I was a curator in one of the biggest aminos. I spent over 8 hours a day moderating, I even moderated in class and was scared of being in the shower for too long, because that meant I wasn't moderating. And then I was kicked because I usually only flagged between 300-350 posts most days when the requirement was 300. Some people flagged over 500 a day and because I wasn't as good as them, even though I met the ridiculous requirements every single day, I was kicked. I felt so bad and blamed myself for years, but now I can see how crazy all of it was.
@@variantangled LGBT+ amino. At least back then it was one of the biggest ones, no idea if it is today because I’m not on amino anymore. This was around five years ago
@@nono-gw7qm as soon as I read your comment I had a feeling it was LGBT+ amino. I was a moderator for them as well, right before the official amino staff kicked the main creator out of her position for not doing enough to handle the community. Shortly after that I left bc the requirements for moderating were getting ridiculous.
Culturally, Amino is like the Deviantart of Gen Z: a platform that many young fandom kids flocked to, got scarred by, but ultimately came out with good and horrible memories alike
@@Lesyaaaaaaa some used amino but in my case i was constantly on deviantart,,,,,,,,,in 2017-2018. i discovered it on 2014 tho but i was VERY young at that age so it was for the best that i didnt make an acc at that moment
As someone who has used amino for a couple of years I would say this: 1. Minors, please be careful of online groomers 2. Stay away from toxic people and suicide baiting people 3. Avoid drama with curators 4. In roleplay aminos, you get 100+ dms if you have a hot girl pfp [trust me I have seen it] 5. The app crashes ALL THE TIME Just, please don’t use amino in general
oh my god i was only ever involved in the bird watching amino and everyone was so welcoming and friendly constantly. People would dump bird pics they’d taken and talk about their life lists with everyone, it was so wholesome. We would also have community art projects, where everyone who wanted drew a bird and they were all photoshopped onto a branch together. All skill levels and there was only ever positive comments & praise for everyone involved. We also used to have massive quiz bowls, where someone would make a super hard bird identification quiz and everyone would spend DAYS trying to get the high scores & talking about it!! i am so sorry that so many of y’all encountered so much toxicity in the other aminos :-(
I actually joined Amino before it was Amino! It was originally separate apps for each community. Anime Amino and Video Games Amino were the 2 I used most. It actually did more good than bad for me. It was the only place that gave my art attention, and that really boosted my self confidence. I also made friends that I still talk to to this day! It's been over 7 years now. HOWEVER, one of my Amino friends was very clearly being groomed (at the time it bothered me but I was being groomed too, I think, so I didnt question it further). She was around 13 at the time "dating" a full grown man in his 20s. I dont know if sexual photos were ever exchanged but... yeah already bad enough. I didn't have as much bad experiences but I definitely know that it was still NOT a place for children.
I remember that! I was also on anime amino when I was 16, i loved it. Also got kind of groomed but it didnt lasted long since the man bored me, he also shared with me his poems of grief for his best friend dying. It was my first introduction to kik since we talked there. I had experience with creeps from the old days of the internet so I already knew what kind of person he was, never sent a picture but he did send several. I mostly loved anime animo since I got a lot of attention there and as a teenager I was starving for attention.
I remember that! I tried to join a creepypasta amino way back, went to download amino and it said to download yet another app to just be in the community so I just noped out. Probably saved me loads of problems lmao, but I would've loved that art support. If only there were a place that was like that now... my only guess would be TikTok. But I'd rather not be sucked into that algorithm gambling-tactic dopamine feedback loop hellhole. Plus you have to post regularly or the algorithm nukes you, I do not need that stress.
I started in Virtual Space. Anime Amino and Pet Amino (?) also existed. It was fun when they allowed the creation of other communities, and it was nice that they tried to make them into separate apps. But overall, the plan was poorly executed, and Amino seems to have been gradually heading downhill ever since.
Omg I remember this. I first found amino when I was 8 years old while looking for Undertale games. I grew up too fast on Amino just because of how mean everyone was to me in the Undertale Amino- But I also remember making friends with someone so idk- Since I was so young it definitely wasn't safe to be on it, looking back on it 7 years later, but I'm glad it happened because I have such distinct memories of it.
I miss how good role-play was on it, but man- Shit is so wack now. Plus, the app is wack-. . . The website is-. . . Oh my, the website-. . . I've had a better experince in El Salvador than using the website
That's actually why I never got into it. I made an account when all the Poketubers were promoting it. It crashed 3 times in a row so I just moved on lol.
I was the person who would tell people online that i wanted to kms. They were always people i’d talked to before but it was so incredibly wrong. I did it because I genuinely needed help and didn’t know what to do but looking back, oh my god it was horrible. I was so young and scared but I should have never put that pressure on people I barely knew online. Lucky I never just left randomly and often id ask if they were ok with me talking about it but I still feel horrible.
I did the samw things, even as recent as 1.5 years ago before I went to the hospital. It's really hard when you have no real life best friend to lean on or family you can talk to during those moments -- everything is so surface level and as someone who was raised on the internet and went into dark communities like the proED community to make mhself sicker, it seemed like no one else got it but them. Internet friends make you feel so safe and understood. But now that I'm an adult, I know I can't act like that anymore
I will never forget the absolutely DERANGED roleplay chats I was added to in amino that were run by literal 12 year olds LMFAOOO it was equally traumatizing, concerning and entertaining af all at the same time
I am actually a leader of an amino, and OH BOY. I am still running the amino, and the base that I'm apart of has a literal CULT embedded into it, which is a lot of fun. I spent way too much time making simple rules that actually have protected my little amino for almost 2 years now, just from seeing the mental breakdowns, exposure posts, etc. That would probably scar anyone who couldnt numb themselves to literally existing. But yeah, my little amino is still pretty strong. We have a group of friends that run the amino, all very nice people and I would actually love to meet in person, I still personally dm some of them to chat with. And... our amino has dealt with like 3? Yeah about 3 drama cases, and they were all pretty minor and taken care of real quick. Tips for people looking to make an amino: 1. BAN DRAMA! I cant tell you how much this saved the amino lol. 2. Hire people who you know well, or trust well. Dont just hire strangers, it never works. 3. If you are the leader, you MUST post to keep the amino alive, especially if its niche. Most of us are sheep, we will start to follow if one person is doing it. Challenges, updates, etc. If you arent active, no one will. 4. Spread the work of managing the amino between your staff. I promise, its SO helpful, and it feels more like a team! I'll add more later BYE
Man amino has given me so much trauma I swear. Ill share my story, but, I had a boyfriend on amino for four years. I was in a really vulnerable state at the time and he took advantage of me and forced me to be in a three year relationship. It was awful. At first, for the first months It was sweet but then he began being awful to me. Everytime I even did the slightest thing wrong, like not texting him all night til morning, he would get furious with me and guilt me saying how he stayed up all night for me and he is sacrificing his health for me even though I never asked him to, in fact I even told him to go to sleep at a decent time. When I would say I was in a bad mental state, he would say how I'm a monster and how I'm sick and that I should go to a mental hospital even though I was just depressed cause I felt like I was the bad one in the relationship. Especially when he would force me to take pictures of my face and even forced me to take pictures of myself out of the shower.. even when I was uncomfortable and crying he still made me do it. And I did, because i was scared and if I didn't he would use the "homophobic" card (since he was trans and became a guy) After awhile, I finally snapped and I was so sick of his abuse it was so bad to the point where I looked awful in real life. I finally said "I'm done" and broke it off with him. It was so bad. He sent me a picture of him crying and boogers slipping from his nose while he held scissors to his wrist, it was disgusting. He then spammed my Instagram page and the art amino we were on. Saying how it was my fault he would kill himself and how he'll see me in hell. It was so bad the owners of the art amino had to contact me to see what was wrong but they thankfully removed him from the art amino and banned him from it. I'm happy I grew the courage to tell him im done, despite the trauma. I know it wasnt a face to face and physical relationship, but it was hell. I'm just so happy I finally deleted the app.
So deeply sorry that you had to deal with that type of person in your life, I had something slightly similar happening to me years ago. Really hope you are better now!!
after reading alot of comments, ive realised i had a relatively positive experience on amino.. one of the first public group chats i joined, im still friends with like 50% of them & we even have a instagram gc with all the people who were most active in the amino chat😭amino was def rhe gateway of me making online friends & esp getting more into kpop so im glad for that BUT i def was lucky that I didnt get traumatised by anything seeing as how common that was
ESP when one of my irl friends at the time was on the much darker side of amino with the people telling other they wanted to yk....... i never realized how many people actually went through that kind of stuff on the app🥲
There are a lot of levels to Amino, the surface being the safest. It's good to know your experience was on the positive end. I'm also still friends with some other people I met there, so it wasn't all bad.
same, i was in A LOT of communties but somehow always found great people. i accidentally became a curator (turned leader) in one of those communities and somehow that stuff taught me a lot. the community i joined were all wholesome (except for some trolls but everyone i made friends with are amazing) and the fun moments i had with them have a special place in my heart
Amino made me into an arm chair psychologist and I adapted myself into that role, until I was just done. At one point in time I was managing a small village of peoples emotions on a daily basis. It was so bad and extended to other online spaces I enjoyed like VRChat until I couldn't handle worrying about people I've met just dying or not appearing online. For YEARS I've been emotionally drained and now I'm somewhat back on my groove. Amino is such a volatile place either you're having the time of your life with friends you'll be talking with for the years to come or 24/7, 48/14 even trauma and drama.
I relate so much to that. I also took on the role of carrying everybody else's mental health issues and personal problems and it definitely took a toll on me. Especially when some quite "close" friends just disappeared and couldn't be reached by anyone for weeks or even months. It has also made me worry they maybe weren't alive anymore and that's just so scary and devastating.
Hahahaha same here, but the people who did this to me weren’t bad people, they genuinely had problems and needed someone to be there. I still have fond memories of one particular person, and whenever I post on my UA-cam, they would say hi to me and call me sis like back in the amino days :))). It always warms my heart as much as it drained me. So my amino experience was half and half, good and bad. But god did I relate hard to your comment cause I was that friend as well.
Had an Amino account and was mostly active in the "Yaoi Worshippers" amino (I was 12, I am still disgusted at myself), had a 1000+ day streak, and actively rped with a 34 year old woman...who had a child. And she was online...way more on Amino...than with her child. I cannot remember what happened to her, but god DAMN. Also I got suicide baited by another 12 year old when I said I wouldn't date them, aaaaand I got some dude who wouldn't stop cutting himself over the fact that our ROLEPLAY CHARACTERS were not DATING.
amino was a trip tbh. at first there would be genuinely good moments like making friends, amazing creations, and it was my gateway to writing. and then boom, drama, groomers, attention seekers and the most toxic people you'll ever meet... yeah i dont think ill be going back lol
Amino was were I had my first contact with groomers, suicide baiting people, and bisexuality All in all it was a horrible experience for me, but at least it gave me the starting point earlier to discover myself
I was groomed so many times in amino and just nowdays i realized, amino was pretty addictive and turns out to be traumatic, a very dangerous combination
@@deaddoodlepool963SAME!! I had this member that kept harassing me and because they were friends with the Owner of the Community she'd send the owner on me every time I stood up for myself. It was so toxic and I'm always going to be Traumatized by memories from Amino unfortunately. (there's far more memories besides just the Mods being assholes but I don't really want to talk about/mention them.)
@@hellishradio what's irritates me to this day is the fact amino hasn't been shut down it's not fair and the app doesn't even work too! Besides the creators the app itself is always crashing! It's proven theirs pedos and Google play store won't take the app down
as an amino veteran, id love to share the fact that MULTIPLE times i had gotten into arguments with people, debating the ethicalities of glorifying n*zis. gotta love amino edit: would also like to mention that i joined amino when i was nine, and stopped using it only three years ago. so just imagine how many atrocities ive seen lmao
I havent finished the video, but knowing a bit about Amino and the groomers that were there, on my country there was a murder of a 12 year old girl by a man that she met on Amino. It was heartbreaking, an extreme case of grooming, but grooming as a whole seemed very common on there
I’m currently co leader in an amino community. And I’ve got to say- I love everyone on our team. The amino is not so active anymore because it’s themed around a kind of dying fandom, so we don’t have much to do, but when we do, we actually have fun moderating! A lot of people in our community have expressed that they think we’re the best mod team they’ve seen, which makes me really proud! I’m glad I’ve been able to help make amino a more positive experience for these members. I’ve also been a victim of terrible staff before tho 💀 One time I received a strike in Voltron amino because I told someone in a public chat that I didn’t like a certain ship. And this ship was very popular amongst the staff members. So I guess they deemed it to be bullying or something that I didn’t like it too?? Idk, but I left that community very fast after that 🤡 Edit: Around Christmas, amino actually started glitching a LOT. This wasn’t uncommon but was usually fixed pretty quickly. But this time it was literally so bad and went on for 2 WEEKS. I think that was the final straw for a lot of people. We can definitely see in our community that active users have dropped significantly since that happened. Even my own friend group and I moved to discord instead. If anyone ever needs to point to a specific time and reason why amino died, point to that.
I was a moderator on a decently sized roleplay community for quite some time. The people there tended to fall into one of four categories 1. Children 2. Creeps (They never lasted long) 3. Edgy little shits 4. The genuinely neat people who actually wanted to keep the community safe and welcoming for all. Still friends with a few of these!
I used brazilian Amino and i was a teen in-between the 3 and the 4 categories (just wanted to have some safe and harmless fun, but ended up with the wrong crowd that encouraged me to be edgy, have web sex and start social movements that disrupted chats). The people that i got envolved with could be classified as 2 and 3 (one of them posted photos of their literal shit on discord).
“This response is too short, we need 7 paragraphs MINIMUM, college level grammar, and 5 responses per day or else Alyx and I will have to kick you~ -moongoddess99“
Was on anime amino: Pro: made an awesome lil group of people and we made a discord (we'd talk/play games all the time) Cons: -had a slight internet stalker -had an on/off "bf" from Sweden who I stopped talking to after he wanted me to step on him naked with rubber boots💀
YEAH! I remember being in that amino and it was horrible- At the time I was in it, there was so much creeps on there that posted Very not safe images, and when I made a post saying why I was leaving, a leader DMes me and tried to force me to stay
last time i went into anime amino people dmed me slurs almost immediatly after i made a post and someone spammed me with pictures of literal shit not even joking
I’m turning 22 in a few weeks, I joined Amino when I was 15 and was a highly active user on Wattpad Amino. Now, as a full grown adult, I’m relating with all of your points you made in this video. I literally was online for 6-8+ hours a day just for curating. I never slept, I was always anxious and when I graduated high school in 2019 my activity disappeared. I rejoined in early 2020 during the pandemic and the entire landscape of the Amino is different now and I haven’t been on since. Thank you for making this video as it finally made me understand a lot that occurred back in my teen years.
Honestly, amino was the first social media platform I went on (at 11 years old!) Due to my home life i quickly became addicted to this app. It was so much fun in the beginning. Amino holds a dear spot in my heart. One of the communities I joined was the autism amino community. I was diagnosed with autism as a toddler, but this was hidden from me growing up. My family was not supportive of my disability, and I was not accepted. But when I joined this community I got to meet other autistic ppl! It was amazing, I felt like I was seen. This community educated me on ways to communicate my thoughts.. Like I said I am very grateful to have been apart of that community, if I never researched about autism I don’t know where I would be. I’m so happy for that part of my life, I am in way better terms with people and my identity. My social is way better now too lol I don’t use amino anymore.. anyways I have had negative experiences as well. I remember being apart of politics amino where I met nazis and awful bigoted ppl. And in the anime community I met ppl who exposed me to age restricted material.. overall, the things I was exposed to was already relevant in my real life so the positive outweigh the negatives. Having a good amino experience depends on what community you join. And I stopped using the app as frequently once I got into highschool bc I was too busy then.
this is not me self advertising but literally just curious as to if anyone would wann do this but i also had positive experiences on amino, despite the negative, and i kinda miss it it raised me 😭😭 so i'm curious as to if anyone would be interested in maybe creating a community just for the good of amino? for ppl like us
@@aussiefurbymogwaifan6621 Yes, this part of my life was so long ago now. It is still an active community but mostly dead. Honestly all of amino is dead now lol. I believed I joined in 2018 ? So it wasn’t #actuallyautistic, that tag is applied more heavily on TikTok. Back in 2018, it was called autism/aspies.. (aspie is a nickname those with Asperger’s give themselves) Anyways, I did not expect this comment to receive this much attention! Thank you for all the positive responses. Honestly that autism amino community helped me figure myself out and provided me with resources to aid me through life. Without some of the kind fellow autistic strangers I met there, I would still be a confused-angry teenager. Part of me wishes that my parents were more educated on autism/nuerodiversity but I grew up in a southern conservative area and autism resources for young girls in the 2000s were slim. In present time, I’m repairing my relationship with my parents and used the autism resources given to me to help communicate my needs to my parents more efficiently. Again thank you so much for the kindness.
