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[Xiombarg]

If you haven't begun to pick up on what I've implied in the past, yes, I'm planning on stepping down as admin soon.  This isn't an announcement and I'm not planning on stepping down just quite yet, but I figured I would write a bit of a story every (few) day(s).  A bit about me, a bit about feldo, a bit about the previous forum we were on, a bit about the other users, Elric, Trite, and a few others who left this site.  A bit about the pony "invasion" and feldo leaving.  A bit about chat, and other nonsense.

 

I'll just begin writing from the beginning, taking a break or stopping here and there.  Don't really care much for chapters or parts, but whatever.

 

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It probably started off like any other person's experience with the internet.  I had no experience with online communities and dial-up was pretty awful, so I spent most of my time looking up video game sites.  I always frequented geocities and angelfire sites, most of which were just full of crap.  But hey, I always wanted to play as Luigi in Super Mario 64, shoot a dead mario out of a cannon, catch mew and the "pokegods", or attempt to get misty to take her clothes off in pokemon yellow (the most memorable "cheat" I remember looking up).

 

After some time passed, my friend, who you all know of as Elric, showed me this "neat" site called yoshiart.com.  Around this time, I would say I was probably 9 or 10, (around 2005).  I was a pretty big fan of yoshi at the time and was amazed that there was a site dedicated to the character and art about the character.  Little did I truly know who ran the site and what the ride was going to be like.

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Looking back on it now, it's pretty interesting that the site was run by a raging furry.  But it was also the site where I met feldo, where he got his reputation as a writer, and how he split off to begin his own secret yoshi site project, which is essentially the spirit of the MLP forums today.

 

I'll be going through this linearly and updating it when I can.  It just might be interesting to find out what sort of person feldo was before ponies, or even WUF.  His relationship with Soul, the admin of YAF, is also an interesting one.

 

 

I'm not going to go too in depth about YAF itself, just some of the general stuff and how it shut down.  Somethingawful and Encyclopedia Dramatica have pretty accurate depictions of the site.

Feldo also has a good portion of the forum archived if anyone is interested.

http://feld0.com/archives/yaf/

[Mewbot]

I'm  intrigued. Tell us more.

[KeptMyWiiUAndLeftTheForums]

I love stories, and this one sounds interesting, so keep going!

EDIT: I also just read someone's explanation of the YAF shutdown. If accurate, that sounds scarily similar to our position imo...

Edited by xWydrAx, 07 November 2013 - 07:23 AM.

[Tom]

Hooh my God, if you read the ED article about YAF, the regression of that site nearly matches WUF.

 

Scary stuff.  ;_;

[Goom]

I feel like YAF is a prequel to the WUF and MLPF. In the prequel we find out the origins of our protagonist and how his mistakes have led us to our current predicament. 

[KeptMyWiiUAndLeftTheForums]

I feel like YAF is a prequel to the WUF and MLPF. In the prequel we find out the origins of our protagonist and how his mistakes have led us to our current predicament. 

That's why I'm so excited to hear the rest of this story

Also, Ourn, are you gonna comment when you make an update? It's easier to remember if I get a notification

[White Trite Chronicles]

*Pulls up a seat*

 

I'm part of this story, but it's still entertaining to hear it.

[Xiombarg]

 

Hooh my God, if you read the ED article about YAF, the regression of that site nearly matches WUF.

 

Scary stuff.  ;_;

 

I feel like YAF is a prequel to the WUF and MLPF. In the prequel we find out the origins of our protagonist and how his mistakes have led us to our current predicament. 

Shh....  *Spoilers*

 

 

Also, Ourn, are you gonna comment when you make an update? It's easier to remember if I get a notification

I will.

 

*Pulls up a seat*

 

I'm part of this story, but it's still entertaining to hear it.

You're free to add anything if you want to.  I'm going to try and get Elric to post a bit too.

[Mitch]

Good thing we dont have any members like YOSHIofICE..... otherwise we'd be doomed

 

.-.

[Trash Waifu]

If you haven't begun to pick up on what I've implied in the past, yes, I'm planning on stepping down as admin soon. 

