It’s my cake day…

Feb 17, 2026 2:35 PM

10 years using Imgur. wow.
All credit to the awesome zenpencils.com who created this originally and the person who first posted this on Imgur ten years ago but does not seem to use imgur anymore.

It’s been a long and wild and crazy decade Imgur and much has changed. Whomever you are and whatever you are doing- I hope you are well.
I hope life is treating you kindly. I hope you are not buffeted by the winds of chaos that sweep through our world to harshly. I hope you are appreciated.
I hope you are loved.
I hope today you find something or someone to make you laugh.
That if you are plagued by troubles, that you find a moment of respite and forget them.
That you eat today. That you are warm.

Thank you Imgur. You are still making me laugh, and while I am not able to find the time to post like I use to, I still deeply care about the people who use this thing. Many of you are just simply awesome. Keep being kind, keep being funny, keep punching Nazis.

🥳🎉

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thanks for sharing, love it! And happy cake day!

6 months ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Happy cake day, feck.

6 months ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

Happy cake day from all ov us still here @op

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thanks. have an awesome and brilliant day.

6 months ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Happy cake day, thefeck. I appreciate your posts.

6 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Thank you my dude

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You're welcome, my dude.

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Happy cake day, OP! It's good to see you're still around and I hope your wishes to us are returned in kind to you. Thank you for the learning, the laughs, and making my inner need smile.

6 months ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

*nerd

6 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Thank you for your kind words

6 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Ten years flies by faster than we think.

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Tell me about it

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

In the real world that kid would be arrested no matter the age and his life would be over. He'd be dead before he hit 18

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If it was today’s world? yep. SWAT team at 70 paces.

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fair fight now, biatch

6 months ago | Likes 64 Dislikes 0

It's about empowering people you know?

6 months ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Ain't no action like direct action.

6 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Nice to see the kid got a happy end, he did nothing wrong, the bullies got exactly what they deserved :)

6 months ago | Likes 138 Dislikes 1

Fuck around… (grins)

6 months ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 0

Happy cakeday my dude! Got to say that your posts has always been the most interesting and insightful content on this platform. Hoping that the next round around the sun will be a good one for ya.

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Man I miss Zen Pencils

6 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

So say we all

6 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

[BFG Division intensifies]

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Glad to see you posting! Happy cake day!

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Glad to see you posting! I miss your world events breakdowns on here, I thought they were really well done.

6 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

If i ever get time- they will return.

6 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I hope life finds you well. Your deep dive posts remain objects of wonder which I deeply appreciate. I hope one day to see more of them... but I recognize the immense work which went into them.

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Is this print for ants?

6 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

wow, I have a lot to be thankful for. happy cake day!

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yay. Hope your days are good

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

@OP My browser is at 130% zoom, and I still can't fucking read these. JFC dude.

6 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

yeah, they uploaded crapper than the copies I have

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What a bummer! I really want to read them! My eyesight is terrible, so I have to zoom in, but when I zoom in on these the pixelation gets so bad I can't read it. Sadness.

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Happy cake day, @OP.

6 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Thank you :)

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"Punching Nazis." I'm sorry. >sniff< I promised myself I wouldn't cry.

6 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It’s OK… we all know how special that is.

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

When I was a freshman a was short and fat. The bullies back in the day were a different breed of evil. The kind of guys who cut the gay boy’s throat out behind the playground and got away with it because they were good at football. I was a target, to say the least. They called us nerds “Worms”. I barely survived Freshman year. Then over that summer I went from 5’8” to 6’3”. I learned some Judo. I grew up. Beginning of sophomore year they tried to drown me in a rain barrel out behind the art >>

6 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

oh they still got away with it, happened at my school to a trans girl. They boasted about it, everyone knew they did it, but nothing was ever done. They tried to push many others into suicide, no doubt they succeeded. Utah has one of the highest suicide idealation rates in general as it is.

6 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I never grew up, they did vanish in senior year. I wonder if they were killed or silently carted off to another school.

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

(the I never grew up part was supposed to be deleted, its from a different comment that somehow didnt fully delete. Not sure what happened there)

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The kid that got his throat cut lived. He moved to Boston after that. Some of his family from there were rumored to be “made men” and the ringleader of the bullies did wind up dead in a Aldi parking lot a couple years down the road. Of the other three, two are in jail, one for meth, the other for murder. And their little tag-a-long moved to the west coast to be with another guy. I hope realizing what he was hiding about himself woke him up.

6 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

>>annex. The only reason I lived was the shop teacher showed up. When they let me out I couldn’t see anything but red. I started throwing punches and throwing bullies. I was cussing like Ralphie from a Christmas story and literally beat one of them unconscious. It took two other guys and two vocational teachers to get me to stop. After that, the bullies didn’t mess with me personally anymore, and the other nerds tended to follow me from class to class for protection.>>

6 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

But they still tried to make fun of me by calling me “the Wormking”. I’ve honestly never been more proud to wear an insult like a badge. “The Decapitator” is no different.

6 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Dude thats epic but also tragic. But damn glad you survived.

6 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

He's alive...ALIVE!!! Happy cake day.

6 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Soylent Green is people!!!!! Ahem! Yes, I still live… thanks dude

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Glad you're still around. And happy cake day! Thanks for the kind wishes and I hope they return to you tenfold

6 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Happy cakeday feck, good to see you're still with us!

6 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Same applies to you :)

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Aint going anywhere. Just don't have time to post is all. Thanks for the reply

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Happy cake day, friendo.

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Bold choice of the kids bullying a kid who has already put the hammer down on some other bullies.

6 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Brans sure dont run in those families it seems.

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Happy cake day! It's been awhile. Good to see you are still around

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thank you and its god to be around

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Hey! Happy cake day! Missing your posts and hope you are doing well :)

4 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hey. I'm good. Still lurking. Hope you are well.

4 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thanks for sharing and the warm thoughts. I hope you're well.

6 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I'm good. Sending you huge mental hugs.

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You too

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You also amigo

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Are you writing/posting anywhere else?

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Aside from my podcast? nope.

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, aside from that. I listen to it. I love learning about history. Thanks for that too.

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0