For as much as I (rightfully) trash amino most of the time, I do have to kinda thank it for making me enhance my skills with writing and drawing. The amount of OCs I made (and tbh roleplayed) in so many different communities just made me fall in love with creating stories and characters in deep levels For as much as toxicity there is, the few small community did stand out, and at times miss my friends that I made in them before deleting the app. But of course, the toxicity just outweighed the good so easily that I felt like I had no other choice.
Hmmmm yeah amino made me better drawing but at the end of the day I hated most of the stuff I draw back then so they went straight to the paper bin 😴😴😴😴
I joined a murder mystery rp on there, the best one, and the only rp I miss, some I miss the concept but that's just the concept, but that murder mystery rp will stay in my heart forever
this is not me self advertising i promise but literally just curious as to if anyone would wanna do this but i also had positive experiences on amino, despite the negative, and i kinda miss it it raised me 😭😭 so i'm curious as to if anyone would be interested in maybe creating a community just for the good of amino? for ppl like us
I remember the really small SEVENTEEN/CARAT community had crazy staff drama back in the day. I believe a minor, 16 maybe?, had owned the community first. And I think a 20-something year old completely conned her into giving them the community leader role, then kicked her out. Somewhere on twitter there's actually a thread about what specifically happened (I cannot remember all of it), but it was so dramatic... I remember seeing weird posts on the community about having a "rebellion" against the current staff lmao. Now it's dead as hell.
omg as a carat amino staff member in 2017 i remember how buck wild it was 💀 eventually i got kicked from staff because I wasn’t able to commit more than 3-4 hours a day being on the app LMFAO i got a free trip to kcon LA out of it though so that was p cool (by virtue of being literally the only staff who happened to live near LA at the time)
I was in a furby community. I'm going to be completely honest, it was the best experience of my childhood. everyone was so cool, and helped me make my first long furby. While the members of the group grew up, the community became less active--but more active on discord. Honestly, to the people who were in the furby community you were so cool I still have all the art I drew from you guys and all the furbies I drew. if anyone from the furby community is seeing this i love you and I hope both sides of your pillow are cold
back in 2017-18 I used to use amino everyday,I went to sleep at 4 am because thanks to the different time zones 12-5 am was the most active times for the rpers. Now when people ask me how I managed to get so good at english I legit don't know how to answer,I can't go like "I roleplayed for hours everyday for nearly 2 years! 😁" those were my dark times...So anyways I downloaded it again- I wanted to screenshot some of my art from an art amino and ended up reading some of my rps ☠ remind me to never look at them again
Same! I would also stay up way too late because all the Americans would show up at like midnight and I live in Europe. No wonder I was sleep deprived...
I had a pretty good time with Amino in the early days, then kind of stopped using it, and the moment I looked back it was pure chaos. Was waiting for you to talk about this hahaha
I remember posting my own art work onto Amino, almost immediately I was accused of being an art thief despite me providing proof with sketches and line art. This happened on multiple posts
Omg that happenned to me too! LMFAO I entered an art contest in one of the communities I was a part of and won, and then someone started saying I copy pasted the drawing from google... good times😂😂😂
as someone who is currently in a very healthy and very welcoming rp group, im so unbelievably sorry you've been through the bad shit that you've been through. ive been in those negative and downright traumatizing groups far more than i can count. it never gets much easier, but you learn to cope. wishing you well!
I just found your channel and it’s jarring how similar we are. We’re both bi, have dyscalculia, we’re into k-pop and love Vernon, and we’re into weird nostalgia that most people don’t care about.
i remember being like 11 or 12 and sobbing on an krp amino call, pleading to this 27 year old and saying i was sorry because i apparently “shoved her under the bus” in the midst of a drama. she knew i was that young and still treated me like i was old enough to understand and know better, i was a child. she was also roleplaying as onew from shinee and rp dating another member from shinee (i believe it was key but i could be wrong) that key was irl a 13 or 14 year old. idgaf if its rp thats fucking weird, because a lot of the time people would take the rp dating too seriously.. i know i did. sometimes it felt like proper dating, weird asf. i just remember having a mental breakdown over her getting mad at me and i was full on screaming crying saying “im sorry im sorry” its something i remember vividly because of how distraught i was.
Lets see what Amino gave me: a 4 year relationship that unfortunately ended but I am still glad it happened, an experience with a 24 year old trans girl who kept insisting roleplaying 18+ things with me when I was 15 (her fetish? Amputation), one friend who I have not talked to in years and I am pretty sure that she has gone missing irl, a friend who came out as trans 2 years ago (so happy for them 😌), and so many people who have taught me about sex better than my parents or school did
Honestly I dont care what fetish people have as long as its a fantasy thing and not actually wanting to do it, but people really need to check the age of the person and if they actually like the kind of thing first before trying to rp with others. I say everyone has a fetish even if you probably don't even know it, its common and a normal thing to have but others really need to make sure first ebfore proceeding
I never quite got into Amino because overactive groupchats make me overwhelmed but tbh hearing all these stories, I'm glad I never spent too much time on it
Man, you have no idea how important this video feels to me. My adolescence was basically just Amino, and although I don't regret that fact, I have my past demons from that place. I just wanted to rant here and throw a bunch of my fun, whacky, and/or miserable experiences. I remember my first true community being an Undertale one that a bunch of UA-camrs marketed. It was pretty cool to finally have a way to talk about a game I liked without having to expose myself, but this app truly got into me when I discovered roleplaying. Roleplaying was just magical, I had heard of it before through my brother (who was a D&d player), and as a pre-teen with aspirations to become a writer... I just fell in love with RPs. It's not like it didn't have an impact in my life too, since even in that very beginning of my journey, I already made a bunch of friends, most of which would eventually follow their separate ways, but at least one of them stayed with me even to this day. And because the Undertale people are obsessed with Alternate Universes, I eventually made an Underfell version of myself with which I became actually famous in a small circle of roleplayers. Why is that important? Well, I eventually quit that community and went to roleplay on another one (it was about Yandere Simulator, but I barely if ever actually delved into the actual game, my roleplaying was completely unrelated), and kept the Underfell character. Because people were too lazy to read the whole name of the character, they never once realized the character was actually called "Nomed", so for the sake of simplicity, I gained my nickname that to this day I still use in some platforms. "Fell". You can see that's the name of this years old channel in which I'm commenting, which I abandoned. It was when I started joining RPG-focused communities that my life truly changed. I have so many stories I could tell, stories of character development, stories of war, stories of effort, stories about in and out of the game. To this point forward I'll just rant about some of the stuff there. I've had relationships there, that I value a lot and who are still my friends even nowadays (in fact, my current best friend is an ex of mine, who I met in amino). In fact, that place played a big role on my romantic life, as I experienced the best and the worst relationships through that. I've been through some pretty abusive shit (hell, I've even *DONE* some pretty abusive shit when I was a younger teenager), and although it's horrible that a young pre-teen was exposed to this kind of stuff, I'm glad that it only happened through the safety of a phone screen, so I never severely suffered (or caused) any harm (although my abusive relationships left some scars on me, and I still regret that I never had the chance to apologize to some people). That has also helped me dodge some IRL bullets, since I've learned to recognize red flags that once I failed to notice online. I was never put in severe danger either, since even as a 14y.o I knew how to avoid catfishers and other malicious people, the only people who knew my face were trusted friends whose faces I also knew, and I was smart enough to recognize predators and dodge away immediately. Btw, it's funny that you mentioned how some couples considered romantic RP with other people as cheating, because I remember stuff like that. In my experience, my healthiest relationships didn't suffer even a bit with that, it was taken just as a part of the game, but my worst partners created a personal vendetta against anyone my character even talked with, and they definitely wanted me *DED* alongside them. Either way, it was something I avoided, and usually only happened when the partner was just recently invited to a community in which my character was already in a well stablished relationship. I've seen couples in which this was an absolute nightmare though, like that one time when a friend of my friend asked her to date him in the game because his gf's character was married to another guy, but then the gf went like "wait a minute, that's illegal", and freaking nuked my friend. When I entered that community she was basically in hiding like a freaking spy because everybody hated her for no fault of her own, and that was something that took time to fix. The people there were far better than usual. In regular Amino communities can be extremely toxic and I've seen some of the shit this video talks about. But in RP communities you could usually avoid that, since people were usually more concerned with stuff like grinding, roleplaying and *winning large scale faction wars that came out of nowhere,* so they usually weren't the most toxic. The worst people I've met were usually either a-holes who bullied noobs with their high-powered characters, fighting aficcionados who had too much ego to accept defeat, or just people who were there just to mess with your play in "funny" ways because they wanted attention. But the roleplaying aspect was always pure gold. I've made so many characters in my life that I don't even know how to exemplify. My most iconic ones were the aforementioned Fell, a guy who manifested in a majority of the games I played in some weird way, going from a god to a demon to a vampire to just a strong mage in every incarnation. One of my first characters was Max, a very sentimental android with an actual soul in him that came alongside a heart of gold, and who eventually became friends with two warring factions (being a member of both of them somehow) and dating the guild leader of one of them. There was Sato, a guy who was just a "frosty edgy boy" but is only relevant because my best friend to this day refuses to call me ANYTHING *BUT* Sato, and that's cute. There was Kyle, a guy I made for a Star Wars RPG who became the Grandmaster of the Jedi Counsil while also creating an economic domination through ship trading and a droid army. There was William, another incarnation of Fell who became better than his progenitor when he, by absolutely random chance just because he was at the right place at the right time, entered the empress' imperial guard and was personally trained by her, while keeping a relationship with the most dysfunctional alcoholic in time, and was so loyal that he came back from the dead centuries later (years IRL) just to find her again. And there were also Ashe and Hina, two characters who were funny just because I grinded so much with them that they ended up becoming too overpowered and breaking the whole game in that community. Man, those were such good times, and it's even better when I remember that all of the people mentioned were actual players with their own stories who happily made part of those journeys with me. I was also involved with "politics" a couple times, aka the staff. Nothing too big, I was a curator a couple times, a leader once or twice, I once became rich by helping to expose the tyrannical schemes of the leader of a community and foiling his plan to scam everyone, and I've used the money I got from that act of heroism to help someone *literally buy a community,* I'm not even kidding, that was the kind of "coup" that happened when people were dissatisfied with the management. But unfortunately my journey there was an ephemeral one. At first I was just driven away by the depressive and nihilistic state most people there were, when I realized I'm no therapist and shouldn't try to be everyone's body pillow to cry into like I was trying to do. Then a bunch of my friends started quitting, while others simply didn't have time to play with me and some just weren't interested in the stuff I liked. Suddenly, I started having trouble finding people to roleplay with. Until eventually I came back recently and... everyone is just gone... the communities I played in are dead, my friends moved on from that, and the app was getting... empty. I had predicted that, but roaming my old communities and seeing them look like deserts is just heartbreaking. Never again will I be able to play in that same way, never again will I have access to that game I loved, and even though that hurts me a lot... that was probably for the better. I'm nowadays a very dedicated TTRPG player, and although that will never rival the scale, the chaos and the magic of that MMO-like style of play, I really love it. My best of friends are still with me, and BELIEVE ME, I REALLY WANTED TO TALK MORE ABOUT THEM, BUT I NEED TO SLEEP (maybe I'll tell about them in another comment if somebody asks for it). Overall, it was a part of my life that I remember fondly, even though the dark aspects of it are still rooted in my brain. If anyone has read this all... just thank you... deeply. I just wanted to share all of those wonderful and yet terrifying experiences I've had there, and I wanted to be heard somehow. There's a lot of love put into this comment, I just wish I could truly re-live all of this again, meet all the people whose contact I no longer have, thank who I needed to thank, apologize to those I wronged, but that's something beyond my control (just as a small and useless hope, Ruby/Rose, if you're reading this, I'm sorry. Tell Misaki that I said hello). But that's about it, so... have a nice day, afternoon, night, or just a good sleep. That's all I can ask of you all.
This is crazy as fuck and such an interesting read. Someone needs to do a psychological study into people who used apps like Kik and Amino and how it affected their adolescence and socialisation, because WTF. 😭
@@mordantmeg I myself still have some traumas and mannerisms I originally developed there that have provided me with a variety of awkward situations, so it truly has a weird effect in how people socialize. For instance, to this day I'm still paranoid that whatever partner I have will always interpret my silence or even absence in the worst way possible because of my bad experiences, so yeah, that's not fun for anyone.
okay so this is my favourite story to tell people who knew amino. when i was 15 i just started doing commissions. very cheap 5€ stuff. had a guy come to me to make reference sheets for him almost every week. it got suspicious to a point where i stopped accepting those commissions from him. one day he came to me with a character and asked me to redesign them. told me its from his friend who unal!ved themself. i googled the watermark which led me to their amino account that was linked to different social media accounts. they were still alive and pretty active somewhere else so i texted them like "hey this person says you did not so good things to yourself". they told me about the entire "oh yeah its my toxic ex, he is obsessed with me" thing. i then went to amino to confront this dude who then went "oh so they owe me a grand now for all the things i got them". i then got framed from the guy to be involved with this scam his ex did to him and called me all the names in the book and threatened to sue me and all that funstuff. didnt touch amino since that day
Oh. My. God. The formal roleplay aminos 😭 the chats would never last more than a couple days and there were always people coming in doing informal roleplay and getting yelled at for it and arguments would break out all the time and there were those people who tried to control your reactions etc etc. Amino and instagram role playing ruled my life from 5th to 7th grade. I remember my two best friends and I had an amino community just for the three of us to roleplay with our little world of OCs and all the different chats were different worlds like “modern” or “medieval” or “college” and we would use it to share our art with eachother on the posting bit 😭 this video brought back so many memories dude
Omg, the formal roleplay 💀i was literally kicked off from a roleplay comunity, their excuse was that i was not roleplaying correctly, i asked if they could teach me how to do it the right way (because i REALLY wanted to participate) but they just denied and reported me instead, i was only 12 years old and did not understood what i was doing wrong but still, they treated me like i did and made a moderator kick me out off the entire comunity ☠☠☠
amino was the most confusing app to me. I could not understand how every fandom was a whole different amino it wasn't just one app with different spaces they were completely different places you had different profiles for like what huh
The top posts feature was both a blessing and a curse, honestly. It's a great idea in theory, but in practise, the leaders and curators always, ALWAYS get accused of bias and favouritism even when they're genuinely trying their hardest to showcase all the best posts in the community. The community I spent the most time in had a whole-ass feature guide that determined what made a post worthy of a top post position and it STILL invited so much salt from people who cared about it way too much. And this community was pretty decently-sized, too; you could get a pretty decent amount of engagement on a post that never touched the top posts section.
i joined amino when i was like 9 or 10... bro after reading these comments im so glad i found it boring and just left after the first week of being there😭😭 the amount of trauma i had narrowly avoided bro
I was apart of one of the biggest kpop rp communities and even became a leader for quite some time. It was very pleasant memories, since I loved to make aesthetically looking profiles and just the sheer wild west feel of the app. From negatives, I had one of my old rp "husbands" message me on Instagram years after I quit, sending me a suicide note and stating our roleplay scenarios as fact like "Oh remember that time when you dod this this and this thing to me", so it was a very creepy feeling that someone was so delusional that their worlds were merging together. Another sketchy thing I remember were the tons of "14 year old dating" communities, where kids would literally advertise themselves to date other "teenagers". Definitely atleast 50% of those communities were groomers.
