Your Old Shames.

My edit reasons on Generic Doomsday Villain. I said it could never be done well—which is absolutely true in my opinion, but not true in the opinions of a large populace of this wiki. They end up looking disruptive, and I actually reverted some of my edits (though I do worry that the page may still be a little too gushy).

I remember adding natter once and then I ended up on the forums that same day and asked someone (Septimus maybe) if it was okay and when he said it wasn't I went and deleted it, lol.

I was responsible for the debacle on the discussion page for Characters.Frozen back in 2014 when I first joined the site. It was over something so pointless and I was such an asshole I’m not even sure how I wasn’t banned from the site.

All of my posts on this site.

One of my very first edits included an emoticon. God, that was dumb of me.

Of course, every single fanfiction I've ever written.

Luckily, they're at least wiped off the face of the Internet now.

... And my old deviantArt account. God, I haven't logged in on it since I was, like, 14.

Extra cringe for me because I, like everyone on this Earth, have drawn Sonic OCs^note Though some of them, I quite like still - Just like fanfiction, I think OCs get an unfair rep since, to me, a bad character is a bad character. It's not somehow worse just because it's not an "official" character. OC =/= Mary Sue. Then again, the way people use that word these days is less "Annoyingly perfect flat character" and more "Any character I don't like, especially if they're a girl who has the audacity to be even slightly competent at anything."... And wouldn't you know it, the new Sonic comic has a character that has the same name and species as one of my old baaaaaaaaad characters. Damn it!

Which character?

HA! Nice try, pal!

As if I'd reveal that.

Oh god, I remembered another one of my crappy Getting Crap Past the Radar entries. I suggested a character from Wizards of Waverly Place was Ambiguously Bi...because he went to a party and said "Good looking girl! Good looking guy!"

That's dodgy enough for an Ambiguously Bi entry, but again, I was arguing that was Radar material.

Edited by mightymewtron on Oct 30th 2020 at 3:00:39 PM

That time I wrote a Dethroning Moment of Suck entry. I've been making an effort for the past while to avoid those subpages altogether and I've been a lot happier for it.

On the topic of negativity, I went through an anti-modern pop music phase at some point as a teenager. You see, it started because I saw a YouTube comment that accused The Who of ripping off One Direction, even though the former’s song is much older. This caused me to basically become paranoid about “normies” before I even knew the word!

Nowadays, I am aware of the continuous cycle of Nostalgia Filter (“She Loves You” was basically the “Baby” of the 60’s! Don’t believe me? It was parodied on The Flintstones twice! Also, synthesizers used to be hated just like autotune!) and I find it much, much more mentally healthy to enjoy as much music as possible, since I am capable of doing so.

Edited by PurpleEyedGuma on Nov 4th 2022 at 12:37:10 PM

A few foolish things I've done...

• Written fan letters to several favorite comics, some of which were pretentious.
• Argued with a fanfic writer about Gundam Wing pairings. I knew they didn't matter in canon.
• Watched all of the second season of Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, which I thought was dreck even in my early twenties.
• Spent too much on a new Macbook, which only worked for a few years.
• Acted in an antisocial manner during PAX Prime almost a decade ago, even though I was over thirty years old. My attitude soured my vacation.
• Not giving streaming video services a chance, because I was dismayed when local video stores closed.

Back when I was around 3rd and 4th grade, I made the Phone Guy's design basically a rip-off from Rebornica's.^note  Rebornica was a popular artist in the FNAF art community.

It was an Old Shame for several reasons:

• It was a rip-off
• It doesn't even look that good in hindsight
• Rebornica does not want to be associated with the fandom at around 2016 (while my drawings are at 2017ish)
• oh god the cringe burns

I now have a better design for the guy and even gave him some character, but hoo boi do I still remember the old one.

My first comment on this website, and it's on Launcher of a Thousand Ships. By the way, it's not The Kitts anymore, it's Jackson Kitt's Guide to Life, and it's a comic book series now (though it's not out yet).

I recently rediscovered a Fiction Press account I had. There was one story there and it was so bad I deleted it ASAP. (It was a Cookie Cutter Fic of Star Wars with Hamtaro characters and the best lines were cribbed from other movies.)

