Why Arm thanks YCM

[Toffee.]

This topic is so funking pointless, it's not even funny.

And this topic will probably make look like some kind of basement dwelling lifeless blob that you honestly wont care for regardless, but hear me out.

 

(I'm listening to this while I type this/dunno' why)

 

Basically this is another "Arm gets stuff off his chest" thread.

 

So I've been lurking through a lot of older YCM pages/lurking through the archive/etc.

I'm a nobody. I've always been a nobody, and probably will continue to be a nobody.

 

[spoiler=Cringe-tastic short history that you can skip]

I started my life on the internet at, of all places, Habbo Hotel/my account is still here/whatever; Lurked around for a few years/played some games/met some people/danced with friends in the hallways while we listened to Green Day- IT WAS THE COOL THING OF THE TIME

Habbo never really stuck with me/I left after a few years. Nothing honestly ever happened. Raids were the coolest funking thing ever(I had witnessed that 06 one/not that it matters)

Came back for a week or so in like 2010 or whatever.

 

DeviantArt was my next place to visit; I got into basic levels of spriteing/showed off some pleb-level creations of mine, and other things/ it's honestly all pretty bad. I guess part of me wanted to do something art related. Lots of people I hung around also did sprite work. Poke-Splices were what the cool kids were into.

I made some Ms.Paint comics n' junk out of Battle Network sprites/the humor is on par with people who laugh at The Annoying Orange; Shameful, I know. Met some people there who shared my same humor. It felt nice.

I eventually left after a few years; Again, DeviantArt never really 'clicked' with me.

 

Then came RA2; Was a nice little community. We liked Battle Bots. etc. And that was about it. Was sort of an outcast on the site, but they eventually knew me more. Was still a bit of an outcast.

 

Starwars Battlefront 2 was my next stop; Discovering Pizzadox and using it to host funtimes servers was always really magical. But it was short lived. Hung around with this one guy named Darth_Plagues_The_Wise; He was a complete jabroni, to like, everyone, and effectively the whole game bent to his will whenever he appeared. Except to me and a few others. He liked me(Was kind of a dick to his other friends). I was a goofball, but that didn't matter to him. We had fun together doing a bunch of goofy sheet.

 

ROBLOX is where I went next. I mostly hung around this game because it was virtual Lego, and having multiple players doing sheet together in it was fun; Clearly I should have joined Minecraft and made Minecraft Lefts Plays. Wound up making it big for like... I don't know, a few weeks because I made some obstacle course that was so... out there. But most of this faded and I gradually become another dumbass who just tried to kill the other players whenever possible and however possible- No idea why I did this. Knew some people who did this with me. Was funny for us, but obnoxious to everyone else.

(I still played on ROBLOX until like early 2010)

 

Somewhere in 2007 I joined GameFAQs; Little did I know, is that I would meet some of the YCMers from the Wc07 and Wc08 boards respectively. Was kinda' whatever. Nobody knew how to use Rampart Blaster. Crystal Beasts were a hilarious meme. etc.

 

 

It's now 2008, and now we hit YCM. I've basically left everything else.

Literally a funking nobody when I joined. Started off by copying what Your Deck did back then- Find a mediocre Deck -> Flame OP for having it -> Offer advice in following posts. Had like a comically cynical attitude towards things on the site after my first few months/close to a year; TCG section was somewhat of a Your Deck section- Crab Helmet, for example, ran around and just terrorized everyone.

I didn't really get people to take notice of me until I posted crap like this:

[spoiler=bleh]

 

I don't know, I guess the irony of the current protagonist at the time being used to mock players who wanted to make Decks like him was funny.

I then tried to set out and prove that there never really were any useless/bad cards/etc, and I'd come up with decent plays/reasons/etc to do with them. People got a kick out of it/liked it. Kinda' did the same for the next few years. People started to actually like me for just me doing my own thing.

I've gradually warmed up to the site and others. Made new friends. Found people who shared my interests. It was kinda' like DeviantArt all over again, but with more Ygo.

By this time, something clicked with me. It wasn't so much the fact I was posting images you could make on icanhascheeseburger/etc, but it was the fact people thought it was funny/liked it. etc. HURR MEEMZ EKSDEE. But it was more so the fact it was stuff I had made, and people found my content amusing.

So throughout the years my Rep would gradually increase because it was like a sort of progression of mine to see what I could make next. I'm effectively, unknowingly, doomed to be a class clown for this forum because I'd make Ygo memes. I'd never just Google for stuff and use that. No. I'd just tie it into something to get the point across, but because such things never existed, I'd go out of my way to make them.

[spoiler=Example]

 

It was like some kind of drive to try and make things like this. These things didn't exist before, and I was willing to create them. And you guys thought they were funny.

Encouragement is always nice... When nobody else really gave you any.

