Newgrounds.com

Newgrounds.com is a multimedia content and entertainment platform that was founded by Tom Fulp on July 12th, 1995. It currently runs off of user uploaded content that is generally reviewed by other users.

History
Newgrounds was founded by Tom Fulp in Philadelphia on July 12th, 1995, along with the help of James Holloway, Josh Tuttle, and Jeff Bandelin. In 1999, the game Pico's School was released, much to the community's enjoyment. Pico would eventually come to be one of the website's mascots.

Content
Newgrounds allows users to upload their own content (most commonly in Flash) to one of the four main portals: Art, Games, Movies, and Audio. Pieces in the Games and Movies section are subject to a rating system that is based around a 5-star system. Other users can review said content, and that judgement chooses whether or not the content will continue being shown on the website, or get deleted (blammed). Blammed content only has it's reviews saved in a special "obituary" section.

Content in the Art or Audio section would instead be "scouted". Scouting is a different form of content approval, in which a moderator or a "scouter" gives manual approval of the piece, or it gets deleted. Once somebody has been scored, they gain the ability to scout other users.

Trivia

 * Despite Pico's School being the third game in the franchise, it was the first game that Pico ever appeared in.