You heard wrong its when gold was first added which this was a 1 Month I made back in 07 and It expired and last month added another 1 month and still showed the Tenure so you are completely wrong thanks.
Kevin also stop asking me every time I post a tenure account for sale if I have anymore accounts higher, how many times are you going to ask me the same question. I'm trading this account if you don't see anything else posted then don't ask thanks. To answer your question it just ran out of gold 3 days ago.
I'm not exactly sure how it works but this indeed has a 5 year crown. I've had gold on this account throughout the 5 years but I'm pretty sure there was a month or so were I didn't and it still didn't affect anything.
Tenure is based on "continuous" gold subscription, not the very first time applied...unless, of course it is maintained. The orange watermark number will reset if the account does not have gold applied to it within a certain amount of days.