i was a curator in a very family-friendly community. i was working HARD in that community even tho it was just a middle school hobby- had to fight with my friend because i had to take down her post for saying “lmao” and she didn’t take it well. i was also in supportive amino (literally terrible experience) and made a friend who was 19 (i was 12) and i constantly had to talk him off the ledge :/
I'm so thankful that during my time on amino, I never had a bad experience. For a 12 year old at the time I still had it, it lowkey fun talking to people online. I'm now considering reinstalling the app to see how it is, but I'm also scared of what I might see 🙂
same!! I'd say I did some imature stuff back then but I never had such traumatic experiences as most of the people in the comment section Mainly because I stuck with the same friends and rarely interacted that much with others. Some of the friends I made during my amino era are still with me till this day lol ig I was one of the lucky ones
As a person who still has the app on their phone, it's rather dead now, at least the communities I'm in. There's still a couple people lingering around (me included), but most chats and communities have become inactive. (All my experience though)
this is not me self advertising i promise, just curious as to if anyone would wanna do this so i also had positive experiences on amino, despite the negative, and i kinda miss it it raised me 😭😭 so i'm curious as to if anyone would be interested in maybe creating a community just for the good of amino? for ppl like us
Oh boy. So I actually met my current partner on Amino years ago. We met on "young cosplayers amino" (I think thats what it was called?) and honestly I always forget that's where we met. It is very embarrassing and I always worry about the question of "how did you two meet?" because...yeah. I love them more than anything though. Glad I met them, even if it was in one of the worst places lol
I'm still an avid Amino user (I think I've spent at least 5 years in this app by now) and I can completely relate to most things you mentioned here. It hasn't changed one bit. The parts of this that hit the hardest are the people who will just randomly traumadump when you're in the middle of the most casual, wholesome conversation; and... the roleplaying. (Yes, I am a // kid too). I can also confirm that roleplaying is 100% escapism and it has done irreparable damage to my psyche, but well, at least it has made me a decent writer. But now, here's a countdown of crazy Amino experiences: -There was this one community that had a "venting buddy" chat, meaning you would volunteer to be the psychiatric assistant of some other member of the community. I think they were good meaning, but trying to advice and console older teens or adults when you're 13 definitely leaves some scars. -I went through a very rough patch when I was in middle school, and for like half a year my only friend was this one guy I met in Amino. We would speak for at least three hours daily, and then one day he just disappeared. I still wonder to this day whether I was getting groomed, or it was a godsent angel, or the guy fucking died or something. More emotional scars for my young self. -I had another friend that I was really close with, I bought and made her gifts and I flew over to where she lives, but then we never actually met and I still have the presents I was going to give her at home. -A wholesome one: Some leaders on a community made an activity where they gave out a class on character writing. I remember being so excited when these "cool big teens" gave me their approval on my work! And it's so crazy to think that now I am their age. -The most attention I've gathered in a post throughout all social media was actually an Amino post I made that got featured, it was some dumb doodle made with coloring pencils at school and somehow it received more attention than my art does in Insta these days. -Speaking of features, being featured for cosplay is both one of the best and worst experiences ever. Though it was nice to receive so many comments....then came the dms. --Not an experience but just shoutout to Amino for teaching me English- If anyone would like to hear any stories from anything Amino (roleplaying, commissions, wikis, public and private chats, walls), I'd be glad to share more!
I had fun with roleplay back then on the pokemon community I was on However, there were moments were someone brought up some sad story that happened to them but they replaced themselves as a Pokémon instead v:
@@Candyy248 Actually that reminds me of another experience! This time with a commission in a Pokémon Amino. I posted a fanart of Braixen (one of my favorite Pokémon) and then, I got a DM. A guy wanted a commission from me, but the way he asked for it... It was just WEIRD. I remember him specifically saying he was “fantasizing” about a Megaevolution of a Pokemon that's similar to a butterfly, that he wanted to see her with longer legs, and the most important part, a zipper (?) I did the commission never to be contacted again, luckily, but something makes me feel the intent with which that drawing was requested wasn't SFW. Must have been around 14 or 15 when this happened.
@@skylerdevinraleigh3447 Sure! I'll be posting more on this same thread. One time that was pretty scary for me was when I got hatebombed by this one person. As I said, I post my art there often, and once I made a joke piece about a beast character being a furry. I received mostly positive feedback and got featured, but then, this person was just very offended by it or something, and they started commenting on several of my blogs and my wall saying that I was disgusting and sending death threats and such. Luckily in Amino you can delete comments pretty easily, and my friends were quick to defend me, but when I reported the user to the leaders.... They did nothing. That person still roams freely around that Amino, I even saw them interacting with my friends 💀
My experience with Amino surprisingly wasn't TOO bad! I was mainly in Wolf Amino, and from what I remember, the community wasn't that bad. At least, where I was in the community. I was in a roleplay called Dear Wolves and Im actually still in their discord because the people I met there were great and ARE great. My first OC on there was a black wolf with tons of scars called Darkstar... cough... I was also a pretty smart and careful kid, so I kept myself out of toxic things and bad situations pretty well.
I was a curator on the Melanie Martinez amino in 2015 (this was a while before the allegations, relax) I was literally 12 years old and basically helping run this massive community. I made art that got popular and one time someone copied my art exactly and posted it as their own, then claimed I had copied THEM. Fsr everyone in the community dogpiled on me and told me to kill myself between 50 and 75 different death threats from individual users. All For having my art stolen. Anyway I left and never went back. I joined the twenty one pilots amino a little while after and i was in a chat that was obsessed with spreading rumors that Tyler Joseph had attempted suicide and was in some fictional hospital in Ohio. I left there too, because I felt like they were extremely disrespectful towards someone I really respected at the time. I was an extremely popular curator on the Melanie Martinez one (before everyone decided I had copied someone), and only a casual viewer on the tøp one.
Hello! I was in the tøp community too! I never saw such thing-0-0 wow- I was there since 2016- august2022 after i deleted the app for other reasons -but wow like I never saw this kinda stuff,i did find People talking about travmas and their experiences and things like that:(
I used amino very frequently, I had anime and vocaloid amino before they were even all consolidated into one app, but man am I glad I never interacted in private/group chats/rp. That sounds like way more trouble than it’s worth 😭
back in the good ol days of 2017 when me and some friends tried to get banned from a bunch of aminos, kpop amino took the longest to get banned from so i could tell that there were probably a few staff problems lol
when i was on amino, i had people saying they were going to off themselves, one of which was my friend who saw me getting close to another person, and told me they were in the hospital for that, then got on ffxiv with me like two hours later like nothing happened when i was so anxious and nervous and each time i didnt see the typing thing i felt like i was about to cry and it was fake. didn’t find out until a long time after stopping talking to them. it was a toxic froendship for sure. laughing at my misery over a comfort character’s end, making me conform to their schedule, making fun of my ideas, and so much more.
I got dragged into so much drama on amino. The group chats I'd be a part of had way too many people who constantly had fights and took sides over the dumbest shit 😭 At least I managed to keep a good handful of amino friends who matured and we all moved to discord 👍 I also remember being one of the first people to buy amino+ and I got bullied so much for it lolol
THIS IS SO ACCURATE IT HURTS amino was an.. experience. That’s for sure. I met some of my best friends on amino. It’s been a little over 5 years and we’re still goin strong!
The absolute power Amino had over me is insane. I was addicted. Spent all my spare time writing blogs, chatting with friends, editing pics for my blogs, I even joined the staff of a decently big amino. I spent about 3 years on there. I remember how I used to stay up all night to chat with my American friends even though I live in Europe. I had a schedule on what days each week I’d post blogs, tried to join in on community challenges, I was obsessed… I felt pressured to participate in role play when a higher ranked user asked me to, which then lead to a awkward ass long distance relationship 🙃 Gosh it feels so weird to think about this experience now. It felt so nice to distract myself from all the shit that was going on around me, I had so many positive experiences and recall seeing amino as the light of my day, when really it was just a way for me to escape all my anxiety and mental issues. In a way I appreciate all it did for me, and how it helped me improve my English drastically, yet I feel a strong sense of shame and embarrassment when I think of my Amino era. Glad I’m not the only one who got really attached to it. Feels comforting to know others had similar experiences and still deals with complicated thoughts on Amino.
I remember being in an amino group chat, and someone suddenly started live-updating us about their house being broken in to right at that moment, describing all the things they could hear and such. Looking back on it, it was clearly faked, but 13 year old me was terrified.
i remember in 2017 one of my friends on amino began participating on a "rebel group" formed by other members who wanted to overthrow the staff in our favorite community back in the day, and she added me in the group out of nowhere. summer break that year reminds me of staying up until 5 or 6 am laughing and talking to my friends in "rebel group". it was so much fun, though we all had a huge fight at some point and i only talk to two people who were there nowadays
Lmao one of my friends had one of these "rebel groups" formed around him after he'd already left a big amino filled with edgy drama. I got worried but he said they'd get bored and drop it in a week. He was right. 😂
I downloaded amino at the start of the month because I’ve always had trouble making friends. I’d initially thought it seemed like an awesome way to make friends in fandoms or with similar interests, but instead was overwhelmed with dozens of messages asking to do 18+ role playing in discord, or outright asking for pics… I chatted a bit with one person briefly who opened with normal convo (let me know the app was dying and I joined at a bad time as well lmao), then proceeded to also ask for pics. So disappointing, deleted within 3 days.
my 2 biggest core memories from amino were 1. realizing the app is full of predators and 2. when my online friend from a wings of fire roleplay group chat started telling us that they were hearing noises outside and when they opened their door there was a backpack and when they opened it there was a gun inside then they started hearing more noises outside and the last thing they sent was "fuck" and i didnt hear a word from them until i got home from school and they said they woke up in a basement they didn't recognize. and all they had was their phone which was dying. so someone else in the group chat was like "get off amino and call the police ur wasting data" and i dont remember the rest of the details except they got out and are safe. to this day i still honestly believe them because there is no way they could have faked the pictures and things they sent, and this is coming from someone whos a huge skeptic about online stories
I got into amino not that early, bc I was active user of Google+, but when I came there like in 2018 it was… scary. I always felt like this is not place for me to be around, but stayed bc of my friend at the time. I loved the customisation options of accounts and forums, but people were just infantine enough so it was really hard to chitchat with them even I myself was childish enough. Last time in begging of 2020 I finally found REALLY good roleplayer but they just gone offline and never ever again returned back to our chat xD And bc of this I stopped sitting in amino since there is nothing interesting for me to do…
It happened a lot to me, every roll group would just not include anyone else even if i tried to participate they just ignored me, so i was just there, reading their roleplay because they just wouldnt include me, but if i didnt talked, they will simply kick me off for being ""inactive""💀
Most of my experience with amino was great, but a couple of years ago I got: 1. Banned from a group chat for @ ing someone because I didn't know their name. 2. A girl got mad at me for replying to them in a PUBLIC chat and then told me my mom should've punched me while she was pregnant with me. Another thing, the girl was like at the very least 16 or 17, and I was 13, and this was before I got therapy, so I wasn't in a great mind space. Plus it was quite obvious (pretty sure it was in my bio) that I had autism. I left that community and now I'm in a very friendly and slightly dead community, and I have a lot of friends. Amino is actually where I started finally getting confidence in myself and it changed my life.
I was a fanfiction writer on the Miraculous Ladybug Amino for a long time. I remember someone posted how they were going to sewer slide themself and I freaked out. After awhile though, seeing that stuff just became the norm. It's sad to think about that.
i used to be in an amino and it was… weird.. being a minor on amino and having that mindset of “no one would find out, it’s fine” was kinda bad. especially since most if not all the chats i went into were rp ones. it was even worse when they’d go into the 18+ areas and EVEN worse when that’s go to pms. i was a MINOR in pms with, i assume, adults, rping our ocs doing the do. it’s messed up too, cause i still find myself missing it, even tho i know it wasn’t okay for a minor to do. goofy ahh how big of a chokehold amino had on me
even though i know the people i met there weren’t exactly great either, my amino experience taught me how to NOT be a good friend. i loved to vent out of the blue, and would get jealous when friends hung out without me to the point i’d just ignore their messages and even delete my account for WEEKS so that people would worry for me. i also think the featured posts were the reason why i burnt myself out and tried to make like 5 finished drawings a week. every time i look back at my time there i think “wow, that was terrible” and also “wow, I WAS terrible.” i kinda hope the people i’ve hurt are doing better now. i think i did all these things back then mostly to get their attention, i highly doubt i had any bad intentions. still, i’m glad that phase was over and we were all able to move on.
OH MY WORD- THE "//" IS JUST SO CLEAR ON WHAT YA SAYING 😭 I roleplayed as well, and I have a lot of grammar trauma. I had awful spelling and grammar at the beginning, and over time, I learned through roleplaying, and a lot of... /pain/... Like you were saying, roleplay was for fun, and not for, well, traumatizing experiences. I still roleplay, but with a lot more warm and safe people now ❤ Anyways, thanks for the video, i was actually just looking for a review for amino cause i thought to install it. Ive been in the HUGEST mood to read comics, but i dont wanna install webtoon so. And I found out that Amino was more for communities. 😅
my amino experience was definitely something. if you were under 13 they would bully you (at least in the lps amino) which just made me sad because little kids wanted to collect little plastic animals too. a lot of the members were adults and they would even participate in that. the curators/staff were also kinda rude and a lot of the time the adults would make me feel uncomfortable with excessively weird and sometimes perverted messages in gcs or mentioning topics like a**se or self harm. people would also flex collections (like not just displaying it) but like literally being like "oo look at two pieces of plastic that could pay for rent." it kinda made me realize if you wanted to collect little animals and have people that shared your interests 90% of the community was really bad. I joined around 2020 when the app was kinda dying, and i was definitely WAY too young to use the app with most of the community being 15+ and it was actually rare seeing people around my age range and people who weren't creepy. the hunger games amino was pretty fun tho tbh lol.
