10 Years

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I wrote too much so here's the first part: A question I get a lot is how I came up with my username, a lot of people think its "ta-da" backwards, but in reality 13 year old me thought it up out of thin air, somehow thinking putting a dash between the word "data" was cool. Funnily enough, 5 years after I created this account, I had a similar thought process when I made my alt account @Auriali, it just popped into the top of my head when I was creating the account and I thought it sounded cool. Pretty much everything I've during my 10 years on this website is just because I thought it'd be cool or fun, from my beginnings making bad games like a remake of The Sims 4 (which still gets comments to this day, help) which was and still is awful, to bad "music videos" for FNAF songs (yes, I am cringe, I'm aware), to bad original animations (you may wince) to eventually (AAAaAAaAaAaaAAa) making bad illustrations and designs. I made logos since 2016 for da-ta, but only took it seriously from maybe 2017 onwards. I'm fully self taught, which I think is obviously compared to much more talented designers on here now. My whole process is just jank on top of more jank, but hey, I guess I did something right, I'm still here 10 years later somehow. In amongst all of this I did a lot of other things, I've had various alt accounts since 2016, from da-ta_test and da-ta_remix to @da-ta2, da-ta3, and da-ta4, with only da-ta2 surviving the great alt account purge. I even had an account called ta_da for a while which I never really used. Then during 2020 I created Auriali as a secret account (I was discovered in a week, I was bad at being secret lol), I left the account to gather dust until I decided to turn it into a meme account, which has spawned a whole lore around the account about it Auriali being essentially all powerful. And of course in 2021 I created her alt account @AuriaIi for aesthetics after someone tried to snipe the account. Another question I get sometimes is why I keep my old projects up, they're cringe, and people will go back and post funny messages mocking them occasionally, why keep them up? In a weird way I think its kinda to honour the weird trajectory of this account, how I kinda tried my hand at a lot of things over time and also to show my growth as a designer too, it feels dishonest at this point to try and erase the past from this account, I guess there's a hint of sentimentality too. I'm no wordsmith, but on the day that my account turns 10 years old, I want to say thanks, that fact you're viewing this project is already more than I can ask for. I never had a plan, I still don't, but yet here we are. Whether you've been here since the start or more recently, thank you for being part the last 10 years. And finally, I want to thank my late grandmother, I used her old laptop after she passed to make this account, without that, da-ta might have never existed. Love you, Grace. As always, that's a secret. - Sean Wallace