What is your favorite memory at TBT?

[Holla]

I have loved all my time here on TBT but if I had to choose just one it would be the moment I realized I won a staff favourite during the 2020 Bell Tree Fair. I came up with a super clever picture to draw using my Crazy Dream Sequence prompt and the staff must have really loved it too. My fave lineup also includes the Shooting Star that I won from that staff fave (though I'm currently showcasing my Halloween candy lineup at the moment).

 

[Dunquixote]

I have so many, but maybe the Woods during Halloweaster. I will never forget the Tangy and Zucker incident 👁👁 @Nefarious.

Camp Bell tree was my favorite event…

I also enjoyed the gaming event though I only had one game and only got to play once. But really loved the banter and the streams.

Most of my experiences here has been a wonderful experience since I’ve made so many friends and continue to enjoy interacting with so many wonderful people.

 

[jiny]

any memory from 2015-2016 <3 i made a bunch of friends on this forum, none of them are really active anymore but i still cherish the memories i made with them, they were the first online friends i’ve ever made :,)

 

[Bluebellie]

When I was trying to get my Jacks, I had a couple of people who gift them to me, and I’m forever grateful. Everyone was also super helpful all throughout the search. Whenever one was advertised, people would come in and notify me letting me know. Then when I finally go the full lineup, I also had people come and congratulate me. The whole experience was very sweet. I felt like the whole forums was helping me in the journey

 

[Chris]

TBT World Championships and Camp Bell Tree. They were a lot of work to run, and I barely slept during the former due to an intense streaming schedule, but I enjoyed working on these two events so much. Team-based events like this give us the opportunity to get involved and have fun with everyone too.

 

[piske]

My memory is really bad so I could be forgetting things, but aside from the wonderful people I’ve met, I’ve always loved the Easter egg hunts. They almost feel like a fever dream at times but I love how everyone is wracking their brains, losing sleep, and madly solving puzzles. It feels like we’re all on the same crazed train, haha. And I love that the post quality isn’t enforced so we can just have a silly, meme-y, constant flow of conversation with each other. Second to that, the winter holiday events because it just feels so happy and bright and everyone tends to be kind and generous.

 

[Beanz]

my favorite memory is when i joined in 2019 and my made first post, i was looking for some dlc regional items in new leaf. prior to joining the site, i was looking for those items everywhere but i couldn’t find anyone who would trade with me. nobody replied to my first post and i didn’t get the item i was looking for until a year later, for some reason i decided to stay and here i am two years later. my other favorite memory is from the camp tbt crypid creek event, it was so fun making the scene in harvey’s phototopia. i made a forest scene and tangy was supposed to be the guardian of the orange trees, it was fun making the story up for it too. i can’t really decide what memory i like more.

 

[Bluebellie]

TBT World Championships and Camp Bell Tree. They were a lot of work to run, and I barely slept during the former due to an intense streaming schedule, but I enjoyed working on these two events so much. Team-based events like this give us the opportunity to get involved and have fun with everyone too.

One of my favorite parts was you cooking for us

 

[tsantsa]

2015 and the team popsicle era!!!
the good old days :’)

 

[LittleMissPanda]

Trying to think of just one favorite memory and yet so many just flood into my head I'm having a hard time picking just one.

I wasn't very social back when I first joined in 2016. I mainly joined because I was desperate for wishlist items in New Leaf, and once I got what I needed, I was pretty much done with TBT (sort of) I mean, I would still log in and check out what was going on now and then but I never really participated in anything or really chatted much with anyone. I took a hiatus starting in 2017 all the way to 2020 when New Horizons brought me back here, and since then I haven't been quite the same. Now I'm kind of like, all over the place lol and after getting to know all sorts of great peeps how can I go back to a life without Bell Tree? This community is a huge part of my life now

My favorite memory, which still makes me so happy, was back during the 2020 Christmas Event when we had to write a letter to Jingle in the perspective of one of our villagers and one of our island representative, and I wrote a really silly yet fun letter by my rep, I actually won my very first Staff Favorite and was awarded with a Special Snowflake collectible! I was so happy that my writing could be enjoyed by others ☺ and being able to bring a smile and laugh to someone really meant a lot to me. That collectible is very precious to me, so much so I have a lineup dedicated around it and one I will show off this winter~

Another fond memory is the TBT Winter Short Story Contest. My entry was nominated and I even won second place! That was such an incredible feeling. I've never forgotten it.

 

[Corrie]

2015 and the team popsicle era!!!
the good old days :’)

Team Popsicle! It was so cute and pure! I miss Miharu.

 

[Midoriya]

Hard to say, I’ve made a lot of great memories here. If I had to choose, however, I’d say when I joined in 2013 and Pokemon X/Y were releasing the same year.

 

[LadyDestani]

It's hard to choose just one so I'll go with my top three memories.

1. Obtaining my Aurora Egg. I had been searching for months and months, only to log in one day and find a PM about it. Thanks to a couple of lovely people on TBT, I was finally able to get my dream collectible and I will never part with it. It means so much to me.

2. Getting first place for my haiku during last year's Bell Tree Fair. I love writing and poetry especially, so seeing that my haiku was not only nominated but won was so thrilling. I will always treasure my trophy and Rainbow Star Fragment from that event.

