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More on the BS here: http://time.com/3634443/cards-against-humanity-poop-black-friday/
A little bit about how I got to create Cards Against Anarchy...
So let me backtrack a bit... Having received upvotes from @adelja before, I decided to follow her and have been seeing some of the mentions of broken hearts and such, baring emotions and wounds and being vulnerable and all that. I guess I'll take my turn laying it out.
Back in summer (2016), perhaps around July, I observed the hype around Steemit and was wondering what to bring to the table, so to speak. Preferably something that had little to do with me per se but a lot to do with any one thing I am into, if that makes sense. Perhaps a brand, and a brand bigger than the sum of its part (me).
In August I had my "Eureka!" moment.
I run a local group where people sign up to play Cards Against Humanity and other horrible party games.
I thought to myself, "How about Cards Against Anarchy?" One can, after all, say that anarchy is humanity itself.
I searched online and figured this hadn't been created yet, except for one event by that name (I found that on Stasibook). And off I went. The rest is history for the handful of people that at this time follow me on Steemit and Stasibook.
As for the local group where people sign up to come together and play Cards Against Humanity (and other horrible party games), how I got to create that is another story.
I had really started to notice Cards Against Humanity in 2014. Back then I was in a relationship that, in hindsight, was apparently dysfunctional. We had started dating around the time the other person got weighed down by personal and family issues. At the time, it seemed that the right thing to do was to be supportive and see it through, especially since the way we had started out had been so, for lack of a better word, effortless. Those are few and by far the best. Except... well... anyhow.
I played Cards Against Humanity once that whole 2014 and fell in love with it, along with the fact that they were selling people literal bull poop. I went ahead and bought the original deck AND five expansions and gifted them to the other person BEFORE I got it for myself, trying to encourage him to gather his friends and get some laughs in his system, FFS. That never happened, and by the time (about a month and a half later) when my tender heart was yanked out of my chest and stomped on, I still hadn't played the game more than once.
A few weeks later while my mental reel was still going through memories, I recalled the moment when I had gifted him the original deck and five expansions and scoffed at the fact that I had only ever played the game once myself and made haste to immediately gift him $75 worth of goods. (I don't even know if he has ever used the set I gifted him. I have decided not to reward lack of character by removing him from my life for the way he broke up with me, even if deep down I still remember the pain and wish it hadn't ended so. But that one is not on me.)
So now that I had remembered this, how good that I had indeed remembered, and how could I do something about this for myself? I have nowhere nearly enough friends to bring together on a regular basis to play the game. Most people ever get opportunities to play this twice a year, if they're lucky. That was when I decided to make use of social networking sites, and I set up a group and it has been going strong since. It was a good distraction in the aftermath, plus I have met some interesting people locally and had terrific memories getting light-headed or busting a rib from laughing so hard, even if by now I have forgotten the subject matter. I hadn't thought at the time that it would turn into a way of thinking for me (where I am constantly looking for funny opportunities or punchlines). Or maybe it is how I roll anyway, which is why I feel such an affinity to it. The group is going strong and I get to play a party game several times a month. Priceless.
And that's how I was able to switch hats and make Cards Against Anarchy. Nobody around me would appreciate the theme, or the topics/names covered, or the take on current events, and/or it would be way over their heads. So I get to share it with you, fellow Steemizens.
Love and laughs,
Cards Against Anarchy
Cards Against Anarchy on Stasibook:
https://www.facebook.com/cardsagainstanarchy/
and Google+:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/102340491014584624802
and Pinterest:
https://www.pinterest.com/cardsanarchy/
Aaaaaaaaand Twitter:
https://twitter.com/CAAnarchy