I miss General Forum.

Just another failed young adult who likes music and drawing. Nothing interesting.
Someday I will be a great illustrator, I promise... I hope.

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I miss General Forum.

Posted by Zyo - January 9th, 2025

Maybe I didn't interact, comment or post as much as I wanted to in them because I'm too shy (And my English is not good at all. My mother tongue is Spanish and I have a hard time writing and speaking in English, but I try :'D), but I really like reading the threads, the discussions and the community that is created in them...

Really, I feel that something is missing on this page since the General Forum died.

I don't want to be misunderstood. I still love Newgrounds, I still love coming to see, play and listen to everything that is uploaded here. I don't think the death of the General Forum will kill Newgrounds or anything. Newgrounds is still my favorite site on the internet. But I feel like something is wrong...

IDK. I know Tom and the Newgrounds team had their reasons for closing it, and I respect that very much. They just want to do what's best for NG and I understand that.

Maybe is just me.

Maybe I'm just Abraham Simpson, screaming to a cloud...

That's all... I just miss General Forum a lot.

Bye 🖤

EDIT:

I know the Supporter Forum is basically "General 2". For the moment I can't afford to pay the Supporter Upgrade, but someday I'm gonna do again :'D

Someday...

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xeiavica 2025-01-09 09:30:12

Supporter forum has more or less become general 2: electric boogaloo.

Zyo 2025-01-09 09:30:12

I know that, when I can, I like to pay the Upgrade. But usually I don't have money for that u.u
Someday I gonna go and pay for it and talk with all of you there...
But, for the moment, Im poor xD

SteveMaddenFootball 2025-01-09 09:31:21

The Supporter Party is kind of new general. It requires having Supporter status to use.

Zyo 2025-01-09 09:31:21

I know, but I have ZERO MONEYS!
Someday I'm gonna pay again the upgrade :'D

ShangXian 2025-01-09 09:35:58

I agree with @xeiavica and @aalasteir when it comes to supporter forum. I was there for two months and the vibe is very similar. Never had good laughs in ages when visiting and interacting with it XD

Zyo 2025-01-09 09:35:58

As I said to them:
Yeh, I know that, when I could, I paid for the Supporter Upgrade. I can't afford to pay that Upgrade for now. But someday I'm gonna pay i :'D

SteveMaddenFootball 2025-01-09 10:01:04

@Zyo if you make a quick doodle of OC Aafaa -
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/omenakettu/aafaa-reference-sheet

I will give you one month of Supporter.

How did you get interested in Newgrounds?

Zyo 2025-01-09 10:01:04

Wait...
Really?
YEAH! I can do that :'D
Does something like this work for you?
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/zyo/lizardi-garibaldi
We can see the details by MD :D

I met Newgrounds when I was 9 years old or something like that in 2009 or 2010. I was looking for games on google. Some of the sites I used to use took and stole NG games and had the Preloaders with Tankman, Madness Day or something NG related, so.... One day I clicked and got here. That's when I understand that all the flash games and animations I loved are from here, and the love was born. I started looking for Sonic and Mario games (again, I was 9 years old, don't judge me so much xD) but, eventually I saw references to the original characters, memes and content, Bitey from Brackenwood in Sonic Shorts 4 or the Dancing Bannana in Super Mario Bros Z for example, so I started watching and playing the classic flash content, and I just loved it.

In fact, as a fun fact, this account is not my first account. I had another account called “Zyo123” (because I'm super original) a long time ago, but I deleted it because I'm an idiot xD
That's the summary of how I got here I how the love of this site and its content, creators and art was born :'D

ShangXian 2025-01-09 10:10:53

@Zyo @Aalasteir Same here, for now I have to wait but once I am afford it by myself I will get one so I can help this site a bit and most of all I can help other artists with Tuesday Takeover^^

SteveMaddenFootball 2025-01-09 11:49:27

@Zyo Yes, something like that does work! Absolutely!

Thank you for sharing the story of how interested in Newgrounds!

How would you describe the atmosphere at the time?

HenryEYES 2025-01-10 16:38:47

me too, it was a magical little wild card that can't really be replaced by anything like twitter or whatever... kinda sucks that kids will never know the "magic" of that place

Zyo 2025-01-10 16:38:47

Yeah...
I mean, at least the threads are still there. At least we can go and see the things that happen. Sometimes I go and read very old threads, before I start to use Newgrounds, that era was really wild. Stuff like "Dick Neck", "Grab Her Dick", The Dovahkhiiin1994 Saga, etc...I wasn't here for a lot of them, but I love reading them. It's like reading ancient history or something.

I miss General Forum.

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