ta facts i never told anyone
writing this because of nostalgia i got from nw talking

some of you guys will read this and laugh
and i prob will in 2024 or 2025 or whatever too

1. i never made admins ;; i never have ever in all my forum years except the swamp forum halfpace ;; there was actually a reason behind it!!
i was scared admins were overpowered and that they would delete all threads and stuff because they actually had the ability to. also they could ban//promote so
so i thought of mods as admins and just added mods only ;; i wouldve removed myself from admin but that would have prevented me from promoting//banning//demoting so i kept myself.

2. the arcade was originally called the contest forum
after i got parentbanned for a month, it died, and when i returned i thought ahead and just couldn’t imagine people joining something called the contest forum
so i changed it to arcade

3. people copied arcade games a lot, but i actually was more protective of the name arcade. i remember noah and other ppl getting really mad about other forums copying his original games. i was mad too and remember giving them a piece of my mind, but what made me the most angry was when people started copying the name “arcade”
haha petty 12-year-old flec be like

4. yes the grand reveal of why i left (well part of the reason)
for awhile i was insecure about it ;; i never really told anyone, but looking back on it it really isn’t a big deal
during mid-covid and stuff i struggled from bad relationship with parents and moderate anxiety
- ta just stressed me out because i constantly had to take responsibilities for all the little flamewars ta got into
- because my biggest pet peeve is when people steal my ideas and food lol i would get so angry when people stole ideas and i was having to send 5+ pms to people every week at one point
- because i was “founder” when people wanted to complain they complained to me
- people were telling me what to do about demoting//promoting//banning and i was so done with it
- my parents got so mad at me 24/7 because i was always online that they would yell at me every day and it got too stressful
- peak anxiety made it hard to deal with emotions so i was just drained and done being the leader lol i was like “IM F’ING INTROVERTED BRO I DONT WANT ALL THIS ATTENTION PLS JUST FRICKING PM RYAN OR TTI OR WHOEVER THE HECK WAS MOD”
anyways all of that has gotten a lot better
it’s just that i’m not really thinking of making another forum soon, but maybe

5. i wanted to quit ta, but my ambition got the best of me
looking at all the forums at number 1 and gloating, it pissed me off and i was like, “i wanna do that it’s really not that big.”
after i got parentbanned ta was completely dead, so i was slowly giving up, then i saw the other forums celebrating about being 1st or whatever or having 100 members and i was like bring it on
because 12 year old me was petty

6. DEAR RYANWANG I HAVE A CONFESSION
i hated you for a good 2 hours after you beat me in post count
lol im kidding u were so amazing i think ta owes you its success. you were definitely an og and you got so many people to join and were one of the first active members ever

i remember the flamewars between tbf and njtq
and njtq and ta
and ta and tbf
and the avatar market or smth
and everything

anyways i just wanted to get this out because i was reading back and i saw a member mad that they werent being promoted to admin
and i was like
y naut