[NEW IN 2003]
I was a real boyscout (or "naive" as Luis called it when I told this at a meet-up) and waited until I was 13 before I signed up to Newgrounds, which was not too long after the redesign where they first got rid of the black background. Another redesign was made a couple of months later. I loved it! Anyway, when I finally was a member, I ended up being a huge pain in the ass for the community. My English was horribly laughable, and I wrote a lot of malicious reviews. At one point they were all deleted from what I remember, and I was banned from reviewing for a few days. I also created my own flashes, looking up to artists like LegendaryFrog and Picanjo, who both were insanely popular at the time. When a cousin of mine showed me Dragonball Infinite, I got really inspired and ended up making the Dragonball Future series (Which I then deleted later on). Then one faithful day, a user named 45288 reviewed me, and I thought his videos were amazing. We started talking on MSN, and he became my first NG buddy. He used some of my pre-2004 audio in his flashes, which I still feel is pretty special to me.
[OBITUARIES]
I tried hard but never found Dragonball Future. Wade was the one who deleted it, so I guess it never got a memorial. Here's some old obituaries I managed to find though:
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[OTHER YEARS]
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Cyberdevil
Congrats to ten long years of consistant activity! Seems like 2009 might've been the best one? Apart from the early years... Still don't know about the latest two, but these were all interesting to skim through. I'm thinking I might borrow your idea for my anniversary in a few months... though there are a lot of blank spots in my mind. How do you remember all this stuff? Going through post/blog/etc history?
Shame obituaries don't show reviews any longer btw, I had one submission with over a hundred pages of those, would be fun to browse through yet again...
Whirlguy
Haha yeah, you've always been quite the reviewer! It wasn't very hard to remember a lot of these occasions, as they were dear to me, but I would be lying if I said I didn't do any research. I searched through my uploaded images, personal forum posts and blog entries online, and had a couple of backups saved that helped me search for old screenshots, projects files and the like. 2009 was a pretty successful year for me, I agree. It went downhill from there, though I never actually left.