I remember being on Amino at eleven, then somehow this grown adult found my UA-cam channel and put on a confessions page that I sounded like a child, and then a whole hate campaign and search for evidence started against me, instigated by older teens and ADULTS 💀 I was out as LGBTQ+ at the time too and my channel was linked to my mom’s email, so I was terrified that they’d out me to my family too. It was overall not at all fun
I went on amino once and I got catfished so bad. I was 19 and she claimed to be 18. On a group chat she said she's 16(or younger can't remember) and I noped outta there father than a father buying milk. To make it even better every detail I thought I knew was a lie. I've purged the login information from my memory and never went back in 3 years at the time of writing Edit: before you ask why I was on animo a friend of mine recommended I go there for good anime recommendations and a community since where I live you are mocked for liking anime because "it's animated therefore a children's show". My family still doesn't know all my hobbies because of this. I ain't saying anything
I had a positive experience with amino because when you post art, it's super easy to get a ton of interaction, and once you got featured that just blew you up. But the chatrooms definitely made amino's downfall, especially because Amino itself almost never moderated anything and all the curating was done by children. To this day I'm still looking for a platform similar to amino but with better moderation :/
Left this in the replies of a lovely commenter with a lovely pfp, but thought it would be inice to share here: I was the curator of a pretty large amino for ED recovery. Our amino ended up getting banned because there were so so so many toxic ED communities, and their members would join ours assuming we were the same (one of my jobs was to kindly inform people of this and flag triggering posts when they'd come up). As the most active curator, and one who had already gained a reputation as being incredibly passionate about my job before becoming curator, I became the sort of support person for struggling members. What's weird, I don't remember any of this as traumatizing. I remember being terrified for people in chats, but always confident that we would make it through together and that maybe I could make things better. I was thirteen and getting messages from adults saying I saved their lives. And all of that is gone now. But it happened. And I just think that's crazy.
i didn't have a lot of friends and was pretty bullied in middle school, so amino was the only place where i found people to talk to and to be able to talk about my interests. as toxic as it was at times, i made some friends there whom i still talk to despite not being in the app anymore
I feel like I was very lucky when it comes to the amino experience. I was mainly in a small amino called cartoon amino (rather than going into specific fandom aminos) in 2016 and I met a group of people throug a steven universe roleplay chat that I am still friends with to this day. We have a discord server together where we talk regularly and play games (we even do some rp for the nostalgia haha). I really couldn't be more grateful because they are an amazing bunch, and I really feel for all the people who didn't have a good experience on the app.
gosh i feel like i had the least traumatic amino experience ever. like the worst thing that happened was one of my friends getting banned from a community and it losing most of its chat activity
the part when you mentioned about the nct rpers 😭 the fact that back in 2020, when i was fairly new to the whole "rp" thing, i joined a community and my "face claim" was lucas, AND WHEN I TELL YOU, these other nct rpers spammed me into groupchats nonstop, spammed my wall on my profile and "wiki" comments that i had to turn off the comments and turn off my invites, then they decided it'd be funny to tell me that in another community, somebody was "pretending" to be me, like they had the same profile pic, name, aesthetic, EVERYTHING, so they invited me to this community and i dmed the person, they invited me into a gc with everyone in the gc (the community was only a small one, literally just all the nct roleplayers, so like 20 of them) and i almost went into a panic attack because this person "pretending" to be me was going around asking others for feet pics, nudes ect. i was FIGHTING FOR MY LIFE trying to get everybody to believe that i wasn't the troll,, only for them to change their profile and everyone laugh at me sending messages like "we were joking, we only did all this to get you to join our community" LIKE, THEY COULDN'T HAVE ASKED ME TO JOIN LIKE A REGULAR PERSON?! INSTEAD THEY DECIDED TO TRAUMATIZE ME MAN 😭😭 i left the community after they apologized and blocked them so they wouldn't ever find me in other communities again cuz i was NOT going through that shit again. lesson learned and i never roleplayed nct after that, them people were too chaotic and crazy for me 🙏🏼
I was mainly in the Pokemon Amino (and I joined when it still had a separate community app). I remember I was so happy finding people who enjoyed Pokemon as much as I did. For some parts I have really good memories from that community. I was one of the most active users and I also used to post lots of blogs that often got featured, and increased my following by a lot. I think when they added the ranking and levels feature I was top 80 in reputation points in the whole community (and I am pretty sure it was one of the largest ones). Anyways, before I used to genuinely enjoy writing blogs and people seemed to enjoy my content and writing style too. Then I got super burnt out because I thought I had to post at least once a week to keep up with my popularity. Still experienced everything you mentioned in the video though, so kinda glad I quit after awhile.
OMG I just remembered something, who here remembers Headliners? So basically Amino themselves made an invite only community to test some new features, and they invited like random people that got their posts headlined on like the main page (like outside of the communities), and being invited was such an honor omg. It's also what lead to things like cross-community collaborations, because team amino had these challenges, and for one of them they assigned people into pairs and they would have to make a post together and post it on their account, and the pairs were deliberately chosen to be from different communities. For example, I was from the Lego Community and my partner was from the smash community, so we went together and made a smash bros moveset for the lego figure, with references to the different lego games, and like skins for different lego characters like Lloyd from Ninjago or Emmet from the Lego Movie
Still not done watching the video, but I just wanna give my own Amino experience, because I was actually the leader of one! Not the MAIN leader of one, I didn’t make the Amino, and I was one of the younger staff members, so I was still too young to be calling any super important shots. (Not that anybody in the staff team could do that alone anyway. Our staff team communicated and decided on things as a group all the time, but you’d be surprised by the amount of Aminos, even larger ones, where all the staff just go rogue lmao) But if any of you know the cartoon Total Drama Island, I used to be one of the leaders of that Amino! And I did admin junk from May 2017, up until I resigned my position in February 2020, mostly to focus on me and my own personal projects. I still thank Amino to this day because I wouldn’t have even a quarter of the friends I have today without it, and I think that overall, I was VERY lucky to find myself in some very mature and understanding groups that did their best to set a good example and educate me when I was just a weird kid who didn’t really know how socializing worked and was just winging it the entire time. Everyday I feel very thankful to have a lot of those people in my life still! But with all the good, obviously there’s still A LOT of bad as well, and I’m not even 5 minutes into this video yet and I can already say for certain that whatever you’re about to go over is probably 100% accurate and universal to ALL communities. Even putting trauma aside for just a moment, the amount of ridiculous shenanigans people would get up to for attention or to look cooler was WILD. Just because I can’t particularly remember a lot of the dumb and petty things some people would do doesn’t mean it didn’t happen frequently enough to make me go grey. Amino is definitely the source of some trauma for me, and probably just about everybody else who went on it. For example: the time some troll thought it’d be funny to spam posts of actual real life gore! Think like screenshots from ISIS or Cartel videos. There’s also the absolutely atrocious amount of groomers that make their way around, in fact, I distinctly remember one occasion where the people I worked with on the staff team would periodically go quiet because they were busy investigating and reporting things to the police! And I couldn’t tell you how many hours I spent talking to a bunch of my own friends while they told me about the new traumatic experience that they went through. Needless to say, I’m definitely happy none of us use that app anymore, because the stories I heard of some people, and some of the people I had to deal with myself as a leader, were absolutely VILE. I sometimes look back at Amino, just to see what people are doing nowadays. And honestly, thank goodness it’s not nearly as active as it used to be, because I was there during its golden years and even with all the good things I experienced, I still consider myself in an extremely lucky position. It’s not a risk I’d want anybody else to take, I could’ve easily made one wrong turn early on and I’d be an entirely different, probably much worse person today. Tonight I look at the Total Drama Amino and see only 8 people online, compared to a few years ago where you could come online and more than a few hundred people cycle in and out throughout the day! (Which I understand aren’t HUGE Amino numbers, but you still see a lot of crazy things happen regardless! Even the most niche communities have their own horror stories.) If anybody actually read this, thank you for your time! I apologize for any typos, or parts that are just generally hard to read. If you have any questions about my experience, I’ll see if I can answer!
i was so excited for this video!! amino was full of people who did not know boundaries omg. i had multiple experiences where i accepted a message request and responded to them and then they immediately got angry when i didn’t respond for a couple of minutes after they texted back. like WHAT i don’t even know your name, who are you texting like that?? i’ve had a lot of good and bad experiences on amino, kik, wattpad, etc. (all the apps where 13 yr olds thrive) but you mentioning how people would randomly bring up horrible experiences REALLY hit hard. TW! ABUSE my worst memory of it was on wattpad when i was, i believe 12 or 13! i once started talking to someone because i thought their profile was cool. they began telling me everyday about how badly their mom abused them. like BAD, and i would be scared when they told me that something happened and then just GHOST! for days!! i thought they died, i was terrified. and they would text multiple times about how bad it was getting if i didn’t respond for a while. i still remember it and think about it like 5/6 years later. stuff like that kind of just… stays with you.
This may sound very strange, but when I had my wattpad phase, it was VERY common to make friends who would vent to you with no warning and talk about unaliving themselves. But yeah weirdly those two apps are more similar than expected the more I think about it
I remember when amino was all separated and the only social media my little mind could handle but I have very fond memories of the early years once all the updates came in and everything became massive all my friends ended leaving the app and I guess I grew out of it. The app definitely had issues tho like a lot the grooming I felt like at least in the aminos I was in was prevalent which sucks
As a current user of Amino I'd like to tell about how it is now, at least from what I see nowadays. I have grown up all high school with amino, for me it was great, I am in the lucky few who never had really bad experience, even toxicity spared me for the most part. I left it because I felt there was too much kids and as I was getting in my 20s I felt uncomfortable. But I missed it, so I came back a few month afterward. I didn't rejoin all the communities I was in, just a few that are not dead yet and are a bit active. We are far from the 1000+ active userbase of the "golden age", but with less people, come less toxicity. I can't say for all Aminos because I didn't join them all obviously, but from what I see, the buying pretty much finished the app, they don't do a thing about the app, they just let it vegetate, and promote the massive big communities like Anime / manga ones, Genshin has a big community there... but they haven't change the fact that you can't delete your community so there are hundreds and hundreds of dead communtiies with only a few accounts that have already left. There seems to have less bots now, there was a time where most community closed themselves (meaning you need approval to enter) because there was big raids of spam bots and it was... let's say a sport, to ban them all. But we still have some weird people trying to manipulate you and gazlight you into weird stuff, I know of one that join all the communities around the topic I'm in and don't even change their location, age or name, so everyone kinda know them now. Overall the communities I'm in are pretty chill and respectful, with an age ranging between 13 to 25 and a majority of 16 to 22, so it's not all kids, and the adults her are, to my knowledge, pretty responsible and mature. Youngest kids avoid chatrooms as well and just share their stuff So nowaday, at least in the part I'm in it is really much more chill than it was before. I can get help to learn stuff in my hobbies, people are respectful, it's really neat. Now if any of the current user who have another experience, it would be interesting to share it, or comfirm mine, idk it's a nice complement to the video I think
Got flashbacks to Blink Amino from this 😭 Have a friend that used to be one of the leaders on there and I used to be one of the reporters; The drama within the staff was insane. Lots of jealousy, stealing, and catfishing 😭 Was also apart of the welcoming committee for TXT amino both before and after TXT's debut. I remember how stressful and competitive every team member was, none of us really got along and eventually everyone left.
I used to use Amino so I could post fanart for a webcomic I liked, but I never used it enough to see any of this. It’s scary how awful social media tends to be, especially for minors. I really wish parents would keep their children away from social media instead of letting them join before they even turn 13 😔 I was also in the RP fandom, I had a lot of older people pressure me into doing NSFW RPing when I was WAY too young to be doing that.
GOD I do NOT miss using Amino. Like, I've met some really cool people during my time there and I'm happy was able to stay in contact with those folks outside of that app. But MY GOODNESS, it was a time. I cannot stress enough that prosocial relationships are moderately terrifying and must be made clear that these are not people you know personally. Making friends and talking to other creators you look up to are okay...so long as it is done respectfully. Being an artist on Amino wasn't necessarily bad but not great either because of how the constant eyes and or pressure put on your account whenever you were online or posted. Like, the shit was weird. I don't regret using it since I've had the opportunity to meet so many cool artists. But I'd probably not go back out of fear of my activity being stalked XD
Since I like to leave the negative impacts of that app in therapy, I’ll talk about the only few good memories I got. People didn’t know my gender, they actually could never figure it out even with voice chats and I loved that so much, I was welcomed as a guy and a girl. Come to find out 3 years later, I’m just gender fluid. Another nice thing is how well I learned to type and communicate. Since group chats were of all ages I was able to learn from the older kids and even adults how to be a better communicator and writer. It was only on rare occasions that the role plays felt like actually amazing stories. On top of that, it’s where my career as a writer first began, I learned a lot about character creation through the OC templates, those were actually hella fun and I actually wouldn’t mind doing them again with my current characters I have for the story I’m writing. Lastly, I met a friend on there who truly did care about me, we were friends for 5 years even when we moved off amino to insta. I hope they’re doing well. I cut contact with them only because I felt that I must move on, going from High School to College I needed a fresh palate, ya know?
being in chats was always scary for me because i was just scared of talking to strangers in general, so other than that i used amino to post fanart and polls and i was just involved enough to have fun and not experience the bad stuff. i kinda knew they were happening but its interesting to hear so many people's experiences on it!
Why did an entire generation have the same experience of talking strangers down like i used to link people to a fall out boy amino folie themed wiki post on sh. which is normal and healthy i am sure
I have to thank amino for giving me some sort of entertainment, and being able to talk to so many cool people but the DRAMA was insane. ARA and KRP communities were the most toxic from my own personal experience. Some of the drama was amusing because of how incredibly stupid it was, but some of it I just wished never happened since I know it affected those it happened to, it even affected. It was great but also literal hell
i was active on amino from 2017-2020, fell off around 2021-2022. i was far too young, talking to online people at 11.. for every traumatic experience, there were fond memories. i found my longest online friend group of almost 5 years there though!! i was also part of the kpop community (BTS) and RP (BTS, Pokemon, Mystic Messenger, miraculous ladybug, haikyuu.. whatever my main interest was at the time) and man.. i could make a lengthy video just like this with my own experiences lol. I even hosted a BTS themed event and got paid by an amazon gift card!! i bought a BTS album with it LMAO
I remember the amino days and it was originally promoted by a ktuber and I simply left cause I didn't feel as passionate posting anymore and life got in the way. I also felt I grown out of the app
I was a curator in one of the biggest aminos. I spent over 8 hours a day moderating, I even moderated in class and was scared of being in the shower for too long, because that meant I wasn't moderating. And then I was kicked because I usually only flagged between 300-350 posts most days when the requirement was 300. Some people flagged over 500 a day and because I wasn't as good as them, even though I met the ridiculous requirements every single day, I was kicked. I felt so bad and blamed myself for years, but now I can see how crazy all of it was.
which amino was it
@@variantangled LGBT+ amino. At least back then it was one of the biggest ones, no idea if it is today because I’m not on amino anymore. This was around five years ago
@@nono-gw7qm i had a feeling that amino was absolutely shite, i left quite early on
@@nono-gw7qm as soon as I read your comment I had a feeling it was LGBT+ amino. I was a moderator for them as well, right before the official amino staff kicked the main creator out of her position for not doing enough to handle the community. Shortly after that I left bc the requirements for moderating were getting ridiculous.
So they kick creators out of public groups they create ?
Culturally, Amino is like the Deviantart of Gen Z: a platform that many young fandom kids flocked to, got scarred by, but ultimately came out with good and horrible memories alike
AH so is this is what i need to tell my millennial friends for them to understand how bad it was LMAO
Isn't Deviantart the Deviantart of gen z?? Or am I just old 🤔
@@Lesyaaaaaaa I never used Deviantart, especially not in a fandom/primary social media sense. I used Amino that way.
@@Lesyaaaaaaa some used amino but in my case i was constantly on deviantart,,,,,,,,,in 2017-2018. i discovered it on 2014 tho but i was VERY young at that age so it was for the best that i didnt make an acc at that moment
I was too young :(
As someone who has used amino for a couple of years I would say this:
1. Minors, please be careful of online groomers
2. Stay away from toxic people and suicide baiting people
3. Avoid drama with curators
4. In roleplay aminos, you get 100+ dms if you have a hot girl pfp [trust me I have seen it]
5. The app crashes ALL THE TIME
Just, please don’t use amino in general
As a Former Amino User for a similar Timeframe i can Vouch this is accurate
So basically discord.
@@Flicker_thefo0x much worse
Nowadays amino seems so much more inactive so u don't get 100+ dms anymore more like 10 or if it's a big and active amino maybe 20
Hahaha forgot to add don't worry when a crash happens, stay away from any potential hackers and ignore trolls who will try to get to you
oh my god i was only ever involved in the bird watching amino and everyone was so welcoming and friendly constantly. People would dump bird pics they’d taken and talk about their life lists with everyone, it was so wholesome. We would also have community art projects, where everyone who wanted drew a bird and they were all photoshopped onto a branch together. All skill levels and there was only ever positive comments & praise for everyone involved. We also used to have massive quiz bowls, where someone would make a super hard bird identification quiz and everyone would spend DAYS trying to get the high scores & talking about it!! i am so sorry that so many of y’all encountered so much toxicity in the other aminos :-(
Bird watching community??!! That is so far from the communities I was in, but wow it sounds really wholesome and wonderful!
Omg how sweet
stop that's adorable 😭😭😭
I was in the book/reading community and didn't have any bad experiences either.
The branch collage is soooo cute! 🥹
I actually joined Amino before it was Amino! It was originally separate apps for each community. Anime Amino and Video Games Amino were the 2 I used most. It actually did more good than bad for me. It was the only place that gave my art attention, and that really boosted my self confidence. I also made friends that I still talk to to this day! It's been over 7 years now. HOWEVER, one of my Amino friends was very clearly being groomed (at the time it bothered me but I was being groomed too, I think, so I didnt question it further). She was around 13 at the time "dating" a full grown man in his 20s. I dont know if sexual photos were ever exchanged but... yeah already bad enough. I didn't have as much bad experiences but I definitely know that it was still NOT a place for children.
