Post "Newgrounds Bonus Video (and June Update!)" by "Hbomb" from patreon

Daine

Oh this is just a whole trip down memory lane, I missed so many of these animations.

Soup

as someone whose entire experience with flash games was whatever neopets had going on and 'no one has to die', this was great! thanks hbomb!

Laurel Nelson

I lose watching this in 2025 and learning for the first time that there exists a character called "Professor $1.99". That's...that's where it's at, yeah

Belinda Melendez

Wow, thank you, Mr. Hbomb, for specifically making this video for me and no one else. LegendaryFrog was my entire personality as a child and to see a whole section dedicated to him was just... wow.

Harry Milas

I reckon this is one of your best videos and I'd love to see more in the series! It's a really lovely, warm watch.

Bryce Davis

Neil is one of those people where every few years I find something else that lives rent free in my head and realize "Holy crap, Neil did that too!?"

Bryce Davis

I'm a fully grown adult with a wife and two children and I still regularly quote "ohmygodimonfire!" Thanks to you all for giving me something for my wife and kids to give me a weird look in response to.

Bryce Davis

Strongbad

betp

which character

betp

i know why you have that screenshot. in the roblox oof video you interrupted yourself to add an explanation of copyright infringement and the innocent infringer defense. that screenshot was what you stopped on to supply that context. also, "the pizza is here!" "IS IT EVIL?" made me laugh. it's so stupid, and i mean that as a compliment.

TotallyARealName

Really wonderful to see something about Newgrounds. The only other place I’ve seen it mentioned is in a piece about its role in the history of Rule34, which is a fascinating video, but this one is for wholesome reasons. I feel like this kind of stuff would fold in well into a breakdown of Net Neutrality, the US banning TikTok for a few hours, and what it takes to communicate in the modern era and what the communication means to people.

Hbomb

haha this arc was fun to witness

Alex T.

WELL I got further in the video and it turns out you did exactly this 🤦 good job, me

Alex T.

Okay I know I'm late on this but I would LOVE to see a video on the "return of ganondorf" newgrounds video. Assuming it's the one I'm thinking of (I think the same people made a video about not eating a pie?) it was one of my favorites that me and my friends would quote at each other endlessly. I still say "Bring it on, GanonDORK!" to this day.

MC

As someone who was too young during the newgrounds era to engage with it, genuinely assumed that the foreshadowing was going to reveal that Cuphead was the game that was developed by these guys. Didn’t expect that one of my favorite games of the year was made by two brothers who also made one of my favorite co-op puzzle games from hs. I’d love to see more newgrounds archeology, this is fascinating

Jordon Jordan

I played the legend of Zelda lampshade game so many times as a kid and I never knew it was made for a series of animations

Miss Phase

thank you for not mentioning how big of a fan you were of my game Sonic XX harris, it would be a little off-tone here

Adrian Coburn

I named my kid after a character in a Home Star Runner cartoon. I never realized how much it owes to Newgrounds!

jearle

Bandai Namco used to own the patent for loading screen games, which is why you never saw them, it expired in 2015.

GDNacho

I was not a Newgrounds kid, but rather a Scratch kid. Still though, this video filled me with nostalgia, I really miss that sense of tight-knit community the old user-generated content internet used to provide, what a great video

Daniel Gilbert

New grounds was a defining part of my childhood, for better and for worse. Undoubtedly saw some NSFW content too soon for my developing brain. I spent a lot of time with a friend making stupid flash videos that we never uploaded anywhere. That resulted in me teaching flash to my grade 8 class, as we were all supposed to make our own graduation intro videos, but the computer teacher didn't really know how. I won the computer award, and that's probably a key stepping stone to me being a Software QA as my career

Rodrigo the transgender evil hamster

this was great, i remember being in like, middle school when i got into newgrounds. i didn't get much into it because, well, english is not my first language, so i didn't understand a lot of the jokes. this was a great throwback, thank you hbomb the reptile ferret man.

Draexian

Things are rough sometimes, but there's a new(er) Hbomb and Co. Production out. That's a real treat to a weary mind. Thanks.

Catherine E Kovach

Hello, Mr. Hbomb! Short-time subscriber first-time commenter, I am an American that says "bonkers", didn't know it was British until I was way older, and I am from New Jersey. It sounds....exactly as you imagine it. i am humbled. I will now diminish, and go into the west, and remain Catherine.

Hbomb

That's nice of you!

