on July 29th, 2023, the Newgrounds Toronto 2023 Meetup took place, hosted by @ninjamuffin99 at the Royal Theatre took place, n I was one of the many (and i mean MANY) people who showed up

As I'm sure some of u are aware, I live in the UK, so I needed to haul my ass onto a 7 hour long flight all the way to Toronto so i could make it for this event. Main reason I wanted to go in the first place is because it was the perfect opportunity to meet my lil homie DingusCola irl, and thats an opportunity i didnt wanna pass up hehe

Anyways long story short after about 3 days of dicking around in Toronto, the day arrived. July 29th. As per Cam's instructions me and the rest of the attendees all gathered at Christie Pits Park to meet up initially. I was admittedly a lil nervous as I'm not 100% used to meeting people from the internet irl, especially ones who I look up to lol, but it went pretty well. Struck up some nice convos with new buddies of mine that I met at the event, met cool people like Wanda, Snackers and Luis, plus me and Dingus got to shake hands with Tom, so that was kickass. Eventually though we made our way over to the theatre, which had a big ass sign out which made me smile a lil seeing it in person hehe

After getting in line and gettin snacks n shit for the screening, me and Dingus got in our seats and fucked around for a lil bit. I swiped his phone off him and typed stupid shit in a gc he was in just for shits n giggles much to the confusion of others there. After a little bit of waiting around, Cam got on stage and gave a nice lil welcoming speech once everyone had gotten in the theatre and got their seats, and then the screening started. Some pretty good shit was shown off there, notably Sublo and Tangy Mustard, an xxsquidwardxx cartoon and Punch Punch Forever to wrap things up.

After the screening, a good chunk of people including Dingus had left, and the rest of us headed to a local bar for the afterparty (and by local i mean like, literally next to the theatre. lol.) The drinks were good but it was probably the weirdest goddamn theatre I've been in, they had shit like Dragon Ball fan animations playing on TVs with no audio so you had no idea wtf was happening half the time, but it was batshit fights like Broly vs. Vegito and Cell vs. Dabura, and they used like colored in scans from the manga to 'animate' fights. Shit was weird but weirdly entertaining when ur drunk so I can't complain. After a while we all sorta split up and went on our way back home, and even though I was physically a little worse for wear having like 8 drinks in one night or some shit, I couldn't have been any happier with the turnout that night. I loved the time I spent with my pals watchin dumb cartoons on the big screen and at some bar next door. Much love to Cam for organizing this, Tom for making Newgrounds, Dingus for being my homie and everyone else there for being cool af.

Here's to next year! Hope to see all you dumb idiots again for more fun times!