Holy shit Newgrounds is still around? I thought it died with Geocities, Limewire, and Napster.
Newgrounds has had kind of a Mercurial Arc. It's had multiple incarnations, which go as follows:
1. The Beginning
Hallmarked by primitive flash videos, of which we all know and laugh at. A Big Black Guy Named Ben and Madness and all of those.
2. The Caress
Marked by some new content and the allowance of adult flash.
3. The Clock Era
Marked by dominance of the fucking Clock Crew, which were essentially the One Direction of flashmovies. To this day they live in infamy on Newgrounds (despite some great flashes to their name) and have been mocked in everything from Arfenhouse to Animutations.
4. The Time of Suck
A dark period wherein Newgrounds' hosts flooded it with spyware, malware, and porn.
5. The New Dawn
When Newgrounds switched hosts. Marked by a massive resurgence of good new content creators.
6. The Floodgates
When art and music could be hosted, adding ten fucktons of new content to Newgrounds, much of it enjoyable. Resulted in many exiles from FurAffinity and the like taking up shop, as well as dedicated communities like those from OCRemix.
7. Present Day
Where we are now. Newgrounds is still basically the same as it's always been, only now it allows art/music hosting and complains about Adblock/NoScript, even though the main people who actively use it on Newgrounds are those who remember The Time of Suck.
