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Quote: DragonCamo

I hate this website and am surprised it still exists. I want to see the site burn. The amount of kids here that were groomed, the amount of ****ty and toxic opinions forced apon growing teens is nausiating. The amount of adults here that were complicit in my grooming, watching a literal child date an adult here is sickening. It’s been 4 years but it feels like yesterday. I’m bitter, angry, sad, and mourn the kid I was before I came onto this hellhole. I have nothing but apathy and anger for this site and what it put me through, the way it effects me to this day, the way that I wasn’t even able to come to this site as a guest without my chest feeling tight and wanting to cry. The disgusting amount of cyberbullying that happened here to underage users, the fact that underage users were even allowed here is insane. I can’t believe the bullying I both endured and caused, it makes me sick. The kids that come here thinking its a fun site about skylanders only to come here and get told to kys or made fun of for the smallest of reasons. The fact that it seems this as STILL NOT BEEN FIXED. I’m just a stronger person now, i’ve grown and learned and countless years of therapy have made me a new person, someone who can move on and not look back.
-Ciao and hopefully i’ll never load up this terrible website ever again

I'm so sorry, DC. I was so young and didn't put two and two together to realize what happened to you until only recently. I feel the utmost guilt about it now. I hope you've found peace in your life outside of here.

yeah i was bullied ruthlessly on this site as a 9-12 yr old - it was honestly kind've insane. then i joined in on some bullying at the same time hoping that would make me cool or detract the attention away from me. horribly nasty time, got stalked to other parts of the internet and bullied on those accounts, too. it was so awful.
thankfully i didn't let it jade me, i think? i mean, my trust is shot af but ykno. the site's pretty dead, now, so ig there's the bright side.

i'm sorry to everyone who had an awful time here. none of you deserved that.

i send apologies to you as well DC i was not really around i think when you were really active but im sorry you went through what you did.

a lot of people unfortunately were very poorly treated used or abused by people on this site. it has been fun but a lot of trauma came from this site for people too. i lasted like 14 years with no real bad experiences here.

i literally became involved with one of the worst influences of my life on this forum. none of the abuse i went through really happened on the forum but if not for this forum i would not have met them. a few years back i went through some serious trauma that only led to the development of even more trauma that creeped up in on me because of that. one of the worst experiences i have ever went through because of that person.

not a PT just a reply to DC.

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With every passing day, I lose more and more faith in humanity, and I just ****ing abhor humans and the fact that I have to live on the same planet and breathe the same oxygen as some people. (NOT ABOUT ANYONE HERE)

Its nice to pop into this old site every now and then just to find not much has changed

the divine creator has punished me

it's real sad to see this place rotting and people trying to keep it alive, it's like a zombie right now. not sure what can help this forum, if anything. hasn't felt like a community in years, just the same couple of people posting and occasionally people returning to post about what an awful time they had here.

cool if this site lead you to meeting long time friends, cool if this site helped you figure out anything about yourselves. sad to see it in this state, but i dunno what could possibly help.

I really cannot stand video game elitism.

i think having to pay to take higher education is absolutely damn ridiculous. like wydm if i want a chance at getting a job i need a higher education that must also be paid for with money that i dont have that i already need to survive. what the Hell do you Mean.

^ I agree!

uugghh this semester's load is going to be SO heavy '_` im already stressed enough as is, dont do this to me...

I'm having one of my bipolar depressive episodes right now, and I can't help but think of how different things could have been for me in the past had I more courage, resilience, and confidence... I could have been able to go to prom and walk for graduation, I could have still had my previous jobs, and I could have possibly had a relationship with Jordan or Alex.

i think my body hates me lol

has ur professor for ur history of african american art class (who is white btw.) ever asked u to write a short fiction story from the perspective of an enslaved black person from a real life photo, but you are white too and this entire thing just seems.... <:/

i swear my life is a damn dramatic comedy. **** just keeps happening 2 me, man.

IDK what I will do without my dog Jagger. I love him so much. <3

I miss having time for flight rising. Maybe someday: , ) it was fun when I had time

Why is it cheaper to buy a tab s6 lite new than used maybe I should be American.

completely forgot that mini pc's exist. theyre so much cheaper and take up less space and that's what i need rn - def getting one this december. ugh.

