Battle for Dream Island

Battle for Dream Island, commonly abbreviated as an acronym named BFDI, is an American animated fantasy-comedy viewer voting competitive web series, directly inspired on Total Drama Island and Survivor. It was the first object show to be released, premiering on YouTube on January 1, 2010 on the jacknjellify channel, created by Michael and Cary Huang, known as the "Huang twins". It is still ongoing with 5 seasons (two finished, one previously canceled and later revived, one in hiatus and one ongoing).
The series follows a number of either 20, 64 or 42 contestants, under various teams, battling the contests for a specific grand prize on a competition, usually controlled by a host. The format was later followed by various other object shows. Specifically hosted by several of them, mainly the Announcer, the common prize was Dream Island or A BFDI and A BFB. There were several hosts outside from the Announcer, the most famous include Four (and X) and Two. 
Outside from the main web episodes, it spawned the Object Show Community as a whole (due to the inspiration that led to Total Fruit Island and Inanimate Insanity), web shorts (on YouTube and TikTok), web games (BFDIA 5b for example), and merchandise (including plushies and T-shirts).
==Development and production==
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Michael and Cary Huang first created BFDI as a seires of comic strips during elementary school between 2008 to 2009. The first comic strip was made on May 2, 2008, titled "FIREY to keep our customers happy" as a 5th grade school project and would feature the first 5 BFDI characters to be created, with the first being Firey. The later comics strips included 4 random comic drawings, the eponymous Firey comic series, Total Firey Island, Total Firey Switch and Total Firey Points.jacknjellify: Origins of BFDI
The series would be first concieved on August 18, 2009 after Michael and Cary's family went into a one-week vacation trip to Hawaii and got inspired by Total Drama Island and Survivor so they had the idea to create a Flash-animated web series to YouTube. Although two Flash projects were made before the conception, production began on September 2009 and "Take the Plunge" would be uploaded on January 1, 2010.jacknjellify: We Discovered Our Forgotten "Firey” ComicsHumany: Earliest "first BFDI animation" discovered! (February 20, 2009)carykh: First BFDI Animation Ever! (Dated Feb 27, 2009)
The series original schedule was month by month starting on the first date, of each month. It was produced between their freetime from home work from middle school.carykh: The mind-numbing problem with DistroKid (and online music distribution in general) The first season was made for 25 months straight, always releasing on the first day of it. After the short period of voting, writing took one week. Voice acting took only a day, and has been estimated that it they took 3 days for sound designing.WebzForevz: How BFDI Was Made SO FAST For the remainder of production, it took 2 weeks to finish it. At some point in April 2011, the series could have been canceled until one of Cary's friends advised them to not to do it with their recent subscriber growth.Humany: On this day, 13 years ago.
After the release and the end of the first season, Battle for Dream Island Again began on June 29, 2012 and was only put in hiatus due to the Huang twins junior year high school getting more busier which made more difficult to produce more episodes until "Well Rested" or BFDIA 6.jacknjellify: Taking a break from BFDI. (Livestream tomorrow!) On March 10, 2014, their AdSense account (their form of monetization) was suspended, ending their profit income revenue, and spawned a three-year hiatus in BFDI-related content, resulting in the initial cancelation.jacknjellify: Why We've Had to Stop Animating on YouTube (2016) The season would be revived 10 years after the proposed release date of the sixth episode which was finally released and revived the season.Battle for Dream Island: Battle for Dream Island Again: "Well Rested"
Initially, the second season wouldn't be revived but was initially replaced with IDFB, on September 1, 2016 after the jacknjellify's AdSense account being reinstated in June 2016.htwins.net: 1454 Days of Traffic The season ended up in hiatus again, and it still is to this day.
Battle for BFB, formerly titled Battle for BFDI, would be premiered on November 3, 2017 and would continue until the split with the release of "The Escape from Four" on March 16, 2020, where Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two was announced with over 42 contestants, while BFB kept only 14 contestants.
TPOT would only premiere on January 10, 2021 and the series remained popular. Between 2022 to today, the series has begun having notable audiences, especially young. The possibility of a sixth season has been theorized, possibly with a new style of animation or art or by just using the classic animation style again.
thumb|The original intro theme of the Object show, which isbeatloaf's 8th bass sample.
