Exactly 1 year ago (Jan 1 2021) I made a blog post showing how my stats have changed and some highlights and stories from when I joined to that day. Now it's the same day but 1 year later, and I thought that I might just do that again, but a little better this time.

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Stat name	Previous amount	Current amount	Increase
Subscribers	153	277	+124
Profile views	5864	13968	+8104
Experience points	38053	74884	+36831
Experience levels	37	45	+13
Submissions	80	104	+24
Submission views	19488	42188	+22700
Diamonds	1759	3568	+1809
Downloads	1665	2696 (nice)	+1301
Favourites	1127	2414	+1287
Comments	155	202	+47
Emeralds	1276	1619	+323

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Additionally, my skinning has improved quite a bit (in my opinion) since 2020. Here's a comparison for reference.

× 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 × 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 ×

Published: December 7, 2021.

...but i like spring better...

Published: December 13, 2020

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2021 was also the year that I started getting involved in the retro console community, especially the music subcommunity there. It was also the year that I ended up starting to procrastinate because of my lazy habits (a choice that I deeply regret), and I have since (albeit very recently) started to be successful in solving, but because it happened at all is why I think that I could've done better that year. However, I believe that I can (at least try to) get over it this year and start becoming more active in the community.

2021 ended up also being the year that I changed my username from Nic Co to Pixelgon, mostly because I thought that Nic Co seemed rather childish (plus it was actually a username that I used to use for some services when I was a smol boi). By the way, congrats to Spongie, who got their name suggestion picked as my username! :D

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And that's pretty much it! Thank you to everyone that has supported me since the start, and thank you for reading!