3. Having my short story nominated during the TBT Winter Short Story event. I didn't place but just seeing my story up there with all the others meant a lot to me. There were so many good stories and I didn't even vote for myself. I voted for @LittleMissPanda!

 

[Xara]

aw man, picking just one favourite memory is torturous — i have so many . but if i had to choose, my #1 favourite memory is probably tbtwc that happened back in may! specifically, my favourite memory from that event is spectating during games on discord! i made so many new friends from that, spoke to people who i hadn’t spoken to before/had only spoken to briefly in the past, shared a lot of laughs and even got to see/share some adorable pet photos!! it also got me interested in the mario party games, and i’ll actually be receiving and playing my first one (mario party superstars) sometime within the next week! i probably would’ve never bought it if it weren’t for tbtwc.

tbtwc as a whole is probably my favourite tbt memory, though. it got me back into creating art, something that i’ve really been enjoying and that has been therapeutic for me, and i’m still so happy and honoured that my team name suggestion (the bellflowers) was chosen! it was overall such an amazing event, and i loved it and the memories from it so much.

 

[skarmoury]

I don't have one particular moment, but one favorite memory of mine is being friends with people on here! I admit I have really bad social skills and can't communicate for my life without making things awkward, so I was kind of a loner back in the late ACNL days. With the advent of ACNH, a lot of people joined and I got to be friends with some of them! I'm really happy to have found friends on here with similar interests as me (sdv, genshin, crk) who I get to talk to on a regular basis. I'm slowly working on my social skills and I'm still not the best in that aspect, but I can say for sure that I've made more friends the past year than I did all the other years I was on here and I can call that progress. I'm not always online on social media, but I appreciate my friends a whole lot! You guys know who you are and I hope you know that I love and appreciate you all. <3

Another fun memory was winning a pink candy from Halloween 2017, it was the Jester's Jinx event and if I remember correctly, I made this stupid picture with the mike wazowski singing meme but it was wix singing instead. I had loads of fun making it and idk it was really funny at the time.

Lastly, my earliest favorite memory was probably with the Spellectibles, I remember how much people wanted them and how they were selling out the moment they were stocked in the shop. I can't believe the spellectibles are such a commodity nowadays, I remember when people were hyping so much over them.

 

[VanitasFan26]

I don't know, I guess when I came back to site and I posed in the Introduction Thread, I saw everyone welcoming me back. I didn't know how to feel since I've been so numb all this time and been used to all the negativity I had to deal with in my personal life.

 

[dizzy bone]

Definitely playing splatoon with everyone during my first gaming week!

 

[TillyGoesMeow]

Yeah, I'd have to say it was during the nintendo gaming event! Being in the discord with everyone going wild while people played nintendo games was super fun honestly! Everyone here is so good at videogames haha.

 

[fairysyndrome]

kind of cheesy, but my favourite tbt memory hands down was meeting @a potato in 2014 when i ordered something from his ACNL shop. we were goofy teens when we first met and our personalities clashed at the time so our friendship wasn’t exactly easy early on, but 7 years later he’s someone i consider one of my closest friends so i can’t help but look back fondly on our meeting here

 

[jadetine]

I have been thinking over this question ever since I saw it pop up. It's impossible to narrow it down to just ONE event. Here are a few great moments in my TBT life:

1. That time I hosted a community-built catalog island. I had people throwing in donations left and right and basically completed my own furniture catalog with the help of their goodwill, multiple spreadsheets, and monopolizing the Switch and TV for hours... It woke me up in the morning and gave me purpose. It's so inspiring to see people gather for a common purpose. Big thanks to @Rairu (wherever you are) and @mayor_christin for daily shipments.
I was going to prep my island for hosting another community-built catalog island for the new 2.0 items, but @shellbell beat me to the punch here (join the effort!): https://www.belltreeforums.com/thre...ms-currently-seeking-future-donations.599574/

2. Hosting a Harry Potter themed giveaway where I wrote a mini-HP fanfic for each item:

3. The time I recreated my wedding and invited TBT friends to help me nab a screenshot so I could use it for an anniversary card. I learned that you couldn't summon another profile from the same Switch, so @Firesquids kindly stepped up and changed their character model to pose as my husband. LOL, you are like my work-wife, only it's "TBT Husband"

My gal Ketchup photo-bombing like a diva...

4. That time I got a warning for trying to sell hacked pi pies. I had no idea how terrible that was... what a dumb mistake. Now I laugh about it, but it's on my permanent record. (CRINGE)

5. That time I was caught in a snowstorm and had no power = no internets and @Roxxy stepped up to help me host a Festivale giveaway.

6. That time @SpaceTokki77 gathered the people to make me a bday card

7. That time I completed my Hinaningyo project, giving me the confidence to open a real shop in the Museum for my art; it fulfilled all my dreams of making art as a teen.

8. That time @Foreverfox offered to co-sign on my yellow house collectible and gave me a 0% interest loan, allowing me to achieve my dream lineup of the house collectibles... best mortgage lender, would sign again.

9. That time @mocha. first offered to draw my island rep, thus triggering the Toyhouse obsession; I live for art of my rep and collecting tbt collectibles now...