August ends, and this marks our 5th newsletter! During the previous month we have hit a milestone of 300 members with 'SadDreams' being our 300th member, and so they will be known as '300th member' from now and on forever. Maybe you should feel sad for them kill me pls. Though, despite our never ending growth, we still face problems with activity on our 'discord'. Where did everyone disappear to?
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~~ Official Member Cards ~~
We finally started giving out member cards. The cards were made by 'Desu' the traitor and can obtained through 'this forum post'. Hurry and grab one, to be a true anime advocate! (Kanna best girl)
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~~ Staff Changes ~~
More people leaving our staff. Not surprising, is it?
'Mari' steps down from his recruiter position. Don't shed tears now, he will still stay in our club and is active on our discord.
'Desu' steps down from his Admin and Graphic Designer position and leaves the club. A full-blown traitor.
Both of them quit on their own accord. Reasons being that they are busy and can't find time or are leaving for another club. Desu will still be doing the Official Member Cards, so don't worry about that.
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~~ Petition ~~
Horrible news! Our club owner, Sterps, has been banned from MAL! Please take your time to sign 'this petition' and make MAL notice what terrible mistake they have done.
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~~ Quotes ~~
As always, we feature some conversations that happened over at our 'discord'. Read at your own risk.
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~~ Quiz ~~
[size=80][b]Congratulations to [url=https://myanimelist.net/profile/Imploze][color=#]Imploze[/url] for being the first one to answer our previous quiz!
Test your knowledge in anime! Who is this character and from which anime?
Answers should be messaged to Sterps. First one to get it and the answer will be announced in next month's newspaper![/b][/size][/color]
Hope you are enjoying your summer to the fullest, because July is already ending and it's time for another newsletter delivery!(why are you even reading them) The club streams every week on Saturdays (1 PM PST) so don't forget to vote for your preferable movie, blah blah blah - the usual stuff. Anyhow, most Summer 2017 anime came out, so how about a poll? Vote for your favorite seasonal on this forum post. Speaking of the forums, we got another new game!(pun not intended) Check it out here.
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~~ Staff Changes ~~
As time passed by, we realized we should re-evaluate our staff, including discord moderators and admins.
Here are the results for new staff and moderators:
Tuna becomes a Discord Moderator, and has been a reliable addition. Mari and Pinkie become Recruiters, so look forward for new members. Taiyakies and Livid become Card Makers, and have already made some LE cards for the club.
Unfortunately, by gaining new staff we have lost some as well. Here are the results for admin and moderator demotions:
TheSlorrow and Kahn are demoted from Discord Moderator positions. Blixie is demoted from Admin position, but will remain as staff and will be helping out mostly with the newsletter.
This was done to keep you members in touch and things up to date. None of these people left against their own will.
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~~ Staff Recruitment ~~
We are still looking for people to join us! Recruiter, Card Maker, and Game Maker roles are still vacant.
For more information, and to submit your application, click here. You'll gain a role on Discord if you are accepted.
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~~ LE Cards ~~
Every while our card makers present limited edition cards, so make sure to watch out for them. Different card editions will be a available each month for a certain time period and can't be taken after that. You may look at our discord announcement channel to find out when they come out.
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~~ Quote ~~
We are mostly active on our discord and during the last month we had many fun conversations. Here is a few of them!
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~~ Quiz ~~
Congratulations to Flower_Hana7788(again?!) for being the first one to answer our previous quiz!
Test your knowledge in anime! Who is this character and from which anime?
Answers should be messaged to Sterps. First one to get it and the answer will be announced in next month's newspaper!
We have been improving considerably and would love to announce that we have surpassed 200 members during the previous month! Not only have we improved, but we have also changed; check out our new and awe-inspiring club background! Our merrymaking club, Anime Advocates, is a place for discussion and fellowship. Join us in discord or our forums for some lively conversations and fun. We stream movies every Saturday at 1 PM PST, so watch out and do not forget to vote for your preferable movie.
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~~ New Discord Additions ~~
We have done a lot of changes on our Discord server throughout this month of June.
Here's a short summary of all the changes:
3 New Channels
Emoji Award for being in top 10 in Tatsumaki's leaderboards.
(The leaderboards will be switched to Mee6 at the beginning of July)
New music bot
Self-assignable roles
Here's a detailed version of all the changes:
Channels
#advice -channel added where people can share their troubles and such without worrying about people not taking you seriously. cough this hasn't been working that well so far :P
#vc-talk -channel added. You can only gain access to this channel whenever you join a voice channel. Access will be taken away once you leave a voice channel. The point of this channel is that people who don't want to talk or have a microphone can join people's talk by typing on this channel. This way you don't confuse people by talking about things happening in voice chat in #general. So, feel free to blast your memes or talk about things about your car or whatever in this channel, no one will be bothered.
#mal-identification -channel added. We added a verifying system that makes so you'll be able to gain normal member permissions after getting verified that you're in the club by a moderator or an admin after you've posted your MAL profile on this channel.
