i still can't believe y2kvr was concieved five years ago.
it all feels like it was just yesterday. i had never gotten much attention at all on this blog, or anywhere on the internet, really, but with hlvrai i was enjoying some real success! people were reblogging my posts! it felt good. and then i went "hey, what if hlvrai had an old internet au"? and for some reason that i still couldn't explain to you- especially since i had NEVER done anything like it before- i decided to make an ask blog
i thought it would get like maybe 5, 10 questions.
i was very wrong.
i guess that's why the hlvrai series has also been a really personal thing to me, because it changed my life a lot like hlvrai's popularity boom for rtvs did. i had eyes on me for the first-ever time in my life, and it was amazing and wonderful and terrifying all at the same time and nothing will ever be like that again. even today, most people i ask about me will know me from y2kvr. i think it was my peak of getting something out there- my legacy- and honestly, i'm alright with that. i'm still proud of what i wrote and drew, even if it was so, so many years ago
i like to be positive about my own stuff, but the truth about y2kvr is that i'm not a genius writer. i struggle with it a lot. i feel like my dialogue and prose is strange and hard to get into. i feel like my explanations can get convoluted. my art really isn't perfect. it's not broadly appealing or particularly jaw-dropping. a lot of people find it ugly. y2kvr really wasn't something that was inevitably going to take off. i'm just a normal person who happens to like to draw and write. i just got lucky, that's all.
but i think what i would like for people to take away from y2kvr, even all these years later, is that i think i was still able to make something special that people liked despite that. that i found an audience even with my own fixer-upper art and writing.
everyone's got a story to tell. don't be afraid to tell yours. it'll do the world some good.
happy fifth birthday, y2kvr.
thank you to everyone who gave it a chance to be exist.
