September has been a very terrible month for me.

Am I not allowed to express my opinions in public?, or provide any form of criticism, good bad or otherwise?

What do you want out of me?

Since I’m not using Twitter anymore, all my bullshitting will be coming from these NG newsposts.

To start, I’m recommending you watch Lessons in Meme Culture on YouTube. It’s great insight on what makes a great meme a great meme and if you like spreading that shit here, or you’d like to make a cartoon featuring a specific meme, it’s worth a watch.

For example, they recently did a video on the “Alphabet Lore”, which has roots right here on Newgrounds*

https://youtu.be/13WG0fSH768

*Also on Twitter and YouTube, but who cares?

UPDATE: Thanks for dropping the scores from 3.3 to 3.0 in a matter of days. You're a great help! I don't want to risk any more review bombing.

Yesterday I created a submission for the Big Boy Rumble Tumble, and I'd also like to take the opportunity to give my own, completely unbiased opinion on the animation jam as a whole

It's alright. A lot of the submissions were very enjoyable to watch, there's a simple and interesting premise, (ie. a fat guy who rumbles and tumbles, likes BBQing, etc), but is this really the "most important jam in all of Newgrounds' culture", worth giving away $1,000 to? That I'll let Morbius decide.

I don't exactly get the whole point of the jam. To me, this came right out of nowhere with no explanation. I'm guessing this was probably an inside joke started by either Chris Piche or someone in his friend circle, and I think this might've been a forced meme.

This definition from Know Your Meme seems to fit very well.

"Forced Memes refer to any "meme" that is artificially created and spread rather than organically spreading through word of mouth as a naturally created meme. Typically, forced memes made with the intent of becoming a meme are aggressively promoted by their creators, small dedicated groups or companies attempting to use them for viral marketing or astroturfing."

This doesn't automatically make a meme bad, but I also don't think Big Hoss had escaped his niche like clussy has. I appreciate the effort, but you got to let the people decide for themselves.

UPDATE: I temporarily removed and restored the submission to prevent any further review bombs.

I did not intend to destroy anyones fun or knock down the jam because I’m some stupid hater. I was excited for what was to come and I wanted to participate as well, and I did. Then Twitter happened and it all went downhill. I just thought it would’ve had a hard time reaching anyone who isn’t super balls deep in cringey zoomer culture, ie. most people. And the review bombing didn’t help either.

That’s all!

I'd like to apologize to not just the developers of Vizzy & The Lost Cat, @Just-a-ng-dummy, @DemisurgeX, @MarvelousToastbrand, and @Peti for their inclusion as "Schmucks of the Day" in the @Tankman Triweekly issue Super Happy Triothy Day 2, but also to every other Newgrounds user who saw the issue and were offended by it. I pushed it way too far and I've pretty much ran out of ideas.

I'm also sorry if my Pride Month message on the @Beggenrun account from over a year ago and my retweets were taken out of context and made this mess even worse.

Moving forward, I will remove their "Schmucks of the Day" listing and will not cross the line with future listings ever again.

A little belated, but the contest is over and the results are in! @53xy83457 is the unanimous winner by default, and thus wins a custom Flash animation from me.

Unfortunately, literally no one else made submissions aside from myself, so it's a very bittersweet victory, but congrats nonetheless!

We need to talk. Recently I've been getting lower scores than what I usually get, most notably my Summer Lovin' Jam entry, but this has also spread to several other submissions I've made this year.

Votes: 22 | Score: 3.69/5

Anything below 4 stars pretty much means "completely worthless" for NG Art Portal standards. My MS Paint doodles get higher scores than that!

What exactly did I do to warrant such low scores? Was I zerobombed? If so, what the hell do you want out of me?

UPDATE: It dropped further to 3.2/5. That is unacceptable!

No I'm not dead. Although Kitty Day was July 17th, the minicontest is still going. Full details here:

Deadline is still August 17th, which also overlaps Clock Day and @Stepford's game jam, so I'm making some changes.