Emojis
-We added a new reward system that rewards members for talking. Once a member is active and enters the top 10 leaderboards, they'll get to add their own emoji on the server. If you become inactive and drop out of the top 10, your emoji will be removed until you get to top 10 again.
Here are the current top 10 members (Creator and Admins don't count):
From now on score will be left as is for Tatsumaki bot leaderboards and we'll have the reward system based on Mee6 bot leaderboards.
New Music Bot
After having trouble with Ayana bot we decided to add a new music bot, FredBoat. FredBoat hasn't brought any issues so far and provides higher sound quality than Ayana bot. Ayana bot is still my waifu
Self-assignable roles
We added quite a lot of roles, especially colours for your names. This way you don't have to bother a staff member about asking for a role for yourself. You can assign a colour, access to a channel, or get a game role anytime you want. You can remove them too.
The roles for channels were made since the channels weren't necessary and not everyone is interested in them.
The point of game roles is you can mention that role if you want to talk about the specific game to another member with the role.
By typing ".iam role" you'll get the role for yourself.
By typing ".iamnot role" you'll remove the role from yourself.
Click the spoiler button below to see all currently available roles.
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~~ New Staff ~~
Staff changes have actually happened, believe it or not. Shall we hold a shrimp banquet?
2 New Discord Moderatorsa
(for some reason these 2 are coincidentally Persona 5 nerds fans)
We held a moderator trial runs for these two and.. it actually went well for them.
Aerate- also knows as Ayush and Joker. woah he has a few nicknames hashigamon also known as Sarah, Sara, Sera, George, Hashi, Linda, Jasmine, Jessica, Veronica...ok... this gal has even more nicknames ...let's not do this. Y-you get the point. After a month of being completely away, this gal came back like nothing happened? AND even became a mod? Does she have something to do with the authorities behind the scenes?
2 New Admins
Do you remember that one guy from the previous newsletter? The one called Taiga? Yes, he became a moderator faster than anyone before.. yes... what? Excuse me? He's an admin now?
We are proud to announce our newest admin, Taiga who got promoted to admin from his hard work. Yes, it was short work, but very ..hard. He will be in charge of the rewards system in the discord server.
blixie rose from moderator to admin as well. She will act as an all-round admin. She is very busy at the moment, but we still have a lot of shrimps to spare.
New Game maker
A-OK became our first game maker for the club and has already created a few games! Feel free to check them out!
YourImoutoYuki is no longer a club officer.
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~~ Forum Games ~~
With a new edition to our game maker team, we have provided even more games in order to have fun as a community. Click on any of the links to find out how to play these games!
Your newspaper has arrived! It's been a month hasn't it? In that short amount of time, we already surpassed the 150 members mark, and now we are brimming with even more members every day! Our club, Anime Advocates, is an outgoing enjoyable club, where you probably should not miss out on the fun at discord, and not to mention our forums! You could start out by introducing your self, or playing in one of our exclusive forum games. We have even more fun with streaming, as we stream movies every Saturday and possibly seasonal anime throughout the week!
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~~ Club Banners ~~
Show your love for Anime Advocates by showing off these flashy banners made by Desu!
It really helps Anime Advocates as a club grow thanks to this potential exposure and it only takes a moment of your time to add it to your signature. (Stay tuned for more club banners in the future)
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~~ Staff ~~
New Staff
We are proud to announce that we have gained 2 new Discord moderators.
TheSlorrow has been with us from the beginning. He knows how to keep things in order, but still likes to show us his "mature" side every now and then. Taiga is our new fellow who rose through the hierarchy faster than anyone ever before. He'll be our new temporary moderator, and might even become a permanent one in time.
Staff Changes
A ton of new staff changes are currently taking place within our club.
Retired Admin! Kahn, an honorable member who has been with us from the beginning, has stepped down from admin position. ;<
New admin! Florian Yuzuriha has stepped up to admin position and will act as our Forum Manager, Club Page Manager, and Anime Advocates Discord Server Moderator.
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~~ Applications ~~
New Staff Roles:
We have made a new staff roles thread about specific tasks you can apply to in the club.
Approved applications:
CalmSun will be joining in the production of newsletters. He's actually the one who acted as the leader in making this newsletter. He will be appointed to Newsletter Chief who will be known as the one who overthrew Rystal from the leader position in Newsletter team. ;) YourImoutoYuki will act as our Graphical Designer along with Desu on making cards, layouts, newsletter and such. Florian Yuzuriha will act as forum manager along with our forum manager, Rystal. Feel free to ask any of them about creating forum topics, club related activities, etc.
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~~ Steam Group ~~
We created a brand new Steam Group for the club! The group is called Anime Advocates in Steam and there are currently 14 members.
Feel free to join through the following link: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/anime_advocates
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~~ Know Your Memes ~~
These are for all you new members because there are a lot of inside jokes happening within our conversations which confuse the majority of you guys.
