User blog:Takashichea/Anime Vice and Screened Timeline

HISTORY FAVORITES ONLINE PREFERENCES MOD ==Anime Vice and Screened Timeline== Welcome to the Anime Vice and Screened's Timeline project. Because of Screened's closure on March 14, 2014, I was concerned about Screened and Anime Vice. I realized our time is short. As a former historian in a college club, I carried that influence into Anime Vice by documenting mainly wiki work when I first started in Anime Vice. Here I am, doing this to preserve our two community's hard work and struggle.

I welcome all help because this is a community's time line, anything significant (Wiki, Battle, RPG, Reviews, and Staff) should be here.

Thank you everyone. {| class="t-editor full-width with-border" Djames216Matt Rorie and Alex Navarro launched and ran Screened.com until it was purchased by Berman Braun. They both used to work at Gamespot.com along with Jeff Gerstmann, Ryan Davis (RIP), Brad Shoemaker, and Vinny Caravella in the years prior to Jeff's controversial sacking from Gamespot in 2007. Both Matt and Alex now work at Giant Bomb with their Gamespot buddies of old. They all have strong ties with Gamespot of one sort or another. Some might say that Gamespot before November 2007 was its "golden age" in terms of popularity and video content. Although I personally think Gamespot are getting better again with personalities such as Danny O'Dwyer and Jess McDonnell. But they'll never recapture their golden era. Dream: Originally, I meant to do Ani-Crap as sort of a bi-annual special thing I'd do for Anime Vice. But with it gaining a following here on Vice, I chose to make it more frequent. The Top 10 Anime Series of 2011 by Anime Vice
 * Nov - Dec 2008
 * Anime Vice's website was launched. It was a site devoted to anime and manga.
 * May 23, 2009
 * Gia Manry introduces a new staff writer, GodLen (also known as Chris). GodLen was known for his reviews on the HST (Holy Shonen Trinity): Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach.
 * May 6, 2010
 * Gia Manry wrote a letter about her farewell to the Anime Vice community. She mentioned she and John Martone will be leaving the community to pursue different interests. John Martone took up teaching while Gia took on jobs relating to her freelance career, Anime News Network and other sites.
 * May 12, 2010
 * Screened's website was launched. It was a site devoted to TV shows and films.
 * May 12, 2010
 * Screened's website was launched. It was a site devoted to TV shows and films.
 * Screened's website was launched. It was a site devoted to TV shows and films.
 * April 1, 2011
 * Takashichea started the first wiki recognition blogs, Fairy Tail Recognition Blogs for Animevice users.
 * May 4, 2011
 * Ethan publishes the Data Hentai: Anime Vice April 2011 - Super Wiki Editor Edition for Anime Vice. It spotlights the growth of the wiki pages, how wiki tasks were closed during wiki bounty themed months, and reveals data on the new and veteran wiki editors.
 * May 13, 2011
 * Makoto _Mizuhara_Sakamoto shared his frustrations with Giant Bomb which caused a huge uproar.
 * July 2, 2011
 * Dream starts his Ani-Crap project with his first review on Eiken. He reviews the worst garbage in the anime world as he tortures himself for you viewing pleasure. He usually starts Ani Crap polls where folks vote on shows for him to review.
 * Makoto _Mizuhara_Sakamoto shared his frustrations with Giant Bomb which caused a huge uproar.
 * July 2, 2011
 * Dream starts his Ani-Crap project with his first review on Eiken. He reviews the worst garbage in the anime world as he tortures himself for you viewing pleasure. He usually starts Ani Crap polls where folks vote on shows for him to review.
 * Dream starts his Ani-Crap project with his first review on Eiken. He reviews the worst garbage in the anime world as he tortures himself for you viewing pleasure. He usually starts Ani Crap polls where folks vote on shows for him to review.
 * September 5, 2011
 * FoxxFireArt publishes the Whiskey Media - Top 10 Wiki Editors where he compiles the top 10 wiki editors from Screened, Giant Bomb, Comic Vine, and Anime Vice.
 * Oct. 1, 2011
 * Takashichea started one of the first massive wiki archives, Wiki Editors Project Archive 2011.
 * January 9, 2011
 * sickVisionz started the first Anime Vice's Top Anime of the Year project, starting with 2011. He and the mods created a concept page and has people make lists of top five anime series.
 * January 9, 2011
 * sickVisionz started the first Anime Vice's Top Anime of the Year project, starting with 2011. He and the mods created a concept page and has people make lists of top five anime series.
