#the Firestar doesn’t like waffles video

[yourpinkoverlord]

Do you like waffles

hell yeah! XD X3 who doesn’t?? xpp

[wc-confessions]

Before Thunder was released I thought it would be hysterical if Nightheart and Wafflepaw got together purely because of the “Firestar doesn’t like waffles” video and Nightheart’s insistence that he’s nothing like his great-grandfather.

[everybody-loves-purdy]

Oh boy were we talking about the classic warrior cats edits days? Did i miss it? Dont care talking about it

When i was little the number of people who made warrior cats animations could be counted on one hand so when we wanted to make AMVs we turned to fanart. People could make genuinely impressive stuff with the still images (i recommend looking up 3hawkmask or runningfern) !!! The art theft was an issue yes, i wont deny that. Especially when reverse image search wasn’t a thing. I will say though that a majority of artists back in the day (that i remember) didn’t mind being in these videos, hell I remember posting warrior cats art specifically hoping to get into them! Later in the lifespan of these too it became commonplace to credit the artists at the end of the video or in the description.

I do genuinely miss this era of Warriors video and I think it would be nice to see it make a comeback and coexist with the MAPs and such. An easy way to combat the possible theft is to just. Ask artists if its ok to use their work, Im sure a solid handful will give the OK as long as they get credit. Plus people used official warrior cats graphics and real life cat pictures all the time too. Of course using your own art is a solution as well (many artists did if i remembering right, i know i used my art in my own edits)

Sorry for the essay! I watched those videos for hours on end as a kid so they’re a nostalgic topic for me.

No worries! I remember things like that!

I mainly consumed “spoof” content myself when I was a kid. I used to spend ages watching those. But I definitely watched those types of AMVs as well, but yeah there was definitely just a certain amount of content creators on YouTube for warriors content and that was it. It was a simpler time, back when YouTube itself was still finding its feet, it is very nostalgic for me too! It’s a shame so much of the old content we used to watch has been lost to time now, including the original Firestar doesn’t like waffles which is so sad (thank goodness for whoever reuploaded it)

I would welcome bringing stuff like this back as long as permission is sought and credit is given where due lol

[brackenfur]

wc fandom was at its best when firestar doesn’t like waffles was our go to spoof video to quote

[welcome2juicepond]

one of my older omori doodles because my friend sent me the firestar doesn’t like waffles video 

[dirtplace-tunnel]

I’m just curious would you get this reference, “for the last time greystripe, I DON’T KNOW WHAT A WAFFLE IS!!!”

"FIRESTAR DOESN'T LIKE WAFFLES??!??! ;________;"

Even tho I'm a pretty recent wc fan (i joined around 2015/2016) i have watched that infamous video! It's still cute to this day!

[dasagoo]

for real tho my little sister is watching the exact same youtube videos as I was well over a decade later. You cannot imagine the fight or flight i felt as she quoted “firestar doesn’t like waffles???”

[jayfeathersbiggestfan]

whaddup dudes im here because i wanna reblog all the warriors fanart because youre all SO TALENTED WTF

also bc i wanna shamelessly promo my fics but hey, that’s second

some bits about me

-19 -uni student in Boston -warriors fan since the 4th grade -yeah 10 long years i remember firestar doesn’t like waffles AND the honeyfern’s death speedpaint and ALSO the jay x poppy “every time we touch” video -pls be nice to me im gentle -also blossom x dove is my favorite pairing. goodnight

[discourseful]

Firestar doesn’t like waffles is still the funniest video ever made

i'm glad we agree

[ajabsusbjsbsbanns]

Hey look. Firestar doesn't like waffles.......... Oof. So here's another frame redraw. This time it's from... An iconic video Obviously I don't own the second picture

[awkward-social-butterfly]

The sad thing is that I know these videos and know that the original FireStar doesn’t like waffles is at least 12-13 years old

Roxas ran so Firestar could walk.

[wc-confessions]

the original video might be iconic but firestar doesn’t like waffles thing is unfunny as hell now, on the same level as jayfeather x stick jokes. overused, boring, tomato is thrown, etcetera.

