Wow, so newgrounds got big enough that they actually decided to do their own awards ceremony, with trophies and all. This is a pretty big thing, even if it's just going out from a website. It's only once a year, with REAL gold plated trophies you can win. You'd think that only the top quality submissions, all artistically, stylistically, well scripted, beautiful graphics, great originality, submissions would get in. Nah. This is newgrounds, are you kidding me?? Even at a professional attempt at giving back to the community, newgrounds can't take animation seriously. The website built around uploading your original content does not promote originality at all. Disgusting.

The sick part about what i just said, is that it is over the top all too true. Ghostmas is bad enough, but a madness animation?? And they didn't just take it that far, there are also 2 madness spinoffs in the mix, too!! An animation with little original graphics besides stick figures, a movie that's a spinoff of a commercial with little animation at all, a movie where the characters have no style and are blatantly ripped off of southpark, hell dude, almost ALL of the nominees are a ripoff. If newgrounds really wanted to have quality, filmfest, award-winning animations in its selection process the only movies that are there now that i could see being there in a real life animation awards situation are Waterlollies and The Stranger Forest. Sometimes good, deserving animations are featured on the front page, and sometimes they even win money. But situations like this just ruin the whole point of trying to promote decent flash.

Now I'm not trying to be a total asshole about everything, I'm suggesting drastic improvement could be taken place if efforts were made. Oh, and I expect several comments entailing 'you're just mad because none of your movies are up there!' or 'if you hate newgrounds so much why don't you leave!' Yeah, well feel free to bitch and moan all you want to. None of that is going to change my opinion.

EDIT: And yes I did read the whole nominees page, several times before posting this.

EDIT 2: Another thing I should have added when posting this, there's a fine line on what deserves to be popular, and what deserves to win an award. What's popular isn't always best.