Time Spent on YCM

[Kuri]

     I was 11 years old at the time and it was the summer of 2009. I was really into the YGO franchise and 5Ds was going strong. YCM just introduced Synchro card making and I got my first computer. I posted some pretty immature things (I'd like to use the excuse "because I was 11" but I'm still growing now, I think) and got a bunch of my first posts locked. After a few days I made a pretty close friendship with a member on this site and we'd talk about personal things. He helped me become internet mature (stopped posting emoticons after every post, less caps, less grammatical errors) and eventually I became integrated into YCM society. I learned about memes, 4chan, cheezburgerz(?), cats...basically all the stuff that's pretty relevant now-ish. I'd made a bunch of friends (some with the popular users at the time and some with a couple mods). My love for the card game is was kept me here, but eventually it became my love for friendship that kept me bound to the website for so long.

 

     I soon became involved in RPs, cardmaking, clubs, anime, and Fan Fiction. This website took a lot of my time and I'd find myself being up until 2am just skimming through threads or creating cards. This website also influenced a lot of my interests. I saw myself returning to Digimon, KH, Megaman, and Anime. I wasn't entirely anti-social and still went our with my irl friends, but I felt more detached as time went on. I remember really learning YGO at the time and got into online dueling. Around this time I had achieved 1000+ posts and it felt like a real milestone. The website was constantly active at the time and "interviews" of other members were pretty popular. The anime Reborn was pretty hyped as well and I would find people requesting tags and banners relating to it. I remember a club being made after some time. I was inspired by my love for this website to make my own. So I decided with a couple of people I met to make my own site. The site only lasted a month before going completely dead, but I ended up making 5-7 more each one having a longer life than the predecessor. The site went through a big revamp (from My.BB to IP.Board) and it added a lot of new features. I remember once holding a place in the top 100s for points but I remember giving all those away for some Xbox Live week trial. This site kept me pretty occupied for 2 years and I really wished I had stayed a bit longer.

 

     Personal things got in the way and I had afk'd from the site for a year. Many of the people I had talked to at one point felt completely alien to me and I found it hard to readjust. I felt that my time on the website was running out. I tried to get involved with the new Card Contest Leaderboard, some CCG stuff, and clubs. I saw that a lot of my close friends were getting on less and less and it just caused me to slowly drift away from the website. After a while I got really into PC/Console gaming (more than before) and completely left the website for 2 years. I attempted to return but the website just didn't feel the same to me anymore. My interest in YGO slowly died out after 5Ds and I got into CFV (which died a year later). I still remembered this website and would check it to see any of my friends had been on, but I hardly saw any of them.

 

     Some of the people I used to talk to are probably wandering around on this website still and I'm sorry if I don't remember some of you. I'd like to post a couple names (what I remembered them as before I left) of the people that had made my stay on this website pleasant. Not in any particular order but just whoever I remembered before the other (if that makes sense).

 

-deathghost

-Lyfe

-A.Prime

-~Jay~

-Belphegor 

-Wardek 

-JoshIcy

-FlameDragon (person who locked my first couple threads LOL)

-Frunk

-Toot

 

I'm pretty sure I'm missing a lot more sorry if I forgot anyone who's still around. This thread will probably be my last post for a couple more months and I doubt I'll make a real return ever. Sort of reminiscing on the past because the time here was fun. Everyone else is free to post their own adventures of YCM/internet or any old posts you still can find. I'm still active and alive on the internet and you can find me on Reddit on /r/leagueoflegends and /r/destiny. I also play LoL, couple Steam games, and XbOne. If any of my friends or any users want to add me anywhere feel free to drop a PM.

[LordCowCowCowCowCowCowCowCow]

I will post my adventures on YCM too then! I won't write as much though.

 

Well joined late 2011. Lurked a lot, sometimes posted in General, rarely in Written Cards where I slowly learned that people didn't bother with helping there.

