Ganbare!

I usually have a tendency to run way too long with this kind of thing so I will keep this simple and to the point.

I never interact with Dragon Ball sites.

I used to, an awful lot actually. But for a long while now I haven’t. I guess I stopped pretty much all forms of communication with other sites because I didn’t like where the whole thing was headed. Now, I don’t think anyone saw it as an exclusive club, (although some may have wanted it to be that way), it was just a collective.

Now I hear death cries, “The DBZ Community is no more!”, but I don’t believe any of that. No web-master created the “DBZ Web Community”, the fans did.

They labeled it as such, and for one reason or another, it stuck. It’s not like I’m denying there was a holocaust, I’m just suggesting that there never was a unity that was so strong as a community. It was a group of fans turned web-masters that eventually went their separate ways. It was history repeating itself. Same thing happened before (I’d say) 95% of the people reading this had any clue what Japanese animation or Dragon Ball Z were. When it first happened, there was no wild-fire-like panic across message boards, (what few there were back then), everyone just accepted it. People moved on, and inevitably, people stepped up to take their place. I see the same thing happening today. Countless young hopefuls are rising from the ground, and yet you still continue to cry, “The DBZ Community is no more!”

Time to face the facts guys! There will never be another DBZ “Community”, unless you allow there to be one. Some excellent sites are gone, big deal. It’s not as if you right now can’t start your own! Many of the DBZ web-masters of the past have made careers or jobs for themselves as a result of their hard work. They’ve become translators, writers, graphic-designers, consultants and even lovers. These were just High School and Middle School students! They all arrived at these positions by working as hard as they could to create a site made for fans, by a fan.

The “Community” was something all of you made up. You made it seem as if DBZ itself was failing. Please allow me to make it clear who failed. What were those sites without visitors? What if EX didn’t have anyone to deride? What if no one ever saw Meri’s action-figure videos? What if GGG never had a single hit? They were databases of information linked to one another, but without fans, they were nothing but wastes of time and memory. You failed yourselves. And unless you don’t dust yourselves off and take some responsibility into your own hands, there never will be another “Community” or as I see it, true fans of Dragon Ball.

Best of luck to you all, the NEW “DB Web Community”.

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