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Today marks the 2nd anniversary of the creation of Anonymous Frog, and 2nd anniversary to making cartoons. (No I did NOT make any worse cringier cartoons before that and tried to hide it, and no one had reuploaded them if they did exist).

Technically I didn't start posting on YouTube until February, for more on that, read this recap.

I've got no animations to release today, and last year's Special remains a Newgrounds exclusive. No video versions on YouTube, but what I do have is some weird blocky drawing of the guy.

This is very likely a coincidence, but @53xy83457 posted a fight of the 'Anonymous Fricken' that day.

The fight:

The original chicken I drew a month ago

Also, I found out that longtime Anonymous Frog enjoyer and content creator Kenneth Cox "revived" MeVue as a video sharing platform (similar to how SheezyArt was revived, sort of.), and I finished releasing all 3 completed seasons of Anonymous Frog onto it.

https://mevue.co.uk/@AnonymousFrog

In case you don't know, read the recap above and skip to 'January 2020'.

With 2021 coming to an end, how about I recap what went on during my entire career.

Here's a recap of previous years.

2021 Recap

January:

I started the year with THE first ever Newgrounds submission that year, a survival guide for Newgrounds creators in 2021

While still new to Flash, I would work on the Anonymous Frog Day Special to celebrate one year of making cartoons (which someone never did for their anniversary, but I won't spoil that until later)

Most of my time was spent working on the Frog Flood series, which I planned to release every day on February as part of the Clock Crew's annual Flash Flood, which they had brought back the previous year.

I would also work on various tracks, which I would then release as Half-In, my first album, available on Bandcamp. One of the tracks was an entry for the Video Game Music Challenge.

January 23rd was also Pixel Day. I would post three Art submissions.

This was originally on my @AnonymousFrogClock account, but I deleted it and reposted it on my main.

I believe my old crappy MS Paint doodles stemmed from an attempt to use hundreds more pixels than I really need to.

To cash in on the Flash Forward Jam, as well as my long-standing but ultimately unproven claim to be the last ever Flash animator / developer, I would work on Grubhub Assassin, which also cashes in on the overall stupidity of the Grubhub commercials that aired around the time:

I also posted character cards for an upcoming Anonymous Frog spinoff I never got around to working on. I will in the future.

February:

I uploaded my Flash Flood submissions, which included both a video file and a SWF file (except two which only had SWF files). I would also keep a playlist of the other Clocks' submissions

Frog Flood:

https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/f589c775f99b9ca732f695a72a711c48

Every other clock:

https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/92ecf8f5a83539fb7b295d45585f9c7a

https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/cb5798604dde829bb9fe73ad76b88bf8

I'd also post the soundtrack to Frog Flood to Bandcamp and Newgrounds. There was also a Newgrounds Orchestral Composition Contest 2021 that I participated in.

I reworked an alternate version into the Frog Flood soundtrack.

March:

I would try to work on Season 4 of Anonymous Frog. My original plan was to release Episode 1 on Pico Day, Episode 2 sometime after, and Episode 3 on Madness Day. Nothing ever came out of that month, aside from an entry for the FNF Jam, which I had later deleted at the end of the jam.

I did do some pixel art though.

Meanwhile on YouTube, Iceologer's Revenge blew up and got over 15,000 views.

April:

I faked my death for April Fools after noticing two users do it for real. May they rest in peace. I probably won't do that until at least a year from now according to my estimations (or at least that's what Edd said)

There were no real major projects released that month, but I did release a 'game' for an intentionally bad game jam.

May:

Pico Day was May 1st and all I had to show for it was a 4K illustration of the blood you don't get to see in Pico's School.

Took me 4 days to make due to Paint taking 4 hours to render the bloody thing!

And @Piconjo came back, so I cashed in with a few more art bits. At first I thought Piconjo wore purple, but I then learned that was a totally different character.

I rickrolled the Lock Legion on Lock Day.

June:

For Piconjo Day, I had teh g0d of teh pr0tal fight the ol' Anonymous Frog himself.

