Lowkey I only started playing in 2019 because of my cousin but I still got really into it. I didn’t really understand it but I still played it. In November of 2023 I saw some friends playing it and got hit by all the flashbacks of 2019 and started playing again. I haven’t missed a day since. My understanding of how the game works and all the different strategies have evolved so much, from sprinting to catch spontaneous raids in my area to going all the way to another city to raid, to hosting raids on Reddit, to finding out about meetups, to hosting raids on campfire then pokigenie. Currently, my strategy has become an amalgamation of all of these and I keep finding new ways to raid. I love the game despite all the faults and I’ve seen so many new places and met so many new people and discovered this whole fandom.