arachnutron's 2025 Retrospective

Statistics

Note: These are all stats from chub, the only site I really track numbers on.

  • 4185 new followers! (started on Jan 1 with 1640, ended Dec 31 with 5825, a 255% increase!)
  • 22 new cards! - Yay! How did I find time for all of those? Nearly two a month? Bonkers.
  • 15 major card overhauls! - Slowly bringing my library up to a certain standard, still more work to do here!
  • 14 retired cards - Boo! Whether they were NSFL, seasonal, or people just stopped playing them, it was their time to go. A few others got retired as well, but these are the ones I reliably tracked.
  • 277k chats! - a 269% increase (nice)
  • 3.95M messages! - a 311% increase, and the equivalent of roughly 10 thousand novels!
  • Sachiko Best Girl! - As of this writing, Sachiko is (currently) the #1 most popular female character on chub, with over 1.4M msgs across 15 cards (including the seasonal ones)!

Leaderboard Accomplishments!

  • Chats/User - 15th Place - Fans keep coming back for more
  • Messages/Character - 29th Place - They aren't all bangers, but I've got more than my fair share!
  • # Cards - Sir Not Appearing In This List - And I intend to keep it that way. I want to have a small stable of characters people remember, not so many cards that only a few have any impact and the rest are quickly forgotten
  • # Followers - 12th Place - It's a long, hard climb, but I'm coming for your spot, Nutsucci! It's friendly competition, though... a guy's gotta have goals! I'm gonna open a bottle of champagne when I hit the top ten... probably around a year from now.
  • # Messages - 15th Place - Honestly surprised by this one, given the longevity of most of the folks above me in this category.
  • # Chats - 18th Place - Honestly glad to see this is lower than # Messages, if only by a few slots - goes to show the relatively high engagement on my cards.

And that's 2025, folks! It's been a great year, and I wanna thank everybody who's encouraged me over the year. Love you all :kiss:

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Pub: 01 Jan 2026 10:17 UTC

Edit: 11 Jan 2026 07:42 UTC

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