Since today is a special day, let me tell you all about how I started Newgrounds and online music creation itself. I am willing to talk in the comments too.
The year is 2016. I'm a little kid playing on a computer and I discover Beepbox. I mess around on in and make a few beats, seldom saving anything. When I did save something, it was either deleted or wrote down on a small paper that I wasn't very careful with, hence the loss.
Fast forward to 2022. I discover Undertale and it is the most amazing thing I have discovered at the time. Of course I wanted to make music based off of it, so I did. I somehow memorized one single tinyurl throughout the years, and so here it is. I still play Undertale every year heavily during September since that's the month of its anniversary. Can't wait for the tenth one this year!
Then comes 2023. I had started going to church on purpose but it was just to make friends since I live in a smaller town. I made a friend there who was actually pretty cool at the time and I started going to his house. We did stupid shit like vape in his garage but I quit that a long time ago, when I quit seeing him. Anyway, I would come over and I got to use his computer for music, and we started making cool stuff (which were all lost as well, damn!). I had to stop coming because it turns out his parents were quite promiscuous and my mother rightfully didn't feel comfortable letting me go there anymore, and I was pretty chill with it; I still got to text him. I had to quit being friends with him entirely though because during my first mental breakdown, he didn't read my goodbye message or seem to give a crap after. So, if you're still out there, then fuck you!
Time goes forward and it's 2024. I drift away from the church and I'm mostly isolated. I found out I was trans during this time, which just made all the bullshit worse. Anyway, some time during 2024 I remember Geometry Dash existed (I played GD Lite ~twice in 2016), so I decided to give it a go for nostalgia's sake. I play it for a few months because it's fun as hell, then I switched to the full version of the game December 18th, 2024. When messing around with my newly-acquired level editor, I immediately find the part where you put a song for the level to have, which led me to discover Newgrounds. I distinctly remember it being created on January 15th, making a news post labelled "yi", a typo of "yo" and my first song being uploaded May 30th. I remember beepbox existed around this time, so I thought "damn, If I just make music, I can immediately put it as a number in the game and turn my music into levels!!". When I uploaded my first song, I was disappointed that putting it in the level didn't work and that I had to contact an elder moderator or RobTop himself. I shrugged it off though and continued to make beats under the name AvidCobbleYT. If anyone here knows that old Newgrounds username, that was me! I continue to make music for a long time, and I eventually make a discord account and went to look up if there was a Beepbox discord server, and was delighted to find one. I join it some time during November. I meet all kinds of awesome people there, some I still talk to or know to this day. When I joined, I found out about slarmoos box, which is still the main way I make music. When I joined that server, I learned to make better music, got scouted, and start even making dubstep! Fast forward a few months, I started gaining fans (had a peak of 12), and had nearly 100 songs. Then, disaster struck: I had another mental breakdown. Since I didn't really have any way to help it along at the time, I deleted everything: my NG, my GD and all of its levels, my discord, all of it. After getting over myself eventually, I deeply regretted getting rid of that account and still do to this day. God it was such an easier time in 2024 than it was this year. Anyway, I created a new NG account months later, got to about 35 songs, and go through the motions again. I don't even remember the name of it, but it wasn't really great.
2025 rolls around. I start deeply regretting getting rid of my Discord, NG and GD twice, so I made a vow to myself that states as follows: "no matter how bad I feel or what I go through, people should still have traces of me to see!'. On March 25th of this year, I made my third and final account. I now upload music fairly often and still play a little Geometry Dash and have one level remaining at this time, Hexsie Funk, with the ID 115486349. I still talk on discord and have a server on there (obviously, my link is listed lol).
In conclusion, life has a lot of ups and downs, this is just my story of what went down. Goodnight, folks.