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What is a "Tankman?"

Its refering to the official mascots from Newgrounds. -.-

...Really? But why?

Definitely cap or skittles XD they seem oddly cute...

this thread has been banned by Xi Jinping

lmao

and i'm not old enough on the internet to know the tankmen characters enough to know which wouldn't be a death wish if not all of them to tickle

lmao i just noticed that he replied like 12 hours after

i guess this guy isn't used to forums...

Yeah me neither. Newgrounds came out in 1995. Almost THREE decades old. I wish I could have lived then and saw the internet in it's infancy. I'd imagine it'd feel like a vast lonely sea with glistening customized islands in the form of colorful and amatuer blogs and forums.

I'm not sure I would describe it like that, but it certainly was something. I still remember a good number of flash animations I used to watch, most of the stuff on Newgrounds in particular was pretty edgy though. MySpace and GeoCities were pretty popular at the time as well. It's probably for the better that those died off when they did, there are better ways to do blogging now anyways. One thing I do miss though is written guides, they're slowly dying out in favour of video guides on youtube.

there was also a lot of stupid drama. see: SomethingAwful, and pretty much anything to do with game modding and emulation.

a lot of those people seem to be the ones leading left-wing cancel culture mobs now too, which is interesting.