Asexual
#A3E4D7
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🍄🎶✨Brambleheart✨🎶🍄
rdj as doctor doom was not on my bingo card
Pronouns: She/her, they/them
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Post by 🍄🎶✨Brambleheart✨🎶🍄 on Dec 8, 2023 8:57:51 GMT -5
When did you first join the online Warriors fandom? NOTE: THIS IS NOT WHEN YOU READ THE BOOKS AND DOESN'T COUNT SCHOOLYARD RPS, THIS IS FOR THE ONLINE FANDOM (ie forums, rps, blogs, etc).
I first joined the fandom in spring 2014, a few months after starting the books. I was 9 and first learning the cope of the internet. I googled warrior cats for the website and so many things popped up, like the wiki and a link to download the app! A review on the app store advertised a Webstarts rp site called RainClan and, for the first time, I interacted with people on the internet. I started watching some MAPs on YouTube and talked about Warriors on sites like Animal Jam, Webstarts sites, etc.
I was there on the tail end of the "tight-knit" fandom era, where most circles of the fandom were mostly isolated. Sure, there were big creators, but we mostly consumed their content and talked about it in our circles. It wasn't until c.2015 that Warriors content creators got big enough to garner the scope of the fandom today, in my experience.
My first memories of the fandom include Gray Wing vs Clear Sky, BrambleSquirrel with Jessy, Squirrelflight's kits, Rainflower and Palebird discussions, and spoof compilations still being made a lot.
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Post by Slightdapple on Dec 8, 2023 9:43:34 GMT -5
I joined the fandom not long after I started reading the books (Early 2022.)
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Post by {Azure} on Dec 8, 2023 9:49:12 GMT -5
late 2022 or early 2023
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Post by The One and Only Moongaze on Dec 8, 2023 10:47:29 GMT -5
Well, I joined this forum in April of 2020, but I had been reading fan fiction and looking at the old website since 2017.
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Aroace
#ffa100
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𝕱𝖑𝖚𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖋𝖆𝖑𝖑
Villain Enjoyer
Taking a break from the forums because my cat died. Will probably be back mid to late October.
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Post by 𝕱𝖑𝖚𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖋𝖆𝖑𝖑 on Dec 8, 2023 10:57:37 GMT -5
I joined the forums, thus a part of the fandom, in December of 2020 (and then one of my cats died two days later).
Had started reading the books in 2007 and learned there were videos (such as edgy AMVs, spoof content and the SSS Warrior Cats project) in like 2009 but did not join any online RP or discussion groups. Don't remember the exact reason why I never even joined a German fan group back then (was still in the process of just learning English).
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Post by Fireleap on Dec 8, 2023 12:59:25 GMT -5
Late 2013 or early 2014, was pretty soon after I found the books.
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Post by Wolfyy- on Dec 8, 2023 19:40:00 GMT -5
I joined in March 2011, when I was 12, specifically on WCRPG (RIP the BEST warriors RP site ever. Don't even try to argue lol. When it became FeralFront, it was nothing in comparison)
I became really good at writing through that site. It was a nice way for me to exercise my creative side. Not only that, but I love animals, and the Warriors series (obviously). I joined the original wcrpforums around 2012-2013, but I've been on the current forums since 2017.
A moment of silence for WCRPG </3
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Post by TheKeenGlint on Dec 8, 2023 19:48:16 GMT -5
Circa 2010 via a RP on, of all sites, Moshi Monsters. I would've been 10 years old and I joined it despite having no prior knowledge of the books at the time. Needless to say I made a variety of mistakes, for instance an adult medicine cat who had both a "-paw" suffix (thankfully the GM changed it themself) and kits when it was forbidden.
I've learned a lot since then, thankfully, and would like to think I'm a competent Warriors RPer nowadays.
Other than RPs, though, I noticed fanvids on YouTube too. Stuff about Firestar not liking waffles, a whole AMV about major character deaths and, of course, the SSS Warrior Cats project.
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Post by Purdyisbestboi on Dec 8, 2023 20:06:29 GMT -5
A month ago!
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Post by whiteflight on Dec 8, 2023 23:29:46 GMT -5
I think I joined around 2011 or 2012. I didn't really have anyone to talk to about warriors so I decided I search on the internet to see if there were anyone else who talks about it.
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Post by pepperflake on Dec 9, 2023 20:13:28 GMT -5
2012. I had an old forums account back then but I let it go inactive and ended up creating a new account recently after rediscovering warriors.
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Post by dahliadove - #1 nightpelt fan on Dec 10, 2023 6:50:23 GMT -5
what scares me the most is that some of yall liked warrior cats before i was even born. pre-2007 fans y'all are OLDDDDD /j
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Transgender
arkkflip
I LUV SHADOWSIGHT SO SMCUH !!!! YAYSHDIKENF HEZ MY SON !!!!!!! YEYYY !!!!!!!!!!A
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Post by arkkflip on Dec 11, 2023 11:49:28 GMT -5
somewhere around 2015
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Dec 11, 2023 14:08:58 GMT -5
2011 is when I made my first account on the OG forums. I didn’t interact with the fandom outside that.
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