I remember that! I was also on anime amino when I was 16, i loved it. Also got kind of groomed but it didnt lasted long since the man bored me, he also shared with me his poems of grief for his best friend dying. It was my first introduction to kik since we talked there. I had experience with creeps from the old days of the internet so I already knew what kind of person he was, never sent a picture but he did send several. I mostly loved anime animo since I got a lot of attention there and as a teenager I was starving for attention.
I remember that! I tried to join a creepypasta amino way back, went to download amino and it said to download yet another app to just be in the community so I just noped out. Probably saved me loads of problems lmao, but I would've loved that art support.
If only there were a place that was like that now... my only guess would be TikTok. But I'd rather not be sucked into that algorithm gambling-tactic dopamine feedback loop hellhole. Plus you have to post regularly or the algorithm nukes you, I do not need that stress.
I remember that, Miraculous Ladybug had its down community app too
I started in Virtual Space. Anime Amino and Pet Amino (?) also existed. It was fun when they allowed the creation of other communities, and it was nice that they tried to make them into separate apps. But overall, the plan was poorly executed, and Amino seems to have been gradually heading downhill ever since.
Omg I remember this. I first found amino when I was 8 years old while looking for Undertale games. I grew up too fast on Amino just because of how mean everyone was to me in the Undertale Amino- But I also remember making friends with someone so idk- Since I was so young it definitely wasn't safe to be on it, looking back on it 7 years later, but I'm glad it happened because I have such distinct memories of it.
I was in a role play community once... the admin was a 40 year old woman who spent more time on the amino than with her two kids.
Felt that.
I miss how good role-play was on it, but man- Shit is so wack now. Plus, the app is wack-. . . The website is-. . . Oh my, the website-. . . I've had a better experince in El Salvador than using the website
oh :I
Fandom moment.
First comment that's made me spontaneously laugh in a while
lets not forget amino being CONSTANTLY BROKEN
Lol yes, there are even tons of "amino broke" user made stickers because it happens so much
as soon as amino wasn’t working i’d run to twitter and search up ‘amino down’ to see if it was really down or if it was my internet 😭 memories
That's actually why I never got into it. I made an account when all the Poketubers were promoting it. It crashed 3 times in a row so I just moved on lol.
I was the person who would tell people online that i wanted to kms. They were always people i’d talked to before but it was so incredibly wrong. I did it because I genuinely needed help and didn’t know what to do but looking back, oh my god it was horrible. I was so young and scared but I should have never put that pressure on people I barely knew online. Lucky I never just left randomly and often id ask if they were ok with me talking about it but I still feel horrible.
how are you now? are you alright?? hope youre doing okay :)
@@chloset. i’m doing better, in therapy now so that’s good. thanks for asking
I did the samw things, even as recent as 1.5 years ago before I went to the hospital. It's really hard when you have no real life best friend to lean on or family you can talk to during those moments -- everything is so surface level and as someone who was raised on the internet and went into dark communities like the proED community to make mhself sicker, it seemed like no one else got it but them. Internet friends make you feel so safe and understood. But now that I'm an adult, I know I can't act like that anymore
@@looseleaflyra glad to hear it!!
Never did that but as a mentally ill person who didn't have help or friends when I was young, I understand. Hope you feel better
I will never forget the absolutely DERANGED roleplay chats I was added to in amino that were run by literal 12 year olds LMFAOOO it was equally traumatizing, concerning and entertaining af all at the same time
That's so true, and I'm sadly still there man, like it's so toxic there.
I am actually a leader of an amino, and OH BOY.
I am still running the amino, and the base that I'm apart of has a literal CULT embedded into it, which is a lot of fun.
I spent way too much time making simple rules that actually have protected my little amino for almost 2 years now, just from seeing the mental breakdowns, exposure posts, etc. That would probably scar anyone who couldnt numb themselves to literally existing.
But yeah, my little amino is still pretty strong. We have a group of friends that run the amino, all very nice people and I would actually love to meet in person, I still personally dm some of them to chat with.
And... our amino has dealt with like 3? Yeah about 3 drama cases, and they were all pretty minor and taken care of real quick.
Tips for people looking to make an amino:
1. BAN DRAMA! I cant tell you how much this saved the amino lol.
2. Hire people who you know well, or trust well. Dont just hire strangers, it never works.
3. If you are the leader, you MUST post to keep the amino alive, especially if its niche. Most of us are sheep, we will start to follow if one person is doing it. Challenges, updates, etc. If you arent active, no one will.
4. Spread the work of managing the amino between your staff. I promise, its SO helpful, and it feels more like a team!
I'll add more later BYE
Man amino has given me so much trauma I swear. Ill share my story, but, I had a boyfriend on amino for four years. I was in a really vulnerable state at the time and he took advantage of me and forced me to be in a three year relationship. It was awful. At first, for the first months It was sweet but then he began being awful to me. Everytime I even did the slightest thing wrong, like not texting him all night til morning, he would get furious with me and guilt me saying how he stayed up all night for me and he is sacrificing his health for me even though I never asked him to, in fact I even told him to go to sleep at a decent time.
When I would say I was in a bad mental state, he would say how I'm a monster and how I'm sick and that I should go to a mental hospital even though I was just depressed cause I felt like I was the bad one in the relationship. Especially when he would force me to take pictures of my face and even forced me to take pictures of myself out of the shower.. even when I was uncomfortable and crying he still made me do it. And I did, because i was scared and if I didn't he would use the "homophobic" card (since he was trans and became a guy) After awhile, I finally snapped and I was so sick of his abuse it was so bad to the point where I looked awful in real life.
I finally said "I'm done" and broke it off with him. It was so bad. He sent me a picture of him crying and boogers slipping from his nose while he held scissors to his wrist, it was disgusting. He then spammed my Instagram page and the art amino we were on. Saying how it was my fault he would kill himself and how he'll see me in hell. It was so bad the owners of the art amino had to contact me to see what was wrong but they thankfully removed him from the art amino and banned him from it. I'm happy I grew the courage to tell him im done, despite the trauma. I know it wasnt a face to face and physical relationship, but it was hell. I'm just so happy I finally deleted the app.
I'm sorry that happened to you. Glad you were brave enough to get out☘︎
So deeply sorry that you had to deal with that type of person in your life, I had something slightly similar happening to me years ago. Really hope you are better now!!
@@monochromicornthetuna4256 thank you so much 💓💓
@@sprout12730 thank you!! I'm doing much better now! I hope you're doing better to! 💖💖
This exact same thing happened to me
after reading alot of comments, ive realised i had a relatively positive experience on amino.. one of the first public group chats i joined, im still friends with like 50% of them & we even have a instagram gc with all the people who were most active in the amino chat😭amino was def rhe gateway of me making online friends & esp getting more into kpop so im glad for that BUT i def was lucky that I didnt get traumatised by anything seeing as how common that was
ESP when one of my irl friends at the time was on the much darker side of amino with the people telling other they wanted to yk....... i never realized how many people actually went through that kind of stuff on the app🥲
Same, I only joined Minecraft and fantasy/apocalypse survival role play communities.
I used to be on Amino and I'm really glad I didn't deal with any groomers and such
There are a lot of levels to Amino, the surface being the safest. It's good to know your experience was on the positive end. I'm also still friends with some other people I met there, so it wasn't all bad.
same, i was in A LOT of communties but somehow always found great people. i accidentally became a curator (turned leader) in one of those communities and somehow that stuff taught me a lot. the community i joined were all wholesome (except for some trolls but everyone i made friends with are amazing) and the fun moments i had with them have a special place in my heart
Amino made me into an arm chair psychologist and I adapted myself into that role, until I was just done. At one point in time I was managing a small village of peoples emotions on a daily basis.
It was so bad and extended to other online spaces I enjoyed like VRChat until I couldn't handle worrying about people I've met just dying or not appearing online.
For YEARS I've been emotionally drained and now I'm somewhat back on my groove.
Amino is such a volatile place either you're having the time of your life with friends you'll be talking with for the years to come or 24/7, 48/14 even trauma and drama.
I relate so much to that. I also took on the role of carrying everybody else's mental health issues and personal problems and it definitely took a toll on me. Especially when some quite "close" friends just disappeared and couldn't be reached by anyone for weeks or even months. It has also made me worry they maybe weren't alive anymore and that's just so scary and devastating.
i had the same experience on discord...never wanna go back to that place lol
Hahahaha same here, but the people who did this to me weren’t bad people, they genuinely had problems and needed someone to be there. I still have fond memories of one particular person, and whenever I post on my UA-cam, they would say hi to me and call me sis like back in the amino days :))). It always warms my heart as much as it drained me. So my amino experience was half and half, good and bad. But god did I relate hard to your comment cause I was that friend as well.
Had an Amino account and was mostly active in the "Yaoi Worshippers" amino (I was 12, I am still disgusted at myself), had a 1000+ day streak, and actively rped with a 34 year old woman...who had a child. And she was online...way more on Amino...than with her child. I cannot remember what happened to her, but god DAMN. Also I got suicide baited by another 12 year old when I said I wouldn't date them, aaaaand I got some dude who wouldn't stop cutting himself over the fact that our ROLEPLAY CHARACTERS were not DATING.
Holy crap I used to be active in that one and so many other yaoi Amimos to try and get roleplay partners...
amino was a trip tbh. at first there would be genuinely good moments like making friends, amazing creations, and it was my gateway to writing. and then boom, drama, groomers, attention seekers and the most toxic people you'll ever meet... yeah i dont think ill be going back lol
Amino was were I had my first contact with groomers, suicide baiting people, and bisexuality
All in all it was a horrible experience for me, but at least it gave me the starting point earlier to discover myself
I was groomed so many times in amino and just nowdays i realized, amino was pretty addictive and turns out to be traumatic, a very dangerous combination
yeah i got groomed by a 19 year old there when I was like 14-15
amino was full of suicidebaiting. Every single person I was close with ended up faking their death. That was like 5-7 people iirc
I am sorry you had contact with bisexuality, I wish you the best in your recovery
@@EgoistTheMoon yes that must have been so traumatic
HOLY FSKJDJD I AM SO GLAD I WASNT THE ONLY ONE IRREVERSABLY TRAUMATIZED BY AMINO I FEEL SEEN THANK YOU GUYS
THAT IS THE GOAL LOVE DW YOURE NEVER ALONE!!!!!
I was literally so brutally bullied by the curators and leaders bro they really have a power trip
@@deaddoodlepool963SAME!! I had this member that kept harassing me and because they were friends with the Owner of the Community she'd send the owner on me every time I stood up for myself. It was so toxic and I'm always going to be Traumatized by memories from Amino unfortunately. (there's far more memories besides just the Mods being assholes but I don't really want to talk about/mention them.)
@@hellishradio what's irritates me to this day is the fact amino hasn't been shut down it's not fair and the app doesn't even work too! Besides the creators the app itself is always crashing! It's proven theirs pedos and Google play store won't take the app down
as an amino veteran, id love to share the fact that MULTIPLE times i had gotten into arguments with people, debating the ethicalities of glorifying n*zis.
gotta love amino
edit: would also like to mention that i joined amino when i was nine, and stopped using it only three years ago. so just imagine how many atrocities ive seen lmao
i'm guessing that was probably the ch amino... i'm so glad i got out of there LMFAO
@@lipichun yes ! it was! absolute worst fandom ive ever been in ngl lmao
Nine year olds definitely should not have amino. Probably not even a phone with social apps.
@@attridemi9679 same fr, my undertale phase doesn’t even hold a candle to my ignorantly racist and xenophobic ch roleplays
@@nikkiralaniakea9527 hindsight is 20/20 but im glad i learned early on how crummy the internet actually is lol
I havent finished the video, but knowing a bit about Amino and the groomers that were there, on my country there was a murder of a 12 year old girl by a man that she met on Amino. It was heartbreaking, an extreme case of grooming, but grooming as a whole seemed very common on there
I’m currently co leader in an amino community. And I’ve got to say- I love everyone on our team. The amino is not so active anymore because it’s themed around a kind of dying fandom, so we don’t have much to do, but when we do, we actually have fun moderating! A lot of people in our community have expressed that they think we’re the best mod team they’ve seen, which makes me really proud! I’m glad I’ve been able to help make amino a more positive experience for these members.
I’ve also been a victim of terrible staff before tho 💀 One time I received a strike in Voltron amino because I told someone in a public chat that I didn’t like a certain ship. And this ship was very popular amongst the staff members. So I guess they deemed it to be bullying or something that I didn’t like it too?? Idk, but I left that community very fast after that 🤡
Edit: Around Christmas, amino actually started glitching a LOT. This wasn’t uncommon but was usually fixed pretty quickly. But this time it was literally so bad and went on for 2 WEEKS. I think that was the final straw for a lot of people. We can definitely see in our community that active users have dropped significantly since that happened. Even my own friend group and I moved to discord instead. If anyone ever needs to point to a specific time and reason why amino died, point to that.
tragic 🥺
NOT VOLTRON.
@@lushfawn yes Voltron 😭😭😭
What things do you and your team do to moderate the community so well?
YOU DIDN'T LIKE KLANCE
I was a moderator on a decently sized roleplay community for quite some time. The people there tended to fall into one of four categories
1. Children
2. Creeps (They never lasted long)
3. Edgy little shits
4. The genuinely neat people who actually wanted to keep the community safe and welcoming for all. Still friends with a few of these!
This seems about right LOL
gotta say i was an edgy little shit
I used brazilian Amino and i was a teen in-between the 3 and the 4 categories (just wanted to have some safe and harmless fun, but ended up with the wrong crowd that encouraged me to be edgy, have web sex and start social movements that disrupted chats).
The people that i got envolved with could be classified as 2 and 3 (one of them posted photos of their literal shit on discord).
I was a number 3 but i became normal when i was no longer 13 LMAO
was also a Curator and I can whole heartedly agree with this statement
as someone who was also briefly part of the amino rp communities and left because it was toxic, you've awoken some very very burried memories lmao
Please i feel like the rp communities was the heart of toxicity on that app
@@degeneratesquid5873 ABSOLUTELY AGREE
“This response is too short, we need 7 paragraphs MINIMUM, college level grammar, and 5 responses per day or else Alyx and I will have to kick you~ -moongoddess99“
@@shotofdepresso6878 hahahhahahaha
Was on anime amino:
Pro: made an awesome lil group of people and we made a discord (we'd talk/play games all the time)
Cons:
-had a slight internet stalker
-had an on/off "bf" from Sweden who I stopped talking to after he wanted me to step on him naked with rubber boots💀
Motherfucker that final fucking point hit me like a sack of BRICKS wtf
YEAH!
I remember being in that amino and it was horrible-
At the time I was in it, there was so much creeps on there that posted
Very not safe images, and when I made a post saying why I was leaving, a leader DMes me and tried to force me to stay
I still remember when some friends made a "dirty" group chat and they tried to make me send n0ds
Anime amino now of days is a hell hole where you join any live and people will yell slurs at you /gen shits outa control
last time i went into anime amino people dmed me slurs almost immediatly after i made a post and someone spammed me with pictures of literal shit not even joking
I’m turning 22 in a few weeks, I joined Amino when I was 15 and was a highly active user on Wattpad Amino. Now, as a full grown adult, I’m relating with all of your points you made in this video. I literally was online for 6-8+ hours a day just for curating. I never slept, I was always anxious and when I graduated high school in 2019 my activity disappeared. I rejoined in early 2020 during the pandemic and the entire landscape of the Amino is different now and I haven’t been on since. Thank you for making this video as it finally made me understand a lot that occurred back in my teen years.
I remember the dating and cheating scandals. I was a victim of the “cheating because of roleplaying with someone else”
Honestly, amino was the first social media platform I went on (at 11 years old!) Due to my home life i quickly became addicted to this app. It was so much fun in the beginning. Amino holds a dear spot in my heart. One of the communities I joined was the autism amino community. I was diagnosed with autism as a toddler, but this was hidden from me growing up. My family was not supportive of my disability, and I was not accepted. But when I joined this community I got to meet other autistic ppl! It was amazing, I felt like I was seen. This community educated me on ways to communicate my thoughts.. Like I said I am very grateful to have been apart of that community, if I never researched about autism I don’t know where I would be. I’m so happy for that part of my life, I am in way better terms with people and my identity. My social is way better now too lol
I don’t use amino anymore.. anyways I have had negative experiences as well. I remember being apart of politics amino where I met nazis and awful bigoted ppl. And in the anime community I met ppl who exposed me to age restricted material.. overall, the things I was exposed to was already relevant in my real life so the positive outweigh the negatives.