The series is mostly animated on Adobe Animate, previously Macromedia Flash, with a massive number of storyboard artists, voice actors, and animators. The scripts were made using paper drawings through storyboards, on all seasons. More than 40 voice actors worked on the show and over 100 crew members are in the object show. One thing in common of all intros for BFDI (except BFB) is "bass 8ths sample.wav" by beatloaf on Freesound.org, which was first used by the Huang twins as part of the theme of the first season. The series is uploaded through the YouTube channel named "jacknjellify", registered on February 4, 2008.
The music used in the show was originally composed by royalty-free musician Kevin MacLeod for three seasons until Michael Huang, with his music career, composed the songs for the rest of the current seasons. MacLeod's classic and nostalgic Internet music has been rarely used.
==Characters==
===Contestants===
Currently, there are 68 contestants overall in the entire series.
====Newcomers in BFDI==== 
#Firey
#Leafy
#Bubble
#Flower
#Spongy
#Rocky
#Ice Cube
#David
#Pencil
#Tennis Ball
#Blocky
#Pen
#Eraser
#Match 
#Snowball
#Coiny
#Golf Ball
#Teardrop
#Needle
#Pin
#Woody
====Newcomers in BFDIA====
*Ruby
*Nickel
*Book
*Bomby
*Gelatin
*Yellow Face
*Puffball
*Dora
*Donut
====Newcomers in IDFB====
*Evil Leafy
====Newcomers in BFB====
*Profily
*Loser
*Robot Flower
*Grassy
* Basketball
*Naily
*Barf Bag
*Bottle
*Pillow
*Pie
*Remote
*Black Hole
*Tree
*Cake
* Clock
*Eggy
*Lollipop
*Taco
*Gaty 
*Bell
*Foldy
* Marker
*Cloudy
*Balloony
*Lightning
*Fanny
*Firey Jr.
*Stapy
*8-Ball
*Roboty
*Liy 
*Bracelety 
====Newcomers in BFDI:TPOT==== 
*Winner
*Price Tag
===Hosts===
If counting X and Purple Face, there were 12 hosts in each season except IDFB. Officially 10.
*Announcer
*Firey Speaker Box
*Flower Speaker Box 
*TV
*Puffball Speaker Box
*Flower
*Bugs
* Four
*Donut
*Two
====Co-hosts==== 
*X
*Purple Face (technically a "co-co-host")
===Recommended characters===
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===Minor characters===
*Nonexisty
*Firey Speaker Box's Clone
*Triangle Speaker Box
*Hexagon Speaker Box
*Purple Round Speaker
* Spike Ball Speaker Box
*Cheese Orb
*Lego Brick
*Tune
*Waffle
*Lewis
* Barbeque Sauce
*Pineapple
*Black & White Cookie
*Vegemite on Toast
*Birthday Cake
*Burrito
*Dice
*Domino and Dominoes
*Gramophone
*Hot Sauce
*Propeller Hat
*Ramen Noodles
*Robot Servants
*"Sam"
*Slingshot
*Touch-Tone
*Water Bottle
*Weird Speaker Box
*Rusty Coin
*Steamy
*Clip
*Pan Flute
==Episodes==
===Season one (BFDI)===
The first season of BFDI, under the same name as the series, premiered on January 1, 2010 and ran on YouTube until January 2, 2012 with the season finale "Return of the Hang Glider". 
The season only had 25 episodes with 21 contestants with Firey being the winner of Dream Island. There were over 3 eliminated characters who rejoined (Blocky, Spongy and Flower) and only one debuter joined (David). It was primarily hosted by the Announcer.
===Season two (BFDIA)===
The second season of BFDI, titled Battle for Dream Island Again and abbreviated as BFDIA, began its run on June 29, 2012 and it features 22 contestants (12 returning ones and 10 newcomers). Unlike last season, where there were only 3 hosts (the Announcer, Firey Speaker Box and Flower Speaker Box), there were 5 hosts (TV, Puffball Speaker Box, Firey Speaker Box, Flower and bugs), though the Announcer has been canonically running the season.Battle for Dream Island: Battle for BFB: "SOS (Save Our Show"
The fifth episode was split into 5 parts, with the second part, BFDIA 5b, been a video game instead of a viewable episode. The entire episode is about the contestants traversing to get to the top of the summit of Yoyle Mountain.