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[crabfight]

Remember Firestar Doesn’t Like Waffles, Jane? I remember Firestar Doesn’t Like Waffles. Fuck the picture on this post, I want to talk about Firestar Doesn’t Like Waffles. Warriors videos were simpler back then, in 2013. They stood for something. And that something was nothing. Warriors videos just were. “Firestar doesn’t like waffles.” An undeniably true, self-reflexive statement. Water is wet, fire is hot, and for the last time, Graystripe, Firestar doesn’t know what a waffle is. Warriors videos were floating signifiers without signifieds, meaningful in their meaninglessness. Nobody made Warriors videos, they just arose through spontaneous generation; Athena being birthed, fully formed, from her own skull.

You could talk about them around the proverbial water cooler, taking comfort in their absurdity. “Hey, flightfootwarrior, have you seen that animation of Firestar? They call it Firestar Doesn’t Like Waffles because Firestar doesn’t like waffles!” “Ha ha, sounds like good fun, tribbleofdoom! That reminds me, I need to show you this series I found the other day; it contains numerous animated fighting cats in the forest. It’s called — you’ll never believe this — Warriors Of The Forest!” And then flightfootwarrior and tribbleofdoom went on to have a wonderful friendship based on the comfortable banality of self-evident animated animals.

But then 2014 came, and along with it came MAPS, and everything was forever ruined. It was hubris, Jane. We did it to ourselves. The minute we added collaborative narratives and artistic direction, it all went to shit. Suddenly warriors videos had an excess of information to be parsed. It wasn’t just a six frame animation of a cat, perhaps with Gerard Way bangs and default Windows Movie Maker title text appended to it; now the cat spoke to us via unified color palettes and painstakingly animated, visual allegories in the frame itself. It referred to narrative depth that existed in our world but not in the world of Erin Hunter, rupturing the boundary between the two. The cat wanted something. Which forced us to recognize that what it wanted was us, was our labor. WE are the MAP parts, Jane, and we always were. But by the time we realized this, it was too late. We were slaves to the very MAPs that we had created. We toiled to earn the privilege of being distracted by them. They fiddled while Rome burned, and we threw ourselves into the fire so that we might watch a Warriors rendition of the entire Hamilton soundtrack. The MAPs had us. Or, rather, they had us animating Onestar like tomorrow won’t arrive, like we need it to survive, every second we’re alive, every second we’re alive.

It goes right back to Phaedrus, really. The Plato dialogue. (You read that, right?) Back in the innocent days of 2013, we naïvely thought that the grapheme had subjugated the phoneme, that the belief in the primacy of the spoken word was an ancient and backwards folly on par with MS Paint recolors, or practicing phrenology, or thinking that Three Days Grace was good. Fucking Three Days Grace. But we were wrong. About the phoneme, I mean. The trickster god Theuth came to us again, this time in the guise of an open, 45 part MAP. The MAP hungered, and so did Theuth. We’d already taken Erin Hunter’s writing, so this time he offered us a new choice disguised as a gift. And we greedily took it, again oblivious to the consequences. To borrow the parlance of a contemporary song, his pharmakon was the animal we have become.

Pharmakon, φάρμακον, the Greek word that means both “poison” and “cure,” but, because of the limitations of the English language, can only be translated one way or the other depending on the context and the translator’s whims. No possible translation can capture the full implications of a Greek text including this word. In the Phaedrus, writing is the pharmakon that the trickster god Theuth offers, the toxin and remedy in one. With writing, man will no longer forget; but he will also no longer think. A double-edged (s)word, if you will. But the new iteration of the pharmakon is the MAP. Specifically, the post-Reflektor MAPscape of 2014 onward. And it was the MAP language that did it, Jane. The addition of parts and deadlines and artistic direction twisted the remedy into a poison, flipped the pharmakon on its invisible axis.

Firestar doesn’t like waffles. Language is language. Pharmakon is pharmakon. The phoneme topples the grapheme, witches ride through the night, our skulls hide secret messages on their surfaces, Three Days Grace is good after all. I will not die, I’ll wait here for you. I feel alive, when you’re beside me. I will not die, I’ll wait here for you.

In my time of dying.

[thadeeliv]

that “Firestar doesn’t like waffles” video never really made sense to me because, as a former Kittypet, Firestar should be the only cat in Thunderclan who knows what a waffle is.

[nocturnalhomo-blog]

Warriors videos that are/were basically a rite of passage for fans

-Bones shatter 

-Mr Brightside

-Firestar doesn’t like waffles

-Any of the SSS Warrior cat videos

-Surprise

-Scourge will not bow