User blog comment:EthanKoenigsberg/Romanian Mapping quiz/@comment-26047466-20170311152234

Sometimes 2014 fellows look back into the past looking for wisdom in the present day mapping.

But they forget mostly that times have changed and so mapping has evolved. From my first days of Jabril-quality to the very top of mapping, many mappers that were considered great are now forgotten to time and to an extent bad by today's standards.

We often think of the past as better days, but were they really?, It's not the same, but in many aspects it still is.

When Viper's animations consisted of frame-by-frame photoshop, remember?, I'm sure you don't. Everyone evolved with time, people like Japanese or DTS didn't exist, he was at the top. By some simple animations he could do.

Now we've evolved into a cancerous community, with the likes of Romanian at the top, who only search to squeeze every last single bit of popularity and ego-inflating views and subscriber counts.

Nicknaming Mervue or CookieDamage good mappers is biased by today's standards. Those days are long gone, they were good for the time, but not enough to stand the test of time.

Many would consider them lame, but simply to fit in with what we've created as a near religious community doesn't let us harness the truth that the state of the community is in.

Not dying, but sick inside, affected by the changes of the recent years and the income of new people.

The past ; 2014, early 2015, reminds us of other days. Days that are just what cemented what we've become today.

Don't say Mervue is a good mapper

He isn't.