Sabi Sgambi

Hi Mr. HBomb, I’m at PAX West and Alien Hominid has their own booth here! I told the devs that they were mentioned in your video and they seemed really happy and grateful that someone appreciates them so much :]

Hbomb

I remember that Fullmetal Alchemist joke! There's so many little jokes and lines in that magazine that I never forgot. At one point their review of some animal game (not nintendogs, i think) degenerates into just the words "woof. woof. woof woof woof. woof." over and over for a bit. I cried laughing

ariaNe

"there's an infectious positivity to hearing someone share something they genuinely enjoy" is the first thing that came to mind when watching this video I like your recent videos but this one hit differently because it's about something that you actually love good stuff

Rinley Coyote

I was never on Newgrounds, but I did see some of these cartoons and games re-uploaded to other sites (particularly Onemorelevel) which typically still had the Newgrounds preloader, and grew up with Homestar Runner. Part of me wishes I'd seen more of it but I was also a big wimp and even cartoon blood scared me shitless so it's probably for the best. Thanks again for doing what you do. <3

nothings

PS3 games didn't let you play games during long loads because infamously there was a patent on doing so owned by Namco, which didn't expire until 2015. https://patents.google.com/patent/US5718632A/en https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading_screen#Minigames

Dagger

My older brother and I loved Legendary Frog to the point I made a birthday cake for him the next year with that depiction of Dark Lord Sauron (my brother has always been big fan of LotR while I really only liked the movies but the jokes about director's cuts were big after we were burn by star wars movies with updated graphics).

Andrew Keen

Holy shit - I've just now realised I've been mis-reading the site as "Newsgrounds" for the last 30 years. I think because of the CBBC show "Newsround"? Well, that's one thing I learned today...

Chris Nicholas

Now I’m curious to know if it’s a ringed doughnut or a jam/custard one with sugar all over it🤔 How deep does this go?!?😱

Hbomb

It's funny, I have a few videos I'm really enjoying working on right now so the main reason I chose the one I'm finishing first is so that joke makes sense

Chris Nicholas

Was the doughnut made though? That’s what I want to know.

Colin Tougas

Last night I dreamt I saved HBomb from an attempted assassination at one of his book signings. Later we made out in an empty theatre to the atmospheric ambiance of his "Bloodborne is Genius" video

Sas

i work in the animation industry in australia and at an event recently had a long discussion with several people (who are all super talented, and moderately big deals in the business) about how influential newgrounds was for all of us, i'd completely forgotten how much of this stuff i watched as a kid!

Phelanii

tbh, I'm just glad to hear y'all are doing well! I'll certainly be glad to hear some more positivity, I love hearing people gush about stuff they love, the enthusiasm is infectious!

Fionn Moore

I didn't realise you were a fan of Venture Bros., it's one of my all-time favourites!! Please do a video about that at some point

MippyMoo

LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOO (also thank you so much for all you guys’ hard work)

Brian

I was such a huge fan of the Decline of Video Gaming series. You guys were better than anything on TV. You made my adolescence tolerable, and for that I thank you.

kibble

Thank you so much for this journey through a part of my life that was hugely important to me. And reminding me of my own awful AWFUL animations and wanna-be games on there

ChibiLlama

I had all but forgotten those old Legendary Frog videos... Thank you for unlocking the attic of my memory!! Newgrounds was such a formative part of my internet life, and its a shame that we dont have anything like it anymore. Speaking of the Flash era, you should do a deep dive into homestarrunner.com

Tom Vian

Thanks Harry, for the extraordinarily kind words on our older work, and our newer! (Signed up the the patreon just to watch it, guess you got me) Newgrounds was the most vital place on the whole internet for so long, I'll never forgive Apple for signing Flash's death warrant and ending such an incredible outlet for so many. I know NG is still going, but the Flash era was truly something special.Oh, and I'll tell you all about the lost PK game over a pint sometime.

Gabi Mismash

Oh my god, this reminded me that I sent in fanart to the legendary frog website as a kid, and it was up in the fanart gallery for a while. I didn't use newgrounds until a few years later but one of my cousins showed me the Legendary Lilypad and I was a fan for a few years. Thanks for the video.

Brett Medley

Hbomb I don’t know if you’re aware of this or if you’d care but Egoraptor, Arin Hanson, these days has a tendency to occasionally make references to you and your videos on episodes of Game Grumps. It’s very heartwarming for me to see when two creators I love reference each other, and thought that might warm your heart a bit too.

