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Old eBaum's World

I was introduced to eBaum's World by a friend of mine in school (he was also the one who introduced me to RuneScape). Although I cannot remember exactly, he most likely told me about the site sometime in late 2004, and I visited it rather frequently from late 2004 until around early/mid-2006, after which I started browsing Newgrounds regularly and only sporadically visited eBaum's for a while, before pretty much abandoning it entirely by mid-2007, when I started using YouTube regularly.

Ever since I stopped visiting it in the late 2000s, I have not kept track of the evolution of the site. I do remember, though, that it began permitting its users to upload material in the late 2000s; during this time it was also customary during 4chan raids to claim that the raid was entirely the handiwork of the eBaum's World community, and thereby place all the credit/blame on the site. Sadly, since the mid-2010s (and perhaps even earlier), the site seems to have become nothing more than another BuzzFeed-tier clickbait Web site, but back when I visited it frequently in the mid-2000s, it was already a very large entertainment site with Flash animations, Flash games, images, videos, soundboards, and other material stolen copied without permission curated by Eric Bauman (the site's founder) himself. There was a lot of controversy back in the day over eBaum's World, as a lot of the stuff on it Eric Bauman would often copy without permission from other sites, and then not give proper credit to the original authors. When I still browsed it regularly, though, I was unaware of the controversy and simply enjoyed the entertaining animations and games I could find on it.

I mostly visited eBaum's World for the Flash animations and games; I rarely ever visited the other sections of the site, and back then I didn't even know there was a forum. Despite having not watched most of those animations for well over a decade, I was quite amazed at how many of them I was still able to remember when I visited the Internet Archive's capture of the Flash animations page from, for example, 9 January 2005 or 23 June 2006—honestly, it would be quicker for me to give you a list of the ones I don't remember. (No single capture of that page lists every Flash animation I viewed back then, as eBaum's World was undoubtedly served with many takedown requests, due to the site's frequent unauthorized copying and hosting of material.)

Listed below are some of my favorites from the old Flash animations page that I remember watching back then.

• A Bin Laden Halloween and Diplomacy: Two entertaining ways to deal with Osama (these were made back when he was still alive, of course).
• ABC: With a twist at the end!
• Banana Phone: It's not a bad song, actually.
• Bubble Girl.
• DBZ Parody.
• Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me: This is actually the official music video for the song of the same name.
• Fuck Shit Piss: lolwut?
• LALA HOO HOO: lolwut?
• Mystery Celeb: You're gay!
• Noodles on My Back: A pleasant song.
• Peanut Butter Jelly Time: An old classic.
• Retarded Animal Babies: Their attempt to teach us the alphabet.
• She Frickin' Blocked Me: Quite the catchy song, though when I first watched it in the mid-2000s, I didn't even understand half of it. (Also, the mention of floppy diskettes really shows the age of this animation.)
• Space People: lolwut?
• The End of the World: Hokay
• The Evil Strawberry: Turn down your volume—you have been warned.
• The Zoomquilt: A very cool animation.
• Using Proper English: The F Word.
• Windows Noises: Neat music made with the Windows sound files. At the end, the author provides a link to his Web site—hosted on GeoCities!

I didn't play most of the Flash games listed on the old games page (the Internet Archive's capture from 12 July 2005 is a good one), but the ones that I did play and remember very well are listed below.

• Ant City.
• Cooties Bar X-Ray Glasses: Never, never look at a gypsy's balls
• Crimson Room: Admittedly, I never had the patience to try to beat the game without using some sort of walkthrough.
• Defend Your Castle: I had forgotten that this game was made by XGen Studios, a name I immediately recognized as the makers of Stick Arena, one of my favorite Flash games that I played rather frequently, back when it was still popular.
• Demonic Defence 3: Click the invaders to kill them and defend your castle. It gets really fun when you start using the spells.
• FallDown 2: Very simple, but still quite fun.
• Frank's Adventure 3: Help aliens find those nude pix!
• Interactive Buddy: It is always more fun to blow him up. (I have no idea why they chose to put this on the animations page, because it is very clearly a game.)
• IQ Cross River Game (literal translation from the Chinese title): The English instructions above the game neglect to mention the rule that at least one adult (either the policeman, the mother, or the father) needs to be on the raft in order for it to move. It is not really that difficult to win, and it's much easier than Pearls Before Swine II (listed below).
• Pearls Before Swine II: It is, in fact, possible to win, but back then I couldn't, and I had to look up the solution.
• Shop Lifter: Steal things while avoiding the various lines of sight. A pretty neat game.
• SimGirls (V2.3): I first played this well-known Flash game on eBaum's World, back when there were only about a million different versions of it floating around the Web, rather than the 10 million different versions today.
• Spank the Monkey: PROTIP: For a high score, drag the hand to the rightmost side of the game window, and while still holding down the left mouse button, move your mouse cursor outside of the game window, move it around the game window to its leftmost side, and then, from that same side, move it back within the game window.
• Squares 2.
• The Black Knight: I cannot remember for sure if I first played this on eBaum's World or somewhere else (probably Miniclip or AddictingGames); regardless, it's still an amusing little game.
• Wak the Sak: Similar to Spank the Monkey (listed above) in gameplay, but perhaps not as pleasant.

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This page last modified on 1 May 2021.