Reading My Forum Posts From When I Was Like 13

[@Basedasuka69]

You think this is embarrassing, I wrote a 10 episode slender man anime when i was 13 and genuinely considered sending it to netflix

[@demetriam2408]

Send it

[@opencabinets]

I wrote an entire notebook worth of explicit self insert slendy mansion fanfic and then someone stole it from my desk 😭 I never found it

[@KOTEBANAROT]

they'd like it

[@thenoisytown]

I am imagining an alternative universe where netflix has fully produced this

[@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr]

I remember writing a script for a Sonic the Hedgehog comic cuz I wanted Archie Comics to hire me… when I was like 12 💀

[@Victim_of_magic]

In an alternate universe, the 26 year old science based 100% dragon MMO lady is a youtuber making a video essay about Izzzyzzz's infamous failed Roblox dragon MMO scam

[@Alejandroso31]

This is my favorite comment lmaoooo

[@FlightRiskWizard]

Wonderful pfp :)

[@Victim_of_magic]

@@FlightRiskWizard thank you!!! paul my beloved (also nice pfp to you too!)

[@VioletNKisHere]

Amazing!

[@frog_boy]

13yo izzy: hi 😃 mods: WHOA there let's de-escalate this absolutely OUT OF CONTROL emote situation please

[@justsomeguy898]

fr though what was adults' deal with emotes? the same people that gave me so much hell for using them as a kid religiously use emojis now

[@Harudodo]

NAH FR like I thought the posts were edited by the moderators to remove the vast amount of emotes….but no, there really were only three 😂

[@rorytelling]

Like why have emojis on the site if 3 is too many?

[@tacosarentreal]

i dread my digital footprint every day

[@Cage-CatYT]

Twinning, I remember Google Plus and Amino and dread them 😭😭

[@daymare0]

agreed...

[@S0ap_Bvbbl3z]

agreed…

[@greenzig]

agreed...

[@elbowjuiced]

i dread nothing, i am free of sin

[@AuriBot69]

I was also unbelievably jealous of alicorn Twilight to the point that everytime I thought about it I'd start crying....... born to be an alicorn in equestria, forced to be 11 and unload the dishwasher.........

[@soyjoyy]

The pure rage these mods feel when they see more than one emoticon just reeks of Reddit culture

[@fossilfighters101]

reddittors when people use emojis: 😤😤😤

[@KuroKitten]

I've spent so much time on forums in my years, and never once have I encountered a forum that regularly warns users against using too many emoji... especially not after THREE emoji. Like, wut??

[@durdleduc8520]

honestly my first thought was the website was poorly designed and the emoticons caused screenreader issues lmao

[@m0ddotrar]

I'm kinda confused, why would mods be against using too much emoticon?

[@ailuromantic]

@@m0ddotrarits just a power trip thing. they want to control as much as possible about how other ppl talk so they can feel important

[@neffrey]

miiverse getting taken down was such a blessing in disguise. i will never stop thanking nintendo for giving my digital footprint a second chance

[@niksooxyz]

I remember when the KZbin community became a thing on miiverse, I used it to complain about the FNAF 4 trailer and how the series would endlessly go on even though I was a massive hypocrite who kept up with the lore and teasers religiously

[@Dojafish]

​@@niksooxyzyou where ahead of your time Literally based opinion

[@SillytheSkrunklylilfella]

unfortunately, the archiverse exists!

[@s3xyd1rtyh03]

I really can't wait for amino to be taken down

[@Naixatloz]

The fact that Neopets threads are automatically deleted is the only reason I can set foot on the internet without guilt.

[@MiaMiaoww]

I used to “scam” people in AJ by friending them, bringing them to my house, then unfriending them and kicking them out? Like..feels like there should have been a step between those two things if it was supposed to be a scam but I was like “hehe I’m so naughty 😈” girl you were literally just waiting your own and other peoples time

[@autopsyturvy]

i used to scam people in AJ by flash trading (waaaay back when it was still a thing, of course, circa 2011-2012) after it happened to me. it was my villain origin story fr LMAOOO.

