionSeries and LoneAlchemist made good series featuring these characters, but many fans have also made their own fanmade animations featuring their characters. A user by the name of JalenBrah! made their own Strikeforce Squad animation called StrikeForce Squad!! Tomb Raid Part 1 (Kirby Sprite Animation), which was uploaded as recently as this year. It features the three main characters, Jodie, as well as the bounty hunter FCs Glitch and Stray. The basic premise is that they are pursuing an artifact hidden in a Tomb at the request of Noll. The fight scenes are beautifully animated and I like a lot of the humor.
Aside from this, there was also KlasiqueTV’s animation [Kirby Animation] Strikeforce Squad!! - Ghost Bustin' which features Kirby, Saito, Aege, and Jodie on another mission where they have to locate and capture the ghost terrorizing a haunted mansion.
I didn’t get room to mention this before, but Jodie has two different designs. His initial design had the regular Kirby eyes and a baseball cap similar to Aege, his current design featured a beanie and bigger anime-styled eyes.
The sprite work in this animation was very impressive to me, as it makes use of a lot of effects, filters, lighting, and perspectives that amp up the spooky atmosphere of a haunted house. These elements overall make it look more professional than even LonAlk and DS’s works. It reminds me of when animated series would get a movie special, and since the budget was much higher, they’d incorporate a lot of foreign techniques like shading.
Another underrated aspect of these animations was how many different creators used a different text box design. Like, you’d rarely ever see the same text box design amongst creators. It’s a small thing, but it’s a nice subtle way to view the different directions of these creators, outside of just their sprite work and writing skills.
Something I really like about these animations is also the music choice. A lot of LonAlk’s videos of the Strikeforce introduced the title card with Green Grass Gradation from Mega Man ZX, and I always associated that theme more with these Kirby animations than I did with Mega Man… mostly because I haven’t played ZX or any Mega Man game, but that’s beside the point.
I was never too interested in the videos where it was two characters fighting in isolation, but there were a lot of those videos showing off the characters’ abilities and different effects the creators utilize in Flash. There are actually a ton of these, and the playlist I found online has about 63 videos, with many different fight combinations. Saito vs. Aege, Aege vs. Quote, Quote vs. Twist, Sonic vs. Quote, and so on. Hell, your grandma has probably fought Quote one time or another.
I bring this up because I found one particular video long ago of Saito vs. Aege, and rather than being a sprite animation, it was of someone playing in a modded version of Super Smash Brothers Brawl on Final Destination. The two modded characters had their respective moves from the animations rather than just being recolors of Kirby, and it was really cool. I used to frequently go back to that video from time to time, as I was really into game modding at the time. This was around the same time I discovered Mario Kart Zero and other mods like that. The stage shown in the video featured Waterflame’s Jumper which is used in both Geometry Dash and Castle Crashers. I always associated this song with that video and by extension Saito and Aege. Unfortunately, the video is now gone, it was either unlisted or entirely removed. So, the Moral of the Story: download YouTube videos that you think are cool, because they may get deleted sometime in the future.
SoleRuin
On July 26th, 2010, many fans came together and formed a DeviantArt group called SoleRuin, where users would contribute art, engage with discussion posts, and just show off their own Kirby fan characters. The group has about 724 members at the time of this writing, and there are hundreds of these little Kirby fan characters, with unique designs and personalities, that people have created and still create to this day. It’s honestly really cute and wholesome to see, and they’re all almost like collectible Pokémon.
A SoleRuin YouTube Channel was created in early 2017, and a lot of people contributed their Kirby sprite animations to it. The channel actually still uploads to this day and is managed by all of the users listed below.
In 2015, a SoleRuin website was also created, managed by LonAlk., DS, and another user named SamySalti, who made a series on YouTube called Game Over Food and a Kirby Fan Comic called Salti of Dreamland. Aside from being another place to converse, the site also allowed users to send and download sprite sheets of their respective characters. In addition, it also hosted sound effects, backgrounds, and even a copy of Adobe Flash. The site also hosted fan games like Kirby's Food Frenzy by user Sonicjeremy. I mention all this, but unfortunately, this site no longer exists, and can only be accessed via the Wayback Machine.
Aside from this, there’s also a SoleRuin Discord that’s technically public, but you’d need to request an invite from one of the mods. Apparently, raids and harassment were a big issue in the server, which is always a shame.
Additionally, there is also a game developed by JalenBrah, ZackAttack27, Kokorz, and Triea as a passion project called Kirby Battle Blitz developed using Ikemen GO. As the name suggests, this is a fighting game featuring many Kirby FCs.
The roster features a good number of FCs made by different members of the community ranging from Saito, Aege, and Jodie, to more obscure ones like Fly, Violet, and Vivienne.
