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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Good Morning Newgrounds! This past month you may have noticed a resurgence of Clock Crew movies. Did you know they have an annual (mostly) event called Flash Flood, or in other words, it's a daily animation challenge.

This year, HiveClock seemingly both old and new at the same time, entered the scene with its own set of movies.

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TOP STORY: SCANDAL? or BODY POSITIVE ROLE MODEL?

Tom Fulp Used Your Supporter Money To Treat His Jaundice.

Image credit: @Little-Rena

Newgrounds, for the better part of a decade, uses the Supporter system to keep the lights on. Even with thousands of people sending as little as $3 per month, the site still reports a small loss each year.

Why is that? Local financial analyst Nicholas Dick says he's found the answer. The site's founder @TomFulp has been blowing it all on his medical expenses, and this has been going back since at least 2016.

According to a medical report Dick unearthed earlier this February, Fulp, 45, has been suffering from a strong case of jaundice for the last 8 years, leading to a discoloring of his skin. As a result, he has rarely showed up in official meets and events. Any pictures proving otherwise either have him coated in makeup or have been digitally altered.

It's been estimated that Fulp spent approximately 10% of the site's gross income from 2021-2023 on medical treatments, not counting his personal salary. These treatments reportedly k. A further 70% of the site's gross income was given to a research firm seeking to permanently cure the disease, some donations as high as $24,000.

Dick also theorizes that Fulp and other users made his avatar yellow-skinned to raise awareness about the condition, though Fulp has yet to publicly confirm this.

Good morning, You're hooked on DICK NICK, not to be confused with DICK NECK. The difference being; I'm your 100% reliable internet detective Nicholas Dick, and today should be near the end of the Flash Flood.

After acquiring a brand new laptop last month, I've increased my mailing list by up to 5000% thanks to all the pre-existing contacts and followers from the previous owner, enough to let you all know about two of the greatest mysteries

CASE 1: CARROTCLOCK

There's been a very well-known rumor that @CarrotClock is actually @TomFulp's clock account, however, neither party have been able to prove it. Tom never confirmed this. And it's up to ME to have to find out once and for all!

To start this investigation, I'll be looking into two specific CarrotClock joints.

EXHIBIT 1: CARROT JUICE

CarrotClock is credited on the 2006 flash demo Carrot Juice, a realtime 3D demo for Clock Day. This was a collaboration between him, @MindChamber (art), @mike (programming), and @Stamper (original music). These are all notable and honorable NG members who joined the site in 2000, all of which have been Newgrounds staff who have made direct contributions to the site.

• Stamper designed a site layout circa 2003, but also did "odds and ends" for K-FED: Dancing with Fire, just months prior.
• MindChamber was supposed to be working on a Pico's School sequel, but it remains unfinished, though he has worked with Tom on some other games.
• Mike worked as a full-time programmer for Newgrounds (which included a visualizer for the Audio Portal) and now works for The Behemoth. He also developed Swivel for Newgrounds in 2012-2013. He had only worked on one prior Flash submission before Carrot Juice.

Do you think some totally random Flash author (albeit a semi-popular author who made two popular games 3 years ago) would be able to get 3 Newgrounds staff members to collaborate on a Flash, especially one as innovative as a real-time 3D demo? Do you think this is something that could only be done by the owner of the site?

EXHIBIT 2: SADDAM VS BUSH

In 2002, Tom made a post calling for voice actors for real-life political figures George W Bush and Saddam Hussein, as well as another thanking everyone for sending their applications. These were to be used in a game he was developing.

The two clips are as followed:

• Bush: "Not my oil! Anything but my oil!"
• Saddam: "That was my summer home, you infidel!"

First post | Second post

Nothing seemed to come out of this for the remainder of the year, or anything out of Tom himself, but in March 2003, IRAQ ATTACK was posted to Newgrounds, where it would get over a million views and a Weekly User's Choice. Suspiciously similar to that game Tom mentioned earlier, won't you know!

