Apologies for my version of Norfolk

If this happened on 4chan, SirTom would've been mocked, praised, and reported to the authorities, all at the same time.

As someone who used to go on there from like 2003-2012 when I was a kid the nostalgia is insane. I really like that New Grounds is getting some attention not 4chan level but at least some. For a website that goes back to 1996 Who would have thought it could survive after flash died?

I like how he told the internet his full name, school and area he lived in and tried to commit a crime while boasting about it.

This is why you always take threats to school seriously, especially online, you never know if they're actually gonna do it and don't feel scared contacting somebody, because the faster we contact authorities the less likely anyone will get hurt.

Moral of the story: Never eat ice cream with Chris O'neill, it will awaken the evil within you.

My favourite Newgrounds moment was when I made an infinite loading screen and uploaded it and pissed a bunch of people off.

Between Sir Tom and the guy that runs Spirit Science, Chris eats ice cream with the weirdest people.

I recently tried to explain to my 13 yo nephew newgrounds being a young kid before KZfaq and before easily playable games on online devices. I still look for flash games sometimes. The ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny,salad fingers and things I didn’t say like adult sections and other weird stuff. It was a crazy place. I’ll add I was young and wasn’t on the message boards

Imagine an alternate reality where Chris did not buy him ice cream.

How does Chris always eat ice cream with the craziest people?

“Huh, I never heard of the guy” “Beginning in 2008” “Oh shit I’m old, that’s like 6 years after I grew up and stopped using Newgrounds”

Newgrounds: *Stops a Terrorist Attack* KZfaq: *Can't even delete a bot comment properly*

Moral of the story: make sure you DO make threats online if you plan to do something. That way people can find out ahead of time and stop you from hurting anyone.

You know the website is good when one of their biggest Law-related controversies is when they prevented an arson attack.

Moral of the story: Don't underestimate the good you can do as a community.

0:34 I miss Edd Gould. Watching him when he was alive feels like a memory to me, seeing his joyful state feels like if I was in those years. Matt will keep the series alive, never forget. Edds world will continue spinning. 1988 - 2012

Newgrounds had the original “you wont last five minutes” games

So fun story, before he did this, my friend and I chatted with him quite a bit. We were also meant to have a meetup with a bunch of other local Newgrounds users, but for whatever reason it never materialised. We never actually ended up meeting him in person, but we did chat on MSN a fair bit, and I remember he had NOTHING but negative things to say about his high school. This was around 2008 I think. Also, quite by happenstance, I'm wearing my old Newgrounds t-shirt right now!

Cool recap! Glad we were able to stop him in time. Who knows if he actually would have done anything, but he did have all that stuff on him. I wish I kept logs of all my convos with everyone who helped. Deckheadtottie was instrumental in stopping this potential attack. He woke me up that morning so we could figure out his location. I believe I traced his IP and was able to see the general area where he lived. From there I found the closest school and relayed that info to Deckheadtottie who was in contact with the local authorities. I believe he called the school directly as well. Then someone messages me with Sirtom93’s real name so I relayed that to Deckheadtottie and he passed that along to the authorizes as well. It was a relief to learn they intercepted him in time.

No doubt this was caused by bullying at his school. I can empathize with him on that front. That being said, though, I definitely don't condone what he did. Or rather what he was planning on doing.

Newgrounds coming back from the dead is one of the best reboots you could ask for

New grounds was the shit as a kid gotta love those random flash games that would kill hours outta the day

I made a SirTom93 game on NG like the day that this event happened! I was like 16 at the time and I rushed home from school and shat out SirTom93’s Adventure and posted it on NG that day haha

The "active" under egoraptor (Arin Hanson from game grumps) is throwing so much shade that it literally made me laugh out loud.

I still have my Newgrounds account from October 2000. I remember when that site was brand new because the neighbor kids discovered it and we all got the internet around the same time in 1995-96. Back before the Portal was a thing. That truly was the Wild West days of the Internet. Club A Seal, Teletubbies, eventually Pico. That shit was wild.