1. Games + Audio submissions are allowed.
2. All 4 submissions are lumped into the same rankings, so there's now only one prize pool to worry about (which is STILL under no budget whatsoever, so I'm still drawing shit):

• 1st. Custom Flash animation from me (max. 30 seconds, I'll spend about a week on it)
• 2nd and 3rd. Free art commission from me (Flash or MS Paint)
• 4th and below: Free art commission from me (MS Paint)

For Flash submissions, don't forget the Kitty Krew preloader, provided to you by BFK in 2010

RESOURCES - by BigFuzzyKitten

And also my Video version for anyone not using Flash.

Other KK News:

My KK Movies

I finally released a [KK] movie. And it's spam just like the old days! However, we have noticed some 'other' spam submissions from non-crews explode into popularity, so this might be a problem.

Expect two more KK movies to come out from me up until August.

Great Tweens Collab

We're hosting a KK Collab! the Great Tweens Collab is still going. I'll host this for as long as I need to. We've got 5 parts already and we're aiming for at least 8-10 parts from participants. You can do as many as you need, from small 2 second movie loops, or maybe something even longer.

Note: You will need Flash to animate your part(s), which requires some Flash skills. You can find old versions of Flash here. Anything above CS3 will be less likely to be accepted, because I need this to work with Ruffle.

Check out our thread if you are interested and join the KK Discord as well!

Hello, I'm the anonymous frog. I've been in the Kitty Krew ever since it's been revived earlier this year and I'd like to keep that going for quite some time. As a result, I'm going to be hosting a small mini-contest to celebrate Kitty Day and boost interest into our tiny little 'spam' crew.

Kitty Day 2022 marks the 16th anniversary of the Kitty Secksings Collab (NSFW), which is generally attributed as the movie that helped start the Kitty Krew, theoretically making the KK old enough to drive (in the United States)

We will accept both movie and art submissions for the contest, but feel free to post anything else.

This year's super-optional theme is 'Size difference'!

Prizes

NOTE: This is out of date. New prizes can be found here.

Winners will be judged by me and other members of the Kitty Krew.

There's no money in this, but I'll make it up to you by offering something a little more special instead. I'll draw your prizes! PM me for details on either of them

Animation:

• 1st. Custom Flash animation from me (max. 30 seconds, I'll spend about a week on it)
• 2nd. Free art commission from me (Flash)
• 3rd. Free art commission from me (MS Paint)*2

Art:

• 1st. Free art commission from me (Flash)
• 2nd. Free art commission from me (MS Paint)
• 3rd. Free art commission from me (MS Paint)

What to expect:

I can do backgrounds and full body work (anything less, you're getting ripped off), but animation is generally limited in order to save time.

Shading is also very minimal and I tend to mess it up occasionally.

Example of my Flash animation:

Examples of my Flash artwork:

Examples of my MS Paint artwork:

Rules and Guidelines:

Rules:

• Keep things SFW. M rating is fine, A lot of older [KK] submissions were A rated, but it's dodgy business nowadays.
• No unlicensed or copyrighted music. The KK used to use it extensively in movies, and even though some still exist, they likely won't be put into any collection.
• You can use any software to make your submission, given it abides by Newgrounds's Art Guidelines and Movie Guidelines. This means you can't post meme clips from TikTok or stuff you've generated using DALL-E Mini.
• Should include some relevancy to the Kitty Krew, which can include the Kitty character or simply including [KK] in the title. You also don't need to follow the theme
• Submissions must be tagged with "kittyday2022". You can also tag with 'kk' and 'kittykrew'

Additional Information:

• You don't need to put too much effort into the submission, Kitty Day is only two weeks away, but ideally it should still be able to reach a score of 3 stars so it can enter the 'Best New Games and Movies' section, and even more ideally, should not be blammable.
• Participants of all skill levels are welcome,
• Don't rush yourselves! Although Kitty Day is July 17th, the contest will still accept submissions up until August 17th, which should also overlap Clock Day. This means you can use the same submission for both events.
• Games are allowed, but will be grouped in with Movies.

