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Newgrounds Was Funny When... was a meme that was deadpooled on KnowYourMeme (dang, I have spent too much time on that website), so the idea of Newgrounds not being good anymore was already something that was not that popular on the Internet anyway! Then again, this is the same website that deadpooled "Narwhals". Of course, they are also the guys who confirmed "Amazing Horse" or "Get On My Horse".

At 10/6/10 09:10 AM, TomFulp wrote: I still want my original Assassin games back. :(

http://web.archive.org/web/1999042005492 6/http://www.newgrounds.com/assassin/ind ex.html

A lot of people seem to be ungrateful and too nostalgic to see the beauties of the present.

Oh wow, 7 pages. This is the most successful/active thread I've ever made. Probably because it had a productive and thought provoking goal and not just me trolling to piss people off.

In all seriousness though, your responses have been very informative regarding the history of Newgrounds. When I made it I thought that if we could identify what made Newgrounds supposedly better "back in the day" we could try to restore its glory, but now it sounds like its simply a mixture of nostolgia and favored people leaving.

Also, horray for Tom Fulp posting on my thread! He only got on to call it a "repeat thread" and to tell his employees to get back to work but still... TOM FULP!

I love how the moment a moderator came in and told everyone off who more than likely "complained about Newgrounds today at some point", the thread opinion suddenly shifted from jokes about how it was better to more bitching about why it isn't.

Follow the leader.

At 10/6/10 05:01 PM, studmuffin7 wrote: Also, horray for Tom Fulp posting on my thread! He only got on to call it a "repeat thread" and to tell his employees to get back to work but still... TOM FULP!

YoinK posted in one of my threads not too long ago.

Neener neener.

The BBS was worst back then.

At 10/6/10 09:12 AM, ryanson209 wrote:

At 10/6/10 09:10 AM, TomFulp wrote:

At 10/6/10 09:04 AM, Coop83 wrote: Yeah, speaking of which I still want the music back for Assassin pages >:(

I still want my original Assassin games back. :(

Will a tribute in the Newgrounds Anthology book suffice?

Will it have the music? If so, yes. If not, no, hang your head in shame.

At 10/6/10 05:22 PM, kittehg0d wrote: The BBS was worst back then.

Nonsense! :P

Newgrounds is still Awesome

At 10/6/10 09:32 AM, Lintire wrote: This should answer everyone's questions.

Sounds pretty shitty to me. :P

But really, I agree with you. Newgrounds is THE shit.

At 10/5/10 12:27 PM, PsychoGoldfish wrote: People just don't like the fact that Newgrounds kinda grew up and matured a little. The standards for quality, be it in flash, audio, bbs activities, etc went up and all the worthless trolls who really didn't do jack shit to improve anything here didn't enjoy themselves as much anymore.

If you ask the non BBS community about whether or not NG was better back in the day, most of them will say no. Back in the day, most flash had shitty art, was full of spam, and developers couldn't actually make a living doing what they love.

The big divide in who likes old NG vs current NG directly relates to whether or not they actually contributed anything of value.

Hmmm, really?

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At 10/6/10 08:54 AM, cast wrote:

At 10/6/10 05:34 AM, Monocrom wrote:

At 10/5/10 11:35 AM, Hyrcia wrote: Everything, by everyone.

The problems of tomorrow, today.

Wait... What?javascript:BBSPost.Save();

Yeah, it's all coming back to you.

I still remember "Attn: Samantha."

Greatest deleted thread ever! It was huge! I was epic! Can't delete what's in my head. I don't forget shit! Ha ha!

At 10/6/10 10:41 AM, smeagol1 wrote:

At 10/5/10 03:15 PM, PsychoGoldfish wrote: FACT: Chronamut is a fag who makes faggy music for the fags in fagtown to do their faggy fag dances to.

FACT: I would of have been banned if I were to post that. How the fuck can a filthy ginger get away with it!?

Calling the superior race "filthy" is not a wise idea.

