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)