Newgrounds is an
entertainment website and company founded by Tom Fulp in 1995. It hosts user-generated content such as games, films, audio, and artwork composition in four respective website categories. It also provides visitor-driven voting and ranking of user-generated submissions.1 Fulp produces in-house content at the headquarters and offices in Glenside, Pennsylvania.2
In the early 2000s and 2010s, Newgrounds played an important role in
Internet culture in general and in
independent video gaming in particular. Newgrounds has been called a "distinct time in gaming history" and a place "where many animators and developers cut their teeth and gained a following long before social media was even a thing."3