INCOMING WALL OF TEXT HOLYSHIT.I swear I probably have one of the most embarrassing internet histories ever.
When I first started out on the interwebz, I was a huge Nintendo fanboy. I was pretty much obsessed with Mario, and I forced my parents to get any retro game I could find at stores.
I found out about the official NSider forums in 2005 when I was 9, where I proceeded to do what most 9 year olds do on the internet when they're unsupervised. That is, be a complete moron. I spelled horrible, I disobeyed many rules, and I even wrote my own Mario fanfiction. The forums closed down in 2007, so fortunately, everything is gone.
During my stay at the NSider forums, I discovered Youtube Poops. I absolutely LOVED the stuff for some reason, so I grabbed all the CD-I footage I could find, opened up Windows Movie Maker, and got to pooping.
It was probably some of the most awful shit ever, and after hundreds of people telling me it's awful, I ragequit and deleted everything, so fortunately, everything is gone, except my
amazing username.In 2009, I found out about Let's Plays, which appealed to the 9 year old Nintendo fanboy in me.
I joined an LP forum, and as soon as I did, a few people asked me if I wanted to join their Retsupurae (retsupurae is like the LP Mystery Science Theater 3000, where you find horrible LP videos and make fun of them) group,
MrRetsupurae. Just....just see the video.
After getting trolled to oblivion by Metokur, the group split up, and I went back to doing actual LPing. If you go on a LP forum, like Something Awful, or Let's Play Forum, you'll see that people...really take recording yourself playing a video game seriously. The video lagging for a bit is enough to piss them off.
So all of my videos were criticized to hell and back, and since I was 12 years old at the time, making me one of the youngest members of the community, I was also the butt of jokes. Eventually, I just got tired of everything, deleted all my videos, and left in 2010. Unfortunately,
some things are still up. Some MrRetsupurae videos were backed up too. Enjoy my prepubescent 12 year old voice.Starting in late 2010, I lurked around 4chan. I spent a month or two on /b/, then I went to /soc/, then /a/, and so on, until I eventually found myself on /mu/. /mu/ made me a bit of a hipster, but it also helped give me a really big interest in music.
I spent a few months on there, going through all the sharethreads, posting in
>greentext,, and talking about how shitty mainstream music is, and how everyone who listens to it is an awful person. Yeah, /mu/ was a bit stupid. But like I said, it gave me a really big interest in music. In January, I bought a copy of Ableton Live, a Novation Launchpad, and an Akai MPK Mini.
SUDDENLY, in February, I discovered ponies, and after watching a few episodes, looking at some fanart, and really just seeing how awesome the brony community is, all the negativity that came from 4chan just...went away. I spent a few more days on 4chan, and I realized, holy shit, this is like the worse site ever. I haven't gone on since.
After the first season ended, I got bored, opened up Ableton, and made
a little WIP of a Giggle At The Ghosty remix. I posted it on Ponychan, which helped me meet Circuitfry and Sci, who helped mentor me during the first and second Remix Wars.
And here we are now.
tl;dr Nintendo community > YTP community > LP community > /b/tard > ponies.