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The Intersection Between Passion and Need
An update about The Geek Writer’s creative direction.
Fifteen years ago, when I was eighteen years old, I founded several forums on the internet. Back then, a forum was as vibrant a community as today’s Facebook group and Discord channels.
I didn’t know why I wanted to do it. Maybe it was the innate sense of community and belonging that burns within any human being? Perhaps I wanted to feel what it was like to surround yourself with a community that you build in your own two hands? Whatever it was — it wasn’t about making money online back then.
I was passionate about creating a forum about StarCraft, the game I used to play all the time as a teen. I wanted to share hand-made campaigns, story theories about Kerrigan — The Queen of Blades — and much more. I wanted to be heard — something I believe you can relate to.
All of this was happening around 2005–2006. Facebook was founded in 2004, but we hadn’t heard anything about it until around 2007 here in Israel. I don’t know when Facebook Groups became a thing, but forums started to die out once they did.
The only forum-like community that still holds strong today as of 2020 is Reddit.
Times went by, and I accumulated debt in extreme amounts because financial…