[@ophiucus_spin]

evil and twisted...

[@thepeculiarmaple]

This made me remember someone doing this in Dino kids to me oh my gosh 😂😂

[@gremmdogs]

Omfg dawg that’s so funny 💀💀

[@HyperWraithAL]

Honestly, that would have devastated me

[@nexusgalaxy9249]

"Hello everypony" We were so innocent back then 😔

[@KingOfMilfgaard]

HALLO EVERYNYAN

[@smugfortune9977]

​@@KingOfMilfgaard(GASP)

[@itspolarislux13]

i miss that time so much

[@itspolarislux13]

not the absolutely embarrassement that comes with it.... but definitly the simpler times

[@josepholivarez1281]

@@KingOfMilfgaardHOW ARE YOU FINE THANK YOU

[@panakinskywalker1386]

I definitely used to do that "pretending to be a mod" thing as a kid. I was on a horse/pony breeding forum game (not an MLP thing but I do happen to know the site got shut down a few years after I left because it was straight up stealing art from another similar site) where I got into all kinds of cringey mischief that I mostly look back on very fondly and affectionately. My personal favorite was that all the mods had these weird signatures where they'd say things like "my mod voice is dark blue and sparkly and reminds you of nighttime in a forest" or something along those lines. Weird edgy poetic stuff, all of the time. Anyways I once changed my signature to "my mod voice is nonexistent, because I am not a mod" as a joke, and I got banned for 24 hours for "impersonating a mod." It still makes me laugh to think back on.

[@kood995]

Banned for impersonating a moderator despite the fact you very clearly claimed that you weren't one in your signature. Wtf? XD

[@IGOTTRIXUPMYSLEEVE]

"I am not a mod" "[BANNED] Reason: impersonating a mod."

[@lifaen]

Nooooooooo 😭😭😭 xDDDDD

[@oliverfulayter5515]

That's based asf. So funny.

[@Mojomay]

Iconic. I used to RP as "Princess Alicorn Derpy". We probably would've despised eachother.

[@now-semen-up]

that sounds awesome

[@crypticcorvid]

"Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary!"

[@alisonhurst7044]

at 13 i was DETERMINED to make my own vocaloid… downloaded an audio software, tried recording sounds, and even tried sketching out scenes for a music video for the first song…. and then i just stopped😂

[@ROBORACCOON64]

i think you should so look up tutorials for utau and let 13 year old you finally have their proper closure

[@chimerianidiot]

I had a somewhat similar experience. I remember wanting to make an UTAU of my own but I didn't have a mic, so I wanted to make a "fully artificial" voicebank, just like Defoko since she was my favorite. My plan was to also use a TTS voice, but then I read somewhere that doing this without permission (from whoever owned the rights to the TTS software) was against the ToS, and I was very afraid of breaking rules back then so I just gave up before even starting. If only lil me knew how to edit waveforms, then I could've created something like Adachi Rei way before she existed.

[@forkalamari6093]

@@ROBORACCOON64UTAU IS PEAK

[@tailsknuxfan101]

Having gone through all your posts, I can say that had you become a mod, 13 yr old you could've been the most ruthless authoritarian moderator the 2010s would've seen

[@Toscanilda]

So true

[@99geck]

oh my GODDD i remember trying to become a moderator on a minecraft server I played on when I was like 10 and they asked for your age on the application and i deadass said "that's confidential, but mentally I'm about 12" as if that was supposed to be a good thing😭 the worst part was that they did hire a 13 year old mod so it wasnt entirely out of the realm of possibility

[@bbysiea]

THIS WAS LITERALLY ME 😭😭 i got perma-banned on christmas eve for just mentioning another minecraft server by name, still salty about it ngl it should've been a warn or something

[@niksooxyz]

“That’s confidential, but mentally I’m about 12” is an absolutely LEGENDARY line for you to have thought up organically

[@PRINCETISTIC]

