No.2569
>>2567Deviantart was the shit! I used to be really into Warrior Cats when I was in elementary and I'm pretty sure I found the site through the sparkledog OCs. While I have no specific yaoi memories it got me started on collecting fanart which is one of the main things I do in regards to yaoi.
There are still decent artists on the site, and a lot with interesting stylized designs, but Eclipse ruined the search function so I don't use it as much as I used to. I held on to classic as long as I could but I one day just visited and found the entire site was Eclipse. I think the subtle dig by making the logo of the classic color theme a dinosaur is pretty poor taste.
Regardless very positive memories.
No.2570
>>2562I think I discovered the site through Neopets because people would compile their beauty contest entries on there. This was probably around 2003ish? I don't remember really using the site for BL related purposes though, I think fansites were where I found that.
No.2582
>>2562I miss deviantART so fucking bad. Just in general. It's still up, but the redesign killed it. I'd do anything to be a dumb kid on dA again
>>2566Stamps!! I still adore stamps, I'm miserable there's no websites that let you really use stamps anymore, unless you were to code your own or something.
No.2583
>>2582> I'm miserable there's no websites that let you really use stamps anymoreIf you use tumblr you can create a page where you add DA stamps and link it to your about or alternatively just add stamps to your about page. It's far more interesting to read than the average "22/Canadian/ virgo. I blog about danganronpa" discription. I guess you can also do it on carrd but I don't use that site.
There are also apps that let's you add pictures as widgets on your phone. I did this a few years ago and added alot of stamps to my front screen. Other people are not going to see it unless they borrow your phone but it is a nice nostalgic feeling you get whenever you unlock it.
No.2585
I really miss deviantart groups, all the stamps shared here make me so nostalgic too.
I'm mad we don't get stuff like ship groups in other websites, it's all a mess with the tagging and the groups were amazing for that type of stuff and interacting with other fans. Interacting with fans nowadays doesn't feel the same, everyone seems more closed off.
One thing I don't miss is the ponies and ponyfied versions of characters invading every fandom at the time kek.
No.2589
>>2562DA gives me purgatory vibes. I can't explain it. Despite the revamp, browsing there is like being in 2004.
Does anybody remember Elfwood and y!gallery?
>>2585I also miss being able to browse artists by their general interests, especially ships. I hate how Twitter has become the most popular fanart hub because its tagging system sucks. Praying for tumblr to lift the nsfw ban or for pillowfort to take off.
No.2590
>>2588OMG!! i now want to decorate my phone homescreen with stamps too!! tysm for sharing nona!
No.2591
>>2590that's great<3 I don't remember the exact app I used but if you search for "photo widget" on app store you should be able to find an app that will do the trick.
If you feel comfortable doing it I would love to see how you end up decorating your homescreen
No.2596
>>2589I think tween me got rejected by Elfwood and I don't remember seeing it after that. Y!Gallery was, imo, cringier than DA. There was a certain style of drawing nude boys that I always saw there and it kind of reminded me of when kids make water balloons using condoms. I don't know how to really explain it, like fat lips and pudge in so many weird places. I'm a bit of a chubby chaser but that weren't it. I think it was an attempt to make their art sexier but ended up tacky.
Worst part about twitter tagging is that most SEA artists don't want the
literal official fucking account of the franchise to stumble upon their art of the characters rawdogging each other on a backseat, so on top of avoiding tags they come up with emoji codewords or avoid mentioning full character names at all. "Who's this guy?" "Oh yeah I love (chick)(tiger)(dango)."
>>2588>You can't spellAw fcuk.
>>2585I left the site long before pony happened, but I guarantee you 2003-6 DA was just filled with sparkledogs of every character anyway. Dogs in wigs with accessories to denote who the fuck they were, cuddling and licking each other. Never any real discernable breeds, just generic pawed quadruped in a wig going on. It gave me such an aversion to putting hairstyles on animal versions of characters that I'm only now starting to get past it and enjoy simple animal doodles and merch.
No.2600
>>2599this is great anon! I love that you also have Hetalia stamps. Your custom icons are really cute too.
>Vocaloid is not an Anime. Get it right VOCALOID NOOBI basically worshipped that exact stamp as a child
No.2601
>>2566I had this weird experience a couple months back where I logged into my account, and I found somebody had responded a few weeks ago to an inflammatory comment I made on a conservative stamp, literally a decade ago when I was in middle school. C'mon, really, dude?
No.2602
>>2601I think not checking dates on social media and therefore responding to old comments is normal on the modern web. Because algorithms are constantly pushing the newest stuff up front so most people are just used to whatever they see is recent and act with that assumption.
Sorry that happened to you anon it must had been really weird. We seriously need to drill it into people's heads that they need to check the dates on comments, articles, videos etc. A frightened huge number of people doesn't do it
No.2603
>>2601it's weird because i've had this happen to me before as well
>>2602 might be right about it being something that has to do with how the current internet space pushes algorythms onto you and people assuming everything's new
No.2604
>>2597God I remember all yaoi memes there were of Hetalia, even though I was pretty young at the time. Does anyone remember that one that would spell "yaoi" as "ya-OUI" with a picture of France?
No.2605
>>2601They probably wanted to renew the conversation on it with other users
No.2606
>>2601Me too! They'll find really flame-y comments I made 6+ years ago and reply completely seriously as if it isn't an ancient post. I just delete the original comment whenever it happens, so it won't happen again.
>>2599I love the /cm/rade stamp
No.2734
>>2733These where so much fun. I didn't do them either but ai loved when my fave artists made them. I still see these on tumblr and twitter but it's more like a phase, where there will be a month where everyone in a fandom does these and then after that everyone forgets about it.
I have seen some where the OTP line is red and the NOTP line is orange. Those colours looks too similar and it can be hard to see which is which when it's a bunch of lines going over each other
No.2739
>>2733those were always so fun to do :D
No.2754
To me, the fandom peak will always be dA and livejournal. Feel like shit, just want to rvtvrn.
No.2755
>>2754same :c the hetalia fandom was so much fun. I remember ask accounts too.. and plzaccounts!
No.2774
>>2755Ask accounts were some of my favorite gimmick accounts on tumblr, especially the fun art that came from them.
No.2775
>>2774SAME HERE I still remember an SNK ask account of Bertl being asked "what's your favorite titan? :)" and Reiner appearing sweating like hell whispering "Say a dead one. SAY A DEAD ONE." Cracks me up every time I remember it!!
No.2778
>>2777golden trips of nostalgia
crying rn because of how much i miss deviantart
No.2787
Do you guys remember the “emotes” people would make by creating new accounts and changing the pfp to the image, and then anyone could insert it into a post? I loved that so much and loved collecting all the fun emotes I could find. Sometimes I would just guess random names and see what would come up.
No.2788
>>2787They either ended with "plz" or "plx" as well, Nona got me remembering all the cringe I used to post to artists back and then not get a reply back. Those were the good days.
No.2790
>>2787i remember people making whole ass posts where it was characters talking to each other with those plz accounts lololl!!!!! i also remember the same thing happening in the description under an artwork
No.2791
>>2789OMG i remember shimejis too! i loved them so much!
No.2792
>>2789Never heard of either but I used to download a ton of desktop buddies at some point
No.2795
>>2789Holy fuck I also bricked my family's desktop with shimejis lmfao