Chris really has eaten ice cream with the weirdest people huh?

Poor kid. When you’re having trouble in high school it’s so easy to feel like that’s your entire world and that there’s no future to look forward to, like it just doesn’t exist. After high school the world opens up, and high school just turns into this thing that happened before your real life. You meet new people in new circumstances and you can be yourself, and in doing that make your life whatever you want it to be. Keep your chin up young people.

Shit dude the moment you said "this isn't a plot of a Pico game" I was going, "Isn't this a Pico game?"

I remember a certain memory of when my mother was upstairs sleeping and my father was at work. I remember playing newgrounds games like geometry dash and riddle school. I also remember watching a madness combat animation. Later, my mother told me to get off because she needed to do some business stuff. Even though the fun ended, I had the time of my life. I still rewatch madness combat animations to this day.

If public school is so bad that every day it drives kids into becoming extremely depressed, killing themselves or committing acts of violence, you know that there's something SERIOUSLY wrong with it.

It's good this guy got the help he needed. Usually I am a firm believer of the fact that mental instability does not justify criminal acts, but no one really got hurt here, and now he seems to be doing all right so, I wish him the best.

I always got the feeling that this was a cry for help. He was invested in school shootings, and knew what made them successful or not. I hope he did get the help he needed.

Hi, I'm Rig. I don't remember that letter, but I wouldn't make up anything like that. I don't have the letter anymore - I think it's in storage somewhere in Montreal. Thanks for the update on sirtom. It's nice that he got the help he needed and wasn't just thrown in jail. I'm glad he's ok :)

As someone of gen Z who played the sonic flash games on occasion i gotta say new grounds was one of a kind

wavy: in the middle of talking about something serious. wavy 2 seconds later: lets talk about cereal

Miss the OG Moderators and users. Especially Luis whom I met at a New Grounds NYC Meet-up years ago. Sat down with him for a quick meal. Tom and Wade Fulp were cool. Very down-to-Earth.

I can't believe Oney radicalized Tom at that meet up, what a sick sob

There used to be this tragic incident evolving around this NG user back in the day. His name was Livecorpse, and he sadly killed himself to stay away from police in summer 2004. Man rest in peace

I was expecting a story with an ethical example of doxxing someone, not Tom being terrible about internet privacy (especially given when all this happened)

Punk-o-matic and the game where you’re a 1970’s pimp killing people with Shafty funk music in the background were my fav flash games back in the day

Not gonna lie, I was kinda worried about Newgrounds, especially on top of flash closing, I am kinda glad this gem is getting preserved, atleast for now ^^

"Gen Z was sleeping on Newgrounds" I started using actively when I was 8 and was engulfed by NG culture by 11. I just turned 23, technically Gen Z.

"I will redact his name for privacy" *proceeds to tell the area he lives in and the school he went to*

For those who suffered from depression and bullying caused by their teacher and classmates, you know how easy it is to develop an unconditional hatred agaisnt society, humanity and espacially your school. Fortunately most ppl in that condition have a mental health good enough to stop them to do that kind of actions, but you really understand why so many kids finish like him. going into madness is easier than most ppl think, especially when you're 15 like him. I really doubt he did that just for attention. (edit now that this comment got some likes, I would like to apologize for my english xd, it's not my main language at all)

We bringing back Newgrounds shit now?? Let’s get a Pico _Netflix series_ 😭😭

Despite being everything KZfaq is not, the NG community is incredible

Who else wants to see a “Dark Side of Newgrounds” doc series?

I’m really happy FNF is introducing Newgrounds to the younger generation. Now they finally get a taste of what the internet was like back in the day.

I am glad the police believed that some people calling overseas about some newgrounder that is gonna destroy a school If I was the 999 dispatcher I would pinch myself just to check if I was dreaming

I live in Norfolk and this reminds me of an incident that happened around this time. My entire school (not AHS, but not too far from it) was taken out of class and walked down to the playing field, and told to eat our packed lunches and not worry about things. We sat on the playing field all day until home time, and the next day we were told that someone had called a bomb threat into the school. We just kinda messed around eating snacks all day, and none of us quite grasped why the adults were so distressed.

