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dongiovannitriumphant · 2 years

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anyway forget a spongebob episode or whatever the TRUE lost media white whale is whoever originally drew these pixel horse linearts which were endlessly remixed into sprite sheets and premades on literally HUNDREDS of little internet horse websites run by 12-16yo scandinavian girls in the 00s

#the over-active spleen #this is literally the only pic online i could find of them and like #a good website would have a sheet with 25 poses #i found one with 100 poses once #some of them obvs made custom by someone else and then traced into the sheet by another person going by style diffs #i dont think i can adequately capture the cultural impact of these pixel linearts on the Hinternet(horse internet) of the time #there was even a full website (also run by a teenage girl) with actual buying and trading/currency coding &etc #where she'd drawn knock-offs in a similar but not quite exact style #so she could charge real money memberships #the saddest thing is i think i saved these sheets as a kid but they were on an old laptop which died so gone forever #also fun fact the only reason this image exists online is due to one of two horse wbesites which still persist Somehow in this day and age #and since the forum all hosted images locally theyve been preserved where all others have perished

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