I started uploading on KickassTorrents (KAT) on January 1st, 2015, mostly LoP games. Back then it was basically just me and another guy, Cyberpunk77 (if I remember right), uploading adult games. You couldn’t find much elsewhere, maybe some stuff on TFGamesSite, but most sites had terrible speeds like 50 KB/s or were full of sketchy links.
My KAT profile blew up fast because I was uploading 15–20 games a day sometimes, and people started following my uploads religiously. Later I also started posting on The Pirate Bay, and eventually on a new torrent site called CrystalTorrents, which had just been started by some former KAT staff a couple of weeks before KAT went down.
When KickassTorrents shut down on July 21, 2016, I decided to make a temporary home for everyone who followed my uploads. That’s how forum.f95r.xyz came to life. I used that same domain before just to host image links for my torrent uploads. I threw together a small forum thinking it would just be a stopgap until KAT came back.
But it didn’t.
From July 21 to August 6, 2016, the “temporary” forum grew to around 1,800 members, all from people following the links I left in my torrent descriptions. Eventually we held a vote for a new permanent domain name. There were a bunch of suggestions, but F95Zone got the most votes. I didn’t even choose the name myself.
After that, things really took off. The community grew quickly, people started helping out, moderating, uploading, and improving the place, and that’s basically how F95Zone was born.
In those early days, a few people really helped shape what the site became, including former KAT staff like Nootky and Twistty, along with Hitman955, Ragnar, TCMS, Bloo, muttdoggy, TheImage, Muff Diver, Jande21, RedKing, ace_boogie. And of course Sam, without him the site wouldn’t be where it is today. They were the foundation when things were just getting started.
Big thanks as well to all the past and current uploaders, moderators, and staff who have kept things running, improving, and growing over the years. None of this would have lasted without the effort everyone has put in to make the site what it is today.
Here we are, nine years later, and the community is still growing strong, from a small temporary forum made to fill a gap to one of the biggest adult gaming communities on the internet.
