what a wonderful thread

(In order):

• Kerlis - Kerlis was probably one of the biggest homies I've ever had the pleasure of talking to. I knew him from 2009-2011 so I was around 12, but he was my go-to when I wanted to play the game. Gay4Kerlis in 2009, Gay4Kerlis 10 years later.
  
• Glow - Lead C3, the only clan that I really felt like I was super involved in and it was great. It was a huge shitshow, we had to have our board watched/moderated because we were spamming stupid shit in it too much. Glow was (and still is) the funniest mother fucker. I wonder what he's up to now. O:
  
• Dragenon - Ho-ly fuck. This guy was the shit in 2009. His sparring was absolutely nuts, in a state of the game before Swexx (hi swexx) and Largekilla developed the skills they have now, even though they were around then. If anyone sparked my interest in replaymaking, moreso sparring, it was this guy. He probably wouldn't agree that he was as good as he was, very nice dude that didn't know what he had.

Some other ones that I would love to catch up with, but didn't make the top 3:

• Jetsnix - If we could go back and see how we acted as children, it'd be hella cringe. However, we played a lot, made some stupid videos, and had fun doing it.
• Kaemoflage / hproducts / Brains10 / Ootogi / Lawrence1 / Catastrophe / Chris - C3. 'Nuff said.
• Clow - I still actually talk to him briefly once a year, since we share the same birthday. Kyou / Glow / Clow was the trio of shitheads, definitely walked the line of what was acceptable and what was not.
• Jets - If you're from 2011, you've probably seen his youtube videos. Guy never got to be an amazing replay maker or a video editor, but the progress he made was there and I wish he didn't quit.
• Humper + machker96 - We actually didn't ever talk much, but man these guys' edits kept me going for a while. They had creativity and made making videos fun, I wanted to continue improving as an editor as long as they made videos. Unfortunately, they don't make much anymore. I suppose that's why I don't, too.

i'm sure there's so many more, but these are what immediately come to mind. thanks everyone on the list o/