If I had to describe and sum up the entire 2020 , I would use this word: uncertainty.

Huge amounts of uncertainty everywhere and you wouldn´t know what could happen the following day. When this board >>4969 announced this post gen 4 transition as a chaotic one, one would refer to an unknown for a new transition for this community and that variable, new for the fanbase, would be one to keep track and see how the community would adapt itself to the new decade without the show.

However, that overwhelming amount of chaos was unexpected and not one that would come from the community (except for its inner dramas).

Shitposting might be always frowned upon for bringing a low amount of quality when its comes to the posts and the practice alone. However, being able to shitpost and showing legitimate signs that you are still out there posting on an imageboard and following the ride, with the same tone as one would display in the past, holds quite a lot of merit.

If one looks at this year in hindsight, while you might say that nothing really happened on a personal level, in reality, there are a few factors to consider. While it´s true that the capabilities of adaptation for the average person are quite praiseworthy, that doesn´t change what one has had to face this year.

I consider this year 2020 as one of those that contains several years in one and definitely, it has challenged the minds and health of many. You might be alive and keep the same attitude after all, but if one stops a little bit, then you realize how many people have been knocked down. Not only when it comes to Covid-19 deaths but also those people who have been going through a rough mental period for digesting all the doubts, fears and an unstable outlook about what could await in the future. To a greater or lesser degree, anyone would show signs of worry about this matter. In case that you didn´t, your respective country/environment would remind you about it instead (confinement, limitation of movement, masks,the vaccine race, information about the virus, economic impact,...) so it´s been basically impossible to live inside a bubble, much less when everything is more connected than ever and so, you will become instantly aware of it one way or another.

If anything, the bubble would have to be improvised...in terms for your personal comfort in order to get ahead and survive in some way. There are times where it ´s been so chaotic that you only care about those who are around you and nothing else. This was a year that has basically consisted in this pattern: save yourselves and make an effort for those who are around you.

In theory, that effort would be made by wearing a mask and taking cautious measures but...nobody said that one would need a psychological support too, especially to those who have had a loved one affected by this whole thing...

after considering that, perhaps you might value that surviving this whole year has more merit than one would give credit.