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Hey, look! The FATE 2026 results are out! flipnot.es/fate2026results Congratulations to our winners! There were so many amazing entries. And thank you so much to our judges Aaron, Fred, @Kekeflipnote and @Fleesveon555!

FATE 2026 has closed and our judges are in the process of reviewing the submissions! Look forward to the results in a week's time! You can watch the submissions yourself here: sudomemo.net/channel/7279949…

🎉 Exciting news! We're thrilled to announce F.A.T.E. (Flipnote Animation Tribute Event)! Dive into the archives and reanimate classic Flipnotes. Check out the details here: flipnot.es/weekly06022024 #うごメモFATE #FlipnoteFATE

Happy birthday 🎂 🥳 to our creator @AustinSudomemo!

"Yeah... I'm an animator"

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IT WAS 10 YEARS ago today that the world lost a bright and beautiful soul, and so did the Flipnote community. Jayah Jackson, a.k.a. Skitty~san, was a friend to many, and we still miss her dearly. A few years ago we prepared an online memorial for her. This year we've updated the page with Flipnotes she created on Flipnote Hatena — selected by a friend of hers as examples of both her growth as an artist as well as her best work. Don't lose hope. You are loved. flipnot.es/jayah

Made a reference for how to arrange 36 Nintendo DSi Systems to make a Flipnote Frog in case anyone needs it

this is my love language

The second installation of our "How to Draw...Flipnote Style!" series, which celebrates and commemorates Flipnote Hatena's culture, is out! youtu.be/bUZLeaZ6K4Q

How to Draw King Boo - This is the first of a series of "How to Draw..." tutorials we're going to be releasing this month on YouTube in remembrance and celebration of Flipnote Hatena's vibrant culture! youtu.be/ibJyovBhfr4

IT WAS TEN YEARS AGO that Flipnote Hatena closed. It was around fifteen years ago that it opened. Nintendo's first real experiment with letting users create and share free-form content, in partnership with Hatena Co., Ltd. resulted in うごメモはてな, or Flipnote Hatena. To set the stage properly, you really have to remember the kind of tools and online communities that existed back then to really understand the environment that the Internet was back in 2008. Smartphones were not in everyone's hands, and online spaces and communication weren't anywhere close to being as centralized and monopolized as it is today. In 2008, YouTube was only three years old, Twitter was two, and MySpace was just coming down from its peak in popularity. Tumblr had only just opened a year prior. We've detailed the history of the development of Flipnote Studio before on the @FlipnoteArchive's History page. The development for Flipnote Studio began in late 2007, Ugomemo Hatena released in Japan in late December 2008, and it came to the rest of us in August 2009. It's hard to understate how much power this gave people to create animations who might never have tried it in the first place. Even today, while some people might try making animations on their phones, it's always been hard to draw with your finger, and there were far fewer tools -- and phones -- in those days. Countless artists and animators got their start on Flipnote Hatena -- many of whom have similar stories to those who have gotten their start as artists on Sudomemo within the past 9 years, something we're proud to be a part of. We'd like to invite all of you reading this to contribute something that you can remember, whether it's recreating a classic Flipnote, sharing stories of time spent on Flipnote Hatena, or digging up your old Flipnotes from the Flipnote Archive to share (visit flipnot.es/archive). Each and every Flipnote artist has played a part in keeping the spirit of this art form alive over the past 15 years. From those on Flipnote Hatena to Flipnote Gallery in Japan, to all of the wonderful Flipnote community members on Sudomemo, and other sites like Kaeru, all of you have contributed to one of the best art and animation mediums that I've ever had the pleasure of partaking in. THANK YOU. Happy Flipnoting. 🐸🦊 - @AustinSudomemo and Team @Sudomemo