In February 2003, Derek 'Lanzer' Liu and a group of friends founded Go-Gaia, an Avatar Roleplaying Community and link list. They've ditched the Link List since then, but Go-Gaia continued to grow, eventually changing its name to.The initial drawing points of the site were its focus on fashion and collectable fashion items. By posting on the forums, users could collect points, which they could in turn use to buy clothes for their forum avatars. Many forum sub-communities and groups were started, and the shopkeepers and site characters began to star in their own plotlines.Gaia's storyline quickly became one of the distinguishing features of the site.

Since the plot's beginnings in 2004, Gaia has had two, an, a Vampire Attack, and more moments than you can shake a pixelated stick at.It's come a long way since its humble beginnings, going from a simple forum to an enormous multi-faceted community. And with the release of, Gaia made the leap into full fledged -dom.: Your items will switch hands depending on which way you're facing.

Perhaps most easily seen by bumping your own posts.: WHERE ARE YOUR NIPPLES NOW.: La Victoire. Also Back Alley Bargains, which specializes in power-up items for zOMG!. Items from La Victoire and power-ups from Back Alley Bargains can both be bought and sold on the Marketplace using Gold, though, so you don't have to spend real money on the site if you spend enough time gathering Gold (called 'questing' by the users). In the 2009 Halloween event, certain amounts of followers are needed to perform specific actions. Usually, you get followers by having people on the forums choose to follow you.

English: Logo of Gaia Online. From Usage on www.wikidata.org. Gaia Online is an English-language, anime-themed social networking and forums-based website.It was founded in 2003 as Go-Gaia.com, 1 2 but the name was changed to GaiaOnline.com in 2004 by its owner, Gaia Interactive. Gaia originally began as an anime linklist and eventually developed a small community, 2 but, following a statement by founder Derek Liu (username 'Lanzer'), the website.

However, if you'd rather not go to all that trouble, you could buy virtual followers with real money.:, Ron Bruise tries to get Timmy into some kind of expensive treatment to get rid of anxiety caused by aliens in his past. It doesn't really work out, since it costs 350,000 gold, and Timmy only gets an allowance of 25 gold a week.: The 'Universal Transcendent Spirit Collective', a group of believers who awaited the emergence of special beings called the Core People, who would take the believers to a paradise in outer space by use of a tremendous golden spaceship. Of course the only way to get there was to drink a. This lead to a moment during one of Timmy's encounter with a cultist who offered him the nice refreshing drink, Timmy rejects the offer so in another EI Report it is obvious the cultist took the drink himself. This got a reaction from quite a few people. Benevolent Order of the Overseer (B.O.O.) and Sentinel's Infernal Nation (S.I.N.), though now discontinued due to interference by Jack (King of Halloween).: and, the two warring factions of the 2009 Halloween event.

I can't believe the size of it, towering into the stratosphere like that. It's like nothing I've ever seen!Edmund:.,.: Around 30% of the members use avatars that doesn't match their gender. The trope comes into play on a regular basis.

There was a time when an avatar's gender was completely distinguishable. Once the kilts and the Sasha wig came out, though, all hell broke loose the staff started making everything unisex after seeing most of the male avatars on all of freakin' Gaia wearing them. Wonder how much extra work it is for the artists. Meriko, one of Gaia's many artists, is working on this project (although no one knows if there are others); she keeps a journal entry of what she unisexes updated every time new items are available for both genders. Cordell the dark elf.

Hello,. Jaws from the, later to appear in the Aquariums. Subverted by Prince Enki in the Poseidon's Legacy RIG, who outright introduces himself as male, goes topless (er. Naked), and still gets mistaken for a mer maid. Gino's SD Plus Doll description ('Gambino's son, sometimes mistaken for daughter.'

) indicates that this happens to Gino sometimes.: The new eyes at the salon are not contacts. But at least Vanessa uses anesthesia (we think). Vanessa: Now operating on your eyes.: Tons of it. There is even a small industry around creating commissioned 'avi art'.: Players have appeared in the comics now and then. Fandub: The awful Halloween 2007 animated shorts got fandubbed quite a bit. (This was encouraged by Gaia, who actually provided downloads of the shorts for members to take.). Recently, a group had made a using the plot manga 'Gunshow,' and nailed the voices pretty well.

Needless to say, even Gaia themselves took notice and featured the thread with the original link.: When Timmy was players were eagerly hoping for a hot bishounen who could woo the ladies. What they were not expecting was a tall, gangly, mustachioed man who resembled Edgar Allan Poe and/or Borat. Some people actually liked that they didn't turn Timmy into a bishounen, and preferred the version. One word.: And plenty of it! Clothing and innuendos abound, most famously. Lots of items can make your avatar show a lot of skin, from pasties to sling bikinis. The rampant fanservice is one of the reasons Gaia gets a lot of flack from people who.

Lets not forget the recent rare item drops that are. The underwear of various hot NPCs on gaia.

Frilly bras from the girl characters, and the men apparently all wear bikini briefs.: In the Halloween '08 plot, a group of humans pretty much freaked out when they saw a vampire 'attacking' another human and assumed the worst. (In reality, the human was allowing the vampire to bite him.) An elf pointed out that 'elves aren't people,' implying racial tension (perhaps even oppression?).

In which direction is harder to say, since it seemed the elves meant it in a 'We're better than people!' Way. Parodied and lampshaded by Louie Von Helson complaining that references are. Louie: No, I do not sparkle in the sunlight. Why do people keep asking me that?

