i dunno man. it just seems like newgrounds is no longer a hub for creator expression and unique products that don't exist anywhere else but some weird nostalgia porn cesspool. "WOAW WE MADE A [Macromedia Flash MX 2004] GAME!! IT'S A TRIBUTE TO 2000s NEWGROUNDS!!1!" yeah okay but wouldn't your time be better spent making something new? wouldn't your time be better spent making something that the new audience of this website can enjoy and not just your longing to go back to a time when you were younger or feed into your own romanticized vision of what this websites past looked like?

i just think that if this is actually the way we're gonna continue going, newgrounds won't exist anymore. at least not in the way it does now and certainly not how it was when we remember it. it'll just be an echo chamber of pico and FNF characters and nothing else. i don't see anyone making tributes to Fred Figglehorn and Annoying Orange on youtube. they moved on and made new creations over the twenty years that website has existed.

i get that these guys are the mascots of newgrounds but i don't think it would kill anyone if we just dropped it and left it at just that - mascots.