I wanted to play another game, then I was recommended osu. 
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How did everyone discover osu?
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Don't remember exactly, it been a long time.
Either through StumbleUpon or Youtube
Either through StumbleUpon or Youtube
my friend had it installed on his pc
I saw some videos on YouTube with some plays that looked really impressive so I got the game and I realized those plays are shit
I used to be good at hatsune miku in psp..so i show off at my friend..and you know what he said..OSU IS HARDER..im like..m8 WTF IS OSU??..and he say..go to redtube..i mean youtube..and that how my addiction started..this is when im 11y/o...and i actually start addicted and play more seriously at age of 15.
My friend introduced me to this game (i regret that), then somehow i got hooked onto this game.
Was looking up Geometry Dash versus other games when I was about 14~15 years old and one of the search suggestions said "GD vs osu" I was curious as to what this game was so I checked it out, although not expecting much because I'd never heard of such a game. When I saw the gameplay of it I thought to myself something along the lines of "Woah, this is actually really cool, and confusing as all hell. I wanna try it" I then looked it up and was very happily surprised to find that the game was free to play. Got it. Instantly found out that I was trash at it. Here I am, 2 years on, still trash, yet enjoying the hell out of it.
I've discovered osu by a weeb Youtuber name Miraie and he was playing it and it looked fun so he inspired me to play osu!
I was searching Vocaloid songs on YouTube when the autoplay sent me to a video of "some norwegian player" (Isak Vik) and I got intrigued of how the circles and sliders followed the music, so I downloaded the game and the map… then the habit of playing maps dragged me into the circle hell.
Most people came from other rhythm games but I came from RoBeats and then I moved to osu!mania pretty much
I was on youtube when I ran into cookiezi videos and I was like, "Whooooah, I wanna do that too!!!" So I hopped on my computer and downloaded around christmas. I didn't really start playing until around January 17 where my osu career would change forever :v
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Most people came from other rhythm games but I came from RoBeats and then I moved to osu!mania pretty much
What a legend.
Dendi and Illidan , two of which are Dota 2 pro players played it several times on their streams back in 2014-2013 and I was hooked watching them, but then I was so bad I ended up playing like 10 times overall and never opened it out of shame until 2016
I think I found osu like most people did too, that csgo trihard friend that found a cool aim training game.
Mine is that I saw a friend playing osu! on his phone and I asked him what this is. He said that it is a pc game and he can't play it because he hasn't got a pc. So I asked him for the name and I downloaded it. So... yeah. Nice game 
I was on discord with my friends and they were playing a game named osu! I played with them on 10 April 2018 and I was a noob xD I played only because I could listen Eminem and playing something in the same time.
LOLYOU hes a twitch streamer who mainly plays CS:GO he played this for like a hour and I downloaded it instantly haha.
Heard it would help my CS aim
protip: it didnt
protip: it didnt
one of my friends (who was and still is a 4 digit at the time) showed me the game at school and that interested me, so he had me download it and he taught me the basics and i was off
One of real life friends had been playing for almost a year. She told me through discord to play it. I decided to give a try as this game doesn't take much time to download.So I gave it a try. Turned out good.
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I wanted to get better at CS:GO and my brother told me about this game, specifically mouse only to help with my aim and response.
I heard of it from a weeb in my AP Computer Science class and ive been hooked ever since I tried it.
found it from a Zephhyre video like 5 years ago, been enjoying it since
I saw it from the rockefeller street video and then forgot about it for years until I saw Effect (overwatch pro) playing it and yeah
3 things:
Cookiezi got me interested
Miraie got me to download
Rockfeller Street got me into the memes
Cookiezi got me interested
Miraie got me to download
Rockfeller Street got me into the memes
I used to go over to one of my friends house and his cousin was playing it. So I downloaded it because it looked like fun!
Found a video in Youtube when I was searching for "Touhou" and I saw someone play Night of Nights. So I was like "Oh neat another Rhythm game!" since I usually play Rhythm games. Never knew it was frustrating though 
so I left for like 10 months and came back again.
so I left for like 10 months and came back again.About 8 years ago,I played a game in nds called 押忍！闘え！応援団 which is similar with osu,and felt interested.I find a video that introduce osu in 2012 and I started to play osu
I got shown the game by a friend a VERY long time ago, i dont even remember my old accounts name. I came in and used the #osu chat and said "Hi, is this game worth playing im new" 4 pepole said no and i never played it again until recently a few months ago, ever since ive been obsessed
Someone on an old forum site I used to visit posted a video of himself playing (I remember it was Byoumei Koiwazurai) and I thought it looked pretty cool. I didn't actually start playing until at least like two/three years after that (or maybe less I'm not sure) when I checked his channel randomly to see if he had any more videos of osu. He did, and after I watched that one, I saw the legendary 800PP Freedom Dive in my recommended, watched that, and here I am.
Still a bit of an off/on game though, there's are periods where I just don't play.
Still a bit of an off/on game though, there's are periods where I just don't play.