When did Newgrounds lose its identity?
>>150231499When the flash player was killed.
When FNF blew up around 2020/2021, now it's just fags from Twitter trying to be the 5000th OneyNG wannabe or making the same gimicky pixel art game with a "deep" messageThere's some good porn on there though
>>150231499Probably around the time Youtube first got popular and everyone realized there was more money to be made there.
>>150231568>When FNF blew up around 2020/2021zoomie moment.
>>150231499NG was already on the way out in the late 2000s as Flash animations moved to creators' own websites (Weebl's Stuff, AlbinoBlackSheep, etc.) or YouTube, and flash games went to either the developers' own websites or aggregators (Kongregate, Friv, Andkon, etc.). You could say it was conclusively over by the time the iPhone became mainstream, as that was pretty much the death knell of Flash as a whole. The last time I was on Newgrounds was around early 2021, and the entire site was just FNF stuff. Now, even that game is irrelevant. NG simply isn't worthwhile to modern audiences, especially as it's a site designed exclusively for desktop viewing.
>>150231568NG was going downhill way before that
>>150231499The best thing about Newgrounds is that even of your video only gets like 10k views you'll still get dozens of comments and multiple reviews, whereas in YouTube you'd only get a handful of comments
>>150231568>When FNF blew up around 2020/2021Newgrounds had already lost its sense of self like 10 years before that, 5 if I'm being extremely generous
Steve Jobs' letter where he explained why he thought Flash sucked was the beginning of the end
>>150231793A powerful e-fatwa, and he was entirely right of course.
>>150231499When 4chan lost itSame period when the normalization happened
>>1502326772012 was the merge into the bad timeline. the mayans were right.
>>150231499Steve shitting on flash.The funkening.That said, I still check in from time to time, there's art and animations I find neat here or there.
at the very least, it's one of the few sites that has shit and characters to call it's very own even after all this time
>>150231564This and Egoraptor abandoning and wishing ill will on everyone. Making Newgrounds even more niche. Anything worth wafch was also on YouTube and left wing fags avoided Newgrounds.
>>150233016True but the good shit is usually reuploaded on youtube or twitter
>>150233047funny since i remember him especially being the one that wanted to gatekeep his animation to ng