Piphopopotamus

This video prompted me to look up Tangle Tower and then spend all afternoon playing it. Thank you! Such a cool game, and such a nice retrospective on the creativity of this era.

blank

you should make an interactive flash edition of this video :3 lol

Kai

I'm 1 minute 50 seconds into this video and it's extremely weird hearing hbomberguy extremely precisely narrate my life as though it was his. Loved NOM (that Pokemon FRLG issue cover you use @ 1:40 I think was the exact first or second issue I ever bought of it), got into anime because of NOM (they had a section for a while called Big In Japan iirc, and they made a joke about a cool looking suit of armour / "robot" which they pulled back to reveal it wearing a pink apron and joked "uh Japan can keep this one", I was curious and looked it up and discovered Fullmetal Alchemist), very distinctly remember that alien hominid coverage. I wish I still had my stack of mags, lol. Best thing about the new publisher mag being called "Nintendo The Official Magazine" was it got abbreviated to ONM, which wasn't as catchy as NOM and also makes absolutely no sense. No worse than GCN being the abbreviation for Gamecube somehow though I guess. I spent so much time on their forum's Pokemon board back then lol. Good times.

Emily McNally

I love hearing you talk about stuff like this because this was not a part of my childhood but the vibrancy and excitement that emanates from you in videos like this makes me feel like I can live vicariously through you. Especially meaningful as a genderfluid/nonbinary person who didn’t have a boyhood, idk it makes me happy. Hope you’re well Harry x

Max Marriner

I’ve never known anyone who also watched Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom. That was such a THING for me for a minute. Please do more of these. I NEED someone else to unpack the impact of Phoenix Wrong and what it meant in a wider context for media franchises in the new century.

Willow Stone

Bandai Namco held a patent for putting minigames in loading screens, which expired in 2015 but I guess developers still avoid it out of habit maybe? In any case this video is great, I wasn't really expecting to shed a little tear about my time watching and playing stuff on Newgrounds.

Christopher Patten

Former Newgrounds animator (nothing of mine survived, thank god) I've taken a lot of the skills I learned noodling around on flash into work as a game dev so I can vouch for this!

Asha

Nice to hear about something fun I missed cause I was a toddler.

Gabriel Lacaille

Your voice just hits me in the warm place. Whatever the topic. Keep talking, my lord. Im listening.

Bang Away Lulu!

There are countless flash games that inspired me and amazed me over the years, games I'll never forget that no one else seems to remember. Hours and hours of my life grinding away at small achievements. Beautiful love stories played out through stick figure animations, puzzles that used better use of the medium than most games I've played since, abstract explorations of grief, simple characters made endearing by their unadulterated earnestness. Delightfully hyperbolic bullet hell games that froze my browser at the final boss level, spooky point and click games that kept me up at night, loading screen songs that were better than they had any business being. I could go on forever. It's hard to explain how much this meant. You let yourself find wonder in things others have written off, or forgotten, and it's incredibly meaningful and affirming to me. I am grateful beyond words that you took the time to make this, and, like you talked about in the Roblox video, to remember the creators who truly played integral roles in the history of these newer digital art forms. Thank you.

GARBAGE DAY!!!

I still revisit old homestar runner content that's been catalogued on YouTube from time to time, it's a happy place

Princess Wuffles

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with this video. I can't wait to see what else you've got to say about Newgrounds. I don't think I can quite articulate how important this one felt to me while watching it. I thought about the things you featured that I had also watched, the ones I recognized but either hadn't watched or only have, at best, hazy memories of maybe having seen thumbnailed, but that I never clicked on to watch, and, genuinely the friends I made along the way at the time this stuff was coming out. Thank you so much!

antlers

I never really experienced newgrounds even though most of my friends my age did because we didn't really have usable internet when I was little but I've like seen some of how that whole community influenced media i was around for from like a distance... I'm glad you were able put this whole story together and share it.

Delilah

Loved Tangle Tower, I had no idea the creators came from this Newgrounds era ! Great video ❤

Lily Jacks

well the good news is that all of those sites still exist, and with active communities - its not too late to start discovering!

Spencer St. James

Shout out to Ultimate Showdown still being in the top 5 of all time. When's the episode dedicated solely to Neil Cicierga come out?

Manon P.

