Ming Dynasty Animations

This article is about SimonMing's second channel and the info is similar.

Overview
Ming Dynasty Animations (known as Simonming, or just Simon) is an American/Chinese Mapper who does mapping. He founded his channel on 9 November 2019. At first, he got into future simulations and World War 3 predictions, leading into discovering the mapping community (info later on). When he finally learned how to map, he became a full-time mapper.

Discovering Mapping
One day in mid-summer 2018 in his recommended list on YouTube, he saw LV's Alternate Future of The World and he watched it. He watched more mapping videos and it inspired him to do mapping. Then more and more mapping videos appeared in his recommended list, especially Portuguese Mapping's videos which lead to him being Simon's favorite mapper.

Discord
In December 2018, I discovered a social media called discord with lots of mappers in it and it gained me about 90 subscribers! I started a fan server called Simonian Empire (which failed). I then started a server called Mapping YouTube Hub. Please check it out! Today, it is very active with about 200 members! My other server is called Mapping School Official where we teach new talented mappers how to map. Eventually I got too busy already running MYH so I decided to give MSO to Vanuatu Mapper. So yeah, that's my discord mapping story!