>>2084560Then come my senior year of high school, I found this very site. As I looked around the various boards, I came across this one. To see this very imageboard, which had everything I loved and seeing people sharing pics and engaging in discussing them and other topics... it was a dream come true. However, as I may have stated before, it wouldn't be until 2006 that I became fully involved with /e/ when I posted my first thread. It was a Morrigan thread (with this pic being among the first ones I'vs posted ever on 4chan) and it actually took off quite well. I got praise and sauce requests, which I happy to receive. From then on, like some anons who've ever been on/e/, contributing here had become a favorite hobby of mine.; it was essentially wish-fulfillment.
Then a couple of years later, I decided to start of series of threads UT similar to this one. Most anons here remember them as Random Ecchi Image (or R.E.I.) threads. It started off good, but due to real life issues, I couldn't maintain them regularly, so I let them die. That and old threads were still being deleted automatically back then. But with the years of putting my lurking experience to good use and refining my standards of what high quality pics I liked, I contributed what I could, which made me happy.
But as time moved on, I started to gain new priorities and commitments that just can't be ignored and came to realize that as much as love all things ecchi, it just couldn't be a huge part of my life anymore. And as you can probably tell by the inconsistent posting times, I started to grow out of it. But that's when the idea hit me; before I go, why not repay the board I loved so much with one of my biggest contributions ever? And rest is history.
Seriously, I never imagined these threads would go on as long as they did, but I'm satisfied all the same. Again, this very imageboard was a dream come true for me, and I sincerely thank you all the more for your support.
