@GlitchBuddy - @Aalasteir (Q)

Q: Do you feel being online has influence your personality?

Oh yeah, for sure. I'd say a lot of my humour comes from what I see on the internet, and I frequently find myself referring to internet jokes and memes among both my online and IRL friends (but, like, in a cool way).

Q: Your experiences with the Internet

I've been using the internet for as long as I've been using computers in general. I have fond memories of playing Flash games in primary school; Duck Life and Papa Louie are two Flash game series that come to mind. I also spent a large amount of time playing both Club Penguin and Moshi Monsters, where I had fun buying cool items for my character and playing the various minigames they had. God damn, I miss those games.

As I grew older I eventually graduated to proper social media, starting with YouTube in the latter half of 2016. I was big into technology and Nintendo stuff, and those comprised the majority of the content I watched back then. I remember not being able to understand meme culture at all in those early days, and I would watch shit like montage parodies and just think to myself "What is this? Why do people find this funny?" Of course now I find it hilarious.

My first ever actual internet presence was within the Mario RP fandom, which lasted for a good few years. Eventually, however, I didn't feel like I felt comfortable on that side of the internet anymore, and so I silently left. I then established a new presence for myself as a wannabe YouTube animator, although I never actually ended up uploading anything. Over time, that new presence slowly evolved into what I am today.

Q: The origin of your name: GlitchBuddy

The two halves of my name, "Glitch" and "Buddy", come from two different places. The first half, "Glitch", is a reference to Grandmaster Glitch, the main antagonist of a British animated preschool show called Go Jetters. The other half, "Buddy", is a reference to an indie game called BitBuddy, developed by Daniel Mullins of Inscryption fame and pretty popular at the time of my name's creation. I like my username because I see it as a combination of my two major interests, TV and video games.

Q: How did you find and decide to join NEWGROUNDS!

Technically I had at least known of Newgrounds since my days of playing Flash games in school. I'd see the logo on a lot of the games, but never thought to visit the website (which was just as well, as my parents would've probably flipped their shit). As I got older and I began to explore my creative side more and more, I started to kinda think about making a Newgrounds account, although it wasn't something I was seriously considering at the time. However, the tipping point for me finally doing it was when I saw a wavywebsurf video about a guy from years ago who made an arson threat on the BBS. As awkward as it is, that's what jogged my memory of the site and finally led to me creating an account.

Q: How did you get interested in creating art?

Funnily enough, I HATED art as a child, to the point I even convinced the teachers at my secondary school to let me skip art lessons entirely. I couldn't even draw a basic stick figure properly, and I was fully under the impression that this is how I would be for the rest of my life.

Over time, however, I slowly began to change my mind on this after developing an interest in character design and art style. I began to watch a lot of animation shows with unconventional characters in them, mainly of the childrens' variety. I was interested in seeing how these characters moved and interacted with their world.

The tipping point for me finally going "right, fuck it, this is what I want to do" was when I discovered a show called Little Big Awesome. It's about these two best friends, a big jelly creature and a little purple guy, as they go on various adventures around their world. Each episode had an absolutely crazy plot; for example, there's this one where the two main characters have to help a little bubble find its way home, but the bubble turns out to be the leader of a factory and forces them to work as slaves. The closest mainstream equivalent I can think to this is Adventure Time, but for me, personally, this is the show I credit with making me want to get into art, and it's still my favourite TV show of all time to this day.

Q: How did you decide on organizing your KinitoPET Collab

The idea literally just popped up in my head while I was trying to get to sleep. I had 100%ed KinitoPET the previous day, and I had been thinking of starting my own collab on NG already... so I guess those two things just merged together. I asked my friend Prismisho, who had already done the Skibidi Toilet Collab, for advice, and that conversation eventually bloomed into him becoming the official programmer for the collab.

Q: What do you like about JIMMY AND BABY

Uhhh....

hastily watches jimmy and baby for the interview

The pixel art is FUCKING. AMAZING. The animators did an incredible job with the whole thing, and you can tell every frame was carefully thought out. The character design nerd within me was screaming, with every character having some level of charm and quirk to them, even if they were only on screen for a couple of seconds. I also really enjoyed the massive fight in the bar, that starts out fairly traditional and eventually evolves into... three babies being shot at a picture frame to form a painting of a cat? The plot is insane, the animation is insane, the people who made it are insane, and I'm insanely in love.

Q: What was some knowledge you wish you had earlier

One lesson that I had to learn pretty early on in my NG career was not to think too far ahead into the future. Don't get me wrong, it's a great thing to have goals and aspirations for the future, but I was thinking as if I knew EXACTLY how things would plan out over the next 10-20 years, and this led to me feeling annoyed and depressed when those things ended up not going how I thought they would. To quote myself from nearly two years ago: "Some things are going to change, and they may not turn out to be the way you expected them to. It's better to focus on ideas you have now, and see where things go from there."

Once again, thank you for inviting me for an interview; I had a lot of fun writing these answers.

Regards,

GlitchBuddy