For the entire video, I had /Get on my Horse/ looping in my head. And you didn't even mention it! What kind of witchcraft is that ?!

WeirdFishes05

I'm just a little bit too young to have grown up on Newgrounds. I was very much deep in youtube and ao3(and still am) when I was growing up. It's fascinating watching this as someone a little over a decade behind you, because I can now trace the roots of a lot of my favorite creative works!

Ariella

I'm going to be completely honest—the only time I'd ever heard of newgrounds before this was in your dxhr video when you were dunking on hacking minigames. So I hope that gives you context for when I say that this video was super engaging despite me knowing almost literally nothing about the site!

Em Frads

Damn not only was this another awesome video but unlocked some core childhood memories of watching anime flash animations way too late on school nights 🥹 a precious snippet of history!

Jarvis Cocker's Inappropriately Sexualised Hand Moves

Harrison Bombford! Thank you so much, your videos are really helping me lock in when I'm doing the dishes.

Lucian Summerisle

I've been inordinately proud of how you and Kat have handled the plagiarism wake. It has clearly been difficult and you've both done so, so well. Feels weird to say that to people I don't know and who don't know me lol

Maq

I had so many flashbacks during this video, of watching these, of stumbling into the adult section on accident (legit I saw a recommended game and went to it and played it and it was a boning sim and I just remember panicking and turning off our sound system, God, what a miserable memory to replay). I'd love more on newgrounds!!!!

Cuck Philosophy

God, I'm so hyped to see this. More Newgrounds content, please, it was my childhood too!!!

TheScoundrelM

God, LegendaryFrog was such an integral part of my development. It became a language my friends and I share with each other (for instance, we’d always say we needed to get wherever we were going “before gangrene sets in!” in the chipper Frodo voice). I miss that era of the internet. It was more innocent. Well, not INNOCENT innocent, but the “sketchy” parts of the internet were pixelated pictures of naked people and not social media sites doing a whoopsie and overthrowing democracy.

Claire B

I find this so fascinating to learn about as someone who went on Newgrounds all the time to play the flash games and never touched any of the flash animations! It really did have good games, I still remember Nitrome very fondly. The only other thing I know about Newgrounds was when Homestuck crashed it :/

AViking

Just the fact that you briefly mentioned "There She Is!!!" was enough to make me smile. Still one of my favourite things to have come out of Newgrounds, and reminds me I need to see "Another Step" since it released earlier this year. I really hope that later down the line you take some time to bring that up along with any other O.G animation projects that deserve their flowers.

ThunderBrand

The fact that i'm pretty sure I know exactly what the second video you had to cut from this one is about entirely off of that description probably doesn't speak particularly well of what i was doing with my time at 12 years old

Jérémie Tessier

Thank you so much for making this, I spent so much time watching the One Ring videos and all that jazz, trip down memory lane! :D

Slade Dillard

Wow this took me back to the better parts of my teen years. Thank you!

Abby Wedlick

Totally understandable! I know there were a lot of authors mentioned in the video, but since the list was more extensive that anticipated I wasn't sure if there was more information. Thank you for responding!!

Kat Lo

We would like to get consent of authors who are not public figures before releasing a list with all names, but I’m aware that there is a github project that is doing their own documentation (although it seemed to be mostly focused on the misinformation component last I checked). We could put a list up for patrons, but re:public distribution I worry a little bit about bad actors using it as a “what queer person/journalists to target” list since we have a lot of attention from them. (Good and important question though!!)

Brian

I’m sad that I loved the Decline series and somehow missed this incredible preloader game

Abby Wedlick

Would you feel comfortable sharing the list of authors/pieces that James plagiarized for people who would like to read/view the original works?

Brian

What a lucky break this happened to be the rare day I checked my Patreon in hopes of an update As I’m watching this, I can’t believe I’m watching a video about Legendary Frog and Perfect Kirby. I was literally just thinking about PK and the brothers and what they’re up to. I love Hbomberguy for this.

M R. X. Dentith and Josh Addison

I somehow managed to avoid getting into Newgrounds despite my friends being into it. This has filled a hole in my pop culture knowledge!

Daniel K Esperson

Great video! This made me super nostalgic for surfing newgrounds with my friends as 9 / 10 year olds. Makes me sad that we missed some of the stuff you showcased here but glad that we got to experience the site in its heyday anyways.