The season would return on September 1, 2023 with the official release of "Well Rested". As of April 2, 2024, it currently has over 11 episodes.
=== Season three (IDFB)===
The third season, titled dnalsI maerD rof elttaB and mostly abbreivated as IDFB, was the first post-cancelation season of BFDI and it took place in the country of Yoyleland.Battle for Dream Island: IDFB: "Welcome Back" As of September 1, 2016, only one episode was released to the public as the series remained in indefinite hiatus after a dormant time. Either it will return after the end of BFDIA or BFDI:TPOT as it was never announced if it was canceled.
It is still unconfirmed if the series will be having a host. The contestants are the same as the amount after the premiere of the episode "Well Rested".
===Season four (BFB)===
With over 30 episodes in 4 years, the fourth season of BFDI, titled Battle for BFDI and later Battle for BFB, is the longest airing season of the show. This is also the first season of the series to air with the hand-drawn animation style, simplified and more loosely.
The first half of the season followed 64 contestants (half being newcomers) battling for A BFDI, hosted by Four and X, which later was revealed to be the full archive of the first two seasons of the series. The first half also took place in North Goiky. The elimination style kept the same as object shows before this one.
With the split from the episode "The Escape from Four", where a fifth season, Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two, aired simultaneously, the second half became Battle for BFB, where 14 of the remaining contestants battled for both A BFB and A BFDI. The season took place in the Pillary Ruins and the Desert due to issues with fans. The elimination style kept for the fans to vote for saving the contestants to get away from being eliminated. The overall winner of the season was Flower, who was also the first eliminated character in the series.
===Season five (BFDI:TPOT)===
The fifth season of Battle for Dream Island, titled Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two or abbreviated as TPOT, is the most recent of the five. The season originated from the split in BFB and it currently features over 43 contestants battling for Two's abillities which are limitless. The season currently has over 10 episodes and the elimination style kept the same as the previous season. Airing begun on January 10, 2021.
===Release schedule===
In the early seasons, the series mostly had a schedule of release from every first day of the month. During the time of IDFB, the release schedule had an announced date. The post-revival BFDIA has a schedule of one to two months from the first or second day of the month in some locations.
Since Battle for BFB, the schedule for most of the recent seasons has been unscheduled, mostly revealed through teasers or (formerly) other kinds of videos like shorts or music videos.
==Voice cast==
There are more than 40 voice actors in the show's history.
