It's been fun, WFigs...

AHHH MY JEBUS ALEX SHEPHERD IS DEAD BUT THEMEMANXX RISES FROM THE DEAD

I usually don't post in here and I just watch animations once in a while but holy crap that was a cool post.

LUFTY!

Yawnnn.

You a jokester, eh?

never really knew Thememan but that sounds awesome

I've been on the boards since 09 and I've browsed em since 07/08 and to be honest I think what started this problem was when the first chat thread got closed while Audie was mod I believe. Everyone had so much fun then, you'd go into the chat thread just to read Arrows, Scotts and Mitchs banter they have between them. We even took the piss out of what other boards or people said about us for example. "The new animators chat thread for mature people" and we all talked like a bunch of uptight British people for a week. When that was closed the admins on here really layed down the law on us, they took everything we did for fun and were trying to make it serious and when the stick figure board was saying the exact same things we were and spamming our forum we got the punishment not them and when JS heard he said that he didn't take the stick figure board seriously but he loves our animations and that's why he wants us to strive, which basically meant us not being allowed to have any banter and fun on here. I mean we were rarely allowed to talk about things in the ppv thread other than the ppv and that was basically the chat thread in between ppvs before we got the official chat thread. So when we lost our chat thread and were barely allowed to talk in the stips thread about off topic things a lot of the fun diminished. I remember stopping animating completely shortly after that happened because all of the fun was gone.

Now this is what I think also led to the downfall of Audie because he lost a lot of fun on the board and with people not having any way to waste their time while waiting for the ppv to be posted if it was a day late or something they'd end up going in the stips thread and there'd literally by 10 - 15 posts within a day saying where's the ppv and this continued and continued and it appeared Audie was getting more and more frustrated with everyone and then Bubble Bath happened. It ended up being roughly a month late.

So that is what I think was the cause of the downfall of fun on here, we weren't allowed to have enough freedom and now that we have the chat thread back and regular ppvs people still seem to be boring. I mean the chat thread is there for a reason, chat! Talk about random things, how do you think half of the best jokes from this board started? Through the chat thread. For example "LMAOJew" was one of the funniest things at the time, not many people now will get it though because they weren't around but basically it was taking the piss out of someones tag team name. Almost everyone had friendly rivalries on here and just talked a whole heap of crap to each other in the chat thread, all in good fun.

If the board can find a way to make things like the chat thread fun again, then I feel people will end up more motivated to animate because they'll see a lot more people on the board having fun and then hopefully this board could come back to how it was in 09.

That's my 2 cents, take it or leave it but honestly just posting this won't change anything, we ALL need to start posting in the chat thread and being fun. I honestly believe a fun chat thread is what will make this board succeed!