Greeny Phatom - Microsoft Paint web cartoon that defies all storytelling rules

[Diabeetus]

When you search up "Greeny Phatom" in Kiwi Farms's search box, you get nothing. Which is a shock, because Greeny Phatom is the exact thing Kiwi Farms was made to document.

Greeny Phatom is a "series" of Microsoft Paint "animations". As far as I am concerned, absolutely no one knows who made it, because Greeny Phatom has transcended into a life of it's own, far detached from having any creator at all. In thirty years, Greeny Phatom will be observed and analyzed as a form of "abstract, Internet pop art". Much emphasis put on "abstract". Because make no mistake, this is the weirdest shit that you will see all week.

It is built on two things: very, very vaguely written characters and what I will dub as "The Scattershot Taste of the Autistic Kind". See, most of Greeny Phatom are these circle guys with rectangle bodies doing banal shit (i.e: Eating pizza, shoplifting toys, riding amusement park rides, going to jail, etc.) or reacting to the previously mentioned "Scattershot Taste of the Autistic Kind". One second, they'll be dancing to "Electric Avenue" or some weird ass French song about dentists, another second they will be watching a clip from Hey Arnold or Bananas in Pyjamas or a cartoon the creator of the individual "episode" got from the bargain bin at The Salvation Army. Greeny Phatom, in some cases, can be classified as logo porn. Self-explanatory.

Most of the information about Greeny Phatom can be found on the Greeny Phatom Wikia page. And if you try to make any sort of analysis or make any reasonable conclusion on Greeny Phatom, you will need this fucking page. Greeny Phatom is a strange, strange piece of media that makes zero attempt to construct a comprehensible lore within it's "episodes". You can also use the TV Tropes page, but I recommend steering clear of that shit; the author got it's interpretation of the "show" wrong in the first. sentence.

Greeny Phatom is a rather peculiar MS Paint web cartoon, created by animator Robert Stainton in 2009.

Robert Stainton is not a real person. Most of the information surrounding it's real life creation is not real. Most people that have taken the time to look at Greeny Phatom with a closer eye (which is very few) have gone out on a limb to theorize that the actual creator of Greeny Phatom searched up the name "Robert Stainton" on Google Images, grabbed the first result, and donned him as "the creator and animator of Greeny Phatom". Why they searched up the specific name "Robert Stainton"? We will never fucking know! And that's the thing with Greeny Phatom: it is so niche and so bombarded with untrue information, that it has created an impenetrable force field preventing anyone from figuring out who created Greeny Phatom and with what intention they created it with. The Wikia? That I recommended you go to? It's all lies! It is the most peculiar, yet fascinating thing.

I can't make this post explain Greeny Phatom in detail, because it would be way too long and, at the end of the day, I would have written nothing of substance. The best way to sum it all up is that Greeny Phatom is something only people directly involved with it's creation and people blindly associated with it will understand. And those two groups are mostly made up of autistic people. This might not be the most popular thread ever, it will never be featured because it is so niche, but I will be damned if I didn't try showing it off.

It's proudest and longest piece of content is "Greeny Phatom: The Movie". It is an hour long film cobbled up with plot points that are just barely cohesive or even comprehensible.

God help us all.

 

[UY 690]

interesting history.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Flashes of Erik.

 

[José Mourinho]

Greeny Phatom Parodies by SiIvaGunner:

 

[Diabeetus]

Greeny Phatom Parodies by SiIvaGunner:

I didn't even know about these. I would've never guessed that such a popular channel as SiivaGunner would know what Greeny Phatom is. That's weird.

 

[Y2K Baby]

We are all Greeny Phantom.

 

[Coolio55]

Robert Stainton is an interesting figure for sure. I do think he's a real person though. Just completely off the grid.
The name has appeared in the Background of his IRL vids but this might be some bizarre puppetmaster shit so IDK

(See the school certificates in the BG)

Greeny Phatom's (and GoAnimate as an extention) style of humour is bizarre and disjointed.
The sentances make no sense and if anyone can give me a clear answer on what a "fake VHS intro" is they deserverve a special medal for their continued ability to parse through petabytes of unintelligable sperging

Otherwise, the earnestness of Greeny Phatom is nice. I remember attempting to make stupid shit like this in MSPaint and WMM as a dumb kid and I watched similar shit back in the old days of YT.
It's a bizzare time capsule and something you don't really see anymore.