*Michael Huang
**Blocky
**Book
**Bubble
**Cloudy
**Coiny
**Donut
**Eraser
**Firey
**Flower
**Fries 
**Golf Ball 
**Leafy
**Loser 
**Pen
**Pencil
**Puffball
**Robot Flower
**Snowball
** Woody 
**Yellow Face
**Four
**Firey Speaker Box
**Flower Speaker Box
**Puffball Speaker Box
**Cheese Orb
**Firey Speaker Box's Clone
**Hexagon Speaker Box
**Triangle Speaker Box
**Purple Round Speaker
**Radio Announcer
**Boombox (not in BOTO from overall)
**Three
**Jack Frew
*Cary Huang
**8-Ball
**Bracelety
**Grassy
**Marker
**Match
**Pin
**Ruby
**Spongy
**Tennis Ball
**X
**Chompy
**Silvery
** Unknown Shadow
*Satomi Hinatsu 
**Balloony
**Basketball
**Black Hole
**Bomby
**Bottle
**Clock
**Fanny
**Firey Jr.
**Gaty 
**Saw
*Sam Lee 
**Lollipop
**Pie
**Stapy
*Justin Chapman
**Purple Face
**Rusty Coin
**Steamy
*Sam Thornbury
**Rubber Spatula
**Eight
**Nine
* Niall Burns
**Profily
**Two
*Adam Katz
**Nickel
*Kenzie Bryant
**Barf Bag
**Bell
**Cake
**Ice Cube
**Needle
**Taco
**Camera
**Birthday Cake
*Ian Woodside and Graham Taylor
**Gelatin
*Cindy Jiang
**Foldy
**Pillow
*Emily Pitcher
**One
**Snare Drum
*WoopDoo
**Five
**Clip
**Propeller Hat
*WebzForevz 
**CRT
**Seven
**Cherry Jr.
**Carrot Cake
**Singing Narrator
*Highvan 
** Fourteen
* TAFFYMARZI
** 9-Ball
**Dice
*Thomas Chick 
** Tree
*Schazer
**Winner
*cobalt
**Scissors
*Sabrina
**Lightning
**Liy
*wishfixerz
**Clapboard
*WormBuffet
**Discy
* Joseph Pak 
**Fifteen
**Anchor
*Zach Kornfield
**Barbeque Sauce
*YellowAngiru
**Water Bottle
*Xananer
**Zero
*Katherine Sun
**Naily
*Amor Boretto
**Leek
*Thomas Ridgewell
**Pineapple
*Kevin MacLeod
**Pan Flute
==Production crew==
===Showrunners===
*Michael Huang
*Cary Huang
*Satomi Hinatsu (formerly)
===Directors===
*FusionAnimations
*Cary Huang
*TTGuy10000
*Kenzie Bryant
*Michael Huang
*Sam Thornbury
*Satomi Hinatsu
===Writers===
*Cary Huang
*TTGuy10000
*Kenzie Bryant
*Michael Huang
*Sam Thornbury
*Satomi Hinatsu
===Animators=== 
*Adam Katz
*Aidsie
*ChromaTheAnimator
*CaptainCoolAG
*Alem
*FusionAnimations
*Allenimations
*StelLizard
*Benjamin Cross
*legotd61
*BrannFlakes
*Bok Bok Choy
*Brybee
*Cary Huang
*ChrisShwafer
*Cornmac Olive
*WoopDoo
*DanDaMiniFig
*shimzo
*p0tatomango
*Derpadon
*dhunHERO
*WhoEvenIsStan
*Khoreo
*Florence Chapell
*G4bo
*GuyGoon
* WebzForevz
*Highvan
*John Dubuc
*TTGuy10000
*Kenzie Byrant
*TopHatTheHat
*Diamondcup67
*Dunkyl
*Michael Huang
*Dygstrama
*XanyLeaves
*polypawns
*PotatoOfAwesome
*RickToons
*Sacri
*saks
*WavesOfRed
*Satomi Hinatsu
*Scratch (a person; not the website)
*Schloo
*Spherigon
*ThattsCherry
*The Bird Gang
*Wuggolo
*Xananer
*YellowAngiru
===Animation revision===
*Allenimations
*FusionAnimations
*ChrisShwafer
*WoopDoo
*TTGuy10000
*Highvan
*YellowAngiru
===Audio engineering===
*Amor Boretto
*Benjamin Cross
*legotd1
*Daniel Booth
*coal bones
*WebzForevz
*Ian Woodside
*Dunkyl
*Michael Huang
*Satomi Hinatsu
*TAFFYMARZI
*whimsicosmos
===Prop and backgrounds===
*Adam Katz
*Aidsie
*FusionAnimations
*InterstellarLizard
*Florence Chapell
*GuyGoon
*Highvan
*TopHatTheHat
*TTGuy10000
*Wolfy
*Psipuppy
*polypawns
*Punch Holer
*WavesofRed
*Satomi Hinatsu
*Slislug
*ThattsCherry
*The Bird Gang
*WormBuffet
*YellowAngiru
===Composers===
*111robloxdude
*Anko6
*Cary Huang
*WoopDoo
*coal bones
*Michael Huang
*Cepukka
*Kevin MacLeod (through royalty free music)
==International translations==
The only official international version of BFDI is Jacknjellify en Español, which is a Spanish dub for the series. The international translation however also traslated the names of the characters instead of their official names. It began on November 29, 2022 but wouldn't really start until January 23, 2023. 
Foreign (outside from the United States) members of the fanbase have been making "fan-dubbings" including in Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, German, Italian and formerly Spanish. 
== Typeface==
The main logo for Battle for Dream Island has the Shag Lounge font used for over three seasons. Albertus has been used for the logo for Battle for BFDI/BFB while Wolpe Fanfare was the font used for the logo of Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two.
==Spinoffs==
===BFDI Mini===
As a dedicated TikTok and YouTube Shorts format over less than 1 minute videos, BFDI Mini shows recommended characters battling for a mini version of Dream Island. The season is mostly hosted by Four and Snowball and has over 6 seasons. It was created to increase viewer interaction with social media posts. Most of the challenges were requested by the fans.
