Remember Amino? What was your experience on the app?

[Memory]

Hi everynyan. let's dig up embarassing old memories and talk about our experiences on amino, ok?

I just remembered amino and the hellhole it was. Like okay man.
BUT.
i do admit that i was the one making people's lives hell on there more than half of the time. like. i did NOT know how to behave. i was fucking insane like i was manipulating and threatening other kids for not drawing my ocs 😭😭😭 and one time i 'infiltrated' the feminism amino to troll women because i was VERY VERY active on the dank memes amino . and it was 2016 so the memes were uh. bad. edgy. so bla bla i joined pretending to be someone i wasn't and i got in and it radicalized me lowkey? like, memes always represented feminists as weirdos who attacked anyone and i was a kid so i just believed it and upon seeing how based the feminist amino was i calmed down and just. browsed. i was like 'hey this isnt that bad' and just. left. anywho. when i wasn't being a menace i was being approached by very strange people? but then again, i was strange too

i was like a celebrity on the my singing monsters and dank memes amino, though i was SUPER controversial on the my singing monsters one. like always starting drama because, well. i was a kid. and such. they either hated or loved me lmaooaoaoa. one notable thing is that i met a girl on there and we were friends until one day i just randomly started antagonizing her which lasted for like what? 7 years? like, even way after we had both left the app. we were super on-and-off, like i'd find her twitter, contact her like omggg remember me? then i'd start fights and we'd mutually block eachother, rinse and repeat.
we're both young adults now (insane, right?) and we've grown and bla bla. we're friends again. yay!
then there was this girl one the memes amino and it was a similar situation as the singing monsters girl thing bla bla. we're both young adults now too bla bla. our history is crazy

so yeah. nearly 10 years of knowing them just because i was insane on some app in the 2010s lollll


what's your story? any notable people you met and miss? do you still talk to anyone from there? smiles at you

[GhostGrrl]

I did not use amino but I had a friend who was and I quote "deep in the undertale trenches" and from what I heard his experience could be summed up as bad. I do love hearing stories about amino it seems like it was uniquely unhinged or at least had the general fandom craziness turned up to 11.

[Memory]

I did not use amino but I had a friend who was and I quote "deep in the undertale trenches" and from what I heard his experience could be summed up as bad. I do love hearing stories about amino it seems like it was uniquely unhinged or at least had the general fandom craziness turned up to 11.

yeah when an app's community is mostly comprised of kids aged 8 to like 17 shit gets crazy. i remember harassing this person on the supportive amino (which is basically just a place where went to vent) because they had a sans pfp. it was insane. they were always so freaked out

[Loebas]

I used to have Amino back in the day. It was advertised by several furry youtubers (when those where still a thing).

They even went through the hoops to make a "independant" furry app.

As i mentioned in the beginning of this post. Yes i used amino, i even had my own community for furries that live in the netherlands. I liked the app because it was way better than facebook. It was the dark times of my carrier in the furry fandom since everyone was on facebook.

Unsurprisingly it didnt catch on. I abandoned the app, and community short there after.

Now most of the furries are on either Discord, and Telegram (a app i have a love/hate relationship with).

But lets stay on topic, and end it here.

[alexela64]

Oh boy.

I was a leader on the portal amino for a short amount of time. It was an experience to be sure. I loved that app so much. that was also around the time that species creation/adopts (pacapillars etc) were pretty popular within the digital artist community and so there was plenty of drama/failed stuff there. I remember there was this time that (im spoilering this for mildly sensitive content)

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someone got in trouble for something and pulled the "actually they're dead now this is their mom" and it freaked me tf out as a like 12 year old. I was very gullible bless my heart.

[close]

It absolutely could've been worse though, I had heard some INTENSE horror stories from irl friends I made later on in life about those rp chat rooms which I was never too involved in. Luckily for my sanity as a kid, I thought rp was "weird" (and the other stuff wasn't????? tf wrong with u  )

I still have a screenshot of my profile from when i was able to regain my login maybe 4 years later.

[H0ppin_H00ligan]

Amino used to be my primary place to post my art (got to give credit where credit is due since amino was the place where i relearned to be comfortable sharing my art again after getting cyberbullied on ifunny when i was like, 10) but as time went on posting there became a chore instead of something i actually wanted to do. When i logged back into my old tumblr account and started posting stuff there a few years ago, that's when i FINALLY decided to leave amino since i felt a LOT happier posting on there than amino.

Plus, at least i know that the people liking and reblogging my art on tumblr are ACTUALLY doing it because they like my work and are not just doing it because the app forces you to like every single post on the featured page when you make a new account     

[Cele]

Amino was the one place I actually dared to post my art since I don't dare to do that on other social media or such. Even though I'm a bit too shy to have been able to fully get into the whole chatgroups thing, there were still some nice groups I posted to. But I understand that years after I became inactive, the app went to hell. RIP.

(Oh, and I wouldn't have tolerated one second of some child trying to troll me so I didn't participate in any communities like that.)

[arctozolt]

I've heard amino horror stories from so many others, but I never had any truly bad experiences there.

I was in a few aminos, but the one I spent the most time in was the Warrior Cats amino. Shamefully, I miss it sometimes. Mostly because I'm a greedy son-of-a and people would do free YCHs of your oc all the time. But I was also 12 and didn't have money anyway. Lol. It was also the first place I'd ever sold a commission (for maybe 10 amino coins), so I do hold it in high regard for that. It was the first time I'd realized that being an artist was, well, a thing you could actually be. You'd draw, and people would actually like it! A novel concept for middle school me.

[moeghost]

my first ever experience with amino was my cousin showing me the MHA community and such an unnecessary amount of HIGHLY graphic fanart. that was also my introduction to yaoi as well lol. i was very caught off guard in the moment but i also thought it was cute that there was a community of people that just liked when boys kissed each other.

my own personal experience on the app was short lived and sort of lame, i started using it in 2019 after it had already sort of died down a bit and literally the only reason people would message me was to rp (nothing wrong w that, just not something i ever personally enjoyed doing)...i made friends with a really cool guy at one point who had a lot of the same favorites in common w me only for him to ask for NSFW rp out of nowhere one day    

i do remember a genshin impact groupchat that was SO MUCH FUN tho!!! honestly the only good experience i had on that app and it got deleted a week after i joined i miss thos people a lot they were really cool and funny and gave me a lot of good art + cosplay tips that i still use!! i hope the person who was in venti cosplay 24/7 is doing well haha

it is definately an app!

[ZoranaDragon]

I was never on Amino but I've looked at the site on occasion since sometimes information I was looking for was only there for whatever reason. I've heard too many horror stories from there to try sticking around longer than skimming a page or two for something I probably won't remember later.

I happen to have a couple of freebie characters I picked up on ToyHouse a while back and they happened to be uncredited. Unfortunately my search for their original creator hit a dead end at mystery Amino artist and they will probably remain uncredited now unless the artist just happens to recognize them. Mystery Amino artists are always so difficult to find, if not impossible (and even more so now since Amino has shut down out of nowhere from what I heard). And this is coming from someone who tracked down an artist from Google+ several years after the art was made and the site was shut down, just so I could properly credit a single gift drawing.

The artist responded to a message I sent to a seemingly dead Pintrest account that had a name kind of similar to the one in the file name btw, if anyone is curious about the Google+ thing.