At 10/5/10 09:18 PM, Doomsday-One wrote:

At 10/5/10 09:07 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:

At 10/5/10 11:39 AM, Luis wrote: Back in the day, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble

and children respected their elders. Respect your elders.

Believed to be a quote from Socrates in 5th century BCE.
Not one generation in the history of mankind has ever respected their elders.

Naw we're quoting from the excellent lecture turned song, Wear Sunscreen. If we'd quoted all of that particular passage it goes:

"Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will
philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize
that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were
noble and children respected their elders. Respect your elders."

BBS has always been a shit hole. In four years it has not changed at all.

Animation has gotten better and better. My only complaint is that there used to be more female voice actors. Now it's just that Rinachan weaboo who makes my ears bleed.

I remember being shown this site when I was about 8 by my cousin. Back then it was still all Osama Bin Laden stuff covering the front page, every one of which depicting him being killed in a humerous way.
When I came back years later and saw how much everything had progressed, I couldn't help but gasp away to myself. Gasp, gasp gasp, I did.

At 10/5/10 02:33 PM, liljim wrote: doesn't seem as though you're restricting yourself from making full advantage

OH... You can see that kind of stuff? ...

How embarrassing for me.

The flash animations, games, art, audio and features are at their peak of awesome and the forums is pretty much the same as it always has been (except maybe not as nice as it was pre-2004).

As said before, Newgrounds will keep changing and the people on Newgrounds today will say that 2010 was the "good old days" and the cycle will repeat itself...or something like that.

At 10/9/10 08:54 AM, PabMo wrote:

At 10/5/10 02:33 PM, liljim wrote: doesn't seem as though you're restricting yourself from making full advantage

OH... You can see that kind of stuff? ...

How embarrassing for me.

They're the Newgrounds staff. They can choose who lives and who dies.

I personally miss the old way that you played flashes.

At 10/9/10 02:54 PM, Holonboy wrote: I personally miss the old way that you played flashes.

Can't you switch to the classic view in your account or something? Or are you talking about some older way I have no idea about?

Either way, people will always be complaining about shit not being good as they were in the old days. It's really just human nature to have nostalgia like that.

The Newgrounds I remember from three years ago (today being my 3-year-anniversary, hooray) had fewer shitty corporate games and more shitty spam. To be honest, I'm starting to think the spam was better for the site, though it would be best if every submission was good rather than spam or cookie-cutter corporate crap. The forums were... Well, the video game forum, the writing forum, they came in my time, not sure about which others but I think it was animation and collaboration. But they're mostly the same quality they were back then, for better or for worse. It's more or less the same as it was back then.

The only thing that makes me worry is P-Bot's daily posts: compare the most recent to this one from about three years ago. You'll notice that there were more "popular" artists submitting back then, and I've noticed that there were more submissions in general in those days. And I guess the stuff that used to steal Underdog and earn Turd made a bigger splash back then: you people expect a deleted Underdog or Turd. That "Entry deleted" text had to be added because before my time people didn't get deleted in three days, but during my time Underdog decayed into the "Mass-Reviewers Award" and was more often deleted. And let me tell you about the spammers back then! Nowadays, you rarely get to know the spammers. They spam, they get deleted, they make a new account, you don't know where most of them come from, it's hard to deduce a pattern of activity and figure out who's who behind each alt. Back in late 2007, early 08, the start of my period here, you could run into spammers on the forums. You could cross paths with them, butt heads with them, learn from them. You'd run into members of spam groups on a regular basis, and aside from the spam and the crew stuff, they were regular Newgrounders. Spammers now just adopt a one-note "evil" gimmick and waste nothing but their own time and a minute of Wade's. They don't get any attention, because they neither do anything big enough to get attention (like when Chris Beer and his friends hacked moderators) nor do they stay around long enough to build attention (like when the Kitty Krew spammed the Portal).

