2010: The Lost Year

"have you ever seen a person that is able to give you a crystal clear account of 2010? I thought not."

-Unknown

As the first year of a new decade, the significance of 2010 in Roblox's history cannot be doubted. Contests, Packages, and other Landmark features were added. New players, people, and groups joined en masse. Now-commonplace building features such as Wedges were introduced as well, literally and figuratively changing the shape of Roblox forever. But what if I told you that the 2010 we know it as never happened?

As the myth goes, the 2010 we know today is a mix of fabrications and false memories that somehow replaced the "real" 2010 era of Roblox. As time progressed, this "real" version became replaced by the 2010 we knowtoday, the 2010 we remember. There is many ideas for why this happened, ranging from the Mandela effect to paranormal activity and government cover-ups.

According to some witnesses of the time, this "real 2010" was a much different place compared to the one we remember. The site theme was much different, seeming to be a combination of the 2009 and 2011 themes. Features added during 2010 still (mostly) happened, although on slightly different dates than what is recorded. New events took place that didn't happen during the "historical" 2010 we know; for example, there was a "Tix Event" that took place in the summer. (Strangely enough, Egg Hunt 2010 does not show any significant change between the "historical "and "real" versions.)

In addition to these changes, there are also discrepancies in user-created events and content, too. Over the years, research into this 2010 phenomenon has uncovered possible clan wars that aren't supposed to be there, front-page games that shouldn't exist, forum-posts that were never posted - at least in the 2010 we know now. Entire groups and legacies from the "real" 2010 came about in much different ways than the "historical" one, only to be erased from history in some sort of real life ret-con.

It is unknown how or why this "real" 2010 was replaced with the one we know today, or the circumstances behind this. Not even the exact time of the event (or series of events) that caused the transition - nicknamed the "Rewrite" by some researchers - is known, with there being barely any discovered information. However, similarities between this event and the similar disappearance of a certain Shade Minigames have been noted.

Now, you may be thinking that this is a load of barnacles, but there is a surprisingly extensive amount of evidence to support this theory. Screenshots, old forum posts, and even eyewitness accounts have been dug up of the "Pre-Rewrite" era, as seen below:

Account #1

"So it looks like i'm not insane... 2010 was quite a year for my roblox career. Contests....New theme, whatnot added, a combination of the new and the old.....And it was celebrated like that for a while. Somewhere along the line everyone just forgot...... It's like it was never there."

-User S██████

Account #2

"So, i'll tell you, although I may have been just dreaming about it, though. It was pretty interesting. They did alot that year.....I remember seeing alot more weird stuff going on than what usually happened."

-Anonymous

Account #3

"by the gods, you remember! you remember, too? How? How? Yes! Okay. I remember fighting in this big clan war way back in the spring and summer, it was one of the best experiences on the site. It was all around the forums, all big news in the genre! It was bigger than some wars you see nowadays - If it was anything else i would've understood people forgetting it, but when I went to look back, there seemed to be no mention of it. ANYWHERE. No videos, no screenshots, no forumposts - not even on other sites!"

-User pat████