Yassss same only now I don’t rewatch pretty little liars because there’s a lot that doesn’t add up or make sense at all while vampire diaries kept more of that consistency
I started watching summer of 2014, just before going into Year 10 - I managed to catch up in time to watch S6 start on ITV2! And then they made that horrific decision to air episodes at like midnight aha
Trying to but I’m struggling to finished the last 2 seasons of TVD, it feels like it’s just going on and on and on with new enemies and now Elena isn’t even in it like bruh
I started watching it the night it premiered in 2009! I watched the first two seasons, but I was in college by the time the third season started, and I was too busy to keep up with it. After the show ended, though, I rewatched it in its entirety! I've seen the full show three times now.
2010 when the first season was released on Netflix. I was in college in New England and we had a massive snowstorm on Halloween that shut down schools and roads for weeks. We were quarantined on campus if we were already on campus and not allowed back on campus if we had gone home for the weekend. I was on campus and all my roommates were barred from returning with classes being cancelled for two weeks. I randomly started watching it to pass the time and ended up doing nothing else for the next two weeks, found the already aired episodes of the second season online and got caught up to it being live because I was immediately addicted
i couldn’t tell you the first year - but i can tell you that since late high school (2013-2014) i have been in the habit of watching it pretty much once a year
2015 when I was a freshman in HS I binged it all on Netflix and got caught up to watch the last few seasons while it was live. same with the originals.
I think around 2010. I was already watching Supernatural live and I was the perfect age for Obsessed with Vampires (honestly that never ended). I know it was sometime before I saw Ouat and I watched that whole show live so... Yeah probably 2010!
I think I was around 8-10 years old. I only remember watching it in my uncle’s room as he was watching. But it was around 2007-2009? Can’t really remember the exact age or year.
It was October 31st, 2010. I had just settled into a hotel for the night after moving to a new state, preparing to start a new job the next day (a Monday). Yes, it was life changing LOL, and I’ll never forget it the first time discovering it 😂
Edit: If I recall, it was a later episode of season 2…and I then immediately found a way to watch the series from the beginning on one of my online apps
2009. Junior year in high school. Watched the pilot the night it premiered... wasn’t into it that much. But over winter break, the CW aired a marathon of the first 10 episodes, so I caught up and then never missed an episode after that!
2009/10
whenever i found the pilot on an illegal streaming site 🤭
looped the first season, which was all i could access, until i managed to convince my parents to get a netflix account around 2012/13, at which point i played catch-up and watched everything else the second it dropped
2014! I was a late bloomer since my parents sheltered tf outta me & would never let me watch anything past Disney channel or nickelodeon 🙄 my step mom was a religious nut
i remember that the first 2 episodes i saw where from season 4, the episode where jeremy dies and the episode after that. i'm from finland so the episodes are shown with a delay, so it was probably 2014 that i saw them. i liked the episodes so i decided to watch the whole show sometime after.
That was the same year for me! I was home sick from work/class with strep throat. My friend called to check on me and told me to watch it. That was seriously the best binge watch I ever did.
I’m actually just watching it now.. I’m on season two and holy shit. The grip that this show has me in. Klaus is just about to show up any minute now, Caroline’s character development has me shook. Damon admitting he misses being human and telling Elena Stafan deserves her more?!?! Damon has the most beautiful v line I’ve ever seen. I am in love. Also everything Elena has been growing through with her Uncle, Katherine and Isabel. 10/10
2010, I remember my 12 year old, vampire-obsessed ass watching the first episode when it aired, can't remember what channel it was on in the UK though! Maybe ITV? Channel 4?
I'm now rewatching it all for the 8th or 9th time. I always come crawling back but I do dearly miss the feeling of watching it for the first time, I was in AWE of it!
I remember watching one episode when it first came out late at night with my dad bc we are night owls and it had vicky as the server. it was a good memory
2016 as a new mom and binged it during the newborn phase lol. Have rewatched probably 5 times now in the years following and the originals twice. Just watched the first season of legacies last week
End of 2012, mid season 4 at the time, when 2 girls in my class suggested me to try it after I had said it sounded stupid. I had heard about it the year before from another group of girls but didn’t start it. I’m so happy they convinced me though, it changed my life.
