My fond memories of r/fakeid - A short tale

I am in a slightly hungover nostalgic mood right now so I am going to tell all you about what an amazing place this sub is and how I will remember it after I turn 21 in a couple of weeks.

It all started almost two years ago... I was a strange and bewildered college freshman just trying to find a way to buy alcohol. I somehow managed to find this sub and learn how to use bitcoin in order to get my first id; an Elite ID's IL. I thought that thing was fucking magnificent. I felt invincible with it, even if my face was half covered in shadow on the dl pic and the holo was creased right down the middle after I tried to bend it.

Fast forward 6 months and I am deep into the id game. My collection slowly started to grow along with knowledge of fakes. I was on this sub all the time, reading every new post and contributing what I could to the community that was developing. New vendors were springing up all over the place and as new ids were starting to be produced, I learned about security features and I was figuring out all of the common flaws with fakes and how to spot them. This may sound ridiculous to most people, but I started to view making fake ids as something of an art form. It takes real skill to replicate a DMV license and I loved seeing vendors attempt to do just this.

Perhaps one of the most outstanding features of this sub is the characters that existed here. A$ap and his humor, Tumblr being a scamming motherfucker with funny youtube reviews, that one time a mod made a video review of a Qdoba gift card, Oracle and his xanned out rants on that video conferencing site. Christ, there was so much good content.

But with all the fond memories, I still remember feeling scared that LE was going to arrest us all and put a stop to this place. Was it 2/19, 2/11? I can't remember, but for those who don't remember there was a big scare a while back when people were claiming that vendors were getting arrested left and right. Even the mods were concerned that they were going to be taken out. The sub was was in chaos during that time and I feared that my favorite sub reddit would cease to exist. But alas fam, we survived.

That is about all I want to say right now but thanks for being such an awesome community r/fakeid. I am going to look back on these memories and think of how great it was to be a part of this sub during its infancy. Special thanks to the pioneers of r/fakeid, you have helped thousands upon thousands of people get high quality fakes. I am probably going to be pursuing a job as a bouncer because of you guys and I really can't thank you enough.