I don't think Ep6 was on the frontpage which would of had a huge effect on the views, but anyways I don't think it's an attention span problem, but the problem is with people tending to forget about the upcoming movie or even what happened in the series after a long period of time. Maybe post teasers or trailers of Misadventures or even short Misadventures animations. Just to refresh people's minds about Misadventures. But I'm no expert at this, these are just suggestions.

Telecommunications? I think my dad did that in the military.

Please enjoy the remainder of your twenty-four hour span of time. - ( Have a nice day )

Hmmmm....I'll agree with SamIam on this one. It didn't make front page, which maked people wondering "What the fuck happened to FSM?" and all your fans just gave up after that. Anyway, I'll try spreading the word, but don't expect a lot. There's already people out there watching it as there is. You should be happy to have any viewers at all, otherwise, this series would probably in the dust right now.

Just ignore them. They're being jerks.

You know what? People don't care about your flash because they started to care about more significant and important things in life! They started to care about the New World Order and what will happen to all our lives in the near future! If you haven't left your rock under whom you are living,then maybe you will never learn about the fact that also in the near future [probably this year] the internet will most likely be shut down by our friend Google who works for the elite,too! And then it's bye bye with viewers and audience of your flash because they couldn't even watch it anymore even if they cared a shit about it.

Sorry for being so rough but I know your point: you are a flash creator and became an attention-seeker without even recognizing! That happens to many people and happened to me as well in the past,but I let my personal desires go for a higher sake! And you probably didn't even consider the easiest and most simple thing: that the people maybe are watching your flash on YouTube rather than on Newgrounds because NG is shit! It's the perfect home little baby kids and trolls,and the mods aren't reliable!

How many people had an invention and posted it on Google Project 10to100
and no one cared from Google nor in real life no one wanted to make a patent for them? Those inventions are far more important than some stupid flash movies,you know? But ok,your flash isn't stupid,it's entertaining to say the least! But the idea of wanting more audience for such an unimportant thing is in its own stupid and naive! Because people like to ignore higher sakes and rather care about themselfs,they became selfish and thus all the wars began in the world known to mankind!

Take another perspective of your life and your position in the world,then your
rant will become meaningless! But I do respect the variety of characters the nature gave to people,so it's understandable that one or the other becomes like this...

I can't accurately say what is the problem. But my best guess your audience, which presumbly is made out of students, has simply no time or have forgotten you. With the production span of your animations ranging from months to years, it is highly possible. What is also posssible that you have an highly variable audience, not the types that hang around but just those that look what you got at the moment and than go on. another possibility is that people dislike the way the story is going. And maybe it's just the financial crisis hitting your audience.

But you shouldn't forget you also have a loyal core of followers (me included). We love the work you do to varying degrees and we're all watching in enjoyment the completion percentage going up. Don't feel bad that you seem to have a smaller audience, you have reached hundreds of thousands of people. and you still do. it is not the scale of your audience, it's not like your a democratic party trying to get into the goverment, you are an hardworking entertainer. If you have something to amuse us we will laugh and we will give an aplause at the ending, having made a good memory and added another animation to our library.

you know some people are stupid and don't know what they want. But i know that FSM series is the funniest series i saw and i show and tell my friends about it

What Kimes said,
plus it's possible that some fans are actually showing FSM to friends and family. that alone would double the viewer-count if everyone shows it to only one; I did like 5 times. So it's only natural that older movies' views go up while newer stay relatively down coz' many people watching together.

DUDE DON'T DO IT! This series is one of the series giving me reason to come on newgrounds anymore. I've been wanting to do flash and i need another idea. i am definitely doing Batman (second choice) and Devil May Cry (first choice).

I believe the problem is that users are looking on youtube instead of Newgrounds. Plus, FSM 6 hasn't made it into the Zelda Collection in the Video Game Parodies section, so people who only look in that instead of going directly to your flash submissions page would miss it. Plus what Kimes and everyone else has said before me. I hope your future submissions of FSM get a higher view count, but in the end, you still entertained your audience, and no matter how small the audience is, that is a monumental achievement from my perspective.

Good luck Hadouken
May the Tri Force Be with you.