I recall Mugman (Not the character from cuphead, this was before that) also used to hold a similar place among the same crowd but now the creator Jacob Lenard is moving up in the world and doing other things and the series is in a state of limbo. You still occasionaly see some fan stuff or avatars though.

Greeny Phatom is fucked up but I kinda like it.
Wierd low quality homebrew shit like this is my jam.

Ps. Those vids @Alan Pardew posted are fukken dope. Silva is always high quality.

 

[DudeWithTheFood]

This is postmodern art and you can't convince me otherwise.
It's up there with Little Wizard Academia.

 

[Froddick]

I remember last year I was absolutely fucking committed to getting to the bottom of this shit and where it came from, it's somewhat of a staple of the early 2010s internet after all. I actually managed to dig up several Facebook accounts under the name Robert Stainton and the person in the photos on all the accounts is the same. Here are some pictures:

He is pictured here holding a notebook with Greeny Phatom written on it.

I think it's safe to say he's the real deal. The accounts have friends with the surname Stainton who are definitely family members, this is the same guy who appears in IRL vids on the "official" accounts, and the one text post I was able to find has the same incoherent wording found in Greeny Phatom episodes.

Here are the links to the accounts if any of you are interested:
https://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Stainton/100009667094393
https://www.facebook.com/robert.stainton.7?ref=br_rs

I recall Mugman (Not the character from cuphead, this was before that) also used to hold a similar place among the same crowd but now the creator Jacob Lenard is moving up in the world and doing other things and the series is in a state of limbo. You still occasionaly see some fan stuff or avatars though.

I remember Mugman. It was a cute little webseries despite the rough MS Paint-look, and actually had coherent stories and animation (which is more than can be said about Greeny Phatom). I recall the creator making fun of the Greeny Phatom community a few times and being baffled by it.

 

[Coolio55]

Jesus christ. Now that's a haul!

One interesting thing you brought up is the speech patterns.
(The comments on below also reflect this)

All these people seem to speak in the same way. I wonder if there's a specific name for it?

I wonder if it's in DSM-V/ICD-X.
I might give it a look later but I'm not a psychologist so I don't expect to gain anything useful or even know the correct terms to search.

Spoiler

Also, since we're all talking about lemur


https://twitter.com/JacobLenstar/status/1041057577813995521

WTF

 

[Froddick]

Also, since we're all talking about lemur

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https://twitter.com/JacobLenstar/status/1041057577813995521

WTF
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Haha, yeah. Lemur has some really...strange characters. But in a good way.

Anyway, I noticed Robert seems to have some interest in being a voice actor. There are quite a number of videos on his current channel which just consist of footage from various sources except with "Me as X character" in the title, most strangely Sonic Adventure 2.

I love how he just proudly says he did the voice of the character in the description.

Really weird shit.

 

[WonderGirl]

I remember last year I was absolutely fucking committed to getting to the bottom of this shit and where it came from, it's somewhat of a staple of the early 2010s internet after all. I actually managed to dig up several Facebook accounts under the name Robert Stainton and the person in the photos on all the accounts is the same. Here are some pictures:

He is pictured here holding a notebook with Greeny Phatom written on it.

I think it's safe to say he's the real deal. The accounts have friends with the surname Stainton who are definitely family members, this is the same guy who appears in IRL vids on the "official" accounts, and the one text post I was able to find has the same incoherent wording found in Greeny Phatom episodes.

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Here are the links to the accounts if any of you are interested:
https://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Stainton/100009667094393
https://www.facebook.com/robert.stainton.7?ref=br_rs



I remember Mugman. It was a cute little web series despite the rough MS Paint-look, and actually had coherent stories and animation (which is more than can be said about Greeny Phatom). I recall the creator making fun of the Greeny Phatom community a few times and being baffled by it.

I remembered Mugman myself, I used an few episodes of the web series in summer of 2014, and never watched a lot of episodes, as of I know, has done several web series before that are better than Greeny Phantom, because, Who gives a crap about Greeny Phantom, don't waste your time watching this lame excuse for ''animation'' that is bunch of still images and not having a proper storyline.