User:CircleHunter
| Aliases | CircleHunter Sad Company |
|---|---|
| Born | February 16, 1996 |
| Affiliation | Within Hubris Lonely Singles Club Theet Awakening Neo Moon Children |
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Within Hubris
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Hello, everyone. I am CircleHunter, a long-time member of the Within Hubris community and the owner of this wiki. Since 2012, completing and maintaining the archival of this ARG has been my life's work. If you'd like to contact me, you can message me on Discord (CircleHunter#0423) or tweet me (@CircleHunter).
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About me
I'm a former English/journalism major at Marshall University, currently attempting to figure out where next to take myself. In my spare time, I contribute to some other wikis, play games, stream occasionally, and collect various things. Among those collecting endeavors are collecting Blue Öyster Cult records and every Haunter card that has ever been released.
Why I'm here
As of 2022, I've put over a decade of my life into not only this wiki, but the community as a whole. When I joined Within Hubris back in 2011, I was but a wee 15-year-old and had no idea how important this place would become to me. After joining, I met some wonderful people, many of which are still very close to this day. More and more come from time to time, and I'm glad to have had the opportunity to call them my friends.
Despite not having been present for the majority of the ARG by the time I arrived, I took a high interest in seeing the story archived in as complete a capacity as possible. Perhaps that stemmed from my own desires to fully understand what I missed at the time; by the time I'd managed to wrap my head around it, the story had gripped my mind so forcefully that I was never able to let it go. When Immortallies, the previous owner, stepped down, I was essentially handed the wiki with little question because it seemed nobody else cared to take the mantle. For a long time, interested people seemed like a rarity and I often found myself wondering if it had all been for naught. Of course, I would later be proven wrong when, in the midst of the COVID pandemic in 2020, the final arc of the story took place.
And that brings us to now. The story has concluded and all of the love and effort I've poured into this project over the years, whether alone or alongside my team, has finally been fully realized. I am so incredibly happy to contribute this resource to the community. I'm thankful for those who support me in this continuing journey. The last decade was spent keeping the wiki safe until such a time came that it was needed once again, and we finally witnessed the end together. It's been a blast.
Oh, and I was right. Methods is canon. Called it in 2012.
My projects
In addition to this wiki, I've been known to occasionally take a break and do other things for a second.
Complete archive of youshouldnthavedonethat.net
In 2016, the long-lost youshouldnthavedonethat.net was recovered at great expense. After a short stint being featured in the long-running spin off ARG Johnisdead, it had served its intended purpose and was graciously allowed to host a complete recreation of the site's history, page by page and word for word, with one notable exception (Nekko's biography on the About page was never properly archived and is considered lost), but that's a story for another time.
Of course, I have only contributed to this effort. Credit goes following people, in chronological order of their contributions:
- Kafeite, who in 2010 archived the site as it originally appeared
- Anegative, who in 2010 and 2011 archived the post-Moon Children incarnation of the site
- Tyler, who rescued the domain name from its $600 purgatory and formed a new vision with it
- John, who rebuilt the site according to the archives of Kafeite
- Myself, who added the remaining pages and continues to maintain the site
Fan Drowned (cancelled)
At one time, I ran a blog called Fan Drowned, which served as a database of sorts for fan-made Ben Drowned content, specifically videos. I started it way too late, and as a result of not having this idea earlier, much content has been lost as users sometimes remove videos and, in some cases, delete their YouTube accounts. However, I've countered this problem with my own solution. I've downloaded literally every BEN video I could find on YouTube, backed them up, and am storing them on my own in case something like that happens to the remaining content.
I posted a new video from my archive once every three days at 11:30 PM EST, and on super special update days, I altered the usual post schedule to fit around them suitably. At the last count, I had a total of 328 videos. This was roughly enough content to keep my blog active for about 2.5 years.
Unfortunately, the project has been cancelled. It began to feel like a chore, despite my love of the concept. I wish I could say that wasn't the case. Maybe one day I will find the time to set a year's worth of content to auto-post, though. Who knows?
Want list
Here are some ARG-related things that I would love to find at some point.
- Screenshots of the About page of youshouldnthavedonethat.net (specifically Nekko's section)
- Screenshots of Jadusable's original /x/ posts:
day four.wmv summaryBEN.wmv summary- DROWNED.wmv summary
jadusable.wmv summary- TheTruth.rtf link
- A physical copy of the newspaper letter:
- BEN's note
- Newspaper clip