OH MY GOD i tried to apply for moderator on some shitty mc server once and not only did i lie about my age (which they found out about because i linked the youtube channel where i said i was 11) but i also posted the application in the wrong place and didn’t know how to move it either 😭😭 yeah i never became a mod

[@nikkygtv]

lmao me telling my roleplaying buddies "i'm 14 guys" when i was 9, assuming age 14 was the peak of maturity

[@gleseamv]

im screaming and crying ab "mentally im about 12" i love that so much hahaha

[@olegschmidt7171]

Izzy looks like someone mixed an alt-girl with a history of Tumblr over-use, and Kyle from Tinder whose only picture is him holding up a fish he caught, they are so iconic

[@shredern]

unironically peak attractive

[@lone_thebroadwalkqueen]

literally exactly my type

[@wysteria.]

i think this should be an entire fashion subculture im so fascinated by this look

[@echowarp]

That kid who can make friendship bracelets and fish lures with the same bowl of glitter and pastel beads. Absolute peak

[@m0ddotrar]

Gender envy honestly

[@tenniko]

i was a moderator on a wings of fire roleplay forum when i was 11… i genuinely treated it like a full time job 😭🙏🏻 i was on the clock 24/7, refreshing the tab every minute, proudly displayed in bolded obnoxious rainbow text in my bio that i was a mod, i even almost failed 6th grade because of it… but it was SO WORTH IT

[@thepeculiarmaple]

This reminds me of when I had a Google Plus account and made "cookie ponies" or something, and the cookie pony edit trend was like a job for me too 😂😂

[@eddsnumberonefan420]

sigh. i was a moderator on a warrior cats roleplay forum years back. somehow i kept up with B-A grades even though my eyesight was failing from my chronic addiction to the bright-and-light screen of the computer. when the computer broke i was devastated. rest in piece warrior cats forum💔i was in the middle of a roleplay

[@corviniix7133]

When I was in 7th grade I was part of a crusade against one of the staff members on the WoF amino. Said staff member was also my irl friend and it was mostly motivated by personal drama. It was an interesting fandom to say the least

[@TURRET04]

i swear it's like saying "everypony" rather than "everybody" for a brief period of time was a canon event for everypony

[@fritzy8318]

What

[@TURRET04]

@@fritzy8318 Everypony.

[@frog3630]

@@fritzy8318gather around everypony

[@Magosspud]

Thats gonna be so relatable to everypony

[@user-DragonWhiskers]

@ville__squirrelypop calm down

[@NoaHikaru]

The alicorn rant is HILARIOUS to me as a beta tester and former team member of LoE, since these kinda posts were why I snarkily suggested adding very obvious cardboard wings and horn on the basis of pleasing both crowds. The team liked it and it was added, but I just wanted to see horses with cardboard wings and horn 😂

[@a_bear]

Getting a warning for using 2-3 emojis is fr INSANE

[@JulianCinema]

Literally... like why even have emojis if using just TWO in a post is gonna get you a warning

[@a_bear]

@@JulianCinema Right? Kinda hilarious

[@chickennuggetpaw]

Why would they even warn against using “too many”? Is it offensive?? 😭

[@Gumgumguk]

a lot of people absolutely despised the usage of emojis on most forums back then. shit got you sent straight to jail

[@zsofiaszabo8317]

An interaction I remember very fondly happened when I was posting on the Transformice forum when I was like 8. I saw many people having these little signatures with pictures and stuff, but I didn't really know how to do that, so I just wrote [Username] von Ice after every message I wrote. (I was a Frozen fan.) Then one day some random user got prissy about it for some reason and called my signature stupid, but then another user came and told him off with "this is a kid in a kid's game forum having fun, shut the fuck up".

[@kood995]

Props to Another User for being real.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

Whoever defended you is a saint

[@keo5496]

Oh my god i loved transformice 😭😭 but the amount of cheese u had to get for a single fur was ridiculous

[@zsofiaszabo8317]

@@keo5496 Exactly! I always wanted to save up for cool stuff, fur, hair, but usually ended up with the cheapest scarf and hat cause that was all I could afford. I think I might have gotten gifted a flower that was pretty expensive and it became my treasured item.