Hoping my penchant for lighthearted snark didn’t just get me into a pile of **** (irl)

this one class i have currently is such a damn joke. i was hoping for it to be interesting and actually engaging, but it's just... secondhand embarrassment at this point. hoping i can pass it and leave it behind me asap lmao

sometimes this place still pops up in my dreams and it’s usually posting amicably and way more sanely. it’s not nice because i feel the loss when i wake up. doubt anyone recognises this account but yikes. the adults here definitely knew that bullying was happening as it happened and the site should have been gone years ago. there was a whole group protecting the people involved as they did more general bullying. i don’t know how i was never groomed (i even remember talking to levi), but the bullying was bad.

what i can consistently do for myself is not guilt myself for how ****ty some other people are or when i broke down or did really embarrassing things from trauma. after all this time i look back and yeah young me at least realised the truth was that’s really what it was here. people saw me getting worse and laughed and certainly at many points actively tried to egg me and others on. this happened for years on end. legitimately you were losers and anyone still doing that or who thinks it’s fine or funny or enables others doing it is a loser and you should be called out.

i remember one user telling me they looked at (nonspecific) porn with sess but regardless of the content, it just shows how far these friendships went when some of these people were so obviously awful. this site was so weirdly openly sexual sometimes and don’t forget we had a couple of actual children as mods, on this of all sites. of all the childhood sites to have been lost to time or closed or not archived… it should have been this one, even the admin did nothing about certain things, this place was so awful and harmful to a bunch of people and it sucks this was where i tried getting away from real life.

i think it’s ridiculous that anyone is still here consistently. it’s not nice to be knowledgeable on this, to have seen so much of this and it’s not nice this site was such a huge part of my life. i wish solving my problems were as simple as being in therapy and taking my medicine, but i will say since i stopped obsessing over any communities etc in general and wasting my effort with known assholes, my life has gotten better. sucks i had to learn it this way, i used to enjoy talking with new people a lot.

i’m still lonely because of how this site negatively shaped my ability to form friendships followed by multiple manipulators afterwards.

i think people mainly still use this site out of nostalgia. that's the only reason i do. that, and all the nasty people seem to have up and gone, now. maybe karma got to them, who knows.

the thing is, all that's happened here has already happened. i was groomed once as well, severely bullied, and i was all but like, 9-12 years old. i wish there was a way we could bring all the awful people to justice, especially in regards to the admin, who let this all just. happen. for some reason. but i'm not sure how we'd go about that, since there are many complications within that, and a large amount of time has passed since a lot of incidents.

at any rate, getting into therapy helped me a lot. that, and just learning to move on, find greener pastures, do my best. i suffered for quite a while in the aftermath, but i'm a lot better, now. it didn't help that my offline life, during and for a while after i was on this site, wasn't that great for a while there, either.

thankfully, the past 5 years have been relatively kind to me. i hope you can find that peace, as well. i know it's easier to say than to do, and it may come off as ignorant, but as someone who went through a lot of the same things on here as many others did, don't let it jade you. you're going to be fine. some day, somehow.

i hope everyone who was hurt by the others on this site find peace and healing. maybe in staying here you can make new memories. once dark allows users to join again maybe some new people will find their way to the site too, and then lots of new memories could be made.

til then, keep working on yourselves. don't rush healing, it doesn't work that way. you gotta give yourselves time to feel the emotions and come to terms with stuff in the past. in time, who knows, you might be open to trying again even here.

I was originally not going to spoil this text, but I feel embarrassed talking about my significant other on this forum for some reason. Oh, well.

‘Do you think we should kiss?’ Agent suddenly said, breaking the silence in what’s already a slow day in the HQ.

‘Pardon?’ Dot asked, turning to the only other penguin inside of the HQ right now. She had to do a double take because she didn’t not believe what she heard them say.

‘S-Should um, we kiss?’ Agent stammered, now embarrassed both over what they just said and Dot’s reaction to it.

‘We’re still in the middle of work though, Ace.’ Dot then states.

‘I know, but nothing much is going on, everyone else is out right now and um… we haven’t had the chance to do it yet.’ Agent rambled awkwardly.