It's borderline racist. And subverted with in the 2009 Valentine's event, where Louie would reject valentines from users with human avatars.: Some characters in the storyline had guns, but players weren't given permanent gun items until January of '08.: Let's see. Vampires, elves, centaurs, robots, aliens, tentacled beasties, trolls, plant monsters.

And don't forget that with the multitude of items right now, anybody can make up their own race or mix and match to imitate an existing one. So it's really more like a Fantasy Ocean.: No. 9, the alien/human hybrid.:.: Back Alley Bargains.

Nicolae: Remember to tell all your friends about this place. Unless they're guards.: A lot of characters that become popular, even without ANY background story whatsoever (here's looking at you, ) gets a fan club.

Even items get fan clubs, especially those with pretty or sexy companions.: Grunnies. Don't forget the Easter Bunny.: Rampant, in both items and manga.: La Victoire is a questionable example.

Much of its stock is. Questionable (Want to buy an? Only 749 Cash!). But La Victoire doesn't move around because no one knows where it is.

It's the only shop on the site without a set location, and says it's like an 'online store'. Recently, due to the new store fronts, La Victoire looks like a genuine store, but it could be placed in Barton judging by its ground and comparing it with Barton Boutique's. YMMV on that one, but the ground seems to resemble more the one seen on Isle de Gambino's stores. Again, Back Alley Bargains also qualifies. Justified here, as it's run out of a horse-drawn wagon by an opportunistic con-man.

Sunset Couture doesn't have a known location, either, but then, it is. Dernier. Cri definitely qualifies; justified, as it's on an airship and does travel away now and then so its proprietor can design new merch.:.: G-Corp. And Christmas-Themed S-Corp, and The evil NeXuS Corp. And OmniDrink, which took over April 1st, 2009. It came back for the Halloween 2010 event, where it was revealed to be responsible for the events that drove all the ghosts insane.: Several! Meredith the, Cindy Donovinh the, and Flynn in the Cash Shop, for starters.

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And arguably Alruna in her office outfit, although it's not so much her glasses she relies on for her appeal. Gaia-sama. And if you'd.: During the Great Plot Drought of 2007, some GCDers decided to start a project by creating their own plot manga. They took some of Gaia's many forums and turned them into anthro'd girls ala the OS-tans, each with personalities fitting the general view of the forum they're based on.

Examples include GD-tan, who looks rather trashy and talks like it; Exchange-tan, who wears expensive clothing as a result of her experiences. Exchanging; and even Chatterbox-tan, who dresses 'randomly' and talks semi-literately. (Accounts based on these characters are actually out there and did interact with the forums at some point, perhaps an homage to the old Gaia days where NPC accounts posted in the forums alongside actual Gaians.) It was such a huge success that Gaia took notice and mentioned the comic's website in an announcement.

This was the beginning for Gaia's first Summer Festival. With the same inspiration as the above, a Gaia-tan item has been created based on the classic girl n00b image, with better assets, and included. Followed by Gaia-sama, a equivalent. And.: A few. The Halloween '08 event can be summed up thusly: Humans vs.

Zombies!!!. Dark elf gangsters!!. James Bond-like sword-fighting genius ex-scientist shopkeeper!. Zombie in mecha submarines!.: The Gee Boi Turbo item is a minigame wherein the dark elves and their pet owl go to a Gaia-centric anime convention. Kuro sets a cosplayer on fire and, Cordell sings karaoke and embarrasses her brother with cuteness, and Caesar (the owl) commissions some fanart of ' doing WHAT?!' .

Don't forget the who invaded the track at the '08 Rejected Olympics. ', from the Lexbox RIG. How is this an example?

Well, not only is it lampshading itself, but the art is of Lex using a tablet stylus to draw the stage of the Lexbox (creating an infinite loop)!.: On November 20, 2009, as part of an ill-conceived sponsorship deal with the American Cancer Society, all cigarettes and related items were pulled from Gaia shops and owned ones were soulbound to the players so they couldn't be sold in the marketplace. It was repealed three days later by, so Gaia has learned from this: Censorship =. Despite returning the smoking items, the most common one, 'The Cig,' now comes with a few new poses which serve as a to the people who demanded their return. They include a, and it's horrendous after effect, complete with bloodshot eyes, dead expression, and tons of black smoke spewing from the lungs. Either or fanservice.

The new poses were generally pretty well received, especially since many users had suggested something like that as an alternative to the poorly-communicated and poorly-implemented ban. Fanservice, since many users had equipped items to make it look like their avatar was smoking and an sign that read S.O.S. Save Our Smokes). Not to mention the fact that it was one employee who implemented the ban. Lanzer removed the ban after the weekend, no one at Gaia HQ works weekends, and most users spent 3 days, as the ban started on a Friday, protesting.: Devin's sexuality. Apparently they're not allowed to say that he's gay on a PG-13 site, so instead the comics and some events imply it with all the subtlety of a brick.

It's pretty openly discussed on the forums, though. will tell you that Devin is into Lance though if you push the Talk button.: have been around for a few years now. Dark elves were introduced in the comic during the '08 Rejected Olympics event. Rather than living underground like typical dark elves, they are Elves of a few other shades appeared in the '08 Halloween comics.: Although at the moment, not much is known about Gaia's orcs except that some of them smoke, wear leather, and live in caves. So what you're saying is.that the orcs are.: Gaian vampires have pale skin, fangs, and drink blood. They usually have gray catlike eyes, except when they're at full strength, at which point they turn yellow.