I also launched the Tankman Triweekly, a satirical newspaper based on @TheTankTribune

https://anonymous-frog.newgrounds.com/news/post/1179407

I also did this for the Isometric Room Collab, complete with top secret curtain.

July:

I collaborated with @Erik to work on a game for @Figburn's July Game Jam.

I also worked on a Flash game which was originally scheduled for Clock Day, as well as a part for the Clock Crew's Villains classic collab

August:

I went all in on Clock Day. This is where the full movie version of Frog Flood was released, along with a game called SteakClock in the Desert (not the game I was working on previously, that may come out a lot later).

I used Scratch because it allowed me to make the game quicker (and also because I had some past experience with it a long time ago)

I would continue to use Scratch to make a few remixes and demos, but nothing too major after that.

September:

Mostly art submissions, including for two art contests I obviously wasn't going to win, so shoehorned Final Fantasy 7 characters in them (ie. the very obvious ones as I never played the original nor the remake very far)

That and I released Episode 3 of Anonymous Frog themed around Madness Combat

The rest of the episodes will be released in 2022 in reverse order

October:

I had started the NMDC on August in response to @Doobus-Goobus posting shitty movies and getting higher scores + awards than actual animations.

Technically, in terms of writing, they weren't that bad, but in terms of animation, they were mediocre, and that's one of the most important factors when posting animations on Newgrounds. I myself was just as shit as he was, but that never happened to me. Who knows? Maybe in an alternate universe where I never switched to Flash, I had gone viral on YouTube and Newgrounds one day and maybe Doobus saw ME as a threat.

Enough talk. That day I released doobus.fla. One of the first major inhouse NMDC productions

There was also a Dead Estate art contest and I snuck Barret into my shitty entry.

I also released this, an 8 minute long audio track for a level in JollyWorld, which I have been playing for over a year

As Mojang hosted another mob vote, I would work on a sequel for Iceologer's Revenge, as the original reached 20,000 views, I'm STILL working on it.

November:

For the past few months I had been watching some animated music videos made by @koit. Songs about willies, bums, poo, and some miscellaneous ones too. I animated to his song 'I Killed My Girlfriend' and released it exactly one year after Friday Night Funkin' did on Newgrounds.

Probably the only video that'll ever need trigger warnings, for all the pussies on this site.

December:

While STILL working on the Iceologer's Revenge sequel, I released two animations in my spare time

For the Clock Crew (and also the @Streamers Animation War)

For the NMDC

It was also for Doobus's apparent 1 year anniversary, which I celebrated as NMDC Day,

Well, it WOULD be Doobus's anniversary, until I discovered some deleted videos from 2016. I had archived them on an appropriately named YouTube channel.

Why I'll never be a voice actor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvQsQRarN3E

WHAT IS A DIPTHONG?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN6ySctOyiI

I don't like making these videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqh0lypRhR8

I also posted one doodle every day for the entire month.

Someone sent me this on Discord.

The year is 2023 you dumbus.

Before I recap 2021, I might as well recap some previous years as well.

NOTICE: Even though I still have them on YouTube, I will show NG links when available.

Pre-Creator Recap

2018:

Created my YouTube and Reddit accounts. Commented very frequently. Didn't have the best etiquette and often misunderstood a bunch of stuff. Still in the works of deleting them, but I usually only delete them if someone replies as that's the main way I find them.

2019:

Same thing, except that I got Super Mario Maker 2 brand new on the Switch and made a bunch of levels. Some of them were moderately successful on Reddit, getting hundreds of upvotes. I subscribed to a bunch of channels including one Slope's Game Room, a YouTuber who covers dodgy (and good) Kickstarter campaigns via his KickScammers series.

September: One day, while browsing through Kickstarter to find bad campaigns. I stumbled across a campaign called 'Project MeVue', a video sharing platform to compete with YouTube. It was run by a very shady investor / guru called Brandon Belcher. I posted that campaign to r/shittykickstarters, it got a bunch of upvotes, and later Slope covered it. With funding unsuccessful / cancelled, I didn't expect much out of that, until..

