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Well happy 4th anniversary YOI, i only found out through timeline.
You have a....unique place in my heart i guess i should say. I didn't watch the entire series week to week, I skipped out on a few eps and not until around ep 6 did I start watching it as it aired.
You have a....unique place in my heart i guess i should say. I didn't watch the entire series week to week, I skipped out on a few eps and not until around ep 6 did I start watching it as it aired.
I did feel a rush of excitement and happiness seeing all the official art every 2 days and new merch and went crazy buying up everything I could.
YOI pulled me out of an artistic rut, it made me happy drawing again, and so I was eager to make friends through art.
YOI pulled me out of an artistic rut, it made me happy drawing again, and so I was eager to make friends through art.
Sadly though, it didn't work out like that. I made a couple friends but I could immediately tell it wasn't the kinds of relationships I would see other people share with each other online.
YOI had a problem with creating TOO MANY zines which were just popularity contests for the creatives. I got more rejections than I did acceptances, and even when I made my own zine, my mod stole the show and pushed me out, it was /their/ zine now.
Other than the zine problem, YOI had a big problem with top/bottom discourse of which I was sucked into. Not everyone enjoyed how I shipped and therefore, I got sent A Lot of hate and accusations so did the people around me.
I think I spent 80% of my time arguing with people who sent me hate because of who's dick was going in who's ass.
I'm disabled and after months of fighting that took its toll on me and I'm sure played a hand in me getting a stroke+coma in 2018. If you don't know that story, yeah that happened.
I was already sick but I'm sure constantly fighting didn't help improve my health either.
I was already sick but I'm sure constantly fighting didn't help improve my health either.
And all this is only 5% of the shit I went through LOL
After that, and once I "recovered" I slowly started distancing myself from the fandom. I still drew it a little but soon Sarazanmai aired and it was over for me, hopped into a new, better fandom and made tons of actual friends who I love.
FKBUL actually gives me the same sort of rush I felt in early YOI fandom and it makes me happy. So I'm ready to just push bad times aside and make new, better, happier memories in the new fandoms I choose to be in.
I'll at least have the experience now to watch out for when something bad is going to happen.
So uh...happy anni yoi??? I'll never forget you at least
So uh...happy anni yoi??? I'll never forget you at least