I started posting a little more, but never really got noticed much. The most I was noticed was when I made casual mention to using a card people say sucks and got sorta mocked for it when I asked why (Thanks Darkplant, thanks Machismo. I just checked who it was and that was fun to find out. XD ) Which made me decide to avoid YGO talk.

 

Lost internet for a while, and lost interest in the site. Until about...not sure, 2013 I think? I came back, place seemed a lot...less angry, despite the flare ups here and there. And a lot more...stable honestly. So I stuck around, posting. People seemed to think fairly well of me.

 

Then the Halloween event happened. I became, from what I'm told, the face of the Halloween event which had mixed reactions. But it led to a couple things.

1.) I became a lot more active and got a lot closer to people here.

2.) Me and Aix created a marriage system for YCM.

Pretty crazy to think how a barely known member was able to make any kind of change around here. Even if a small one. Gave me hope that this place could be one that I stuck around and become a big, and good, part of my life.

 

So basically. Lurked for a long time, with occasional posts. Then left, came back. Became active. Started doing RP stuff, but still don't really do much beyond occasionally post. Just...more often and more noticeable.

[Spinny]

I will post my adventures on YCM too then! I won't write as much though.

I joined around February two thousand and fourteen, did nothing for a couple of months because I didn't really know how the site worked, wolvendoom introduced me to it but I wasn't really interested at first.

Posted a lot.

The End.

[Alastar Rainford]

I was 16 in 2008 and from I remember I went straight into card design and contests, I remember joining a big naruto group then when that went silent I went to the graphics and RP areas and then left for a while bc of marriage and baby and stuff.

Now I just lurk and post when I see something fun to talk about or post in card discussions

[Cierfrost]

     Some of the people I used to talk to are probably wandering around on this website still and I'm sorry if I don't remember some of you. I'd like to post a couple names (what I remembered them as before I left) of the people that had made my stay on this website pleasant. Not in any particular order but just whoever I remembered before the other (if that makes sense).

 

-JoshIcy

 

Me, really?

[Madsen]

didn't even read your post but holy shit i remember when fucking 6/7 years ago i was getting into like showcase and shit

damn i miss haris/chaotix/omni

even problematica

 

tbh i would've left this if the current showcase lineup wasn't like, pretty cool kids

[Aix]

I was young when I first set foot in this site. It was 2007. I made a few terrible cards and left. Five years later, my friends and I got back into Yugioh and I vaguely remembered this site -- so I came back, ready to RUMBLE and pOST MY CARDS!

 

From then on, it was a swIFT ASCENT to the TOP! I got into RPing mainly for the sake of putting my cards to use in a YU-GI-OH! RP, but I stayed around cuz it's COOL. I made KEWL CARDS and wrote that guide thing. I made a few FIREWORKS of RPs, that were BIG and died REAL QUICK. (Why did I capitalize that?) Then, I got a PM out of the blue from PHOSPHORUS/RINNE who was like, "Yo, homedog, wanna be a mod?" And I was like, "YIS PLS I CAN BE MOD!"

 

From then on there were more shenanigans, I made more RPs that were popular but met with premature deaths. I did some shit. I created RP&D, which never really got anywhere despite being the biggest club of its era. I did other shit. THEN I CONVERTED YCM TO MAID-ISM. After laying low for a few months when my religion died out, I went and turned YCM into a bunch of MONSTERS where the moe-vampire and moe-monstergirl became POPULAR SHIZ. Yes, please, I am YCM's VANGUARD OF MOE!

 

It was all cool beans, made friends along the way like some generic shounen protagonist. Got to know them better on Skype and stuff. Yeaahhhh, they're cool people. I'm no good with being emotional and stuff. And that's about it for me.

 

Was I high when I wrote this? Bored, high, same thing.

[Cool Girl]

I joined in the month of October 2014. I was just looking at random websites and found YCM and fell in love with it at first sight. I wanted to join because I wanted to make cards and make friends.

