Hello hello, folks. Sorry for the delay. It looks like another yearly review is in order.

(Blah blah blah, if this is your first yearly review, check out my previous one to get the gist of the cute little theme I got goin' on here, yadda yadda yadda.) Weirdly though, this is not going to be like my other year in reviews, mostly because this year was so odd for me, and frankly, I didn't post all that much. The main purpose of me writing this is to just catch people up on what I'm doing, what's been going on, etc. Hopefully that's exactly what I achieve, but who knows.

So... what HAS been going on? I certainly wasn't doing all that much Newgrounds stuff recently, and not even all that much animation either. Well, a little pal called "real life" tapped me on the shoulder and proceeded to strangle the life out of me. 2024 was one of my busiest years that I can recall, most of it being how much was going on. I finished high school, and I am now officially a free, graduated man, which is pretty neat. I figured that once I got out of high school, i would have some more time on my hands to make some more cartoons, which at first I did... until I realized that I kinda needed money. You know, so that I can... live. I eventually got my hands on a job, got fired after 6 months of being underpaid, and promptly found a new job to also be underpaid and understaffed in. When I wasn't working, a majority of my time was dedicated to running errands for my family with that sweet, shiny drivers license of mine.

So to say that I was stretched thin was an understatement. But I think the biggest, most glaring thing that was slowing me down in 2024 is this;

I was, and still am, quite unhappy.

The thing about depression is that it never goes away, no matter what you do or how you treat it. No amount of drugs can numb it enough that it becomes unnoticeable, and no amount of good things happening (if any at all) will make those feeling subside. Depression has been the single most biggest struggle for me in 2024, along with it's good friend anxiety. It sucks, it really does. It's not even really just being depressed that hinders me, it's really just a passionate, overwhelming self-hatred for myself that stops me from doing anything major. I really want to go out and make stuff, I really do, but whenever I go out to try and make something special, I am violently reminded that nothing that I make will ever truly matter or resonate with people. And when I'm reminded of that little fact, it stops me from doing anything at all.

So... what even are my goals right now?

What do I REALLY want to do in 2025? I genuinely don't know. I will be real, I am the most lost that I've ever been in my entire life. I don't really have any ambitions, any scope for the future, any sense of self for that matter. I genuinely don't know what to do right now. So let's start basic; I want to finish the show this year. Period. I want to make SOMETHING this year, and I want to finish it this year specifically. The thing I have the most work on right now already is my show, and all I want to do is to finish it, so that's what I'm gonna do. I don't know how or when I'm going to have time to work on it, but I will complete it this year.

Most of my other goals this year is dedicated to my personal life. I'm putting everything else on the back-burner just so I can kinda just get a hold of myself and my life. I really hate doing this, I really just want to be able to only focus on my cartoons and stuff, but I know that's not realistic. I have tons of personal goals, become a lot healthier in my mind, move out and get my own place, get a stable job that I'm happy in, that kinda stuff.

I don't think really anybody cares all that much about all of this, there are thousands of creators on Newgrounds. I thought I'd just put up a little update on where I am and what I'm doing. I want to thank everyone who has been there for me throughout the year, and those who have been there my entire life.

I don't think I have all that much more to say, but let's just hope that this year is good for all of us.

-Jonah G.