How old were you when you Started Yugioh Card Maker?

[Goose]

You just gotta add anyone you think is cool as a friend.

[Rodrigo]

You just gotta add anyone you think is cool as a friend.

 

After all, it's really hard to find cool people nowadays.

[goddamnit names are a pain]

You just gotta add anyone you think is cool as a friend.

I can't friend myself though.

[Rodrigo]

I can't friend myself though.

 

MSN was great because you could add yourself.

 

Ah, the golden times. I miss you.

[Goose]

MSN was great because you could add yourself.

 

Ah, the golden times. I miss you.

 

MSN was the greatest for so many reasons.  I always hand a friend online.  Skype just isn't the same.

[Toffee.]

After all, it's really hard to find cool people nowadays.

Depends.

[goddamnit names are a pain]

Oh yeah I have to post something relevant.

I started about...8 months ago?

My account is older but that's because I signed up, looked at the forums and decided they were too complicated and forgot about them. You know I wasn't experienced with forums yet.

 

 

Uh can't say I've done anything significant but I feel like I've made friends here.

The only thing tragic that happened was that Sora left. ;-;

MSN was the greatest for so many reasons.  I always hand a friend online.  Skype just isn't the same.

I'm surprised how often I have friends on Skype.

[Rodrigo]

Depends.

 

I mean, SWAG YOLO n***a isn't exactly my definition of "cool", and we're seeing this kind of thing very often lately...

[Goose]

I mean, SWAG YOLO n***a isn't exactly my definition of "cool", and we're seeing this kind of thing very often lately...

 

Yeah the whole "n***a f****t" stuff of a few years ago was much better.

[goddamnit names are a pain]

I mean, SWAG YOLO n***a isn't exactly my definition of "cool", and we're seeing this kind of thing very often lately...

Please don't use the N word.

It's offensive.

 

 

And very cool. 2kewl4u

It's not cool...at least I don't find SWAG and YOLO to be cool.

 

But then again it takes a cool person to know one

[Nathanael D. Striker]

Well, I joined May 10th 2009 when I was a 13 year old eighth grader. I almost was one of those people who joined just for the card maker, but I eventually started posting that September when I was 14. It's amazing that I've almost been here for 5 years. I've honestly witnessed a lot and got to be a part of YCM history (though most of that isn't history I wish to repeat since those were self-imposed dark times for me). Anyhow, I've mainly kept the name Striker in my username bar three exceptions (War Torn, Darius the Just, and those pesky name change fiascos). Now I just lurk around the majority of YCM while keeping my activity focused in Custom Cards- mainly Card Contests and the 1v1 subforum), which is far different from my days in the C/O section.

[Agro]

I must have been, what, 4?

[Raine]

I joined the site back in 2010 at the age of 16 because I moved to rural mountainous Utah for 3 months and there is nothing there besides snow, internet, and Mormons.

[Rodrigo]

I joined the site back in 2010 at the age of 16 because I moved to rural mountainous Utah for 3 months and there is nothing there besides snow, internet, and Mormons.

 

I'm surprised there is internet in the rural mountainous Utah.

[BehindTheMask]

Anyway, a lot of those relationships have waned, sadly, excluding BehindTheMask who is the most based person in history. So in August it will be 8 years and I'll be 22. Maybe I can make some more friends, maybe not. Either way, it's nice to be back. It only takes me 10 minutes a day to clear the forums I'm interested in reading anyway.

 

thanks bro it means alot. I wish the trinity was intact, but thats life. we are always drifting apart.

 

The end of that story was quite sad.  Making relationships from YCM work out in the long run is basically impossible.  I only really chat to Brandon Geren/JesusBowtie after he's gone from YCM and that's just music.  I'm also friends with The Rebel and Yankee on facebook, but those aren't really real friendships.  I wanted to stay friends with Olly but he never accepted my request.    

 

The most real friendship I have made is with Matt Enloe (and Josh to a lesser extent) whom I talk to about a variety of things.

 

Matt is a nice kid, misguided but nice.

[Raelen]

I'm going to go ahead and break from my posting "retirement" and respond to this interesting topic. I've enjoyed reading your guys' posts and reliving the old days.

 

I joined on August 4th, 2008 when I was 14 and heading into my freshman year of high school. I probably found this place by way of a Google search (I was really into Yugioh at the time and had made cards of my own on cardstock before). I don't remember when I joined the forum, but it probably wasn't for about a month or two later. Although I started posting cards in the Realistic Cards section, I was never really all that good at it. Even today, my OCG is rather outdated.

 

I soon found my calling, strangely, in creating Pokemon splices, inspired by Jappio to do so. I started my own splice collection in the art section, which was eventually stickied, and joined in some Pokemon splicing clubs to help other people improve their splices. There was even a period when Jappio and I teamed up to fight art theft, on the YCM and off, which was exciting and vaguely James Bond-esque (in my mind).

 

Sooner or later, I stopped splicing and stopped creating cards and just lurked around the General section (much like I am doing now...). I grew bored of that and left the site late 2010-early 2011. Even still, I sometimes swing by to see how the forum is doing. =P

 

Once a member, always a member.

[ihop]

Saberzauls pretty much said it for me, I joined in Mayish 09 when I was 11 or 12 (I think 12), first for the cardmaker then I got more into the Clubs and Organisations community. Sadly most of those have left by now so I'm kind of a non-entity in this place, I more or less just lurk now.

[Elijah~]

I can't really say I've been here long at all. Its gonna be 2 years in December. I joined YCM on December 4, 2012. One of my buddies had introduced me to the site since I enjoyed playing Yugioh so much. When I first started the site, I really could not control myself. Spam and being annoying were only a few things to mention. Eventually, I left for a few months and came back as a changed person, somewhat. Nobody really seemed to really care that much about it so that made me happy. I stayed on YCM during the summer and had a great time with everybody on the forum. Around New Years, I had decided to leave in order to focus on school work for about a good 4 months. Just recently I had returned to the forum and everything has been normal. I am well acquainted with almost everybody on the forum and hopefully will get to continue those relationships.