They can take a fair amount of sunlight, although they get really, really bad sunburns really easily, and sometimes catch fire (and in a more recent 4koma, it makes Louie himself '). Vampirism also seems to be no obstacle in fathering children. The Nightmare's recent evolution has variant vampires from other cultures, such as the mentioned above. And who could forget the?. Let's not forget the Halloween 2K9 Zomg event. It's not really clear why they were floating around surrounded by rings of blood with which they also attack, other than the fact that it looks.

It's been suggested that the of a future story arc in zOMG! Will be a lady vampire.

According to Frontier Skies, vampires can sometimes crave cheeseburgers.: Currently the known way of creating a Gaian werewolf is induced by the drug Gro-Gain Max. When it comes to colors, there are four types of normal, while the others are colorful, in particular the Sparkledog type.: There are three species of zombie on Gaia, from the events: the Grombies, caused by infectious bites from the, and Glompies, from the failed Serum 3A (named as such because they like to, well, ).

The original Zombies. And if these skins don't suit you, then there are plenty of zombie alternatives: from the zombies from the bottom of the sea, to the Death Whisper's Drone zombies. The latter looks suspiciously like a Grombie, though. The original Zombie skin has returned as a bonus pose in one of the Easter 2010 egg hunt prizes.: Various companies help sponsor Gaia in exchange for the right of advertising there, most prominently Skittles and MTV, whose involvement has rubbed Gaians the wrong way most of all. The recent Facebook promotion has gotten a lot of users up in arms as well. For a more humorous in-universe example, Jenzee urges you to BUY FREMERE'S GUARD!!!!

(Her SDPlus doll even has that in its description!).: Matching and coordinating your avatar just right is extremely serious business to some players. Also, the NPC characters tend to freak out over rather trivial matters in the comics.: A invaded the non-canon Reject Olympics and was delighted when Louie got desperate for blood and tried to (suggestively) bite Edmund.: If you run a shop, you're functionally immortal, or will have a very low score on the. If your name is actually an assigned number and you work for anything that ends in 'Corp', start writing your will now unless you join the bad guys. Gambino family members are no longer safe.: Tons. Louie's dialogue in H&R Wesley: 'No,. Why do people keep asking me that?

It's borderline racist!' .

The Fremere's Guard Evolving Item is just one after another. To Gaia's own, especially the. The players who speculated upon how gorgeous Timmy would be when he grew up got a slap in the face: When Timmy came down with megapuberty, Gaia gave users the option to let Timmy stay a child forever or be instantly aged to adulthood. Most players chose the second option. Literally. The 'cardboard back wings,' a jab at the players who keep demanding 'back wings.'

. And, despite that, sells for a pretty good price. ' '. However, since the artist didn't make it clear it was herself, this was taken the wrong way by, who. In response the huge backdraft recieved from the removal of smoking items, Gaia returned them, with a slight alteration of 'The Cig,' which includes new poses showcasing a as well the horrible aftereffects of smoking, to jab at the people who wanted them back.

(This backfired; the fans enjoyed the new poses immensely.). Admittedly, the smoke ban had been done by a staff member gone rogue, so it might just have been a to them.: Bright colors in themselves, in an Animesque do-it-yourself character creator like Gaia, are nothing new. However, the artists can be incredibly inconsistent with the NPCs' eye colors from update to update, unless said eye colors are a plot point (Johnny Gambino always has red eyes, vampires always have gray eyes, etc.). Gino Gambino has been seen with red, maroon-ish, royal purple, brown, or lilac eyes. Since he appears in almost every plot update, it's kind of funny to see what color his eyes will be this time. It's almost accepted though that his 'default' eye color is a kind of purplish-red. Lighting may also be a culprit in the changing eye colors.

Except that his new doll has him with reddish eyes. Rina's eyes have been purple, Pepto-Bismol pink, brown, or green. Lex's dark red eyes were light blue for some reason during the non-canon '08 Prom comic. This alone has probably caused more outrage on the GCD than any of Gino's eye-color charades, as Lex's eye color is fairly well-known for such a minor character. Ian's eyes changing color is handwaved to a certain degree- his brown eyes as a 'human' were probably contacts, and until the official decision that, all the Von Helsons were drawn with pale blue eyes. Or they might have been in disguise as well.: See the example above. There's also a site achievement ('The Perfect Setup') for getting someone else to give you this comeback.: The world of Gaia seems to be fairly modern with a lot of fantastical trappings.: If you go to Durem on the world map, go down, and go left, you'll find.

It's been there for a couple of years, and nothing has been done with it.: The angel imps and devil imps are slightly unusual examples of this, as their wings are on their heads.: Ian - his cover was blown during the Halloween 2007 storyline.: Sam.: The staff have stated that they don't really plan out the plot too far in advance. This didn't stop the ending of zOMG! From tying up four years' worth of loose plot threads and unanswered questions.: Buckets full, including one of the sites artists (although denial is involved). Lampshaded hard in the Olympics comics, when.: BOY, DO YOU EVER. They've been trying to remedy this as of late, however, through events and shop items, and various nerfs on the features that can be exploited for easy gold (mainly Booty Grab and zOMG!). from people who.

There are also the haters of the Gaia Cash system, complaining that the site. Number One, this is how businesses work, and Gaia is a business. Number Two, the Admin did at one point release an explanation of how much money is needed to keep the servers running and the site afloat, and the numbers involved were not small.: The 2006 Halloween event centered around the themes of and with probing devices becoming available items with which to decorate user avatars.: The during the '05 X-Mas storyline. May also verge into, after the assorted little elves and their toy-making go horribly, horribly wrong, hitting standards such as 'waking up somewhere strange after a blackout,' ' in a,' ' after hearing your crush drown,' 'mauled to death by,' and 'anyone remaining vaporizing in a nuclear blast.' .