Having a good amino experience depends on what community you join. And I stopped using the app as frequently once I got into highschool bc I was too busy then.
this is not me self advertising but literally just curious as to if anyone would wann do this but
i also had positive experiences on amino, despite the negative, and i kinda miss it it raised me 😭😭 so i'm curious as to if anyone would be interested in maybe creating a community just for the good of amino? for ppl like us
Happy for you that you managed to have mostly good experience in a good amino! Kinda makes me want to check out that amino now lol.
So they had a #ActuallyAutistic community on animo?? Very glad you learned about it from fellow autistics, instead of abled parents and doctors!
@@aussiefurbymogwaifan6621 Yes, this part of my life was so long ago now. It is still an active community but mostly dead. Honestly all of amino is dead now lol.
I believed I joined in 2018 ? So it wasn’t #actuallyautistic, that tag is applied more heavily on TikTok. Back in 2018, it was called autism/aspies.. (aspie is a nickname those with Asperger’s give themselves)
Anyways, I did not expect this comment to receive this much attention! Thank you for all the positive responses. Honestly that autism amino community helped me figure myself out and provided me with resources to aid me through life. Without some of the kind fellow autistic strangers I met there, I would still be a confused-angry teenager. Part of me wishes that my parents were more educated on autism/nuerodiversity but I grew up in a southern conservative area and autism resources for young girls in the 2000s were slim. In present time, I’m repairing my relationship with my parents and used the autism resources given to me to help communicate my needs to my parents more efficiently.
Again thank you so much for the kindness.
For as much as I (rightfully) trash amino most of the time, I do have to kinda thank it for making me enhance my skills with writing and drawing. The amount of OCs I made (and tbh roleplayed) in so many different communities just made me fall in love with creating stories and characters in deep levels
For as much as toxicity there is, the few small community did stand out, and at times miss my friends that I made in them before deleting the app. But of course, the toxicity just outweighed the good so easily that I felt like I had no other choice.
Hmmmm yeah amino made me better drawing but at the end of the day I hated most of the stuff I draw back then so they went straight to the paper bin 😴😴😴😴
I joined a murder mystery rp on there, the best one, and the only rp I miss, some I miss the concept but that's just the concept, but that murder mystery rp will stay in my heart forever
agreed, amino was so so so toxic but i’m such a better writer now bc of rp.
yes! amino is where i made almost ALL of my ocs that i still love to this day! and my art and writing skills have improved tenfold
this is not me self advertising i promise but literally just curious as to if anyone would wanna do this but
i also had positive experiences on amino, despite the negative, and i kinda miss it it raised me 😭😭 so i'm curious as to if anyone would be interested in maybe creating a community just for the good of amino? for ppl like us
I remember the really small SEVENTEEN/CARAT community had crazy staff drama back in the day. I believe a minor, 16 maybe?, had owned the community first. And I think a 20-something year old completely conned her into giving them the community leader role, then kicked her out. Somewhere on twitter there's actually a thread about what specifically happened (I cannot remember all of it), but it was so dramatic... I remember seeing weird posts on the community about having a "rebellion" against the current staff lmao. Now it's dead as hell.
What year omg 😭😭
@@Areebvh I think it happened around 2017 but I only became aware of it 2019 ??? Not entirely sure
That sounds fun ngl
omg as a carat amino staff member in 2017 i remember how buck wild it was 💀
eventually i got kicked from staff because I wasn’t able to commit more than 3-4 hours a day being on the app LMFAO
i got a free trip to kcon LA out of it though so that was p cool (by virtue of being literally the only staff who happened to live near LA at the time)
OMG I REMEMBER THIS 😭😭
I was in a furby community. I'm going to be completely honest, it was the best experience of my childhood. everyone was so cool, and helped me make my first long furby. While the members of the group grew up, the community became less active--but more active on discord. Honestly, to the people who were in the furby community you were so cool I still have all the art I drew from you guys and all the furbies I drew. if anyone from the furby community is seeing this i love you and I hope both sides of your pillow are cold
The curators and leaders of amino where absolutely evil, I hated them
back in 2017-18 I used to use amino everyday,I went to sleep at 4 am because thanks to the different time zones 12-5 am was the most active times for the rpers. Now when people ask me how I managed to get so good at english I legit don't know how to answer,I can't go like "I roleplayed for hours everyday for nearly 2 years! 😁" those were my dark times...So anyways I downloaded it again- I wanted to screenshot some of my art from an art amino and ended up reading some of my rps ☠ remind me to never look at them again
Same! I would also stay up way too late because all the Americans would show up at like midnight and I live in Europe. No wonder I was sleep deprived...
oooooooooh so that's where i actually learnt to speak fluent english lol
I had a pretty good time with Amino in the early days, then kind of stopped using it, and the moment I looked back it was pure chaos. Was waiting for you to talk about this hahaha
Pure chaos indeed
I remember posting my own art work onto Amino, almost immediately I was accused of being an art thief despite me providing proof with sketches and line art. This happened on multiple posts
Oof that sucks. I see a lot of art posted with proof in the few aminos I'm in but never see people get called a thief when they have proof
Oh yeah, I kinda forgot we did that
It was pretty stupid. I was in an amino where we had to show at least three screenshots of the process
Omg that happenned to me too! LMFAO I entered an art contest in one of the communities I was a part of and won, and then someone started saying I copy pasted the drawing from google... good times😂😂😂
as someone who is currently in a very healthy and very welcoming rp group, im so unbelievably sorry you've been through the bad shit that you've been through. ive been in those negative and downright traumatizing groups far more than i can count. it never gets much easier, but you learn to cope. wishing you well!
I just found your channel and it’s jarring how similar we are. We’re both bi, have dyscalculia, we’re into k-pop and love Vernon, and we’re into weird nostalgia that most people don’t care about.
LOL LOVE THAT
i remember being like 11 or 12 and sobbing on an krp amino call, pleading to this 27 year old and saying i was sorry because i apparently “shoved her under the bus” in the midst of a drama. she knew i was that young and still treated me like i was old enough to understand and know better, i was a child. she was also roleplaying as onew from shinee and rp dating another member from shinee (i believe it was key but i could be wrong) that key was irl a 13 or 14 year old. idgaf if its rp thats fucking weird, because a lot of the time people would take the rp dating too seriously.. i know i did. sometimes it felt like proper dating, weird asf. i just remember having a mental breakdown over her getting mad at me and i was full on screaming crying saying “im sorry im sorry” its something i remember vividly because of how distraught i was.
thats horrible dude im sorry
wtf 😭😭😭
Lets see what Amino gave me: a 4 year relationship that unfortunately ended but I am still glad it happened, an experience with a 24 year old trans girl who kept insisting roleplaying 18+ things with me when I was 15 (her fetish? Amputation), one friend who I have not talked to in years and I am pretty sure that she has gone missing irl, a friend who came out as trans 2 years ago (so happy for them 😌), and so many people who have taught me about sex better than my parents or school did
The same thing happened to me, he came out as trans and then disappeared one day completely off everything. I miss you, Harper Leaman
@@sourpatchwimp I am so sorry to hear about that
@@ryoko1082 I’m sorry about your experiences too, all of the 18+ amputation stuff must’ve been really disturbing
Amputation?!??
Honestly I dont care what fetish people have as long as its a fantasy thing and not actually wanting to do it, but people really need to check the age of the person and if they actually like the kind of thing first before trying to rp with others.
I say everyone has a fetish even if you probably don't even know it, its common and a normal thing to have but others really need to make sure first ebfore proceeding
I never quite got into Amino because overactive groupchats make me overwhelmed but tbh hearing all these stories, I'm glad I never spent too much time on it
Every day I wake up and thank god that I somehow avoided any toxic fandom interactions despite being heavily engaged with it since middle school
Man, you have no idea how important this video feels to me. My adolescence was basically just Amino, and although I don't regret that fact, I have my past demons from that place. I just wanted to rant here and throw a bunch of my fun, whacky, and/or miserable experiences.
I remember my first true community being an Undertale one that a bunch of UA-camrs marketed. It was pretty cool to finally have a way to talk about a game I liked without having to expose myself, but this app truly got into me when I discovered roleplaying. Roleplaying was just magical, I had heard of it before through my brother (who was a D&d player), and as a pre-teen with aspirations to become a writer... I just fell in love with RPs.
It's not like it didn't have an impact in my life too, since even in that very beginning of my journey, I already made a bunch of friends, most of which would eventually follow their separate ways, but at least one of them stayed with me even to this day. And because the Undertale people are obsessed with Alternate Universes, I eventually made an Underfell version of myself with which I became actually famous in a small circle of roleplayers. Why is that important? Well, I eventually quit that community and went to roleplay on another one (it was about Yandere Simulator, but I barely if ever actually delved into the actual game, my roleplaying was completely unrelated), and kept the Underfell character. Because people were too lazy to read the whole name of the character, they never once realized the character was actually called "Nomed", so for the sake of simplicity, I gained my nickname that to this day I still use in some platforms. "Fell". You can see that's the name of this years old channel in which I'm commenting, which I abandoned.
It was when I started joining RPG-focused communities that my life truly changed. I have so many stories I could tell, stories of character development, stories of war, stories of effort, stories about in and out of the game. To this point forward I'll just rant about some of the stuff there.
I've had relationships there, that I value a lot and who are still my friends even nowadays (in fact, my current best friend is an ex of mine, who I met in amino). In fact, that place played a big role on my romantic life, as I experienced the best and the worst relationships through that. I've been through some pretty abusive shit (hell, I've even *DONE* some pretty abusive shit when I was a younger teenager), and although it's horrible that a young pre-teen was exposed to this kind of stuff, I'm glad that it only happened through the safety of a phone screen, so I never severely suffered (or caused) any harm (although my abusive relationships left some scars on me, and I still regret that I never had the chance to apologize to some people). That has also helped me dodge some IRL bullets, since I've learned to recognize red flags that once I failed to notice online. I was never put in severe danger either, since even as a 14y.o I knew how to avoid catfishers and other malicious people, the only people who knew my face were trusted friends whose faces I also knew, and I was smart enough to recognize predators and dodge away immediately.
Btw, it's funny that you mentioned how some couples considered romantic RP with other people as cheating, because I remember stuff like that. In my experience, my healthiest relationships didn't suffer even a bit with that, it was taken just as a part of the game, but my worst partners created a personal vendetta against anyone my character even talked with, and they definitely wanted me *DED* alongside them. Either way, it was something I avoided, and usually only happened when the partner was just recently invited to a community in which my character was already in a well stablished relationship. I've seen couples in which this was an absolute nightmare though, like that one time when a friend of my friend asked her to date him in the game because his gf's character was married to another guy, but then the gf went like "wait a minute, that's illegal", and freaking nuked my friend. When I entered that community she was basically in hiding like a freaking spy because everybody hated her for no fault of her own, and that was something that took time to fix.
The people there were far better than usual. In regular Amino communities can be extremely toxic and I've seen some of the shit this video talks about. But in RP communities you could usually avoid that, since people were usually more concerned with stuff like grinding, roleplaying and *winning large scale faction wars that came out of nowhere,* so they usually weren't the most toxic. The worst people I've met were usually either a-holes who bullied noobs with their high-powered characters, fighting aficcionados who had too much ego to accept defeat, or just people who were there just to mess with your play in "funny" ways because they wanted attention.
But the roleplaying aspect was always pure gold. I've made so many characters in my life that I don't even know how to exemplify. My most iconic ones were the aforementioned Fell, a guy who manifested in a majority of the games I played in some weird way, going from a god to a demon to a vampire to just a strong mage in every incarnation. One of my first characters was Max, a very sentimental android with an actual soul in him that came alongside a heart of gold, and who eventually became friends with two warring factions (being a member of both of them somehow) and dating the guild leader of one of them. There was Sato, a guy who was just a "frosty edgy boy" but is only relevant because my best friend to this day refuses to call me ANYTHING *BUT* Sato, and that's cute. There was Kyle, a guy I made for a Star Wars RPG who became the Grandmaster of the Jedi Counsil while also creating an economic domination through ship trading and a droid army. There was William, another incarnation of Fell who became better than his progenitor when he, by absolutely random chance just because he was at the right place at the right time, entered the empress' imperial guard and was personally trained by her, while keeping a relationship with the most dysfunctional alcoholic in time, and was so loyal that he came back from the dead centuries later (years IRL) just to find her again. And there were also Ashe and Hina, two characters who were funny just because I grinded so much with them that they ended up becoming too overpowered and breaking the whole game in that community. Man, those were such good times, and it's even better when I remember that all of the people mentioned were actual players with their own stories who happily made part of those journeys with me.
I was also involved with "politics" a couple times, aka the staff. Nothing too big, I was a curator a couple times, a leader once or twice, I once became rich by helping to expose the tyrannical schemes of the leader of a community and foiling his plan to scam everyone, and I've used the money I got from that act of heroism to help someone *literally buy a community,* I'm not even kidding, that was the kind of "coup" that happened when people were dissatisfied with the management.
But unfortunately my journey there was an ephemeral one. At first I was just driven away by the depressive and nihilistic state most people there were, when I realized I'm no therapist and shouldn't try to be everyone's body pillow to cry into like I was trying to do. Then a bunch of my friends started quitting, while others simply didn't have time to play with me and some just weren't interested in the stuff I liked. Suddenly, I started having trouble finding people to roleplay with. Until eventually I came back recently and... everyone is just gone... the communities I played in are dead, my friends moved on from that, and the app was getting... empty. I had predicted that, but roaming my old communities and seeing them look like deserts is just heartbreaking. Never again will I be able to play in that same way, never again will I have access to that game I loved, and even though that hurts me a lot... that was probably for the better.
I'm nowadays a very dedicated TTRPG player, and although that will never rival the scale, the chaos and the magic of that MMO-like style of play, I really love it. My best of friends are still with me, and BELIEVE ME, I REALLY WANTED TO TALK MORE ABOUT THEM, BUT I NEED TO SLEEP (maybe I'll tell about them in another comment if somebody asks for it). Overall, it was a part of my life that I remember fondly, even though the dark aspects of it are still rooted in my brain.
If anyone has read this all... just thank you... deeply. I just wanted to share all of those wonderful and yet terrifying experiences I've had there, and I wanted to be heard somehow. There's a lot of love put into this comment, I just wish I could truly re-live all of this again, meet all the people whose contact I no longer have, thank who I needed to thank, apologize to those I wronged, but that's something beyond my control (just as a small and useless hope, Ruby/Rose, if you're reading this, I'm sorry. Tell Misaki that I said hello). But that's about it, so... have a nice day, afternoon, night, or just a good sleep. That's all I can ask of you all.
