Avatar sites have went quite in general

Most people on avatar sites are grown ups now...we are busy with life and stuff, I don't really see many younger kids anymore. I started when I was only 13 or 14 years old, now I'm 26. XD

I can't remember how old I was when I started here.

Here, I started in 2009, so about 11 years. O.o

I started 2010

My first one was Gaia Online
I joined at 13

Tho if we count MMORPGs, Maplestory at 12 LOL

Oh! I was on gaiaonline until my ex done something and got me banned.

Oooooof
2008-2013 for me
Then the whole bootyception and all the bullshit with that happened and I got tired of it to where I left

I started gaiaonline 2004 and got banned later that year because my ex scammed some guy of their angelic sash. I was well and truly annoyed.

Oooooof way back in the early days then
I don't blame you for being annoyed. Or for his being an ex

I had just got my angelic scarf.

Ooooooooooooooooof
Stab in the dark an appeal fell through because they seem to have a habit of not listening?

yeeeeep

I was lucky, I guess
The worst I got was a warning because the gif in my sig was too big of a file size
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsfa2dY9mU1r0iby6.gif
This one
I pointed out that people put worse in their posts and that's somehow okay and the response was basically "I know, it's stupid, but here's the response I'm required to give", but in more proper mod-speak
So I switched to a much larger in size image I no longer have from the same series

It's stupid

My old phone took images too big for their maximum file size
They really needed to update that from 100mb to 10gb or some such before I left in 2013, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's still microscopic sized. I know some market flippers had gotten warnings for botting when they just had that good of computer and internet, plus practice

Also: https://www.instagram.com/p/B9aEljOBBN1

That's crazy

Yeah, just shows how outdated their stuff was back then
Unless they updated, I imagine the problems with "botting" aka people with halfway decent stuff spiked

that had to be easy with the money thingers

Except the chests and booty caused hyperinflation so if you got one, went yay I can afford this wishlist item, and went to buy it, hey everything is listed in the trillions
The old 2.1t cap? Gone. No more cap
I've heard from people who stuck around that getting in on the forums is impossible due to toxicity and there's a new currency called platinum
Eugh
Gaiman's a shitshow

I watched something on Youtube about the fall of Gaia.

Yeaaaaaah
I haven't seen it myself but it prolly good idea of what you missed

It made me glad I wasn't around.

I'm glad I left
There's other sites I'm on now that aren't like that so there I stay
Like here

I can understand that.

You probably also missed the time they had an 18+ site. It was poorly done, had straight up illegal things posted by members with zero repercussions, and was overall terrible
It lasted six months before they shut it all down, and by then, except for those posting illegal things, most had forgotten it existed

I'm not giving examples because I didn't join and what o heard was bad enough, no need to spread it around

oml, how could they think that was a good idea?

I don't think they expected people to become pits of depravity on it, just a mature place to talk about things that could get them in legal trouble for such convos on 13+ sites

Well when you assume your gonna get burned

Badly, in this case
I know a lot of people didn't join cuz the avis were butt-ugly
Take the base of Pantheon's avis, make it about 50% narrower, and then massively up the pixellation. Yick

Oh dear lords.

Yeaaaaaaaaaah
Their classic ones are bad enough, but considering when the site came to be, well, that's to be expected, especially considering the site has a shitton of items they'd have to remake to update them