The game also features a ton of different stages ranging from the Training Room to Mount Spriter Z, to Hunter Hillside. My personal favorite stage is the final stage, Waffle House at 3 AM.
The game features a ton of different game modes, so if you’re a fan of fighting games, you won’t be too starved for content here. However, some modes will simply take you to a splash screen telling you that the game mode is “Coming Soon.”
I’m not really someone who is much of a fan of fighting games, and I’m completely ignorant of a lot of the mechanics and subtle details. So, I can’t give anything above a surface-level take regarding the gameplay. But if you want a more nuanced and detailed take on this game, I’d recommend going to this link, downloading the game, playing the game, and then forming your own opinion.
Back to the animations, while I was younger, I didn’t follow up on too many Kirby animation creators aside from DS and LonAlk, though I was a fan of SquirrelSensei’s character, Quote, and the funny animations that featured him. I also did watch a number of SkyTheStarhero’s videos and vaguely remember enjoying them a lot. Both SquirellSensei and SkyTheStarhero actually still upload to this day, albeit less frequently. In fact, it surprised me that much of the community still uploads to this day. When looking back at DestructionSeries and LoneAlchemist, I assumed their characters and the other fan characters from the SoleRuin community were some kind of relics from the past, but no, the SoleRuin community is very much still alive and active.
As I mentioned previously, only three years ago, LonAlk released the final part of the Strikeforce Squad!! The Golden Egg saga, and they still upload other Kirby videos semi-frequently. Destruction Series doesn’t upload animations very often, but they run a separate channel, Etce, where they stream other content ranging from Pokemon, Splatoon, and Animal Crossing.
In the year 2024, the newer animations submitted by the other SoleRuinners have only gotten better and better in terms of quality. Everything is a lot sharper, more detailed, and is in 1080p with 60fps, and parts like the fight scenes benefit greatly from this. Only five months ago, there was a huge collab between a bunch of users from the community who animated a cute homage to the characters, Saito and Aege, which featured the two characters battling, and it was phenomenal, showing off the unique styles of each creator, and showing how the community persists to the current day.
Conclusion
In hindsight, it’s crazy to think about how something as niche as silly Kirby Flash animations would be so impactful and garner a whole community of passionate creators to express themselves in this way. It’s genuinely really sweet seeing a lot of SoleRuiners grow up and become professional animators or pursue similar careers because they were inspired by DestructionSeries or LoneAlchemist so many years ago. The same applies to people who grew up watching other independent series such as Super Mario Bros Z, Bowser’s Kingdom, or Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom.
In the same vein, it makes me sad to see that many people growing up nowadays, who are the same age I was when I discovered these animations, are instead growing up on passionless, brainrot content on YouTube and TikTok. They are exposed to stuff like grifters attempting to take advantage of people’s depression to scam them for money, content like TTS reading other people’s posts from Reddit, and a whole slew of uninspired creators blatantly stealing content from others without crediting them, all to appeal to an algorithm. Revisiting these Memories of the Strikeforce not only takes me back to an era of creative animations that I grew up with but also to the old days of the internet.
It takes me back to a time when people were more authentic. There wasn't much of an incentive for money, clout, or mainstream acceptance. People would just craft projects, stories, or just broadcast themselves in ways that were beloved by viewers because the creator’s experiences, sense of humor, and personality were put into their work. No matter how off-color it was, and if people were impressed by it, they would naturally seek the content out, and be inspired to share their own creativity.
What's different now is that rather than the viewers seeking out content creators for themselves, the creators now seek out viewers. They have to appeal to an algorithm, stranglehold a lot of their, what could be seen as offputting, personality traits and thoughts to appeal to the most people possible, and essentially create for a system that favors quantity over quality to make rent. I feel a lot of the charm that separated internet content from the content you’d see on TV has faded away, and likewise, the line between the internet and real life has faded away.
Regardless, as much as I dislike how much the internet has changed over the years, the old content I loved isn’t going anywhere, and much of the community is still keeping that content alive. Even outside of the community, many other creators are still making passion-driven content and are still quite big despite the shift in internet culture. These creators also manage to do a lot to encourage and inspire others to share and express themselves creatively.
Strikeforce Squad was a part of my childhood, as well as many others. If you grew up with it or any other Kirby animation series, I hope this article was a nice trip down memory lane, and I implore you to check out the SoleRuin community and the newer stuff. If you never heard of Strikeforce Squad before, I hope this was a nice little lore dump that managed to garner some type of interest in the topic. As always, I appreciate anyone who has read through this entire article, and with nothing else to say, I bid you farewell.
❝What begins with Alchemy, shall end in Destruction❞
- LoneAlchemist & DestructionSeries
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