Evelyn

I managed to play Lampshade as a kid without any knowledge of Decline. waow

Renée Kools

I subbed to your Patreon just to watch the video. I'm not even an oldschool Newgrounds user, I joined the site a few years ago, but I fell in love with the site and the unique culture there, warts and all. Tom's incredibly approachable, if you ever want to reach out to him about basically anything. But I also want to pre-emptively plug 2 Left Thumbs, an indie publisher active on Newgrounds who also does mini-documentaries/video essays on Youtube who's also very knowledgeable on this stuff. I hope you'll do a main channel video on this and I hope enough other people feel the same when the next poll goes up.

Joakim

Say what you will about Flash, I genuinly think the flash games era was the golden age of gaming. Endless creativity and (almost) all of it available online for free

Andrew Nicholls

Thanks for the short video! Love your work.

Lucy Corrigan

Newgrounds was my introduction to nsfw content. The number of dodgy dating sims I played on there...

Queen of Narnia

The older I get, the more bitter and jaded I become when I realise I could have discovered cool 2000s internet things like Tumblr and Newgrounds and Livejournal. Instead I found Quizilla. Fucking QUIZILLA.

Kit Walsh

This better have homestuck in it, or I will send all my trollsonas after you 😤

Dustin Reno

So much of this video is just my late middle school / early high school internet experience. Incredible. Haven't thought about many of these things in years, but Legendary Frog and Super Flash Bros. videos were so important to me at the time. Had no idea that SFB went on to do what they are doing now. I unknowingly had kept their creative output in my life without even realizing it. The past few years has allowed me to reconnect with or find many of the creatives that were part of my early internet days having been able to work on dream jobs and projects. It makes me so happy for them and it's just cool knowing where they "started" and that they're doing even bigger, exciting versions of it now. Hope you are able to continue building upon the foundation you made here with more in the future. Great work

Violet McKinney

i'm surprised you didn't talk about the behemoth!

Wesley Jones

Just when life starts to get me down, Harris to the rescue. Thank you for this look at something I've never forgotten but so rarely think about anymore.

huru uruh

dude, im not sure if we as a society are, or even should be ready for the implications of sonic pissing mario being "just nature". some cans are better left being unopened, my friend. (no kinkshame tho)

Ifrit9

I love the fact that you talk about SFB, they really where newgrounds for me~

SuchaCaz

“One of which I’ll post in the next few days” heard that one before…

Antipaganda

Love you hbomb, because you are the kind of person who would hunt down everyone who deserves credit and make sure they get it - in other words, you are the opposite of James Somerton.

He_ftbl

Living in a country with rampant piracy meant that I was always experiencing any of newest games I wanted and missed out on so much great free stuff

DM

Really enjoyed this video despite my low-key anxiety that half-way through the monologue would begin to get more serious, leading up to a sudden, dramatic "This video is about StrawberryClock".

Jason Fanelli

Love a memory lane video! Wonder what HBomb’s YTMND experience was like (if any), that would make an interesting video…for better and for worse. I need more people to understand the link between Lando Calrissian and ESPN National Hockey Night, there’s less of us every day!

AimLikeFish

So all this time the funny zelda lamp game was a preload for a flash animation I didn't know about. I always wondered why kirby was shooting a gun in it, now I know.

daeranilen

I'm so glad someone else fondly remembers "Come on, paint, dry! Dry! DRY LIKE YOU MEAN IT" because that joke still gets me every time. I'm so happy for SFB Games's continued success. Can't wait to see what other Newgrounds retrospectives you make!

Jacob Freedman

I can watch memory lane all day ❤️

Taitaiheart

I can’t wait to watch this with my sister. Early internet flash cartoon quotes are permanently part of my daily vernacular.

David Rodríguez Madriñán

I'm immediately blasted by nostalgia, I also was a rabid fan of the official nintendo mag, only the Spain version of it, and how charismatic the guy pretending to be Professor Oak on the included Pokemon magazine "letters to Oak" section. He was hellbent on recommending everyone to try and find an interesting set of mons to use in combat instead of choosing the legendaries and strong attacks and calling it a day. I blame that frustrated nerd for my current sensibilities.