[Blake]

Birdie covered most of what I'd say, but...

I joined back in September 2009. I took up a leading position in the one-and-only RPing club of the time before too long, and was the last to stick with it. Started in RPs, then moved to mingling in clubs.

Though I joined many, such as the Akatsuki, Organization XIII, Club Pikachu, etc., the most impactful one has to be the Absolute Powerforce.

Not only did it lead me to meeting Birdie, but it's more or less responsible for causing me to become... Callous?

I was still a bit wide eyed and bushy tailed back then, and assumed I found a group to really belong to. Specifically, with Zeonark/Cherry, Andx, Clair, ProtoMachineKing, and Birdie herself.

There were others there too, such as Fenrir, Nexev, Ice, Revolver Amethyst, Dane, and sometimes Koko, but I figured we were fine.

Then some of them just decided that I was too open and thus manipulative for w/e logical reason, which led to assorted drama, swelling to the point of Koko making Birdie even more suicidal and trying to make me be forever alone. Which I apart of why instead of at least trying to seem happy, I became blunt and uncaring publicly, though I still get sick if I get in a real fight.

Koko used to be the queen of the bitches.

Then the group I hung out with on DMG fell apart. Zeo thought I was too clingy (admittedly...), Andx was a jelly dog, Proto decided to hang out with Ice, and Clair was a bitchy whore. Not going into details because they are not mine to share, but whore.

So it basically became me and Birdie for years. There was Marco/Mugen, who was a nub I met in an RP that then joined the Powerforce, who began to go with the group towards the end. He was in France about that time, too,.

Birdie and I spent all our free time together (more-or-less still do), which made is grow really close. It is painful to not be able to hold her, but... I know we'll make it. She's my angel, I won't let her go. It really has been very touch and go sometimes, but we always pull through. She's helped me a lot to come to terms with.. Well... Me. Like being effeminate (gfdi lily say one word I dare you) more than manly. Or my sexuality. Feelings of inadequacy. And so on.

Then I moved to TCG, got even more callous, became a mod, got even more jaded due to feeling like everyone hated me for even being a mod, which made me more brash and harsh as a defense, which caused the hatred, and yay endless cycle.

Though, it's funny how, at the end of the day, my best friends other than Birdie are Koko and Marco. An utter bitch (she got better by far) and a nub I randomly met are the people who stuck around the longest. Life is funny.

Especially considering I'd never even begun to think I'd meet my wife on a site like this, much less online at all. But I'm glad I joined despite the heartache it's caused. It's worth it.

[Lunar Origins]

Back in 2010 when I was 14, yet I started using the forums when I began trying for social media outlets at 15, in 2011.

 

God, how time flies.  Now I'm eighteen and in the middle of making myself the happiest I could ever be, all thanks to YCM.

 

I love this place.  I love you guys.  Even you, Desu, if you're reading this.  You probably don't care, and that's okay.  Lel.

[Madsen]

Reus

Member Since 09 Aug 2008

 

9th August of 2008. I would've been, what, 9 then? Fuck, I should be the first one here to point out that time flies. Well, anyways, I, as everyone else stumbled across the site in search of Yugimons crap which held my interest for half a year until I got into Graphics.

True goddamn shame that I might never speak to all of the people from back then. JG, Chaotix, Omni, haris, Shadius, problematica, Cyber, even Draco to an extent. Thank god I still have the current Showcase bitches!

 

Seriously though. I found an old external HDD the other day. It's from ~2008 as well, so there's some really old shit, and most of it is personal stuff, music, shows etc, but I'll be damned if I didn't stare at the Desktop folder backups for an hour.

Backups from my brothers' laptops/desktops. In fact, I found a couple of .psds of tags I made. Some in-progress fan-fics. Random shit, but I was amazed. I'm a social person, I'll admit, but YCM was a cornerstone in my life, as much as a forum could be in a 9 year olds life.

So many friends, people who genuinely just wanted to talk to you; people who were genuine friends.

 

I still vividly remember how exhilarated I was opening my first Shop. Making a GD club. Posting a tag and having someone request a tutorial or PSD. Having praise from someone who made some brilliant things by manipulating pixels. May not seem like a big deal to you, but fucking hell it was to 9-year-old-me.

YCM, or rather Showcase in particular, has always been such a welcoming and warm community. Honestly would do it all again.

 

Shit. Don't ever go filtering forums by topics you started, the nostalgia hits fucking hard.

[DL]

I've been a member since...like May 2009

And now I'm gonna be 21 in like less than 10 days.

Jesus Christ.

 

 

 

I remember I used to just make naruto cards.

Then I began posting a month or so later....

 

 

I always looked up to people like FD that had like 6000 posts

 

Cuz I had like 300.

[Tentacruel]

I've been a member since...like May 2009

And now I'm gonna be 21 in like less than 10 days.

Jesus Christ.

 

 

 

I remember I used to just make naruto cards.

Then I began posting a month or so later....

 

 

I always looked up to people like FD that had like 6000 posts

 

Cuz I had like 300.

I just now remembered that DL = darklink

 

It's strange because I remember you from back then and now you're number 1. 

[OmegaWave]

I've been a member since September 9th, 2007. So I was 14 at the time. My very first cards were Mega Man cards that I made. I'll be 21 on the 22nd.....man, time flies.

[Yankee]

Jeez...

November of 2007. 

I was 14 years old. Now I'm 21. Sure has been a while...