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^ This is also why you will see gaming communities with older audiences gravitate towards Youtube for content creation (and streaming) over Twitch. Youtube generally targets older audiences than Twitch and newer platforms (e.g. TikTok) do. I will not watch any streamer that uses Youtube as a secondary content platform because Twitch does not respect me.

darkknight109 posted...

I still don't really get why the "forum" model of the internet died out.

Older generations become role models (influencers). Seek out new impressionable youths to take money from.
Younger generations are impressionable as they lack experience or critical thinking skills (undeveloped brain, no life experience) so they look up to role models (influencers) for inspiration.

This cycle has always existed but is more pronounced in the digital world. I looked up to popular Web Admins like W13 (of Runescape fame) back in the day. GameFAQs had CJayC, Devin and Allen. 4chan had moot, ect. There were lots of smaller forums where I looked up to their leadership but I won't name any specific people as they're all long gone. Even GameFAQs boards had certain prolific members that were looked up to. Think of all of the big JRPG guide writers like Shotgunova.

The role models seek mediums to interact with youths. This can either be for altruistic reasons (community building) or malicious reasons (gifting. for profit influencer media). Each generation so far has had a new medium. Gen X had BBS, Gen Y had Forums. Gen Z had Discord. Gen A has TikTok.

Also new dumb question
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/6cda1b4b.jpg

How long has Fandom been collecting our telemetry?

Yellow posted...

Yeah anyone can join this one

https://discord.gg/9vYSDEKKA9

Yea I've been in Delta's server for an hour now but thanks for the invite.

Lynyrd_Skynyrd posted...

One of my favorite memories occurred on the Starcraft 2 board. Some guy posted a ton of nothing topics over the course of weeks, and then bumped EVERY SINGLE one to flood the front page. The long con.

Share any positive GameFAQs memories you have :)

My favorite experience on GameFAQs was this thread:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/950181-chrono-trigger/47450821

@RCtheWSBC sorry I haven't been posting here much since Allen stepped down. Happy belated birthday.

Also I apologize in advance. This has probably been the first time in a decade I did not wish RC a happy birthday and did not see if anyone wished me one. I have been pretty busy with things and not thinking about this place.

Or am I still not welcome?
We have been together since 2008.

When a youtuber references that something is mentioned in "the card" and points to a corner of the screen. What the hell are they pointing to? Annotations were removed years ago.

Orange_of_Doom posted...

For what it's worth, I might've been the first one to exploit it to give SBAllen his first avatar of a Legend of the Galactic Heroes character, but tons of other people found it a few days later. I wanted to show some friends that I figured it out and might as well go after the most high profile proof I could.

Whoever was the one replacing porn with people's avatars was a riot. That was when I was still a software development noob (I was still in college) and didn't know much about anything.

Waluigi1 posted...

GameFAQs has avatars?? I legitimately didn't realize. Do they show beside people's names on desktop? I haven't been on GFs on desktop in...uh, I don't remember when I got my first smartphone.

No. AFAIK Devin was always too conservative with allowing avatars in posts. That's a user script that I made myself, but there's a wonderful one that another user wrote many years ago that should still be usable now:
https://openuserjs.org/scripts/melon/GameFAQs_Show_Icon

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/994cdc84.png

Epicness2012 posted...

Talk about a ripple effect.

There's no doubt in my mind that avatars eventually led to the downfall of CE and therefore gamefaqs.gamespot.com as whole.

Ergo, Judgmeni killed GameFAQs.

Every time bby.

Keep in mind I am only posting all of this now because my friend told me CE was shutting down and Poltiics discussion was now banned everywhere else. Nice authoritarian hellhole and I'm sure Error is delighted at the proposed changes.

DoesntMatter posted...

how so?

In the early 2010s I created an avatars user script which turned into a browser extension which results in me getting pissed off after two users were arguing with me over PM and I had enough and lashed out at one of them unfairly updating the extension's backend to inject hate speech into the extensions settings. As a result, I was banned for 6 months, I willingly shut the browser extension was shut down and demand lead to the feature being added to the site. At the end of its life over 2000 people had avatars and even more were using certain other features of the extension such as rotating signatures and quick account switching.

Also at the end both Devin and Allen used it (or people exploited the REST API and injected avatars into their avatars I don't know).
Also at one point I captured everyone's IP addresses and did not do anything with them.
Very fun stuff. I'm a software architect at a cybersecurity company now creating enterprise endpoint protection software.

Also I consider myself woke now.
Friends from GameFAQs changed me into the person I am today.
You're all welcome.

GameFAQs has had avatar support without my addon for over a decade now...

Only site I know that sill has them.

This thread is a great example of why I don't post here anymore.

https://www.fandom.com/fandom-stars/

Do you like stealing other people's content and reposing it on Fandom? I sure do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNdsm9Gz32U

If you guys didn't realize I found better things than to post on this board.

Needed to check the popularity of a show on the anime board so I decided to create this thread.