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All teen and kid reviews for Newgrounds

Age
12
Average rating based on 48 kid and teen reviews:
  • 67% say sexual content is an issue
  • 63% say violence is an issue
  • 63% say language is an issue
  • 50% say there's too much drinking, drugs, or smoking
Teen, 16 years old
March 26, 2010
 
Ehhhhhh...
The site really depends on how you feel with your kids' maturity. If you think that a 15 year old is mature enough to play games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, tell them it's cool, but remind them to stay away from the "adult" and "unrated" games. Violence:*laughs* Oh ahahahaha! that's a good one! That's a real good one! *pause* You-you're joking, right? *pause, then sigh* Who here knows about the Madness series? The name descries it well: Mad Violence. In a single short animation, the "protagonist" kills off 30 people (32 if you count some zombies that appeared). Included is a person who looks a LOT like Jesus Christ. This can easily offend Christians. Oh, and did I mention Thing-Thing? It's from Crazy Monkey Games, a site infamous of creating and sponsoring bloody and gory games. Thing-Thing is no exception. The game Thing-Thing Arena 3 is EXTREMELY graphic, especially during Zombie Survival. You earn achievements for many things, such as "Kill 150 Enemies in a single game" and "Kill 50 People using the Glock G18". To sum it up, the game's tag line: "Don't just kill your enemies: kill them with style." And these two are the stereotypical violent games on Newgrounds... Sexual content: "The page you are about to access contains material that is unsuitable for minors. You must be 18 or older to proceed." That's what appears when you click the "Mature" portal on the site. Click "Yes, I'm 18 or older", and you're suddenly treated like you're visiting the Playboy website. The portal is chock-full of pornography, hentai and real-life. If you don't know what hentai is, then don't look for it. Not out of curiosity. Not out of lust-seeking. Never. Trust me. Other flash submissions contain sexual humor, such as the music video "No porn on Wii" and other such things, one of which depict a "clown" hitting his erect penis and later ejaculating. And it was rated M (Mature), not A (Adults Only) Speaking of which, the rating system is usually a good way of distinguishing the difference between pornographic things and non pornographic materials. The case of the "clown" is an excellent example of one that escapes the A rating. Another would be the game "Hippolyta" in which the character is fully naked, but she wears paint so the vagina and one of her breasts are covered. Rated T. Yep, T, as in for Teens/Adolescents 12+. Language/Drinking, Drugs, or (scratch the or) AND Smoking: I will spend very little time on this. One, because there is little to tell, and two, because I'm running out of steam. Language problems are too high to talk about. Just understand that there is no, repeat NO bad word that escapes Newgrounds unused. Even the terrible word, unused by men because any woman who hears it will abhor the user of it for the next 50 years, and unused by women because the name itself is an abomination. It starts with a c. Yep, it was used. not in one, but in MULTIPLE submissions. Drugs, Drink-you know what I mean!: BIG problem. It is far too common in these submissions. I'm outta juice, so I'll just say that the problem with User Content is, well the whole site is from Users, so, uhhh...Yeah.

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Teen, 15 years old
August 14, 2010
 
Like youtube, just be careful.
All videos contain ratings from everyone to adult, so its not that hard to avoid the bad things. When your careless though, you can run into some awfull things.

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Teen, 17 years old
October 3, 2010
 
Amazing website houses good and bad, but the careful, trustworthy kid should be able to handle it.
This site has been cleaned up a lot from way back when, but that doesn't mean it's clean. As far as movies go, the ratings are accurate and the ones rated E are pretty much equivalent to G and mild PG movies- and there is some GREAT stuff on there- wonderful animation most of the time and it is often the breeding ground for many youtube sensations. The same goes for the art section. The music part of Newgrounds is slightly less safe because there's no censored lyrics and no warning of them- but usually there are none, much of the music is great, and all of it is free for download and totally legal.

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Teen, 18 years old
December 18, 2010
 
When They Said "Everything by Everyone," They Weren't Kidding.
I don't mind Newgrounds. I watch cartoons on the site sometimes. The only problem is it can be very unpredictable. There is everything from innocent dress up games to hentai and gore. However, everything has a rating, so you should easily be able to tell what's okay for certain age groups to watch. But do keep in mind, this website is not intended for anybody under at least 13.

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Kid, 12 years old
October 17, 2009
 
Good for kids
At least be 8 or older to play on this site the games can be sort of violent at times but come on it has age ratings kids should know how to go around the site so HA! the creator of the site put the age ratings for kids that go on the site!!!!!!!

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Teen, 14 years old
July 15, 2010
 
Great site for teens exploring flash and music.
It's a great site. Especially because they have RATINGS on what would be appropriate for kids. Mature tweens can handle everything about it. And the web design is great, the community is nice, and it's safe. Everything you do (almost) can be private. And it really gets your music and flash animations out there (if you submit.)

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Kid, 12 years old
April 21, 2011
 
my review
thers adult content games are ok and bad games good for 10+ but. saftey a problem theres a thing like any other website that u may get the popup for a rouge antivirus it will infect your computer and its hard get off but theres now ways get it off

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Kid, 10 years old
February 26, 2011
 
There are some mature content that is rated wrong.
This website has good games but there are some mature content. For Example: A submission called b**bs bubbles "A word" edition

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Kid, 12 years old
July 31, 2011
 
#1 porn site on the internet.
I think it's unbelieveable how there is no porn for 'nyan cat'.

