Who is salad fingers based on

Perhaps this is the key to our fascination with it. Salad Fingers moves and talks like a geriatric human. Despite this, his thought-processes and flights of fantasy are endearingly elastic and child-like. The Alice In Wonderland styled rabbithole Salad Fingers is in, though, is wintery and moribund, an unforgiving twilight world. The chaos is often just as tricksy and playful as Alice, but distinctly non-jovial and occasionally outright disgusting.

He chatters away in the manner of a character living between the two World Wars, not understood by the voiceless malforms around him, and being openly terrified of any genuine, unimagined attempts they make to communicate in return. There are numerous reasons the character is repellant — his filthy living conditions, decaying teeth and bizarre sensual perversions not being the least of them — but a tiny bit of his initial creepiness seems to stem from his seclusion.

Or perhaps it really does mean nothing, in which case the only option left is to ask a final, perfectly sensible question: If this is just a bad dream, why are millions of people choosing to have it? Why, across different continents, are people viewing meaningless videos of a deluded, mutated green figure failing to interact with a ruined world?

Is it really just because, as Firth has jokingly claimed, he was lucky enough to accidentally create a character that appealed to teenage goths, or has he accidentally tapped into some of our deepest modern neuroses and uncertainties about our own futures, as well as having a brilliant gift for comic dialogue? Whatever the reasons, Salad Fingers is, in one respect, a beacon of hope.

Firth's first major accomplishment, however, was Salad Fingers - the sometimes funny, sometimes sweet, and always unsettling cartoon about a green creature who lives in a shack and speaks to inanimate objects. Initially, Firth posted only 10 episodes of the series on YouTube , but in early , he released episode 11, called "Glass Brother," which follows Salad as he tries to make his friend Hubert Cumberdale into a real boy. While this hardly describes the strange thrust of the episode, it's sure to garner a set of fan theories and questions as to what Salad Fingers is all about.

A bleak dystopian landscape, characters that shriek instead of speaking, and a creature that resembles something that crawled out of the sewer in your nightmares - Salad Fingers may sound like a horror film, but that's not what the creator, David Firth, had in mind.

From the onset, he told the Daily Dot that he felt the series was a "joke," and he's surprised it freaks people out. While speaking with Vice, Firth explained that the most shocking thing he learned while reading his YouTube comments was how frightened viewers were after watching an episode of the series.

He said :. I'm one of those people who just reads the negative ones. Ten people could say something good, and one person says something negative, and I get annoyed.

But mainly I was surprised that people were actually scared by it because it's not supposed to be scary. Due to its dreamlike logic Salad Fingers invites viewers to unlock seemingly coded messages held within the dialogue and picture. If you go on YouTube , you'll find a collection of fan theories and a series of videos with millions of views delving into the meaning behind Salad's existence.

Each theory searches for a link that connects the dream logic of the web series with either something in the real world or a hidden meaning behind the videos, but David Firth says these videos are an exercise in futility.

He told the Daily Dot :. Just to be clear, I was very honored to have my work pulled apart and speculated over, but the conclusions reached were just not at all what I was aiming for I was just laughing so hard.

They were taking it so seriously when it's a joke. In a separate interview with Vice , Firth elaborated on why he thinks viewers seek a deeper meaning in Salad Fingers :. I think it's the unanswered questions and the lack of context, which is something I didn't have any intention of clearing up.

I mean, the first episode is kind of silly. Nothing really dark happens in it, it's all suggested If I wasn't in the dark and I had a big plan, I don't think the whole thing would be as good; I think it would be hinting toward something that maybe wasn't as good as the mystery that surrounds it.

There is an unsettling amount of flesh consumption in the series. In episode 2 , Salad "inadvertently" cooks a young boy by tricking him into his oven. In episode 3 , he discovers a lifeless man on his front porch and places him on a meat hook. Perhaps Salad's strangest encounter with the practice occurs in episode 6 when he seemingly eats himself.

At the onset of the episode, Salad consumes his puppet friend Jeremy Fisher before taking his horse toy on a trot so he can have a chat with a toilet. When Salad returns to his home, he finds himself sitting in the corner waiting for him.

Then Salad eats himself the same way that he ate Jeremy Fisher earlier in the episode. Throughout the series, Salad uses a variety of implements to mar himself, and usually by the next scene, he's okay. Even if he sustains abrasions or fractures, these issues never last longer than one episode, making him more like Wile E.

Coyote than any other character from the last years. In the first episode , Salad shoves a rusty nail through his finger, and in episode three , he produces a rash by rubbing himself with nettles. An episode later , Salad winds up caught in a bear trap while chasing down an errant rusty tap.

Salad Fingers would be nowhere near as affecting without its soundtrack. There's little boy who SF visits and requests spoons from. There's another young man who answers when SF calls for help. SF asks him to help get a fish out of the oven. But SF sees a rusty nail and reaches for it, piercing his finger and unintentionally letting the oven door close. SF then passes out and the young man winds up accidentally being cooked in the oven. There's also Harry called " Milford Cubicle " by Salad Fingers which is the corpse of an armless man who died trying to break into Salad FInger's house.

However, Salad Finger's hasn't got any clue that he's dead and proceeds to take him inside the house and play him a song on the flute. There's a un-named little bug-eyed alien boy who loves Salad Fingers but his affections are either not understood or un-returned. There's Bordois , a little bug who is accidentally squished by Salad Fingers. As usual, SF doesn't notice he's dead and continues to talk to him. There's Mable, a young girl who goes to a picnic with Salad Fingers and frightens him badly when she speaks English.

Apparently he hasn't heard coherent speech from anyone other than himself in quite a long time. There's Kenneth, another corpse. When Salad Fingers finds his body he brings him inside, feeds him a meal of sand, and then says a tearful goodbye before returning him to the "ghastly trenches" really a hole in he ground where Kenneth's body was found There's Horace Horsecollar , a toy horse that Salad Fingers thinks is a real horse.

And then there's Roger, an apparently broken radio that somehow still emits extremely creepy noises. This terrifies SF into hiding in his cupboard, where SF finds a hair which he saves and adds to his other three. When SF emerges from the cupboard, the radio begins speaking more coherently and instructs SF to clean up his dirty house.

When SF protests, Roger the radio forces him to eat all four of the hairs which causes SF to break down and sob hysterically. Kind of like a car wreck: you know you're going to see something you'll regret that will possibly scar you for life, but you can't help watching anyway.

Salad Finger's disturbingly gruesome nature and eeriness only add to it's appeal. And you find yourself somehow actually caring about this little psychotic green man who loves rust and pain, and chatting with dead bodies and puppets. Go figure.