A few years ago, around 2010, I made my first Newgrounds account, and I mostly made it to be able to earn medals on the games I liked, I wasn't ever expecting to ever be a part of the community all things considered, mostly due to the fact I was an annoying kid with barely to nothing to offer, artistically or otherwise, but I always wondered if I could get featured on the site like all of the artists I used to look up to did

In 2020, I decided to rejoin Newgrounds once again

Now cut to 2023, and I've finally got that fabled frontpage I've dreamed for so long, but most importantly, I've met so many friends in here, I got to know pretty much everyone in here, and now I'm an actual part of the community that (for the most part) a lot of people seem genuinely fond of having around

I can't state how happy I am to have rejoined Newgrounds when I had the chance back in 2020

A lot of the reasons why my life is significantly better than it was back then was thanks for a lot of the people I met in here, some that I even used to be a big fan of before I actually had the chance to meet them personally (looking at you @staggernight), and the friends I've made in here helped me to stir me up in the right directions I should have been going to from the get go

@octo Introduced me to most of the people in here, and his first website inspired me to make my own, and in general, he's always been a good friend to me

@joe-mega was always a good friend to me, and a lot of his support towards my website endeavors made me want to continue to improve and pursuit to improve them

@staggernight has been a sincerely good friend through all the way, and the amount of nights we spent playing Dragon Ball FighterZ and making KaioKen jokes is something I always remember fondly off

and @beatumpop for just being around, ever since meeting him a year ago, I legitimately felt a light lit up inside me like I haven't felt in years, and this was enough to drive me to push myself harder just a little bit more, even when I was I sure I should have just given up

There's tons of others friends I haven't mentioned either, but you all know who you are, and you're all great as well

And for those who kept an eye on my things, either my website, or my Newgrounds, you're cool too

I'll forever be grateful for what this site and the people in here have done for me

But what now?

What's left for big me? (I'm not little anymore lol)

RootPain.com

That's what's left

All things considered, this is my passion project that's been building up for years now

Ever since I first found out about The Mystical Forest Zone when I was younger, I was obsessed with making

a website of my own as cool as TMFZ was, and recently, I got the chance to do just that

Being the spiritual successor of my first website, JuneSSai.com, RootPain.com is essentially a refined and fully realized version of everything I was trying to accomplish with my first website, and I think I did a pretty good job with it

I do plan on implementing more stuff into my website, like more downloads for free games, backgrounds, fonts, programs and other things, and I've implemented the Art Corner recently, and with the Blog Section being very near completion, it probably won't take long for me to do the same with the rest of the stuff too

It's not a profitable site, but I like making it, and if in the future, my website makes enough impact on someone to make them think about it years later, and make them go "I want to do that some day" just like The Mystical Forest Zone did to me back in the day, then it was all worth it

And lastly, I also want to say "I'm sorry" to a lot of the people that were unfortunate enough to have first interacted me a while ago around 2020-2021

I used to be very bitter about myself and my works, and instead of actually improving myself, I'd try to go out of my way to start shit with other people and make them feel bad instead by "fake criticizing" things others make, trying to pass bitterness off as criticism, and that's always a pathetic thing to do, there's a right way to do criticism, and this is not one of them, and I'm sorry, and I hope if we stumble upon each other again, that we might meet under better circumstances

Either way, that's it for the most part

I told you all I never dissapear for good, and you'd see from me again

If you hate that or not, that's up to you, tho

Stay strong, we'll see each other soon.