[@mrmaniac3]

Hell yeah my tfm people are here 😌🙏 I didn't really touch the tfm forum much but I've been playing off and on since 2011. I was born in 2001 so I must've been 10 at the time. I had lots of fun being cringe on that game

[@impermanence4300]

We were all "cringy" kids once. I don't think it's cringe, it's just kids being kids. Something we should celebrate and support really. Celebrate our own past and support current kids just, being kids.

[@chewbacktonature]

Yea ik

[@-Desire]

Especially with how people are ready to jump on kids nowadays for being young and cringe. It's a cannon event!

[@fossilfighters101]

100%

[@TheRKG1337]

I'll enjoy showing my nephew His skibidi toilet singing Phase when he goes into His tweens. I Just recently found a 10 minute shortfilm my Friends and me made when we were like ten. We even made DVD copies for each of us. While cringe, it is still kinda adorable looking back. Just Kids having fun,... And being Hella cringe.

[@Eaten_squid_cake]

@ville__shut up

[@gingeralice3858]

"Internet presence at 13" I am a fellow gen Z raised by the internet just old enough to have bypassed TikTok just young enough to not remember MySpace. I am so so glad my internet presence as a middle schooler was limited to an embarrassing Gaia online profile where I talked about how emo I was lmfao

[@noelledowney7168]

I know this comment is old now but “just old enough to bypass TikTok and just young enough to not remember MySpace” is so CORRECT - I’m a millennial/cusper and this is going to be my new way of explaining that haha

[@PhoebeLilies]

The emote policing is so silly to me, lol.

[@heyimsasa]

when the internet was newer and i was like 9, i told an older person my full address on a sailor moon forum and i think about it all the time.

[@cezzie]

i hope when i get a job nobody finds my 2018 undertale amino posts

[@coolboyyo654]

amino is its own level of weird

[@cezzie]

@@coolboyyo654 tell me about it

[@waterheart9]

Oh no the Undertale Amino got you too

[@Eaten_squid_cake]

@ville__bullshit

[@Eaten_squid_cake]

@ville__shut your mouth

[@Ginnythevillager]

I wonder if any of the forum admins will see this and yell “IT WAS YOU!?”

[@pickles_7]

I got verbally harassed on the animal jam warrior cats wiki when I was 11

[@KoopaKid660]

I was bullied on a KZbinrs discord server when I was like 11

[@itsprettystabby6331]

LMFAOOO i got bullied off dont hug me im scared amino by a homophobe when i was 11 (i think)

[@myawfod]

animal jam warrior cats..... the wikihow was my bible

[@veggieharvest8921]

Oh my god, the animal jam warriors wiki, I rememberrrr. I think my stuff is still on there.

[@ravenwolf2220]

I started doing bad art, excitedly posted it to a Supernatural Facebook group and got bullied by everyone on there... I feel ya

[@skootzkadoodles]

I used to play on this website called Howrse which was a horse breeding simulator. But the userbase was mostly adults who took everything way too seriously. You could submit digital art of horses and they would add it to the game if it won. But i didnt know what digital art was or how to make it so i took a picture of a horse and used a purple filter and asked a forum if i could submit it and they said no and i got SO mad and defensive lmao

[@helyphion]

I'm sorry but that is so fucking funny

[@shiryshinx]

Omg finally someone else who was on Howrse. I was obsessed with that site when I was 12. I also tried making a skin for the competition, but luckily I never actually submitted it. And yeah some of those adults were kinda crazy. Checked out the site again a few years back and some of them are still playing. I mean hey good for them ig.

