User blog:DonaldoC1997/Farewell from The Testcardiologist

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This is The Testcardiologist speaking. I have been banned from Gapia on March 8th for reasons I won't publicly announce. Since then I have thought about my future not only regarding Gapia, but also regarding a separate community in general. Unlike other users, I think I have overstayed my welcome like KansasJ. And because of the ban, my interest in Gapia began to fall. There's legally no second chance, I would still be banned otherwise. And back in 2017 when I started, it was a chaotic period, I thought I had the abilities to control over certain countries. Having lurked since the Geian days, I started a mass period of posting when a friend of mine from Facebook was suspended for a few days, started a FANDOM account (at the time Wikia was falling out of use) and went to LP to start the Rupavahini page. Later I put a lot of Sri Lankan things in Jembirnia because I was pissed at Seilan stopping to be a country. And even I thought I would own Jembirnia. I quickly became addicted, I was 19 in those days, and even I went too far, even receiving a good amount of oe callate comments.

But now, I want to announce something very but very important. I will stop using The Testcardiologist as a brand name if I ever file successful counter-notifications (I heard of tales of users that were in limbo for that) that I am delaying as a master procrastinator. Then until something bad happens, I will download the entirety of the video content and save it all to my external drive. I am a hoarder. But there is a deeper reason behind that.

Aside from ending TTC, I have also noticed the painstakingly huge growth in the number of immature logo kids on YouTube. There are those who can master software properly, those who don't (mostly Kinemaster) and the average Savio Begaj type of user that just makes nonsensical videos reminiscent of fever dreams with an invented gibberish languages I call Savionese. The logo kids and the community in general (including grown-ups) are usually a waste of time. Some have successfully ended their logo career, others ended but returned, some had their career halted and changed focus, and some had their careers halted due to tense drama often on Discord, to the extent that they are caught doing illegal acts triggering a Weinstein effect. What happened to me in Gapia is kinda like that, and I don't want to be a discount Harvey Weinstein when I return to YouTube. I also plan to leave Logopedia, where I mostly edited TV channel articles, and plan to end the page update streams to my GMail account (secondary, because at the time due to an online Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde situation I had to reserve the main brand for Outlook and TTC for GMail) because I don't sorta need FANDOM anymore.

Six years? Hard to believe that in six years my life changed outside of Gapia, for good and from 2020 for bad, and I think I will stop being associated with the group. But then again, I have seen worse creations, even from that nameless wiki, where certain users stole my ideas (some good, some bad). Either way, no world is perfect. I am still considered persona non grata at that wiki due to a small beef in 2021.

Lastly, I just don't know how long will this world last. I'm surprised such a fictional world held more than seven years up its legs, but I don't know if there will be further division, new worlds, me being persona non grata in those worlds forever, etc. I would like to thank everyone within the Gapian circles that supported me, in the good times and in the bad times. I was also very insistive and was pressuring for the creation of countries representing Guatemala, Bangladesh, the Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe, Kenya etc. but I learned my lesson. No world is perfect. See you when YouTube decides that it's OK in order to end the TTC brand once and for all. Goodbye.

I also want to convey my gratitude to all users who have been of support to me all these years, and to the new users who have continued my YT style of work, in any case, best of luck until the niche career isn't lucrative. <3 <3 <3