Once upon a time...
I first joined a pokemon community back in November 2001, a little place whose name shall remain nameless unless someone really wants to know. I had read about the site in a pokemon magazine, and when I went I saw they had forums and began to go there. It wasa nice place, sort of an internet haven where I quickly gained lots of friends. But of course things couldn't stay that way, as many things changed over time. Over a year ago I began noticing changes in some of the people there...they were becoming cold and hateful...last summer a topic went horribly wrong and some battle lines were drawn on a few subjects...I was with the smaller group of people, against the larger group of the hate-filled people, lead by a very corrupt but popular admin who sought to exterminate the people who thought differently than he from the forums...he was sarcastic, cynical, and hated me for who I was, and so I joined a resistance movement against the forums, which was constantly attacked by people working for the admin. We survived and are still around today, but anyone who stuck with the rebels lost all respect they had at the forums, and they were expelled from the inner circle. I went from being popular to being hated, all because the admin had turned everyone against me. Ever since summer, I didn't go to those forums regularly, and in December I lost it and quit them for good...since them I've been looking for new pokemon forums that weren't filled with eliteist hate-filled people, and this is the first one I've come across that has been able to suit me, the only one I've felt included at. So this is how I came here...I'm an outcast.