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Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

my first forum experience was on the official Cyanide and Happiness forum, which not only stole the SA forum template and all of the emojis, but had it's own knockoff FYAD subforum complete with unique stylesheet that everyone hung out in.

discovering SA years later was a wild experience.

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Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

prayer group posted:

whoa, i've never heard about this. what was their fyad like

probably pretty similar to early fyad. we were all 13-17 so a lot of it was big dramatic flamewars about TeamSpeak alongside funny irony threads and gross porn.

main difference is that most of the posters came to the site to share their knockoff fan comics, so there was a ton of pretty great art being shared in knockoff fyad. one of the regulars went on to be a moderately famous newgrounds personality and indie game developer.

Carthag Tuek posted:

i was big on customer support voice, "I think you will find that this exact question has been asked many times before, please direct further enquiries to the designated forum. For future reference, the song is called To Forgive, But Not Forget and was made by Outside. Despite the superficial similarity to Girl/Boy Song, it was not written by Aphex Twin, etc"

being a 12 year old serious dork about your incredibly important hobbies was the best. writing dissertations on why Links earring in Twilight Princess Was Not Gay and Actually Cool ftw

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Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

HelloIAmYourHeart posted:

https://expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/democratic-republic-of-congo-lubumbashi-to-kinshasa.50799/

A 2010 thread by a Belgian couple who drove overland across Congo from Lubumbashi to Kinshasa. It's both a fascinating journey in a place with zero infrastructure and an infuriating read because these two are colonial as gently caress.

on the first page they refuse to pay 5 bucks to a border guard and steal a 50 buck ferry ride. lol. loving tourists.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

bluelight was like tcc on uh, crack. insane body count for sure.

Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

html pages are so small Wikipedia should host all pages no matter how stupid forever

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Famethrowa
Oct 5, 2012

I'm really glad the awful eye of the internet didn't turn uli into a chris chan situation. people still got weirdly obsessive here and elsewhere but he didn't get many stalkers and freaks.

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