As a fan and avid listener of drone music, I fear for my mental future now

I heard Chris (Oney) mention this briefly on the sleepycast, really cool to see an actual video on this.

i remember hearing the story on sleepycast (a podcast with many prevalent figures in the newgrounds community) i never heard that he got better though, good for him

Newgrounds was my go to since I was a child. I still remember the Mature section

I think it might've been just a cry for help. Looking at his posts, it just seems like the kid was in a depressive state of mind at the time. Hopefully the dude got the help he needed.

This just brought me so many nostalgic feelings my god

*Shows Egoraptor* "active" XD

I used to love playing/watching/rating new submissions because even the bad ones were hilarious, and the good ones left a better impression on me because I had such low expectations. It was just pure unfiltered early internet shit kids my age or a few years older were making and it was the best.

Direct threats against schools should definitely always be reported and acted upon. Even if its just a kid who isn't very smart trying to be 'edgy', them getting a talking to by authorities should be enough to clue them in. For the others, it would hopefully enable them to get the help they need. But jokes and talking about school attacks in the news... eh... that is much, much more difficult to read anything into. When I was in school in the 90s, just before Columbine (I think I graduated 1 or 2 years before Columbine happened) there were shootings, and my friend group was "the weird kids" and we definitely joked about such things and did things that would definitely land us in prison or something today despite most of us being pacifists. One of my friends and I tried designing a board game based on the idea of school shootings (we didnt know much about game mechanics though and the one time we tried to play it, it was slow and boring), it was mostly a comment on the fact that it was usually a kid that had been rejected and bullied by the students striking back at the bullies and groups of students that always got special treatment from the school authorities, and how much of a media spectacle the news stations turned everything into, so you'd get more 'points' based on the social clique of the victim and more bonus if you took them out near a window. If you take away the freedom of speech and tolerance of 'troubling ideas' like these... you WILL get more actual actions instead. It's an outlet. Lots of kids are angry, and in many cases their anger is completely justified. You can't just knuckle them under and force them to be happy. People don't work like that. It's like trying to hold onto sand. The tighter you grasp it, the more you're going to lose. In response to Columbine, which happened at a brand new school with tons of surveillance and 'security' tech... they put that tech in other schools. And attacks went up. Now, attacks only happen at schools with cameras and all the things that are claimed to 'prevent' such things. Absurd that 'treat them worse' is always the reflex action.

Newgrounds is such an awesome memory from my teen years and the only time I attempted to make a flash movie with a buddy , we finished it but lord was it terrible. We were still proud of it though and just thinking of everything we saw and played on that site is amazing.

It sounds like he did have some hatred for ppl associated with his school. Fortunately, he was stopped before anything could've been escalated. I went to university with some of the students of Columbine HS who were at the school during the infamous shooting that took place there. Some of those ppl have some real traumatizing memories from that day. It was surreal to listen to them recount the events from their point of view.

I remember going to Newgrounds when I was a kid and sneaking to the Adult section. Good times

I remember this story from years back. It made it in the news in Canada and was discussed in my moral education class.

I wouldn't lump in Arin with New Grounds, he's made it clear that he thinks he's better then it now. Although I'm sure if he thought it would help his career he'd be signing it's praises from the rooftops.

If you need a 5 dollar off coupon for a box of cereal, it isn't worth it.

after seeing drew gooden completely destroy magic spoon it makes me laugh whenever it's advertised lol

That Magic Spoon cereal... they want $10 a box, and you have to buy 4 of them! Like daaaamn

The only thing i remember about newgrounds was a game called "give brittany spears a dirty sanchez" So. I guess. Thats how I'll always remember it

As negative as its stans can be, i'm glad fnf exists. It's giving a new generation of people a taste of how wild the internet was back in the 2000s. I still find it finny that oney had an icecream with an arsonist at a convention.

