Bubble UK: SexuaLobster Joins Mashed To “Ride The Rainbow”

The guys at Channel 4’s Mashed animation collaborative have sent us their latest short and I think you’ll love it! Check out Ride The Rainbow after the break.  Ride The Rainbow Mashed

I shouldn’t have to remind you that the off kilter mayhem from the Mashed team doesn’t begin and end with their annual current affairs extravaganza prior to the ringing in of each new year; this is just the side of Mashed that you can catch via mainstream UK TV. The rest of the year, the various talents that constitute the Mashed brand can be found posting regularly on their YouTube Chanel.

This week, popular Newgrounds animator, Sexual-Lobster, has joined with the Mashed crew to bring us “Ride The Rainbow“, a colouful satire that looks at the devastating affects of popular mobile games and their increasingly  pervasive grip on worldwide culture.

Gaming zeitgeist sees  insincere politicians try desperately to secure the youth vote by mentioning their high score on Angry Birds and indie game developers become millionaires almost overnight from the advertising revenues on similarly frustrating avian tappers, only to report that all that money and fame is ruining his life. The power of these games does not just apply to us geek’s, they seep into everyday conversation, a Mum who rarely goes online, one who only knows the mobile games her kids play, started to believe all the hype surrounding Flappy Bird by absorbing all the viral nonsense she might see on her teens’ Facebook feed; aghast, she told me how people had killed themselves over the infuriating struggling avian icon and its low scores of “100”. Yeeeeah…. ahem, it must have been true because she heard from someone who read it on the internet…..

It is not a leap of faith to imagine the scenario put forth by Australia’s bad boy* animator, SexuaLobster in his first collaboration with the UK based Mashed. The mobile game “Ride The Rainbow” has grabbed the world by the short and curlies, it even has world leaders in its thrall, eventually sparking an all out nuclear strike between the US and Russia – that Putin, he can’t just keep his high scores to himself can he….? What a douche-canoe.

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*edit: we previously stated SexuaLobster was a female, contrary to the information on their Newgrounds bio, they are in fact, a boy! Sorry about that.