User blog:Lefty8899/It's been FIVE YEARS TODAY since I played Candy Crush for the first time!!!

Half a decade has passed since I got that first fateful request that would lead me to play Candy Crush Saga for the first time. Holy crap. Half a decade?! That makes me feel super ridiculously old!

I just... how has... what?! How has it been FIVE YEARS!?! I remember when five years was like... an incomprehensibly long time! FIVE YEARS?!

Sorry, it's just that it feels like yesterday that I played for the first time! August 19, 2012, me sitting in my room bored out of my skull. So bored in fact that I almost wanted summer to be over so I could get some mental stimulation again, even if in the form of work/job. Somebody send me a request for Candy Crush (unfortunately, that person and I are no longer friends on Facebook, I got tired of her passive-aggressive posts), and with literally nothing better in the world to do, I pressed it.

At first glance it was a game I'd never want to play again, and I figured nobody knew about this game. And at the time, that was true. Candy Crush only had 170 levels and was still in relative obscurity. But somehow I kept playing past level one. Probably cuz all the levels were so freaking easy. I am unsure of the first level I failed, I think it may have been level 13 or 14. Maybe 18 idk. On the first day I gave up at level 19, which back then was actually pretty difficult.

If not for the Wikia, I probably never would've continued playing. Or maybe I would've. I think I was at around level 100 when the Wikia was born. I noticed a severe lack of an information site about this game back in 2012.

But since I am celebrating 5 years of CCS today, you know what this means? It means Candy Crush Saga WIKIA is to turn 5 shortly too!

I think we're all looking forward to December 22, 2017, where the Wikia's collective faces will have a cake with five candles to blow out!

And one last thing...

HOW HAS IT BEEN FIVE YEARS!?!

Lefty8899 (talk) 10:49, August 19, 2017 (UTC)