User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/10 Years of One Piece Wiki/@comment-34981281-20160214025842

Why, I tell ya what, ya young whippersnappers. I was here the very DAY the added the chat to the Wiki. And though I had lurked here and there, undid some vandalizations, it was the day of the chat that I became a Wikiman at heart. Panda was there... Jopie was there... Other people who would eventually leave were there... And I mainly just talked about cookies. I was fourteen, so 'random' was in.

One day, when someone made me laugh in the chat, I told them they earned 10 Ryu Points. Someone else mistook this as an actual game, and started competing for their own Ryu Points. So it became a game. Anyone who made me laugh got Ryu Points, and certain 'achievements' would earn them badges like the 'Racist Panda Badge', rewarded to those who say something shockingly racist. The high score belongs to Glacion, RIP.

It was during the Ryu Point Game days that DancePowderer and I got into an infamous scabble, known as "the George Black Incident". To bastardize a lengthy debate, I was arguing that the George Black was a stupid article and ought to be deleted (a dream that would come true years later). "How can we consider George Black a character? It could be a woman for all we know!" I would plea. "How many women do you know named George?" DP answered. "Wouldn't George be her family name, though?" "Tell it to Edward Newgate!"

As we now know, Edward was actually Whitebeard's family name, meaning I should have logically won the argument. But as days would pass, the Ryu Point Game got less fun, and the next big thing had to emerge; the comic. A digital comic (in the loosest terms) featuring One Piece Wiki Users as characters. And for some reason, you guys ate it up. For the next two years of my life, I couldn't come on the chat without "When's the new chapter, Ryu?!" "Can I be in your comic, Ryu?!" "Draw me with better pants, Ryu!!"

The comic died. And for good reason. A comic based on users from 2011 isn't as funny in 2014. So many of the characters had left, the jokes stopped being relevant. And at the time, LPK was the only chat moderator. That would change.

I got some support from my fellow chatters. I left a message on my rival DP's talk page. I asked to be America's Next Top Chat Mod. And it came true. LPK, Rici, and I became the 3 Admirals of the chat. Eventually, that would become the 7 Shichibukai. Both LPK and Rici retired, which actually makes me the earliest and longest-lasting chat mod we have. I mean, you people keep asking me to step down, but suck a dick. I do my job.

Don't really suck a dick, though. I mean, unless you want to. I actually love you guys a lot. It's hard to be in the same community for six years without loving them a little bit. I was fourteen when I came here and now I'm nearly twenty. I literally grew up with you guys. Drawing comics, making hats, getting pissed off over stupid things. One year I ate Thanksgiving Dinner with you guys in Tinychat. That's goddamn family, yo.

I'm doing a lot around the internet these days. But I still go by 'Ryu-Chan', a nickname given to me by Jopie five years ago. No matter where we all go or who we all become, the One Piece Wiki will always be my home on the internet.