 * sickVisionz started the first Anime Vice's Top Anime of the Year project, starting with 2011. He and the mods created a concept page and has people make lists of top five anime series.
 * 1) Puella Magi Madoka Magica
 * 2) Steins;Gate
 * 3) Bunny Drop
 * 4) Fate/Zero
 * 5) Sket Dance
 * 6) Mawaru Penguindrum
 * 7) Tiger & Bunny
 * 8) Hanasaku Iroha
 * 9) Anohana
 * 10) Beelzebub
 * March 15, 2012
 * March 15, 2012

Whiskey Media Sale Off
It has been a fun couple of years, and I’d like to thank everyone who’s visited, commented, or sent in podcast questions, and especially those of you who took the time to edit the wiki. I appreciate all the support for our crazy little venture. The notion that what we’ve done here has been worth you taking some time out of your day to come by for a visit means a lot to me. A big thanks go out, as well, to our freelancers, who helped create some amazing content that I was proud to publish. Also, all of our mods deserve a big round of applause, but especially ScanCase and Finaldasa for helping out with the Community Showcases over the past months. And of course I'd be remiss if I didn't shoutout Alex, who invited me along on this crazy ride almost two years ago. Lastly, Joey Fameli deserves a ton of credit for making me look much more capable of hosting a video than I actually am. I greatly appreciate all the well-wishes that you guys have sent my way recently; it's been very touching to hear how Screened has been a part of your life over the last couple of years. I just want to take a moment here and thank you all for taking time out of your busy days to read myNARUTO, ONE PIECE, and BLEACH weekly reviews. It has been a pleasure watching all of our favorite character’s grow up as a community as weeks and months passed. Unfortunately circumstances do happen that are beyond my control, and life does move on. Sadly, I will no longer be writing for Anime Vice. However, this will not be the end of my writing career, I will be on the blog scene again. Till then, see you Space Cowboy.- Chris This is what I love: movies and television. And movies on television. And television on movies, oh wait. This is what I also do: photography and producing. I produced a music video for my brother-in-law's band last year, and I am working on various other projects, including a short film. This is all in my "free" time or lack thereof, so don't worry, you get my attention during the day. I just don't sleep. That is fun. This is who are great: Screened Pups. I thank you all for your support during this transition and it has been a true pleasure to get to write and post for you. This is who I am obsessed with: Benedict Cumberbatch. Mostly, from Sherlock, but really from anything. ANYTHING! He's delicious. Here you see a picture of us together. Cute, right? Now…enough about me, lets talk about Screened. When discussing what is special about Screened, we know that it is the community and all of the hard work all of you do. For that reason, your fearless moderator,@FinalDasa will now be your community manager and the one posting articles on the front page. He already has helped me immensely with writing features, so it will be an easy transition. However, he does cry easily, so go easy on him. (Alright, I made that up, but still...be nice.) He will also likely be getting help from other community members, so keep up the good work and maybe that will be you. In the end, the good news is, this means that you all know that Screened will be left in good hands and it will be around. I will also make myself available to FinalD to give him guidance and answer any questions he has. It has been an incredible year and I thank you and will miss you all. Very much. So say we all. FinalDasa becomes the manager of Screened. With my taking over I wanted to first introduce myself to those who may not know me all to well. I'm FinalDasa, or Michael if you wish, and probably like you am a fan of movies and TV. Some of my favorite movies include Star Wars,National Treasure, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and right now I'm keeping up with shows like The Walking Dead,Community, and soon to be watching Game of Thrones. I've been on Screened for years and a user of all the former family of Whiskey Media websites. As what will happened with Screened, you hopefully won't experience any more turbulence with your normal everyday visit. I'll start right away with the normal articles you're used to seeing like What to Watch, Netflix Instant Update, About Last Night, Community Showcases, and so on. Give me some time while I hammer out details and get used to the shiny new buttons I have to navigate around in order to keep the lights on and the website running. So what should you do? Keep using Screened, keep commenting, keep posting in the forum, keep editing the wiki, keep writing reviews, and keep being the super awesome amazing community you have been ever since I signed up. I'd love suggestions about new features, what you'd like to see, what you don't want to see, and anything else you would like to say about Screened's content. It's now more community focused than ever and getting users like you more involved and interacting with what happens on Screened in priority number one Taka posts the List of Banned Characters in the Battle Threads when the battle forums were flooded with multiversal and omnipotent characters. Due to his inexperience in moderating the battle threads, Taka asks the battle community to help. Dream contributed and helped Taka with the project. Eventually, order was restored in the battle forums. FinalDasa: Screened will be shutting down on March 14, 2014, at which time our features and content will no longer be available. It’s been a great run, and we thank you for your support over the years.