2020 Recap:

January:

On the 5th, I discovered through a Reddit comment on my original post that MeVue had gone live, so I decided to take a look, and maybe post my own stuff there for teh lulz. I created the Anonymous Frog character and IP and posted that to MeVue. I basically had little to no animation or drawing skills, so all I did was tween MS Paint doodles around in OpenShot, a free video editing program. The original focus of these videos was that I was to cover posts made on Reddit, as that was pretty much a popular genre on YouTube. Although some do use their real voice, a lot of these channels use text to speech, and I went for the latter. My intention was to blend Reddit commentary with my crappy MS Paint doodles and maybe spin them into semi-original stories.

As for music, I sourced them from bensound.com

I also got along very well with the other creators on MeVue, including one Kenneth Cox, who would also voice act in an episode of Anonymous Frog.

Later on I decided to tell Slope on his Discord that MeVue had gone live. He would then criticise it in another video alongside some other bad Kickstarter stuff.

I also created my own Discord server, though that never got any traction.

February:

Since Slope's video, I had been temporarily banned from MeVue and had my videos taken down, so I had to reupload them. That sucks. As a contingency plan as well as to keep my videos online if for any reason MeVue were to get rid of my videos again, I posted them to YouTube. I also posted a Valentine's Day special on both platforms.

I continued to post two Anonymous Frog episodes onto MeVue. I also created seven shorter videos for a 7-day challenge they were hosting. The aim was to post one video per day for a week. Very simple. I based mine on staying sober, so it was called the '7 Day Sober Challenge'

I discovered that MeVue was run off of purchased code (ie. anyone could create a video sharing platform using a simple template and some web-hosting expertise). I made another Discord server to cover more of Belcher's shady shenanigans.

Overall, I was banned on MeVue three times.

I also considered doing an Anonymous Frog movie at this point. I animated barely any of it and have left it on hold for almost 2 years at this point.

I also posted a video called 'Funny frogs' on YouTube and MeVue to mock a MeVue creator who was posting nothing but stock footage and calling it 'funny'.

March:

Belcher decided to wipe MeVue of all of its videos, starting from scratch. They also decided to focus exclusively on business related content. Because I was still banned, I had to make another account and post a spinoff Anonymous Frog series focused on Beggenrun (an in-universe company just as shady as Belcher). Four episodes were made of this new series. On YouTube, I decided to mock Belcher and his tricks, by reacting to a video he did about domain flipping (Of course I watched it in advance and added commentary to make it look like a reaction video).

Kenneth Cox would also use the same bought code from MeVue to make his own similar platform, called PVC. I would reupload some of my old stuff there as well as some other videos.

April:

MeVue nuked itself again, this time turning itself into a course selling platform. At this point, I mocked Belcher further, first by making a diss track on April 1st called 'You Can't Kill The Frog', which uses TTS to sing the lyrics (Remind me to never do that again), then by creating a parody of 'Big Bill Hell's' mocking his 'Belcher Marketing Group' (which might be the first video I've done with excessive swearing, which I typically avoid.)

I reuploaded the first episode of my Beggenrun side series as the third episode of Season 2 of Anonymous Frog, of which I hadn't got enough time to make new episodes

May:

Around this time I was hanging around various other Discord servers, including some I was invited to by another former MeVue creator, (whom I cannot name properly because they change their username very frequently and it'd be outdated because I can't be bothered to edit this post, but at the time, IIRC they were called 'Orbiter' or 'Trixel') was into object shows (some notable ones include those made by Jacknjellify). Generally I wasn't a big fan. Maybe I was too old for them, maybe I didn't like the voices, or how they were drawn, but I never got to fully watch any of them. Despite that, I still went along with it for a few months. I based an entire two-parter on this concept.

I also reuploaded my 7 Day Sober Challenge to YouTube.

