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Kikamations
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-05 08:12:20

At 2/3/25 10:23 PM, svarthol wrote:So I just wanted to know how popular new grounds still is , I still see new content but I don’t really see a lot of reviews. But this is just a weird question because I really want to start posting on this website but I don’t want to post on a dying website (even tho it’s not but I just want to make sure)


im new to NG for the most part. never really knew about it until like last year..

i LOVE it. i love the old internet essance that is lost in the rest of the internet, with how anti-slop and anti-AI it is and how it can be an alternative to youtube as a video hosting site, its also incredible.

i think it might become more popular if anything. and i hope it stays exactly the same.. and doesnt change. we need more socials like these.. where community is more important than views.

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Kikamations
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-05 08:16:22

At 2/4/25 01:27 PM, DEOGIE wrote:
At 2/3/25 10:23 PM, svarthol wrote:So I just wanted to know how popular new grounds still is , I still see new content but I don’t really see a lot of reviews. But this is just a weird question because I really want to start posting on this website but I don’t want to post on a dying website (even tho it’s not but I just want to make sure)

Newgrounds have been on the internet even before social media was a thing. Is one of the only places of the internet were you can post your stuff and let the quality of it speak for itself, where everyday you can see something new by someone that you never heard of, hence the name Newgrounds. I already had two accounts here during my teenager years and this place was detrimental for me to understand internet culture and develop my passion for drawing. It's common to new and younger users come here expecting to this place to operate like Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok and etc, but we don't do that here. So yeah, don't expect doom scroller normies to be here, since is a website and not an app, everyone that is here is here because they want to see and create cool stuff just for the sake of it.


this is EXACTLY WHY i love NG so much! its not an app. its not made for doom scrolling. its made for people who want to see and are curious on finding new things. NG is more meaningful than social medias apps

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Porter
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-05 09:24:34

It's refreshing to see a website have a community dedicated to sharing their works since the Portal launched 25 years ago. No need for company merges to "enhance" the user experience or forcing users to see something that they don't want to see. A lot of people I know have said it is just a "niche" and doesn't have that Xitter/Tumblr look or algorithm. But hey, what do I know? Everything is authentic and personal to me here, and that's why I love how "unpopular" it is in here.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

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robotjones02
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-05 21:43:19

Newgrounds is a great place for hosting and sharing art, but they have been seriously pushing the popularity contest aspect lately, not to mention the supporter exclusive features

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BrandyBuizel
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-05 22:13:36

At 2/5/25 09:43 PM, robotjones02 wrote:Newgrounds is a great place for hosting and sharing art, but they have been seriously pushing the popularity contest aspect lately, not to mention the supporter exclusive features


i think we should be careful in our wording on the subject so it doesn't get misconstrued. There are systems in place like pbot that reliably ACT like popularity contests, but there isn't a Newgrounds agenda in the background to suck the dick of only the most popular creators. There is a push for supporter exclusive features but that thankfully thus far they've only been additions and not subtractions to the website experience!

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Czyszy
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-05 22:23:05

At 2/5/25 09:24 AM, Porter wrote:It's refreshing to see a website have a community dedicated to sharing their works since the Portal launched 25 years ago. No need for company merges to "enhance" the user experience or forcing users to see something that they don't want to see. A lot of people I know have said it is just a "niche" and doesn't have that Xitter/Tumblr look or algorithm. But hey, what do I know? Everything is authentic and personal to me here, and that's why I love how "unpopular" it is in here.


That's why Newgrounds feels like a community, rather than another algorithm labor camp like YouTube.

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robotjones02
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-06 00:24:11

At 2/5/25 10:13 PM, BrandyBuizel wrote:
At 2/5/25 09:43 PM, robotjones02 wrote:Newgrounds is a great place for hosting and sharing art, but they have been seriously pushing the popularity contest aspect lately, not to mention the supporter exclusive features

i think we should be careful in our wording on the subject so it doesn't get misconstrued. There are systems in place like pbot that reliably ACT like popularity contests, but there isn't a Newgrounds agenda in the background to suck the dick of only the most popular creators. There is a push for supporter exclusive features but that thankfully thus far they've only been additions and not subtractions to the website experience!


I mean on the topic of supporter features, the majority of the active bbs threads are locked behind the vip section, and the free ones are a bit dormant otherwise

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BrandyBuizel
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-06 00:32:34 (edited 2025-02-06 00:32:55)

At 2/6/25 12:24 AM, robotjones02 wrote:
At 2/5/25 10:13 PM, BrandyBuizel wrote:
At 2/5/25 09:43 PM, robotjones02 wrote:Newgrounds is a great place for hosting and sharing art, but they have been seriously pushing the popularity contest aspect lately, not to mention the supporter exclusive features

i think we should be careful in our wording on the subject so it doesn't get misconstrued. There are systems in place like pbot that reliably ACT like popularity contests, but there isn't a Newgrounds agenda in the background to suck the dick of only the most popular creators. There is a push for supporter exclusive features but that thankfully thus far they've only been additions and not subtractions to the website experience!