S-Corp was also a reference to the original in '04, which followed the same setup. In that case, it was a reminiscent of Resident Evil.: Every April 1st, someone explodes. Either the users get an exploding present, or several plot characters get it.

Fact: They only update the plot every few months, so we were all left hanging?:P. There have also been two April Fools 'takeovers'.

In 2009, Gaia was taken over by the fictitious company Omni-Drink, which has since been seen in another event. 2011 saw Meowbook, a feline spoof of Facebook.: The Overseer and Sentinel attempted to recover their godhoods.

This was subverted when it didn't work.: Cresento has an amazingly cool airship that he loves to show off. Brennivin's entire store is on an airship. And then you have the Overseer and Sentinel's airship.which probably doesn't qualify until Brennivin helps out.

The entire event of Summer 2k10:. Which consist of some Tropes such as. causing all kinds of trouble from beginning to end.: hmm Oregon Trail miles high in the sky. Yes,.: Brennivin's reaction to the jellyfish-like demigod.: Carl the Elk's stats? 'No Advantages, Too many disadvantages'.: Winning with Carl as your guide.

Is usually a vital part of the strategy.: The situations your Crewmates can get into is just ridiculous. For example: Moth + Airship + Running after said Moth =. +: If you're playing with Carl as your guide, for the love of life and limb, do not shoot the blue elk while hunting. Curiously, Diedrich says nothing about you hunting Grunnies.: Playing with Louie/Edmund as the guide, you can play pranks on Edmund/Louie. Playing with Edmund/Louie as your guide, you can suffer the effects of Louie's/Edmund's pranking. Likewise, the Dog In A Shoe (which was rumored to teleport you to the end of the game if your was high enough).: Averted, one possible event is that Louie of all people.: In Halloween '08, a vampire gets caught biting a human.

Both are flushed, sweaty, and quick to insist that 'it's consensual!. SIN's portal and BOO's trident.

Consider that their leaders are female and male respectively.: Vladmir Von Helson. There was a huge setup for a climactic battle in the Halloween '07 plot. And then he got shot.

This is what we get for trying to animate the storyline. The Demonbusters (Halloween '09) plot was all set up for a climactic finale - then Jack came and stripped the two warring demigods of their powers. And it wasn't even animated this time.: Santa's mind was swapped with a cow's a few years ago. He's better now, though. And then it's implied he had the cow for Christmas Dinner.

Santa probably didn't eat that cow.: Several plotlines would simply have not taken place if the Gaians, who are supposed to be citizens of this world, had their way. One example includes the Sentinel and the Overseer being reduced to homeless bums. Any number of Gaians who were their devoted followers during the Demonbusters event would have taken them in. And then there's the one where. Gino: Liam, now is not the time for.: What part of ' don't you understand?.

Easter 08. April Fools 04!.: The 'cheer meter' in the event managed to get filled up to 75% on its first day. So Gaia responded by dropping Cresento's airship on the Overseer's and resetting the meter to 0% again. Spawned the 'Cresento landed on it' meme. The Save Our Shops event had an example, too. The devs kept increasing the amounts Ruby and Liam owed because they were planning redesigns and new shops for them, and needed them to fail so these could be implemented.

However, the users had been convinced that, and were just as determined to save them. Supposedly, both shopkeepers had debts in the trillions by the time the event ended.: Twice! And counting!.: The whole set-up of zOMG!

Is this suddenly happening.: Dumpster Dive, where Gaians can go and pick through a dumpster for donated items. Functions similar to Daily Chance only having a tad bit more variety as the items are all from user inventory. At times a newbie user will pull up an item and and merely toss it back into the dumpster as they didn't get what they wanted.: Gaia Cards aka Blackjack, each challenger faced has a cheat and although the player has one themselves. It isn't much in the ways of an advantage. Just to clarify, your options are to make the dealer choose a new card or to look at one of their cards to see what your odds against them are. The first opponent has the ability to guarantee an Ace, which he will typically use if his hand equals 10 (guaranteeing him victory), the second opponent has the ability to throw out her hand and redraw, which she will typically use in the case of a bad hand, and the third opponent can use either of those abilities.: Word Bump contains a set of Gaia related terms as well as internet chatspeak and slang.: Gaia loves to use this trope in its items.: The Gino Gambino doll includes a ' pose.

'Fremere's Copyright Infringement'. Ruby:.: Gimpi's red and blue eyes were the first case of heterochromia on Gaia. Many more have since come out. A promotion item sponsored by Skittles candy has a pair of mismatched eyes. Coincidentally, two of the colors are. The Vladimir Von Helson doll confirms him to have (had?) one red eye, and one that is probably gray as standard for vampires.

Water Meat, which is a plush that sort of resembles a seal, has two different coloured buttons for eyes. One of the contact lens items has a pose that gives your avatar two different button eyes like this.: After a week filled with weird, rainbow-colored item updates (including one based off of Robot Unicorn Attack,) great EI evolutions and much-lauded site fixes, we got manga! Gambino gets murdered! Goddamn.: Now possible through the Lucha Libre outfits.: Has a few of these for items.

The headwings and the feetwings are, naturally, separate items that must be purchased separately.: The Experiment, an evolving item that starts as a flask with bubbles coming out of it, then eventually turns into a writhing mass of tentacles that are quite plainly groping the avatar, with little heart emotes here and there. And older than the Experiment is the SQUID set, with some of its items' descriptions hinting at tentacle naughtiness.: shirt. Notable for being one of the earlier items.: Gro-gain.: Gaia has a very good selection.: Hey, Gaia! You know those Azrael's Trickboxes you were feverishly opening in October '09 in the pursuit of rare cats and dolls? You unleashed while you were at it!.: Gimpi, the hybrid angel/devil imp.: Embodied in the Sugarsuite item.: Gaia also has a lot of these. What really comes to mind is the white and gold dress from the Enchanted Book, a Cinderella-themed Evolving Item (which also happened to be obvious).