[@haileyl1090]

things like this make me relieved that Google+ was shut down. now no one will ever truly known the depths of my 12 y/o cringe

[@crypticcorvid]

I was constantly on G+ from the ages of 9 to 11. As a teen I used to literally get cold chills remembering my childhood digital footprint on Google+. 😂 I was even a massive alicorn hater and turned my back on the mlp community after a 30yr guy argued with me because I only referred to them as "pegacorns". As an adult now, I'm actually sad that I can't go back and see what 9 year old me was up to. I was constantly arguing and finding myself in a web of drama (and thinking back now I think I almost got groomed by my 18yr 'best friend' so that's a yikes). Glad it's gone honestly.

[@AstronomicalJelly]

i am kinda sad tho bc so much of my past art that i posted there is now lost to time....

[@noheterotho179]

Google+ cringe representation!! It haunts me that at age 9 I was a microinfluencer in anime google+ communities, then I remember it's google+ and none of that is getting back to me

[@genevievef.3822]

I remember being obsessed with the movie Zootopia when it first came out, and one of the first communities I joined on G+ was a pretty big Zootopia fan club. We had major beef with another Zootopia fan club and were always competing with them to see which club could get more members and possibly even be recognized by Disney as "official." Also, while I was active I assumed the other members were around my age (13-14), but in hindsight it's kinda obvious some of them were adult furries. No one acted really weird or creepy to me but it was wild to realize I was lowkey surrounded by them and didn't have a single clue lol

[@SpensaaLinn]

OH MY GOSH YES-

[@thebosicothe]

(( Easy on the emoticons.)) Fills me with such rage. How dare you

[@mrmaniac3]

I ☝😪😪😪😪🤷🤓😪 will not! 😉😮😉😉😮👺📈📈📈📈be going easy 😪 on the emoticons 😤😤😤😤👺👺📈

[@smolexfundie6458]

Weird coincidence that you put out this video just after I spent four hours trying to guess the password to my Deviantart account from when I was 13. I desperately want to delete it, but the tragedy is I forgot the email and the password, so I’m basically fucked unless I guess the password by sheer luck. I’m sure no one notices it but it haunts me every time I remember it. Edgy, gore OC’s, casual homophobia, and emo journal entries…just sitting there….menacingly.

[@littl3evee]

If it makes you feel better, you weren’t the only one who had a homophobic era on DA 😔

[@iclynnx]

I get you, not only could I be a jerk due to my mood swings as a kid, I could argue with people for believing in evolution (I was raised by Jehova's Witnesses so I was just spitting out what my parents thought). And as you can imagine, I was homophobic. Not sure if I left any comment back then about it though, I did discover I was lesbian somewhere around when Doki Doki Literature Club was recent. I didn't have an account to comment before 2016.

[@bbysiea]

@@iclynnx i feel like 50% of queer people have some stage in their life where they're homophobic as children 😭😭😭😭 i feel you

[@crypticcorvid]

If it gives you any solace, it was probably the 2000's and we were young, so it wasn't like we knew better. I was the same and ironically part of it was because I was struggling with my own queerness as a kid lol. I give you an official pardon soldier. o7

[@liljatupsu]

You think that's bad? I forgot the email address to a youtube channel I posted minecraft videos on when I was 15. Minecraft videos with _commentary!_ (also yeah, I feel the casual homophobia thing. I remember reading a webcomic and favoriting every page except for the ones with the gay couple because I wasn't sure if it was "okay" for cats to be gay. I absorbed questionable views from the people around me like a sponge)

[@isabelleconcorde]

the feds couldnt waterboard this kind of information out of me. izzzyzzz truely is our strongest soldier

[@KivaPwnguin]

not a forum post, but I wrote fanfiction on Ninjago of all things and one story I wrote became so popular that I still get notifications of people following and commenting on my story 10 years later 💀

[@demetriam2408]

Don't be shy share the fic

[@TiredSnowBerry]

I genuinely think that's awesome. And don't worry, you're not alone! During an actually sorta recent phase where I was super hyperfixating on a certain ship as well as discovering my sexuality (I was a sheltered Christian girl sooo I was kinda a late bloomer about that stuff) I wrote a huge one shot collection of smut fics that ended up getting way more popular than I was prepared for and I get at least one notification on it a day 😅 I'm kinda embarrassed about it, but since it's so popular and I'm still actively writing on that account, I can't just delete it. I've made my peace with it tho, lol

[@githealpaca5972]

Dont worry, I still get notifications on my email from the RPF fanfics I used to write when I was 12, I cringe everyday

[@liljatupsu]

The fic, hand it over! And I don't think Ninjago is an embarrassing fandom to write for at all, with over 16 seasons worth of lore and character development! I can even recommend a few recent fics

[@eyliena]

That's not cringe, that's winning, isn't it? Wish my fanfics ever got a modicum of attention.