In the first season, the prize was a mini version of Dream Island while the winner's full name is jack russell terrier dog riding very fast with speed a skateboard as skater , with sunglasses in summer vacation, taking a selfie with smartphone or cell phone (or Selfie Dog for short).
In the second season, the prize was a mini version of "Dream Island Again" and was rewarded to Rose, a contestant from the previous season. The third season featured the Hand-drawn style and the prize was a mini version of "Dream Island Deluxe", rewarded to USB. The fourth season was dedicated to David and it's variants known as the Davidians to win a mini version of "Davidland". The winner ended up in a Davidian under the name of "Johnson".
The fifth season was a food-dedicated season with the prize being a mini variation of "Dream Island Delicious", rewarded to Cereal Box. The sixth season which is currently on the air is dedicated to impersonation replicas of select original contestants from the first two seasons.
Season logos of BFDI Mini
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==Video games==
Video games have followed the object show since before it's air. The earliest known video game made by the Huang twins is Firey's Candy Bar Adventure, made sometime around January 2009. It has been unfinished and shows Firey trying to open a candy bar but fails and tries to find other ways to find it. Much of the gameplay is possibly inspired by the Henry Stickmin series of games.
The first video game created during Battle for Dream Island's history is Woody's Incredible Journey to the Escape from Eternal Terror (or WIJTTEFET), created by Andrew Wang as a mod for his game The Land of Stuff. The game was originally given as a birthday gift in July 2010. You control Woody with either the arrow keys to move around normally or using the space to skip two spaces from the direction your facing. Woody must be guided by the Player to go to the Scary Free Zone to win the game in this island of oasis and have to avoid Blocky (targets Woody and is the fastest), Firey (the second fastest one, doesn't target Woody), Bubble (doesn't target Woody but it is the second slowest character) and Pin (slowest character and targets Woody). This game was thought to be lost media until the link was discovered in 2017.
Some games relating to BFDI are Get to the Top Although There Is No Top! (a game by the Huang twins inspired by Icy Tower where you'll have to jump to the highest score to the top through platforms while jumping; there are more than 30 variations of the game, including a dedicated BFDI version) and Tidepool (formerly called The Tidepool, it is a game where you'll have to eat creatures from your size smaller than you and you'll grow bigger to win the game; BFDI characters does appear in game). GTTTATINT appeared as a BFDI DDSS game in the merge of "A Leg Up in the Race".
"BFDIA 5b" was released on February 12, 2013 as an attempt of the Huang twins trying to be creative. It is the gap of BFDIA 5 and it is a platformer game starring the FreeSmart team inside Evil Leafy. There are over three recommended characters in this game, Tune, Waffle and Lego Block. By pressing E, you can hold boxes, Z can switch the character you're playing, and R resets the level. There are 53 (or 54) levels in game. They game stopped development around the episode's release and it's official form became inaccessible on the web due to the shutdown of Adobe Flash Player.
Inspired by Slender: the Eight Pages, The Evil Leafy Maze Game was released on the htwins.net website for Halloween 2013. It was made before iOS could do WebGL implementation so Michael Huang wrote a 2D canvas that makes a list of trapezoids from left to right. The game is to avoid Evil Leafy from catching you . Using the WASD controls to move and the mouse to look around, it contains a lack of sound however. The maze contains no exit and the objective is in actuality to survive as long as possible.
==Merchandise==
The first string of merchandise was the Shapeways physical 3D figures that ended up being taken down due to being "expensive and unpractical".jacknjellify: BFDI Livestream 
The Spreadshirt shop was announced on August 26, 2013 where a shop was opened there with T-shirts, phone cases, stickers and hat caps.jacknjellify: The BFDI Shop The Spreadshirt domain for the website was moved to Myspreadshop.com.
The Redbubble shop was opened in July 2016 and currently has 41 designs. Most of them comes from the same style as before, and the only new things are books, a pillow and a clock of unique.
The independent shop website for plushies was registered on September 18, 2018 and the first plushie made was based on Firey. Since then, plushies were made from Two, Marker, Bubble, Pin, Leafy, Coiny, Four, X, Rocky, Firey Jr., Loser, Pen and Woody. A Foldy origami papercraft was also sold and there were 12 expressions and they came with the Firey plushies. They have since been discontinued.
