Battle For Dream Island
Battle For Dream Island, or BFDI, is an animated web series on the YouTube channel jacknjellify created by the Huang Twins, Cary and Michael Huang. The series is a about a reality television-style competition between anthropomorphic object characters. The web series premiered on YouTube on January 1st, 2010, and is currently airing its fifth season and a revival of its second season.
BFDI: Branches is a fan game based on the Battle For Dream Island series, using their characters, settings, and items, and reusing some of their assets. As such, jacknjellify is credited for creating BFDI in the game's Credits. Michael Huang reprises his role as Firey, Leafy, and Coiny in the game, and Cary Huang voices some of Pin's reused lines from the show, as well as the game's Narrator.
Although BFDI crew members had praised the game before, the first official acknowledgement of the game was a shoutout of the game's demo on Twitter and YouTube on July 10th, 2024.[1][2] Cary Huang uploaded gameplay of him playing the game for the first time to his Humany YouTube channel in the video "CARY PLAYS BFDI BRANCHES" on July 29th, 2024.
History
Season 1
Battle for Dream Island is the first season of BFDI, with a total of 25 episodes. The first episode, "Take the Plunge," was released on January 1st, 2010. The episode introduces all of the characters and the prize they are battling for: Dream Island. With over 68 million views as of July 2024, the episode is the most popular video on jacknjellify, the YouTube channel where BFDI episodes are released. The season ended with a 25th episode titled: "Return of the Hang Glider" released on January 1st 2012, with an open ending.
Season 2
Battle for Dream Island Again is the second season of BFDI. This season started with "Yeah, Who? I Wanna know", as the first episode released on June 30th 2012. Unfortunately after the fifth episode "The Long-lost Yoyle City", YouTube disabled jacknjellify's AdSense which led to 2.5 year inactivity until the AdSense was restored. Instead of continuing with BFDIA however, works on season 3 have begun. BFDIA then went on a hiatus and many had speculated that it got cancelled. Fortunately, on September 1st 2023, after exactly 10 years, BFDIA 6 titled: "Well Rested" was released and the show continued.
Season 3
IDFB (dnalsI maerD roF elttaB) is the third season of BFDI. This season started with the only episode to this day: "Welcome Back" released on September 1st 2016. But because of school, Cary and Michael Huang could not finish the episode 2. Because of that, IDFB went on an intentional hiatus that still lasts today (as of August 2024).
Season 4a
Battle for BFDI (also known as BFB Pre-Split) is the first part of the fourth season of BFDI with a total of 16 episodes. In this season, many things has changed not only in the season, but also in the "jacknjellify team". Cary and Michael got joined by new animators and voice actors, such as Satomi, Pokey, Cindy Jiang, Sam Lee, Katherine Sun, Niall Burns (Xanyleaves) and others. The first episode "Getting Teradrop to Talk" was released on November 3rd 2017. In BFB 16, the show got split up into two halves: Battle for BFB and BFDI: The Power Of Two. Reason of the split was that it would take way too long to finish BFB, so this was done in order to speed up the process.
Season 4b
Battle for BFB (also known as BFB Post-Split) is the second part of BFB with total of 14 episodes, featuring the 14 contestants that decided to compete for BFDI. This season features a lot of new voice actors such as Ian Woodside, Justin Chapman, WoopDoo, WebzForevz, Brybee and others. The first episode of this season, "X Marks the Spot" was released on April 17th 2020. Season 4 ended with the 30th episode "Chapter Complete" released on April 9th 2021, which is the longest episode of BFDI so far.
Season 5
BFDI: The Power Of Two (TPOT for short) is the fifth season of BFDI, featuring 40 contestants that decided to battle for the power of this season's host. The first episode, "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?" was released on January 10th 2021, between BFB 28 and BFB 29.