Please don't stop on something that you have been working on. I hate it when people don't finish their work and leave it incomplete. I'm the kind of person who wants to see something through the end, no matter what happens in it. So please don't give up on this. Continue working, and soon you will have a lot of audiences viewing your flashes again.

Don't worry, my friends will hear about this, even if they don't want to. Your series will not share the same fate as Firefly.

Think of it this way. Would you rather have a ton of views and people say FSM is garbage and a waste of a few minutes, or slightly less people watch it and praise it?

Oh noes! You can't stop! What about the people who are waiting with excitement for your next episode??? It can't end like that! Please think it over again. Pretty please!!!! T_T

PLEASE CONTINUE WITH THE SERIES! IT IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AWSOME!
PLEASE!

you have a great series...don't forget that =D you may have a 103,000 viewer gap between ep 5 and 6 but in SMBZ theres a 1,000,000+ gap between eps 6 and 7 soo don't feel too bad. I encourage you to keep making this series but if you stop I understand.

Wow, to think... (well, maybe I don't want to), all that work and no one appreciated it? That's harsh, but there is truth in that. I just hope you get the admiration you deserve, cuz I mean, this is one of the best series I've seen thus far. I really think that you should continue this series and hope for the best! I'm praying for your success and that you'll get the thanks you deserve.

it's understandable, it's just that even though each episode is more of an awesome ass kickin movie, it's as you've said a "sprite movie". it's great but something similar but totally different needs to be called out, such as something not pixel but with the same ideas in mind. witch is why many other great sprite makers stopped making flashes-there how they call it " out of contrast". BUT I would be possitively certain a "new" method of your movies would be great.

P.M. me on what your thoughts are!

Dude, I have this question for you

-You feel good/fun making this FSM episodes?

If the answer is Yes, just keep doing it. The most important thing of a project is if you feel good with it, if you have fun making it. And dont think that you are loosing your audience, the people made a FSM Forum, A FSM FORUM, that means that you have dedicated and loyal fans.

So dont get depressed, if you have fun making FSM, Just Do It

Also, have you seen that people post in your news section here in NG? and you never put this News on frontpage? thats evidence of Fans tracking your work. So put "Eye of the Tiger.mp3" on your Music player, and finish FSM7 :D

what is fsm what does it stand for and why isnt it in your recent submissions

There's a perfectly logical explaination for that. Every flash that has a sequel gets less views in the one prior to the first one because the first one is out for a longer period of time therefore the first one of the series will always get the most views

Maybe if there wasn't such a time large gap in between episodes, more people would view.

Is that really true? I wonder why? Your stuff is great in my opinion, those others are missing out on some funny stuff.

based on your first reply to the first post, i will remind you of somthing... there were only 22 reviews for a game i LOVED that had been on the front page for almost 4 days, 22 reviews 4 days... 1 week ago... scary, its almost like newgrounds is faiding isnt it? but still, ill always be here, never switching to rising sites like kongregate N shit, always gonna be here to watch the crazy stuff newgrounds makes, you stil have most of your fans after all right?

I think ur series is one of the best on Newgrounds. If u look on my page u can see 4 swordmisadventures is on of my top 4. Some people don't know what there missin. There missing a really creative and funny story. When u realese any future episodes I'll write a review about it and have my brother watch it with me. He likes ur series too. Me and my younger brother are waiting patiently for the next one. We think its one of the funniest things hes seen. So don't give up, u'll never know what will happen with the next one.

dude how can you say on givin up on it!? this the sickiest, jawbreakin, funniest vid of zelda ive ever seen! i love em! specially super cucco XD. " link u like cock" that was fuckin funny! and "this is the twilight realm" oh and not to forget the songs i love em so pls dont stop doin it

Its the times dude, if you look youl see how painfully obvious it is that the people of our generation are becoming more fickle and absent minded, or pretty much stupid. I guess thing might look up after you are out of school and get your own computer.

Personally, I have nothing against spriting--flash is flash, and you definitely need skill to make a good sprite flash. There IS a difference between a good and crappy sprite flash. I'm a fan of this flash, and would like to see more of it, but I wouldn't hold it against you if you ended it. The internet can be fickle, and as a former and still occasional blabbering idiot, I know comments can grate on people.

