User:Angel Emfrbl/English Fans Suck!

Okay this is an article about my days as a Beyblade fan.

It somewhat explains a few things about me... During my days as a Beyblade fan, I had seen almost every sin a "fan" could do. It was horrorific and nasty, there wasn't any reguard for feelings. Some of them may seem so minor, but they kept me awake at night.

So I hated the idea of Beyblade, some random anime I saw an ad for on TV. Didn't get impressed enough to watch it... Until I had 4 weeks of on and off illness at college. I would come in, be alright for one day and feel sick again and have to stay home. Inccidently... I got over that - on the last day of term. But this isn't important, you only need to know I was sick at the time I watched Beyblade for the first time.

Then on screen comes one of the main cast, Kai. And from him everythign else came along. I came to know the characters and got hook. Went on line, found websites, joined a forum on some random forum place I can't even remember the name of. This was back in what... 2002/3. Can't remember. That forum had a website attached to it, I followed the owner along with others as the forum merged with another. Everything for fine for many months. I join the "Fierce Dranzer" crew (Fierce Dranzer was the name of the site") and became a website editor there.

By now we were part of a large building website server, that gave people a site for free. The website was running fine, the forum was strong and everyone got along fine. Then problems began...

...First of all, the owner of Fierce Dranzer had merged his forum with another and made a bigger forum. Unfortunately, he was a bit of a jerk (light way of putting things) and kept demanding more and more from his alliance of merged forums. He left leaving me and three other girls to look after his site, with the odd accusional appearance of him.

Okay... Apparently I have some of the following details wrong, but from memory here is what happened. At the time, I had only one side of the story (formerly known as Dranz told me his side of the story, but I can't remember it anymore);

Apparently what had happened was he met one of the other Fiercers (our name for each other on the forum) and they had found out... Dranz (the guy) was not so nice. He owned the most well known of all websites on the web for Beyblade and the guy asked for a autograph, which Dranz refuses (could you blame him) but instead of a simple "no" gave a mouthful to the other guy. Now his friend who also worked with us on the site also was causing trouble between him and his girlfriend apparently... The guy fell out with everyone.

Reguardless of the true story...

Over night we had everyone on the forum upset with Dranz who turned very nasty on everyone and disappeared completely, heading out into the main Anime scene rather then the one anime. Our co-leader on the forums refused him power anyway and so things went sour.

Now alongside this was another scandal with a user called Naz. Naz and her Boyfriend caused trouble on the forum. Naz came onto me at one point on MSN and claimed her Boyfriend had died of a series of conversations. Suddenly another day I asked her about her BF (it came up in a convo) and she was unaware of what I was talking about... After being so dam nice to her and conforting her... Apparently Naz had pretended it all and had obivously forgotten everything that she had told me.

Another thing, I don't promise many things to people because I either forget them or don't have time to fulfil them. In the real world, once I promise things I never tell them, heck I forget them anyway so never mind! Lol. But when someone on-line comes onto you and admits they've hacked a friends computer, what do you do... You promise him you won't tell before he tells you this... Then he tells you and you can't be slient. I told her, she needed to know her computer was hacked and of cause she was mad.

Yet another problem. Now I hate Role playing with passion now because of this because this was my fault. I ruined a Role Play we were running... Got upset about it, tried to make it up to people late rbut thats another story. I did read the whoel topic, but due to my poor memory forgot details and screwed it up. It really upset me and I couldn't sleep because people were annoyed with me. Seems so silly now, but I was dealing with issues in Real Life at the time.

Okay what next... Yeah my friend from the website wrote a comic webcomic that was funny, unfortunately she hosted on the website in a private folder. Dranz saw it and because he had already left was angry we were still poking at him. It was a bit of harmless fun, the comic was about finding out his real name, he pulled the plug on the site and it went. She got upset for killing the largest fansite on the web reguarding Beyblade.

Now alongside this problem and about this time another website had been set up called... I can't remember it now... But it was run by a JAPANESE business man who had something to do with video game graphics. Beholder he called himself. Now the biggest thing that came out of this was the dreadful "Fanart Stealing" moment. Basically, someone brought a fancomic from a POPULAUR fanartist to do with Beyblade and, horror, put it on the web! There was murder being screamed from the Japanese Beyblade fans, who blacklisted a LOT of English sites guilty of such things. A lot of fansites got effected.

Now ONE site refused to give into Beholder's demands to remove ALL fanart from Beyblade netdom, unless premission from the owner had been asked. Naturally no one would ask a Japanese fan for premission to use an image. The main guilty peeps were fanart stealers (claiming they did the artwork), avatar users and Signature users. They just found any pretty picture and used it for any of those three purposes. This site was full of people that hated this idea of NOT stealing fanart. Beholder banned anyone who support they forum or the stealing of fanart in general. (From that day forward I have hated fanart stealers formerly and foremost).

At that moment a lot of us were getting into his site, another scandal on our forum happened. One of the admins of the server we were using had an argument with us, or me prescise, our egos clashed... He basically wanted to run the show or something, I can't remember, but I had a good reason for having a go at him and the forumers backed me up on it. Unfortunately... He pulled the plug on our site and the forum and everything (including what was left of Fierce Dranzer) was gone within a few hours.

Later the guy was fired... But that was another issue and the only bit of news I loved from that. He tried to return later but some of us weren't exactly nice to him. He did insult me a lot... So I was one of them. He came back expecting everyone to be nice after axing the website and causing a argument. I was deeply insulted, he seemed to forget that. I'm a forgiving person normally, but I was really hurt by him. Frogiving him wasn't so easy.

So the forum wondered around a little and eventually Beholder (bless him) paid for us to have a foruma and website. Beholder made us a deal, since this happened at the same time. We would create new main Beyblade website, to organise the Beyblade English fandom, we agrred and the website "TNK Flame" or whatever it was called was born.

Another scandal... Beholder uploaded some episodes for us to watch. Unfortunately, thanks to someone readding the episodes to be downloading on a certain downloading program (Karralite or whatever it is), Beholder got found out. Beholder was fined and mad. So only eight of us were allowed access to a section of the forum on the condition we never spoke of it. We got special access to episodes of RAW Japanese episodes (did me no good, I couldn't download them at the time).

Another problem... Either before or after this was the hacker who erased everything and replaced it with "squirrel nuts". Inccidently, the forum was hosted on Beholders BUSINESS computer. The hacker disreguarded international law without knowing it, Beholder was delighted as Japanese law could grab him. Don't know the end of it, but at one point the guy was begging for nothing to come of it, but Beholder reminded him of the rules of hacking.

Then we had another trouble maker... Who when we told him off and demanded he stop or leave, he accused us of being racist to blacks... When we didn't even know where he lived, let alone he was black. Apparently telling him off for breaking rules is racism. Man he was wierd. ^_-

Then...

Finally Beyblade the anime ended after 3 seasons. That was that. Our forum died. It had a little life left in it while the manga was going but that also ended. Things fell apart. Earlier this year (2007) in April time the site was shut down when the leasing ran out. By then it was full of porn bots. I'm happy its gone now.

I've seen derespect on all levels, the worst towards the Japanese man who was kind to many. I've seen fans stupidly think he would support the English fandom when he is Japanese and knows and agrees with the Japanese fans. I've seen a thousand things about Mary-Sue's and have grown to hate them with passion of a raging sun. I've seen hackers, scandals, hurt feelings and everything you can dream of...

... And all to do with a anime about plastic spinning tops.

Pathetic... isn't it? -_- One-Winged Hawk 20:15, 18 September 2007 (UTC)