Rant

This probably makes no sense to you but I need an outlet to release stress.


That little nooby advertisement on the corner of most webpages that reads "IMVU"

Well now you know what I spend most of my internet life on. Not facebook, not fanfiction, not random highly addcitive mmorpgs (maybe I do?)

For me, imvu has gone far beyond that lame 3D chat messenger with way too many desperate people too keen on online dating.
This website has given me one of the strongest senses of community after friends, family and school. The ability to create various forms of digital and 3D artwork for the community, with the community. For the 2 and half years I have seen and been part of what they call avatar picture editting and developing 3D flourish into something..rather remarkable, an art form in itself. It is absolutely the most amazing thing about this website- that fact that 99.9% of it is made by the community itself, with distinct style.

As well as wasting way too much time that should be using for exam study right now.

But it's all coming to an end. The bad boys of big business are coming. Eventually all the content creators will be replaced by the management's own. By then I'll be gone. By then it will be just another crap website controlled by money making individuals- who used to have a great concept-only to let it go in greedy pursuit of profit.

The saddest thing is that many influential developers have protested and left, hiding all their products. Brave, but useless. The management won't mind of course, they'll have replacements.

On the bright side, at least I'll be concentrating on err...healthier things.
Or I'll find an even more addictive obsession that's completely and utterly bizarre.