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I will share mine:


I entered the Steam forums during early January on 2015. I was clicking and looking through items in the Steam Workshop for TF2 when I saw there was a discussions section. So out of curiosity since discussions sounded interesting, I clicked it and thats how it started. Of course, beign a main TF2 player, I went for the TF2 discussions. Soon after exploring, I figured out how threads and commenting worked. I made my first post, which unfortunately were in caps as I couldn't contain my excitement.

From there on I kept posting comments and learned the way of how they typed and started to type more normally. I however had an insanse love for using emoticons, used them wherever and whenever I could, which was what I became known for. I also learned how to make discussion threads and soon it became my hobby there, I made several threads and also became known for that, many original and fun with a lot of them gaining many comments. Someone even asked me, "Evo, do you like may 8 threads a day?". Hilarious.

Then I began to notice the forum regulars, a concept I never really thought of. During then, during that time we had a diffferent name. Not forum regulars. But Forum Campers. There I met many users which I had realised I saw very commenly as they were posting as frequently as me. Such users were Jens, StingerRPG, Pyrofish, Newturtlesenpai, Pakaku, Dinkle, Juicy, Lucario, Laggy, Cactus and more. Soon I started to talk and communicate with them more and began to enjoy their company in the forums by seeing them a lot since they posted a much as I did, which was a lot and more than the average forum user. Hence, we were forum regulars, or back then, known as forum campers.

So over time as I posted, I saw these user a lot and decided I might as well add them as my friends. So I started adding them to my friendslist and we had good chats with many of them. Then one day, I had an idea and made a thrad asking about how about we made a group for common forum users. The others however alerted me that a forum group already existed. Its name was FCU, Forum Campers United! I was excited and after some searching, I found the group and joined it. During that time it was a public open group for anyone to join and had around 100-200 members. So there I posted in that forum group, mainly about TF2 but other things were talked about too. Also, during April-May I believe it was the rising of the Soldier hate movement started by Pyroish, who's famous thread started a hate for the apparant overpowered abilities of Soldier and many forum campers agreed and disagreed with her. She was hated and loved. Respected and unrespected. I met her and well, we had a big argument. We became chill however and managed to get to friendlier terms so that was cool.

As I kept posting, one day, Slendermane, a forum regular which you all know as Stake from Jake Farm told me he wanted to request to invite me to another forum group called IMMOTF2FWBAH Retirement Home, which was a group that broke off from another big famous active forum group called I'll Make My Own TF2 Forums With Blackjack And Hookers which I believe had a rivalry with FCU, I heard I'll Make My Own TF2 Forums With Blackjack And Hookers raided FCU by spamming it at one point, so Retirement Home after some arguments and disagreements with the mods and admins, it broke off to form Retirement Home which was a better filterered version than the group it broke off from which is now dead. I was then accepted into the group and posted there, it was fun along with its admins being Radiant, Flippy, Brigadior and someone else. Also, during Augest I think, FCU became invite only by ods or admins after something happened with too many randoms joining or trolls joining. So began the trend of forum groups being invite only.

Then, in a couple of week during 5th Augest 2015, Pyrofish made her own forum group for reasons I forgot and advertised it in FCU, with many members joining it and stuff. A couple of weeks later however, something happened. Apparantly members from FCU raided a Steam Game forum and the moderators warned us of it. So the admins of FCU which were Jens, StingerRPG, Concord and Bangiras decided to announce and warn FCU was ont he watch list of the Global Steam moderators and a week later after the warning, out of the blue, the Steam Moderators deleted FCU. And so the time of FCU fell after existing for 9-6 months. Many backup groups were made which was what usually happened when a forum group died, many FCU2s and FCU3s were made as backups, we even had one prepped up but it never made the cut. A forum backup FCU group called FCU2 actually was active for a while and gained traction but soon, maybe afterone month or a couple of weeks, it died due to what many claimed were Nazi moderation.