Miscellaneous shop pages include Crowdmade shop (which sell varsity sweaters, hoodies, t-shirts, waterbottle, iPhone and Samsung phone cases and mugs) and the Creator Ink shop (selling posters and hoodies and a blanket).External: Crowdmade jacknjellify shopExternal: Creator Ink jacknejllify shop
==Events and conventions==
===Meetups===
There were 8 overall meetups between the years 2016 to 2019 and again in 2022. The 2020 meetup was canceled because of the infamous COVID-19 pandemic likely being originally planned to be a crossover meetup. A meetup was canceled because Michael Huang missed his flight to go to Denver, Colorado.
For the Battle of the Fantasy Foods 2016 Yoylecake victory, in New York City, New York, the first meetup took place with Michael wearing a shipping shirt of Firey and Coiny at the FANDOM Food Truck, where the Yoylecake was served as a miniature vanilla flavored colored cakes.jacknjellify: The NYC 2016 BFDI Meetup
===r/place participaiton===
:In participation to Reddit's r/place event in 2022, BFDI appeared several times during the period of April 1 to 4. r/place was an experiment on 2017, 2022 and 2024 where the platform put a big white canvas to make their drawings as part of the original media's legacy.
Appearing in the Ukranian flag to suppport Ukraine from the infamous Russian invasion, Firey and Leafy pop up at 9:12 AM at California as drawings in the flag before succumbing on 7:57 AM. A second Firey appeared with the work beginning at 6:35 AM. But this one was breif as it was expunged at 10:20 to the Norway flag. Shortly after, at 10:24 and replacing the Among Us crewmates, a third Firey appeared below the German flag and to secure protection, a square was made in a white background.
On April 2, at 12:39 AM at the Ukranian flag after allowing to add drawings in there and between a rat and a rainbow, Marker appeared as a drawing but was later destroyed in order to clean it up. Not far from where the first Firey was, the Speaker Boxes were drawn and the Announcer was completed in the canvas at 7:39 AM.
At the end of the event, all of the canvas drawings were wiped into white at the end of the event.
===2023 event===
The BFDI X Inanimate Insanity Experience 2023 took place between June 25, 2023 and July 8, 2023, taking place at the Saban Media Center, Los Angeles, California and Gerald W. Lynch Theater, New York City, New York respectively. Each had 3 screenings for "The Great Goikian Bake-Off" and "Spring on the Breakfast!" for TPOT and Inanimate Insanity Invitational respectively. The morning and evening screenings contained a Q&A with the creators of each object show. Also contained in each screening had an optional VIP ticket for a meeting, photo, or a signing with the original OSC founding fathers. In these experiences. Sold in the event's exclusive merch contained the Two and Nickel plushies, sister packs, Bot enamel pins, and posters designed by Katherine Sun. The common announcement, TWO OF THEM!? - BFDI X Inanimate Insanity 2023 Event, was uploaded on April 15, 2023 and it had different endings for each channel you could follow.
Before their screenings, it was warned to the viewers to not record the episodes, not even photograph the moments. Some people did anyway and uploaded to YouTube their screen recordings. The videos were seen as confusing curious people or made OSC members upset. Not only was it disrespectful for Adam Katz and the Huang twins but it was also illegal to record in a theater in general.
===2024 tour===
The BFDI & Inanimate Insanity Tour 2024 event will take place in 6 destinations in the United States between June to August 2024. The screenings will include two episodes of TPOT and BFDIA respectively and the long-awaited 15th episode of the second season of Inanimate Insanity. These 6 destinations include:
* NYU Skirball Center, New York City, New York (June 28 to 30)
* Linda & Archie Dunham Theater, Houston, Texas (July 6)
* SIFF Cinema Egyptian, Seattle, Washington (July 13 and 14)
* Saban Media Center, Los Angeles, California (July 20 and 21)
* Harris Theater, Chicago, Illinois (July 27)
* Miniaci Performing Arts Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (August 3 and 4)
Some members of the OSC criticized the choice of destinations like the lack of Kansas City, Missouri. Regardless, some people feared that the episodes will be leaked again.
==Reception==
===Critical reception===
The IMDB page for Battle for Dream Island currently sits at 8,3 out of 10. Most of the episodes fall between 6 to 8 point score in the website, with most of the worst numbers falling to the first season with 6.
Most comments point out how the plot makes them excited to see what happens or the unexpected moments that happen in some episodes. Some people pointed the lack of the comedy making them laugh.
