Piconjo Day

Piconjo Day is an event created by Piconjo and the Piconjers in 2021, following Piconjo's return. It has a strong focus on submissions based on Piconjo and LegendaryFrog, who is often parodied in similar fashion to Piconjo's animations.
It occurs on June 9th, as a reference to the "69" meme, and it's announcement coincided with Piconjo's return to Newgrounds. To celebrate Piconjo Day, various Piconjo-related submissions are produced.
== Background ==
Main article: Piconjo
Piconjo is an account in Newgrounds, which during the mid-early 2000's published short, spam movies, which involved Piconjo as the main character, defeating ninjas and/or popular Newgrounds authors, moderators and icons, with the main target of them all being LegendaryFrog, who was highly popular due to his videogame parodies. These animations varied in quality and themes, but always, they presented the main character and a crude, sexual humour. Other users also contributed to these movies, such as LiveCorpse, T0MMY, SickDeathFiend, GreatAnimatorOnizuka, and more, and thus were dubbed "Piconjers".
In 2005, Piconjo announced he had renal failure and was getting a double kidney transplant, and would probably die. It was later implied that he died, although several movies continued to be attributed to the Piconjo account until 2008.
After 2008, the Piconjo account became completely inactive, and it was assumed that he actually had died. In May 2021, the account suddently became active, and it set the day June 9th as the Piconjo Day, and is of today still active.
== Celebration list ==
=== 2021 ===
The first celebration of the Piconjo day, carried out at June 9th, 2021. It was perhaps the most notable celebration of the day, with 32 submissions listed on the Official Collection. Newgrounds used a site skin based on Piconjo for the day.
==== Notable works ====
*Piconjoday Jam 2021: A Piconjo animation jam hosted by RebeccaDoodles which depicts Piconjo's feuds with various characters and users, including LegendaryFrog, Anonymous-Frog, the Newgrounds Rumble version of Piconjo (also known as Buttchamber), and ImpLock. 
** Notably, in the first segment of this animation, although Pico claims himself to be Piconjo's rival he is swiftly corrected, with Piconjo explaining his only true rival is LegendaryFrog.
* Piconjo: AFK: A fishing simulator by Stepford, presenting the "Buttchamber" version of the Piconjo character. it is the highest rated Piconjo Day submission.
*PICONJO CONFESSION VI-9: A parody of the Piconjo Confession series by Stanpai. In this animation, it is claimed that Piconjo lost all of the work from his portfolio during his internship at Pixar 15 years ago, and that Piconjo's penis is slightly larger than the love his fans have for him. At it's conclusion, Piconjo claims that the movie will be submitted as his thesis film to CalArts.
* PICONJO: Requiem: An animation by rtil depicting Piconjo rising from the grave, his penor extending beyond time and space to pwn LegendaryFrog.
===== See also =====
* Piconjo Day 2021 Collection 
* Piconjo Day 2021 Art
=== 2022: ===
2022's Piconjo Day is again June 9th. Due to Pico Day being pushed back to June 11th, it was dubbed as 'sloppy s3conds'. Losing support from various animators, it only had 10 movies and no games dedicated for, a massive step back from the previous celebration.
==== Notable Works ====
*Piconjo Jam '22: This is second annual Piconjo Day jam, hosted by T0MMY. It consists of various submissions themed around 'spreading teh <3', ranging from 10 second bumpers, 30-60 second shorts, and features over 1 minute. It won the Daily Feature that year.
** This is not to be confused with Piconjo Jam #22, posted in 2006.
*Piconjo Art c011ab 2022: An art collab with over 30 participants
*Epic Kiss: sl0ppy s3xs0nds spec1al: An Epic Kiss episode featuring Pico and Piconjo. Included in both the Pico and Piconjo Day 2022 Collections
*Piconjo Meets Trudeau: This submission from animation group PukeBomb depicts MindChamber's version of Piconjo shaking the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau at a meet and greet.
