What brought you here

[SrsSam77]

hi hi hello someone showed me this place and it looks hype

i am a 17yr old scrub looking to get super pro at drawing, through harsh critiques n advice n stuff

i dont remember who showed me

holy shit I keep forgetting you're so young
why are you so old in my mind

[crackers]

He 20 now he the big boy :*

[soup]

i the big boy

[slack]

you're still my little boy

[Sef]

Blu wouldn't stop talking about TBA on the 'ol middle school bus so I bit the bullet (twice actually)

[Gladius]

my friend sinister told me to join

woah i thought i was the only one

[SHADOWFOX2]

Metropolis Circuit

[Gilthwixt]

I liked Metropolis Circuit back in High School, I missed the fun and drama that comes with small internet groups, and thought if I hung out here I'd eventually get over the crippling self-doubt that I'll never make good art.

I didn't.

[zwimmy]

I don't remember, probably rtil's art.

[michaell]

signed up like 200 years ago to troll > had several emotional breakdowns > stopped posting > started posting again to plug music > realized that this place is slightly less of a trash heap than it used to be and kept posting

hardcore

[Unless]

I stumbled upon the site roughly a year ago whilst looking for some HTML coding for another (more gaming-centric) forum which I administer with an iron clawww and an evil laugh. Or at least I used to before people stopped signing up any more and it simply became a place for the active members to hang out alongside XBox Live, Skype, Facebook and so stopped really requiring much administration, which in turn was before I lost internet at home. I've actually been posting more over here than there lately, which miffs me a little bit on account of that being a staple and one of the only things I have in common with my thirteen year-old self who initially signed up. But I guess there are just fewer members ad active topics over there, so it's all good.

The code didn't work because the other forum can't be updated to HTML5 because the initial creator has been MIA for a very long time. Allie looked pretty pretty though, and I was enticed to keep coming back here via my bookmarks in hopes that Scary Monsters or Nice Sprites might show up along the header some time. I like small forums where most people know each other, and this forum had only slightly too many members for my abashed little brain to keep track, so I eventually joined.

[Dr. DiegO]

Necroposting time!

Judging by the replies the answer is obvious, Rtil.

In my specific case: first was just following him for his NSFW art, discovered him for his Newgrounds blog post about the Yoko DeviantArt Incident, from there I gave him the follow. then In early 2024 I found his blog post about the return of TheBackAlleys forum. after some technical problems with the captcha I managed to get in here. now doing the equivalent of urban exploration online. 

[Ayyyyy]

Thread necromancy


On that note I came here for the Deviantart drama thing (2006?)
And I think I left an anonymous comment about how funny it was.

Edit: I joined in 2008, I couldnt really reach a computer in 2006-2007

[ansel]

i was desperate to engage w newgrounds social life but none of the artists i wanted to ingratiate myself to actually hung out in public on ng because it was full of children like myself. i knew there were offsites and spinoff forums, but i was not brave enough to post. i almost certainly wound up here by clicking the link at the end of metropolis circuit, then probably stuck around because zekey was here — watching his animation the morgue on flashplayer dot com was my first intro to flash and the downward spiral commenced with terrible speed

[rtil]

we're still circling the drain 

[wasp]

Read about it in the entrails of a moose.

[DanielVop]

I believe art has an incredible ability to heal and transform our emotional states. If we consider how deeply personal experiences shape artistic expression, can we argue that the act of creating art is as therapeutic as the art itself? What if every piece of art we encounter is not just a reflection of the artist but also a mirror of our own unexpressed emotions?

[Skater]

Idk honestly

[rtil]

once upon a time everyone found this place via newgrounds. nowadays i haven't the slightest clue

[Skater]

Idk honestly

Ok I actually remember now.
I was watching a YouTube video and went to the channel the video was made by, in the description the backalleys was linked there.
I tried to get in 2 to 3 times afterwards, one day I was checking my emails when I saw an email from the backalleys letting me know I had been let in. But that was like 2 months ago, and I was automatically signed out. And I couldn't remember my username so I was stuck.
Skip ahead a bit and now I'm finally logged in.