Without you and this website, the internet would be way different, I just wanted to say, thank you, this website is the place where I spent the majority of my childhood growing up (And lots of people did the same as well!) with these animations, songs and games, LOTS of games. Newgrounds is the perfect example that all you need is a strong community, we saw it when Flash died, we saw it when Among Us and FNF broke the charts, and we see it every year with the Pico day!
I love the fact that this page, this platform should I say, is getting back to it's peak, when everyone was talking about Newgrounds and all of the talented artists, giving their love and efforts to make games, music, animations and art without charging to see it and enjoy it. To believe that it returned so hard that it literally broke the site, it's amazing.
And the best part. New people are discovering Newgrounds, discovering who is Tankman and why everyone loves him, who is StrawberryClock and why his most iconic post is a letter B, characters like Salad fingers, series like Madness Combat, Pico's friends, Alien Hominid. It's amazing to scroll through Twitter and/or Devianart and see lots of Fanarts about this characters (Unless it's stolen art, if so, F-ing stop, please). How they're regaining Internet's popularity, how everyone's talking again about my favorite site is breathtaking. Amazing people joining the amazing community.
I personally haven't seen any cases of harassment over here, unlike Twitter where everyone fights against everyone for artists that wouldn't give a cent to their fanbases.
And finally, the fact that Newgrounds gets all of it's resources via donations means that Newgrounds can be whatever the community wants to, I mean, it has rules, but it won't censor artists for making something a marketing agent would hate. No annoying pop-up ads, not controlled by a company that decides what's right and what's wrong, and most of the time, part of those resources go back to the fans with prize pools like in the animation Jams! I haven't seen other websites do that.
Despite the fact that my account is a few months old, I was here every single day after school, playing Newgrounds rumble, watching music animations, getting traumas because of David Firth (Thanks a lot, tho!).
To new users, welcome to Newgrounds! And to old users, welcome back!
I just wanted to say, thank you!