 * CBS Interactive bought Giant Bomb and Comic Vine.
 * BermanBraun bought Tested, Screened, and Anime Vice.
 * On the same day, Alex Navarro announced that he will be leaving Screened for Giant Bomb.
 * May 31, 2012
 * Because the transition into a community driven site, Dead Pool and other staff members left after the Whiskey Media Sale Off. There were no staff posting new trailers in the video library. Taka proposed carrying the tradition of making anime seasonal guides with trailers. BigHeart711 and Taka formed a team and started working on these anime seasonal guides from this day.
 * April 2, 2012
 * Rorie left the site.
 * April 2, 2012
 * Rorie left the site.
 * May 28, 2012
 * In the Who Will Be the Next Wiki Editor with 100,000 Points? thread, Daniel Newton and Wales raced to the 100,000 wiki finish line. The race took a whole day as these 2 kept editing wikis. Meanwhile, Taka and KuroNeko who were doing the Guilty Crown Round Table commented on the Wiki Race on Twitter. Daniel beat Wales in the race. It was a very close race. The two were only 500-1,000 wiki points apart.
 * July XX 2012
 * Because of the toll on writing weekly reviews that KuroNeko and Taka had done, Taka decided to implement a few anime discussion threads on the new anime season. He got the inspiration from MyAnimeList's discussion threads. The pros of having discussion threads were that it required less time to make rather than making weekly anime reviews. The cons were that the site didn't have enough people since most of the activity was in forum games or battle forums.
 * July 17, 2012
 * GodLen left the site.
 * July 17, 2012
 * GodLen left the site.
 * GodLen left the site.
 * Dec 14, 2012
 * Stacy takes control of the site.
 * Stacy takes control of the site.
 * December 31, 2012
 * Aleasha starts one of the first chat rooms in Anime Vice. She and along with Acura Max arrange movie nights where Vicers would watch movies and anime series on monthly basis.
 * February 24, 2013
 * PikaHyper, a mod from Comic Vine, reached 100,000 wiki points within a month that he had started working in the community.
 * March XX, 2013
 * About a month or so later, PikaHyper reached 200,000 wiki points.
 * March 22, 2013
 * Stacy leaves the site.
 * About a month or so later, PikaHyper reached 200,000 wiki points.
 * March 22, 2013
 * Stacy leaves the site.
 * Stacy leaves the site.
 * March 25, 2013
 * Your Community, Your Way
 * Your Community, Your Way
 * April 29, 2013
 * Kuma_From_Argentina wrote The New Viceverse Canon where he and his team record events and reboots in their RPG community.
 * August 12, 2013
 * Daniel Newton proposed a new format to the discussion threads, adding wiki attachments. He asked Taka, Acura Max, and BigHeart711 to convert trailer threads into discussion threads. They implement this new style starting with Fall 2013 Seasonal Guide.
 * Month X, 2013
 * In 2013, there was a big glitch in the wiki pages. It was a six month period glitch in which users were unable to add new films to the wiki.
 * September 12, 2013
 * Takashichea became mod in Anime Vice.
 * Oct 11, 2013
 * In Screened, Acura Max reached 100,000 wiki points.
 * Dec 1, 2013
 * After Takashichea started the first Battlation of the Month community project to promote role model users for the battle forums, Taichokage became the first Battlation of the Month, December 2013.
 * December 5, 2013
 * Anime Vice: Sonata and Takashichea implemented the meme ban, 100 post limit rule, and removal of watermarks from scans policy. There were high resistance from a few battle users.
 * January 2, 2014
 * SpeedForceSpider became Battlation of January 2014. (Taka made a typo in the banner. Just ignore that). His battle theme was Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Saint Seiya, and Toriko while his non anime theme would be Spider-man and Flash.
 * Takashichea started the AV's Newest Wiki Projects Updates: Toriko and Seven Deadly Sins to help wiki editors work on these two popular series' wiki pages.
 * January 6, 2014
 * Takashichea and Acura_Max started the Screened's Top TV and Movie Choices of 2013 back in December 27, 2013. With sickVisionz's help in carrying out weighted calculations, the three posted the results.
 * Top 5 TV Shows: Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Hannibal, Gravity Falls, and Orange is the New Black.