Hey look! There are those two clips.

It appears the lucky voice actor only didn't actually do real lines, but instead a load of gibberish, except no voice actor was credited. Either he was anonymous or whoever was developing the game never ended up picking anyone.

But still, a game of this quality MUST've come from the guy who was able to fake "variables" in the primitive Flash 3 for Pico's School in 1999. No other random user, especially a Clock, could exceed that level of programming talent, in Flash, this early. Plus it just feels like an early Tom game in the same vein as Crazy Belmont or some of the Assassin games, or Domo-Kun Angry Smashfest!

CASE 2: HiveClock

For Flash Flood 2024, we've seen a massive bee epidemic, with @HiveClock showing up on the scene, submitting several movies for the event. However, this seemingly new/old clock is shrouded (really hope I'm spelling this rigt) in mystery.

Just who exactly is HiveClock, and how come he's joined in the year 2000, yet we've only just heard of them? Let's find out.

EXHIBIT 1: WHO IS HIVECLOCK?

To start with, any decent moviemaker is bound to develop their own artstyle, but with HiveClock, it's all over the place. Each HiveClock movie follows a different style. It appears like each movie was made by different people, specifically different Clocks. Either it's very derivative, or dun dun DUN!!!! it's a group effort from multiple Clocks.

I might be wrong, but I think some of those contributors could include some known names like DVaClock, FloundermanClock, and probably Pop-Tart and PolyhedronClock. I have no way of knowing without the coauthor system to guide me.

EXHIBIT 2:

As for the other question, regarding Hive's age.

First, the account seems to be created in May 1st 2000, yet only has submissions dating back to 2024. What other clues are there?

• No prior BBS posts, save for congratulating the winners during Flash Flood.
• It faved 7 movies related to B or bees, as well as the accounts of the 4 founder Clocks, so not very helpful
• The Wayback Machine was only able to archive up to Feb 7th 2024.

I was also only able to find 1 post in ye olde General forum dating to Oct 7, 2007, where the user @RohedIn said the following:

"I AM a clock, Hivelcock. Well actually just now im an official clockfriend. But if I get clockified on the 15th then I become hiveclock."

He hadn't been active since 2010, so I doubt this is related.

OK, to sum it up, my theory is this: HiveClock is a fairly recent creation, jointly managed and maintained by multiple Clock authors, but one thing just doesn't add up. Where the hell did there they find an account from 2000? And why 2000? Why not 2023, 2010, 2001, 2002?

This has stumped me for 2 weeks already. But there may be one remaining clue.

I knew it!

@CarrotClock

Cue the Ace Attorney music!

No, the one that goes DUN DUN DUN DUN Duduh DAAAAH, da da dUUUUUH!

The one they used in Escaping the Prison's "lame ending" before they switched it out in the 2020 remaster!

As per my previous investigation, if CarrotClock is TomFulp and TomFulp is CarrotClock, he might be able to pull some strings and either dug up an old unused account for the CC's own use, or spoof the join date. And in exchange for what, exactly?

Most, if not all of the HiveClock projects follow a specific narrative. And who plays an important, albeit secondary or antagonistic role in this narrative? CarrotClock!

CARROTCLOCK is in on this whole thing! He wanted to play a major role in a major Clock event for the first time in God knows how long, and Clock Day's only one day, so Flash Flood's probably the best chance for additional exposure. Maybe he'll come back proper in Clock Day? Who knows?

And as for the 2000 join date. Maybe they picked that year for story/narrative reasons, as a supposed predecessor to B, or a physical manifestation of the source of B (or bees). What comes before B?

A?

StrawberryClock?

No, BEE? What goes with bees?

Hives!

And it's not the first time Tom has worked with the Clocks in recent history. Last year they pulled a surprise Clock Day for an April Fool's Day prank. Ha ha! Some of us have JOBS you know!

AAAHHH!

I haven't solved a case this good since the day before my wife divorced me and ran off with my cousin Rick, who solves REAL mysteries like school shootings! Stay tuned for next time!