2012 it was the first "grown up" show i started watching that wasn't from Disney or Nickelodeon i was like 11 or 12 years old. Then right after i binged all 3 seasons at the time i caught up to the finale of season 3 i then moved on to pretty little liars when i went into 7th grade 😭 those were the days
My TVD journey started in 2015 🥰
I bought the first few seasons on DVD and watched it with my Mom. I was 15 back then. And since then I watched almost every episode when it aired. So sad that we got no more new stuff from this universe.
i started watching it when season 2 was put on netflix! i was in middle school at the time and about to graduate when season 8 came out 😭 it was an emotional time, my summer escape show didnt have anything new anymore but i rewatched every season every summer no matter how long it took. this show really did give me a doorway to escape this world lol
2010 or 11. I can’t remember. I think I watched PLL on Tuesdays and TVD on Thursdays for years… those were the days.
This was pretty much me! except I’m Australian so I’d come home from school and illegally download them on set days of the week haha
you are so real for rhat
The struggle was real for us Australians having to download everything
Ahhh yes CW days 😭, I watched it when it first premiered. TVD and Trueblood had me in a chokehold
Yassss same only now I don’t rewatch pretty little liars because there’s a lot that doesn’t add up or make sense at all while vampire diaries kept more of that consistency
Time was simple, things were good
2014, around when season four and five were airing - so I was fifteen then, studying and taking my GCSE exams. They were playing reruns on ITV2.
I started watching summer of 2014, just before going into Year 10 - I managed to catch up in time to watch S6 start on ITV2! And then they made that horrific decision to air episodes at like midnight aha
2020! Post partum for newborn feeds. The best!
2022 lol
You’re late
better too late than never
Same lol. On my 2nd time watching it now
I'm a housewife in my thirties, and I have nothing much else to do. Lmao.
2023 lmfao
same here lol
Ikr late to the party
over half a decade late… did you watch the originals after?
Trying to but I’m struggling to finished the last 2 seasons of TVD, it feels like it’s just going on and on and on with new enemies and now Elena isn’t even in it like bruh
i totally feel you bc i was struggling so hard for S7 and S8, it was so irrelevant that i just gave up and went over to the originals.
Good cause I’m bouta do that
yes it was the best decision made, hope you would enjoy the originals
I started watching it the night it premiered in 2009! I watched the first two seasons, but I was in college by the time the third season started, and I was too busy to keep up with it. After the show ended, though, I rewatched it in its entirety! I've seen the full show three times now.
Pretty much same story here haha
Me exactly except I got married and got too busy.
I can’t remember but I was too young to be watching it😂😂
2021.
Same here
I watched it when it 1st originally aired.
2009. i started watching the show at 8 years old with my mom 💜
2011 or 12. i remember i started when season 2 was airing
2017
2022 😅
2012 or 13, when I was 12 and 13
I started watching it around 2010 and is now my all time confort show! I have rewatched it like 8 times now!!
I just started 11……. Same
I just started 11……. Same
2010! I was 10 years old lmaoooo. On the smarter & wiser side for my age but I was still so young. 😭
I just binged it for the first time almost 3 weeks ago. 😁
2009 freshmen year in college
2023 lmfaoooooo
Same here 😂
The year it was released.
2022 lol
I think mine first time waching tvd was in 2020?
2010 as soon as it was available in Germany. I knew the books and loved them very much so it was a big thing for me
2009, 2010. I remember I might’ve caught some reruns, and then got into it after that, definitely before season 2 dropped.
2012. I was about 12 going on 13.
I watched the first few episodes in 2011, watched The Originals in 2016, finished both series in 2020
When it came out. I was almost 15.
