User blog comment:Purple2/When you were a Wikia newbie/@comment-3059315-20101129024836

I'd also been looking around the wikia for a while, too nervous to join. I'd only developed this obsession for iCarly in like July (I think) and I kind of felt like an outsider who couldn't really belong to a community-type thing like this. Yeah, I kind of have social anxiety.

Anyway, in September I finally worked up the courage to join, and I'm glad I did. I still felt kind of like I didn't really belong for a day or two, but it didn't take long before I started to become comfortable here. Since then I've come to look at the iCarly fandom as a sort of family. There are people on this site that I know on fanfiction or that I see on youtube or commenting on Danwarp's blog. It's kind of weird how these random strangers who I've never even met before can become so family-like, but they do. We may bicker over silly things sometimes, but at the end of the day, I still love the whole fandom, and I'm glad to be a part of it. :)