vurb 2022-04-09 07:26:43

i came from hell to drag you into the underworld for your sins

vurb 2022-04-09 07:26:53

get ready

LittleLuckyLink 2022-04-09 07:50:55

I've lurked this site since 2003 (I was way too young) and ended up making this account in 07! NG has always been a big part of my life. Nice art btw!

vurb 2022-04-09 08:11:43

@LittleLuckyLink you’re my friend now

Oddlem 2022-04-09 08:50:35

and now I found you from this post LOL

jthrash 2022-04-09 13:08:39

Newgrounds doesn’t rely on algorithms, as I’ve been told. You don’t have to spam posts, create needless drama or lower the quality and time spent on your work just to get picked up by some algorithm and get found by strangers in the first place.

I also personally think it’s genius that the Forums relegate the political crazies to the Political Forums rather than allowing (or even actively encouraging) them to be party-poopers and reminding us of all the bad things happening in the world all the time, even under drawings of puppies and rainbows. All this seems to combine into a website where everyone has a surprisingly-equal shot at being seen (and receiving constructive critique!) and ensuring Newgrounds is actually a source of escapism rather than a source of anxiety, so long as you don’t actively pick fights with strangers—very refreshing after several miserable years with Twitter and especially Facebook, both of which seem to have only gotten more toxic and more difficult to curate or share art that will get noticed since I left!

Tom Fulp seems to have figured out this tricky social-media balance long before the mainstream sites of today even existed. Why does the industry keep insisting on celebrating sociopathic world-destroying creeps like Mark Zuckerberg and not him?