‘Hm, you do raise a fair point.’ Dot stopped to actually ponder this. They never actually had the chance to have their first kiss as a couple before. And it’s not like they’ve been given anything to do from their higher ups.
‘... Hold on, you’ve checked your spy gadget right? Any news from our co-workers?’

‘Nope nothing, I’ve been doing nothing but check it for the past 30 minutes.’ Agent replied, while checking their device again in the process.

Dot raised an eyebrow, as she too checked her spy gadget. And yup, the most recent message was an hour ago now, with JPG pointing out that everything is fine. It really is a slow day today if even JPG has nothing to say. There’s got to be a non-life threatening and/or non-dangerous way to make the day more interesting… maybe.

‘... Alright, I’m convinced, how about we do it now?’ Dot states, putting her spy gadget into her coat.

‘O-Oh! Right now?!’ Agent jumped, surprised Dot is going with their suggestion.

‘Yeah, might as well spice the day up a little don’t you think.’ Dot smirked lovingly at them.

‘Right! Okay! Sure!’ Agent hopped up excitedly from their seat, shoving their spy gadget back into their tie.
‘Um, it’d be a little weird to kiss out in the open like this though.’

‘Yeah true, and there’s not really any places to hide around the HQ, most of it is very open…’ Dot pondered, tapping a nearby desk.

‘Hmm… This is going to sound stupid but.’ Agent stood up from the chair by the I.S.E.E.U. They walked towards the closet on one side of the HQ and popped out the keypad to said closet, but not typing any numbers on it yet.

‘You want us to kiss inside the Command Room? That’s not exactly a closed off area either.’ Dot tilted her head, confused on what Agent is doing.

‘No no, I’m aware. But I’m thinking… maybe, inside the closet itself?’ Agent fumbled with their flippers as they elaborated.
‘I mean, it’s still a closet at the end of the day, and there’s no cameras in there I think.’

‘I… like that idea. Though wait, we would still be blocking a doorway to the Command Room. Do you have a plan in case one of our co-workers shows up?’ Dot then asked, a little worried.

‘Y-Yeah! We just go back into the Command Room and pretend like nothing happened. If that makes any sense.’ Agent explained.

‘Wow you really thought about a lot of this. I’m glad my lessons in stealth have paid off in this way.’ Dot smiled, blushing quite a bit.

‘Hey don’t mention it! I learn from the best.’ Agent waved their flippers, giving a bashful smile in response. After processing that compliment, they then turn back to the secret door, they take a deep breath beforehand.
‘Alright, here goes nothing.’

Agent typed the password into the keypad, and watched as the drawers stick out, forming a stairway and the Command Room door opens up, revealing the secret room that neither secret agent will be going into. Agent then reaches their flipper out in which Dot grips onto it as they both walk into the closet together.

After jumping inside of the hidden door, the two waited for the entrance and the Command Room door to close on them, giving the both of them the closed off privacy they would need. They crouched a little, pushing some of the hanged clothes out of the way to give themselves more room to move in. They both should have thought more about how they were going to do this but it was no use changing plans now.

‘Wait, how would we get out of here now? The key pad is outside the closet…’ Agent only then realised and then asked. Slowly shuffling across the cramped closet.

I don't want to sound like that I am victim blaming but a lot of these posts from returning users sound more like bitterness about their lives and blaming the site for it while using hindsight as their anecdote. Unless you were actually groomed of course in which case you are totally valid for your feelings.

Were there groomers? Yes. Were there weird relationships? Yes. But there was only really one instance of a minor publicly dating a loser that nobody noticed. Everything else was in DMs or outside of the forums. The individuals blaming dark or the mods really need to realize that there was literally no way for someone to know about these relationships because most of them took place in private or outside the website. This is not a problem unique to DarkSpyro. This still exists today on sites like Discord and TikTok. I don't see a reason to shift blame to mods if there was literally no way to know this stuff was happening. And in the case where they did know said user was quickly deleted from the site upon finding out.

