Samus Appreciation

**#samus-appreciation** is a channel in the 'Audio Channels' category of channels in the server. In the channel, Samus is hailed and "appreciated." It was formerly known for its long chains of the :samsad: emote before an era of reckoning and horndogs came to the channel.

## History

### Origins

The channel was the original voice chat channel of the server before MetroidMan changed the course of it forever. On the 6th of June, 2020, the first :samsad: emote was posted in the channel by MetroidMan and a community and long chain of :samsad: emotes started to grow. This period is known as **samsad lamentation.**

### Early life

The samsad lamentation was initially met with either indifference or zeal, however some such as mori disliked the chain and purposely interrupted it to stop its growth. He later stopped as he realized his hate was unfounded and served no real purpose. The channel was still regularly used as a voice chat channel and posted in occasionally with other praises of Samus Aran. During this time, The Sad Samus would become a very influential channel regular and mainstay, accomplishing great feats for the channel and perhaps all of mankind.

### Age of the samsad

As the Early Life period waned, the channel became stronger than ever. MetroidMan and The Sad Samus dedicated themselves to building a mountain-like chain of :samsad:s to sit atop and look down from. Eventually, on the 31st of July, 2020, the #voice-chat became #samus-apprication. A rare break in samsad posting was seen by MetroidMan as he acknowledged the accomplishment. From here the channel flourished, realizing a posting boom of samsad emotes never before seen.

### Downfall

As MetroidMan became less enthusiastic about samsad posting around early 2021, The Sad Samus did not give up. They eventually reached their goal of 5,000 samsad emotes posted in the channel and took their leave as a hero, never seen in the channel since. They were awarded the honorary role of **The Saddest Samus** as a commemoration of the accomplishment. Shorty after their departure however, samsad posting became more chaotic and deformed, with non-samsad messages, memes, unfunny jokes, and art vastly outnumbering samsad posting more and more as the channel progressed. To see a stand alone samsad was rare and unrecognized by other posters.

### Neo-Samus Appreciation

The current era of the channel. As the downfall progressed, samsad extinction did as well. To see a samsad in the wild is to discover a shiny pokemon, and to see a chain is even rarer. The channel is inhabited by horndogs upon horndogs, in some cases projecting themselves in a manner that would make yandev look like he had no attraction to Samus. To say that it is not what the founding fathers of the channel, MetroidMan and The Sad Samus envisioned, would be an understatement. Truly a far cry from what the channel was in its peak.

### The End of Everything

On the **11th of November, 2021,** the channel was archived by Habreno. In a message inside the channel, Habreno cited the reason of the archival of the channel as "due to lost topic." In total there were over **25,000** messages posted in the channel throughout its lifetime, with **17,545** messages total posted since MetroidMan posted the iconic first samsad. There were **12,469** samsads total posted in the channel since MetroidMan's original post to the channel's official archival.