Thread:RainbowFulmar360/@comment-39690799-20190929174438

Hey guys, RainbowFulmar360 (formerly RubbadubbersYes, JohnnyTestNo), a.k.a Alex Roman speaking.

Tuesday, October 1st, 2019, will be the day where I am to retire from Sound Effects Wiki. Why?

There's the good, the bad, and the ugly.

The  good  was that I got to learn the names of stock SFX I recognize and their libraries, I made new friends, and I helped contribute to society's awareness of stock sound effects. Some of my friends also have some of the same problems as I did with some stock sound effects.

Now here is the  bad .

People have complained about sound effects. Some have complained to the point where General Maho (a.k.a. Ross and shoutout to him!) almost retired for good. A new rule was created to help curb complaining and an exception page, calles the SFX Venting Thread was made for those who insist on complaining. Furthermore, there was another site this community would use to complain about SFX, and that is DeviantArt because we didn't have to worry about Ross leaving the wiki, and for a while, DevantArt was our paradise.

We haven't dug all the way down the rabbit hole yet as the complaints aren't bad enough. This wiki also had a history a butt-load of false information! Draven.fuldauer.1, for me, is one of the worst offenders. Why, you may ask?

Because he added TOO MUCH information, often false, to a page, particularly the cartoon-grade sound effects. Among them, he added Sitting Ducks, Puppy Dog Pals, The Wild (2006), Mopatop's Shop, and one of my golden favorites, Rubbadubbers. For instance, he would add his bullfart in an Animal Trax cow sound page and put Rubbadubbers in ot and said "Heard once in Farmer Sploosy". First, I did NOT hear that sound (or any stock animal sounds for that matter; the actors did their own animal sounds) in that episode, considering that I watched all full-length Rubbadubbers episodes, and secondly it is Farmer Sploshy, NOT SPLOOSY, and to summarize, Draven Fuldauer was a liar.

Then, there are Disneyman24 and his wannabe, Alex.hulen.3 and they would go around adding irrelevant categories to animal sound effect pages. For instance, the wannabe account, Alex.hulen.3., added "Laundromat Sound Effects" to a dog and parrot sound pages (Good lord, Alex.hulen.3, what do dogs and parrots have to do with laundromats). Also, They would go to elephant sound effects and add "Summer Sound Effects", "Mala Mala Sound Effects", and other ridiculous "Place Sound Effects" categories. These such categories were okay at first, but then later on, I grew sick of these damn categories, and don't get me started on the self-explanatory Varga sockpuppets.

Now, there is the  ugly ! When we sometimes rant on sound effects, there was a BUNCH of copying and pasting, and I kinda never liked it to start with. For example, I made terms like "Cow-Manian Devil" and "Moo 02" and everybody started using them. People would copy my descrptions of sound effects for their rants.

The copypasta bullshit was especially prevelant on DeviantArt, when we made memeposts. I now cringe to the sight of my original rants-turned-plagiarized by other users like p4penguin4 on his "Putt Putt Joins the Circus" post.

Fast forward back to DeviantArt and the complaining, it used to be all rainbows and butterflies, until on my rant on the horse whinny, which I deleted, Nixwerld, a DA user came and criticized and blocked me. To be fair, I am glad Nixwerld had me turning the tides because looking back, the SFX DeviantArt cringefest was cringey. I made a fresh start on a new DA account, and apologized to Nixwerld and he and I are now friends and I never made anything SFX-related on DeviantArt ever since. Afterall, I was 17 when I made the cringeworthy bullshit, which made me more of an 8-year old than a 17-year old. I'd now post more mature stuff, now that I am 18.

Shoutout to my friends (Jacob Ouelette, Nicole Bond, Whitney Larson, Ross, Willie Okendo, Sarah Nolan) that I would later contact with Messenger, Discord, and Instagram, so the next time I hear a sound they hate, I will tell them and because of my obvious retirement, I may send photos of bad sound effects to them and have them contribute to the gallery on my behalf.

May the birds chirp, dolphins swim, wolves prowl, elephants romp, and the eagles soar as I retire.

R.I.P. - Alex's SFX Wiki Reign (January 20, 2018 - October 1st, 2019) 