I'm pretty sure I've missed my last few year milestone posts, and its been over three years since I hit 14,000, but I am finally here, at the 15k milestone I set out to reach 8 years ago.

I want to firstly thank David for this wonderful site and community that he's built over the years. Thanks to Vizzed, I had a community to grow with throughout my teen years and the friends I made here really shaped the person I have turned out to be. I certainly had the best times of my life on this site with my legion of friends, from posting sprees to chat room nonsense to the RGR netplay tournaments, I have fond memories of them all. No one here ever gave up on me, and having positive adult influences in my life helped me so much through the hard times I faced. Now as an adult, I see the great value this site has provided to me over the years. I know many good memories are behind me, but I do hope to continue to build new ones with the remaining members here and the new ones to come.

As for the post milestone, this is about five years too late lol. My once pace of 6,000 a year has slowed to only a handful, but I still love this board and want to contribute to it all I can. I am thankful to be entrusted as a Local Moderator again for the first time since 2016, and I know the situations are different, but my aim remains the same. I want everyone who visits this site to have the same positive experiences I did.

To all my friends, thank you. However there are a few I would like to personally thank.

First and foremost, my best friend here on the site,
Mohammedroxx3 : I hope all is well with you, it feels like forever since we've really talked. I'm so thankful for the friendship we had, you supported me through everything, and I'm glad you were always there for me.

Eniitan : The same goes for you. You are legitimately one of the nicest people I've ever met and you always believed in me and wanted to help me. You made every day better for me with your cheer and inspiration.

tgags123 : I've probably kept up the most with you (and I've even been lurking some of your twitch streams, don't know if you've noticed ), but I'd also like to extend a big thank you to you. You held our friend group together even when we had people coming and going, and especially when we had people get banned (nice job DA )

Divine Aurora : I had a lot of run ins with the mods over your inability to stay away, but since you've returned (that's been what...6 years or something? Jeez) its been fantastic. You were always a great voice of reason and I appreciated that.

Bintsy : B team forever! It has been a while, I hope you've been well. You always had a way of making me feel better through your daily cheer, and I won't forget that.

ZeroTails : ZeeTee, I had some of my best days on Vizzed in the chat rooms with you, and even after you left for a bit, I thought we had a really great friendship. I'll always consider you a great friend.

And to the other ham hams that are still around occasionally, always feel free to check out the clubhouse and say hi!

Pacman+Mariofan :
supercool22 :
juuldude :
PixelBrick :
GameBoy1023 :
yoshirulez! :
Matthew2321 :
SuperCrash64 :
Uzar :

There are so so many other people who have meant so much to me, a lot of whom haven't logged on in years, which is painful to see, but that's just how things go. I assume they've moved on to a better part of their lives with so many great friends around them. However, if any of you guys do log back on and see this thread, feel free to shoot me a PM on here or over discord, I would love to chat with y'all again and catch up. I think that is about all from me today, I loved taking a trip down memory lane to write this post, and I wouldn't change any of it.

This site is basically like my child. I've always felt so strongly about keeping this community alive due to the impact it can have on others. Now that I've had this site for as long as I have and I've seen so many users grow up on it, it is such a unique experience to watch the many users grow up and mature. It's almost like being a teacher, except I have these students every school year.

When I think of users who have really grown in a positive way (not that I ever viewed you in a negative way), you're definitely one of the users that come to mind.

Thanks for the compliments

Congrats man! I can definitely relate to a lot of what you said about growing and maturing. I think the Vizzed community had a similar impact on me as well.

I'm glad Mohammed sort of forced us to interact back in 2014; I strongly disliked you before that lol, but over time we obviously became good friends, and I'm thankful for that.

I hadn't noticed you lurking, but I appreciate it. What's your username? You should hop in chat (unless you have been and I just didn't know it was you lol).

Congrats on 15,000 posts! Next stop 20K?

Happy Birthday! I really miss those days when we had time to chat here often and goof around with all of our friends. I'm very thankful that you were always there for me as well. I wish I had more free time to be more active here, and also wish this community was more active again. But I'm very grateful that you're still with this community, and many of our friends are too. I can't believe we've been here since we were only like 14.

Sorry if this is very brief/rushed, I'm cramming really hard for a deadline right now, but I always got discord open for you and all of our friends.

I haven't been logged in since December I think so I just saw this. Thank you for the shout out! I also have many great memories of the post sprees and other crazy fun times that I got to experience with you and others through my middle school and high school years. Congratulations on 15K! I'm hoping to get to 10K someday but we'll see if that happens.