Yo what’s up New Grounds people. Thanks for 198 fans! Man it doesn’t feel too long ago when I was just bullshitting on Newgrounds with maybe 16 fans. I know with sites like Twitter, Youtube, etc. the follower numbers are much higher across the board (I myself have around 270 Twitter followers lol) but really those numbers don’t really mean as much as the Newgrounds numbers do. I know on Newgrounds, when someone follows me, I feel like they did so because they genuinely wanted to see what else I had. They cared about the things I made and did here.

Without Newgrounds I really don’t know where I’d be. I learned how to actually program (previoously I was using stuff like Stencyl, Renpy, or RPG Maker) from the Flixel tutorial game that's linked in the wiki. I did that during the summer animation jams of 2016. I’m not some aspiring animator or anything, but this site and the people on it give me a certain inspiration to create things like nothing else has. Before Newgrounds, I’d never even consider the thought of making music, since I had about zero experience or even interest previously. Before Newgrounds I wasn’t interested in art or creating it. The only Newgrounds relevant things that I did before I went on the site was making games, and animations (shitty SFM ones at that). So I think that’s why I still come to the “dead, inactive” Newgrounds, because of the community of people who share, collaborate, and interact on the site. Sure there are other reasons why but without the community of people that the site fosters so well, it’s very likely that I would have never stayed active on Newgrounds. And I’ll be making garbage games, all by myself, and complaining in some forum about why others are more successful than me or some shit like that. But instead, I’m making music and posting it to the audio portal, I practice art (or at least try heheh), I make games about once a month, and I often do those with other Newgrounds people. And I wouldn't have done any of this without the inspiration that this community gave me.

From late 2015 to mid 2017, I was living with a foster parent. In that time we had a bunch of disagreements and arguments, almost always because of the time I spent on the computer. Her main concerns were that I wasn’t interacting with people or doing anything with my life. But never once have I felt like that was true. Before Newgrounds, I’d just spend all my time playing games and whatnot. However after I came here, there was something for me to do, which all I wanted to do was make stuff and post it to Newgrounds. Because I didn't just want to sit by the sidelines and spectate while others do the creating, I wanted to be deep in the site and make ALL the shit. Maybe it’s an ego thing or something, but it got me to do shit. And to this day I plan on continuing to “do shit” around here for much longer. Either until I get banned or site dies lol.

When I thought of writing this post, I had SO much shit I wanted to say, like how the “Are we talking about Tom Fulp” copypasta is a scarily accurate representation of me. Or why the project system is the tightest shit. But I could probably write a whole novel on why I love and appreciate Newgrounds so much, and what it all means to me. Maybe I’d do so and post it do other sites like Medium.com and share it to other sites and be like a Newgrounds missionary lmao.

Anyways that’s enough weenie shit, yall probably already heard stuff similar to this in that Kaptainkristian vid from last year. I’m workin on a bunch of COOL SHIT, and the summer animation jams start TOMORROW, so that’s gonna be great. Also oops Robot Day July 10th too, maybe I’ll make a game for that. Also I’m doing a super small game, coming pretty soon. Also as usual I’m still working on that game with PhantomArcade, and it’s still good as hell (don’t wanna hype it up too much heheh). And it’s also very likely that I’ll be releasing a small EP of music sometime this month. THE POINT IS…. yall can probably catch me working on all of these live on Twitch so go drop a follow heheh https://www.twitch.tv/ninja_muffin99 HAHA GOTEEM (really tho it’d be sweet if Newgrounds had their own creative livestreaming platform, or at least some Twitch integration for when someone is live, take notes Tom)

THAT’S THE END OF THE NEWSPOST, THANKS FOR BEING COOL GUYS

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