For Flash submissions, don't forget the Kitty Krew preloader, provided to you by BFK in 2010

RESOURCES - by BigFuzzyKitten

And also my Video version for anyone not using Flash.

You can discuss this contest and other KK matters in the Kitty Krew thread. Or join the Discord.

Other KK News

We're hosting a KK Collab! the Great Tweens Collab is still going. I'll host this for as long as I need to, even if it's not finished by Kitty Day or the contest. We've got 5 parts already and we're aiming for at least 8-10 parts from participants. You can do as many as you need, from small 2 second movie loops, or maybe something even longer.

Note: You will need Flash to animate your part(s), which requires some Flash skills. You can find old versions of Flash here. Anything above CS3 will be less likely to be accepted, because I need this to work with Ruffle.

Check out our thread if you are interested and join the KK Discord as well!

A Kitty Krew Collection is also still up for consideration. TomFulp said he'd consider it after the contest and after submissions have been made.

Quick post: Expect both a new Piconjo Day and Pico Day cartoon (June 9th and June 11th) from me.

UPDATE: Both have released

Hello. I am the anonymous frog. And today on this special day I'd like to recap what I've worked on this month.

I know this wouldn't make a lot of sense for anyone who just stumbled onto my page and read this, so let me get you up to date.

I'm a very prolific Newgrounds user who animates with outdated software and I have no time to participate in coordinated newspost spam about joke characters. Before becoming the spiritual successor to 40 NG users like I am today, I originally worked on a series called Anonymous Frog, in MS Paint about a fat frog with TTS and alcoholism. Then I joined NG, made 3 more episodes, then got involved with some old-era Flash crews (which still exist) and forgot how to make episodes. That and some other old cack.

I've previously worked on two lesser versions of existing NG games both with over 4 stars, using Scratch.

OK now you're up to date. Onto the update.

April Fools

To start the month I planned a big NG prank. Full details here:

Zero Hour Lite Release, Simple Sight 2022, Jack Serious

It also coincided with a Tankman Triweekly issue

NO: 19: LETTERS

There will be a new issue later this month, so follow @TankmanTriweekly to get notified

Audio + Art

Redid a Jamuary song using better instruments

Also drew

Other stuff

High Scores:

I played @53xy83457's new Flash game Facemaul and got on the leaderboard (which at one point was the world record)

Immediately after I beat my own record in NG Duelled after watching a video of him playing the game again. I went from 1,800 to over 3,000.

Flash Forward 2021: I'm dropping out of the Jam, even though technically I have two submissions, albeit one reupload and one under an alt. Nothing professional yet and probably never. Whatever Flash animations I was working on for this jam will be released after the jam. At least four animations are yet to be submitted.

Extending my Flash knowledge.

TIL about Flash Extensions, I first heard about an extension called PixelTools that @rtil used in an animation, which should make pixel art easier to create, He covered it in this post.

NOTE:

The animation is no longer on Newgrounds, but it's also on AlbinoBlackSheep

The extension page is inaccessible, but were captured via the Wayback Machine.

I also figured out a way to make my Flash movies longer than 10 minutes. How it's done is that I put a 3 minute animation scene into a movie clip, pause the flash to let the movie clip play, and then once the movie clip is done, it tells the main timeline to play the movie and onto the next scene where the cycle continues.

This means I can now fix the broken Anonymous Frog Day Special.

It's not a new trick, from what I could find it has been done in collabs in the past, I can't believe the Kitty Krew figured this out yet I didn't!

NEW STUFF

I'm also working on two quick animations to release later this month, both of them for the Kitty Krew (this iteration originally run by 321, but now under new management)

EDIT: Thank you for 300 followers!

2nd EDIT: That wasn't an edit.

3rd EDIT: 28/04/22: This one's real. 321 did a +124 and now the KK is under new management