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On this day (and I still don't know why this day specifically) 14 years ago, the original PMD-Explorers group started.
If the 10th anniversary video is anything to go by, the experiences from the group meant a lot to people. From the stories they told, to the friends they made…
To the things they saw, and the ones they lost along the way…
Digging through this group, I've also seen a lot from both sides of the spectrum. It still surprises me that this group was so big, and it was going to be a lot bigger had it continued.
But in the same vein, what once was so big has gone largely forgotten by everyone, even in discussions about old deviantArt’s community, and even if it was remembered, it was largely for the bad stuff done by its creators, which is fair, but I still wish for the good stuff to be remembered as well. After all, some artists probably got their start with this group.
And there's also some good parts about the canon stuff.