TheCIAGlowsInTheDark
Hellovan Onion
Smiling Friends does make clear references of the Internet at times (like the 'I Feel Fantastic' robot, Flat Earth, Chills who makes videos about ghosts and the paranormal, the Nostalgia Critic aka Doug Walker) but I'm not sure if this is really a reference to that now infamous video where Bob Chandler (God rest his soul) told off his son Chris Chan by telling him to stop posting videos of their house on the Internet where their house could be condemned by the local health department or if this was pure coincidence and the writers wanted to write an absurd line for this scene like everything else in the show. Unless I see someone on Smiling Friends wearing 'The Classic' shirt and a medallion of a video game character, I'm going to think this was just a coincidence.
Smiling Friends is the living embodiment of Poe's Law because most of the time you're not sure if the writers are joking or being 100% serious. Maybe this is a reference to that now infamous Chris Chan clip or this could be 100% coincidental. For all I know, the forest demon from the Halloween episode could be a reference to some really obscure meme that most people aren't aware about (like say probably inspired from a now long forgotten YTMND video or whatever) and the character was never an original idea to begin with. It's for this reason why I question if this is really a reference to that now infamous CWC video clip or if this is just the writers wanting to fuck around with the show's absurdist humor and this was just purely coincidental.
At least Sonic Boom made a clear and explicit CWC reference and that was a kids show on Cartoon Network back in the day.
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