i think this gayass wall of text covers it.
Shit, I wrote something like this and posted it in the chat thread about a year ago, so I could go back and reflect on it, but it was lost in the reset.
2006 - discovers internet, goes on newgrounds, armorgames, albinoblacksheep, wikipedia, and xgenstudios mainly. Gets boners from cartoon porn for the first time on NG.
2007 - Friend tells me about stickpage because it's kind of like xgen, and I end up really digging stick sadism. I watch and play pretty much all of the available shit thoroughly until there is nothing else to do, which took months of visiting occasionally/moderately often for entertainment. Then, I notice that there's this button that says "UGO" and I click on it. It leads to this pretty sweet site with funny animations, and I spend a lot of time there. Now I'm thinking, wow, I didn't notice this thing before, maybe there are some more cool things. And then I look around on the front page more thoroughly, and notice the fucking "portal" button. I don't know why I didn't see it before. Anyway, I go there, and there's a ton of new animations and shit everywhere! It was like discovering a hidden treasure. I then learned that amateurs can actually make their OWN stick animations, which meant that I could become a famous stick animator!!!!!
I made an account on the portal using the name "Brian C", because if I ever became famous, then I could show my family and friends my shit, and it'd have my real name on it. Actually, it wasn't capitalized, but that wasn't my fault.
Then, I begin making a lot of comments on the movies found on the portal. I noticed that the comment button led to this strange fucking place with weird things.
This place was the forum.
After paying little attention to the forum after making comments, I realize that some people have weird things on their comments like pictures under their names and under their post content, as well as captions under their usernames, and locations. How do I change mine? I started exploring the page... and wow, after editing my profile, I stumbled into this strange place full of sections and threads and crazy shit! The forum index! Other sections! There's a flash section where you can talk about learning how to make the animations!!! WOW!
I also met raffistick, who I actually considered my friend for a while. The guy changed his name to "Raffi" or whatever later. I PM'd him a lot, and he taught me how to do important things like save images and take screenshots. That is how I first learned those abilities. He made me an avatar, too. I noticed how many posts he had, which was a huge amount. Over 800!
2008 - I venture more into the other forums sections that don't even have anything to do with animations. Also, at some point I became an easytooner. This may have been in late 2007 or early 2008. Anyway, I start putting effort into my posting and grammar, quickly pick up on how to be "cool" by interacting with some other newer members, and get into fights over C&C.
Then, I went into "Main"
That's where I ended up getting sucked the fuck into, in about March.
I stayed there for extensive amounts of time... getting flamed, learning, becoming more intelligent, and having a fuckton of fun.
By April, I'm a "normal" member who knows how to navigate the forum and post. By June, I consider myself to be slightly cool and go to the IRC as well as flame more new members. Tons of experiences here. Dabbled in Flash, but eventually stopped animating. By August, I start giving less of a shit and become more of a troublemaker, getting banned a fuckload of times, and thinking that I'm super cool. I have about 3000 posts now. Possibly 4000.
In November, I started feeling kind of... bored, I think, and took up being even more of a troublemaker who frequently made shitposts with terrible "so ironic" grammar and spelling on purpose to be funny, stopped using most punctuation because that's what cool members do, and became a lot more sarcastic.
By the time 2009 began, I was gone. I stayed gone for 14 months, until April 2010. I was busy with TF2, and forgot about stickpage.
2010 - I don't think I was any different than I am now. It feels just like yesterday. Where did the time go? Also, in my absence, I started watching more anime, and kind of took up a passion for it. Became sort of an /a/ incarnate, and I think my posting reflected it. I half-stuck with the lacking grammar style, and naturally used it when joking around, but switched to good grammar mode frequently. I still do. Made Stickpaeg/Outworld, made e-friends, shit was fun.
I don't know when 2011 started and when it ended. It's much less clear than the earlier times, but I haven't changed much. I think I was more depressed in 2010, not clinically, but just a more sad person who was having irl issues, but I've gotten a clearer understanding of myself and moved past things.
Outworld was a MAJOR part of what I did on the internet. I think I had more experiences there than I did here in 2011. SO MUCH FUCKING DRAMA AND FUN THINGS. When I got in a certain fight, I ended up leaving. I had actually bitched about wanting to leave a lot prior to the incident, and it was just the final straw. They could go fuck themselves. When I did this, I headed back to stickpage, where I became 10x more active. Because of this, I believe I was the #1 most active member. I became an NTF, and then a mod at some point. Outworld died, but I returned to the freeforum later, which still exists but moves very slowly. Very slowly.
2012 - Same personality. I think I might actually be a bit more modest and less of a drama whore, though. I think in 2011, I was really fucking funny, and looked for any sort of fun/trouble all the time. I haven't done much of that anymore.
must've been in a really autistic mood to write all that.