Welcome to Gaia! ::

I first heard about Gaia in July of 03. I was hanging out in some other forums (I think the Clanbob forums) talking to Mistress Cowkitty, when she mentioned Gaia and gave me one of those old reccomendation links and mentioned that they had a big Anime/Manga forum. So I came and liked what I saw. I had short stints in ED, GD, and a few other boards, but they seemed to consist of various cults of personality more that I like to get involved with... Chatterbox was so full of "Bump til a million pages" and cyber-sleepovers that I didn't bother posting. I'm not savvy enough for tech... so I mostly just kept posting in the AMC.

I ran into WJ, Kansai, Kinumi, Cynder, JayP, Mala, Baku, and a few others in the AMC and started traveling in that pack. I know I yelled at more than a few of you delightful spam-monkies in that time...

Then, one day I saw a topic by Baku that needed bumping. It first started off with simple "Bump, because this needs it", but eventually grew into "Hello Kansai, how are you doing today-bump" and then finally into genuine conversation with my fellow bumpers interspersed with debates in defense of the topic.

From there? History.

First Avvie:


It took a week or two to put it together, but this is the first avvie I considered complete.

shouj was all like "hay ho you should join" and i was like "okay" biggrin

If tektek ever stops being lame, I'll post my original avatar, as best I remember.

I joined Gaia on a whim, I used to frequent a Kentucky DDR website back when I freestyled, and I saw a link in the 'internet' section. I figured I'd play around for a few days and then quit. That was in January 04.

One thing you have to understand about my early days on Gaia, I was jaded as all ********. In the past two year's I'd been dumped on by three or four different girls. Granted, two were LDR's, but again, I wasn't the man I am now, I was shy, reserved, and got ******** sore when two girls I was dating before dropped me because I was 'nice'.

So, I became a b*****d. I found the A/M/C and flamed the hell out of it. My first or second night, I met Manji and Aere in an 'I hate anime, na na na na naaah' thread. The OP got torn into so bad by the three of us and two others that we got him to admit that he did in fact like Initial D. We kind of split up after that first night, but one time or another we'd all find our way to the same thread and flame the hell out of a troll.

I had about a month long stint as the ringleader of an Inuyasha fan-hater's group, and rarely ever payed attention to the Anti-Sticky, but I knew it was there. It was when I started lurking there one night after getting pissed at all the spam that I realized the group was pretty cool. So I'd make occasional run ins and post some spam or the other. I officially joined the ranks around the 1000 page mark.

The AS helped me straighten out a lot of things in my life just by being there. I disbanded the group and my chance for Gaia infamy (though a number of'em would go join Orlan afterwards), and turned my attentions to being more helpful than hurtful and trying to fix Main like that. It sure as hell didn't work, but the AS definetly helped me out of a rough spot, and has continued to, even by just being what it is. A big space of spam. With the heart and soul of a warrior.

CB told me about it. whee

I tried to join around the time when the one server they had crashed. The next day, the site was up and I joined at "3.1415926". Shortly after I realized that nobody had the name "3.14" so I made a new account.

I started in the AMC, posting in "What is your favorite Anime?" threads. [There was no stickies at the time.] I saw the Baku thread was were all of the 'cool' kids posted-- so I thought I would post there too to make friends.

It was late September 2003. I had an oekaki board as part of my site and as was my habit, I checked out how much bandwidth I had used. For some reason, one of my pictures on the oekaki had been linked to this site called "go-gaia". But whenever I clicked on it, it only brought me to the front page of the art arena and there was always a different picture on there.

I decided to b***h out the owner of this horrendous site for stealing my pic and shoving it in their huge a** rotating collection of obviously all stolen fanart that was devouring my bandwidth. scream But to find someone to yell at, I had to join. mad So I did. And I yelled at a mod. Don't ask me which, I really don't remember. I just remember it being a mod from the art forum. sweatdrop

Fast forward to the middle of October. Mala, xane, Yaten, Gundam Nook, and a bunch of other #anime-cel people were yapping as per usual and Yaten said we should join Gaia. Well, lucky me, I already had an account (in peasant clothes of course). There were NO threads in the a/m/c about anime cels, so Keys made a thread and we ALL hung in there. xd Mala wandered off to the anti-sticky, but one day out of boredom, we decided to invade the anti-sticky just to pester Mala.

Sadly, the original "Anime Cels, Anyone?" thread was eaten by the archiver and the 2nd died after we made the Anime Cel guild (which is pretty much also dead now).

Trebbu needs to figure out his password and give me his AFK. And Yaten just needs to come back. scream emo

In early Jan. 2004, my sister and her best friend at the time became addicted to Gaia who knows how. Of course by February I'd joined in the fun, and being the big fat NERD I am immediately ravaged through the Video Game forums and AMC. I almost instantly gravitated towards the Anti-Sticky, seeing as I am also a big fat cynic who enjoys shenanigans and all the tomfoolery associated with Anti-ness as much as the rest of us, but I think it was a few weeks before I was a "regular."

My first avi was something like this:

xd I loev you, Kin Kin. I still remember being intimidated when I first joined and randomly wandered into a thread you and Manji had hijacked.