Arborial Astronaut

Great video! Always a happy day when you upload. On a barely related note, have you ever read Homestuck? (the flash animations, animated sprites, old-ish internet history and community-guided nature you mentioned made me think you'd enjoy it)

Bryan Balment

Love me a Harry Bomber Dude weird infodump about something I know nothing about

ib_

I really miss the old flash cartoon easter egg hunts. I know it wasn't on newgrounds, but the highlight of my week was the new Strong Bad email or other carton on Homestrrunner.com. I remember joining my first web forum which was itself just an offshoot of a website which existed solely for cataloging the easter eggs in their cartoons. With the death of flash they have been uploaded to Youtube videos, usually with the easter eggs appearing automatically. It's just not the same. We really lost something magical along the way.

Matthew McCoy

This was a very interesting video. I missed out on the entire Newgrounds phenomena. I was in my late 20s/early 30s in the period you described, a big gamer, yet somehow I never even heard of Newgrounds. The equivalent Flash mecca in my experience was homestarrunner.com. Every Monday morning, my geeky coworkers and I would look forward to the new Strong Bad email video. The creativity and easter eggs you mentioned were all there, even a creative team of two brothers. The similarities and differences between Strong Bad and Newgrounds is pretty striking. Thank you for making a fascinating video about a corner of early 2000s geek culture that I somehow managed to miss completely.

Violet McKinney

much love to kat for how much she's gone through. happy you guys are onboarding additional support and so excited to watch this new video after work!!!

Sean Mattox

I was *not* aware of any of the drama following the Plagiarism video, though I guess it's something I should have anticipated; human tribalism is so predictably infuriating. I'm so sorry y'all had to go through that, and I hope for healing as swift as can be.

Fender joshmaster

As a fellow secret third thing that's worse and has no skills, I grew up on internet gaming forums. It's inspiring to see you develop your talents as a video editor and dk64 speed runner. I aspire to cultivate my own talents, but sadly I perused newgrounds adult too much.

Alastair Keith-Lucas

Aw man, Newgrounds. Can't believe how many artists, game designers, animators and internet personalities started their careers making the worst shit imaginable in the crucible of the front page. And I was there for every second of it! This is the site I think about the most when someone brings up the Old Internet, one of the first gathering places that was worth visiting every single day.

Fred Eaton

Hope you are enjoying Riven!

Ross Vincent

Any month can be Pride month so long as you make it queer AF.

Laurent LYeN

Glad to hear you both are well. I hope you took all that seriously. By this I mean that you are free to share the ad revenue, but first you need budget for: _ counselling for Kat _ sick leave for Kat _ at leas a portion of the cost associated with privacy-protection measure Mental healthcare is important, and I know you believe in that yourself, so your "company" has to pay for that first, before any sharing of revenue. That is just the right and fair thing to do. You have to put your money where you mouth is. (on Kat in this case) (her mental health) (or whatever you both consent to but that is way beside the point)

Corrine Schaible

Wow, I can't thank you enough for this, I eould watch a thousand more new grounds specific videos 🥲

Daniel Gordon

This is the one HBomb video... to rule them all!

Mike Amarilio

New HBomb and Noah Caldwell-Gervais video drop within a day of eachother? But I have stuff I need to do today! (Thank you)

Paige Harp

All this Joseph Blanchette content... I want to watch all his stuff again now.

Paige Harp

God, I watched the One Ring series on Newgrounds on repeat as a tween.

Nicola Quantock

I just realised, hearing it said out loud for apparently the first time, that it's Newgrounds not Newsgrounds... I blame John Craven.

Amanda McGuirt

I'm so sorry that I'm happened but I am happy that this community isn't toxic like that!

Kat Lo

Interesting interpretation! No, the harassment referred to was directed at us.

Em

This video was so interesting to me as someone born in 2001, who never experienced this earlier era of flash but still grew up with newgrounds and all those free flash game websites in the late 2000’s early 2010’s! It made me think back to all those stickman games I used to play constantly and how much effort and writing clearly went into some of those. It’s strange to reflect on a time when games were not inherently products you paid for but weird little things you went out and found on the internet and revisited over and over…

Amanda McGuirt

Me only vaguely even knowing Roblox exists 😆

Amanda McGuirt

Persevere my friend! Persevere.

Amanda McGuirt

I'm always out of the loop about Internet drama. I hope that the month long harassment campaign wasn't your viewers harassing Somerton. I mean I guess the reverse isn't great but I really hope your viewers are better than that.

Kryshen

Hope it's not to parasocial, but I really appreciate the update on you and Kat. I was super worried when the wellness check stuff went down that this was going to do serious damage to you. Very glad to hear. Anyways, I am so excited to learn about the history of a website I never visited!

