This sub saved me. Perhaps this is a message in a bottle but even if you don't remember me, I will never forget you.
It may be hard to understand, but you guys changed my life. Years ago I posted some beats here that got some weekly/monthly top rankings, they were not the most amazing tracks ever but this community showed me something I had never experienced in my life which was appreciation and acknowledgment.
Up until that point in my life I quite literally had never had any positive feedback for anything I was interested in. My family, until this day, has always maintained and treated me like I am a thug degenerate piece of shit.
You may not know what it takes to become a person that the people who are supposed to know you best think you can't be, but I did it. I FUCKING DID IT.
Despite what my mother, father, brother, sisters and family told me my whole life. I became the person I always wanted to be.
This sub contributed more to my self esteem than any person in my family. This may sound low key weak and whiny but I need to give credit where credit is due. Growing up, nobody believed in me. Now? I am globetrotting, ++income and loving my life.
This may not be 100% because of this sub but it is at least 25%.
When I first posted my tracks here I thought I would get downvoted into oblivion 10 years ago because I had no self esteem. Yes, I wasn't popularized into stardom but I never wanted that and I didn't even need that. I just needed someone to tell me "This is good" and you guys did that.
Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. I am truly living an amazing life right now and I will always thank this sub for giving me a boost of confidence that I so dearly needed when I was low to get me here. Without that initial motion, I may have stayed exactly where I was before. It's hard to imagine now that I'm so far away from it, but every avalanche starts with a single flake of snow.
Yes of course, that boost didn't take me to exactly where I am today but credit is due where credit is due.
Thank you.