The Picolitrosso's Urn also has two parts of a REALLY shiny pimped out dress. Neither of which the ridiculousness that is the. Pretty much anything from Dernier. Cri. And if you can't afford Gaia Cash or Dernier. Cri, the Victorian-themed dresses are pretty blingy, too.: The Anima Adamantea and Fremere's Guard.

In an artpiece released by the Anima's artist, it shows a girl (her name being Reiko, confirmed by Anima's final evolution) transforming into an Ultraman-like warrior, fighting bad guys and whatnot. Another art piece by the Fremere's Guard artist shows a male warrior standing alongside her. And in a rather.

Touching mini-volution of the Fremere, the front reveals a flower with orange and blue petals, the very same found in one of the earlier arts of Fremere. But if you unequip everything except that pose and turn around, you can see both the Power Crystals of Fremere and Anima, one above the other. The name of the pose is 'Caret initio et fine', or 'It lacks a beginning and end', perhaps to show that the two souls are indeed intertwined. Another pose involves a hairclip with the regular orange Fremere crystal, and two blue crystals (perhaps to show just how deeply Fremere and Reiko are intertwined).

Eventually, it finishes with one of the new poses being a blue Fremere's Guard. Jenzee, arist of the aforementioned Fremere's Guard, is at it again with her work on some poses for The Nightmare, an EI whose artist is always changing, with poses having quite a few power crystals: a blue-green crystal in the 'Invidia' vest, a pink crystal inside the 'Gula' beard-thing, and a headdress that is basically an accessory to Fremere (with its signature orange crystal). When the Nightmare ended its evolving, Jenzee snuck in one last pose, the missing 'Pride' pose of her Sins theme.

What does it look like, you ask? A gold lion head ornament and jewels hanging in the background, of all shapes and colors!. The headress quickly becomes more meaningful when one remembers that Fremere (of Fremere's Guard) is described as vehement and wrathful. The headress pose's name? Ira, the Latin word for wrath.: Quite often male companions found in various items.: Both types: Water Trident for Type 1 and Demonic Pitchfork for Type 2.: RIGs (Random Item Generators; Gaia's technical term for them is Chance Items, or CIs, but ).

RIG as a Probably why the company pushes the term CI.: The angel and devil imps in their 'plushie' forms. Gaia has a LOT of these. Phee-chan, the cute little winged animal that comes with the Magical Girl monthly collectible, is a parody of this. Then again, the Magical Girl itself is a parody of the whole friggin' genre. Radio Jack the doll as well as the real deal. A staple of RIGs, and invariably one of the very rarest prizes per RIG.: If an EI doesn't evolve the day it's supposed to, even with sufficient excuses as to why, expect nonstop bitching. The Case of Pietro is the most infamous example, having undergone five evolutions between it's introduction and one year later(currently at 7 evos), though the Reve Rouille, Lyndexer's Journal and Hidden Ace got hit with this as well near their finales (all have since completed.).: Preda-Armor and a few versions of Nano-C have these.: Man, many of the avatar items are tributes to some anime, game, movie, novel, or comic book.

The monthly collectibles and RIG-only items in particular are based off of pre-existing properties and even memes; some are rather obvious, while a few are more obscure.: Sometimes it's easy to guess which artists have worked on which items, due to common recurring elements; pepper-tea's items, for example, are usually filled with intricate gold details, Jenzee has a penchant for, and DrinkyTengu's items are mostly.: There are a few tobacco-related items on sale in Gaia. A brief attempt at banning them caused Gaia a great deal of, mostly because of the poor communication involved in the ban. Not to mention the incredibly poor implementation. Sure, you couldn't buy cigarettes in the gold shops. But there were far, far more offensive items available across the site. During the backdraft, it was a pretty common sight to see people displaying the most outrageously inappropriate avatars they could put together, while sarcastically claiming that it was obviously okay because at least they weren't smoking.: The theme for the Neon Core CI. Flynn is the heroine pirate.: A monthly collectible was released that had a back-mounted cross item and a floor pentagram item.

Conservative players squirmed. And another was themed on the Four Horsemen, though there was less squirming about that. Or for the Holy Gauntlets.: Because of a lot of skirts being closer to the knee (or, the newer ones are), it's hard to pull off this trope on Gaia. However, it's easy to achieve Grade A. Cindy Donovinh's work outfit has Grade A. This troper finally managed to get grade A with Gaia's stockings although a skirt wasn't used so much as a sash.: Becky's fear of Halloween comes from getting assaulted by a stallion as a child while in a horse costume with a friend.

The horse now appears as the bonus pose in Becky's doll.: The storyline comics, which are referred to as manga for no sensible reason.: Vladimir Von Helson. Averted by Gambino and Ian, excused by a subplot and by spending the next update bedridden in a hospital, respectively (how Ian's vampirism wasn't exposed at this time is a mystery). Rosalie in a flashback. Possibly subverted depending on how clearly Ian remembers the event. Done correctly by Gambino the second time around. The comes into play.: Gino Gambino cut off his yard-long hair in the manga that is conveniently titled 'A New Man'. Though he failed at making it look remotely decent, he later got it styled at Brennivin's shop.: You'd think being shot and then falling off a tower would kill you.

