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Here's a sandbox for a potential Happy Tree Friends (franchise) page in the near future. The purpose behind this page is to document the franchise as a whole and how it was created, alongside describing it in general. The page can be freely edited by an autoconfirmed user.
For a good comparison for what a good franchise page can look like, the Super Mario Wiki has two pages: Super Mario (franchise) and Donkey Kong (franchise), both of which are featured articles on that exact wiki.
The Happy Tree Friends franchise (occasionally in intials as HTF) is a media franchise comprising a series of animations produced at MondoMedia. It consists of colorful animal characters known as the "Happy Tree Friends", ranging from different animals. While intially appearing to be a harmless and family-friendly animated series, it is, in fact, a black comedy series that depicts the characters going through gruesome deaths and injuries, with blood and gore usually appearing in every episode. Its first installment is "Spin Fun Knowin' Ya!", an episode of the Happy Tree Friends web series, released on December 24, 1999. The web series would eventually kickstart the franchise by releasing a television series, video games, merchandise, and a webcomic. The Happy Tree Friends franchise has garnered a cult following online, gaining thousands of fan art and even fan-made characters. The fandom of the Happy Tree Friends franchise would even be the subject of a contest that allowed fans to submit their characters to make a cameo appearance in the web series. A lot of the videos on MondoMedia's YouTube channel regarding Happy Tree Friends have garnered over one hundred million views, with their highest-viewed video being Friday the 13th[1], a collection of the television episodes "Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow", "Double Whammy", and its sequel, "Double Whammy Part 2". Happy Tree Friends is MondoMedia's most popular series, with Dick Figures being a close second, with the latter even being referenced in the short "New Season Teaser", which shows the characters from Happy Tree Friends with the Dick Figures style, released on April Fools as a joke.