DC FORUM: Here's to The Next Ten Years...

A Word from the Editor

BY DC CUEVA 

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It might be a little bit strange, but it has been a while since we got to speak to you on here. But more than a week ago marked something of a milestone around here: last weekend while I marked Mother's Day with the most important person in my life of my mom -- and having my sister, bro in law, their kids and two puppies at my house to mark this day with her, it also marked the ten-year anniversary of DCBLOG. But that milestone was marked a little bit low-key due to something else that has taken place off of this favorite hobby of mine.

The situation my family has been in for over a year now -- us having to go through the process of being one person short in our house -- has really given me a new appreciation of how precious life is, and of how my responsibilities as the family man have grown in the wake of the passing last summer of the most important man in our lives of my late dad. That is the reason for why I have decided to take a break from doing much blog work on here: necessary to do my part in helping out everyone in my life, but also in a way much deserved after having done a decade of doing posts like these... and for a change, I have been able to enjoy watching these MTV shows and my favorite content I love just as a viewer.

During this time, I have also been thinking about what the next ten years of this hobby will be like, and of how I would want to still fit in doing these posts and my supplemental YouTube work around my increased duties as man of the house... and it's also been necessitated by something I got in my inbox this week. As you might have noticed -- and having just spotted it with the notice I got from the folks who run this Blogger platform, some editions of the Pulse have now been tagged with a disclaimer... we always put one at the top of those as a precaution. That now will mean a change in how I will do things.

Starting with the summer and fall cycle of covering The Challenge and everything else Inside MTV Reality when that begins in short order, I will be shifting my weekly episode coverage to doing it in a traditional way -- that is, focusing on recapping the shows with the top moments of each week, and embedded Twitter highlights from them too. This is what I call the MTV WRAP and the format I have used with a few of the shows I've covered the past few years, and now it will become permanent when we begin to cover the weekly episodes again starting with Season 2 of The Challenge USA on CBS and Season 4 of The Challenge All-Stars on Paramount+.

Unfortunately -- and with this post taking place during season (and series) finale time in TV land, this will mean the end of the Pulse presentations as you have known it over the last decade. But with the lack of Twitter activity for the World Championship series that just wrapped up a few days ago, the growing sentiment among those who still use that platform in its new formation and everything else, it is a necessary change to make that evolution in the way we cover the episodes each week -- and also, it gives this site a safety net of sorts to prevent us from possibly going off the air too... and let's hope that doesn't happen to us as it may happen to your favorite show during the current work stoppage plaguing the TV industry as this post goes out on the last Friday of the regular season.

Hopefully this won't be a disservice to those of you who have visited this site for years, and we look forward to doing our weekly Challenge WRAP's during the summer and fall... and even starting with recapping the top moments of the World Championship coming before the summer Challenge seasons kick off -- we'll give you plenty of time to watch that before we offer our Things to Know season review coming up then. And even then, those will have to wait until after posting all three editions of our rookie primers... plus there's the many ExtraTime stories that we're doing also around all of that. That will all be coming up as we get into this summer of 2023... and it's hard to think we're a week away from the start of all that.

But most importantly -- and while we marked this anniversary several months back ago, the fact that DCBLOG is now officially ten years old is something this site and its blogger in chief is proud of. I have worked tremendously hard to make this site a place for all of you to come and indulge in my biggest passions through the power of the written word in this world dominated by TikTok, YouTube and all else. And to those who have made visiting this cherished site a regular habit in your life -- and those who have visited this page at some point in the last ten years, thank you... and here's to the next ten years.

- I AM DC

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