**This is one of the few Piconjo Day submissions not made for the Jam.
===== See also =====
* Piconjo Day 2022 Collection Page
=== 2023 ===
Again, Piconjo Day is celebrated at June 9th.
==== Notable works ====
* Piconjo Jam '23: The third annual Piconjo Day jam, hosted by T0MMY as always. It won the Daily 3rd.
* 0h N0 Fr0g5!!1i!!: An animation consisting of Piconjo being surrounded by a bunch of toadies, guided by BuffFemaleFrog, who claims to be LegendaryFrog's wife. She tries to kill Piconjo, but gets crushed by Piconjo's 1337. Despite having less than 500 views, not winning any award, and having a score under 3, it was used as the thumbnail for the respective collection.
* Piconjo Day 2023-Newgrounds anime shorts-[VHS]-{sub}: By KokoroHatsaru. It presents Bitey, Blockhead, Alien Hominid, the Green Knight from Castle Crashers and Tarboy being recieved by Piconjo to a show, in which he features the Top 3 "p3n0r p0w3r m0m3nts" being in order, TANK DICK by Tom Fulp, Pico Plays a Game (unpublished) by SamGreen and Castle Crashers Tomato by Hulalaloo, before showing his penis to the four. It won the Daily Feature.
===== See also =====
* Piconjo Day 2023 Collection Page
=== 2024 ===
Once more, Piconjo Day is celebrated at June 9th. It was marked by Piconjo's supposed kidney disease. An art contest was also held.
==== Notable Works ====
* Piconjo Jam '24: The fouth annual Piconjo Day jam, hosted by T0MMY as always. It won the Daily 2nd.
* Piconjo vs. Gay Frogs (SHITPOST ANIMATED): Piconjo is enjoying the day, but some frogs come to intimidate him. Piconjo kills them, then he sees LegendaryFrog's castle, and is surrounded by Pepe the Frog, who sends P-Bot, Pico, Alien Hominid, Henry Stickmin, a Madness Combat grunt, Edd and StrawberryClock to defeat him, but they're again killed by Piconjo. The later arrives at the castle where he kills LegendaryFrog. In a post-credit scene, Alex Jones says that Piconjo had taken revenge on those frogs that threw poop in his face, and there appears Sprig Plantar, Hop Pop Plantar (both from Amphibia), and a frog to throw poop at them. but they die from a sword blow, and Aqua from Konasuba and Lucoa appear as Piconjo's girlfriends. It received the Underdog of the Week award on June 12th 2024. 
* Teh ch0c0lati3r g0d: It presents Piconjo making a dick-like sculpture out of chocolate, but it's later revealed to be a dragon. Despite having a score barely higher than 3 stars and only 2 reviews, it's one of the 3 movies in the Piconjo Day 2024 collection.
===== See also =====
* Piconjo Day 2024 Collection Page
== LegendaryFrog's Response ==
Piconjo Day received a response from LegendaryFrog, Piconjo's main target. This was one of few occasions in which he has talked about Piconjo. When he was asked by ProsciuttoMan if he would be willing to contribute to a site skin for Piconjo Day 2022 Blanchette responded:"It's ancient history at this point, but someone / group of someones used to harass me during the NG days with that name. So... doing art is unlikely!"https://twitter.com/Joseph_LFrog/status/1402631503448883208Curiously, there was no site skin for Piconjo Day 2022, neither ProsciuttoMan contributed to it as said.
== Gallery ==
File:PiconjoDaySkin1.jpg|An early mockup of the Piconjo Day site skin made as a joke, due to Tom Fulp's request for a "classy" banner.
File:PiconjoDaySkin3.jpg|Another mockup for the Piconjo day site skin based on the Piconjo Epic Kiss series.
File:PiconjoDaySkin2.jpg|An unfinished site skin based on Piconjo Berserk and Passion of Piconjo
== References ==
Category:Newgrounds Culture
Category:Events
Category:Piconjers
Category:Official Days
Category:2021
Category:Collections