The Regs group, the one that Pyrofish made of course benefited fromt he death of FCU and many ex FCU members joined it. The Regs became very popular and lived a long life. It was active, many users and was seen as the replacement for FCU. There were some rebellions I think, people trying to make another FCU2 but The Regs won. Also, Retirement Home was doing fine, many members and just as active. It was a fun active forum community. However, something happened. You see, one day in Retirement Home, the admins decided to make an open forum for non users to post in the group since Retirement Home was also invite only. Also, The Regs and Retirement home were rather similar, both being forum groups made as backups from another forum group that split off it. Well, The Regs found out about it and soon, a couple of members from The Regs took interest in Retirement Home and wanted to join. Among those users was the admin of The Regs herself, Pyrofish. She was let in Retirement Home, albeit hesistantly and well, she apparantly trolled, flamed and insulted users there which lead to her being banned while she said she was banned unfairly and it was because they were too weak skinned to handle a little bit of critism.

This lead to Pyrofish grumbling about Retirement Home to The Regs which soon became a war became the two forum groups. Well, not really a war but a petty exchange of insutls and screenshots. You see, Retirement Home had a secret forums that only members could see and well, Spies in that group took screenshots of the hidden subforum in that group and showed it to The Regs which The Regs members used to make fun of Retirement Home. Lots of drama. Even more when the admin of Retirement Home, Radiant was accused of being a pedophile for things he did. There was many argueing and flamewars, insults and screenshots thrown around. During this time, another forum group came up called The Republic made by a much, much older generation of forum regulars but while somewhat active, it went on just shakily being active for a couple of months before dying. The Retirement Home soon let in more members which turned out to hate Retirement Home and drama ensued. Even The Republic joined in on the war, declaring war on one of the forum groups and stuff.

All of this lead to Retirement Home being deleted by the admins as they realised they did not like the group anymore, found the messed up community to be toxic and deleted the group themselves after some discussing. The Regs found out, re-made the group to own it to shame them and celebrated their victory which The Retirement Home scoffed at it. The Retirement Home then made a new backup forum group called WaterfallNest which they invited me to and I joined. It however also got deleted after a month or 2 when it was made. Then finally the final backup group for Retirement Home was made which was called ZONE2, another was made which was Sunshine Hive but it died quickly and ZONE2 is now the official backup group for RH which is around 3+ members in comparison to the 100+ the original Retirement Home had.

The Regs, after celebrating their victory stopped talking about Retirement Home and went off talking baout other things. But things were soon to come. The Regs had slowly been dropping their member count, from 70+members to a slow 40-50 members. And it kept dropping, people slowly left or were banned for raiding/flaming/being alts and all. Pyrofish also started banning more people and more people began to leave. Eventualy one day, after banning more people or people leaving on their own having lost interest in The Regs or began to hate it, which included me leaving the group myself, a user got banned and talked about how the group was dying which was denied by Pyrofish. He was then banned and other users followed him out of the group or left on their own accord which freaked Pyrofish out which caused her to overreact and say she was going to delete The Regs soonafter which ended up with her not doing it.

Now the Regs is down to 30+ members from their 70+ members and not much is known about it at the moment as they kept their enitre forums prive just like ZONE2. Now, I joined each and every one of these groups, FCU, IMMOTF2FWBAH, Retirement Home, The Regs, FCU2, The Republic, Waterfall Nest, ZONE2, Sunshine Hive and more. I always commenta and made threads int hese forum groups and just had fun overall as well as watching the drama between forum groups unfold before me as a spectator. One day I had the idea of making a new forum group for a new generation of forum regulars as we approached 2016. I realised that with all the drama going on between The Regs, Retirement Home and others and all, there was not a forum group for new and upcoming forum regulars that would not have a forum group for themselves as well as the fact that the ones like The Regs were no longer taking in anymore forum users. That means the new forum regulars would be left out.

So on 2016, January 11, I went to the TF2 forums after leaving it for a while and made a thread asking who were the current TF2 Forum regulars with the intention for making a forum group for them. Well, the forum regulars and others answered it and it eventually lead to me making, and you guessed it, Forum Regulars Connect, FRC, for the new regulars. And well, you know the rest. And well, here we are. FRC, posting and commenting with fun and all. Fun and good times. Some of the other forum groups now exist but a couple of them were not like before. And here we are, this is my Steam Forums Life Story.


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