Solving the Flipnote ARG 

The "strings" on the bottom of the clock cat look like they are weights in the style of that on a grand father clock.

I think fuzz’s neck breaking was supposed to be him using a emoticon but like… in real life He actually :)’d in real life

You also missed some more hidden stuff. ;) If you download the flips to your DSi starting with the McDoodles one and turn OFF layer 1, there is some hidden text and images that's shown throughout the flipnotes :)

Sooo maybe "unlock do not destroy" is about locked vs unlocked flipnotes, and asking creators to, rather than delete/destroy their flips, instead unlock them for people to keep

i haven’t watched the whole video yet but i just wanted to take a moment and say thank you for the colored frog symbols!! i love using videos like this for background noise or late at night and really appreciate the warnings - more often than not jumpscares catch me off guard, lol :)

I really appreciate this custom trigger warning frog. It's cute, appropriate, and shows such decent humanity. Once you finished describing this system I walked over to my husband and explained this concept and we both love it. He isn't watching the video, much more my thing, but we are still happier now knowing that this was a genuinely thoughtful and kind act on your part. Great content and a great person!

Something I find quite interesting about archive update 2 is that while Happy Fuzz answers with a modern day mobile phone, Angry Fuzz, the one who goes on about nostalgia and turning back the clock, uses an older, wired telephone to hang up with. It seems like rather specific symbolism, but I can't say for sure what it means for the timeline.

No one ever mentions that when Fuzz snaps his neck it's to the left which makes his smile match the ":)" smiley in "Let's look together" it's a nice little detail. Also not sure how much this will help but Clock Cat is a not so subtle reference to Galatic Nova from Kirby.

When I first saw this arg it made me think of this Bandcamp album called flipnoteanimation12709. It's basically bitesized tracks that are songs recorded straight from the DSI speakers, with a few extra surprises here and there. It isn't attached to any analog horror series or Arg, it's most likely just a shitpost but it still gives off a weird and lonely vibe.

Sorry guys- RU-vid wasn't happy with some audio to a 36 year old song, so I had to cut it out of the video. You can watch the proper clip on the June Archive's channel. I apologize for the inconvenience, and hope you still enjoy the video.

cerealbowl was hiding in plain sight, cause his videos are pretty popular on sudomemo. That’s how I even knew about this project in the first place

Genuinely forgot that this wasn't a huge channel and got surprised when I ran out of comments to read. Keep up the phenomenal work and quality!

The flipnotes I made as a kid have definitely been consumed by the void haha

In the original flipnote about starface, it was instead Luigi and he’d show up on the computer screen and say “you will die”

The monster is a memory virus or at least strongly resembles one, the last flipnote has a link hidden within that leads to something you missed

This project is brilliant! You did a fantastic job summarizing and theorizing. I was honored to have one of my flipnotes (DSi Safety Parody) featured in the Archive, and I am very excited to see where it goes from here. My favorite aspect of this ARG is the worldbuilding. I'm really impressed with how the city, characters, themes, and art styles have already been so fleshed out, while still leaving those eerie, unanswered questions that comprise great ARGs.

i think there is a seperate entity in fuzz they seem to leave their mark with the :) emoticon it could just be a different side of fuzz but with how it seems to jerk his body around it seems more like he is possessed like some of the other flipnote characters it kinda feels like this smile face has hitched itself to the archives to find something also notice when "fuzz" turns his head he isnt just snaping his neck but making us know that the smile is talking forcing fuzz's head to make the :) face we also hear it wants to change some things now whether this is just to turn back time and make hatena stay around or somethin else i dont think we know for sure yet

I love this, I can’t believe it hasn’t got more views! Flip note was something I couldn’t experience, but it loooked truly beautiful.

oh my god, 38 minutes on my favorite arg right now. what a treat! Absolutely love seeing this arg starting to blow up, i remember discovering it on sudomemo a couple months ago.

I'm a friend of the creator of the june archive, and can confirm he is a king of animating, and has big plans ahead.