===Viewer ratings===
An episode currently gains more than 20 thousand views after 35 minutes since the release of "Insectophobe's Nightmare 4". Within a month, an episode can reach over 1 million views and thousands of likes. Most of the videos gain thousands of likes and always beats the dislike ratio.
===Awards===
Michael and Cary Huang attempted to be the King of the Web in 2012 to gain 1,000 votes so that the second season would air, but they failed. Even with the failure, they aired the season regardless.
During Fandom (at the time Wikia, Inc.)'s Battle of the Fantasy Foods 2016, the Yoylecake became an contestant. In all of it's 6 rounds, the cake won until becoming the overall winner of the contest. The top four were featured as a real-life version on New York Comic Con at the time. It was criticized that jacknjellify requested to all of it's viewers to vote on the Yoylecake while the others weren't promoted.
Battle for Dream Island, because of its growing popularity, became a nominee for the Cartoon Crave Awards of 2021, in the section of "Best Web Series" among 3 others. The series won this award under the title of "Outstanding Web Series" with 63% of the votes on January 22, 2022.External: Cartoon Crave awarding BFDIExternal: Cartoon Crave Awards 2021 website The object show fell in second place for the fan's favorite show behind The Owl House and ahead Helluva Boss and Amphibia.
===Criticism and controversies===
====Ruby's Sugar Stash====
Ruby's Sugar Stash was shown in the 10th anniversary of jacknjellify, The JingJing Squisher (10 year anniversary), and was thought by fans to be a cocaine stash rather than a sugar stash, which was why Ruby was talking fastly because she was under it's effects. Cary Huang debunked this and this is now taken as a sugar stash under the number 73.
===="The Escape from Four"====
:The reception for "The Escape from Four" was mixed for audiences thanks to it's plot and outcome. The origins of this episode came from Cary and Satomi Hinatsu's ideas as they though that the end of Battle for BFDI would pass into their 40s and it would take a lot of time to finish it.jacknjellify: The Secret Behind BFB's Split
The first string of controversy from this episode os Loser and Spongy rejoining the game mostly due to Loser's escape from Four's EXIT and Spongy being too big to even fit. Many fans considered this unfair and too out of nowhere as they couldn't be fully eliminated from the season.
The most controversial moment from the episode was the split by Two into two separate seasons, as he convinced over 40 contestants to join his show and leave BFB while the rest were sent to the Pillary Ruins. Some fans' accounts stopped watching BFB because of this or ended up being outraged.
==== Voting rigging (allegations)====
There have been attempts to make the fanbase believe that the voting numbers were rigged by the crew members of the show in order to continue their plans for the season or sometimes it was individuals who rigged the votes.
The first instance of this happened during the voting of "Zeeky Boogy Doog" of the second season where Teardrop got the most votes to win a prize while also having the same elimination votes to be eliminated. This was because of a YouTube channel named "Derpy Hooves", named after the same character from the American-Canadian cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, who had a cult following of bronies (the male fans of the show) and uploaded a video where he demanded them to vote for Teardrop, not for hate but just because it was his least favorite character. The channel's host took advantage of bronies, because of the OSC being so small at the time while bronies were larger than them, who didn't knew the existence of the series and yet still decided to vote to eliminate her. The channel said that they didn't liked Teardrop and did not hated her. They thanked to the help that bronies were able to do what she wanted.
Michael Huang accused the culprit being Adam Katz, while the creator of Inanimate Insanity claimed that it was his cousin who loved the My Little Pony toy franchise, despite Rainbow Dash's appearance in the finale of the first season of II. In his terminated DeviantArt account, he acknoledged being a brony from the channel's inactivity as he lost interest in the show at all. Years later in 2019, Brian Koch, the co-creator of II, fully confirmed that Adam "played toys for girls".Thisisntflying: Tweet on "The Last Problem"'s potential legacy who Adam commented on the Derpy Hooves channel It was the series very first controversy to face that was widespread.
