Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Hypello Potion

“Beethoven Day” was a reference to You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown which is a musical take on the Peanuts comic strips. Like most everything else I reference, it’s worth checking out.

JC Baggee got the reference correct first, and because of that he earns another point. This moves him up one space, and makes him tied for second place with Semjaza Azazel.

Current High Scores
Shinmaru: 3 Points
JC Baggee, Semjaza Azazel: 2 Points
Ben, Solo Tremaine, Sara,
Nerdsy, Mimmi, Arcadia: 1 Point

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Remembering Sonic Blaster

Internet users are mourning the loss of an icon when Sonic Blaster, beloved user of the myOtaku network, was forcibly removed from it’s most popular user listing Monday evening. Since it’s creation on August 20, 2003, Blaster’s simple myOtaku page had raked in over 45,000 hit, and made a fan out of the many who visited it. Following his disappearance from the most popular member listing, those who had grown to love Sonic Blaster felt confused and upset.

Adam making a comment on Sonic Blaster's myOtaku.

Shinmaru, fellow myOtaku user and author of the post “Why Sonic Blaster's myOtaku Owns the Total and Complete Hell Out of Everyone's myOtaku’s” was playing a game of Literati when he learned of what had happened. “It's a travesty. I had an entire post extolling the virtues of that innocent young man, and he was taken out of power!” Said Shinmaru, “It's an injustice.”

While the exact reasons why Sonic Blaster’s visitor count was reduced so greatly remain a mystery, there are those suggest that there was blackmail or foul play involved in the holding of his position. This, along with the poor quality of his site caused several people to resent him. While it’s not uncommon for inactive and poorly-produced myOtakus sites to receive frequent visitors, it is often due to that member’s artwork being featured on theOtaku.com’s fan art site. Sonic Blaster was the exception, and miraculously rose to the top of the rankings without any sort of contribution to the community.

“Well, there was obviously a lot of bitterness regarding the fact that he came (apparently) from nowhere, knew no one, offered nothing, yet held, for a long time, a very prominent place in the rankings.” Said Sara, close rival to Sonic Blaster in the Top 10 myOtaku users listing.

Jealousy and suspicion grew rampant as Blaster’s site received tens of thousands of hits; easily ten times the amount of visitors that most myOtaku sites receive. Alan, technical wizard and known on myOtaku as CRandomHero made a startling discovery, and believed that Sonic Blaster was receiving his massive hits through unsavory means.

The current site, which is obviously in need of an update

“Alan then informed me that he might be using a type of software to artificially boost his visit count,” Said James, Site Director for OtakuBoards.com, “I then showed that to Adam and mentioned that some members might be using it, based on what I'd seen. Perhaps Adam discovered something.”

Immediately following this, Sonic Blaster’s visitor count was mysteriously lowered, knocking him from #1 to well below the Top 500 users. Lesser known myOtaku users such as Chibinarusegawa and iamd14u2nv now rank far above the person who once dominated the site’s popularity.

Adam was unavailable for comment, so the real reasons as to why Sonic Blaster was reduced to greatly remain a mystery. Because of the lack of concrete evidence, he is now a legendary figure. His mysterious descent is just as fascinating as his ride to power. Sonic Blaster is now synonymous with cheating and foul play; making this once-humble Trigun fan a villain in the eyes of his former online friends.

Still, some people such as Shinmaru forever hold a place for Sonic Blaster in their hearts, “Yes. Nobody seemed to give Sonic Blaster a chance. [But] once you get past the blatant cheating he used to become #1, he's really an okay guy.”
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