Happy Anniversary to me by GaNLey

That's right this is the day I joined #Hatena. I really do miss that place. I fell in love with it the moment I joined. At that time I was a pretty poor artist. But that didn't stop me from animating. I made flipnotes almost every day for a little more than a month. That's when Nintendo announced it's shut down. I was devastated, I actually got teary-eyed the first night I heard it was going to be cancelled.
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03 Feb, 2014, 2:26 am
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GaNLey

03 Feb, 2014, 2:40 am

I tried to make more flipnotes, but no motivation came to me. And on top of that my DSi stopped working for a couple of weeks. Somewhere around the begining of May my DSi started to work again. My style and my animation skills were greatly improved. About a week before May thirty-first, I posted a flip that said I will no longer be posting flips, I just couldn't make anymore, I was too depressed.

When Hatena finally shut down, I sat in my bedroom staring at my wall depressed and filled with grief. Day after day I felt as if something was missing. I just couldn't let go of the past, in fact even now I can't let go.
That's why I am now deciding to finally let go, to give up the past and look forward to the future. I will miss you Hatena, but I can no longer mourn for you I must no move on.

-GaNLey

ColorfulSnoopy

03 Feb, 2014, 4:05 am

That was deep but I completely empathize with that.

High Voltage

03 Feb, 2014, 4:23 am

I know what you're feelin', bro.
I miss it too.

CaptainDiscord

03 Feb, 2014, 3:37 pm

Beleive it or not... IT'S BACK!

GaNLey

03 Feb, 2014, 4:48 pm

Thanks for the comments everybody.

Witzke

03 Feb, 2014, 6:19 pm

Yeah, same here : / thats probablly the reason I'm not joining the new one (Also since I cant get the thing to work), I'm gonna stick out for FS3D, becuase hatena isn't back, its hac.ktena. Also it probably isn't legal to be doing that.

Witzke

03 Feb, 2014, 6:19 pm

Happy anniversary bro!

MAMEinator

03 Feb, 2014, 9:00 pm

there is a new server you can enter with a proxy. it is very easy. google for 'sudofox flipnote' and you will find more info.

Bowpmsas

03 Feb, 2014, 10:13 pm

Wow! Happy Aniversary! 8 J

GaNLey

04 Feb, 2014, 12:01 am

Thanks again everybody. 8)

PenguinzRULE

04 Feb, 2014, 2:59 am

Happy Anniversary GaNLey!
I completely understand how you feel...
I was on since the beginning of two thousand eleven
...
The experience and friends I got from that will likely never happen again.
I lost contact with some people after it ended D:
but I also stayed with great friends.
like you.
I'm so glad I got to be a part of the original flipnote hatena.
I won't be joining this 'new' hatena thing. It's not. actually. hatena.
bleh. I hate pirated things like this.
and now, to cheer up the mood:
When I first saw your flipnotes... I thought you were ranked number thirteen XD
turns out you had already gotten 13 fans in your first two weeks.
good job
:D
-Char

fluffscarf

04 Feb, 2014, 2:59 am

Happy Aniversary GaNLey! :)

PenguinzRULE

04 Feb, 2014, 3:09 am

Why hello there Fluffy!
You are one of those friends I'm glad I met :D

Now onto what I was going to say:
This new flipnote thing... isn't it a copyright infringement? This guy is probably puttingnit out for free... BUT he's putting it under the company name of Hatena. That may be copyright. either way I don't expect this to last long. nor do I really feel like joining it.
If I do animate on flipnote hatena, it WON'T be on some fake and unreliable 3rd party application.
just saying.
:T
-Char
meh.

CaptainDiscord

05 Feb, 2014, 4:32 am

This guy named Sudomemo got premission from both companies, and you can go back on. There is a bug, so you cannot post flipnotes yet.

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