This is the point where I decided to use the YouTube audio library

June:

I later focused more on original stories rather than relying on Reddit posts, but kept to my original runtime, so videos took a lot longer to do. It took me well over a month fo finish Part 2 to my magnificent satire of the object show.

July:

I decided to end Season 2 after just five episodes and work on Season 3. I released three episodes around this time.

I compiled two out of the three remaining Beggenrun shorts and worked them into Episode 1, so I was able to churn that one relatively quickly

Episode 2 then came. I was soon getting used to giving up Reddit commentating and focus on Anonymous Frog as a show with plot, characters, and lore. This continues an arc where the Frog is hired by Beggenrun and has his own show

Episode 3 explains my process on how to make said episodes

I also parodied HowToBasic with CPA marketing. Still had a little Belcher in me.

I also made a Twitter account, which I now regret doing because I'm now responsible for 1,000 dead groomers.

August:

No new Anonymous Frog episodes. I decided to give YouTube Poops a try. I posted two based on a fight between two YouTubers, GradeAUnderA, and Dream.

Part 1: Part 2:

I also did one based on another shitty video platform called Pocketvid, and to my knowledge, unlike MeVue, nothing ever came out of that.

Also made a Newgrounds account, don't know why I did that, maybe it'd become more useful in the future.

September:

I decided to push myself to make better quality videos, and this marked a major point where Anonymous Frog would look noticeably different. I would apply shading, more detailed backgrounds, and more detailed assets as my MS Paint skills increased.

I would then put Newgrounds to a good use, by posting this two days early, while the YouTube release coincides with the anniversary of the September 20th Area 51 raid, as it was loosely based on that.

I would also work on the 5th episode. I did a Terminator inspired intro, but couldn't find anything to base it on.

October:

No new main Anonymous Frog episodes, but I would release a few shorts set in the same canon. First being this shameless Austin Powers spoof as the Frog's origin story:

Then one focusing on the Minecraft Mob Vote, where the Iceologer lost, presumably to Dream. I promise to release a sequel, but I've delayed it to January 2022.

Since Among Us was becoming popular around that time, I decided to base Episode 5 on that. I would also join a bunch of Discord servers run by various other Newgrounds users and get along with various low-to-mid range creators, including @8BitAnt, whom I had first heard of through his 'Amoung Us In a Nutshell' video, He kindly did some voice acting for the next two Anonymous Frog episodes, playing a purple crewmate and subtlely as a homage to said video.

November:

I released Episode 5 of Anonymous Frog, of which I spent well over a month on.

But my long-form video making skills would not last forever, as I went back into making shorts. Two of them. I released these simultaneously. The first is based on Steamed Hams, while the second focused on the main antagonist of Anonymous Frog, Dr. Michael Moles (a parody of YouTuber Michael Reeves).

I also started watching Foamy / Neurotically Yours from @illwillpress and would dedicate a short on that.

This was also the time when Friday Night Funkin' was released, and I might've played it some time while working on Episode 5 of Anonymous Frog

As I became more curious of Newgrounds, I also played a bunch of spam games made by @ZabuJard. At first I dismissed them for being crap, and I would later make a tribute of said crap. Why? Because he hadn't posted in a while.

I also learned about the Clock Crew and would decide to join near the end of the month.

December:

After previously saying I wouldn't, I reuploaded every episode of Anonymous Frog on Newgrounds. I would then decide to wrap up the 3rd season of Anonymous Frog with a 1v1 between the Frog and Dr. Moles.

I figured that I couldn't visually depict the fight very well, so I decided to pick up Flash to do the job. In between I still used Paint and OpenShot. Since I was new to Flash, I cluttered my entire library with duplicate symbols and tweened them the same way I did with Paint + OpenShot

I also did a short based on Gordon Freeman and would make original (or as close to original as possible) music. I typically use BeepBox for music. This I used MadTracker and some homemade samples (an old music tracker)

I’ve been wanting to ask this to every one of you following me for a long time. I’ve been creating content for all four portals for over a year now and I want to know; What is the one thing or type of thing that you come to me for?

