Hey guys, Steve here. Since around 2018, Newgrounds hasn’t been the same.

Remember when you only had to upload movies with early Hyperboy quality and maybe copyrighted music to get frontpaged? That was around 2005-07. Now you have to be lucky enough to have Harry Patridge’s style and your movie has to be weird (at least for me) and NO COPYRIGHTED MUSIC, and the movie would get frontpaged.

Look at Harry Partridge for example! (The following I’m about to say isn’t meant to talk shit about him, sorry if you take offense to it, Harry. Your style is really good.) He can upload a bad animation and it would get frontpaged. He can upload just a single frame of a dot in 1p and it would get frontpaged. He can literally upload ANYTHING. It would get frontpaged because it’s Harry Partridge. Not saying his animations are bad, just saying that you’d have to be as lucky as him to get your movies frontpaged.

I’m just trying to revive old movies! I’m trying to reminisce the old times of Newgrounds. And it does not work because my movies always get removed!

Now, if your movie has copyrighted music, it would not get frontpage. And if you’re not lucky, if your movie has copyrighted music, it would get deleted!

This is just YouTube all over again.

And it makes me wish I was born in 1988 and/or I joined Newgrounds earlier. Since 2017, the user icons and avatars are meant to be the same! This really sucks.

In conclusion, I hope Tom Fulp and the mods can learn from their mistakes, and bring back the old times. Not everybody likes change because sometimes changes can make your experience worse, and that’s what they’re doing with Newgrounds. It’s still a good site, I just wish we could be able bring old things back without being prohibited to, have movies with even copyrighted music and low animation quality frontpaged. I JUST WANT OLD NEWGROUNDS BACK!