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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Internet services |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Key people | Tom Fulp, Founder & CEO liljim & Ross, Back-End Programmers Stamper, Web and media designer |
| Website | www.newgrounds.com |
Newgrounds is a website headquartered in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA and created in 1995 that primarily hosts Adobe Flash animated films and games. The site was created and is owned by Tom Fulp, who still maintains every aspect and regularly produces in-house content.
Newgrounds allows its users to submit their own flash movies, games, and music and to view submissions from other users. Over the years, Newgrounds has grown significantly and must rely on the cooperation of its visitors. Visitors are encouraged to review the submissions. A rating system produces lists that direct visitors to the most popular flash movies and allows the site designers to easily locate any material that might be considered for deletion or promotion. The website now has over 1 million registered members and over 300,000 flash submissions. Out of those, about 90,000 still exist due to the auto delete system known as "blamming."
Controversial content
Newgrounds is a fairly controversial website because it contains heavy violent and sexual content. Additionally, as much of the content is contributed by anonymous users and can often feature work by fans, infringement of other parties' intellectual property is a problem. Newgrounds has faced lawsuits from organizations such as the BBC, the MPAA, MGM and many others.
Newgrounds has a flash submitting system that can be easily abused. In order to stop abuse, the website administrators have laid out something called "The Whistle System." If a flash breaks one of the rules, users will blow the whistle on the flash. If enough users blow the whistle the flash will be "flagged" and marked for administrative review. The whistle can be blown if the flash breaks one of the following:
- The movie is stolen (that is, not authored by the person who has submitted it).
- The movie is malicious (for example, auto-spawns pop-up windows).
- The movie is unsuitable (for example, hardcore adult, porn slideshows, hateful, illegal, extremely grotesque).
If the administrators rule that the flash breaks the rules, the author faces punishment that includes banning and deletion of his or her user account.