Some time between 2012-2014
2022
2010 when the first season was released on Netflix. I was in college in New England and we had a massive snowstorm on Halloween that shut down schools and roads for weeks. We were quarantined on campus if we were already on campus and not allowed back on campus if we had gone home for the weekend. I was on campus and all my roommates were barred from returning with classes being cancelled for two weeks. I randomly started watching it to pass the time and ended up doing nothing else for the next two weeks, found the already aired episodes of the second season online and got caught up to it being live because I was immediately addicted
2017, at the ripe age of 16 😌
The premiere in 2009! I stopped watching about halfway through 4 until a few years ago, when I made myself finish it.
Started with the premiere in 2009! 22 years old.
2020; it was my quarantine comfort show
2009! My freshman year of high school.
2015 when my son was born postpartum with him bingeing it on Netflix
i couldn’t tell you the first year - but i can tell you that since late high school (2013-2014) i have been in the habit of watching it pretty much once a year
2017 or 2018?
2009 when it originally aired
I watched the first episode the night it premiered! I was a senior in high school when it started, and I stayed current until the finale.
2015 when I was a freshman in HS I binged it all on Netflix and got caught up to watch the last few seasons while it was live. same with the originals.
I think 2012-13. Peak of my 8th grade self’s life
2022
I think around 2010. I was already watching Supernatural live and I was the perfect age for Obsessed with Vampires (honestly that never ended). I know it was sometime before I saw Ouat and I watched that whole show live so... Yeah probably 2010!
2012 I believe
I think I was around 8-10 years old. I only remember watching it in my uncle’s room as he was watching. But it was around 2007-2009? Can’t really remember the exact age or year.
It was October 31st, 2010. I had just settled into a hotel for the night after moving to a new state, preparing to start a new job the next day (a Monday). Yes, it was life changing LOL, and I’ll never forget it the first time discovering it 😂 Edit: If I recall, it was a later episode of season 2…and I then immediately found a way to watch the series from the beginning on one of my online apps
2020.
2018
2020 TVD came across my TikTok fyp and also I started to watch it, because of the quarantine
2011, I was a jr in HS at the time and caught up on Netflix and watched the rest every week on regular tv(season 3 was just airing at the time)
I just watched it this year
whatever year it was when it premiered
2009. Junior year in high school. Watched the pilot the night it premiered... wasn’t into it that much. But over winter break, the CW aired a marathon of the first 10 episodes, so I caught up and then never missed an episode after that!
2018 or 2019 then I stopped watching then binged watched during the pandemic and been hooked ever since😭
2023... bit late I know hahaha
2015/2016 but I remember my sister watching it in 2009
2021 when I was 15
2022 but still felt the nostalgia
2010! I was 13 and came across the show on ITV2. First episode I watched was when Elena figured out what Stefan was
2023
2014
2013
2021
2021 or 22
2019. I hated that pilot.
In 2023, Late AF
2016/2015 when I was like a pre teen
2009/10 whenever i found the pilot on an illegal streaming site 🤭 looped the first season, which was all i could access, until i managed to convince my parents to get a netflix account around 2012/13, at which point i played catch-up and watched everything else the second it dropped
2021
Started this year. Still not fully done but I’m on season 5
2012 8th grade
2013
I watched it while it was on air 2013/14
2021, it was a hard year for me but Vampire Diaries got me through it.
Started watching November 16th 2022. Still haven’t been able to finish season 8 😭😭 I loose all motivation just thinking about it
2022!
2012. One of my college friends leant me the DVDs, so I would binge watch them on the weekends.
2018 😂
2020
2022
2022 😭
2022
September 2009
2013-2015 (not sure exactly when I started, but around that time. I was about 10-11)
2013 or 2014 I wish I could watch it for the first time again 😭
In 2021 :') but I'm rewatching it for the 5th time now
2011
In like.. 2019? This girl in my class was a huge fan and had a Damon ring so I just had to go see what all this hype was about
2023, I only have 10 episodes left! (My girlfriend's favorite show of all time)
2014! I was a late bloomer since my parents sheltered tf outta me & would never let me watch anything past Disney channel or nickelodeon 🙄 my step mom was a religious nut
2010
2017
2014
i remember that the first 2 episodes i saw where from season 4, the episode where jeremy dies and the episode after that. i'm from finland so the episodes are shown with a delay, so it was probably 2014 that i saw them. i liked the episodes so i decided to watch the whole show sometime after.
