My first Sankaku Complex experience
More secifically, t'was the 30th of April, 2009 when I was surfing for more info on the playable FFXIII demo (on G**gle, I think) when I stumbled upon this rabbit hole link that led me to a peculiar wonderland known as "Sankaku Complex".
Found the article content and reporting style to be like no other, thus gained interest in lurking the site which offered insights into the word of anime, manga and games (and more), observed from Japan (and beyond). It was then I discovered the phenomenon known as "otaku-ism".
A torrent of knowledge of 2ch, 4chan, memes, from politics to religion, relationships to censorships, art styles to fetishes and the likes soon followed as if my mind was sucked into a vortex where the very fabric of time/space continuum is distorted beyond imagination and I was stretched to the thickness of a minute thread of this very fabric that spanned from one infinium to the other before being warped back into my own glaring light of conciousness... and reborn into man1. *Queue angelic chorale*. T'was the 23rd of June, 2009.
From then on, I knew my life was never gonna be the same again and there was no turning back. And the rest... is HIStory.
[24-Jan-2010, 1:00am JST, Sunday]