There was simply no way for people to know what was happening unless it showed up on the site itself. Which is why the only valid criticism of users failing others was with that loser creep who liked Kingdom Hearts because he was publicly saying weird stuff to a minor. I also have opinions about blaming the adults on this site. What adults? Most of this site were children, teens, and 20 somethings who were terminally online. Other adults were literally only here for Skylanders news and were not using the site to make personal connections with children. Adults on this site have their own lives with children or work. They are not gonna know about CynderFan3924 having e-sex with skylandergiantsiscool38. This complaint about adults failing the kids on this site seems more like creating a fictional person to shift blame to. Because if you want to blame someone for grooming, blame the losers and weirdos who use their power dynamics to date minors.

The sexual nature of threads from the 2010's were created from terminally online children, teens, and 20 somethings who are sexually frustrated and have very little interaction with people outside the site. This is the prime audience for sexual discourse and jokes. Hell, go on any anime subreddit and most of the threads will be a meme about anime girl 342 being sexy.

Another common complaint I see is people talking about cyberbullying. Kids and teens are naturally bullies. They don't have the mental capacity to know the consequences of bullying. And again most of the people on this site were terminally online and probably got bullied outside of it. It's common for kids to vent out frustrations and harassment to others, especially with the anonymity that comes with online boards. Cyberbullying is not exclusive to DarkSpyro. Could there have been less threads making fun of users? Yes. But bullying is one of the hardest things to moderate. As evident with literally every website like YouTube, X, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, etc. Humans are just natural trash-talkers.

When I was 12-18 I was also really stupid and got worried about stuff like my thread only having 2 replies. But now I have real stuff to worry about like my cybersecurity career and paying rent. I could really care less about Spyronatic23 not agreeing with my opinions on Sonic Generations. I still like going on this site because of nostalgia and I still talk to people that I met through the forums. But every time I see someone whine about this site destroying their lives it seems more like trying to find an enemy to blame, rather than finding a solution to help themselves get better. Block this website if you hate it, log out, get professional therapy, etc. The problems found on DarkSpyro are still happening in today's online world and we can use our experiences to help future children not get groomed by losers.

^This was pretty humbling. The off-site thing is a really important factor. Most grooming occurred off platform and would have been completely unenforceable from a moderation standpoint. The adults part is actually a really good point and I'm going to change my post.

To argue why people are "putting blame" on any mods or even Dark, obviously the mods and Dark weren't going to know what was happening within the more private areas of the site. It's because if something does/did come out, it'd be Dark who would mainly get the heat from it, so I've always been a bit confused as to why there wasn't extra care put into everything, especially on a website with a game geared toward mainly younger individuals, but that's just me.

"20 somethings who were terminally online" are... still adults, by the way.

Semantics, whatever, I'm sure. I suppose it's luck that nothing got too out of control to the point of something like I said actually happening.

Regardless of how "the times" were back then, that doesn't mean it was okay, or should have happened in the first place.

The entire fifth paragraph of that post makes me roll my eyes, but the view I have about that is just within my experience and opinions.

I understand it can get annoying to see people "whine" about how it "destroyed their entire lives" or somesuch, but you have to remember that people come from all walks of life, and some don't have the... "tough skin" like you may have. However, you are correct in the respect of that they need to get help, rather than wallowing in it. But that's ultimately up to them. We can yap all we want about it, but we can't make them do anything.

To be honest, this entire discussion is just going to be all of us talking in circles and repeating ourselves. What's done has been done, and whoever wants to complain will complain, and if we've said our piece, then we'd already said our piece.

Like, there's a difference in trying to explain certain things, and then there's what you just did, which had zero empathy and more talking down to people, in a way.

You can be heavy handed about the truth without being a hardass about it, but that just might be me wanting to be "too nice" or whatever the hell.

Here, I'll put it in a better way:
Old southern proverb (lol) : "You get more with honey than vinegar".

i like these dogs.

that's so in tune with what im saying + i also love that image BECAUSE of what it's about

lovely and beautiful and true.

i always forget about this place for months and then i’m like “oh i haven’t checked darkspyro in a while”. i do miss da good ol days when i was literally a child just having fun on forum. i’ll snoop around a bit and then forget about it for another few months. i haven’t interacted with anybody on here in like a year and before that it was 4 years until somebody pmed me. that’s OK but i do miss having a reason to log on
edit actually after looking at my avatar gallery i understand why nobody talks to me lmfao