Hey, long time no proper update.. Like uh.. Two or three years, almost.. Oops..

Ok, I swear to God I haven't been doing nothing this entire time, I've just been taking a break from my usual website creation things to spend time with my loved ones and work on other projects that I've been putting off forever. One of which is a video about the founding of my online chat space of choice from my teenage years, Habbo Hotel.

For those of you who are unaware, I've been a huge fan of Habbo's art style for the last twenty years or so, having first signed up waaaaay back in March of 2001 when Habbo first made its way to the English speaking market from Finland, and as a result, I'm one of the few people left from this era who actually somewhat actively participates in the Habbo community from time to time. A few friends of mine who joined Habbo a little bit after me (between 2005 - 2008) have asked me on several occasions over the last 10 or 15 years if I'd ever consider writing a blog/archive covering the early/founding years of this stuff, and in more recent years, people have asked me if I'd ever consider doing a video about the topic for YouTube.

Why now, you might be wondering? Well, as grim as this is going to sound, in the last 5 or 6 years, several older Habbo users have passed away, and it got me kinda thinking recently about how long I'm going to actually keep putting this thing off for. A Habbo friend I've had for the better part of 20 years now passed away at the first half of 2024, and it honestly shook me a bit. I was talking to him one week, and literally a couple of weeks later, he was gone, just like that. Although I'm not planning on going anywhere any time soon myself, life just kinda comes at you as a bit of a cunt sometimes, and you never know what might be just around the corner, so I decided in that moment that I was going to stop putting things off that I actually want to do, and just do them while I can. This video is one of them.

Although I'm not a professional videographer, YouTuber, editor, or whatever, after some help from a couple of friends, I've put together something I'm honestly incredibly proud of, and if you could check it out, that would be massively appreciated. Comments, likes/dislikes, feedback, whatever, all would be appreciated. If you want to check the video out, you can do so below, or by clicking here.