 

I wanted to do this because for those of you who don't know, I kinda of have depression. Sometimes, I feel depressed for no reason. I was bullied in 5th grade and lost my confidence. I'm now a 10th grader in high school and can tell you guys that I've been able to make friends and feel better about myself (I would think very negative about myself like, I'm ugly, I'm fat. It was really sad. I would cry a lot whenever I get screamed at or when I don't feel good about myself: :( ) I've been slowly recovering thanks to a lot of "good people" in my life. I thought that if I joined YCM, I'd be able to make more friends and feel more happy and I do: ^_^ . So thank you so much, YCM for making my life feel good! I hope to know more of you guys and to be your friends! :D

[Tormented]

faint memories from 07/06(?) with an account that I completley forgot the username and pass, it had like 2.6k posts on it when I lost it iirc, made a second account had like 500 posts on it-forgot about that then made Serenade and that's how it goes.

 

Originally posted cards, then moved onto roleplays found that boring as sin so went on to showcase cut in and out for 5/6 years tried roleplays again still found them as dull as I remember now i just chat shit and bm everyone and post on showcase.

 

 

FAN LIFE BOIZ

[Agro]

i wasted a shit ton of time, health, and brain power and met a whole bunch of wonderful people

 

the end

[Tentacruel]

i wasted a shit ton of time, health, and brain power

 

And continue to do so.  That is my YCM story.

 

I did make cards at one point I think. 

[Smesh]

I was 13....DAMN I'm 18 now. I talked to a lot a cool people and made some friends and then got bored and left.

 

Only reason why I'm here right now is cuz I just made a joke card of my friend lol

[Goose]

I joined in 2008, I believe before my birthday, so I would have been 11.  That was before I'd even started high school.  I'm graduating university in a few months.  Damn.

[Spinny]

I joined in 2008, I believe before my birthday, so I would have been 11.  That was before I'd even started high school.  I'm graduating university in a few months.  Damn.

Wut, did you skip college or something?

[Goose]

I'm Canadian, we don't got no college. 

[Makο]

i wasted a s*** ton of time, health, and brain power and met a whole bunch of wonderful people

 

the end

 

I can't believe I even thought it'd be a good idea to come back

[Agro]

I can't believe I even thought it'd be a good idea to come back

dont leave me alone with these monsters plz.

 

ycm is nicer when you're around.

[Makο]

dont leave me alone with these monsters plz.

 

ycm is nicer when you're around.

don't worry, I wouldn't leave you to the dogs

 

probably

[Maeriberii Haan]

dont leave me alone with these monsters plz.

 

ycm is nicer when you're around.

 

 

don't worry, I wouldn't leave you to the dogs

 

probably

 

Once again, please do not spam. My internet's a pain in the ass right now to load the warning page, so consider you two lucky and have this verbal warning instead for now.

 

---

 

Man, it still feels like yesterday, the time when I decided to join YCM.

 

21 months ago. Can't compare to most of you that has been here for years, but I'm quite satisfied with what I've seen here so far.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

I joined back in Feb 2009 (I was 14 at the time), and admittedly the first couple months weren't very pretty, but you don't need to know.

Back in those days, Clubs were much more active (considering post count still existed there) and basically had my original username.

 

(Those of you who knew me prior to August 2010 probably know what it is)

 

After the 5K mark, things got way better; though as YCM switched over to IP.Boards, posting slowly decreased and in the middle of Dec 2011, basically decided to leave.

Why, you might ask? Basically lack of interest in the site, considering Club Espeon was long dead at that point, the mentality of some of the other members at the time (some of them are still here) and other things.

 

At that point, I had around 15.7k posts or something, so...more or less in the top 20-30 at the time.

 

Honestly, I really didn't plan on returning, but after randomly searching my email in late September 2013 during college (technically, the instructor was absent that day, so had time to look) and seeing over thousands of YCM updates, I decided to return. Think I'm glad that I didn't deactivate my email when I left.

 

Out of fairness, I didn't forget about YCM during the 21 month hiatus, though. I remembered a lot of the veteran members and their behavior though, specifically Crab.

