Whatta bout Sumo 12 Posted Tuesday at 19:27 Hi people. I'm Whatta. I've been a long time lurker since I started watching Sumo in 2017, around when Takayasu was a shin-Ozeki. I finally had the inspiration to actually make an account here rather than just read the forums. As for where you might know me from in the Sumo fan world, I was in the very early days a very active member on the "Grand Sumo Discord", and even a moderator for a short stint before I stopped using that server. I'm also a very active part of the Grand Sumo Breakdown podcasts fanbase and have been since their second ever episode. I've frequently contributed fan content to that show and I appeared once as a guest host on a special episode talking about injuries in Sumo. If you hang out in their patreon Discord you'll see me there all the time in the discussions. I also enjoy playing Guess the Banzuke, though I'm not very good at it. My shikona in that game is "Nanikitanohito". Nani for "What" in "Whatta", and Kita no Hito as "Person of the north", cause I'm from Sweden. I once had a small youtube channel where I posted some Sumo meme videos and some pretty popular Basho storyline summaries and highlights, but the big basho summary videos got taken down for copyright so it's a bit of a relic these days. Still some fun smaller stuff on there that I'm a bit proud of. https://www.youtube.com/@whataboutthings Have a good day! I hope to have some fun here now and then! 7 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Reonito 1,523 Posted Tuesday at 20:55 Welcome! It took me a while to make an account after lurking for quite a while as well. Lots of fun and informative discussions to be had here. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Yarimotsu 594 Posted Wednesday at 09:57 Aha, I have heard your name on GSB. Welcome, it can be nice to have an account to make comment now-and-then. For me, discord is fun to read but discussion is meaningless as all messages are lost to time shortly after they are posted, and rarely referenced or known about. A structured forum provides us the nest to spread esoteric sumo knowledge. Hope you continue to enjoy, and occasionally contribute. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Whatta bout Sumo 12 Posted Wednesday at 11:19 1 hour ago, Yarimotsu said: Aha, I have heard your name on GSB. Welcome, it can be nice to have an account to make comment now-and-then. For me, discord is fun to read but discussion is meaningless as all messages are lost to time shortly after they are posted, and rarely referenced or known about. A structured forum provides us the nest to spread esoteric sumo knowledge. Hope you continue to enjoy, and occasionally contribute. I was a huge forum-head way back in like pre-2011. I was the top poster unlocking new forum ranks by post count back on like... the SuperSkarmory fan forums on NightBlue like waaaay back in the day. I was pretty big into Ning forums too through nerdfighteria community cliques. But when I got to high school in 2012 I kinda fell off all that as forums died left, right and center with the rise of reddit. Eventually when Discord came around it kinda re-introduced "small community internet" which I really liked. I never took to Reddit because of how it's so open and huge and centralised, so from like 2012 to 2017 I was pretty much homeless on the internet and just wasn't online much at all, which maybe was actually quite good for my late teen years cause I had a very active IRL life then. But with Discord I found the internet again and being an adult with a job the IRL stuff got much harder to keep up with anyway so it came at the right time. That said though, it will be fun to try a good old style forum again. I am finding that the posting infrastructure here is really smooth compared to what I recall from pre-2011. The way these quotes function and the way I can super easily share images with a URL without needing to memorize all the BB-code stuff is very nice. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jejima 1,415 Posted Thursday at 11:26 On 22/04/2025 at 20:27, Whatta bout Sumo said: I also enjoy playing Guess the Banzuke, though I'm not very good at it. My shikona in that game is "Nanikitanohito". Nani for "What" in "Whatta", and Kita no Hito as "Person of the north", cause I'm from Sweden. Have you tried Sekitori Sweepstake? Once you get past the rules, it is actually quite simple to play. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