I really like your ideas on clockcat :o I was sadly never really into flipnotes except for the ones ported onto RU-vid when I was younger, so I don't know very much of the lore in that department. Maybe clockcat is a reference to something? I remember there was a big internet trend of that cat animation licking the screen, and I'm pretty sure that was on flipnote, so it might be that but it's a bit of a stretch. I love your video btw! I'm genuinely shocked that this isn't by some huge commentary channel, when I saw your sub count I almost fainted- the quality on this is immaculate and I'm looking forward to what you'll produce in the future :D

Oh!! I saw one of their flipnotes on sudomemo and I had no idea it was an ARG! Ahhh this is beyond cool! Edit: that ending was unexpected, I’m so glad I stuck around

is that the guy from the "BosS vs 100%" flipnote? They have the same head shape. The three spikes.

This is such a cool arg!!! i only just heard of it now and you did an amazing job covering it and i can say im definitely a fan! one thing i noticed while watching through during the last note with fuzz there were flashing letters at the bottom of the screen. maybe theyre the file address to a hidden note? not sure but they definitely seemed like they were there for a reason, unless they spelt something out! (edit) ok so i kinda have an idea of what click cat could be?? the creator of this arg is a kirby fan and in kirby there’s a boss called galactic nova and it’s a clock with a mouth that kind of looks like a cat mouth?? hard to explain but there’s a little resemblance. not completely sure just a hunch

I really miss flipnote studio man . My childhood forreal i had this on my dsi and 3ds :( this was honestly my social media as a kid

my theory so far: Fuzz is a mind virus that used flipnote hatena to spread. nintendo (or who ever ran hatena) discovered him and as it was already starting to get out of hand they deleted Hatena to stop him. now fuzz is either trying to restore his hunting ground or he left something important (maybe the red vial) in hatena city and is going back to retrieve it.

had no idea the flipnote at 8:42 on sudomemo was part of an arg, definitly love the direction and meaning behind this, thanks for covering it too

honestly i like fuzz too much to care if hes infecting my brain. hes a cute lil guy

Fantastic video overall. The coloured frog to warn for jumpscares was a really nice touch too, I've not seen anyone do anything like that and I agree when you said it seems like the best way to show them unaltered but also warn for jumpscares. Cant wait for the follow up to see where this goes

oh my god. i used to be a flipnote artist in the pokemon / eeveelution community ! Im SO GLAD i found out that this exists. I vividly remember 11 year old me having these pretend conversations with myself trying to bargain with the creators of hatena not to shut it down because it means so much to so many. and then i stopped creating because my ds screen on one of my DSI's went funky and became unresponsive on one side (a common problem for flipntoe artists) and on my other, the L+R buttons stopped working (another common problem for heavy flipnote makers) and i couldnt create as easily anymore. I stopped. And then it actually shut down a couple years later. Im sharing this series with all of my old flipnote friends. Its such a trip. Thank you for covering it.

The sad reality of flipnote hatena shutting down is even though we have sudomemo some will still be lost to time

clock cat reminds me of a Nova from Kirby not sure if that plays into anything but its a nice observation

Broooo i watched your first flipnote video and was super hype when I saw this video. This story is genuinely interesting

File names in flipnotes are always in a specific format otherwise the DS will not play them. The file names include data such as when it was last saved, along with the console's network MAC address

The very last flipnote at the end of the video unlocked a very deep memory.

oh my god i LOVE the colored frog system you used. that is absolutely fantastic. are you going to do any updates on this?

im glad someone made a video about the arg on youtube! i hope it reaches more people here so we can solve more things easier and together! anyways very good video and keep up the good work!

A memory parasite is truly a scary thought

Nice vid! I made a video myself but I missed the hidden video in the 2nd update video. This was really well made and I'm definitely subbing

You are so underrated! How does this not have a million views?