You'd be wrong. And don't even get me started on the people the tower fell on. How about that that, with over half a dozen people at Ground Zero, had only one casualty?

Deadpool 2 is so full of superhero movie in-jokes, one suspects it will be almost incomprehensible in a few years. But for now, this is the franchise we need to deflate all the franchises we. Get access to trailers, media and news on 20th Century Fox movies currently in theaters now and upcoming releases. Get access to trailers, media and news on 20th Century Fox movies currently in theaters now and upcoming releases. Disc 2: Deadpool 2: Super Duper $@%!#& Cut 4K Ultra HD. Disc 3: Theatrical Feature Blu-ray.Deleted/Extended. Deadpool 2 movie. Deadpool is a great movie filed with a lot of jokes, however, it is above age 18 in since it contains a lot of bad words. The first movie of Deadpool I did not like a lot, however, the second one was a great movie. The first one was because it did not have a lot of meaning hidden, it was just a Marvel movie, however, the second one was the. Deadpool 2 is a 2018 American superhero film based upon the Marvel Comics character Deadpool. It is the eleventh installment in the X-Men film series, and is the sequel to 2016's Deadpool.

Or did it?. Lampshaded in the manga 'A New Man', in which Gino talks about some of Gaia's history, and states that Gaians are just really hard to kill. Which still doesn't explain how other Gaians thought he was dead at one point.: Many of Gaia's demigods are in charge of things like lost change or stylish facial hair.

The one who Gaians raced to save in the is in charge of spoilage. As in, curdled milk and moldy leftovers. Edmund and Brennivan decide it'd be best given how the quest had been.: The 2008 prom manga showed Timmy trying to build up the courage to ask Dr Singh to be his date for the prom, and his anger at being pipped to the post by Lance. It was revealed much later that Singh has actually raised Timmy from an early age, which might hint towards an unintentional gender-flipped by Singh.: Gino - after an incident that, he was aged up from 16 to 19-ish so he could go and woo Sasha. Gino and Johnny separated later, putting him back at his original age.

Gino's profile originally included a date of birth for him. Gino is actually in his early twenties, making him college age. After profile format changed, things like date of birth were not visible to general public on the default setting. Most NPC profiles haven't changed the default settings so many forget Gino's age and base in on appearance. It's not that he's not aging, just that the artists are slow on updating his design.

Timmy, who went through megapuberty and was age-accelerated to adulthood.: A lot of them. It's been joked in the GCD that even the writers don't follow the storyline any more.: the mother of Anne and Marie Von Helson was allegedly a 'showgirl.' .: The Halloween '08 plot was launched when an old peered into her and proclaimed that doom would fall upon Gaia and that only one 'group' would survive or all would die. Four of Gaia's races assumed that 'group' referred to race and immediately fell at each others' throats. Turned out they - it referred to the appearance of the Animated.: How does the 'plot' behind the LeXBox RIG get kickstarted? This was suggested (and later played on) by, out of all things, the Cardbot.: The Overseer and the Sentinel in the 'When Gods Fall' minigame.

Somewhat justified; their crash course in Homelessness 101 did involve a search for clothing.however, the game portrayed Sentinel as a compulsive pyromaniac, so they never really got to keep anything they found.: The 'FanservICE' mini-comic.: Rosalie's death resulted from one. Trying to kidnap her babies away from Vladimir is kind of stupid and dramatic, but understandable. Bitching at him about it when she got caught?

Less so. Arguably, most of the comics violate common sense in some way.: The G-Virus. Possibly Serum 3A as well, as Gambino mentions it's one of his.

3A is a subversion; considers it a failure because it didn't make the subjects aggressive enough.: Edmund, for giving his best friend Johnny Gambino's growing paranoia a cold dismissal.: The mini-comics.: The cast of NPCs averted this for a while, mostly consisting of names like Ian and Johnny, with the least 'normal' probably being Moira or Anna Corinne. Later additions like Cresento and Nicolae eventually shoved Gaia into this trope.

Number of employees25WebsiteGaia Online is an, -themed and -based. It was founded as go-gaia on February 18, 2003, and the name was changed to GaiaOnline.com in 2004 by its owner, Gaia Interactive. Gaia originally began as an anime and eventually developed a small community, but following a statement by founder Derek Liu, the website moved towards social gaming and eventually became forum-based.In 2007, over a million posts were made daily, and 7 million visited each month (with over 26 million total ). Gaia also won the 2007 100 award in the Community category and was included in magazine's list of 50 best websites in 2008. In January 2011, the company won the Best User experience Award for 2010. Contents.Avatars Members of Gaia Online, known as Gaians, receive a customizable when they sign up.

Users have the ability to customize their avatar in many ways, including skin tone, eye style and color, hair style and color, gender, race (e.g. Human, vampire, elf) and attire. Numerous clothing items and accessories for avatars can be purchased from a range of -run stores using the, Gaia Platinum and Gaia Cash.

Avatars appear next to posts in the forums and profile comments (the post itself encapsulated in a 'speech bubble'), and in Gaia Towns and other environments the avatar appears as a movable character that can travel from place to place, interacting with the environment (catching bugs, shaking trees, digging for buried treasure, collecting trash and flowers etc.) and other users.Forums Forums are the public message boards. There is a large variety of forums in which users can post, such as forums for general discussion, news, topics regarding the Gaia community and story lines, casual conversation and lifestyle discussions, various types of, general entertainment, featured games on Gaia, and artist discussions.

There are also forums for users to buy and sell items, as well as a forum for user-run businesses, e.g. Art commissions and thread-bumping services. Users may make threads in almost every forum, as long as they follow each forum's guidelines. Users also have the option to add polls to their thread.

