Happy LJ Anniversary!

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[ragnarok_08]

Wow - time sure does fly!!

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It does!

[sabotabby]

I tried to click the card link but it gave me something with monstrously large text. Ah, I'm barely here.

Happy LJversary!

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Happy LJversary :) 🥂

[sictransits]

I joined LJ in 2004, due to fandom. I was obsessed with General Hospital. Before LJ I was on message boards, I think I learned about LJ from people on the message boards. I loved collecting icons, reading fanfic, making new friends. I changed journals because I was young and didn't have the funds for a name change, my original username was iloveric224, lol. Although LJ has died down a bit, I still love it here. I like having somewhere to write about my life so I can look back on it all, and I enjoy reading about other's lives too.

[frelling_tralk]

I used to love collecting icons as well! It’s a shame how much that has died down since, I guess most people in the graphics community moved on to making gifs instead? Not to be a snob lol, but the icons provided on tumblr always seem so basic to me, they’re basically just simple screencaps shrunk down a bit, whereas ~back in the day~ there were absolutely gorgeous icons being produced. There are still some amazing icon makers around of course, but nothing compared to how big that community used to be

And same with loving LJ for fan fic too, but I suppose that at least in that case we have a decent alternative set up with Archive Of Our Own

[sictransits]

I agree! There are still some great ones, but there used to be icon communities and makers everywhere on LJ! Seems a lot of those people either stopped making icons or left LJ entirely. =/

[frelling_tralk]

I guess because you can only have one user pic on tumblr and on message boards, so the popularity of it died down a bit after people moved away from LJ? Icons really are perfect for this site when you can have such a huge selection for expressing yourself with, whereas you’re more limited on other platforms

[burning_moon117]

I started LJ in April 2004, though I cant remember what got me on here. If it was fandom or a friend or something else.

[frelling_tralk]

It all seems so long ago now :)

[snogged]

I joined in 2003 as well. :)

[frelling_tralk]

It’s good to know that some of us are still around from all that time :)