ZONE

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ZONE, also known as Z0NE or ZONE-sama, is an artist and flash animator, known for her explicit art. In 2021, her Ankha animation (popularly known as "Ankha Zone"), a homage to a classic animation by Minus8,[1] went mainstream and viral on TikTok.[2] It is the fourth most favorited video and third most upvoted on e621.[3][4]

Biography[edit]

ZONE-sama registered her website ZONE-Archive.com on June 2, 2000, which was where she was first known for her pornographic drawn pictures. One of her first posts was a thumbnail showing Pan from Dragonball GT. In 2005, she posted her first flash game and featured Kylie Griffin from Extreme Ghostbusters. Since then, ZONE has created several pornographic flash movies and games, most of which are only hosted by HentaiKey, a membership porn website. On October 15th, 2006, she joined Newgrounds. Most of her animations have gained over 10 million views and have been re-uploaded on many different pornographic websites such as swfchan. ZONE also made a YouTube account on March 19th, 2007. That day, she posted her first video, which received more than 1.3 million views. Aside from pornographic material, ZONE also posts music on Newgrounds' audio portal, specializing in techno.[5]

On December 4th, 2018, ZONE announced that she would be deleting her Tumblr account as a result of the site's ban on adult content.[5]

Ankha animation[edit]

On January 28th, 2021, ZONE posted her Ankha animation, a homage to a classic animation by Minus8. It features the Egypt-inspired song "Camel by Camel", originally released in 1985 by artist Sandy Marton.[2] It was posted on Twitter on February 7th, but the video has since been taken down.[1] The full version was posted on e621 on the 25th.[6] The animation went mainstream and viral on TikTok around September, even being mentioned in a Kotaku article, one of the biggest video gaming blogs. The #ankhazone tag exploded in popularity, amassing over 17 million views.[2] It is the fourth most favorited video and third most upvoted on e621, having over 17,700 favorites and 8,500 upvotes.[3][4]

ZONE-tan[edit]

ZONE-tan is the mascot and personification of ZONE-Archive. She was created by ZONE in 2007 and first appeared in a flash loop animation for Halloween showing the character sitting on a tentacle. Since then, she has appeared in many places around his website, and even appears the beginning of most of his flash animations. In February 2012, ZONE posted a thread to engage a voice actress playing as ZONE-tan. It was decided that Newgrounds voice actress Caxx whould play ZONE-tan for ZONE's latest series called ZTV News. The first episode was posted on March 27, 2012 on both Newgrounds and YouTube.[5]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 ZONE on Twitter. Retrieved March 7th, 2022.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Animal Crossing's Ankha Porn Video Becomes Internet Sensation, Kotaku. Retrieved March 7th, 2022.
  3. 3.0 3.1 [NSFW] Search for "order:favcount" on e621. Retrieved March 7th, 2022.
  4. 4.0 4.1 [NSFW] Search for "order:score" on e621. Retrieved March 7th, 2022.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 ZONE-sama on Know Your Meme. Retrieved March 7th, 2022.
  6. [NSFW] Ankha animation on e621. Retrieved March 7th, 2022.

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