I'm planning on stepping down as admin soon. 

stepping down as admin soon. 

 

Hari for Admin 2013.

[Elric]

I suppose I could elaborate on YAF a little bit more. After I showed Mournblade the site, I literally forgot about the site after a few weeks. I'm not sure I knew there was a forum, and occasionally it would pop up in my mind and I would lurk for a little bit. Well, one day, probably a few years after I forgot about YAF itself, I discovered the forum itself. It was probably around 2008 or 2009 when I joined. I joined right before the server got moved and it became YAF 3.0. It's kind of funny looking back, because YAF is a lot like this forum right now. It used to be really popular, but the Admin, Soul, frequently neglected the forum, only paying for the server and leaving the rest of the work to the other moderators/super moderators. After a few years, the community seemed to get smaller and smaller. After awhile, the forum became almost stagnant. The members became to hate the Admin, Soul. They were going to try to get his attention and attempt to update the main page that hadn't been updated in years, so people could actually see the forum and so there could actually be work done. However, a giant argument broke out, and the admin decided to delete the forum. Feld0 was advertising the wii u forums before he decided to go out on his on endeavors and leave YAF. That's when I joined. Back then, Feld0 was still pretty active on the forum. I would even be able to talk to him through the chat.  

 

A few months later, I showed Mournblade this site and told Feld0 was the one running it. It was around spring of the first year of the creation of this forum that someone suggested that Feld0 make a MLP forum. 

 

Yeah, that's all I got right now. 

[Auzzie Wingman]

I bet it was Kurtiss Mackenzie.

 

That son of a pony!

Edited by Auzzie Wingman, 07 November 2013 - 07:25 PM.

[Waller]

I suppose I could elaborate on YAF a little bit more. After I showed Mournblade the site, I literally forgot about the site after a few weeks. I'm not sure I knew there was a forum, and occasionally it would pop up in my mind and I would lurk for a little bit. Well, one day, probably a few years after I forgot about YAF itself, I discovered the forum itself. It was probably around 2008 or 2009 when I joined. I joined right before the server got moved and it became YAF 3.0. It's kind of funny looking back, because YAF is a lot like this forum right now. It used to be really popular, but the Admin, Soul, frequently neglected the forum, only paying for the server and leaving the rest of the work to the other moderators/super moderators. After a few years, the community seemed to get smaller and smaller. After awhile, the forum became almost stagnant. The members became to hate the Admin, Soul. They were going to try to get his attention and attempt to update the main page that hadn't been updated in years, so people could actually see the forum and so there could actually be work done. However, a giant argument broke out, and the admin decided to delete the forum. Feld0 was advertising the wii u forums before he decided to go out on his on endeavors and leave YAF. That's when I joined. Back then, Feld0 was still pretty active on the forum. I would even be able to talk to him through the chat.  

 

A few months later, I showed Mournblade this site and told Feld0 was the one running it. It was around spring of the first year of the creation of this forum that someone suggested that Feld0 make a MLP forum. 

 

Yeah, that's all I got right now. 

 

You completely skipped the part where you joined the Feldian Forums only to have Feld0 tell you that the "Wii2boards" was where all the cool kids were hanging out.

 

Well, that part was probably irrelevant.

Edited by Molester Man, 07 November 2013 - 08:18 PM.

[Elric]

You completely skipped the part where you joined the Feldian Forums only to have Feld0 tell you that the "Wii2boards" was where all the cool kids were hanging out.

 

Well, that part was probably irrelevant.

Feld0 advertised the Feldian Forums and the "wii2boards" on YAF. I joined both. 

[nintendo3DS]

I'm loving this Mournblade. Although I've heard small bits of this story before, I haven't been able to hear the whole thing. Keep typing more!

[Xiombarg]

I guess I'll do a bit more tonight.  I am hoping Elric might be able to add a bit about the wii2boards and early WUF (along with him working with Feldo) as I wasn't around for those times.