In the end, do whatever you want, because if YOU'RE not enjoying these flashes, then what's the point of continuing?

Don't Know If The Prank You Pulled Off The Other You did it but i was also fooled when you posted about the nintendo rights thing but.. try to clear it out and post it in the forums or something then maybe you'll get your audience back

please don't give up on FSM it is a great series, but if you really want to stop I won't hold it against you

Right on! I mean it isn't fair granted you aren't obligated to make more nor are they obligated to watch but people do and give credit. While the credit is well it's as if they don't uphold it on how good your flashes are. Whether it's "old news" or not is not relevent. It was still good and that's what matters. They aren't good fans if they can't give your series which they supposedly liked a chance.

i dont really think its underrated but i think its great and funny. look heres some advice: If people will watch them and give judgement comments about it but if it was some one makes it as good as you then maybe i would think that but all im sayin is people will still watch them then keep makin them

I agree. I saw the episode 6, it was awesome with a capital A. Still, it's funny that not much people thought about watching it. Still, I have a rule: I don't care much about how many people are watching the flash, as long as it is Awesome. Be grateful that users on Newgrounds saw the movie and said it's great, that's all! BTW, hope you'll manage to finish FSM 7, I'll bid you a lot of luck!

hey whats the matter? 161k its good. i know it is not like the prev ones but who cares... all the people who watched still like it or even more than the others... we like your stuff so continue with it =D

en serio estan bien cheveres ;).

People just don't care about sprite movies like they used to. If it was drawn with the same content, People would be all over it. People think it is soooo easy working with sprite, when it takes all the patience you have, and then some. Seriously, I commend you for getting this far. I have been trying to get some motivation for some flashes I want to make. People don't like sprites anymore. People just bash them.

Oh come on! Its not even like every single person that whatches this flashes is your fan. Propably just some random day by typing some random words some random person found your flash, watch it and move on. And if you find soething and see thats episode 7 or 8 you are less likely to watch that one, rather sart from ep.1. I even have seen some serie that I was wathing without reason, and dont really liked them. I wasn't posting negative comment because it was good, but it didnt fit in my personal taste, so I watched episodes from 1 to 4 decided I had enough and simply stop wahtching. Not because nexts were worse or I disrespected author... I just stoped.
And if you have over 100k views on a movie and your score is over 4 I honestly don't know what are you ranting about.
(Sorry for mistakes I don't know this langue's gramar very well.)

Honestly, this was the very first NG series I ever watched on here. I have to agree tho', many people are watching them on youtube. Being busy myself, I have yet to submit any work so I know what you mean. As a kid I would have to say to just hang on to what you have. You won't know what's left until you've lost it so having a following and successful series is a great accomplishment to remember in this world. Kids these days search for realistic blood and gore instead of hilarious and simple, but innovative movies such as FSM. Really, don't cancel the series.

Part of the problem is that there's no convenient way of alerting people when you make new stuff like Youtube does for subscribers. I barely even go to Newgrounds, but when I do, it's for exactly the kind of stuff you make. Therefore, I never really see when you make a new video.

YOUR FSM IS AWESOME AND YOU'RE WRITE ABOUT SHARING A COMPUTER WITH FOUR FAMILY MEMBERS, I HAVE TO DO IT MYSELF.

I think your right, most people are becoming way to passive ...

I think your series are cool,
but still, you should do what you like yourself.
You don't have to do this for other people, just have some fun.
Else you'll probably just end up losing your motivation.

Take care of your studies ;)
and succes with you flashes mate, I think they're amazing

greetz ...

i think in general ppl watch it once then wait and come back to it again and again i do that with ur 4 swords misadventures and it could be ur veiws are lower with new ones if each time it is watched then older ones will be watched again and again and theses new ones just arnt out long enogh

I'm new to newgrounds. The first video I saw was We are the champions with my favorite character link. I saw the list of other videos you made and, though i'm still working on it, I love your videos so far especially the links videos. I find myself watching it everyday. I enjoy your videos and find them funny with no real fault with them. I show your work with other family members and they love them too. I write reviews to ones i like mainly. The others will if they are giving advice so maybe that's why you don't get much review cause your work don't need improvement, however it's hard to say really. Peoples views are different so it's hard to say why they don't review<sigh> it's confusing sometimes.
Anyway i love your work and hope to see more of it.
Your fan,
beedolphin

