For once, gamer girl boners aside, I really just wanted to thank all of our readers, writers, contributors, tipsters, lurkers, forum spammers, and future bloggers for all of the support you've shown Destructoid. Look at that damn Alexa chart up there and take a bow. We've come a long way, ladies. A "Whoa Bundy" is definitely in order. Let me hear one from you in the comments.

As most of you know, Dtoid is run completely by a community effort of independent video game bloggers backed by the credit cards of two guys in Miami with other full time jobs. If it wasn't for the community effort, we'd be nowhere ... but because of you, we've become just as big as other people in the industry run by million dollar corporations, and made it without any funding or donations. I could never do anything right again in my life, I'd die a happy man. This moment was enough.

One reason I've brought this to your attention is to give you an idea of how many people will soon be reading your blogs when we launch this feature of Destructoid later this week. Our once obscure little club reaches millions now.  Blows my mind. We've rewritten the book on what it means to be a video game journalist.  These guys are read as often as those other guys now, so go smoke your college degrees. Warcraft fart jokes FTW! Funny, we're not even a year old yet.

The other reason is strictly business. So what am I going to do with all this success?  Should I sell out?  Hell no.  Here's my plan: give the love right back to the community. If any industry business faces are reading this, Destructoid is looking for advertisers so we can start giving away Wiis and PS3s *every week* sometime in 2007.  Once a day as soon as we can afford it.  I'm dead serious. I owe the community more than one a month.  There's too many of you now!

So what's it gonna take? We need some forward-thinking companies to buy ads from us so we can turn that money into prizes for the community, and help me finally pay the writers that contribute here. 

So hear me out business faces -- I'm now offering a $3 CPM  -- 70% cheaper than anyone else on than chart. Email me at niero@destructoid.com. Let's do this. Make it clap.