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Mangaraiders 10th Anniversary !!!
Hasith:
So it's the 10th Anniversary / Birthday of Mangaraiders. We have started this forum in 2007 and survived 10 years and several generations of Artists & Writers went through this forum.
Those oldest members are now adult and some even married have kids. Imagine where you guys were when those first generation of MR were doing what you do today in these forums. Today you guys are here and they have faded away and have gone their separate ways.
Anyway MR has become part of our lives for most of us and even most of those old members cherish those good times. I'm so glad that we do have a great regular member base who need very little moderation. So I thank all our ex Member's and current members for their contribution and keeping this place live and kicking.
:cake: :cheers: :birthdaywish: :cheer: :ninja:
Coryn:
We've certainly come a long way for a long time. It's important to remember that. We are still here, after so many other sites just like ours crashed and burned. I like to think that's because we don't lose sight of what we are. We are a community that concentrates above all else on creating a welcoming and safe space for people to express their work.
It's not about getting the biggest numbers, it's about making sure that everyone who comes here has a good environment and a good time. If we maintain our quality, then we will never regret our time here.
Vio:
AWWWWW YYYEAAHHHH!!!
Manimal:
I certainly didn't know what I was getting into when I joined at the end of 2013. Last year of high school, a Manimal at 17. I was like whatever, I'll just post some of my art and see what happens. I really didn't think anything of it.
It's amusing that the biggest thing this forum has done for me is with the help of one piped, pickled, peppered and planeium platypus, is expand my music tastes past my box and in a domino effect get me to start recording music. I mean this is manga artists & writers community, and yet it is more then a one purpose thing here for me.
This is the spot on the internet where I just come in and go in my corner and vomit things out. Sure I might get more people to listen to my music elsewhere, discuss anime with more people elsewhere and so on, but like...I don't know the forum just has a vibe for that you know, it's odd. When I look at my post history it's literally me changing, not by much, but still. No other forum has had this effect, I've been posting online since I was 10 and no one ever liked me before. I was an annoying kid with a scale of two extremes for opinions, this sucks or this is the greatest thing ever since ever.
Everyone was always older and they either made fun of me or said "he's just a kid guys". Fortunately I had skin of steel when I was that age and ignored those people. On every forum I've been either the joke or the wallflower. I don't know what I am here, probably still a joke, but this is the first place where people weren't rude to me. Naturally because I'm not that age anymore and gradually my aggressive negativity calmed down, but it's still worth noting.
and then Vacant and NO1SY come in and are like, hey guys we're going to do a podcast and my God, for a show I was like "eh I'll come on if they ask me" to become sometimes my only social interaction in a week, like that's a whole another story. I am grateful to them for starting this and enjoying being a goof and talking to peeps like those two, Coryn, Nair, Lego, Mahlua, Paipis, Sherbs and so on. But again, that's a whole other thing all together.
For this site to still be here a decade later I think that's very cool. It's insane to think of all those older members who are literally all adult age by now. Technically I'm adult age but I'd never dare to call myself an adult, I'm just another whatever. Literally people a generation or so ahead of me who's youthful dreams and ambitions only exist in the backlogs of their forum profiles. It does make me feel weird to look back at that stuff it's like man. 2007, I will reflect on that in a more fitting thread but for now...
I don't know, 10 years. That's cool.
MahluaandMilk:
I'm certainly proud to be a part of it. I really wanted to do something big, but I actually have errands to run today since class starts on Thursday. I'll maybe at the very least try to write something out, probably for MRverse. If anyone has any ideas, look for my thread on the Develop Your Story section!
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