>>117297747That timeline isn't really accurate, it doesn't explain a lot. August last year a robot thread is made where Emmy features, people become enamored with her and she becomes a dominant fotm for most of late August and September, with lots of early speculative fanart (mostly her as a boxer, or, curiously, a WWI nurse or soldier). As this winds down, in the throes of the Ms. /co/ controversy of last year, threads are still repeatedly being made but a lot of the steam has gone out of them. Most die at 50 replies and are composed of variations on "Emmy is my wife" and "Bump for Emmy!" This is the start of the brief dark ages, no stories (which originally were very short and often back and forth, replete with hahaposting and Anon-self inserts), no art - just necrobumps and threadspam. This goes on for most of October-ish until it dies out on its own (surprisingly) because no one engaged. Then spanning from Halloween 2019 through to 2020, the general unspoken rule was "only make new threads when there's official content". Because dommcell's posting was rather sparse even then, threads were at most twice, but usually once, a month. This is seen as the Golden Age of Emmy threads as there were tons of Christmas and holiday stories, art, comfyposting and a genuinely friendly and kind atmosphere as 2019 turned into 2020. In late Winter and into Spring, dommcell says he'll be posting comics weekly, coinciding almost perfectly with both COVID-19 lockdowns and subseuqent school closures. This is a godsend to Emmy fans as it means a consistent, but not too saturated, stream of Emmy content - the idea of weekly threads, justified originally by there being a comic, takes hold as Spring turns to Summer. Occasionally there were hiccups: no new public comic, so patreon exclusives (another addition) would be leaked to fill the void. Another would be a followup or spillover thread running into Sunday and sometimes Monday.
