I joined in..what. Early 2005 on my original account. Used to ******** love this site, even when I was too young to donate. When the cash shop came out, and the cards, I was excited as ******** some s**t, got some cash, bought some of the first item that never ended up being worth s**t, etc.
Eventually I started joining other avatar sites and realizing how good avatars could look, and lost interest in Gaia. Terrasus/Syndrone were the ones to eventually lead me away, haha, and I barely come back.
But I never officially 'quit' because my account was always there with goodies. Now that I've decided to completely quit on all the avatar sites I'm on, I'm working on completely emptying my accounts for art so I don't have anything to come back to.