But regular users are now as they were then. In fact, I'd say this is the best the forums could be right now.

I think the old layout was cooler and also more flashes would get blammed and nowadays they're all getting saved and I'm all like "wut"

If you don't know when Newgrounds was Awesome!, I will tell you a brief history of Newgrounds! :D The greatest and old cool popular website ever!, Before YouTube!, Newgrounds was a cool website where you can submit Flash!, It started in 1995!, Where a Magazine became a website!, However it was interesting in 1998!, In 1999!, A game called Pico's School was the first popular game ever on Newgrounds!, In the end of 1999!, There was a new feature on Newgrounds called Grounds Gold which some people and some staff just signed up to it on the day it was launched on Newgrounds!, In 2000!, There was a new Feature called The Portal!, Where you can submit your very own flash movies and games!, Also it made a new feature called The BBS!, Where you can submit posts about your life and stuff!, Also in the Portal you can submit reviews about the flash submissions!, The reviews came up with Graphics, Sound, Interactivity, Style, Violence, Humor and Overall voting on the reviews you make and submit on flash submissions!, In 2003!, There was no music to download on Newgrounds!, And many submissions dosen't even have music from Newgrounds so Newgrounds decided to make a new feature called the Newgrounds Audio Portal!, In 2004!, A new redesign Part 1!, Was made and launched on Newgrounds!, The Reviews were updated!, The front page was updated!, Everything was updated on Newgrounds!, It made many new features on Newgrounds!, In 2005!, The Redesign was updated!, It updated the Ratings and it updated the Play text button!, In 2006!, The new logo was launched and it made a Redesign Part 3!, In the middle of 2007!, The grand finale redesign was launched and it was upgraded!, The levels were upgraded to 60 levels instead of 30 levels!, The reviews were upgraded but the Graphics, Sound, Interactivitiy, Style, Violence And Humor voting on reviews were removed!, Now it only has the overall score voting!, The Gold profiles were upgraded!, In 2008!, There was the first annual Tank Awards were they awarded the most popular best flash submissions in Newgrounds!, In 2009!, The Flash Pages were upgraded and made a new thing called In-Page flash views were you can see them automatically!, And they made a New feature for Flash Games called Medals!, You need to have a feature called Flash API to make medals!, In 2010!, They made a new Newgrounds holiday called Robot Day!, And in September 22, 2010!, They made a new top picture on Madness Day!, So that is the full history of Newgrounds! :D

I think the old theme was a lot better. Yes we have more functionality & way better content along with further recognition & success, but the old Newgrounds just looked better. It had more of a 'Newgrounds feel', like it represented the site better than this dark blue & orange madness. I mean, the other themes had more tastiness visually. The art was partly made to look like it was wearing away. The only thing made to look like the environment has affected this theme is the pain splodges left & right of the banner.

At 10/10/10 02:36 PM, GOTHCLAWZ wrote: I think the old theme was a lot better. Yes we have more functionality & way better content along with further recognition & success, but the old Newgrounds just looked better. It had more of a 'Newgrounds feel', like it represented the site better than this dark blue & orange madness. I mean, the other themes had more tastiness visually. The art was partly made to look like it was wearing away. The only thing made to look like the environment has affected this theme is the pain splodges left & right of the banner.

The only colors that the Newgrounds Staff AKA Newgrounds Site Adminstrators believe that they only use Black and Orange for the site not Dark Blue and Orange!, Ask TomFulp about that!, Or the other Newgrounds Site Adminstrators AKA Newgrounds Staff!

Newgrounds was awesome back then Now its flooded with a bunch of little kids

I remember when I saw "Newgrounds used to be awesome" as a deadpooled meme in KnowYourMeme. So if that is a rejected meme, then it must not be real. Seriously, we have declined ever since YouTube was made. I think in terms of videos, we may have even been the most popular website of its kind before YT. It could be worse, no one even talks about Ebaumsworld nowadays, but Newgrounds submissions at least get popular on YT.