Hey everyone, hope you're doing well! I know its been a little while, but I literally had no time to write a rant or update FunMath over the last few days as it was concert week. But that's now over and it went well, so yay! Here's a quick story, but not Storytime, that will explain what you're about to see: It was literally a month after what I guess I'll refer to as "the incident" (enough of you know), so I was not in a good mood whatsoever. As if I wasn't miserable enough, FunMath then got taken down by Google and I had very few ways of getting it up other than checking and deleting one page at a time and even hiring a website designer to figure out what it was. It turns out it was the game board (that's why we don't have one now). But before that, I opened two new websites hoping people would use them. But they didn't at all. So I shut them down and almost shut down FunMath. Because of the incident, I may sound very overdramatic, but that's how I was then, and it frankly embarrasses me that I could type those words. And although I'm known for many crash outs, this is my biggest crash out ever. Here it goes:
RIP FunMath
This message was NOT written with ChatGPT
Dear friends and enemies,
On March 3rd, 2023 FunMath, the best and first UB Games website ever created in the Leonia School District was created. With the push of a button, I, My Real Name (EK for now) created FunMath, not just a website, but a movement. A movement of people.
On January 26th, 2025, our website was taken down for violation of terms of service by Google, and I haven't been able to get it back since. So, to keep things going, I created two new websites, FM (Formerly FunMath) and Saturn as two temporary websites while I tried to get our website back.
During these times, most of the people that relied on FunMath everyday began to get mad at me. From screaming at me to not listening to me, going to school everyday became a living hell, just wondering if or when I was going to get my website back. So, I posted stuff on FM and Saturn, warning you that if nothing changed, this was going to happen. But just like most kids in this twisted world of school, no one listened. Nothing changed.
It is January 31st, 2025 and I am at home sick. Do you like a story? I do. Let me tell you a short one, just for a moment. Whenever I was sick at home, I used to go on my computer and watch the FunMath analytics live. Seeing every one of you that went on there made my heart leap and made me a little less sicker. Today, I did just that, looking for the same comfort that I have always felt from these analytics. But what did I find?
23 people. Let's compare that to last week when we had 397 people using our website. That's called nothing. That's called a whopping 94.2% less people using FunMath than last week. And that's not enough people for the hard work that I used to spend every day trying to keep FunMath working and unblocked. I've always said it and I'll say it again: This couldn't have been possible without YOU. And now there is no you.
And so, my team and I have made the heartbreaking decision to shut down FunMath. The worst part? I always thought it would become a website that I would run for years to come. I even bought my team FunMath t-shirts and bought myself a FunMath branded mug, that's how confident I was that this would be something. But it isn't. And without this website, I'm not something either. I'm nothing. There. I said it. Without this website, I'm a nobody.
And I'm fine with that. Do you know how many people as soon as they learned I owned FunMath came up to me and asked "Can I be your friend?". And I'm not joking. Literally, it went something like this:
Me: You use FunMath, right?
Them: Yeah, why?
Me: I created it, so just want to make sure people u-
Them: YOU CREATED IT?! Can I please be your friend?
Me: Sure.
You see how ridiculous that is? And therefore, I'm shutting it down. To the few of you, the 23 of you to be exact that used FunMath through our hardest times, thank you. To those of you who screamed at me, I warned you, and you didn't listen. And now you're paying the price. And don't think you can go to useclassplay or HydrogenX. I also warned you about that. If there's no FunMath, then there will be NOTHING.
And before I go on, stop the My Real Name Here (EK for now) (Btw this was actually a real thing) villain arc. I'm evil. There, I said that too. I'm not a good person. Say what you want, but I'm not a good person, and when people take for granted how kind and encouraging and understanding I try to be of others, thinking that I'm not human, that I don't have emotions other than happy, then that truly brings out the worst in me. In fact, if you were in my position, it would bring out the worst of you.
Therefore, I'm done with it all. I've thoroughly (and probably way too thoroughly) explained every reason to shutting down FunMath. From personal reasons to analytics, I'm done, and there's nothing anyone can do, no amount of money, not even the most powerful person in the world, not even if god came down from the heavens, that can make me bring it back.
But folks, the fun isn't over. In fact, the so-called "fun" is only beginning...
Forever yours,
My Real Name Here (EK for now)
Former CEO of FunMath
And the fun did begin when FunMath came back. Thank you again for all of you. It's amazing how much I've changed in less than a year. And here we are. Back on our own two feet. Thanks for reading and have a wonderful day in every way!
Sincerely,
EK
