Let me start at the beginning.
Back in February of 2022, I was growing sick and tired of my apps constantly getting hacked. I thought people were hacking my stuff because they knew I made it. I was convinced that slapping "[WUT] Adam" on something made it an open invitation to hack.
So what did I do about that?
I created an alter ego on the site that I would use as "branding" for chats. I named it Brendan Vierra.
From my year and a half of experience on code.org, I knew that the fastest way to make waves on the platform was to create a game that matched these three descriptions:
- Has a chat/social feature
- Improves upon previous projects
- Has a dark/edgy logo
So, I created the first version of Brendan's Chat.
The one thing I've wanted more than anything on code.org is to unify everyone on the site into one large, social community. I've had several less than successful attempts (e.g. [WUT] World and Hangouts Chat), but those were because of the hackers you all know and love. So on March 7, 2022, I created a social platform dedicated to bringing together every code.org user into a stylized, feature-filled experience. You're using it right now. It's the Game Lab Forum.
I knew from day one that everyone and their brother was going to remix Brendan's Chat, so that's why I included the forum as a built-in button--so I could more effectively reach everyone on the site and bring them all together.
Over the course of the next 7 months, I would slowly but surely keep improving on the chat and the forum and getting Brendan's name out there. I barely interacted with the site as [WUT] Adam at all; I was too focused on making Brendan popular that I forgot about my other online alias.
Around late October, I was starting to get a bit tired of being someone I wasn't. I was tired of lying to an entire website about who I was. I was tired of making up an entire organization (cough O.R.B. cough). I was tired of not getting any credit for basically revolutionizing Game Lab chats. So, for the first time, I told someone else about how and why I made up Brendan.
That someone was @MonsterYT_DaGamer.
He was very supportive of me basically dropping a bombshell on myself, and he even told me a secret about himself. (I'm not going to share what that is because I'm not that kind of person)
That leads us to today. After what happened earlier today (cough code.org deleting my shi cough), I felt like there's no point in keeping a secret from over 300 people anymore.
I am Brendan.
I'm honestly kinda surprised no one figured it out. Like, we just happen to go to the same school? And even though barely anyone on gamelab knows me, and I never used this account, I just happened to get ownership of the forum? And the fact that "Brendan" was on the site for 1 week before making Brendan's Chat?
Well, now you know.
