DC FORUM: DCBLOG at Ten Years, 1500 Posts & Counting

A Note from the Editor

BY DC CUEVA                        

■ @DC408DXTR  @ IG/YT/SC/TB/TK

On this the premiere day of Season 3 of The Challenge All-Stars, today --Wednesday, May 11th -- marks the start of the tenth year of DCBLOG... and this is also our site's 1500th overall posts. In truth, this is actually the ninth anniversary of my very first blog post on the site back on this very same date back in 2013, which was just a simple little post that was titled "I'm here." But for the sake of both the record keeping and for the factor of celebration whenever the last number ends in a "0" or "5," for all intents and purposes this is the beginning of what will be an 18-month long celebration on here.

Whatever the case may be, I am proud of the work that I have been able on here to offer over the course of the past decade... all of which began with just a simple suggestion by a longtime Twitter fan to bring my obsessed episode content from Twitter to this Google Blogger platform. That recommendation by one who's been a friend of mine ever since my first summer on Twitter ten year ago in Andrew Kirk -- who pioneered the world of getting to podcast on this thing most of us who watch the show call "the fifth major pro sport" -- has more than served me well, and the rest has been history.

Since the beginning of this site, I have evolved both as a person and as a blogger in turning this simple hobby on the side into something that feels like a profession to me, in addition to the great thing that I get to do every day. Even now in these past few years where we have been stuck at home in this pandemic -- and even as this blogger is going through an unprecedented time in his life as yours truly has been dealing with serious family matters (which if you saw my Instagram post or the finale of the DC Vegas XI vlog series on YouTube, you have an idea about it), I have seen this blog as a much-needed place of escape... like so much of what we've had to endure these past twenty-seven months -- and for which our "Escape You Deserve" slogan has really rung true.

Over the past decade, DCBLOG has evolved in the way we get to tell the stories of this fascinating world of MTV Reality, offer the unique weekly episode coverage via the weekly Pulse and traditional recaps, and also have time to delve into my three other biggest passions of sports, music and Las Vegas. The manner of storytelling, reliving the big moments and so much more give this site its unique personality in this increasingly complex world of ours, and yet give us this distinctive place in this coverage beat. And thanks to the increasing exposure, acclaim and readership we have been getting, then we know that you enjoy this exceptional work, and this blogger is most appreciative of it... the result of countless numbers of hours the past nine years of perfecting the very best content there is. 

But a lot has changed over this time, some things just don't change or evolve much: I have done most of this work on the same home desktop computer -- and now I get to do an increasingly amount of these on a laptop that my mom gave me for Christmas back two years ago. And another thing that hasn't changed a bit has been this site's unwavering commitment to quality and excellence we do... and if you thought that this past decade has been quite the ride, then we look forward to what the next ten years and beyond await us on this site. And from this blogger, thank you... and welcome to DCBLOG Year 10.

- I AM DC

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