The unavoidable and serious problem with Maiotaku

My earliest email from this site is from 2009. I wasn't very active mostly lurking. The site was pretty quiet then from what I remember. Really picked up in 2015. Lots of good times in here. Never found love here(or anywhere else XD) like you lucky lot but best to be thankful. https://i.postimg.cc/3NJWWPvF/a9816a.jpg I started using social media ages ago. Chatrooms, forums, images boards. It's fun for me. First forum I was dedicated on was an Inuyasha forum. I sometimes wonder how my friends there are doing. Was able to use the wayback machine to see some old posts, nearly brought a tear to my eye. https://media1.tenor.com/m/cQ-2owQdFcMAAAAC/black.gif Times change though, there's a lot less forums in the wake of what I like to call "mega sites" Facebook, reddit, Twitter, etc. They incorporate elements of chatrooms, forums, image boards, on layers of pages. It's essentially severeal sites combined into one. Now don't get me wrong I have had good times on these sites too and still do but I like the cozy feeling of forums. It's more laid back. I'm in a retro gaming community forum that's still active and got back into Newgrounds. Still have my account from when I was a sweet baby boy teenager. https://media1.tenor.com/m/4f5iY-7CEwsAAAAC/ranma-anime.gif There's also Discord to pick up the slack from mega sites along with social games. Like VR chat. I still have a hard time with VRchat I don't really like to speak in the mic straight up. I tried going into one room and there was a barrier I tried jumping over. Then some guy got mad at me saying "dude, we need your age" so I freaked and left started playing Marvel Rivals tried making a joke about me abusing morphine but Marvel Rivals chat censor didn't let me. TwT. I still won punching with the Thing. https://media1.tenor.com/m/JOEJGuBU0XoAAAAC/marvel-rivals.gif I think forums will survive for specialized interests. There is a chance they may see some revival especially since mega sites are becoming increasingly restrictive and controlling. In terms of Maiotaku, who knows, I haven't had the heart to go searching for new dating sites. Think it's too late to find anything meaningful at this point. I am sure there are nerd based dating I figure they are apps though. Then I have to go through the scrutiny of potential matches. I'm alright at getting some attention but not much more than that. So I can't comment on the state of dating apps much. https://media1.tenor.com/m/kN14QbOxw7oAAAAC/tenma-kenzo-tenma.gif I ranted a lot but generally speaking it's best to be thankful for what you get no matter how little. We all had good times here and that's special. "Such is life" as they say. https://youtu.be/br_bRdZxl2M

ive only been on this site almost 2 years i joined in january of 2024, soooo yea i have met a lot of cool people and i am thankful for the friends i have met. i didnt meet my amazing boyfriend here but he is into anime and games too, though he's never heard of MO, so yea! hes not into the whole forum scene

Since we're all doing backstories, allow me to chime in with my own MO story that absolutely no one asked for. I joined back in... fuck if I remember, doesn't matter. I was like 14 when I joined. I was one of those edgy teens that just appeared on the site for no fucking reason at all. Won't even lie, I was WILIN on this site as a teenager. Even started some nice big drama once, don't think anyone who was there is even here anymore except maybe poor ole Frank. Bunch of ppl just had a full blown argument, death threats and all RIGHT ON MY WALL. (Accidental bar) Ffs it even spread to other people's walls at points. Eventually it got to the point I'm just sitting there asking myself "What the fuck is even happening?". Not even half the shit I did. But after a whole lot of other shenanigans, I eventually created an undercover alt which ofc is this account which I've now had for about 4 years, and just never spoke of anything that happened again. (Except a few other ppl from this site I crashed out on in these past years) Seems as though somewhere along the line, I suddenly just 'grew up' and started being a somewhat decent person. I was younger then, and naive. And now, I have things, both possessions, and in my heart, that the past me can't claim to have.

I came here back in 2012, originally to find someone after my ex had broke up with me. I managed to make quite a number of good friends on here, some people I've also lost touch with. Being on the spectrum it wasn't easy for me to make friends, and a decent number of peeps I met here I still talk to somewhat. its VASTLY less than what it used to be. I remember how every other week it was DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA. I was one of a few vocal members who kept BEGGING the owner for a moderator (I think it took like 2 years or so?). I put a lot of effort into banning & removing Spammers from view (& tackling drama with creeps), but with all INFLUX of spam even before covid AND lack of interesting people/things happening kind of made me lose the love I had for this place. IIRC we had a APP, but there was an issue people took with the privacy rights or something (cant recall the details). I agree, atm MAI should be a discord server or something at this point. even I moved to discord, its more fun to watch/join in playing games, or even just watching anime/TV shows together. Once most people had cellphones, we saw a wide adoption of voice & video chat. It's like the movie 'Wall-E' was on to something XD. but everyone's bubble has been getting smaller and smaller as a result. Things weren't perfect here, but I definitely loved this place a long time ago

@forgetmenot Oh yeah I remember those wild days where you never knew what dramatic shit was going to be said on MaiOtaku. I was one of those that preferred to sit back and watch the chaos unfold.