With 200 followers and with such a large variety of content to my name, it’s unclear what the majority of these followers came here for. I want to resolve this in some way by focusing more on one specific type of content rather than branching out everywhere.

This may be a very open-ended question as I create a lot of things. Those being:

Animations:

• Anonymous Frog (full episodes + shorts)
• Miscellaneous videos, which include parodies (like doobus.fla), tributes (such as my AMV for Koit) and event entries (such as for Clock Day)

Games:

Right now I’ve only made shorter games using Flash or Scratch, but do you want me to do bigger games or keep making short games like Grubhub Assassin?

Audio:

• Original soundtracks for my animation + game projects
• Standalone tracks not tied to any project (except albums)
• Rips / mashups of other songs in the style of my own music (YT only, very inspired by SiIvaGunner)

Art:

• MS Paint sketches
• Flash vector art
• Pixel art
• Comic strips

Other stuff:

• Tankman Triweekly (satirical news stories published on my @TankmanTriweekly account)
• Any posts that I make in reviews, the BBS, etc with some jokes written within.

Stuff I may make in the future, not necessarily limited to NG:

• A gaming channel where I review / commentate whatever I can get my hands on (usually free games) and may also be a little branched out itself.
• Full multi-page comics following an overarching story.

Pretty much taking “Everything by Everyone” a little too literally.

Please let me know what you like best in as much detail you can. Whether you only want to hear my music more than watch my cartoons or vice versa, or just about enjoy all of it, answering this massive question will help me understand what you all like and how I can keep my audience growing, as aside from games, Newgrounds doesn’t really offer any analytics like YouTube does.

Thank you for your help.

frog

WHAT I'VE WORKED ON

Video Game Music Challenge II

Participated last year with Mad as a Flounder. I originally waited until November 29th thinking that's when I started only to rush this out on the final day. I was in the 'Void Heart' group because I wanted something very dark.

Released this as BeepBoxClock

Advent Calendar

Every day for Christmas I'll waste my time doodling another random thing in MS Paint. I've done seven so far. Don't tell me to stop!

No playlist yet, just view my most recent submissions. Should have a brown background

https://anonymous-frog.newgrounds.com/art

I Killed My Girlfriend

To show appreciation to musician/animator Koit (thanks for making years of willy bum and poo songs, really enjoyed those), I made this animation to accompany an old song of his.

UPCOMING PROJECTS

Overworked again with stuff I should've released weeks ago, but didn't because I was too busy with other smaller projects such as audio and art submissions. I've also been notified of a second Flash Jam so that'll eat up more of my time too if I decide to participate.

Iceologer's Revenge Sequel

I want to get this out by the end of the year, but I got stuck on one certain scene. Will get back into it.

Music is also almost done (I'm phasing out of relying on music outside of Newgrounds and instead using my own or from the Audio Portal). I just need a few more tracks.

I might make more Iceologer shorts every year if this one becomes successful.

Meanwhile, watch the original:

Anonymous Frog Season 4

Progress has halted until I finish the Iceologer's Revenge sequel. Will resume in 2022. Still in reverse order, so Episode 2 will come next.

I released part of Episode 1 for Piconjo Day, so you have some sort of idea what that'll be based around. Nothing too spoiler-heavy.

More album releases

Currently working on a second album to be released on Bandcamp and Newgrounds (partially). It will contain tracks featured in my other projects in no specific order (mostly).

Already existing tracks:

There's also a third album in progress, but I won't go all in on promoting it this year.

OTHER STUFF

I got a silver whistle! That's nice:

Also happy 200 fans. Had them for a while, but couldn't be bothered to celebrate. Only odd numbers thank you!

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Just updating all of you. I've posted this update on my Clock account as that one lets me put it on the front page. I'd like to keep this one clean. Do follow me on there as well.

https://anonymousfrogclock.newgrounds.com/news/post/1222138

TL;DR. No Halloween animations, working on sequel to Iceologer's Revenge