# How long has everyone been a fan of vkei? Even if you weren't in any communities **URL:** \ **Category:** Colorful Hell\ **Tags:** rock, visual-kei\ **Created:** [March 3, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389 "2025-03-03T22:47:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love-in-DEF](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/love-in-def/32/70260_2.png) [@Love-in-DEF](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Love-in-DEF)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/1 "2025-03-03T22:47:32Z")
_Poll ([view on site](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/1))_ ---
**Author:** ![Love-in-DEF](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/love-in-def/32/70260_2.png) [@Love-in-DEF](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Love-in-DEF)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/2 "2025-03-03T22:48:00Z")
Shit I messed up the poll. Only pick 1 please ---
**Author:** ![Leo](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/leo/32/78600_2.png) [@Leo](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/3 "2025-03-03T22:48:31Z")
20 years next year. Damn I’m old 😐 ---
**Author:** ![zeus](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/zeus/32/89310_2.png) [@zeus](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/zeus)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/4 "2025-03-03T22:49:59Z")
Where’s my 20+ crew at? ---
**Author:** ![delkmiroph](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/delkmiroph/32/70377_2.png) [@delkmiroph](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/delkmiroph)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/5 "2025-03-03T22:59:44Z")
20+ years here 👴 ---
**Author:** ![blamsamran](https://forum.jrockone.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/f07891/32.png) [@blamsamran](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/blamsamran)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/6 "2025-03-03T23:00:22Z")
I got my copy of Garnet the day Malice Mizer broke up, so I’m around 26 years baybee ---
**Author:** ![Rena](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/rena/32/84321_2.png) [@Rena](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Rena)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/7 "2025-03-03T23:11:33Z")
I am joining you in two years ---
**Author:** ![TrentReznor](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/trentreznor/32/56809_2.png) [@TrentReznor](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/TrentReznor)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/8 "2025-03-03T23:17:22Z")
this one hurt 😅 ---
**Author:** ![Qventin](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/qventin/32/65812_2.png) [@Qventin](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Qventin)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/9 "2025-03-03T23:29:10Z")
I mean, I listened to Diru for the first time twenty years ago (wait, what?). However, I really started listening to and have considered myself a fan for some 15-16 years. ---
**Author:** ![shigai](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/shigai/32/61394_2.png) [@shigai](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/shigai)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2025, 11:40pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/10 "2025-03-03T23:40:41Z")
back when downloading one (1) gazette album took 8+ hours ahhh the good old days lol ---
**Author:** ![ZephyrHFN](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/zephyrhfn/32/457_2.png) [@ZephyrHFN](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/ZephyrHFN)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/11 "2025-03-04T00:14:48Z")
22 years, here. I feel so old. @zeus you already know I’m here, like that one song that always gets played at the encore. ---
**Author:** ![penne](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/penne/32/69908_2.png) [@penne](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/penne)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/12 "2025-03-04T00:42:52Z")
So cool to see most replies (so far) are 11+ years : D 19 years here. In my first year of high school, my friend lent me her gigantic iPod loaded up with DEG songs, and the rest is history ---
**Author:** ![Rena](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/rena/32/84321_2.png) [@Rena](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Rena)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/13 "2025-03-04T00:54:57Z")
Everyone with 20years +, remember to take your medications and stay hydrated. Also you get one of these for free ![1000058046](https://forum.jrockone.com/uploads/default/original/3X/f/8/f84500d1b7821c74a0279315b98475fb9c52fd16.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![AyaSama](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/ayasama/32/66873_2.png) [@AyaSama](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/AyaSama)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/14 "2025-03-04T01:22:51Z")
Since 2002! Middle school Aya had taste ---
**Author:** ![innominatu](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/innominatu/32/84637_2.png) [@innominatu](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/innominatu)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/15 "2025-03-04T01:51:06Z")
> [@AyaSama](#): > > Since 2002! Same here! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hohchicano96](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/hohchicano96/32/26741_2.png) [@Hohchicano96](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Hohchicano96)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/16 "2025-03-04T01:51:07Z")
So my fruity midwestern self got into Visual Kei because of the Death Note anime adaptation. This would be during the summer of 2008 before starting sixth grade. Fuck, time really flies by, huh? ---
**Author:** ![tsundairy](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/tsundairy/32/74949_2.png) [@tsundairy](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/tsundairy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/17 "2025-03-04T02:18:58Z")
i immediately heard dial up noises. we got a japanese videostore that got some VHS tapes in one year and that Changed My Life. then i hosted Vkei Viewing Parties with snacks…i briefly got banned from trying to check out 25 of them LMAO fights broke out bc this was the 2000s and we were still calling furi “parapara”…oh what an era lmao ---
**Author:** ![colorfuljinsei](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/colorfuljinsei/32/84300_2.png) [@colorfuljinsei](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/colorfuljinsei)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 2:42am UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/18 "2025-03-04T02:42:26Z")
[![](https://forum.jrockone.com/uploads/default/original/3X/5/b/5bfbc9deb06bf84db28e0c4bb8b865064afb0ef3.jpeg "LMN J Music Top 30 Countdown 07.08.2010") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptlPITLBxmE) I heard some tidbits here-and-there in the late '00s without doing deep-dives on the bands, but LMN J was my true primer to vk. ---
**Author:** ![Ransses](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/ransses/32/73391_2.png) [@Ransses](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Ransses)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/19 "2025-03-04T02:54:22Z")
I have been involved in visual kei since 2021 because I feel that it is a form of expression and I feel that as such it empathizes with me, I wanted to belong to a community and make it bigger, but I felt excluded because of my skin tone. ---
**Author:** ![Kuryou](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/kuryou/32/96787_2.png) [@Kuryou](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Kuryou)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 3:37am UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389/20 "2025-03-04T03:37:50Z")
It turning into 20 years next year. I’ve been in the middle of my 20’s at that time already not as young as apparently most. [Next page](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/how-long-has-everyone-been-a-fan-of-vkei-even-if-you-werent-in-any-communities/13389.md?page=2)