Thankfully my Fanfiction.net account is much more active and robust (and was also made a year earlier than the other one. Guess I just abandoned FP after posting the one thing. XD)

Edited by lalalei2001 on Jul 25th 2021 at 6:15:04 AM

Let me count...

• I "wrote" a bunch of "fanfictions" where the first chapter is just a roll call of characters followed by a bunch of notes where I gladfully tell everyone that I just took preexisting characters and turned them into ponies or Pokémon or whatever to pass them off as original characters. Then I dropped all of them after that chapter.
• On TV Tropes I passed years into the Discussion pages of Dethroning Moment of Suck to tell various tropers their opinions were wrong, with motivations that often bordered Insane Troll Logic.
• One of my earliest edits was on the Shin-chan page, where I placed an example that probably was more fitting for Woolseyism on As Long as It Sounds Foreign (regarding the Italian dub's renaming of several characters with punny names written to sound like proper Japanese names). It was so badly written that I don't even want to look at that page anymore.
• Some years ago I wrote a Just for Fun page about a non-existant cartoon an user on an Italian forum I follow made up. After a week that user discovered the page and wrote a post where he was furious because he didn't want people overseas to know about his work (because he believes that "Americans love to mock random people on public television for having imagination"), so I asked him to pardon me and I placed the page on the cutlist. It was rejected a bunch of times, so I emptied it so that it would look more like cutlist fodder. Guess how it ended... suspended for 3 months.

I used to be a Pokeshipper.

Honestly, I'm ashamed of how I acted on this site in general prior to 2018. A lot of the time on the forums I was either trying too hard to be funny, or being an annoying asshole who got super mad over dumb cartoon stuff and complained a lot. And that's not even getting into when I tried to talk about political stuff (for real, let's not get into that). Luckily, right at the end of 2017 I realized my faults and have changed a lot since then. I've mellowed out considerably since then. I still cringe when something reminds me of how I used to be though.

In 2013, which was both the year when I started watching The Simpsons and the year after I started watching a lot of shows on Teletoon, I think I was worried about sending subliminal messages to my mom about me being immature in my taste of movies. For this reason, I didn’t tell her, or anyone else in my family, to take me to any mainstream animated films released that year, with the exception of Monsters University due to that being the prequel to one of her favorite movies. Also, my dad took me to see Frozen (2013) the following year, but other than those two movies, I missed the mainstream animated films of 2013 due to this edgelord phase of mine.

Edited by MisterToodleoo on Feb 2nd 2022 at 1:39:08 PM

Pretty much the entire second half of my High School days. I was burned out, depressed, bought into the bullshit of really terrible political pundits, was cringy as hell, wrote a terrible play.

I'm in more or less the same boat. I hated the first two and a half of my high school years, mostly because I remember being casually homophobic during that time.

I stopped being homophobic quite quickly (didn’t realize I wasn’t quite straight until I was 18 though) but I bought into anti-feminist, anti-BLM bullshit by people like No Bullshit (wasn’t quite racist or sexist though I said really awful things though out of ignorance).

Sort of a real life Never Live It Down moment for me, especially with my dad: one of my first regular doctors as a kid had a lazy eye. The first time meeting him I said, "Um... hey. I'm over here." *cringes eternally*

I once pretended to be multiple people on a random horse forum and got into a poorly-acted fight with myself over swearing, while showing off my second grade english skillz and telling people how cultured I was because I listened to the Plants vs. Zombies soundtrack and watched Shikato (a weird anime about big-nosed moose colliding with each other). I was a very lonely kid

Another thing: when I was a kid, there was a website called GoSupermodel. That site had an event where the users divided themselves into "GoGoods" and "GoBads". I joined the first group and went in the forums insulting anyone who joined GoBads, because I hated evil. In the end, the groups had a "battle", where whoever made the most posts in a specific forum won. The GoBads won, and I was so upset about the thriumph of evil that I thried to make a Battle 2, which maybe two people commented on. I did a lot of other embarassing stuff on that site, like trying to talk on forums about things I didn't know anything about, or making a whole forum thread to talk about how funny i thought the Spanish version of Club Penguin's The Party Starts Now was, or writing a really shitty love poem for a contest, or harassing an user who was named after Tac Nayn because I hated Tac Nayn because he was the bad guy.

Edited by Hqami on Feb 2nd 2022 at 5:14:20 PM