Formative Media, Projects, and Personal Milestones by Year

Created in September 16, 2025 Last edited: September 17, 2025

A timeline of formative media, projects, and personal milestones from mid-2000s to the present.

Pre-2009 - the desktop games Alex the Alligator 4 and SuperTux Offline and defining level-editors. Stuffed toys and toy blocks alongside. 2009 - Facebook Online and local self-expression. 2010 - Flash games and new level editors like Crush the Castle, Boombot, Bubble Tanks, and Incredibots The Internet as goldmine of fun. Explosion of level editors and physics. 2011 - Facebook games like Backyard Monsters and League of Legends Continuing to play Facebook games since Pet Society from 2009. I started playing League of Legends around this time, taking on the usernames "Coupon", "GM Samuel", and "The Hero22". 2012 - Roblox Studio, Minecraft Sandbox creativity beyond my toy blocks. 2014 - the song Christ Is Enough, the mobile game Hill Climb Racing, Ryan Higa Singing this song on stage in camp, which inspired me to become a singer, and the start of mobile phone gaming. I started watching Ryan Higa probably around this time and was still watching him in 2017, dropping off when he made the podcast and returning when he made videos again until he stopped in 2020. 2015 - DanTDM, One Piece, and Mine-imator I watched DanTDM's Custom Mod Adventures series and Diamond Dimensions series. One Piece is only anime that I truly watched and binged instead of just peeking sometimes at the computer when my older brother was watching. In the middle of the Dressrosa Arc. This is also when I made Minecraft animations with Mine-imator. 2016 - my story Forge of Brothers, my private Roblox game Castle Defense, my flagship song Not Alone, iflix and The Flash, and Pink Sheep My flagship writing then, with a Wordpress site and all. And it coincided and collaborated with this Roblox game. I sang Not Alone in various places and even recorded it and still have it to this day. This is when I was watching ExplodingTNT and was there when Pink Sheep's Youtube channel started. 2017 - Ssundee, Graham Balls I watched Ssundee's Lucky Blocks series with Crainer a lot. When it comes to the graham balls, I sold a lot in high school and even in the streets with my mother. It was to fund something. This was the beginning of me as a more individual person in a more context-less environment, high school where I did not have the benefit of the shared history and context of the community at my main church and in the streets selling with my mother. This is in contrast to volunteering and participating in community events. Being more of an individual meant being firm about others' debt when selling graham balls and managing expectations as a class example, representative, and president. 2018 - Manga Rock, Bird Box, vocal training and online singing resources, Spotify Premium, and Lucas King's Dark Piano series, including the track Sociopath My cousin introduced me to manga. Bird Box was the last watch-together I did with close church friends. It was in online singing resources and videos that the idea of different registers was truly drilled into my brain. Spotify Premium set the stage for when I started listening to all kinds of secular music. 2019 - NF's album Perception, the online writing app Calmly Writer, my fiction work What Do I Want, Violet Evergarden, Muse Asia, Webtoon, lo-fi & ambient, and self-help videos like Pursuit of Wonder NF's Perception is my bridge between pre-trauma and post-trauma and Christian discographies and secular ones. Also when I truly started writing as a lone individual self and not as a part of a community like Forge of Brothers was. Violet Evergarden made me cry so heavily, especially due to my circumstances. Muse Asia was my true start to binge-watching anime alone on my own time. 2020 - Twitch, Discord, the Minecraft mod creator MCreator, Clip Studio Paint, my web comic My Single Life, and the podcast Trash Taste The beginning of context-less self-expression. My first naked non-LAN entry into the internet as a creator and participant. This is when I started drawing digitally at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf places, even making a web comic, My Single Life. This is when I made Minecraft mods through MCreator and played solo player Hardcore Minecraft extensively. This wasn't my command block experimenting and map-making of 2016. This was solo non-LAN player survival, which I never did growing up. And this is when my interests in CDawgVA, TheAnimeMan, and Gigguk converged in the podcast Trash Taste since I started watching anime a lot more since 2019 and reading manga since 2018. Include Paolo fromTOKYO's Japan Day in the Life Series in this. 2021 - my Viewer SMP and Youtube Channel, the Royalroad novel Everybody Loves Large Chests, The Saga of Tanya the Evil, and Google Docs My most ambitious year. Burnout. Transition to staying in one room all day everyday. High levels of stress. The first time that I was truly struck by a web novel enough to read through the entire 1.5 million words. The Saga of Tanya the Evil, the only anime I've rewatched probably more than I did with The Avengers (2012) back in the early 2010s. This year is when I started using Google Docs. 2022 - my fiction works Sigurd and Don, pencil and sketchbook, and relaxing videos like first-person, especially Japan, travel videos and bushcraft Debut as an author and an artist, the first time creative writing and visual art were associated with me. Shotgun-sending my fiction work to most of my Facebook friends for the first time. Putting Don out there and live-streaming it on Twitch enough to get an established web novelist to chat. 2023 - Kolb and Brodie's Modern Clinical Psychiatry (10th ed.), Visual Studio Code, LaTeX, my Autobiography-Journal, Krita, Library Genesis, Google Books, Sci-Hub, and Internet Archive, Calibre, and ChatGPT The switch to writerly and academic understanding and text manipulation. Utter self-confrontation. My visceral digital art debuted. Pivotal academic curiosity. Beginning of LLMs. 2024 - Github Desktop, Hugo, Jekyll My first Royalroad serialization that lasted 74 days straight and resulted in over 300,000 words, the loss of my files and computer water damage, and the sudden jump in writing prolificity. This is also the year of voracious academic reading that the last year began. This is when I stopped watching Youtube videos for anything else but music. 2025 - Cloudflare Pages, Neocities, Starbucks, donated books, and AI Studio Ultimate translation. Cafe visits moved from monthly to weekly. 20th century fiction reading, from newly donated and organized books, was introduced as part of "show, don't tell" project, which includes Delilah and the 100 (as of writing) 452-word vignettes. The switch to AI Studio from ChatGPT and the sudden influx of fiery debate due to LLMs' drastic jump in capacity in May. Reaching 3.5 million words in late July after two years of the Autobiography-Journal, and obtaining closure following creation and sustained development of main website (this website). Due to closure: moved downstairs to the living room, where my family resides, beside the window overlooking the street through the gate's open wicket door, on September 4, 2025, after around 4 years and 2 months of staying only upstairs in a room alone all day every day since July 2021.