[@durdleduc8520]

i deadass wrote multiple "books" (they were probably like 10 pages each) in Google Docs set in a world very vaguely based on a mobile game i was obsessed with at the time. the characters were all friends from the forum who filled out little forms. it was about a group of hackers trying to hack the digital space (i guess??) and a group of heros trying to stop them by infiltrating their base, alongside other shenanigans. this included secret moles gathering intel, reconnaissance missions, and a fencing showdown that left the first book ON A CLIFFHANGER. i was a tween at the time and it actually received positive reception on the forum. at some point in my early teens i deleted the docs out of embarrassment and now they're lost media. worst decision i ever made

[@newseason3917]

Sounds awesome tbh I love looking back at the old stories I made when I was 9-12

[@sashagolden753]

At 11 y/o I attempted to write a sci-fi novel from AI's point of view - it was taking "emotion pills" to feel right in its androgynous body, permanently suspended in a giant glass tube. Turns out I have autism ...

[@DrawciaGleam02]

That's an interesting story honestly....

[@owenwebb5095]

You just wrote a fanfic based on the Gary Numan album 'The Pleasure Principle.

[@saucyluis7249]

Izzzyzzz really channeling their "woman want me, fish fear me" look really well

[@PetrichorCrown]

"talking to the forum mods was like talking directly to God" THANK GOD ITS NOT JUST ME. I remember being 10 on deviantart and thinking all decent or popular artists were these untouchable, holy beings and I lost my mind when one of my idols added me on MSN, then being so baffled when this godly figure said to me "brb I gotta poo" Pls more Izzzy lore videos I love how wholesome and full of dreams we all were as kids

[@demetriam2408]

Even now, if a content creator hearts my comment I'll still get giddy... Even if they only have like two subscribers. I swear I am not that desperate for validation

[@randomnpc445]

@@demetriam2408 real af. I had a content creator I've been watching daily for well over a decade now heart my comment and reply to a silly joke I made relatively recently and it honestly brightened my day just a little bit more.

[@Homoraccoon]

dude i have so many moots on tumblr who i followed first and had anxious interactions with and when they followed me back??? it's awesome, i love my friends :)

[@eaterofbreads7648]

This fondly reminds me of something that I did as a kid that I want to share. As a kid, I had a ~5 year long continuous role play session with two of my friends using our toy dragons and dragons we made ourselves(from cloth) as characters. The amount of lore we developed was insane. There were clans, warrior cat style names, relationships, family trees, wars, story arcs, the works. Sometimes we would cry when acting out emotional or death scenes. Later as teens, we wanted to turn this story into one crazy webcomic broken up into several volumes that cover each arc. Only to realize that our lore was…kind of a mess, lol. So I made a shared google docs folder where we attempted to rewrite it while still keeping the heart of the original. And just like with these dragon mmo’s, we never finished, or made any substantial progress lol. But it’s still something I think back on very fondly. I even still have some of our old handmade dragon ocs. I’m an adult now, but I still keep that story alive in my own ways. I still enjoy drawing and occasionally redesign some of our characters. And when I’m with new friends or coworkers on slow days, I’ll sometimes tell stories of our dragon adventures with them, and they get a kick out of it. After I ran out of time one day telling it to one of my coworkers, the very next day, the first thing she asked me was to tell her how it ended. I still think it would be cool to make an RPG Maker game out of it or something. Thanks for reading, if you made it this far. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned that loving the “cringe”(in a childlike wonder sort of way) part of yourself is one of the kindest things you can do for yourself. Making silly edgy dragon ocs with emo hair isn’t cringe, it’s having fun. If any teens are reading this, don’t do what I did, which was being ashamed of the things I loved. Don’t let anyone tell you you’re being childish. Be cringe, be free.