I've been reading some of the comments left here, and some of them are just quite ridiculous! We are living really "interesting" times, if you wish to call it that, but I don't really think that it might be a reason for not watching the series! What is needed is some kind of propaganda, because, as the episodes are long and take long before they're done, I guess that reminding people of the series, and allowing more people to know about the FSM Forum should be enough to recover the audience... Start with friends and fans who like the series, and they can make chain-messages, that could help quite a bit...

Never forget that, in this world, unluckily, the average people live just to consume, and they'd rather wait for others to give them all what they want in their hands than search for anything at all... And that's right, maybe your series are just plain entertainment, but people crave to consume that nowadays!

In your first episodes (and in the other series you've developed, that's not a bad strategy), both for the newcomers who start watching this series and for the fellows who watch them over and over again, you should put any kind of advice to keep them alert about your new releases! That might help a lot, my friend!

In my opinion I think your episodes get better as they progress in the series.
Don't leave this flash unfinished after 6 episodes, keep going!

dont stop! continue the series i love this series and i dont want it to stop! i dont mean to be a bother but if you could make the seventh episode longer i would be eternelly gratefull i first watched the series and loved it but then again the episodes do come out a little long and then people lose interest and patience for waiting, maybe if you try to rush the episode more people will watch! i hope it goes well!

a HUGE fan!

i understand it's frustrating and i have watched ur vids, everyone everytime and i notice that the story seems to die from focus compared to the fights. It is nice to be interactive but the story has to play first fiddle. Every new episodes seems to go into the story less and less and that makes it lose interest!
But that just one fans opinion!

I believe you have may have lost your audience.
The key is that you must keep your viewers coming back for more.
Otherwise "Fuck it, I'm going to someone who actully cares about their audience
and makes his stuff on a daliy basic."
If you go on a sprite rampage, then you'll will attracte a large audience in a short period of time.

That is the key my friend. Take advantage of the situation and rack up the views.

Aw comeon dude. Don't feel that way about 4 swords. You may have lost some of your viewers but the ones that are still with you will be with you in the end! Keep up the good work!

I enjoy this series, unlike many others and have added a few viewers into the series. However, it's noticeable that there's more negative comments, even if the series is getting better, unlike SMBZ, which got worse in the last episode (story-wise, that is).

Dont you worry about maybe some of the people that have followed your videos don´t notice taht the new episode is out or they forgot the name ......(in case of some of my friends)....but i seriously doubt that is because its a sprite movie ..I enjoy sprite movies and in fact it was the reason why i joined newgrounds , but cheer up im a big fan here in mexico and im always looking forward the next episode so keep it up¡¡¡¡¡¡
p.s: very soon i will make a voice demo for some flash movies and stuff wish you could hear it and allow me to play a part in FSM follow this link:
http://www.youtube.com/user/killerpho enix92
maybe it will take some time since im very busy with some school shit so hope you stay tuned¡¡¡¡

i seriously am a big fan, i know how it feels to share a cpu with 4 other family members, it really does get to be a pain in the ass, though thank god now i have my own latop, but still, im a big fan of this series and probably will watch every single one you make. i really enjoy this series and want to see it develop. i hope you pass your telecommunications course. btw, what would you do in telecommunications? im just wondering, mabye if you make it, you can save up to buy a laptop :P anyways, good luck!

can't wait till ep.7
keep up the awesome work
and just beacuse other peopele are being assholes then forget about them
cuss Cojiro will kick their ass

LISTEN YOU IF YOU DON'T FINISH YOUR SERIES I WILL F***ING KIL YOU IT IS TOO AWESOME TO BE LEFT UNFINISHED YOU... YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Listen i can understand if you bail i loved the seris but this is how it goes in order of y ur not geting as many views.number1. the fan pms u a says wen will oh say ep 6 be out step 2 it cums out then they are like i gave him time screw watchin it baiclly they just give up because they are to inpatient and that is ur answer