Sometime after the release of "Who Stole Donut's Diary?", false screenshots of Satomi Hinatsu admitting that he manipulated the votes and that it was indeed Flower supposed to be eliminated. This would start false accusations of bias over Flower. When Gelatin and Flower were up for victory during the end of "SOS (Save Our Show)", the results were shown to the public in "Chapter Complete" where the voters made Flower win the season. This resulted in some debating that the voting was rigged with more than 20,000 votes than Gelatin. This was largely (in actuality) because the date limit for the votes was changed for February 22 instead of February 14 to reach a 100,000 vote mark to make a sixth season.jacknjellify: Unboxing 3 Silver Play Buttons (and a BFB 30 announcement!) Yet, they failed.
====="Voting wars"=====
This is the term used for incidents that vote differences are too close to one another to each contestant, gaining similar vote counts being too close to call them. The most notable example was in "Who Stole Donut's Diary", where Flower and Taco. The earliest traces of vote wars came as far as "Don't Pierce My Flesh" from the first season where Rocky was eliminated with seven more votes than Flower. This only continued in Battle for BFB due to the switch from vote to eliminate to vote to save. The trend continued until "Oneirophobe's Nightmare" switched the voting from the comment section to Google Forms.
An infamous voting war was the infamous Just Not in the aftermath of "Outbreak At Steak" where they got an intense voting period with thousands of votes spent to put Bomby out of the top votes, which stood out to Pillow which she was a literal sociopath to literally make her team lose as she believed to completely wipe Just Not.Battle for Dream Island: Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two: "Outbreak At Steak"
==Legacy==
===First object show===
Battle for Dream Island's premiere is generally considered to be the earliest or first object show in existence, marking the beginning of the Object Show Community, a fandom in the Internet that traces it's origin back to the show itself in 2010. Although some consider Move Your Feet! by rtil from 2008 being the first object-related video to exist, BFDI is the official first object show to exist with competition and contests with teams and contestants with a host. Battle for Dream Island is also, thanks to popular belief, the first viewer voting and competition-based object show in history.
===Assets===
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The show became open-source on July 24, 2012 when all of it's assets were released to the public, including faces, character assets and bodies, limbs, backgrounds, items, accessories, and everything else. Outside from the main assets in the website page includes episode .flas, grass used in the BFDIA intro, the chase scene in "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know", old assets from 2008 known as "oldies", Firey's Candy Bar Adventure and it's source project. These assets were used in most of the old Adobe Animate object shows before BFB was released. 
The Mouth asset originated from this web show, and then it became the infamous "clip-art mouth asset" where it appears in literally everywhere as a "clip-art cartoon mouth" seen in most clickbait or random moments of YouTube videos. As a parody for the mouth, a short was made named Why is the BFDI Mouth Everywhere? where the plot follows Golf Ball's creation going hazard named Mouth eating everyone after having some "adventures". The asset was even adapted into a contestant in Mysterious Object Super Show, named BFDI Mouth.jacknjellify: Why is the BFDI Mouth Everywhere? 
==="Beefy die"===
:A meme arose under the abbreviation spelling by Fun BFDI Facts, named "Beefy die". It has been caused by the spelling of TikTok voices used in the channel. This has been so popular that it wasn't even recognized by the Huang twins yet.
===Wikipedia page creation attempts===
It is known that there have been hijackings of pre-existing Wikipedia articles that had their names relating to Battle for Dream Island or attempts at creating pages for the series or contents relating to it, including the term object show itself. The first documented example was from December 5, 2010. The reason why most can't be accepted is because this is against the article creation guidelines for the encyclopedia.
Most of the time, articles will be accepted by the amounts of references and sources by either books or news articles through a draft so that article will be created. If there are few sources to that one topic, it will be poorly-documented on Wikipedia. But if it has a lot of sources, it will be very well documented. BFDI and the OSC in general is very poorly documented outside from YouTube and Discord. Since most users don't recognize this fact, most will try to change or add stuff relating to Battle for Dream Island and they get reverted to avoid excessive vandalism.External: Wikipedia: Why is BFDI not on Wikipedia?
==Gallery==
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==See also ==
*List of object shows
*List of Battle for Dream Island characters
*List of Battle for Dream Island episodes
==References==
==External links==
===Official links===
*Official website
*Official channel
=== Merchandise links ===
*Official merchandise website
*Crowdmade store
*RedBubble store
*MySpreadshop (Spreadshirt) page
=== Social media ===
* X/Twitter page
===Encyclopedia-like pages===
*Unofficial wiki
*TV Tropes page
*Know Your Meme page
===Other links===
*IMDb page
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