The Hungriest of All Hippos

Sending well wishes for the crew!

Drhertz

TY for the vid, gonna Blam me back into the early 00s with this one

John Schilder

We're so back baby

Corrine Schaible

Literally been waiting my whole life for this video

Chrust

oh my god zelda lampshade was a preloader game this whole time and i never even saw the animation it was made for. glad to hear things are well and i really appreciate the thought you put into maintaining the community in that time. the whole situation seemed a little unprecedented and there’s no shortage of youtubers who would have flown off the handle under the pressure. looking forward to your donut harry

David Rhoads

Looking forward to this vid! My friends and I often talk about how the internet felt much more "wild West" in the 90's and 00's, and Newgrounds definitely had a big part in that version of it. Thanks for what you do! Been watching your vids for ~7 years now 🙂

Adam Greene

Sonic would objectively kick Mario's ass at anything outside of plumbing. There isn't even a contest there. It's a ridiculous argument. can you tell i'm old and still having the same argument from my childhood?

Nate Card

I was a huge LF fan back in high school. A buddy and I would shout lines from “Random Battles” at each other every time we met up. It was probably insufferable.

Nikki

Relieved to see y‘all got out the other end of this shitshow alive, functioning and still wanting to do your jobs. Can‘t wait to watch the result!

HiroRwar

Oomph, this was a nice potter down the lane. Real comfy vid. 💛 And of course, thank you for all Kat and yourself do!!

Aurora H.

130???!!!! Jfc. Good luck you guys. Love your work and am happy to support it where I can.

Adam Gaffney

Flash was janky, and hard to use, and ended up with some real issues which meant it's absolutely understandable why they killed it off. But something about the way Flash combined interactivity and animation was stellar. Literally all games combine interactivity and animation, however in most main games there's the "interactive" bit and the "cutscene" bit. Even if there's no actual cutscenes, things like QTE's in games just have a different feel to Flash animation QTE's and I don't think I'm capable of actually distilling why. A game feels like you are playing a game, but a flash game feels like you're watching a movie you can change as you go, and something about that is beautiful to me.

Kyle

Thanks Kat for all the incredibly hard work you put in!

Sparrow

Thank you for everything you guys have been doing for the last few years!

Sam

Hooray

Chazie

Really nice to see you do lighthearted videos after the main channel doozies you did recently :) i think i spent more time on ebaumsworld than newgrounds in those days but they were very similar in vibes and some of it was probably cross-posted. I haven't rewatched any of it in 20 years i want to believe it's as good as i remember it

Nicholas Fennell

Neat!

Julia Krystosek

My hometown Pride isn't until halfway through July, so you're practically early! <3

C2

+1

Hannah Lyons

Oh god this has unlocked a core memory for me. I was about 6 and my older cousins came to visit. One of them booted up New Grounds and started playing all these really gory games. He showed me how to use it, and explained that there were games that weren’t gory that I could play. So cut to me, a couple of days later after my cousins had left. I open up New Grounds on the family computer in the living room, while my dad is watching TV. I look at all the games and see one called “torture chamber” or something like that. Now I did not know what that word meant, but the little man on the picture looked like Morph so I was like… Perf. I open up the game and there are all these sliders, and I do not know what any of them do. So I drag one listed temperature all the way to the right. At this point I should mention I had the sound on and no headphones. Not-Morph shrieked in agony, I panicked, minimised the screen and burst into tears. My dad was like child what the fuck was that. So I showed him the game in floods of tears, and he had to explain to me what torture was. Apparently the phone call he had to make to my aunt was quite long and blistering and my cousin got in quite a lot of trouble, and I was banned from going on New Grounds ever again.

EricB

Joyful, uplifting. Thank you.

Bambi Goodman

THANK CHRIST this is the last month I can afford your patreon.

Djinigami

Love you Hbomb, your videos brighten up my day

Conformist

Yes....yes.....yyyeeeeezssssss

Nathan Fisher

Saw the video and was suddenly overcome with lines that were regularly repeated in my childhood! Ah newgrounds, a simpler time..