Posting and replying to threads, as well as voting in polls, yields platinum.Economy Currency The used in Gaia is known as 'Gaia Platinum', commonly referred to as platinum. Platinum is regularly distributed to users as they browse around the website, post in the forums, play games, and participate in other various events and contests; the site also rewards users every day with random platinum or items from the Daily Chance.

The former virtual currency was known as Gaia Gold, however, after a rapid increase in inflation after gold generating items were released, Gaia created Gaia Platinum and gave users the chance to switch to that currency. In July 2007, Gaia released another virtual currency called Gaia Cash, which can be purchased with real money; $1 is equivalent to 100 Gaia cash. Gaia Cash can be bought through payments, or directly from Gaia itself.Paying Gaia users generally spend about $30 per month to purchase Gaia Cash, which is then used to buy virtual things such as evolving, chance, collectible, and limited edition items. AutoCash On September 13, 2010, Gaia announced the introduction of AutoCash.AutoCash is an optional feature where GaiaOnline members can sign up to buy Gaia Cash on a reoccurring monthly schedule.

The current cost per month for the feature is $10; users are given extra content for the monthly fee. AutoCash can be charged to a or and members may also pay for the feature using a account. The service can be canceled at any time; staying past three months offers users the bonus of receiving items specifically designed and made for those that continue to use the AutoCash feature. The benefits of using AutoCash include:Market Sales within the Gaian market can be divided into four areas: Gold Shops, Cash Shops, Trade, and Marketplace.

Gold Shops: Items from these stores can be bought with Gold or Gaia Cash (most users purchase with Gold), and can range from regular store items to upmarket items. These are various NPC-run stores which sell a variety of items, such as avatar clothing and accessories, furniture for Gaia Houses, and parts for Gaia Cars. Items found in the shops can also be sold back to the shop for 50% of the shop price. Cash Shops: Items from these stores can be purchased with Gaia Cash only.

The majority of Gaia Cash sales are from La Victoire, an NPC-run store that only accepts Gaia Cash. It specializes in high-end items such as 'Evolving Items', 'Random Item Generators', and 'Monthly Collectibles'. Most items from La Victoire are continuously rotated in and out of the store.

Other Cash-Only stores include 'Phin Phang' (Gaia Aquarium items), and 'Back Alley Bargains' (power-up items for Gaia's, 'zOMG!' ).

Trade: Users can trade items and gold with other users. A majority of these trades are settled in the 'Gaia Exchange' forum (and its sub-forums). Marketplace: The Marketplace is a separate area of the site for users to buy and sell items.

Rather than self-auctioning an item through a thread in the Exchange forum, users can either put their item up for immediate sale with a 'Buy Now' price, or leave their item for auction with a starting 'Bid' price. Users can have up to 10 items for sale at once until getting the Tycoon achievement. After that, users can sell 20 items at once, and each item can be listed for a maximum of 14 days. The cost of this convenience is a 5% tax on all gold earned from sales.Recently, the site's virtual economy is experiencing hyperinflation after the introduction of more gold into circulation. However, former COO Jason Loia didn't consider inflation as a significant issue. Notable items Monthly Collectibles Monthly Collectibles (previously known as Donation Items, also referred to as MCs) are special items that can be bought with real money meant to support Gaia's maintenance and costs.

Established in June 2003 after users of Gaia Online petitioned for a 'donation system' in an attempt to increase site revenue, for every US$2.50 a user gives to the site, he or she receives an item known as a 'Sealed Envelope' in his or her inventory.Sealed Envelopes go on sale the first day of every month and are released on the 15th of each month. During August and September 2008, the envelopes were unsealed on the 8th, but on October 2, 2008 it was decided that the release date should be returned to the fifteenth. The Sealed Envelope disappears from the user's inventory and is replaced by a 'Thank You Letter' for the current paid month (for example, a 'Thank You Letter for August 2004' represents a payment made in that month of that year). Users are then able to open these virtual letters to choose one of two or three limited-edition items to be granted into their inventory from each letter. These items were known as Donation Items until potential legal problems prompted the name change. Monthly Collectible items and the 'Thank You' letter items they are found in are specific to the month that they were released in: for example, the items found in the 'Thank You' letter for April 2006 can only be found in that letter, and one could only purchase that letter in April 2006.Letters can be purchased over the phone, with a from a mobile phone, via, credit card, traditional mail or with Gaia Cash through the Cash Shop, 'La Victoire'. Envelopes and letters can be later bought and sold through user trades or through Marketplace.Evolving Items Evolving Items, commonly abbreviated to EIs, are items which change or evolve over time.

Items begin with one set of item poses, but with each new evolution, a different set of poses become available instead. Additionally, with each subsequent evolution a re-release of the item becomes available at the Cash Shop as a 'next generation' release. When the item has fully evolved all previous poses become available for the item. Times between evolutions are different for each EI, and can be anywhere between a few weeks to a few months. Recent additions of 'Rapid Evolving Items' evolve twice a week. New evolution updates are noted in regular site announcements as 'Evolving Item Reports' present by the NPC, Dr. All EIs are available from the Cash Shop 'La Victoire', and can be later sold through trading or in the Marketplace.

