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Thankyou so much for doing this! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY 1. When did you become a fan of Yuzu? I found out about Yuzu at the end of May last year. I didn't know figure skating exist back then and neither was I a sports fan, so coming across Yuzu's PyeongChang Seimei performance while scrolling on YT was a really wonderful coincidence. At first impression, I was absolutely captivated by his skate to the point that I was at the edge of my seat by half the performance and cheering along with the audience in the arena. But since I knew nothing about the sport, it didn't garner enough of my interest to find out more. The next day, the same video was recommended to me and I found myself watching it again with the same enthusiasm as the first time. Then I got curious enough to open the comments. It was full of compliments and praises not limited only on the performance, but also on the athlete himself, Yuzuru Hanyu. So I searched him on wikipedia and fell into the hole of binge-watching Yuzu on YT and it could be said that the rest was history haha. I became a fanyu completely just after SOI 2021 (I missed it by a few days ) and it has been such an adventure following Yuzu's journey until now. Even though it's not always a fun and happy experience, even as I shed some tears along the way, I've never regretted finding out and supporting Yuzu. I have learnt so much from him. He's honestly the dream role-model both in figure skating and in life 2. When and why did you sign up for Planet Hanyu? I joined while Jnats 2021 was ongoing. I found out about this forum from twitter and this forum is a godsend for a baby fanyu like me. This forum has helped me a lot in catching up with what I missed and understand more about figure skating and of course, about Yuzuru Hanyu! This forum really just made a lot of things easier for me. Thankyou so much for the hard work put into creating and managing this forum 3. Did you make any irl friends through Planet Hanyu? Unfortunately I haven't 4. Have you participated in any group projects on Planet Hanyu? Not yet. But if anything is coming up soon, I'll be sure to check it out and see if I could participate! 5. Did you attend any meetups with other satellites at competitions? Sadly I have never been to any competitions yet. I don't think my country ever holds any figure skating competition (not that I know of, at least), and I haven't gotten time to spare to travel to competitions overseas. But it's mostly due to Covid :(. I sure I hope I could go to one someday and meet other fanyus though! 6. What do you like the most about this forum? To be honest, I haven't seen all of what this forum has to offer. But to my limited experience as a baby fanyu, the best thing is absolutely the video archive. It helps me access a lot of videos that might not be available in my country without a VPN, which makes it really hard to search for online. Again, thankyou so much for all the hard work 7. Would you like to participate in the giveaway? Of course! I'm really excited that I finally can participate in one of these giveaways, especially after I saw the recent Yuzu exhibition merch. They're all so wonderful and beautiful but so far out of my reach haha. So I'm very thankful for this opportunity ありがとうございます!