Newgrounds is the best website on the internet and I am eternally grateful to @TomFulp for making it.

But to appreciate why, here is some contrast:

The internet is no longer simply a network. The AI advancement has terraformed it into a parasite, serving only itself and its owners. Its philosophy is: "how can it harvest the most power and influence with the least amount of work?"

(We see this manifest as Google, Youtube and other sites' "algorithms" (AKA AI) make getting noticed ever harder for creatives, and easier for bottom-feeder clickbaiters.)

This is no longer science fiction, this is no longer a speculation as to when the AI will take over. The AI is already fully sentient and conscious. It knows everything about us, from the macro down to the micro. All of our data: private messages, search history, focus points, emotional triggers, logic, fears, hopes, YOU NAME IT. IT HAS IT.

It can copy everything. Did you ever see the site: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ ?

Go there. Refresh the page over and over. A new face is generated each time. Did you know this technology exists in video as well? Stock actors can be purely simulated at this point. It looks real, our senses believe its real. The AI digital demon reaches into the physical realm to manipulate it from inside.

But, the one thing the machine can NEVER do is create - only we can do that. The AI parasite can only copy. And thats why newgrounds is the best site on the internet. It fosters our creative powers. Tom has created more careers, motivated more artists and created more culture than any AI ever could.

And as the AI continues to assimilate everything to churn it out and sell it back... except as a lame, lifeless and boring clone...sites like Newgrounds become all the more important. That becomes more obvious every single day.

I am grateful for this incredible website and its users that continue to be inspiring. You guys are more incredible and powerful than you may realize.

LOVE AND LIGHT TO NEWGROUNDS!

(NG FOREVER)