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More than two years ago I arrived to Gaia. I liked the place, brought my friends, started donating, following the TOS and R&Gs, helping other users to understand Gaia and protect themselves from scamming and hacking.

More than one month ago, all that was shattered.
A mysterious page requesting my birthday appeared and I mistaken it for some hacking trick since Gaia never before had asked for any of my real data.
Two times the screen appeared, two times I put I was six-years-old already thinking on reporting that page as soon as I get logged into Gaia, and as soon as 30 seconds, two years of invested time, money and care went to the deepest hell.

The requesting page really was Gaia asking for my birth date, for real. When I put I was six-years-old, they banned me.

Of course I tried to fix the issue. After all, if I had supported Gaia for a couple of years, Gaia for sure would support me this time, right?
Wrong.
The Mods I talked to said they were unable to help.
All the Admins ignored me, all but Dri, but even she simply said that they couldn't trust I was above 13 and that even if I could prove it they haven't the necessary tool to unban my account.
For absurd this sounds, that was all the support I got. I won't get my account back. Gaia didn't support me because she's a big girl who dates CEOs now, not the friendly gal I met two years ago.

I decided to take some distance from Gaia, but then something else happened. Suddenly, those who cannot change my account's data to unban it, deleted its name.
Arkbeth, the first Arkbeth, now nameless, got a number in exchange: 1355104.
I decided to leave Gaia for good and forever, having a lot of real life problems as to get extra frustration for the systems of an online place, however, my peers made me think it better.

I made a new account. Now my former name was free to be taken and Arkbeth was reborn, while 1355104 remained in limbo.

I won't support Gaia ever again in any direct way, not unless 1355104 gets unbanned, but I know that's highly improbable.

However, banned or not, Arkbeth is back.