The world gets quarantined and then unquarantined

--2020--

"Let's switch to discord, it has voice chats and we can use bots to make among us more fun."

"I don't want to switch to another platform."

I wasn't in mood of using another platform, but since others already moved to it, I had no other option.

3-4 school friends made a server on discord for among us. I had never used discord, but I had heard of it from youtubers.

--2021--

I joined a youtuber's discord server and saw a huge amount of people talking there. I thought that could be fun and started talking there.

"What are these levels? And why did this bot ping me?"

"Levels increase as you chat in the server, you get some xp each time you send a message in a minute."

People with higher levels were being given more respect by the people with lower levels. And the staff was being given the most respect.

"How do I get roles?"

"Keep chatting."

I actually meant staff role here but they probably thought I'm talking about level roles. Then I started being active in that server, I found it fun to talk with random people, I had rarely talked with strangers in past few years.

Soon I started to become famous in that server and made some friends there, found out about game bots such as dank memer.

Before that, I watched some Minecraft videos on youtube and found it interesting. I made a minecraft world with a school friend (in creative mode), where we built a castle and some villages. Though that world was lost.

There was a channel named "network-chat" in the youtuber's discord server. That's where I found shoob. The fastest one gets the card. Even though I hadn't watched many animes at that time, shoob got me interested. 

Then I found karuta in the same server, it seemed easier than shoob and you could cash out nitro much easily in karuta. I played karuta for a few months until I was banned with a rich inv.. And now I was back to shoob.

I even made a few discord bots myself.

I claimed cards in that server, and even started doing some p2w for shoob within that server. Then the server was nuked, everything was gone and I started claiming cards in anime soul. I claimed a good card and sold it for a good price and quitted shoob.

When the server where I used to talk was nuked, the people who talked there made a server and actively talked there. Nobody invited me until I found out about it from someone else, it had been active even before the main server was nuked.

--2022--

Meanwhile the world had started to unlock, but my school was still online. So I never got to attend high school. I was inactive from most of discord during this last year of high school.

During this time, I had no contact with anyone. Spent the whole year like that.

--2023--

I kept china on priority while applying for universities. Got accepted into one.

Reached china, loved this place.

I decided to see what's happening in shoob now, most of the old players had left. I still decided to claim cards in animesoul. 

I still couldn't make any new friends in china. I was still lonely inside. I made my first shoob card.

The next year, I watched Sword Art Online. This series blew my mind. After watching it, I started searching for its games and the tech needed to make it a reality. It was promising that brain activity could be decoded to dialogues soon.

I started making more shoob cards of Shin-chan.

Though, I had still nothing fun to do in real life. And then talking in anime soul just started to make me feel more lonely. It had been so much time since I did something fun in real life. The people who helped me to make high tiers were very nice. Talking with them was better than talking with strangers in anime soul.

I didn't know when was I going to find good people on either internet or in real life. Discord was doing nothing but making me feel more bored. Discord is easy, more convenient, there are unlimited people to connect with, however, unlike natural real life purposeful relationship building and actual peace. It's not like the friendships you made here can be meaningless, but almost all of them were meaningless for me (except for a few nice people, ofcourse), which I why decided to leave this app.