📣 Introduce yourself here so we can welcome you!

[Femme Mantis]

Hot damn, I didn't post in here? Looks like I've gotten lazy.

So ciao, the name is White, that's what you can call me here since it's what I go by on most sites anymore. I'm 23, turning 24 on November 2nd, a gore lover, happily dating user Prince Raivis who is my precious cutie pie and an avid roleplayer of 9-10 years. I love anime, cosplay, cats, tea, guro, horror/Disney films, yaoi and comic books.

I joined Gaia in 05 and this is my original, first account. Me and Gaia have had our quarrels but the site is my home if only for the userbase despite a few bad eggs in the basket I've met many a good friend here. I'm usually either lurking Site Feedback or posting in the series/ooc threads of Barton where all of my evil bidding takes place. I occasionally also enjoy blowing all my gold on art since it's all I want anymore.

Needless to say I support the site as often as I can with GC but with everything lately I've grown a little worried. I don't want to lose my home on the internet despite Tumblr eating away most of my social time now but I guess that's why I'm in this guild: Love the site, hate how it's going.


This introduction was long but whatever, I'm pretty chatty if you can't tell.  

[Frozen Sandman]

I am Mea, I am 23 years old and have been a Gaian since I was 14 years old back in 2004 when Gaia was new ish. I have joined this guild due to the greed and instability of the Market place increase in Gaia, I believe that the new CEO has made this happen for the soul purpose of money and segregation of all Gaians, dividing us all into the people with money, and the people who can't afford to spend money due to RL problems, the spenders have now become the priority and being greatly rewarded with an easy way out to buy their things, while the non spenders have been left out of the equation. We all can work together as one if we tried to maintain the Marketplace's inflammation, ether by discussing pricing, or, halt all Buying and selling in the marketplace till this whole thing blows over, I know we need to support Gaia and its staff members, yet they are ether taking this too far or really needing help in their daily lives and the site. Ether way this is killing Gaia, people are not having fun like they used to before all this rubbish with Flynn's Booty.

You might also be asking why am I not in a Mule....are you afraid of losing your stuff? Well, so far as I see it, what is the use of using a mule account if Gaia is going to die? If Gaia dies, I lose my Virtual Wealth anyways and have to start again somewhere else IF there is anywhere else .... so why not show I am not afraid of losing everything I have, so long as Gaia lives on! We need to work hard to preserve Gaia, we need to all stand together, payers, none payers, rich, poor, GCers, Non-GCers, it doesn't matter, we ether stand together or lose Gaia for good to the greed that has now possessed Gaia.  

[Javier Cross]

White Flag Idiot

Hot damn, I didn't post in here? Looks like I've gotten lazy.

So ciao, the name is White, that's what you can call me here since it's what I go by on most sites anymore. I'm 23, turning 24 on November 2nd, a gore lover, happily dating user Prince Raivis who is my precious cutie pie and an avid roleplayer of 9-10 years. I love anime, cosplay, cats, tea, guro, horror/Disney films, yaoi and comic books.

I joined Gaia in 05 and this is my original, first account. Me and Gaia have had our quarrels but the site is my home if only for the userbase despite a few bad eggs in the basket I've met many a good friend here. I'm usually either lurking Site Feedback or posting in the series/ooc threads of Barton where all of my evil bidding takes place. I occasionally also enjoy blowing all my gold on art since it's all I want anymore.

Needless to say I support the site as often as I can with GC but with everything lately I've grown a little worried. I don't want to lose my home on the internet despite Tumblr eating away most of my social time now but I guess that's why I'm in this guild: Love the site, hate how it's going.


This introduction was long but whatever, I'm pretty chatty if you can't tell.

Pleasure to meet you, White.
It feels like yesterday since the likes of Azukeri Mercer brought me to Gaia, actually.
So long ago. sad  

[Allie Fox]

Hi guys! thanks for inviting me! heart I Agreed on whole matter and willing protest on it!  