 

Got back into the swing of things, became CC mod in mid-July of last year; then given command over Questions & Help and Introductions last month, and yeah here we are now; through the good times and the bad ones.

 

 

So yeah, I've been here for quite a while, and hopefully I'll stick around for the long run.

[Chaotic Angel]

Joined back in January 2008, I just turned 13 back then... How long has that been, and I dunno if anyone here still remembers me from back then.

 

I had a several name changes back then and had an original one. The first name I adopted was Senyuu, I used the account merely for card making until I saw the forum part of this website. Some time after I joined, I changed my name to Angelic Champion. Another six months after I changed my name to Final Slayer, then I realised the name wasn't for me. Six months over again, I decided to change it again much some of the members' dismay. I became who I am now, Chaotic Angel, and kept the name until I decided the I've lost interest in YCM, so I packed my bags and left in 2010. When I came back again a year and a half later, in 2011 I started a comeback RP and ended well. By then however, I decided to leave again after just three months. I returned again in 2013, and that was when I was idiotic enough to change my name to Dark Necromancer for a little while. Not the best move, so YCM just became quiet, even veterans started forgetting about me or perhaps look to me as if I didn't even join here. But to make things worse around here, only my clubs seem to succeed so I took a hiatus from YCM for a while to have a think of what I should do next, but not before I reverted back to Chaotic Angel, since it was for the best. I came back before Christmas 2014 and decided I should stay here for good this time.

 

It has definitely been a rollercoaster ride for me in the past seven years, I gotta give myself that. YCM has definitely changed.

 

Although I plan a hiatus after my next project, I do still plan on visiting here every now and again but that does mean I won't be able to post full time until Easter, where I might just stay for years to come.

 

You might have noticed, but I didn't go into full detail. That's because one or two people might have covered the changes already, and I'd feel inconvenienced if I had to go through every last bit of text to find what I'm looking for, so I'd basically refer to what people already said for my sake.

 

EDIT: Oh, and I'm 11 days older than Sakura, check our profiles. You'll see.

[Toffee.]

Joined in 2008, or whatever.
Met some people who grew to dislike me.
Met other people who I thought disliked me, but grew to like me.

Became YCM's rep-Whore.

And that's about it.

Real fulfilling story/10

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

You have enough prestige here that we actually considered a rep level with your name on it; specifically, Armz-like. (I think it was at 2000 or something, I don't know; or maybe 1K).

Don't think that's still on the table though.

 

On a sidenote, you're one of only three members (four, if we count ragnarok) to be in the 30,000+ post range; Fusion is close however at 27 thousand and some odd hundred posts.

16 more (as of now) and you join the 40K club.

 

@Chaotic Angel: I still remember who you were, even before you returned.

[Chaotic Angel]

That's a relief in itself then, Sakura. You're a mod now, so you've technically beaten me in YCM life. *applauds*

 

When I come back after Easter this year, I might set a goal to myself and be good enough so I can be mod, even if I tried.

[Lunar Origins]

WHOA WHAT THE FUCK SMESH POSTED HOLY SHIT I HAVEN'T SEEN SMESH IN YEARS.

 

*AHEM.*

 

YCM.  It's, honest to god, one of the most important places I've been.  I'm sure you've all heard the story (I've told it countless times before, anyways); YCM made me comfortable with myself.  YCM was the first place where I came out as trans; you guys gave me so much love and acceptance.  I couldn't believe it at first, that you guys would just take me in and treat me with respect.  The confidence I gained from that?  Overwhelming.  Soon after I came out to you guys, I came out to my family. When they rejected me (for the most part), you guys came over and comforted me.  That was probably the toughest time of my life.

 

Because of you guys, I'm here.  I'm breathing, and I'm being myself.  I'm the happiest I've been in years and it's all thanks to you.  I am a strong person now.  I know I am.  You guys helped make me into that, and I should be thankful for that every single day.  

 

Sidenote.

 

I've met people here who have stopped me from killing myself.  Without YCM, I might be dead.