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

Age 24, Male, he / him

Graph Design Student

ChileGET ME OUT OF LATAM

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

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

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

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

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

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

@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?

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

@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^^

@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?

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

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.