I mean on the topic of supporter features, the majority of the active bbs threads are locked behind the vip section, and the free ones are a bit dormant otherwise


let's debunk this right quick:

  • there are 14 BBS forums currently active
  • There are roughly 6.4 million posts across these active forum categories since the site's creation
  • There is ONE supporter-exclusive forum with ~130,000 posts total


Here's what today's Supporter Party looks like:


iu_1348337_5660743.webp


The other 13 forums aren't dorment, supporter party just now serves the purpose of the now-closed general forum

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robotjones02
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-06 00:47:32

At 2/6/25 12:32 AM, BrandyBuizel wrote:
At 2/6/25 12:24 AM, robotjones02 wrote:
At 2/5/25 10:13 PM, BrandyBuizel wrote:
At 2/5/25 09:43 PM, robotjones02 wrote:Newgrounds is a great place for hosting and sharing art, but they have been seriously pushing the popularity contest aspect lately, not to mention the supporter exclusive features

i think we should be careful in our wording on the subject so it doesn't get misconstrued. There are systems in place like pbot that reliably ACT like popularity contests, but there isn't a Newgrounds agenda in the background to suck the dick of only the most popular creators. There is a push for supporter exclusive features but that thankfully thus far they've only been additions and not subtractions to the website experience!

I mean on the topic of supporter features, the majority of the active bbs threads are locked behind the vip section, and the free ones are a bit dormant otherwise

let's debunk this right quick:

Here's what today's Supporter Party looks like:


The other 13 forums aren't dorment, supporter party just now serves the purpose of the now-closed general forum


its just that the general forum was a pretty large part of the bbs, and its now behind paywall, just saying

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BrandyBuizel
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-06 01:06:35

At 2/6/25 12:47 AM, robotjones02 wrote:
At 2/6/25 12:32 AM, BrandyBuizel wrote:
At 2/6/25 12:24 AM, robotjones02 wrote:
At 2/5/25 10:13 PM, BrandyBuizel wrote:
At 2/5/25 09:43 PM, robotjones02 wrote:Newgrounds is a great place for hosting and sharing art, but they have been seriously pushing the popularity contest aspect lately, not to mention the supporter exclusive features

i think we should be careful in our wording on the subject so it doesn't get misconstrued. There are systems in place like pbot that reliably ACT like popularity contests, but there isn't a Newgrounds agenda in the background to suck the dick of only the most popular creators. There is a push for supporter exclusive features but that thankfully thus far they've only been additions and not subtractions to the website experience!

I mean on the topic of supporter features, the majority of the active bbs threads are locked behind the vip section, and the free ones are a bit dormant otherwise

let's debunk this right quick:

Here's what today's Supporter Party looks like:


The other 13 forums aren't dorment, supporter party just now serves the purpose of the now-closed general forum

its just that the general forum was a pretty large part of the bbs, and its now behind paywall, just saying


I promise you the level of activity doesn't come close to the General forum. you aren't missing out that badly and if you have a thread you want to start on newgrounds, worth starting on newgrounds, there's a forum you can do that in


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Zaycool97
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-06 04:54:12

I used to be on Newgrounds years ago until 2019 as I kind of dipped out after witnessing at least one or two low star ratings of my art during the pre "five ratings required" era as it got me questioning if I should improve my contents while not worry about the reviews from random people after the fact or popularities. Then I return to this site again in 2020 after watching few videos as well as posted an art of a mad scientist named Dr. Deadbrain and left again. Can't remember if I posted a comment in one of the videos after 2020. A certain anniversary video of Pac-Man, maybe?


Recently, around 2023 or 2024, I'm starting to be a bit more frequent on Newgrounds than before cause not only it's still a really cool site, but the artists, even those who are younger than me, got even cooler than what I last saw almost a decade ago. Hell, I even comments stuff much more as I'm getting into socializing random people (thanks Discord).


Sure, Newgrounds may not be Twitter-level of popularity but, imo, I rather have it stick to its own guns (or tank cannons) than chasing the fame for more people which could lead to pure toxicity, freaks, or even worse. Like a new art site called Cara, I think Newgrounds is better off being of what it is with its really cool community.

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Endboi
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-06 09:21:32

I feel like all the cool stuff that everyone knows about came from Newgrounds (or at least the creators of said cool stuff did)

Like... Spooky Month, Smiling Friends, FNF, that one Weird Al song, they are all intrinsically tied to Newgrounds

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Tango
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-06 18:06:56

At 2/6/25 01:06 AM, BrandyBuizel wrote:
At 2/6/25 12:47 AM, robotjones02 wrote:
At 2/6/25 12:32 AM, BrandyBuizel wrote:
At 2/6/25 12:24 AM, robotjones02 wrote:
At 2/5/25 10:13 PM, BrandyBuizel wrote:
At 2/5/25 09:43 PM, robotjones02 wrote:Newgrounds is a great place for hosting and sharing art, but they have been seriously pushing the popularity contest aspect lately, not to mention the supporter exclusive features

i think we should be careful in our wording on the subject so it doesn't get misconstrued. There are systems in place like pbot that reliably ACT like popularity contests, but there isn't a Newgrounds agenda in the background to suck the dick of only the most popular creators. There is a push for supporter exclusive features but that thankfully thus far they've only been additions and not subtractions to the website experience!

