User blog:Smash The Echidna/The End of a Historic Monument

Very recently, in fact just a few days ago, I discovered something surprising to me. 4Kids.tv is no more. As of November 2012, they shut down for good. Their site is completely gone; their forums, their cheesy games and confusing layouts, everything.

....I'm rather shocked. This news kind of...saddens me. For those of you who didn't know, I was once a member of the Sonic X forums on 4kids. Dating way back to February 27th, 2006. That place...that place was my online home. It was the first forum, the first site, the first community, I ever became a part of. That is the place where I first created developed my characters, and it's the place where I met so many wonderful friends, and some of the people who are most important to me aside from my own family. In general, 4kids was pretty cheap and lousy with it's censoring of just about everything and full of immature kids who make everything into a big deal, but looking past all of that, it was a haven for us kids. I can't tell you how much fun we had back there. If it wasn't for 4kids, I wouldn't have met some of the people who've made me who I am today. Heck, if it wasn't for 4kids, there's a pretty big chance that I wouldn't even be here right now.

Unfortunately, when 4kids changed, I lost contact of a lot of my good friends. Even though I, and many others left the site before 2010, I still had the nostalgic urges to go back there. I wanted to return someday, because it still felt like home. Unfortunately, when I eventually tried to, my account was screwed up and my password didn't work, so I could only lurk and view old threads. That was good enough for me.

Now, all those old memories are gone. All the old stories and roleplays, the fun threads and conversations, the heartwarming moments that showed just how close we all were...are gone without a trace.

Well, there you have it. I've vented a little sadness and gave you all a bit of a history lesson about me. I feel pretty bummed about it, but there's nothing to gain in lingering in the past. Gotta keep moving forward, you know?

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On a lesser nostalgic and a more important related note, I also discovered that Myspace totally destroyed itself. No, the site's still there, but what they have now is just disgusting in comparison to what it used to be.

Why do I care about Myspace? Because a lot of important things happened on there as well as 4kids. While it isn't as nostalgic, it held a lot of old roleplays, such as the original version of The Battle of Kaoru, and the following episodes in my series: Episode 5, Episode 14, Episode 26, A few Lost Episodes that I've been trying to validate, Episode 28, Episode 31, and finally Episode 41. The entire story arc between Splice and Cymbeline happened on there as well, but since AngelWings, the owner of Cymbeline's character, left the site long before this incident, I'd lost the RP as well. Still, that's a lot of crap to just lose like that. I barely managed to salvage some of it, either by saving it onto Microsoft Word or just taking notes of the main events. While 4kids saddened me, This flat out pissed me off. There was no reason for this kind of change. And frankly, nobody wanted it in the first place. People would protest, but there's barely any room for communication on there anymore. It's so stupid it's infuriating.

And again, there you have it. I've vented a little anger and frustration this time. It's been a long, hard week so I need to vent about something and let off some steam.