A simplistic start to what the Clock Cat could be, especially considering "Dark" Fuzz's conversation about turning back the time in the 2nd Thank You video, could be a showing of the time Fuzz rewinded to allow him to find the "thing" he is desperately searching for, so the time is returned back to 11 pm of the last day of Flipnote and slowly moving forward and eventually creeping upon the "Dawn of the Last Day" before everything is destroyed all over again. But there absolutely could be more meaning to it all, but that's a simple start.

His neck breaks to represent that he is the sideways smile

Bruh why isn’t this vid or arg more popular?? Both of these are super high quality!

“Isn’t nostalgia just the worst!” ~Fuzz, 2022

Incredibly underrated vid, I wish you luck with the evils of the algorithm

What I think makes this good is, it's all actually done in flipnote! It's all done almost completely inside flipnote! At least the animation and recording side.

I'm really happy that this project is getting the attention that it deserves :)

only 2.9k? dude youre seriously underrated. also the idea of the frog to warn for jumpscares and stuff is such a great idea

This is so well animated and i love Fuzz so much

i just realized the “hole in the sky” is the ds screen the “unlock” “do not destroy” i think thats the personification of memories. they want you to unlock those memories to *remember them* not *destroy them*

When his neck gets broken his face turns to ":)" which is a running motif throughout the entire ARG

I should also note that "Jzork" *is* Bowlby! Fuzz was made back when Flipnote first released

You are the first channel I've seen do a creative warning system like your green/yellow/red frog, which is both clever & under-rated! I personally love horror, but I have an autistic friend who get over stimulated easy. She'll only watch specific horror media, that I've already previewed, with me because I'll warn her when things are about to happen. This indicator you've implemented actuallu has a lot of potential and could work brilliantly should other users adopt it 🤔

CerealBowl: *makes a cat flipnote* The entire planet: OMG FUZZ REAL!!

this memory virus. seems to be in effect now, i been on a wave recently of surfing through the flipnote archives

This is the only ARG I have ever found that truly has struck fear into me. Every other ARG I have seen only slight equipment me out this one my mind is on a roller coaster at this point.

“something’s not righ-“ **ad plays**

that 'MEMORY IS THE KEY TO REALITY.' video feels like "TRY AGAIN, FOOLS!" from the Monument Mythos. "GOODBYE, FOOLS." - Cthonaut A

Actually Fuz could've been an flipnote animator sense the animation it self its like the one from the day (im crying out of nostalgia)

One thing I noticed is in archive announcement 1 when fuzz is right next to the computer screen with another fuzz on it the fuzz on the screen eyes actually move to be looking at the viewer or I maybe looking in too much of things but one thing I think is a detail is that when fuzz snaps his neck it sorta resembles cat clock aka the head on the left side of the body with the head still connect to the main body And another random detail is that whenever time is mentioned it glitches out like in the first ever upload and the seventh upload I think the fuzz on the screen in archive announcement 1 is actually clock cat or just represents clock cat and somehow it's going back trying to find something

Maybe since fuzz said something about turning the clock backwards, he built clock cat to reverse time powered with those cylindrical thingy ma bobs.

A face without a name is a stranger. A name without a face is lost. Don't forget to remember your name.

kekeflipnote's ocs are fucking eating gourmet compared to them folks in this arg

The face of clock cat looks sort of like a moon and the exposed gear on top of its body looks sort of like a sun? Im not sure if that means anything

Disclaimer: The blue channel is NOT an arg. It’s a common mistake made by a lot of people. The video was created by gooseworx to look like an analog horror video. The phone number in the video is a random number that gooseworx has started to never call.

I can't wait for more stuff to come out about this ARG

I know you said Fuzz seemed to break his neck for no reason but the :) smiley face seems to be a thing with him, he does it again in his second video, and just seems to use it a lot in general. No idea if it has a greater meaning or if it's just a strange character quirk tho

Maybe characters that transcended Flipnote have ascended to a higher plane? An example could be EpicGuitar/PotooBrigham's Zangoose, Charizard, etc.