Michael Sanders

also glad y'all are taking care of yourselves <3

Michael Sanders

BY JOLLY

Mort

I am so extremely enamoured by the idea of a stock image of random binary code in green italic arial on a plain black background and I am so glad that you used the watermarked version of it. quality subtle bit 👏👏👏

Naomi Hatchman

"Oh goody, it's just a quick video... Oh, it's an hour long. Okay, it's a relatively quick Hbomberguy video."

brooke siyajuck

it's july 1st, 2:41 am here. i'm on my second energy drink, i have two painting assignments due tomorrow and i have yet to start on the second one but i'm so happy this has come out because i was just looking for something to listen to and my eyes are getting heavy and i am afraid. HURRAY

Emma De'Montford

Thanks! Looking forward to watching this!!

Edward Price

This was a lot of nostalgia for a Monday morning. There is something kind of incredible about watching this and having so many things I thought had been memory-holed come back. Me and my friends used to watch Decline or LegendaryFrog all the time. I still have friends I only know because of Perfect Kirby. I remember exactly how I felt when I found out Snipperclips was going to be a Switch launch title and the creators were the people I spent so much time watching. I’m pretty sure I’d never have been writing anything or wouldn’t be working in games at all if it wasn’t for the Super Flash Bros or Perfect Kirby or Egoraptor. My life would probably be completely different and my sense of humour and joy would be, too. What a great video. Thank you.

Cai Fawkes

Happy Pride!! I hope you are both taking all the time to recover that you need. Lots of love to you both.

Mannekwin

cmon harry you're spoiling us

bassguitarbill

Schwiggity schwiggity schwa (I'm actually v interested in this video you see)

Tuur Verheyde

Good luck to you Harry. I thought the video you made was incredible sensitive and thoughtful and it was frustrating to see its main subject react so disgustingly and to witness so many people cynically using that to get a petty win. I am happy to hear that is over now. Hope you and your Kat have a solid rest of the year.

Razgriz

I hope homestarruner is on the poll list, that could be it’s own amazing video.

The Monster Mensch

Happy pride from California. You made it in time!

Elisa groli

ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY, jfc

That One Irish Furry

Happy pride month harry glad all the summerton stuff is under control now It is also funny continuously watching your lovecraftian writing style Where everytime your like "oh next video is a short little one about how newgrounds is cool ✌️" then you arrive 6 months later like "new grounds video is done its very long even after being cut down and also spawned 5 other video ideas off from it "

JC Proefrock

That 130 plagiarized individuals got a “Hooooo…” from me. Glad to hear you guys are taking time to recover and getting things figured out. (30 min til the end of arbitrary pride month, my time) ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

Joey Hickmann

Oh baby let's go

Lizzie

Take care of yourselves Kat and Harry!

TechPriest

Got it on muh Bday. Nice. Ty for the lil gift my very close personal tots not parasocial amigos. Tots. X) anywho hope all you lot are doing alright

The New Poet Lawyerette

Thank you so much! 💜

Luna

I just want to say I LOVE your name. Super clever! Happy Pride month! Or Wrath Month, as it is here now :D

jed

pride month only ends because we BELIEVE in the fabricated myth of TIME. don't worry harris, just like horses, time isn't real, pride month lasts forever!

レイ

Happy Pride! I look forward to seein' your doughnut!

my dogs gay

i just started rewatching hbomb vids yesterday after taking a break for awhile. well timed post

Kieran

Happy pride!! Hope you guys are taking care of yourselves!

The Butterfly Composer

Yus

Drew Kolenik

YAYYYY

Kevin Fowler

hell yeah

Freddy

LETS GO. I’ll accept this as a pride in July post but happy for those who are still in June.

Nicholas Rota

This is the best pride gift I, a gay, could ask for

Kaladin17

Christmas came early, and so did I when I saw this post, lets gooooo

Jay Gardos

It's still June here too! Happy Pride! Great to have you back :)) can't wait for that 72 hour video on some obscure piece of info that I would have been completely ok not knowing but will be absolutely ecstatic finding out about and bringing it up in random conversations so that all my friends hate me :)))

The New Poet Lawyerette

Happy Pride month!

Heidi Metcalf-Shelton

Yay! I’ve very rarely met a doughnut that wasn’t worth the wait, especially figurative ones.

Katovitsa

hbomb i can’t find the link to the patron discord how do i join

Fran

ur my goat

Elderoy

You rock !

Schizmo

Happy to hear everyone is taking so much needed time off, no one could’ve predicted the impact that video would have

E. Filleul

I was worried about you and kat honestly you were put under a tremendous amount of pressure for uncovering the lies and manipulation of someone and it was unfair to make you responsible for his actions. I hope you are finding the time to take care of yourselves.