Hi! My name's Ana and I'm from Brazil. I've been into Love Live! since mid 2021 more or less, and I'll tell you how I got into this amazing fandom!
I was searching for an anime GIF I found some day and I couldn't find anymore, then I saw a GIF from Dungeon ni Deai (I don't know much about that anime), where there were two characters whose names I don't know brushing their teeth while dancing. I found it on Google, but originally it was a GIF from an Amino Apps post, and I remember reading the title of that post. It said, "Me and my bf brushing our teeth while listening to Niko Niko Nii" or smth like that (originally in Portuguese). I didn't know what Niko Niko Nii was, so I searched for it on Google and found the heiakym vid. I watched it and loved it, I kept listening and singing it for weeks (that made my parents really angry, they hate that song), until I thought like, "Hey what anime is that from?" and I searched for it. I searched for days, until I found out it was from LL!. I started watching it in an illegal anime site (I didn't know it was illegal so I immediatelly stopped using it when I found out it was lol) and I remember very well the day I finished the anime. I almost cried, but I didn't bcz my mom had just called me for lunch. That's it I guess! Sorry for the long text. Bye!