[ryeou]

; n ;)/ oh my, im so nervous to do this
but hi hi hi ~!~!~!!
i'm soft hands ; n ; and i normally in the chatterbox or art forum lurking around.
thank you for inviting me to this guild, and lets make a change ; n ;)b  

[Javier Cross]

soft hands

; n ;)/ oh my, im so nervous to do this
but hi hi hi ~!~!~!!
i'm soft hands ; n ; and i normally in the chatterbox or art forum lurking around.
thank you for inviting me to this guild, and lets make a change ; n ;)b

You seem so pretty.
Pleased to meet you. redface  

[ryeou]

Javier Cross

soft hands

; n ;)/ oh my, im so nervous to do this
but hi hi hi ~!~!~!!
i'm soft hands ; n ; and i normally in the chatterbox or art forum lurking around.
thank you for inviting me to this guild, and lets make a change ; n ;)b

You seem so pretty.
Pleased to meet you. redface

aww thank you (/ A )
nice to meet you too~  

[Javier Cross]

soft hands

Javier Cross

soft hands

; n ;)/ oh my, im so nervous to do this
but hi hi hi ~!~!~!!
i'm soft hands ; n ; and i normally in the chatterbox or art forum lurking around.
thank you for inviting me to this guild, and lets make a change ; n ;)b

You seem so pretty.
Pleased to meet you. redface

aww thank you (/ A )
nice to meet you too~

Are you an artist?
Even if you are not an artist, you are welcome.  

[TwinkelenS t a r]

Hello everyone! Madame Xiva is responsible for my presence in this guild; I thank her for that. Anywho, my name is TwinkelenS t a r, but you may call me Twinkle or Star if you so choose. I have been a member of Gaia since '04, though as of four years ago I had to acquire a new account due to my old one being hacked. -sadface-

I spend the majority of my time role playing in Barton. It is really the only reason I am still a part of the Gaian community.

I've never purchased anything with GC, because I can't fathom spending real money [and a lot of it to boot] on fake expensive items. That all being said, the GC system has made it very hard for me to acquire even some of the cheaper items I am questing at the moment due to gold inflation and everyone running out to spend massive amounts of real cash on items instead of saving of their gold for them like the good ol' days. I am hoping that by becoming a member of this guild, we can let Gaia Mods and Executives see that what they are doing is wrong.

Thank you for your time,

~ TwinkelenS t a r  

[rococobro]

er i'm bad at these

hello. i'm ro. i'm a lurker/occasional poster in gcd/sf
sometimes i hang around the cb/at and the art shops forum too

been on gaia since i was 14 and i'm 23 now. in the past i was always pretty supportive of gaia's business decisions, and bought cash here and there ever since i had my first job.

now it's just become so aggressive and invasive, and i'm really disappointed by the lack of/shoddy communication from the majority of staff, and the feeling that most users aren't being heard.

needless to say i'm no longer spending money here.

thanks for inviting me, i'm glad there's so many others feeling this way. whee  

[Sash0]

Hi I'm Sash
Ive been on Gaia since 2007
I check round site fb when changes are made or when I feel like it but mostly hang out in the guilds I belong too to chat and try to have fun, I like zOMG! and like Gaia a lot, I don't vend much on gaia so mostly play games or watch anime in rl, Ive collected items over the years and quest when I feel like it but with the current inflation am not questing for now to see if it dies down somehow. I don't play the pay to play games on here but do buy the odd item with Gaia cash if I really want it, the sales are starting to annoy me though, I like the few friends I have and guild friends that keep me company, I am shy, have anxiety/paranoia problems in rl so Gaia is a place I can always come to cheer me up when rl has me feeling down so will depend on Gaia for as long as I can emotion_kirakira  

[x3rubiachica3x]

I realized I forgot to post in here. Hi, you can call me Rubi, Rubia or Chica. Thank you for the invite, I really hope to see this guild gain a lot more members, and very much hope to see it take some momentum in the near future. 3nodding  

[Tigrosharu]

Hello my name is Tigrosharu I joined Gaia back in September 2009 when I was (does math) 20 or 21 (which is a tad older than most are when they join Gaia) I loved the site and I will be honest people here helped me through a hell of a lot that was going on in my life at the time.

