What is the meaning behind Salad Fingers?

Question

http://www.fat-pie.com/flash.htm

If you are going to say something like "There's no meaning to it, it's just funny" or "The meaning is to disturb you" then don't bother answering this question. . .

Firth incorporates meaning into all of his cartoons.

He refuses to reveal the meaning of this cartoon in particular,

and only suggests that people pay attention to what is in the background and what Salad Fingers says.

The toons seem disturbing and you can't help but wonder if it's okay to be watching them, even though at first you may have NO IDEA what they're about. However, they all seem to have simple natural explanations, he uses the effect of music & voice to make them seem unatural, though.

Answer 1

I'm Italian, I've never seen the cartoons but on the Urban dictionary I've found something that could interest you. It's verbatim "Salad fingers is a flash cartoon that uses the facade of random hysteria (rusty spoons, ridiculous combinations egg. salad and fingers) to communicate a more serious, tragic perspective of the world. This could almost be compared to naive art, in that it is seemingly spontaneous, a work deliberately imitating childish art, but in so doing accessing the darkest recesses of human consciousness. Not only does salad fingers touch rusty things, his mono-mania and schizophrenic behavior hints at abuse and isolation. Salad fingers is not simply strange, laughable - in its repulsiveness it highlights aspects of the human condition that are glossed over in everyday life, or ignored in the mentally ill and the suffering. It is for this reason that salad fingers may be described as sad, as well as strange."

Answer 2

It's a weird toon, and to be honest...... It scares me a bit. The creator probably wanted to make a weird cartoon. Thus SALAD FINGERS!

Answer 3

...I think you maybe just got a bit too deep over an internet flash movie.

-_-

Answer 4

The message is.

g*y.