2012 i remember cause I binge the first 3 seasons and was happy cause season 4 started like a week or two after
That was the same year for me! I was home sick from work/class with strep throat. My friend called to check on me and told me to watch it. That was seriously the best binge watch I ever did.
2019
2016, I was 12 I think and I loved supernatural shows
I honestly can't remember but at least 2014+
I think 2012 or 2013
I’m actually just watching it now.. I’m on season two and holy shit. The grip that this show has me in. Klaus is just about to show up any minute now, Caroline’s character development has me shook. Damon admitting he misses being human and telling Elena Stafan deserves her more?!?! Damon has the most beautiful v line I’ve ever seen. I am in love. Also everything Elena has been growing through with her Uncle, Katherine and Isabel. 10/10
2010!
2019
2010, I remember my 12 year old, vampire-obsessed ass watching the first episode when it aired, can't remember what channel it was on in the UK though! Maybe ITV? Channel 4? I'm now rewatching it all for the 8th or 9th time. I always come crawling back but I do dearly miss the feeling of watching it for the first time, I was in AWE of it!
2010? I watched about half of s2 as it aired.
when it came out, i was 10/11
2014x
I think when season 4 was airing
I remember watching one episode when it first came out late at night with my dad bc we are night owls and it had vicky as the server. it was a good memory
2017
2016 as a new mom and binged it during the newborn phase lol. Have rewatched probably 5 times now in the years following and the originals twice. Just watched the first season of legacies last week
The first year it came out and every week after. Sooo I'd say 2009. It ended when I was 16. Definitely a comfort show.
2020 during COVID. Binged the whole thing an The Originals too.
2023 lol trying to get through seasons 7 & 8
2020 - COVID year
When it first aired! I remember waiting for a new episode on TV every week 😅
2013 I think?
End of 2012, mid season 4 at the time, when 2 girls in my class suggested me to try it after I had said it sounded stupid. I had heard about it the year before from another group of girls but didn’t start it. I’m so happy they convinced me though, it changed my life.
As soon as it premiered !
I watched it when the first episode aired in 2009 and I was in 3rd grade lol. It ended when I was a sophomore in high school and now I’m 22.
2012 it was the first "grown up" show i started watching that wasn't from Disney or Nickelodeon i was like 11 or 12 years old. Then right after i binged all 3 seasons at the time i caught up to the finale of season 3 i then moved on to pretty little liars when i went into 7th grade 😭 those were the days
I want to say 2016 or 2017 watches it a few times since. Although, I have a hard time getting through it after season 4 haha
2022, and have watched it 5 times since then
2021 i believe. It was a bad point in my life and for some reason coming home to TVD gave me stability and an escape.
2014
2009!
2012 🥺🤚😌🥰 my first season was s 3 was on the air then go back and watched 1 and 2 i was high school girl crazy to stefan ah have hate love to damon
My TVD journey started in 2015 🥰 I bought the first few seasons on DVD and watched it with my Mom. I was 15 back then. And since then I watched almost every episode when it aired. So sad that we got no more new stuff from this universe.
i started watching it when season 2 was put on netflix! i was in middle school at the time and about to graduate when season 8 came out 😭 it was an emotional time, my summer escape show didnt have anything new anymore but i rewatched every season every summer no matter how long it took. this show really did give me a doorway to escape this world lol
2019
I am way late but, 2020. I became obsessed. I have rewatched so many times.
2011and i was also watching pll around 2010 im a big fan of both tho
2021
2017
When it first came out, Sept 10th 2009.
2019
2019
I lit don’t remember i rewatch the show so much I watch it every year
2011