aight here’s the tl;dr

back in the 90s there was a commercial for a site called mamamedia.com
(only recently went offline maybe 2 years ago and they never changed anything about it lmao)

it was 90s af, so i took my little snot nosed kid ass to the family dial up computer and checked it out

they had a game called Flipstix which was where they gave you 5 frames to pose a stickfigure then click play – and it would tween the movement

so not much, but i really liked it for some reason

between then and 2005, I found Game Maker and used it to make stupid little games (really got into gamedev here)

fast forward to 2005, i searched for “stickfigure animator” to find similar games like Flipstix

found Pivot
soon after, found the (now defunct) darkdemon.org forums, which was basically a Pivot forum
(really got into animation here)

I lived there for a few years, this was my high school years now
i never really animated a *lot* but I did stuff
became a mod there, was then banned by Adam eventually because I sarcastically insulted him or some shit idfk dude was butthurt so that was when I left that community

my time there was spent messing with Pivot, Flash, and getting into website design

I did freelance WordPress theme design for a bit, also messed with trying to make small niche article-based websites and flip them for a profit
(really got into webdev/design here)

then went back to Flash to make games
I made web-based Flash games through the rest of high school into college and would get them sponsored by ArmorGames or w/e, sites like that, for a few $100s to $2000 or so

at this point I was decently experienced with animation, gamedev, and website/Wordpress stuff, so with those powers combined I said “let me make a Pivot, but with blackjack and hookers (aka tweening)”

so I did

plan was to put it on my resume and then go get a “real” job
but SN started gaining traction, and I just had a real passion for it because, like, animation

so I kept working on it, so since 2014 onward
now im here

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