EIs are removed from the Cash Shop sometime after their final evolution becomes available.Chance Items/Random Item Generators With Chance Items, referred to as CIs (previously known as Random Item Generators, or RIGs), users play a chance mini-game and the item they are granted depends on their success with completing the game, when they decide to stop playing and collect an item, or their failure to complete the game. Games will vary depending on the RIG – some may require users to choose a 'correct' response, while some are simply a choice between continuing the game or stopping and collecting an item. RIGs are available from the Cash Shop 'La Victoire' and are eventually rotated out of the shop.Gaia Houses Users are able to own their own Gaia House situated in Gaia Towns. Houses are available in three different styles: Round, Square, and Long. To purchase a house is free; however future changes to the style of the house costs 500 gold, and after that, 10,000 for the largest style. Users are also able to relocate their home to a different Town postcode at a cost of 1000 gold.

A range of decorative furniture items can be bought from the NPC-run store, 'The Faktori', such as include floor and wall tiles, tables, chairs, lamps, among others. Rare housing items can be found in Enchanted Wooden Trunks and Enchanted Golden Trunks randomly found floating across site pages.Gaia Cars On June 18, 2007, Gaia Online and announced a partnership that allowed users to create a virtual Scion with customizable wheels, decals, fog lights, tail lights, and spoilers. Other car choices available were the fictional Possum and Musculero. The Scion tC, Scion xD, and Kiki Car (which is available only with Cash) were later released, bringing the total to seven possible cars to choose from. Users can own up to 3 cars, which are stored in their Garage. Parts and decals for cars (such as paint color and antenna ornaments), as well as car bases, can be purchased from the NPC-run store, 'Sam's Body and Parts'. Cars are used as part of the Rally game available on the website.Gaia Aquarium Users can maintain fish and other creatures in Gaia Aquariums.

Fish and tank accessories can be purchased with both Gaia Cash and Gold from the NPC-run store, 'Phin Phang'. At certain times, the fish inside a tank (from a different owner, commonly as a signature under a post in the forums) will 'glow', enabling the Booty Grab mini-game. Aquarium item bundles (which include various fish and tank items) can be purchased from the main Cash shop, 'La Victoire'. Items can also be bought at the marketplace.Arenas There are four main arenas on Gaia Online: Housing, Art, Avatar and Writing – with some of these arenas having subcategories. Members can vote in the arenas and comment on art, avatars, houses or written works which have been submitted by other users. Entering the Avatar Arena costs 10,000 Gold and rewards up to 150,000 gold for winners.

Entries to the Writing Arena costs 10000 Gold (recently changed from 100g to lower so many trash entries). Entering the Art and Housing Arena is free, and no prizes are awarded.Sponsor Quests The Gaia Quest system grants users items for performing certain tasks. Although previously quests for doing tasks around the website (similar to Gaia's current Achievement system), quests on the site are now for promotional purposes, granting items related to a featured movie, video game, or series for watching or advertisements. Movies, video games, and other products that are promoted by the Gaia Quest system include, and, among many others. Anime series and TV shows have also been promoted, such as,.

There are a few for games such as 'Dragon Quest Swords' and the '. There are also some quests for advertisement such as the new Crazy Cores.Achievements Achievements are tasks that can be performed around the site. Completion of Achievements grants users Achievement Points. There are a variety of different Achievements that can be obtained – tasks to gain these can include posting in a thread, changing one's equipped avatar items (or equipping specific items), selling an item in Marketplace, among many others.Users can use Achievements they earn to add titles under their Avatar.Games Gaia Online currently offers a number of games, and users can win different items or gold from these games. These games constitute 10% to 15% of total site activity.

ZOMG zOMG was a browser based on Gaia where users battled monsters and participated in -style quests. The game utilized special rings to activate abilities, such as throwing fireballs or conjuring up a defense. Users did not level up the traditional way via experience points, but instead, through collecting Charge Orbs and empowering their rings with them. ZOMG was made public and open to beta testing in November 2008, and a number of updates were made to the rings and flow of the game during its six-year duration on the site.

On November 6, 2014, the staff announced that due to hardware and engineering limitations, zOMG was to be permanently removed from Gaia Online.On February 28, 2017, it was announced that beta tests for a zOMG revival were underway.On March 13, 2017, zOMG returned and is now open to play again. Members who played zOMG before the shutdown of the servers could pick back up where they left off.

Members who sold or got rid of their rings and zOMG related items unfortunately will have to start over. Smashblox A game part of the new The Playpen subcategory of games. The game tests your skills and timing as you destroy blocks and clear the board to score as many points as possible. Tournaments are held through the game, while Gaia Cash is required to play, and gaia gold is rewarded as a prize for winning.Virtual worlds Towns Gaia Towns (often simply called Towns) is a virtual world where avatars may move and interact with each other.

While in Towns users can pick up various items. Insects, litter, and flowers can be collected while in Towns, and these items can be later made into other items for a small cost. Shaking trees, rocks, and shrubs can yield small amounts of gold to be collected.

Users may use a virtual chat system while in the towns. Homes can be found throughout Towns and more than one user can visit someone else's home.Towns 2, was launched in 2013.Sponsored Worlds Since 2009, Gaia has been implementing virtual worlds, similar to Towns, for various site sponsors. These have included a rainbow-styled world for a sponsor, a castle for an film promotion, a large forest tree for the film, and a tree house for the animated TV series among many others.

Users can interact with certain NPCs in these areas, and are often awarded prizes for visiting these areas.App Gaia has also released multiple apps on iOS. Gaia on the Go, the main application allows users a streamlined way of accessing the forums and making minor avatar edits, as well as viewing the site's marketplace. Derek Liu announced that a new version of the application was being worked on.

Gaia has also released one of their games, Switchem, and a virtual world, Rallys, as separate iOS applications. See also., gained notability when she created videos for her Gaia friends.References. Archived from on 2009-01-12.

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