How did everyone get introduced to thrive?

[doomlightning (The Invisible Aztec Dodo Overgod of Thrive and everything else. Semi-professor of botany and avid plant abuser.)]

Pherpas
I have no reason to check it out.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Maybe there are still some players who started following this project even earlier lurking near us…

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

It was a video on YouTube over three years ago. I don’t remember which one it was, or the YouTuber who made it, but I distinctively remember this quote: “I have become a stabby Narwhal!” ^[1]

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1. I am still searching for the video in question. ↩︎

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

There aren’t that many Thrive-tubers around so this shouldn’t be so hard unless the video in question got removed…

[woejoe]

Knew since 0.5.3, started playing on 0.6.5

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I also joined back in the 0.5.X era…

Who remembers when all planets were named “Pangea” or sumthing?

[DeepSix (He who overuses footnotes)]

The good ol’ Pangonia…

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

We should make it an easteregg too someday…

[handy (youssef)]

I myself discovered thrive on a YouTube video about games that talks or built apon evolution or an evolution-like process and then when I tried thrive (free of course) I thought well this game is good but it’s still laking in many areas so let’s see if there still any chance for it be more developed and then I leaned about the history of the project and about spore and many other things,I don’t know but maybe making videos that prove the evolution process in the game could attract a good enough fans because I have seen videos about evolution gets even millions of views

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Which video was this exactly which got you into Thrive?

[handy (youssef)]

This one

Using Video Games to Simulate Evolution

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Oh, right. I wonder if they’ll make an another one once we reach, say, aware stage development…

[StrategyGameR (Your friendly neighborhood menace to society.)]

That’s the same video I learned about thrive from.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Thrive users tend to come in spikes after videos with Thrive are released these days…

[Itookausername]

Honestly it’s been so long that I don’t even remember when I first heard about Thrive…

Definitely have been aware of the game for at least half of my lifespan though.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

So you must’ve rediscovered it on a few occasions then, right?

[Itookausername]

Yup, there were long periods of time where I just completely forgot about Thrive’s existence

But after 2018 I’ve been more actively following the game’s development

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

So you have been around for a while as it seems…

[Itookausername]

Technically, but I haven’t really been active in the community `til 2022

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

When do you think you first discovered this game?