 * Top 5 Films: Pacific Rim, Gravity, American Hustle, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Before Midnight.
 * January 7
 * Takashichea wrote the Anime Vice 2013's Top Reviewers to promote the review community. This inspires SnowyMountain to start the Screened version with Taka and Acura's help.
 * January 14, 2014
 * After 2 months of working together to compile a Anime Vice Battle Usage List that record how many times a certain character is used in a battle thread, Vapovile and Takashichea posted the project to make it known. To assist Vapovile and his community project, Taka started a Gdoc poll for Battle users to fill out their battle threads.
 * Week of Jan. 23, 2014
 * Comic Vine's RPG folks invaded Anime Vice's RPG forum. Some of them disperse into the battle forums. Sonata left his post as a battle mod and moderates the RPG forum heaveily, leaving Taka to moderate the battle forums.
 * January 6, 2014
 * Takashichea and Acura_Max started the Screened's Top TV and Movie Choices of 2013 back in December 27, 2013. With sickVisionz's help in carrying out weighted calculations, the three posted the results.
 * Top 5 TV Shows: Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Hannibal, Gravity Falls, and Orange is the New Black.
 * Top 5 Films: Pacific Rim, Gravity, American Hustle, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Before Midnight.
 * January 7
 * Takashichea wrote the Anime Vice 2013's Top Reviewers to promote the review community. This inspires SnowyMountain to start the Screened version with Taka and Acura's help.
 * January 14, 2014
 * After 2 months of working together to compile a Anime Vice Battle Usage List that record how many times a certain character is used in a battle thread, Vapovile and Takashichea posted the project to make it known. To assist Vapovile and his community project, Taka started a Gdoc poll for Battle users to fill out their battle threads.
 * Week of Jan. 23, 2014
 * Comic Vine's RPG folks invaded Anime Vice's RPG forum. Some of them disperse into the battle forums. Sonata left his post as a battle mod and moderates the RPG forum heaveily, leaving Taka to moderate the battle forums.
 * Week of Jan. 23, 2014
 * Comic Vine's RPG folks invaded Anime Vice's RPG forum. Some of them disperse into the battle forums. Sonata left his post as a battle mod and moderates the RPG forum heaveily, leaving Taka to moderate the battle forums.
 * Comic Vine's RPG folks invaded Anime Vice's RPG forum. Some of them disperse into the battle forums. Sonata left his post as a battle mod and moderates the RPG forum heaveily, leaving Taka to moderate the battle forums.
 * January 25
 * After being inspired by Jokergeist (Comic Vine)'s Battle Phone Project, SMXLR8 copy his idea and implement as his community project in the battle forums. Taka helped SMXLR8 revise the boxes while others like Vapovile urge SMXLR8 to adjust the rules (IE: Post Count) to accommodate new users.
 * February 2, 2014
 * WayBig1010101 became Battlation of February 2014, and his battle theme were Claymore, Magi, Seven Deadly Sins, and female characters. Also, any underrated anime and manga series will fall under WayBig's Battle Theme.
 * On the same day, Sonata repealed the meme ban in Anime Vice's battle forums.
 * February 6, 2014
 * Taka completed as much as he can for the Wiki Editors Project Archive 2013.
 * February 19, 2014
 * Taka shares his thoughts on segregation among users in Anime Vice (Invisible Walls in Anime Vice)
 * February 20, 2014
 * Dream became mod in Anime Vice. With Dream taking the helm of the battle threads, Takashichea scaled back his involvement in the battle forums and focus on community projects and wiki. Dream took over the List of Banned Characters project.
 * Feb. 22, 2014
 * Kuma wanted exposure on the RPG forum by leaving a comment on one of Foxx's community spotlight articles. Catching Kuma's comment (which was deleted by Kuma), Taka responded and suggested a RPG news blog, so FoxxFireArt could showcase in the Community Spotlight. From that day, Kuma publishes weekly RPG news to promote RPG and invite new folks in.
 * February 27, 2014
 * FinalDasa sent out a PM to a select group of users to inform them about Screened's closure on March 14, 2014. He wanted to inform them earlier but not before the official announcement. Takashichea took actions and discreetly posts the Screened's Top Reviewers of 2013 in Anime Vice to save the work. Credits go to SnowyMountain, Taka, and Acura Max for writing the blog.