This is crazy as fuck and such an interesting read. Someone needs to do a psychological study into people who used apps like Kik and Amino and how it affected their adolescence and socialisation, because WTF. 😭
@@mordantmeg I myself still have some traumas and mannerisms I originally developed there that have provided me with a variety of awkward situations, so it truly has a weird effect in how people socialize. For instance, to this day I'm still paranoid that whatever partner I have will always interpret my silence or even absence in the worst way possible because of my bad experiences, so yeah, that's not fun for anyone.
okay so this is my favourite story to tell people who knew amino. when i was 15 i just started doing commissions. very cheap 5€ stuff. had a guy come to me to make reference sheets for him almost every week. it got suspicious to a point where i stopped accepting those commissions from him. one day he came to me with a character and asked me to redesign them. told me its from his friend who unal!ved themself. i googled the watermark which led me to their amino account that was linked to different social media accounts. they were still alive and pretty active somewhere else so i texted them like "hey this person says you did not so good things to yourself". they told me about the entire "oh yeah its my toxic ex, he is obsessed with me" thing. i then went to amino to confront this dude who then went "oh so they owe me a grand now for all the things i got them". i then got framed from the guy to be involved with this scam his ex did to him and called me all the names in the book and threatened to sue me and all that funstuff. didnt touch amino since that day
WTF That's crazyyyy what did your 15 year old self do?? I would've cried
Oh. My. God. The formal roleplay aminos 😭 the chats would never last more than a couple days and there were always people coming in doing informal roleplay and getting yelled at for it and arguments would break out all the time and there were those people who tried to control your reactions etc etc. Amino and instagram role playing ruled my life from 5th to 7th grade. I remember my two best friends and I had an amino community just for the three of us to roleplay with our little world of OCs and all the different chats were different worlds like “modern” or “medieval” or “college” and we would use it to share our art with eachother on the posting bit 😭 this video brought back so many memories dude
Omg, the formal roleplay 💀i was literally kicked off from a roleplay comunity, their excuse was that i was not roleplaying correctly, i asked if they could teach me how to do it the right way (because i REALLY wanted to participate) but they just denied and reported me instead, i was only 12 years old and did not understood what i was doing wrong but still, they treated me like i did and made a moderator kick me out off the entire comunity ☠☠☠
THISSSS literally so accurate
amino was the most confusing app to me. I could not understand how every fandom was a whole different amino it wasn't just one app with different spaces they were completely different places you had different profiles for like what huh
The top posts feature was both a blessing and a curse, honestly. It's a great idea in theory, but in practise, the leaders and curators always, ALWAYS get accused of bias and favouritism even when they're genuinely trying their hardest to showcase all the best posts in the community. The community I spent the most time in had a whole-ass feature guide that determined what made a post worthy of a top post position and it STILL invited so much salt from people who cared about it way too much. And this community was pretty decently-sized, too; you could get a pretty decent amount of engagement on a post that never touched the top posts section.
i joined amino when i was like 9 or 10... bro after reading these comments im so glad i found it boring and just left after the first week of being there😭😭 the amount of trauma i had narrowly avoided bro
same lmaooo
I was apart of one of the biggest kpop rp communities and even became a leader for quite some time. It was very pleasant memories, since I loved to make aesthetically looking profiles and just the sheer wild west feel of the app.
From negatives, I had one of my old rp "husbands" message me on Instagram years after I quit, sending me a suicide note and stating our roleplay scenarios as fact like "Oh remember that time when you dod this this and this thing to me", so it was a very creepy feeling that someone was so delusional that their worlds were merging together.
Another sketchy thing I remember were the tons of "14 year old dating" communities, where kids would literally advertise themselves to date other "teenagers". Definitely atleast 50% of those communities were groomers.
i was a curator in a very family-friendly community. i was working HARD in that community even tho it was just a middle school hobby- had to fight with my friend because i had to take down her post for saying “lmao” and she didn’t take it well. i was also in supportive amino (literally terrible experience) and made a friend who was 19 (i was 12) and i constantly had to talk him off the ledge :/
I'm so thankful that during my time on amino, I never had a bad experience. For a 12 year old at the time I still had it, it lowkey fun talking to people online. I'm now considering reinstalling the app to see how it is, but I'm also scared of what I might see 🙂
same!! I'd say I did some imature stuff back then but I never had such traumatic experiences as most of the people in the comment section
Mainly because I stuck with the same friends and rarely interacted that much with others. Some of the friends I made during my amino era are still with me till this day lol
ig I was one of the lucky ones
As a person who still has the app on their phone, it's rather dead now, at least the communities I'm in. There's still a couple people lingering around (me included), but most chats and communities have become inactive.
(All my experience though)
this is not me self advertising i promise, just curious as to if anyone would wanna do this so
i also had positive experiences on amino, despite the negative, and i kinda miss it it raised me 😭😭 so i'm curious as to if anyone would be interested in maybe creating a community just for the good of amino? for ppl like us
That snoring sound at the start scared me so much, I wasn’t expecting it
Oh boy. So I actually met my current partner on Amino years ago. We met on "young cosplayers amino" (I think thats what it was called?) and honestly I always forget that's where we met. It is very embarrassing and I always worry about the question of "how did you two meet?" because...yeah. I love them more than anything though. Glad I met them, even if it was in one of the worst places lol
I'm still an avid Amino user (I think I've spent at least 5 years in this app by now) and I can completely relate to most things you mentioned here. It hasn't changed one bit. The parts of this that hit the hardest are the people who will just randomly traumadump when you're in the middle of the most casual, wholesome conversation; and... the roleplaying. (Yes, I am a // kid too). I can also confirm that roleplaying is 100% escapism and it has done irreparable damage to my psyche, but well, at least it has made me a decent writer. But now, here's a countdown of crazy Amino experiences:
-There was this one community that had a "venting buddy" chat, meaning you would volunteer to be the psychiatric assistant of some other member of the community. I think they were good meaning, but trying to advice and console older teens or adults when you're 13 definitely leaves some scars.
-I went through a very rough patch when I was in middle school, and for like half a year my only friend was this one guy I met in Amino. We would speak for at least three hours daily, and then one day he just disappeared. I still wonder to this day whether I was getting groomed, or it was a godsent angel, or the guy fucking died or something. More emotional scars for my young self.
-I had another friend that I was really close with, I bought and made her gifts and I flew over to where she lives, but then we never actually met and I still have the presents I was going to give her at home.
-A wholesome one: Some leaders on a community made an activity where they gave out a class on character writing. I remember being so excited when these "cool big teens" gave me their approval on my work! And it's so crazy to think that now I am their age.
-The most attention I've gathered in a post throughout all social media was actually an Amino post I made that got featured, it was some dumb doodle made with coloring pencils at school and somehow it received more attention than my art does in Insta these days.
-Speaking of features, being featured for cosplay is both one of the best and worst experiences ever. Though it was nice to receive so many comments....then came the dms.
--Not an experience but just shoutout to Amino for teaching me English-
If anyone would like to hear any stories from anything Amino (roleplaying, commissions, wikis, public and private chats, walls), I'd be glad to share more!
Please tell us more lol
I had fun with roleplay back then on the pokemon community I was on
However, there were moments were someone brought up some sad story that happened to them but they replaced themselves as a Pokémon instead v:
Commenting to follow this thread, I'd be interested in hearing more.
@@Candyy248 Actually that reminds me of another experience! This time with a commission in a Pokémon Amino.
I posted a fanart of Braixen (one of my favorite Pokémon) and then, I got a DM. A guy wanted a commission from me, but the way he asked for it... It was just WEIRD. I remember him specifically saying he was “fantasizing” about a Megaevolution of a Pokemon that's similar to a butterfly, that he wanted to see her with longer legs, and the most important part, a zipper (?) I did the commission never to be contacted again, luckily, but something makes me feel the intent with which that drawing was requested wasn't SFW. Must have been around 14 or 15 when this happened.
@@skylerdevinraleigh3447 Sure! I'll be posting more on this same thread.
One time that was pretty scary for me was when I got hatebombed by this one person. As I said, I post my art there often, and once I made a joke piece about a beast character being a furry. I received mostly positive feedback and got featured, but then, this person was just very offended by it or something, and they started commenting on several of my blogs and my wall saying that I was disgusting and sending death threats and such. Luckily in Amino you can delete comments pretty easily, and my friends were quick to defend me, but when I reported the user to the leaders.... They did nothing. That person still roams freely around that Amino, I even saw them interacting with my friends 💀
My experience with Amino surprisingly wasn't TOO bad! I was mainly in Wolf Amino, and from what I remember, the community wasn't that bad. At least, where I was in the community. I was in a roleplay called Dear Wolves and Im actually still in their discord because the people I met there were great and ARE great. My first OC on there was a black wolf with tons of scars called Darkstar... cough... I was also a pretty smart and careful kid, so I kept myself out of toxic things and bad situations pretty well.
I was a curator on the Melanie Martinez amino in 2015 (this was a while before the allegations, relax) I was literally 12 years old and basically helping run this massive community. I made art that got popular and one time someone copied my art exactly and posted it as their own, then claimed I had copied THEM. Fsr everyone in the community dogpiled on me and told me to kill myself between 50 and 75 different death threats from individual users. All For having my art stolen. Anyway I left and never went back. I joined the twenty one pilots amino a little while after and i was in a chat that was obsessed with spreading rumors that Tyler Joseph had attempted suicide and was in some fictional hospital in Ohio. I left there too, because I felt like they were extremely disrespectful towards someone I really respected at the time. I was an extremely popular curator on the Melanie Martinez one (before everyone decided I had copied someone), and only a casual viewer on the tøp one.
couldn't you have proven that you made it first since you literally posted it first?
@@popsicIes they probably tried
@@popsicIes they were also 12
Hello! I was in the tøp community too! I never saw such thing-0-0 wow- I was there since 2016- august2022 after i deleted the app for other reasons -but wow like I never saw this kinda stuff,i did find People talking about travmas and their experiences and things like that:(
I was on Clique Amino too and I vehemently avoided groupchats. Reading comments like this makes me glad I did
I used amino very frequently, I had anime and vocaloid amino before they were even all consolidated into one app, but man am I glad I never interacted in private/group chats/rp. That sounds like way more trouble than it’s worth 😭
back in the good ol days of 2017 when me and some friends tried to get banned from a bunch of aminos, kpop amino took the longest to get banned from so i could tell that there were probably a few staff problems lol
when i was on amino, i had people saying they were going to off themselves, one of which was my friend who saw me getting close to another person, and told me they were in the hospital for that, then got on ffxiv with me like two hours later like nothing happened when i was so anxious and nervous and each time i didnt see the typing thing i felt like i was about to cry and it was fake. didn’t find out until a long time after stopping talking to them. it was a toxic froendship for sure. laughing at my misery over a comfort character’s end, making me conform to their schedule, making fun of my ideas, and so much more.
You aren’t alone with this for sure😵💫
I got dragged into so much drama on amino. The group chats I'd be a part of had way too many people who constantly had fights and took sides over the dumbest shit 😭
At least I managed to keep a good handful of amino friends who matured and we all moved to discord 👍
I also remember being one of the first people to buy amino+ and I got bullied so much for it lolol
Omg fr amino drama was crazy
THIS IS SO ACCURATE IT HURTS
amino was an.. experience. That’s for sure. I met some of my best friends on amino. It’s been a little over 5 years and we’re still goin strong!
The absolute power Amino had over me is insane. I was addicted. Spent all my spare time writing blogs, chatting with friends, editing pics for my blogs, I even joined the staff of a decently big amino.
I spent about 3 years on there. I remember how I used to stay up all night to chat with my American friends even though I live in Europe. I had a schedule on what days each week I’d post blogs, tried to join in on community challenges, I was obsessed…
I felt pressured to participate in role play when a higher ranked user asked me to, which then lead to a awkward ass long distance relationship 🙃
Gosh it feels so weird to think about this experience now. It felt so nice to distract myself from all the shit that was going on around me, I had so many positive experiences and recall seeing amino as the light of my day, when really it was just a way for me to escape all my anxiety and mental issues. In a way I appreciate all it did for me, and how it helped me improve my English drastically, yet I feel a strong sense of shame and embarrassment when I think of my Amino era.
Glad I’m not the only one who got really attached to it. Feels comforting to know others had similar experiences and still deals with complicated thoughts on Amino.
I remember being in an amino group chat, and someone suddenly started live-updating us about their house being broken in to right at that moment, describing all the things they could hear and such. Looking back on it, it was clearly faked, but 13 year old me was terrified.
i remember in 2017 one of my friends on amino began participating on a "rebel group" formed by other members who wanted to overthrow the staff in our favorite community back in the day, and she added me in the group out of nowhere. summer break that year reminds me of staying up until 5 or 6 am laughing and talking to my friends in "rebel group". it was so much fun, though we all had a huge fight at some point and i only talk to two people who were there nowadays
wait cuz why did the exact same thing happen in summer of 2017 too 😭
Lmao one of my friends had one of these "rebel groups" formed around him after he'd already left a big amino filled with edgy drama. I got worried but he said they'd get bored and drop it in a week. He was right. 😂
I downloaded amino at the start of the month because I’ve always had trouble making friends.
I’d initially thought it seemed like an awesome way to make friends in fandoms or with similar interests, but instead was overwhelmed with dozens of messages asking to do 18+ role playing in discord, or outright asking for pics… I chatted a bit with one person briefly who opened with normal convo (let me know the app was dying and I joined at a bad time as well lmao), then proceeded to also ask for pics. So disappointing, deleted within 3 days.
amino literally ruined my social life for 3 years but I really miss that time when I spent hours talking with my friends and sh!tposting
my 2 biggest core memories from amino were 1. realizing the app is full of predators and 2. when my online friend from a wings of fire roleplay group chat started telling us that they were hearing noises outside and when they opened their door there was a backpack and when they opened it there was a gun inside then they started hearing more noises outside and the last thing they sent was "fuck" and i didnt hear a word from them until i got home from school and they said they woke up in a basement they didn't recognize. and all they had was their phone which was dying. so someone else in the group chat was like "get off amino and call the police ur wasting data" and i dont remember the rest of the details except they got out and are safe. to this day i still honestly believe them because there is no way they could have faked the pictures and things they sent, and this is coming from someone whos a huge skeptic about online stories
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@@petertea2393FR 😂
amino was like a fever dream in the most traumatizing way possible
the drama on that app was so funny omg i miss those days everything was so much simpler
I got into amino not that early, bc I was active user of Google+, but when I came there like in 2018 it was… scary. I always felt like this is not place for me to be around, but stayed bc of my friend at the time. I loved the customisation options of accounts and forums, but people were just infantine enough so it was really hard to chitchat with them even I myself was childish enough. Last time in begging of 2020 I finally found REALLY good roleplayer but they just gone offline and never ever again returned back to our chat xD
And bc of this I stopped sitting in amino since there is nothing interesting for me to do…
It happened a lot to me, every roll group would just not include anyone else even if i tried to participate they just ignored me, so i was just there, reading their roleplay because they just wouldnt include me, but if i didnt talked, they will simply kick me off for being ""inactive""💀
I wonder if I happened to have known the role player that disappeared in 2020
Most of my experience with amino was great, but a couple of years ago I got:
1. Banned from a group chat for @ ing someone because I didn't know their name.
2. A girl got mad at me for replying to them in a PUBLIC chat and then told me my mom should've punched me while she was pregnant with me.
Another thing, the girl was like at the very least 16 or 17, and I was 13, and this was before I got therapy, so I wasn't in a great mind space. Plus it was quite obvious (pretty sure it was in my bio) that I had autism. I left that community and now I'm in a very friendly and slightly dead community, and I have a lot of friends. Amino is actually where I started finally getting confidence in myself and it changed my life.
I was a fanfiction writer on the Miraculous Ladybug Amino for a long time. I remember someone posted how they were going to sewer slide themself and I freaked out. After awhile though, seeing that stuff just became the norm. It's sad to think about that.
i used to be in an amino and it was… weird.. being a minor on amino and having that mindset of “no one would find out, it’s fine” was kinda bad. especially since most if not all the chats i went into were rp ones. it was even worse when they’d go into the 18+ areas and EVEN worse when that’s go to pms. i was a MINOR in pms with, i assume, adults, rping our ocs doing the do. it’s messed up too, cause i still find myself missing it, even tho i know it wasn’t okay for a minor to do. goofy ahh how big of a chokehold amino had on me
I’m so glad we all had the same online childhood 😅😅
even though i know the people i met there weren’t exactly great either, my amino experience taught me how to NOT be a good friend. i loved to vent out of the blue, and would get jealous when friends hung out without me to the point i’d just ignore their messages and even delete my account for WEEKS so that people would worry for me. i also think the featured posts were the reason why i burnt myself out and tried to make like 5 finished drawings a week. every time i look back at my time there i think “wow, that was terrible” and also “wow, I WAS terrible.”
i kinda hope the people i’ve hurt are doing better now. i think i did all these things back then mostly to get their attention, i highly doubt i had any bad intentions. still, i’m glad that phase was over and we were all able to move on.