Feb 1st

Applications for both the official Sonic Shorts 9 collab, and its OneyPlays spinoff, have closed. Get going!

Feb 2nd

Groundhog Day

Feb 3rd

Applications for both the official Sonic Shorts 9 collab, and its OneyPlays spinoff, have closed.

Feb 4th

That one guy who slept in the entire time tries to apply for Sonic Shorts 9.

Feb 14th

Battle of the Bombs has begun:

The scheduled bi-monthly animation tournament between two animation comedy specialists @PukeBomb (@NattoSumi) and Drawbomb (@Topcatyo) starts on this date. Both parties should finish up by Feb 30th, after which a panel of judges will review their submissions.

Feb 19th

Battle of the Bombs Judge Application Deadline

Feb 25th

@PFINNEY starts a new animation series, Sludge Brothers, and wants to raise $15,000 in 2 weeks.

Tom leaves the big banner empty.

Feb 29th

3 Pokemon collabs expected to finish as of today. Palworld collab expected to start sometime in May.

FLASH FLOOD!! Today's Paily Dicks go out to the Clocks in the Clock Crew.

We start the month off (almost), with Flounderman's Lunchquest (of course by @FLOUNDERMANCLOCK), and Here we go Again!, by @Little-Rena, ranking at #7 and #8 respectively. A blooper reel beat them out!

On the 7th, we have HiveClock: The Game: by @HiveClock, ranking in a 6

On Feb 10th, @Little-Rena brings us our first actual award-winning submission: Hive Clock gets a job, while @Pop-Tart applies for a job at the ad agency. It won 4th place.

Feb 11: To continue her streak, Little-Rena, with Pop-Tart under her belt again, strike again with 3rd with When Poly had a Birthday. Happy Birthday Poly!

Feb 12: Little-Rena's ClockCrewCouncil reaches 8th place, while Beta Carotene by HiveClock shows us that CarrotClock knows more movie references than you do.

Feb 13: HiveClock explains its origin story (albeit barely with a 6th place), with HiveClock: Origins, while Little-Rena wastes all her money on a Totally Legit Mobile Game, and not even a good game, it got 9th place.

Feb 14th: @FLOUNDERMANCLOCK comes back with an all new Space Adventure Flounderman with Space Adventure Flounderman -GAIDEN- [1]. Competition from both much larger creators, with the occasional bad apple, meant it only got 7th, when it should've received a real legit Daily award.

Feb 18: HiveClock's The Calling reaches 9th place. If anyone should get a Daily award for something that looks like it was compiled together in a day, it should be the Clocks!

Conspiracy theories regarding the 1st place winner still go on to this day.

Feb 20: Dunk on a Heckler and When the Crew Party, both by Little-Rena take 6th and 7th spots.

Feb 21: Two submissions:

Croc Day 2024 by @DVa-Clock (legally distinct from Little-Rena) takes home a Daily 3rd, at last!

Space Adventure Flounderman -GAIDEN- [2], by FLOUNDERMANCLOCK (8th place) loses again in what could only be described as "asufutimaehaehfutbw".

Feb 22: Illegal aliens forced Little-Rena to 7th place again with Bragging Rights.

Feb 23: Ditto for This Movie is too Sexy with both Little-Rena and Pop-Tart cumming up with a sneaky plot, except that they forgot to

Feb 27: @Foxcato, or otherwise known as Inkwell Clock, enters the scene with Toothpaste!

Feb 28: Nothing new until now, Little-Rena wins yet another Daily 3rd with Justice! Justice for B!

If I missed any submissions, it's probably because it never entered the top 10. (example: @FilmCutterClock's 4-part TridentClock series is a worthy mention, thank you FilmCutterClock)

Of course, February is also the start of various other new classics, such as Bowz's SPEEDMAN, but those aren't Clock-related. What do you think about these submissions?

Tankman Triweekly is, chika chika Slim Shady!