I mean on the topic of supporter features, the majority of the active bbs threads are locked behind the vip section, and the free ones are a bit dormant otherwise

let's debunk this right quick:

Here's what today's Supporter Party looks like:


The other 13 forums aren't dorment, supporter party just now serves the purpose of the now-closed general forum

its just that the general forum was a pretty large part of the bbs, and its now behind paywall, just saying

I promise you the level of activity doesn't come close to the General forum. you aren't missing out that badly and if you have a thread you want to start on newgrounds, worth starting on newgrounds, there's a forum you can do that in


Counterpoint: he IS missing out on a lot and he should give Tom his money.

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DioShiba
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-06 22:18:53

If generating content for popularity means making the most mentally retarded content that would appeal to the lowest common denominator, then I'd rather just end my career as an artist. Thankfully, with newgrounds around that doesn't have to be the case because I can at least write things genuinely than try to censor myself for the sake of a couple of morons who get offended at every little thing because they don't understand context and intent.


Youtube? TikTok? Forget it. There's a reason why I am NOT a fan of the fixation with the algorithms, forced content for statistics, constant advertising and questionable double standards those two platforms have because it's promoted the exact toxicity that has become too all too mainstream now and the sad part is, given the size of those platforms there isn't a whole lot to compete with them. That's why I prefer the grass roots approach Newgrounds has and not feel like I have to make sure the common clay of the internet is happy with what I'm doing.

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Quinnfinity3
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-06 22:42:54

Level 1 crook, level 50 THUG, level 100 MAFIA BOSS


Thats how mafia works


Chick "Dont worry, he's just a newgrounds noob"


Newgrounder "Why do they always pick thugs?"


in the future...


Chick "Hey newgrounder!" "Remember me?"


Newgrounds Swag Master "Beat it chick!"

Quinnfinity NG

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BrandyBuizel
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-06 22:52:33

At 2/6/25 06:06 PM, Tango wrote:
At 2/6/25 01:06 AM, BrandyBuizel wrote:
At 2/6/25 12:47 AM, robotjones02 wrote:
At 2/6/25 12:32 AM, BrandyBuizel wrote:
At 2/6/25 12:24 AM, robotjones02 wrote:
At 2/5/25 10:13 PM, BrandyBuizel wrote:
At 2/5/25 09:43 PM, robotjones02 wrote:Newgrounds is a great place for hosting and sharing art, but they have been seriously pushing the popularity contest aspect lately, not to mention the supporter exclusive features

i think we should be careful in our wording on the subject so it doesn't get misconstrued. There are systems in place like pbot that reliably ACT like popularity contests, but there isn't a Newgrounds agenda in the background to suck the dick of only the most popular creators. There is a push for supporter exclusive features but that thankfully thus far they've only been additions and not subtractions to the website experience!

I mean on the topic of supporter features, the majority of the active bbs threads are locked behind the vip section, and the free ones are a bit dormant otherwise

let's debunk this right quick:

Here's what today's Supporter Party looks like:


The other 13 forums aren't dorment, supporter party just now serves the purpose of the now-closed general forum

its just that the general forum was a pretty large part of the bbs, and its now behind paywall, just saying

I promise you the level of activity doesn't come close to the General forum. you aren't missing out that badly and if you have a thread you want to start on newgrounds, worth starting on newgrounds, there's a forum you can do that in

Counterpoint: he IS missing out on a lot and he should give Tom his money.


agreed, it's just not the BBS

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achyfi
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-07 05:49:45

I really love that newgrounds feels more community-based and its actually about art, I grew up on dA as a kid and posting art on NG now feels identical to how I felt posting art on dA 10 years ago, I'm doing it not because I want attention but because its something Im passionate about and want to share with other artists. Lots of fun to talk to people on the forums too. I dont feel any pressure to try and get big numbers here or whatever.


Twitter however felt like a game of who could successfully whore for attention the hardest and get the biggest numbers. Nobody on there actually likes drawing they just like bitching at other artists and putting each other down. I'd see posts get like 100k+ likes where it's someone quote-tweeting a drawing and bitching about how they dont like it. LMAO?

Its completely and utterly retarded

omgwtfbbq

┏(-_-)┛ woo yeah ┗(-_- )┓ oh yeah

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FalenDemo5
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-10 17:34:20

At this point I feel like Newgrounds might be more alive than DeviantArt, but that's just me.

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ICTOANio
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-10 19:41:26

At 2/10/25 05:34 PM, FalenDemo5 wrote:At this point I feel like Newgrounds might be more alive than DeviantArt, but that's just me.


deviantart... i haven't heard that name in a longgg time

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Did gyre and gymble in þe wabe:

All mimsy were þe borogoves;

And þe mome raths outgrabe.

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botlerino
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Response to New grounds popularity 2025-02-12 19:23:32

newgrounds isnt dead, its just not in its prime anymore

sucking on pastries all day long

professional rectangle drawer, beginner bitcoin miner

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