Effectively this was my calling of sorts- Another filthy memer to add to the list that pollutes the internet. But I had the benefit of the doubt, since YCM never really had stuff like this. So that also contributed to why I made these images. They were all scribbled/messy, but it didn't honestly matter to me. It was just a matter of making them for the sake of the joke, and that's all I really cared for. The fact people laughed/smiled/whatever over these gave me a warm feeling inside.

So this trend of 'Arm making goofy sheet' sort of carried me throughout this site. Along the way I'd also play around with trying to look for images/memes/etc that I could either post because I could find a clever use for it OR I'd just post things that were related to other things and give them a different context as to what it was.

By now, everyone would just accept me as a selfish Rep-whore. Sure. Whatever. That's your own opinion/you are entitled to it. Honestly I'm still baffled as to how I've gotten 5K.

 

I don't know. I say "I don't know" to you guys a lot. I question why I do a lot of things I do on this site now-a-days.

 

Meeting up with some of you guys through things like DMG, DN, Skype, Steam, etc, made me feel even closer to this site.

A few clubs and things also contributed to this.

Playing things like Splatoon, a few Pokemon games, the previously mentioned DN and DMG, etc, was also a contribution to all of this.

Hell, I've even met someone who I'm honestly in love with and even had the courage to confess it. Just things like this are what made this site such a thing for me.

 

So this is why I thank YCM. I... Don't really have much to my name/life, and not sure where I'd ever go(in the event YCM ever finally dies). I've joined other sites/etc, but none of them have ever left an impact on me like this. I mean, you guys know me more then a lot of other people have ever know me, and I've always appreciated that. Sure, I may have lost it a few times and that will forever be a thing that's burned into the memories of some of you/you refuse to let it go/whatever, but I've always tried to keep a warming smile about me. Because the fact I got to see you guys happy would give me a reason to do things. I've just depended on things like this. Depended on my friendships. Friendships that have even helped me through some darker times. Just... I thank you guys for being here on this site/being with me/being just... My everything.

 

And that, that is why Arm thanks YCM for existing. It gave his life a purpose(of sorts), and let him meet people who would appreciate the content he would make/share, and got to pal around with people who would take interest in what I did/etc. Let me act as a role model of sorts to some of you(if those of you still think of me like that).

 

No, I'm not leaving, and that was never the implication of this or anything. I'm merely saying thank you, to everyone here, for being a part of life like this, and I've cherished every moment of it. Even the embarrassingly awkward(like this one) and/or bad times I've had on here.

[LordCowCowCowCowCowCowCowCow]

This makes YCM worth it. Like, the entire site, worth it. Cause it clearly did some good.

[Tourmaline]

If YCM dies we're gonna go to Roblox and kill noobs trying to finish obstacle courses with admin room rocket launchers.

[Ryusei the Morning Star]

If YCM dies we're gonna go to Roblox and kill noobs trying to finish obstacle courses with admin room rocket launchers.

We're gonna kill some noobs anyway silly

 

Winter thanks Arm for his memey posts and cracking my frozen heart a little

[Thar]

I'll take this opportunity to say the same.

 

I've been a member since 2007, so pretty much literally since the start, and even while I was on a hiatus from 2008-2012, the return pretty much sealed my fate.

 

During my hiatus, I had one of the best irl friendships I've ever had which I thought would last a lifetime, but then things ended up in the worst way possible. Since then I've been shattered, but YCM was there to go back to and while it wasn't the healthiest return in terms of how I acted, how people treated me, and how little I've interacted with irl people as a result, it at least kept me occupied and distracted from my depression and thus I cannot thank this place enough for it.

 

Thank you, YCM, and most importantly thank YOU, Armz, for being my best friend here.

[(GigaDrillBreaker)]

Dude it is spelled Armz.

[epicmemesbro]

Oh sheet. You know Plagueis...dkcmeicndkbfdjnfdkncifnvkfmvofk

 

Hopefully no one in my clan or past guild sees this*

 

Plaguies was in a swbf2 guild called Sith Empire, and Plaguies gave me an initiation test in which I did horribly. I got in at the lowest rank cri.

He was actually quite chill, I guess he may have changed since this happened in 2013. I had fun in the guild until I found out how much of a douchebag they were. The clan I currently am in was a result of their debauchery.

Plag was 3rd in command but his lack of in gaming resulted in his decline. Hmm I wonder if I can still contact him....

[Forest Fire]

Green Day

good sheet, man.

 

also thank you for being on this site, Armz. you're one of the few reasons i'm still on here.

[Sleepy]

Honestly, I hope the site doesn't die. It is the first internet community I ever joined that had me interact with people I didn't know IRL, and it has been a sort of home base for me ever since 2008.

 

Thanks in return Armz. 

We were already chatting via Skype so I guess most of what I would type here I already did there.