 

I could easily go on about certain members on YAF and the crazy stunts they pulled. My story would be much much longer if I do.  For now, I'll stick with the basics, feldo, and YAF's voyage to falling apart.

 

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I spent most of my time looking up the art gallery section of the site, never realizing that there was a forum.  I idolized several users for their art, mainly Pyruvate at that time.  Looking back on it, that may not have been the best thing, his art was okay, it was pretty risque as he anthropomorphized his yoshis to certain extent and drew some boderline porn, keep in mind there were no rules about users needing to be a specific age to join a forum, but there was a no porn rule.  Because he was an artist, he could do anything and get away with it.  Nowadays, he makes a few bucks off of drawing pony porn.

After about a year, I noticed that there was a forum and mustered all my courage to make an email and register an account.  In 2006, I was known as Pyro Dragon Yoshi, because I wanted to pretend I was cool and obsessed with fire.  My posting was what you could expect of a 10 year old, bragging about my art, posting it when I could, taking art requests, and constantly pestering the admin to give my my own gallery.

These two crummy drawings were the first drawings I ever uploaded and posted online:

http://i158.photobuc...8-18_edited.jpg

http://i158.photobuc...7070039PM-3.jpg

 

After being hit by the harsh truth that my art wasn't actually that great (where no one bothered to call me out on how stupid I was acting) I actually began to strive to be better.  Not only at art, but as an actual forum user.  I started to make friends with people and even tried out the roleplaying section, which was a rough start.  That was also the place where I first heard the word furry.  I wasn't a furry at that time, nor am I now, but a few twisted users on that site convinced me that furry meant any sort of anthropomorphic animal character, including Sonic.  I was fortunate to continue ignorant of what a furry truly was (until I got into the popular Super Mario Bros Z series, the creator being a furry himself).

 

As time passed, I did meet quite a bit of awful people, not short of how you would describe on the ED and Something Awful sites.  I wasn't around for early 2006, which the users called the golden year, but it was also considered one of the darker times as well.

 

Before feldo registered an account on that site, I had become a regular user.  I definitely acted like a kid and was easily pissed off, but I was surprisingly more mature than many of the users on that site.  My name shortened over time from Pyro Dragon Yoshi, to Pyro Yoshi, and finally just Pyro; I just didn't want to give up that stupid name (which is still my login name on this site).  By the time feldo joined the site, he was just like any other user, obsessed with yoshi.  He didn't seem that different from anyone else, so I honestly cannot remember how he really started off.  He did make it clear, though, that he was supposedly really smart; he even acted that way to.

He made himself known for being some big time writer, and we were on good terms simply for that (I never read his extensive fan fiction series).  I believe he was made into an official writer for his extensive fan fiction and for criticizing users' grammatical errors.  He was a real snob for grammar mistakes, even his own.

 

We got to know each other a bit over time.  He advertised the hell out of his site and always boasted about being a writer elsewhere.  I believe that he and Elric were on pretty good terms, as Elric was a member of his sites before I was.

 

After a good amount of wacky and zaniness, several users started to notice the lack of quality on the forum and how inattentive the admin was.  We brought it up a few times and how the main page wasn't updated.  After a while, Soul, the admin, came with news of updates, new admins, new mods, and moving the forum to a new server.

That kept us quiet for quite some time, as old time members returned along with newer members.  There was a slight disconnect, but it was strong at that time.

 

Because the forum was moved onto another server, the member count fell drastically, and new members weren't as abundant as they had been in the past.  In this time, I had done my homework and found out about Soul himself.

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Soul tried to be a private guy.  He took down his own yoshi artwork and hated whenever someone even talked about him.  This should have been a sign to us all, but we never noticed until much much later.

 

Soul was originally a user on another yoshi fan forum called Yoshi's Corner (which was the biggest Yoshi fan site for its time).  I believe he had some importance, as he was a mod or even an admin.  Whatever his status, he had popularity behind him.  During those times, which I only learned from older members, soul had issues with the admins on YC.  If Soul wouldn't get his way, he throw tantrums and make a big deal out of things.  He had some sort of craving for popularity and being the biggest yoshi around.  After many fights, Soul finally broke down in his ultimate act of dickery and started his own war against YC.

