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On Top Of The World
The introduction of Groups to RT started a whole new chapter of growth for me as a person. Introducing me to fandoms I would never have found otherwise. Early to mid 2009, I was joining every group I got an invite for. Eventually, out of boredom, I started looking through them. One peaked my interest, The Angry Video Game Nerd.
Curious, I looked into it. This was my first exposure to online game reviews.
As with Halo, I was hooked immediately, watching AVGN episodes one after another. This inevitably led to watching the feud videos between the Nerd, and the Nostalgia Critic. This of course led me to Channel Awesome, then known as That Guy With The Glasses, and having more than like, three contributors as the shitty behavior and self-inflicted shenanigans were not yet public knowledge.
In any case, from there I quickly became a fan of Internet shows like Atop the 4th Wall, The Spoony Experiment, and Radio Dead Air (which you can watch every Monday night from 9pm to 2 am EST.), and was learning about movies, games, and other such media I never knew existed.
There WERE ups and downs, of course. My first laptop, Gamma, died in 2009, though by the end of that year, I got my first true gaming PC, which I immediately dubbed Alpha. Not to mention that this is where I convinced my folks to pay for the 20 bucks a year to get me Sponsor status, renewing every year as a birthday present (Yes kids, back in the day, we were called Sponsors, and we only had to pay 20 bucks for a whole year). And this was just in 2009 and the start of 2010.
With 2010 came my graduation from High School, the start of college, and the next discovery this site granted me: Forum RPs. Y'see, one of those groups I got an invite too was a Project Freelancer RP that had us make our own Freelancer, and naturally, I got dibs on New Jersey.
These things, reviews and RP Forums, formed what I think is an integral part of my personality.
I even tried my hand at both of those things right here, writing reviews on emulated games, and trying to make my own RP group based around Green Lantern. Looking back, these were both a little embarrassing, but I still remember the ambition I felt trying to make them work, and if I had the chance, I'd happily make them all over again.
And Red vs Blue... Oh yes, our dear RvB was more popular than ever. You could tell when a new episode dropped for public viewing because the whole damn site slowed to a crawl, if not outright died entirely. Not that that bothered ME much, having a Sponsorship that let me watch a few hours early. And the forums ran wild with theories and speculation, some of which yours truly took part in.
Yes, as the title implied, from 2009 to 2012, I felt like I was on top of the world, and this site was great to me. But sadly, this would not last forever.