As of August 22nd I have been here for 5 years! holycarp

I am at a loss for words right now, this is the longest I've ever been with a web community and you guys have serriously changed my life.

If it wasnt for threadless I would never have discovered crowdsourcing, never have gotten into new media and would have failed my degree.

Serriously without you guys I would not have gotten a degree as good as the one I got, I was failing all of my classes barely getting above the pass mark (technically speaking I failed my first year of university and should have been held back).

my disertation was the only thing that got me a 2:1 (second highest degree) and I would never have been inspired to write about that subject without threadless.

Around the time I was looking at dissertation topics the Inc article came out that talked about threadless as a revolutionary buisness and introduced me to concepts such as crowdsourcing, that lead to more articles and more books on those subjects which lead to what I actually wrote about, how were changing the way news is produced, distributed and consumed.

But its not just about the degree, you guys are awesome and I genuinely see you as some of my best friends in the entire world.

I owe you guys.