Happy Tree Friends
You might remember it as Spin Fun Knowin' Ya, Happy Tree Friends first episode
The archive has not found a surviving copy.
2000·Early web, before YouTube
The shock-cartoon series that proved a web-only cartoon could build a mass audience.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- Spin Fun Knowin' Ya
- Spread in
- 2000
- Began as
- A web animation
- Where it started
- mondomedia.com
- Made by
- Aubrey Ankrum
- Origin
- Not an upload originally
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
Why it is here: it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later · the upload that made its maker known
This began as a web animation, not as a video upload. Originally published on mondomedia.com.
Where it came fromWhat we know
There is no original upload to identify: this did not begin as one. There is no copy of it here either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This began as a web animation, not as a video upload. Originally published on mondomedia.com.
Created by Aubrey Ankrum. Established by research, not by who posted the copy shown here.