 * February 28, 2014
 * FinalDasa posted the announcement of Screened's closure and informed everyone to start saving their blogs, reviews, wiki, and other things. ZombiePie of Giant Bomb included FinalDasa's message in his community spotlight. FoxxFireArt never spoke of the Screened's Closure in the Anime Vice community spotlight. Taka had to drop a comment.
 * February 28, 2014
 * Screened is announced for shutdown, March 14, 2014.
 * Kuma wanted exposure on the RPG forum by leaving a comment on one of Foxx's community spotlight articles. Catching Kuma's comment (which was deleted by Kuma), Taka responded and suggested a RPG news blog, so FoxxFireArt could showcase in the Community Spotlight. From that day, Kuma publishes weekly RPG news to promote RPG and invite new folks in.
 * February 27, 2014
 * FinalDasa sent out a PM to a select group of users to inform them about Screened's closure on March 14, 2014. He wanted to inform them earlier but not before the official announcement. Takashichea took actions and discreetly posts the Screened's Top Reviewers of 2013 in Anime Vice to save the work. Credits go to SnowyMountain, Taka, and Acura Max for writing the blog.
 * February 28, 2014
 * FinalDasa posted the announcement of Screened's closure and informed everyone to start saving their blogs, reviews, wiki, and other things. ZombiePie of Giant Bomb included FinalDasa's message in his community spotlight. FoxxFireArt never spoke of the Screened's Closure in the Anime Vice community spotlight. Taka had to drop a comment.
 * February 28, 2014
 * Screened is announced for shutdown, March 14, 2014.
 * February 28, 2014
 * Screened is announced for shutdown, March 14, 2014.
 * Screened is announced for shutdown, March 14, 2014.

Screened may be going away but Moviefone is our latest entertainment website. If you'd like to keep up with the latest news at Moviefone.com and via the Moviefone app! CherryBomb is one of Screened's best users known for her reviews, wiki, and her fashion blogs. She has a passion for fashion, and she publishes her take on Oscars and Emmies. CherryBomb: I have had a heavy heart ever since Screened gave the announcement that it was closing down. Like a catchy Dido song, I'm yelling out "I will go down with this ship, I won't put my hands up and surrender" and so I'm bringing to you my final "Cherry's Choice" fashion blog post, and what better way to end it than with the 86th Academy Awards?
 * March 1, 2014
 * Othus12 becomes the Battlation of March 2014. His battle themes were UQ Holder and Magi: the Labyrinth of Magic.
 * March 1, 2014
 * Mike20 started a Wikia community of his own, To Hollywood and Beyond. He enlists the help of Djames216, Acura Max, and Takashichea who help transfer their works to this new Wikia. The four members work on promoting the Wikia in order to get more members.
 * March 4, 2014
 * Acura Max became mod in Anime Vice after serving as a mod in Screened back in 2013. He will be assisting the transition of Screened folks into Anime Vice's community by setting clubs and discussion threads.
 * March 4, 2014
 * CherryBomb's Last Fashion Blog
 * Acura Max became mod in Anime Vice after serving as a mod in Screened back in 2013. He will be assisting the transition of Screened folks into Anime Vice's community by setting clubs and discussion threads.
 * March 4, 2014
 * CherryBomb's Last Fashion Blog
 * CherryBomb's Last Fashion Blog

2013 was a glorious year for cinema but was this reflected in the 2014 fashion of our glitzy, glamorous stars? Let's see: On March 12, 2014, Callum Petch says goodbye to Screened by fondly reflecting on the site that gave him so much. He shares how he found the site and how much it changed him. Callum thanks everyone for their contributions for making Screened the best TV and Movie online community. Callum: I honestly have no idea how to wrap this up. I held off a week before writing this, because I wanted to fully process the news before I set about putting words to electronic paper. Maybe I thought that would make me more prepared. Like I had something profound and insightful to close out my time on this site with. But I’ve got nothing. My mind is blank. In just about 48 hours, this site will shut down and there is nothing I can do about it.
 * March 6, 2014
 * Takashichea, Acura Max, and BigHeart711 wrote the Screened Yearbook (April 2010 - March 14, 2014) to cherish and preserve the memories of Screened community and to acknowledge their hard work.
 * March 12, 2014
 * 4 Years A Critic: Screened & I
 * March 12, 2014
 * 4 Years A Critic: Screened & I

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My heart hurts. Thanks for everything, everyone. It really has been a blast and, despite the last 5 A4 pages, words genuinely can’t describe it. So, thank you. I love you all.
 * March 14, 2014
 * Screened shuts down.
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