 

Soul created his own site, Yoshiart.com, as a site to combat YC.  Soul wanted a monopoly over the yoshi fandom and brought fans over through advertising, affiliations, spam, and other nonsense.  He gained access to the Super Mario bros cartoons and anime, which he uploaded to his site.  You can probably still see a YoshiArt logo in plenty of youtube poops.

 

Soul had his own fan army spam YC, and the nonsense continued for quite some time.  It quieted down on YC, but Soul could never forgive them for criticizing him and not giving into his demands.  Soul implemented a policy that would ban anyone who talked about YC and even filtered the websites name so that no one could mention the site.  Soul kept his grudge for years, even until YAF's final years.  There was literally no information on Yoshiart about the way he acted on YC or the internet war he tried to use.  All conversations lead to bans.  I pieced things together from information from old users, members of YC, and the posts that started it all on YC.  I don't think any of it is currently archived on that site anymore.

 

 

Soul never changed.  He couldn't stand people bringing up information about his past, his art, or his personal life.  He couldn't stand criticism and would freak out whenever we complained that he was never around or would never update the site.  Feldo told me several times about how much he hated Soul, and invited me to help him create his own super Yoshi site, which I can go into more details later.

 

What lead to Soul's shut down of YAF were two users.  Davey-J-Yoshi, a guy who fetishizied yoshi and nintendo characters' legs beyond belief.  And Ampersand, a guy who knew how to do a simple google search (and who was also likely behind some of the ED YAF stuff).  I'll go into that next time.

 

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Today, YAF is still up, but Soul never updated a thing.  He gave a few users permissions to the galleries, but never checked them.  You can look at them today for some laughs.

http://www.yoshiart....allery/main.php

A gallery for ALL Yoshi artists! - 2006~2012
The site's now dead, as are the forums(which have been wiped), this gallery is no exception, it's pointless to join so the "how to join" link has been removed. You've reached a ghost town my friend
You can go back to the homepage though and relish what the site has left to offer.

 

http://www.yoshiart..../yoshizero_001/

 

This entire gallery has been abandoned along with the website. Get out.

 

 

Seriously the gallery is only here because the webmaster didn't delete the whole thing as opposed to simply wiping the forums. There is no way to get a gallery anymore, give up, turn around and look for any of the artists here elsewhere.

 

http://www.yoshiart....ery/v/Pyruvate/

 

I don't use this anymore. YoshiArt has turned into a site where everyone tries to outdouche the other.

Check me out on dA (pyruvate.deviantart.com). Actually don't, I don't think you want to see bondage nurse pony ass.

(mod note: nice try in editing the description again, I thought you didn't use it anymore)

 

 

*Originally the mod's edit was criticizing him of drawing porn*

 

http://www.yoshiart..../Davey J Yoshi/

Language warning, but whatever.

 

 

Album: A non-stop bitching machine

The shitgeiser to end all shitgeisers

 

 

 

 

Since you're just complaining that people are talking about you on YC(which is only natural considering your streams of bullshit) you're breaking the terms of leaving the people there alone for this gallery. So not only will you be stripped of all power over your gallery you will also have this nice little image tacked into it, courtesy of moi. Oh and *uck you too by the way.

 

 

 

[Mewbot]

Wow. This is some pretty dark stuff, I mean, considering it's a Yoshi drawings gallery and forum.

[KeptMyWiiUAndLeftTheForums]

I feel like I'm watching one of those epic gang war documentaries on Spike

Also, I now have the temptation  to call you pyro.

[nintendo3DS]

Also, the Soul that was administrator on YAF aren't any of these Soul's are they? 

 

http://thewiiu.com/u...1879-solxburst/

 

http://thewiiu.com/user/2638-soul/

Edited by dante3DS, 08 November 2013 - 01:20 PM.

[Blake]

Uhm yeah, tell me more, tell me more.

 

This is really weird. And interesting. I honestly never thought there was a giant backstory to Feld0 and this site...