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Birthday
• 1990-04-12
Gender
• Male
Location
• Philippines
Member Since
• 2003-10-18

Personal

Achievements
• High School Valedictorian
Anime Fan Since
• the mid-to-late '90s
Favorite Anime
• Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai X), Detective Conan (Case Closed), Knock Out! (Hajime No Ippo), Great Teacher Onizuka, and many more!
Goals
• To be a high school teacher, journalist, detective, nurse, TV producer, TV writer, manga artist, late-night talk show host, or a WWE Superstar
Hobbies
• Surfing the Net, watching TV (especially anime)

myOtaku.com: The Mask

Friday, August 4, 2006

I'VE BEEN WAITING ALL WEEK TO SAY THIS (ABOUT THE RETIREMENT OF THE ARTICLE SECTION)
I may be late to comment in the latest issue to hit theOtaku, but I think I really need to say something about it. I know it's not as intelligible as other comments, but I just want to speak out.

Just months ago, I was partially involved in the whole promotion issue where many theO artists got promoted to higher ranks while a hundred theO writers (who also contribute a lot to the site) were left as it is. I decided to do a somewhat violent reaction (well, maybe not that violent) to Adam himself after learning that some of the legends of the Article world (one, a popular veteran member and the other, the most active article writer who's also a fellow SOAPer) were affected by this little conflict. Together with a lot of other comments from other peeps, the writers eventually got their promotions (kinda like a people power...no...comment power!). I thought that I would never have to face this kind of politics ever again. I wanted to move on as a myOtaku member, a theOtaku article writer, and a future SOAPer. But as my Political Science said, "We can never run away from politics, because it is a way of life."

Last Sunday while I was surfing the Net, I learned that theOtaku.com will be taking off the Articles section. When I learned about this, I was a bit upset. During the pre-article era, I really envied Number 5 (who's also my classmate) because she can be successful in the world of fanart, while I only got 40% for my fairly decent drawing of Detective Conan. I envied Blue Hawk (my classmate who helped gave birth to myOtaku's The Mask) because she has Photoshop to make her greetings, while I'm stuck to Paint. When the articles section was born two years ago, I felt this was my place to shine. I did well in my first article, and then became successful in humor articles. To learn that the whole articles section would be retiring made me sad because it was my place to make a mark in theOtaku.com and in the online anime world.

No offense to artists, but somehow I didn't like the way visual art is being promoted in theOtaku. Sure, some of these works are actually good, especially Number 5's doodles and the original Naruto fan manga. But to have theOtaku.com focus on artists is really...well, it just doesn't feel right to me. I mean, this is theOtaku.com, right? Otakus in this part of the Web refers to anime fans, right? If you're focusing only on the artistically inclined anime fans, then it doesn't really live to the spirit of being the otaku. The site, I believe, should focus on both the artists and the writers, because together they comprise "the Otakus". Unless, of course, if the Otaku in theOtaku.com is referring to those who are fans of viewing and making visual anime art.

But then, I'm also trying to consider Adam's point. If you're the owner of a site that needs a lot of money for maintenance, you wouldn't want to use up your resources on a section that gets less than 1% of the topic, would you? You would want to save resources. Besides, he is going to give writers a new place in myOtaku.com to express the passion for anime.

But, like SomeGuy pointed out in a comment in Adam's site, I want this passion to be part of theOtaku.com, not myOtaku.com. Our ideas for our articles are just as good as the fanarts. Also, we need to see "the toys" for the writers.

Now, I'm having some questions in my head. When Adam was changing the gaming site to an anime site, was the gaming site still named theOtaku.com? Why follow the likes of deviantART? Will we, the writers, be demoted after our promotion two months ago? And, by giving a lot of exposure to artists, is the site still worthy to be called theOtaku.com?

This issue has come to the point where I'm starting to reconsider about my full retirement in myOtaku.com. I need to focus on college, I'm starting to lose my otaku side, and now the articles section is gonna be gone. Everything is starting to be a bit confusing for me. Joining Philfoula and MAJR in the myOtaku alumni is now popping up in my head. Will I be leaving the site that I have been a part of for nearly 3 years remains to be seen.

I realized that myOtaku.com was celebrating its 3rd anniversary days ago. But with this issue popping out in the same manner that a failed coup attempt in the Philippines popped out in the 20th anniversary of the successful 1986 People Power Revolution led me in a not-so-good mood to celebrate. Maybe I'm just overreactiing to the whole thing.

I guess I may have either confused you, bored you, angered you, irritated you due to my not-so-critical thinking, enlightened you, made you happy, or made you mind go blank. So I'll just end this post with, sadly, no TODAY'S SPECIAL. Hopefully, my next post won't be as serious and as damn long as this one.

That's all I can say. Gotta get some sleep. HAVE A NICE DAY!
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