User blog comment:Jack.mac.334/How did you come to smurf/@comment-5291852-20140528074149

Well, I first got into the Smurfs when I was growing up in the late 90's (I was born in 1991). The episode that got me hooked was "The Purple Smurfs" and ever since that day, they've been my favorite childhood show amongst other shows such as Rugrats, Codename: Kids Next Door, Johnny Bravo, The Fairly Odd Parents, Spongebob as well as others. I used to watch the cartoon episodes every day when they aired on TV, but when they ended, my love for them dwindled, this got worse by the time I was in High School; as I had completely forgotten about them.

But when someone uploaded the cartoon episodes to Youtube, this re-lit my love for them again and this peaked when the 2011 Smurfs movie came out (although I didn't see it in theaters).

In regards to finding this wiki, I just happened to find it whilst looking for Smurf images to draw in 2011 and came across the image of Empath & Smurfette getting married and I thought to myself "Who is that Smurf? I've never seen a Smurf with those clothes before," and after a bit of research into Empath, I was intrigued by his character, especially his background. But of course, I didn't start here until the following year.