User blog comment:Jack.mac.334/How did you come to smurf/@comment-4165715-20140528055016

As for me, I was introduced to the Smurfs at a young age, around the same time I was introduced to The Powerpuff Girls and SpongeBob, which was the late 1990s (I was in kindergarten, having been born in 1994). Cartoon Network used to air the Smurfs during my early childhood, which was how I came to know them, but I was more focused on drawing the Powerpuff Girls, Rugrats, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Jimmy Neutron, The Fairly Odd Parents, Johnny Bravo, Codename: Kids Next Door, and other big names budding from the late 90s to the early 2000s.

My grandma even named her pet Beta fish "Gargamel" while I was in elementary school, but I never made the connection to the Smurfs until I was about to enter high school, at which point I began to focus back onto the series and came to appreciate Johan and Peewit; the Season 2 episodes were the most prominent ones in my memory because of the human elements. In fact, I still remember which episode was the very first I saw, having finally rediscovered it on my DVR.

This Wiki, having been created in 2011, was my first real "light bulb" moment; I had been a member of the Smurfs Wiki after starting out on the KND Code Module Wiki (and then the KND Roleplay Wiki, only to leave that fairly quickly for unrelated reasons). That's why my username is "Numbuh 404," just for trivia. Once I found a link to this Wiki, I decided to stay put and work - initially - on just introducing Falla to Johan and Peewit, but it quickly turned into an entire storyline filled with many more characters, continuity lock-out moments, and hundreds of thousands of new drawing ideas.

In short, I started out small, grew to love what had once been nostalgic reminisce, and then hopped a link that changed my artistic mindset.