I got my newest laptop, Delta, in October of 2018. With it came a realization: I had a laptop that wasn't a decade-old piece of junk! I could regularly go on RT again! And that's exactly what I did! Quickly typing in the site and...

Oh wow. I HAD been gone a long time... The main page was just so... Different.

Gone was the forum-like page showing the latest news. Now it was the latest video, and the currently updating series. When I logged in, I was in for even more of a shock. The UI was WAY different, looking more like witter than what I remember, not to mention that it's kind of crap. Seriously, I choose the image tab, select a different page, and I have to reselect the Images tab to see that second page! That is so clunky and inconvenient! Oh well, at least I won't have to look at that if I just focus on what forums updated in all those years- and none of them updated.

...Okay.

Well I got all these new friend requests to look at. Oh man, It's good to see some new blood here Most everyone else on my friends list haven't been active for years, so maybe I can start new with these... Bots.

All these requests... Are bots.

And all the friends requests I would get for literal MONTHS after my silent return... All. Bots.

(Author's Note: I was informed after writing this that what I thought were bots were actually accounts that had reused passwords and were essentially hijacked using stolen credentials. Said accounts can't be deleted due to being legitimate RT accounts. My mistake, though I will be keeping it in as these were my thoughts at the time. Again, my apologies for my error.)

This is ridiculous! Where are the site mods? Are there even enough of them or are they just super understaffed?

Just... What HAPPENED to this site?

This was the birthplace of my social life, and the core of it for over five years! I had expected better of the guys running it. I expected serious improvements of what few problems I had when I left. I wasn't expecting... Some kind of bootleg Netflix and bootleg Twitter stapled together!

I just... I knew things would be different. I knew things would change... I just didn't they'd change SO MUCH for the worse.

I continued to lurk for those months, catching up on Red vs Blue, and taking a look at Camp Camp (Which, by the way, is a damn good show), And finally gathered the resolve to restore my sponsorshi- Sorry, FIRST Membership, so I could catch the new season of Camp Camp, and that's when I got a new shock...

35 bucks a year?! Jeez that price spiked (Don't even get me started about them raising the price to 60 bucks). I still paid it, but it was a shock to see another thing had changed so much.

After that, I had planned to make a true return by writing a series of journals complaining about the changes, and how things were better back in the day and basically just go full "Old Man Yells At Cloud" on anyone still paying any attention. However, I just kept putting it off, having other things that needed doing more urgently. Until we got the news mere weeks ago. Had I known this would be the site's fate, I wouldn't have complained as much. Though I suppose it's a moot point.

Until next time, some music...