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I'm not gonna go gay and say I'm an ally or some shit, but I'm an old and I have to say that the whole GD/FnF shit is what really turned me against Tom and made me open to the hypocrisy I've complained about. He really had me convinced NG was some kind of actual community site but the way him, the mods, and the "review crew" have kept GD and FnF content from being featured anywhere (the forums, the monthlies, the front page) has really opened my eyes to how NG is really more like a Steam page than an organic community. I get that some people hate both properties but they're so huge that the lack of them on NG is like how television never shows straight couples. It's astroturfed bullshit.
In Newgrounds drama/lolcow news, the head of the semi-official NG Zine is literally some homeless crazy.
Very sorry. I forgot Tom put the cucked version of #general behind a paywall. As way of an apology, have this thread where Brandy and some of the other art school faggots fret over ass shaking, this video rant (over an hour!) where he lectures NGers to downvote their friends, and--of course--the pièce de résistance: his Christmas suicide note (he wrapped his car around a tree or something shortly afterward but sadly survived). Truly the kind of person you want leading a community...
Don't know how I missed this, but speaking of the inner circle preparing for beautiful suicides, Brandy has admitted he's been living off the "Get Me 2 Canada 4 MAID" fund and has reset it on Ko-Fi:
I expect the Zine to be highly collectible. Even more so because it literally only sold a couple hundred copies:
Maybe I just havent hit that point in my life yet, but I will never understand "Troll's Remorse," at least not to the degree that so many of these people seem to embrace it with. You see it all over, not just NG.
Wow, you made stupid edgy shit in your 20s that made people laugh. Clearly you are the only person who has, or ever will, do stupid shit in their formative years.
I can empathize with people who want to move on, or hell, even cringe at some of the stuff they've done. That's human, that's natural. It's the endless self-flagellation and insistence on purification and over-correcting that I just cannot fucking stand. The constant apologies, whining, or destruction of your old self because it no longer fits into the cultural zeitgeist you could have never foreseen 10-20 years into the future.
It's lying to yourself at best. Historical revisionism at worst.
Maybe I just havent hit that point in my life yet, but I will never understand "Troll's Remorse," at least not to the degree that so many of these people seem to embrace it with. You see it all over, not just NG.
Wow, you made stupid edgy shit in your 20s that made people laugh. Clearly you are the only person who has, or ever will, do stupid shit in their formative years.
I can empathize with people who want to move on, or hell, even cringe at some of the stuff they've done. That's human, that's natural. It's the endless self-flagellation and insistence on purification and over-correcting that I just cannot fucking stand. The constant apologies, whining, or destruction of your old self because it no longer fits into the cultural zeitgeist you could have never foreseen 10-20 years into the future.
It's lying to yourself at best. Historical revisionism at worst.
I think it's that all these people never really had any beliefs to begin with and just wanted to look cool and be accepted socially. The zeitgeist in the 90's and early-mid 2000's was all about being rebellious and edgy, then it did a 180 after that and ever since it's all about being "empathetic" and making sure no one feels bad, so they feel like they have to overcompensate in order to fit in with the current culture again.
Another aspect of it also is that none of these people actually did grow up, and they are once again overcompensating by showing to the world how much they have "learned and grown". Most of these people are in their 30's-40's, have no kids, no long-term romantic relationship, and haven't made it big enough to make a good living off their creative work. If they're still using Newgrounds to this day, this is especially the case. They try playing adult and believe that being a grown-up is disavowing your past and self-flagellating over prior comments. Actual maturity, like you said, involves moving on and being able to laugh at the dumb things you did in the past, but these people never moved on and never matured.
The insipid and hypocritical thing is to then keep monetizing the thing that you pretend that you hate and regret now. Tom by his own logic and metrics should not be making any fucking money off of Pico or the Tankman. But it's fine when it's his project. It's only yours that can't be around anymore.
I think that's part of why I react to it so emotionally. It's very much tied to the all the things I loath about presentism. These motherfuckers don't seem to understand that history and culture have not peaked or stopped and that what makes someone a great mind is diverging from the limits of their age.
That's a shame. I haven't watched him in ages but EmptyHero used to make some really funny shit.
E: His livestream LP of ROM: Read Only Memories was pretty funny. I went to the park with A JEW.
Do you guys remember back in 2007 when social games were a big deal? You weren't cool unless you had a Gaia, IMVU, or Second Life account. Not to mention now popular memes like "forever alone" and "me gusta" were.
For whatever reason though, not everyone was able to quit those addictions and lead a successful life.
Meet Demonic Dominic Vanner, a 28 year old man who still calls himself a "young buck".
Reset the days since sign, new grooming scandal on NG (post1, post2):
It's weird how two days ago I come to this thread with a guy losing his account for being an ant-pedo chud and today there's news of pedos. I'm sure it's total coincidence though. It's that classic counter-intuitive midwittery that racist unc just can't understand: once the NG mods purge every hetero normie from the site the pedos can reign free, I mean, the pedo problem will have just "gone away"...
This is so similar to the Dungenation case where all the people who apposed him copped bans and then later, oops, surprise pedo. The NG mods are not human beings and should not be afforded the rights and privileges of such.
! This is what your site is going to be remembered by.
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