OH MY WORD- THE "//" IS JUST SO CLEAR ON WHAT YA SAYING 😭
I roleplayed as well, and I have a lot of grammar trauma. I had awful spelling and grammar at the beginning, and over time, I learned through roleplaying, and a lot of... /pain/... Like you were saying, roleplay was for fun, and not for, well, traumatizing experiences.
I still roleplay, but with a lot more warm and safe people now ❤
Anyways, thanks for the video, i was actually just looking for a review for amino cause i thought to install it. Ive been in the HUGEST mood to read comics, but i dont wanna install webtoon so. And I found out that Amino was more for communities. 😅
my amino experience was definitely something. if you were under 13 they would bully you (at least in the lps amino) which just made me sad because little kids wanted to collect little plastic animals too. a lot of the members were adults and they would even participate in that. the curators/staff were also kinda rude and a lot of the time the adults would make me feel uncomfortable with excessively weird and sometimes perverted messages in gcs or mentioning topics like a**se or self harm. people would also flex collections (like not just displaying it) but like literally being like "oo look at two pieces of plastic that could pay for rent." it kinda made me realize if you wanted to collect little animals and have people that shared your interests 90% of the community was really bad. I joined around 2020 when the app was kinda dying, and i was definitely WAY too young to use the app with most of the community being 15+ and it was actually rare seeing people around my age range and people who weren't creepy. the hunger games amino was pretty fun tho tbh lol.
I remember being on Amino at eleven, then somehow this grown adult found my UA-cam channel and put on a confessions page that I sounded like a child, and then a whole hate campaign and search for evidence started against me, instigated by older teens and ADULTS 💀 I was out as LGBTQ+ at the time too and my channel was linked to my mom’s email, so I was terrified that they’d out me to my family too. It was overall not at all fun
Thats villain origin story material
alastor pfp checks out
The immediate whiplash from the thumbnail 💀
SORRY LMAO
Did they change it or am I missing something
I went on amino once and I got catfished so bad. I was 19 and she claimed to be 18. On a group chat she said she's 16(or younger can't remember) and I noped outta there father than a father buying milk. To make it even better every detail I thought I knew was a lie. I've purged the login information from my memory and never went back in 3 years at the time of writing
Edit: before you ask why I was on animo a friend of mine recommended I go there for good anime recommendations and a community since where I live you are mocked for liking anime because "it's animated therefore a children's show". My family still doesn't know all my hobbies because of this. I ain't saying anything
I had a positive experience with amino because when you post art, it's super easy to get a ton of interaction, and once you got featured that just blew you up. But the chatrooms definitely made amino's downfall, especially because Amino itself almost never moderated anything and all the curating was done by children. To this day I'm still looking for a platform similar to amino but with better moderation :/
Left this in the replies of a lovely commenter with a lovely pfp, but thought it would be inice to share here:
I was the curator of a pretty large amino for ED recovery. Our amino ended up getting banned because there were so so so many toxic ED communities, and their members would join ours assuming we were the same (one of my jobs was to kindly inform people of this and flag triggering posts when they'd come up). As the most active curator, and one who had already gained a reputation as being incredibly passionate about my job before becoming curator, I became the sort of support person for struggling members. What's weird, I don't remember any of this as traumatizing. I remember being terrified for people in chats, but always confident that we would make it through together and that maybe I could make things better. I was thirteen and getting messages from adults saying I saved their lives. And all of that is gone now. But it happened. And I just think that's crazy.
i didn't have a lot of friends and was pretty bullied in middle school, so amino was the only place where i found people to talk to and to be able to talk about my interests. as toxic as it was at times, i made some friends there whom i still talk to despite not being in the app anymore
I feel like I was very lucky when it comes to the amino experience. I was mainly in a small amino called cartoon amino (rather than going into specific fandom aminos) in 2016 and I met a group of people throug a steven universe roleplay chat that I am still friends with to this day. We have a discord server together where we talk regularly and play games (we even do some rp for the nostalgia haha). I really couldn't be more grateful because they are an amazing bunch, and I really feel for all the people who didn't have a good experience on the app.
gosh i feel like i had the least traumatic amino experience ever. like the worst thing that happened was one of my friends getting banned from a community and it losing most of its chat activity
the part when you mentioned about the nct rpers 😭
the fact that back in 2020, when i was fairly new to the whole "rp" thing, i joined a community and my "face claim" was lucas, AND WHEN I TELL YOU, these other nct rpers spammed me into groupchats nonstop, spammed my wall on my profile and "wiki" comments that i had to turn off the comments and turn off my invites, then they decided it'd be funny to tell me that in another community, somebody was "pretending" to be me, like they had the same profile pic, name, aesthetic, EVERYTHING, so they invited me to this community and i dmed the person, they invited me into a gc with everyone in the gc (the community was only a small one, literally just all the nct roleplayers, so like 20 of them) and i almost went into a panic attack because this person "pretending" to be me was going around asking others for feet pics, nudes ect. i was FIGHTING FOR MY LIFE trying to get everybody to believe that i wasn't the troll,, only for them to change their profile and everyone laugh at me sending messages like "we were joking, we only did all this to get you to join our community" LIKE, THEY COULDN'T HAVE ASKED ME TO JOIN LIKE A REGULAR PERSON?! INSTEAD THEY DECIDED TO TRAUMATIZE ME MAN 😭😭
i left the community after they apologized and blocked them so they wouldn't ever find me in other communities again cuz i was NOT going through that shit again. lesson learned and i never roleplayed nct after that, them people were too chaotic and crazy for me 🙏🏼
I was mainly in the Pokemon Amino (and I joined when it still had a separate community app). I remember I was so happy finding people who enjoyed Pokemon as much as I did. For some parts I have really good memories from that community.
I was one of the most active users and I also used to post lots of blogs that often got featured, and increased my following by a lot. I think when they added the ranking and levels feature I was top 80 in reputation points in the whole community (and I am pretty sure it was one of the largest ones). Anyways, before I used to genuinely enjoy writing blogs and people seemed to enjoy my content and writing style too. Then I got super burnt out because I thought I had to post at least once a week to keep up with my popularity.
Still experienced everything you mentioned in the video though, so kinda glad I quit after awhile.
OMG I just remembered something, who here remembers Headliners? So basically Amino themselves made an invite only community to test some new features, and they invited like random people that got their posts headlined on like the main page (like outside of the communities), and being invited was such an honor omg. It's also what lead to things like cross-community collaborations, because team amino had these challenges, and for one of them they assigned people into pairs and they would have to make a post together and post it on their account, and the pairs were deliberately chosen to be from different communities. For example, I was from the Lego Community and my partner was from the smash community, so we went together and made a smash bros moveset for the lego figure, with references to the different lego games, and like skins for different lego characters like Lloyd from Ninjago or Emmet from the Lego Movie
Still not done watching the video, but I just wanna give my own Amino experience, because I was actually the leader of one!
Not the MAIN leader of one, I didn’t make the Amino, and I was one of the younger staff members, so I was still too young to be calling any super important shots. (Not that anybody in the staff team could do that alone anyway. Our staff team communicated and decided on things as a group all the time, but you’d be surprised by the amount of Aminos, even larger ones, where all the staff just go rogue lmao)
But if any of you know the cartoon Total Drama Island, I used to be one of the leaders of that Amino! And I did admin junk from May 2017, up until I resigned my position in February 2020, mostly to focus on me and my own personal projects.
I still thank Amino to this day because I wouldn’t have even a quarter of the friends I have today without it, and I think that overall, I was VERY lucky to find myself in some very mature and understanding groups that did their best to set a good example and educate me when I was just a weird kid who didn’t really know how socializing worked and was just winging it the entire time. Everyday I feel very thankful to have a lot of those people in my life still!
But with all the good, obviously there’s still A LOT of bad as well, and I’m not even 5 minutes into this video yet and I can already say for certain that whatever you’re about to go over is probably 100% accurate and universal to ALL communities. Even putting trauma aside for just a moment, the amount of ridiculous shenanigans people would get up to for attention or to look cooler was WILD. Just because I can’t particularly remember a lot of the dumb and petty things some people would do doesn’t mean it didn’t happen frequently enough to make me go grey.
Amino is definitely the source of some trauma for me, and probably just about everybody else who went on it.
For example: the time some troll thought it’d be funny to spam posts of actual real life gore! Think like screenshots from ISIS or Cartel videos.
There’s also the absolutely atrocious amount of groomers that make their way around, in fact, I distinctly remember one occasion where the people I worked with on the staff team would periodically go quiet because they were busy investigating and reporting things to the police!
And I couldn’t tell you how many hours I spent talking to a bunch of my own friends while they told me about the new traumatic experience that they went through. Needless to say, I’m definitely happy none of us use that app anymore, because the stories I heard of some people, and some of the people I had to deal with myself as a leader, were absolutely VILE.
I sometimes look back at Amino, just to see what people are doing nowadays. And honestly, thank goodness it’s not nearly as active as it used to be, because I was there during its golden years and even with all the good things I experienced, I still consider myself in an extremely lucky position. It’s not a risk I’d want anybody else to take, I could’ve easily made one wrong turn early on and I’d be an entirely different, probably much worse person today.
Tonight I look at the Total Drama Amino and see only 8 people online, compared to a few years ago where you could come online and more than a few hundred people cycle in and out throughout the day!
(Which I understand aren’t HUGE Amino numbers, but you still see a lot of crazy things happen regardless! Even the most niche communities have their own horror stories.)
If anybody actually read this, thank you for your time! I apologize for any typos, or parts that are just generally hard to read. If you have any questions about my experience, I’ll see if I can answer!
i was so excited for this video!!
amino was full of people who did not know boundaries omg. i had multiple experiences where i accepted a message request and responded to them and then they immediately got angry when i didn’t respond for a couple of minutes after they texted back. like WHAT i don’t even know your name, who are you texting like that??
i’ve had a lot of good and bad experiences on amino, kik, wattpad, etc. (all the apps where 13 yr olds thrive) but you mentioning how people would randomly bring up horrible experiences REALLY hit hard.
TW! ABUSE
my worst memory of it was on wattpad when i was, i believe 12 or 13! i once started talking to someone because i thought their profile was cool. they began telling me everyday about how badly their mom abused them. like BAD, and i would be scared when they told me that something happened and then just GHOST! for days!! i thought they died, i was terrified. and they would text multiple times about how bad it was getting if i didn’t respond for a while. i still remember it and think about it like 5/6 years later. stuff like that kind of just… stays with you.
This may sound very strange, but when I had my wattpad phase, it was VERY common to make friends who would vent to you with no warning and talk about unaliving themselves. But yeah weirdly those two apps are more similar than expected the more I think about it
I remember when amino was all separated and the only social media my little mind could handle but I have very fond memories of the early years once all the updates came in and everything became massive all my friends ended leaving the app and I guess I grew out of it. The app definitely had issues tho like a lot the grooming I felt like at least in the aminos I was in was prevalent which sucks
Agreed
As a current user of Amino I'd like to tell about how it is now, at least from what I see nowadays.
I have grown up all high school with amino, for me it was great, I am in the lucky few who never had really bad experience, even toxicity spared me for the most part.
I left it because I felt there was too much kids and as I was getting in my 20s I felt uncomfortable.
But I missed it, so I came back a few month afterward.
I didn't rejoin all the communities I was in, just a few that are not dead yet and are a bit active. We are far from the 1000+ active userbase of the "golden age", but with less people, come less toxicity.
I can't say for all Aminos because I didn't join them all obviously, but from what I see, the buying pretty much finished the app, they don't do a thing about the app, they just let it vegetate, and promote the massive big communities like Anime / manga ones, Genshin has a big community there... but they haven't change the fact that you can't delete your community so there are hundreds and hundreds of dead communtiies with only a few accounts that have already left.
There seems to have less bots now, there was a time where most community closed themselves (meaning you need approval to enter) because there was big raids of spam bots and it was... let's say a sport, to ban them all.
But we still have some weird people trying to manipulate you and gazlight you into weird stuff, I know of one that join all the communities around the topic I'm in and don't even change their location, age or name, so everyone kinda know them now.
Overall the communities I'm in are pretty chill and respectful, with an age ranging between 13 to 25 and a majority of 16 to 22, so it's not all kids, and the adults her are, to my knowledge, pretty responsible and mature.
Youngest kids avoid chatrooms as well and just share their stuff
So nowaday, at least in the part I'm in it is really much more chill than it was before. I can get help to learn stuff in my hobbies, people are respectful, it's really neat.
Now if any of the current user who have another experience, it would be interesting to share it, or comfirm mine, idk it's a nice complement to the video I think
Got flashbacks to Blink Amino from this 😭 Have a friend that used to be one of the leaders on there and I used to be one of the reporters; The drama within the staff was insane. Lots of jealousy, stealing, and catfishing 😭 Was also apart of the welcoming committee for TXT amino both before and after TXT's debut. I remember how stressful and competitive every team member was, none of us really got along and eventually everyone left.
I used to use Amino so I could post fanart for a webcomic I liked, but I never used it enough to see any of this. It’s scary how awful social media tends to be, especially for minors. I really wish parents would keep their children away from social media instead of letting them join before they even turn 13 😔 I was also in the RP fandom, I had a lot of older people pressure me into doing NSFW RPing when I was WAY too young to be doing that.
GOD I do NOT miss using Amino. Like, I've met some really cool people during my time there and I'm happy was able to stay in contact with those folks outside of that app. But MY GOODNESS, it was a time. I cannot stress enough that prosocial relationships are moderately terrifying and must be made clear that these are not people you know personally. Making friends and talking to other creators you look up to are okay...so long as it is done respectfully. Being an artist on Amino wasn't necessarily bad but not great either because of how the constant eyes and or pressure put on your account whenever you were online or posted. Like, the shit was weird. I don't regret using it since I've had the opportunity to meet so many cool artists. But I'd probably not go back out of fear of my activity being stalked XD
Since I like to leave the negative impacts of that app in therapy, I’ll talk about the only few good memories I got. People didn’t know my gender, they actually could never figure it out even with voice chats and I loved that so much, I was welcomed as a guy and a girl. Come to find out 3 years later, I’m just gender fluid. Another nice thing is how well I learned to type and communicate. Since group chats were of all ages I was able to learn from the older kids and even adults how to be a better communicator and writer. It was only on rare occasions that the role plays felt like actually amazing stories. On top of that, it’s where my career as a writer first began, I learned a lot about character creation through the OC templates, those were actually hella fun and I actually wouldn’t mind doing them again with my current characters I have for the story I’m writing. Lastly, I met a friend on there who truly did care about me, we were friends for 5 years even when we moved off amino to insta. I hope they’re doing well. I cut contact with them only because I felt that I must move on, going from High School to College I needed a fresh palate, ya know?
being in chats was always scary for me because i was just scared of talking to strangers in general, so other than that i used amino to post fanart and polls and i was just involved enough to have fun and not experience the bad stuff. i kinda knew they were happening but its interesting to hear so many people's experiences on it!
Same here, never liked the idea of talking to strangers online, only used it briefly to look at more content from niche fandoms I was in at the time
Why did an entire generation have the same experience of talking strangers down like i used to link people to a fall out boy amino folie themed wiki post on sh. which is normal and healthy i am sure
I have to thank amino for giving me some sort of entertainment, and being able to talk to so many cool people but the DRAMA was insane. ARA and KRP communities were the most toxic from my own personal experience. Some of the drama was amusing because of how incredibly stupid it was, but some of it I just wished never happened since I know it affected those it happened to, it even affected. It was great but also literal hell
i was active on amino from 2017-2020, fell off around 2021-2022. i was far too young, talking to online people at 11.. for every traumatic experience, there were fond memories. i found my longest online friend group of almost 5 years there though!! i was also part of the kpop community (BTS) and RP (BTS, Pokemon, Mystic Messenger, miraculous ladybug, haikyuu.. whatever my main interest was at the time) and man.. i could make a lengthy video just like this with my own experiences lol. I even hosted a BTS themed event and got paid by an amazon gift card!! i bought a BTS album with it LMAO
I remember the amino days and it was originally promoted by a ktuber and I simply left cause I didn't feel as passionate posting anymore and life got in the way. I also felt I grown out of the app
I made my current best friend through amino and idk how we are still connected and talk so much
That’s awesome Aw!!!!