1. Shrimp Emoji
Desu told us about when he served some food which contained shrimp in it to this elderly couple at his family’s restaurant. This caused Blixie to announce her disgust of shrimp which in turn outraged Sir Desu. This ended up causing a split in the group. The Great Shrimp War of ’17. Arguments in favor and against the deliciousness that is shrimp were thrown back and forth. Thus the shrimp emoji of peace was made. Remember to use the shrimp emoji to commemorate those who fought bravely in The Great Shrimp War.
2. Serararararara
Also known as Sarah, Sara, Sera, George, Hashi, Linda, Jasmine, Jessica, Veronica, Sharon, Michael, Gerald, Ronaldo, Son of Sterps, Advocate of Shindou, etc. Spends time reading yaoi, looking up yaoi, buying yaoi, writing yaoi, and anything affiliated with yaoi.
3. Frants
An attempt of saying the word “France” by Serararararara while she was in the voice chat with us. Sample sentence: I went to Frants to buy frent fries.
4. Persona 5
A game which sucks the living soul out of you and destroys your will to stay active in our club discord. Make sure to hiss and screech at them each time you see one of these Persona freaks.
5. “Josh is Josh”
A phrase Sterps utters because of the curious people wondering who Josh is. I’m the only one who calls this person “Josh”, so most people still wonder to this very day who the hell Josh is as I whisper with my hair slicked back and shades on, “Josh is Josh.”
6. “1/10”
The universal Florian rating to all things anime and manga related. We see 2/10s once every blue moon though.
7. Shindou kunnnn
From KADO: The Right Answer. Our lord and savior Shindou kunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
8. Supermetaru
From KADO: The Right Answer. The best of the best materials forged into 1 whole SUPERMETARUUUU.
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~~ Quiz ~~
Test your knowledge in anime! From which anime is this quote from?
"If I could sell boredom, I'd make a fortune out of it"
Answers should be messaged to Sterps. First one to get it and the answer will be announced in next month's newspaper!
Dear members, our club, Anime Advocates, was created on April 3rd, 2017. We are nearing the end of the first month since our founding and we have already surpassed 100 members! We would like to thank everyone for joining and making us an excellent and fun club. Without all of you awesome folks, this wouldn’t be possible! :) <3 We hope to keep seeing your awesome faces on the forums and especially on Discord. If you haven’t already, feel free to join us on Discord and join in on the fun!
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~~ Introduce Yourself ~~
If you haven’t already introduced yourselves ‘here’! Without an introduction, we won’t know anything about you and you won’t anything about us either. If you’re stumped on what to write about yourself, it can include the following: What are your favourite hobbies and favourite animes/mangas, where are you from, are you still in school, are you working, and anything else you feel that we should know.
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~~ Games ~~
We have quite a few games on our forums that’ll help you interact with us while you have fun. We sometimes add new games whenever we think of some, so look out for them! Here are a few games we currently have on our forums:
If you need any anime or manga suggestions, feel free to check our threads (below) or ask us on Discord if you require any help finding something that will fit your taste!
Anime Suggestions ‘here’
Manga Suggestions ‘here’
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~~ Chat and Streams ~~
Chat with us on Discord:
Truthfully, we are way more active on Discord in comparison to the club forums. If you want fun topics, debates, discussion, or any other fun stuff, make sure to join our Discord. Meet the beautiful people of the club and make friends. Join us ‘here’.
Anime/Movie/Show Streams:
We host a variety of things to watch on Rabb.it, ranging from TV shows to movies, seasonal anime, and anime in general. Sterps and some of the other members usually host it, so feel free to ask if we’re streaming anything today!
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~~ Inviting Friends ~~
We’re a growing club with a lot of unique individuals. To keep this friendly community going, we encourage you to invite your friends. Don’t leave your friends out and let them miss out on all the fun you’re having! Don’t hog it all for yourself!
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~~ Continue to Grow ~~
We’ve been growing slowly and steadily for quite a while now. We’d like to continue this pace so there will always be new awesome people to talk with! Our Discord is way more active than our forums, and there’s no problem with that, but we definitely need some more activity on the forums. Make sure to introduce yourselves, greet new members, recommend anime, discuss, and play the games when you feel like it! Our club is full of people with different time zones (Mostly EU people), so we definitely need more people in order to be active at all times.
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~~ Club Banners and Signatures ~~
We are in the process of making some club banners and signatures for our club members to represent Anime Advocates. Keep an eye out for new information on our club page, forums, and Discord for any updates regarding this. If you have any experience and would like to help us make any, feel free to message our Club Officer Desu.
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~~ Other Stuff ~~
Check out our club’s blog page by ImoutoYuki ‘here’
If you enjoy making art of any kind, feel free to join our officer ImoutoYuki’s club dedicated to it ‘here’
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~~ Suggestions ~~
If you have any suggestions for anything you would like to see added or improved, feel free to message any of the officers on MAL or Discord. You can also post your suggestions or thoughts on our club’s forums or our Discord. They can be anything including Discord features, forum or club page enhancement, artwork, etc.
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~~ Thank You ~~
Thanks for taking your time to read our club’s first newsletter.
We hope you enjoy your stay in our club and make this an even better experience for everyone!
Remember to rock on and be an awesome Avocado!
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