I wouldn’t even be suprised if the FNF fanbase tried to make a mod about this guy and everyone turned him into a tumblr sexyman

I discovered Newgrounds at like 8 years old watching Krinkels and Stamper. I love to see them booming again. 💕

I used post on the BBS all the time back in the day and specifically remember when this thread got posted. There were a few other users that ended up being controversial like LiveCorpse and Regret.

Damn, Newgrounds had so many... er, interesting characters. The early internet was wild as hell, and I'm glad it's being documented to some extent.

I was a fan of battle block theater growing up and was the only person that loved newgrounds in my school. But I didn't really know Tom fulp helped found the game of battle block theater. I honestly forgot about newgrounds through the whole 4th grade and 4 years later here we are being reminded of it's existence

The NG BBS culture before image board took over , especially between 99-04, was a special place in internet history that is largely forgotten and unknown.

Every time I see Oney I giggle because he looks like a very silly and young Irish boy.

Newgrounds also had Jeff Weise the Native American Nazi who killed like 10 people in Minnesota. His animations were pretty foretelling.

i remember getting in trouble at school back in like 2007/2008 ish, i downloaded a bunch of flash games(like 50) and uploaded them on a secret page on my student compsci page under a hidden link, when click brought to just a page of flash game links hosted locally to the page. got caught because we had traffic from like 7 different school going to it. they didnt reprimand me because it was the first instance and they knew i wouldnt do it again lmao.

Oh yeah, my dad got a large box of all those magic spoon cereals, they were all awful, not a single good one. They all literally tasted like packing peanuts with very slight, poor flavouring.

Not even a minute in and we got a subtle egoraptor roast? Aw yeah, we’re in for a good one

One thing some people don’t talk about is Newgrounds is the place where Edmund Mcmillen started his career

Nice to see my Borough in one of your vids Wavy, that was South Bank with Waterloo Bridge in the background (london pic)

Jurden D aka patchman is another newgrounds person but he started a cult called spirit science.

My Humanity gets restored every time he posts.

It's pretty rare for a story like this to seemingly have a wholesome ending in which the culprit regains his dignity and sanity, and nobody gets hurt. Nice to see, if the testimony shared near the end is indeed true.

“No, this isn’t the plot of a pico game...” *applause ensues*

Fun fact: OneyNG ate ice cream with him.

It might not be a pico game, but it sure as hell could've been.

You know you’re bored when your on the 3 AM side of KZfaq at 10:30 in the morning.

Your comment about playing flash games on the library computer reminded me of the ONE computer the students had access to in our school library. We had to book time to be able to use it. I was lucky in a way that I was born with 2 different genetic conditions that stopped me being able to run properly (femoral anteversion with compensatory external tibia torsion mixed with Ehlers Danlos syndrome) so spent every PE lesson in the library so had more access time. This was when the Doomsday disc and special reader was being sent to schools in the UK.

I remember hearing this story brought up for a moment on sleepycast and I always wanted to know the context behind this. Thank you lol

Wow this is kind of sad. He seems to have been so creative and intelligent. The video games and him talking to others about it gave me a feeling of inspiration. He seemed to be unstoppable in his motivation to create. Breaks my heart that he could have gotten therapy and never had anyone try to help him with mental health. Some people take their own lives, some take others out of anguish, misery and self hatred. Its just so sad to think how many people walked by him, or talked to him and knew he was not well and didn’t help. 😔

I love how Newgrounds is a spawning pool of either the greatest animated content creators or would be psychos

Reast in Peace EddsWorld.... i was shattered when he passed i loved his shorts so much and i miss ed matt an tom every week

internet lore and newgrounds are two of my main special interests this is so so cool (the video, not the threat lol)

I'd love to get some more new grounds lore videos. That website is such an amazing rabbit hole

Heyyyy I remember when this went down, and just thought about it a few weeks back concluding with the thought that you'd be the perfect guy to make a video about it- and here we are!

3:08 The best beat 'em up ever... par none

This is one of the most Interesting social media crime threads I've seen