I used to be a big donor, but I stopped after I saw the prices going up and noticed that the business practices seemed to be veering towards the area of "money first customers second", I originally joined Gaia for Zomg and I still frequent it when I can in between class work, apartment work (keeping it clean), side projects, trying to finish one of 300 unfinished books, and job searching as well as legal and medical related things.

When I started I avoided forums and it is only fairly recently (after my return from Hiatus 12) that I ventured outside any forum besides the Supernatural sub forum. My previous major was Business Management before I swapped to my current major so I do have a degree of understanding concerning how companies should be run, and one of the principal rules is "Target your market, understand your market, work with your market and target audience".

More or less this means be aware of what kind of audience your business is targeting, in the case of Gaia that would be (mostly) teenagers to young adults who are into the Anime/Manga/Gaming Genres and may be aspiring artists (and are highly impressionable, limited on funds, and may have severe self esteem and mental issues related to bullying) who come here to escape reality or find friends.

It seems to me Gaia has forgotten this rule, especially the bit about limited funds (though some Gains may be wealthy IRL I doubt that many are) and they have forgotten a big part of what made this site great, the fact that the community had a huge say in what would happen to Gaia unlike other sites and they have forgotten what kind of people visit Gaia as that horrid survey showed.
(I was personally badly affected by it)

I decided to join this guild when invited by Madam Xiva because of the recent few months, I come back from Hiatus number 12 to a situation where Gaia is no longer what I remember and where Gcash only sales are rampant, Flynn's Assets are used to generate gold for Gcash(breaking tos), and Gold items are rarely released and we don't even get the seasonal updates I recall from when I joined. The resulting economic split terrifies me due to how much it resembles the IRL economy in the USA, and we all know how that is going at the moment.

The current CEO is a large part of it, and dealing with him is most likely the best way to set gaia back on the right track and the only way to do so it seems is to organize.
And this guild is about organizing to make a change, I am all for that in fact I am all for using real life chalk art in protest at conventions while waring masks to hide who we are as well.

And maybe just maybe we can bring back HoC too.

Here is to hoping of enough of us get together we can do something about this mess and make a change for the better. biggrin  

[ShadowsFreedom163]

Hello Everyone.

My name is ShadowsFreedom163. I am 18 years old and I love Gaia and my Gaia Family. I currently run a Roleplay Guild called Korianna. (We are looking for members). My Gaia history goes like this.

I have been a part of Gaia for about five years now. I found this site when I was lost in my life and had no where to go. Through Gaia I have met people who have saved my life (Literally). I took a short time off and when I returned to this site I found total chaos.

Now I love Gaia. The friends I have made are like my family. I love being able to meet new people and fit in. But I am one of those many people who can't afford to buy cash cards. I feel like I have missed out on opportunities because of this. In my five years on Gaia, I have scratched, clawed, sold items, worked my butt off for, and begged my friends for donations, for the items I have wanted to buy. (It hasn't been easy and I am sure someone here can relate.)

The reason I joined this guild is because I agree with most Gaians that the Gaia cash has spun out of control. I don't believe that you are an "Exclusive member" if you spend 999 Gaia cash in one year. I believe we are all equally important to the community of Gaia. Yes there are some of us who are veterans of five or more years. But that doesn't make us "Exclusive members", now does it?

I just want to see the site, where I found so much love and friendship welcoming me with open arms, to be restored to the former glory it once was. I want users to flock back to this site because it is fun and it isn't all about how much cash you spent to get into some "Exclusive club".

~Shadow  

[Faerel]

Hello, I'm Faerel, Fae for short. I sincerely hope that Gaia will once again become the entrancing little world it was. Pushing cash left right and center, and even going as far as to put cash shop updates in the STAFF NOTICES is just plain disgusting. Gaia is my personal escape from reality, and I don't like where it is going. I want to help save Gaia.