I will send my post on Beanie Origins soon ✌

I don't remember how I found out about DB, so I might have to claim ~dramatic amnesia~ as my origin story. :P

I honestly don't remember how I discovered Dramabeans... It was so long ago!!! LOL

"We’re only four months away until a new year..."

WUT??? 🤯🤯🤯

Wohooo. Beanie origins! I remember how and when I started on the DB fanwall. I don't really recall when I found Dramabeans though. I'm pretty sure I lurked during the early DB days as I started watching dramas around the same time. Looking back...mannnn....I've watched Kdramas for so long. Maybe too long? Hahahahaha 🤣

I remember when I found the site! Thanks for the update @stroopwafel! Fighting!

Hwang Shi-mok and Seo Dong-jae are so cute posing dorky 😄

Ohhhhhh I like this!

Serial lurker on recaps til the temporary disappearance of DB overlords - no amount of refreshing would make them appear! sobs! —made me become a serial lurker on the fan wall.

It was probably (absolutely!) Beanies’ witty banter that tempted me to join the fun and end my lurking days. Now i’m diligently whiling (lol) my time away as an Errand Boy/Girl in pursuit of the Ultimate Rooftop digs.

:eyes emoji: I wanna join this!

A tadpole shaped seed was planted in the Dramabeans field, and with enough fangirl tears, a Poliwag was born--

I'll join up soonish!

Anyone can shed some light on what the beanie level names mean? I am curious!

Yo that four months left to the year was such a wake up call. 2020 hit us hard.

I'm another one to fish out the KTrope Card "Amnesia", and I can't even blame a ToD. My earliest comment is from 2015 in a She Was Pretty recap. I was watching kdramas well before then, but honestly do not remember at this moment how or when I stumbled upon DB. It's likely I lurked for a while, trying to get a sense of the community before joining officially.

I am guessing that a lot of us lurked here way before posting. I think I was posting anonymously and then I had probably lost one user account before settling with this one.
The first post I see I did was on the "Greatest Love" which makes sense because that one is a masterpiece meta. Dramas like that are the reasons I go back over and over again here. Dramabeans was essential in explaining the cultural context in the dramas for me. Learning about the references and connecting the dots transformed the dramas from something that just gave me the "feels" to fully formed art pieces that could be picked and analyzed.

Lmao, I have a "forgotten childhood connection" element to my origin story, so I might actually attempt this.

I remember stumbling upon Dramabeans when I started watching The Slingshot/Story of a Man, starring the late Park Yong-ha, Kim Kang-woo, and Park Si-yeon. My boo, Park Ki-woong, had a smaller part in there as well. The drama originally aired in 2009, but I believe I watched it on t.v. some time in 2011. I somehow came across beautifully written episode recaps by @girlfriday @javabeans. I wasn't really checking out the entire site, but I was avidly reading the recaps of every episode I watched. I ended up bookmarking the page with all the recaps, lol. The Summer of 2011 was when I began to be a more avid watcher of kdramas. I had finished my draining master's program and just wanted to relax. I had been watching dramas before then (Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese), but I never had a whole lot of free-time before that Summer. I'm sure it was not that long after reading those recaps that I began to visit the Dramabeans site for other things. I've been on this site ever since. I must admit, however, that I don't go on everyday anymore. Today is the first time I've posted anything here after a few weeks of being absent. Anyway, that's my story. :)

I remember mine. Being laconic is something I can't do and I don't have time right now for more than a crude post, and because I'm feeling like sharing I'll share it here and not send an official post?🤣.
Finger-counting backwards to my school years, it was 7/8/6 years ago, when my peers became MLFAS crazed. The "all-knowing" kids with facilities found streaming sites and watched it, and the majority of others borrowed the downloaded vids on pens and stuff to go home and watch. I was interested in the plot from what my friend narrated to me, and I
1. Didn't necessarily feel I wanted to watch it
2. Was too proud to borrow it from those girls
3. Didn't have a device to watch anyway😂
My parents only used those small button phones back then, and I only had internet connection via Mobile data of mom's phone. (Now guys I know this sounds unbelievably backwardish and fairytale like, "You're talking about 7 yrs back not 20!", but believe it or not this was the truth. Some of my friend's parents had smartphones and blackberries I guess, and we simply didn't. There wasn't any need.)
Back to the story.
I remember recling on my parents' bed and looking up my love from another star and coming across DB. How I fell in love with GF and JB's writing, the way I felt like I'm watching the drama with how unbelievably perfect those recaps were. How I devoured all the episodes. How I was soon updated and matching those girls at my school with my newfound knowledge.
Dramabeans made me feel special😂. I was on the cloud nine, feeling that only I had the key to this Secret Garden. The next year parents bought me a PC with internet, and I watched the episodes I read on YouTube, but that did not made me feel high like reading recaps did. It was a special kind of secret thrill. We still didn't have smartphones, and I didn't feel as comfortable reading on the PC screen, so I continued on with the button-phone reading. The next year dad bought an htc smart phone. I was on a personal mission to read each and every recap of a drama that I felt was up to my tastes, and I devoured everything with such an ocd tendency. Recaps, Award show recaps, JB's and GF's yellings on techincal fails of the site...you name it. My parents despaired, my grades suffered, I continued to read in secret till late night. At least my English vocabulary improved lol. I think DB is at least 30% responsible for my current (albeit mediocre) English.
I think I didn't look back till I got 80% content read. While my peers hunted for drama streaming sites, I read.
My 1st comment was on Mirror of the Witch I guess. I remember swearing that I wouldn't return until my exams are over. I thought typing that out for everyone to see would make me keep that oath.(Spoiler-I didn't. I stalked and didn't comment lol. When MLSHR aired I regretted that oath because I couldn't join all the fun.)
After exams, I made an account and saw my 1st ever notification from @pakalanapikake , on...

Wulduchi love at first sight - and I wanted more! That's how I found db. More details to come.
I don't know how you do it all, stroopwafel, but we love all of the db staff and your hard work. Fighting!

so out of curiosity, i traced my comments... all the way to 2010. wow. it's been that long? but seeing that it was on something SKKS related, am very sure that i've been lurking here on DB far, far, farrrr longer. man, if only i wasn't anonymous back then!