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Teen, 17 years old
July 8, 2009
 
Well, first off, I must say I have been a member of this site for a good amount of years now, about 3 or 4. Theres two real places in this site you can "adventure": 1. The Flash Portal The Flash Portal is the large collection of cartoons that are user-submitted. Its all made by users, and users decide whether the work stays or if it is rejected and "blammed". While yes, much work has some sexual humor, or is just straight cartoon porn. It all still follows a rating system which is followed, from Everyone, Teen, Mature, and Adult. Its really upon you, or for parents.. your kids for what they watch. NewGrounds is well known for the fact it was formed 5 years before YouTube and pretty much anything that is a hit on YouTube prob originated from NewGrounds. 2. The Forums The forums is just like any other forum, yet it is filled with a share of drugs, sex, and crazy stories from users combining the two. The average age of theese kids is in the higher teenage years. But the site REQUIRES you are 13 to access the forum. Yet over the past years I have been on NG I CAN GUARANTEE YOU YOU WILL BE EXPOSED TO ADULT CONTENT. Now, porn isn't allowed on the forums, so the worst you will see is guys making dirty jokes, or talking about how high they were last saturday. So I say if your about 14-15 and your willing to act mature, the site won't act as much of an affect on you. But trust me, if your over 14, guessing your in High School. Your going to see more drugs and sex in real life, whether you know it or not. Oh yes, education works very well, many discussions are over strong topics such as religion, politics, and other very debatable things such as abortion, legalization of drugs, etc. But despite all the sex and drugs and general immaturity, when you get down to the deep stuff these kids know what they are doing. And we all do it in good fun :) Oh yes, from what I see, everyone on the site is pretty much pro-choice, we hate pro-lifers, and agnosticism reigns over on the forums. Adult will prob easily get lead to the door unless you act cool, most mods are adults, but they still join the c jokes and immaturity with open arms :)

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Kid, 13 years old
May 29, 2011
 
COMPLETELY INNAPROPRATE FOR KIDS!
first off, it shows lots of guns. next, they have vids like "spongebob tries goatse". next up, they say things in games like "your a*s is grass!" and "a*shole!" their is a lot of kissing and S(X is even shown! their is even games that can hack your computer, like "windows doors." this is a COMPLETELY innaproprate site for kids under 15 and i would NEVER recommend this for kids! even htough i love it, their is so much s(x that it is crazy...

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Teen, 15 years old
April 16, 2011
 
Maybe 14+.
May I advise all parents that children searching for "SpongeBob" will turn up with more hentai then innocent dress-up games. Some which, is very disturbing. Newgrounds is not for those children. Nor the tween boys who like Naruto (there's less hentai for that, but it's even more disturbing). Teens may not be mature enough...hentai bursts everywhere once you're off the main page. There's also cursing and gore in projects (typically dub-overs meant to mock shows have cursing, stuff with disturbing icons has gore up to eleven). Newgrounds is best meant for older teenagers who can handle occasionally turning up on pornographic material and are willing to talk to their parents about what they see. Cheesy, I know. But, like most kids, they won't. So keep the immature ones under 18 away from this site; supervise mature 14+ (maybe 15+) teens.

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Teen, 18 years old
June 18, 2010
 
Newgrounds provides awesome content on characters like mario, sonic, and other stuff. However, With an innocent search of "spongebob" up came numerous results many of them "hentai" or "porno". Some didn't even have to do with the keywords, some had title descriptions made of of offensive and pornographic words. Example: c**t, c**k, f**k, v***** ,S**, Mastru***, People getting ****** by guys, and loads of stuff more. There is chat on Newgrounds, Which is a safety issue. Too much violence, smoking, and a lot of swearing or offensive words. All you pretty much have to do is click on a button to access adult content. There are products such as shirts and mugs, obvious product placement

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Teen, 15 years old
September 7, 2009
 
I LOVE THIS WEBSITE!!!!
In fact I even have a profile to make fun of websites like this one.

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Kid, 10 years old
April 25, 2012
 
trustgrounds.
best site!alough most fformer revews were true,you should let any of your smart and trustworthy children play/watch/read/listen to it!

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Kid, 12 years old
February 18, 2012
 
NOT FOR KIDS
smoking, porn, language, and violence, keep your kids away!

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Teen, 16 years old
January 27, 2012
 
Love Newgrounds!
If you aren't looking for anything bad on this website, then you won't find it. I love this site and am an active member. Great games and animations.

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Teen, 13 years old
January 7, 2012
 
Not for kids AT ALL!
Not for kids. Has porn dressup games, violent games, etc. Don't go there unless you're an older teen.

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Teen, 15 years old
January 1, 2012
 
Disgusting
OMG I thought SimGirls was a game like the Sims but it turns out it was a porn game.

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Teen, 13 years old
December 31, 2011
 
Mixed Bag
First of all, i ticked off almost all of the blurbs on top because this is EVERYTHING by ANYONE, and a whole variety of flash content. On one page you might find an informative educational video, on another page you might see full-blown sexual content its really a mixed bag. Yes they are ratings but they are TERRIBLE, you see it goes Everyone, Teen, Mature, and then Adult right? But the thing is, that at the teen level, you still have words like f--k s--t c--k and other four letter words. At mature, you have games that has nudity, full blown, and its MATURE, even at everyone you still have certain games that have pools of blood form around when they die. All in all, keep your little kiddies away from this site until they turn atleast over 13 to know what they're doing on the site.

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