Perfect analysis. Take my suscription.

the creator goes by CerealBowl on Sudomemo, and i think that was their username on hatena as well

Seeing the orange frog in the first video made my heart rate skyrocket

I think that nostalgia will be a very big theme in this ARG Fuzz is (what I think) an avatar for a person who wants the same feeling they did a long time ago and what we're really seeing is a way of telling the story of this person and should really be taken beyond face value.

Well, glad to know I know I'm not the only one who felt this way, Ironically I think I understand the intention here, to turn back time just enough to bring it all back, even though it might be incredibly hard... an arg who would've guessed, but yea, nostalgia, if there is anything I want to get rid off in my life it is that... Nostalgia is a virus in my opinion, I'm not anything related to this arg or whats happening but this indeed sent me through a trip, and I won't be able to get it out of my head any time soon, I still miss everything and everyone from those times, back then was the only times I wasn't alone, Hatena is what made a the few people who feel this way, I feel the exact same way these creators do, my dsi has gone through hell but I should be able to retrieve everything that had been in its memory and sd cards. We were all so young, and I guess I was just one of these few out there that actually can't let go of flipnote hatena either. If there are any others out there who were out there for the Hatena days or heck, even the DSi paint peeps, hope yall are doing well, the worlds only descended more and more since those days and I miss it all, life was still hell but it had more hope too hahah.

this is so freaking cool

There has been two June Archive Flipnotes after this video was uploaded. The two Flipnotes center around Clock Cat.

are you ever gonna make a part 2 to this? if so theres a lot of new stuff, espcially another twitter account it seems? the official june archive account follows it i forgot the same, but theres also a second sudomemo account called "J.A STAFF" uploading more flipnotes and its getting crazy, you should make another video

Analog Horror is more 90’s and 80’s this is new for late 00’s - early 10’s Horror. Maybe we could call it Servicedrop Horror as old Flipnotes is out of service.

Just got recommended this

the primary location for the videos is the creator's (CearealBowl's) Sudomemo account, which is a modern version of Flipnote Hatena

This man literally called me out I'm watching this at 4 am

izzz crazy tht when you said incase youre watching at 4 am i looked at the clock n it was exactly 4am

Fuzz getting his neck broken is just him going :) thats just how he does it I guess lol

:)

Every single dialogue can be turned into horror regarless of context if you reply with "that's exactly the point"

Probably not the first one, but the creator kinda gave away what the clock cat is, or atleast its some kind of time machine

I just realized that this whole Unfiction/ARG is basically one big middle finger to the concept of nostalgia. (Even I agree that nostalgia is stupid as well.) The past is the past, and there's nothing you can do about it. Deal with it and grow up, people. Life and the universe don't give two damns about "your childhood", because it's gone now. Try all you might, but in the end, it's futile. Forget the past and focus on the future. (Dwelling on the past is not good for anyone's mental health, anyways.)

I love the frog system.

The figure in the remember flipnote resembles 100%. The first figure not so much but possibly

Clock cat reminds me of that one Kirby boss that looks like a giant clock and is also cat themed

The hatena song Stick guy looks like 100% from the 100%vs series

Will we get an update video of analyzing the ARG since some videos were added quite a long while ago?

Fuzz genuinely feels like a Flipnote OC

Yeah CerealBowl is a pretty dang cool dude B)

It was made on April 6th? That's my birthday!

Sudomemo rewind 2022 or something near the end this creator was interviewed. He said some interesting points please watch that.

"memory is the key" could also be a Red vs Blue reference

there are two more flipnotes I found on sudomemo!

hey seed! so i heard about ur theory that someone that was popular back in the day probably owns the arg. so i did my research and found out that the most popular flip noter was a person named GUS and he was known for very popular animations. But i believe that your theory is false. why would he hate nostalgia if he was popular? maybe something that happened with him? or that he was unpopular? whatever happened to the creator is the reason why he’s looking in the archives, so we have to figure out who the creator is to know what happened, what he’s looking for, and why. that’s my theory, if anyone has anything else deeper please let me know.

Moral of the story: use Sudomemo

Thank you for the frog symbols... I actually hate jumpscares. Seriously. Thank you.