[@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr]

Reading this made me smile. My friends and I used to roleplay a lot, but we never had consistent characters or lore or anything. We’d basically just make up a new scenario each time we hung out. It was loads of fun!

[@Gingrninja123]

You’re so brave for doing this I could never 😭

[@TheAbigailDee]

You are braver than the troops for this. I was a super active member of the GREY'S ANATOMY FAN FORUMS when I was eleven to thirteen and my god, I don't even know if I'd want to see the cringe I posted. I was VERY MUCH the youngest active user and posts I remember, the adult fans were VERY kind and patient with me. Thank god. My presence was horrific but I was lucky there were like, kind adults who read my FIFTH GRADE GREYS ANATOMY FAN FICTION and gave like, honest and kind grammar/story critiques. My memories of that era are good because the people were so kind but whenever I remember something I posted I take psychic damage.

[@Alejandroso31]

I personally believe our past cringe shouldn't be shamed, but embraced. It's a living proof of your own personal growth and it also reminds you of times that might be positively special for you (though not always the case) Sadly, I didn't think this way about 3 years ago and I deleted ALL my posts from Undertale Amino from 2016 to 2018, a decision I still regret :(

[@bbysiea]

i feel you! theres been so many times when i delete something in a moment of cringe, and then a few months, maybe years later i get upset i can't laugh at how silly i used to be.

[@Digital_is_silly]

This is a lovley sentiment, but there is not a day that goes by where I dont cringe at me calling myself a baka kawaii demon in 2020

[@madelegg]

when I was 13, I had a livejournal that I was utterly convinced would become really popular and have tons of people commenting and chatting in my comments, and every once in a while, i go back and read it to humble myself

[@morgue.dweller]

My 2013 cringe forum story is when me and my friends made a Hetalia roleplaying thread on Transformice forums and it got locked when we started doing NSFW roleplays. people in the general chat thread often complained about how the Hetalia thread was always at the top of the thread list because of how ridiculously spammy it was (half the time we weren't even talking about the anime and I never even watched the anime LMAO). once the thread was locked, a new rule about no roleplaying threads was added to the forum and the mods cracked down on making sure people stayed on topic in threads. After that, we made our own Transformice tribe called VODKAAA (Hetalia reference) and used the private tribe board to bitch about other people in the public forum.

[@qualityghost]

oh man the Transformice community was so wack sometimes lol. I never really used the actual forum but I think I spent more time on the Cafe than I did playing the actual game, so there was little 10 year old me pretending to be be older than I really was arguing with full grown adults about things I knew nothing about

[@crimsonplantnurse]

Hetalia my dearly beloathed

[@regretroulette1463]

This sounds almost identical to my experience, except for me it was on a tamagotchi forum’s live chat.

[@stargirl3455]

holy shit transformice.. haven't heard that name in ages..

[@claire.john6728]

My gosh I shiver at my middle hetalia phase, There was this quiz app I loved at the time with different sections for topics, like artists or science topics etc. and every topic had a message board feature and I posted pictures of hetalia characters on the countries of the world topic, kill me now I thought that show was so cool and wanted to show everyone

[@mako6403]

izzy looks so good in this one im literally howling at the moon like the wolf therian i used to roleplay as when i was 9

[@TheSudzumia]

Young girls who went through 2010s brony fandom are braver than US marines

[@ssherbet]

Thank you 🫡

[@mrmaniac3]

So real

[@dallydaydream]

Listen during my MLP phase I also unironically said "everypony" (I think even sometimes in a non-MLP context?) but I wasn't 13, I was in my 20s. Hyperfixed brains are funny things. In some cases it just doesn't occur to you that your world will stop revolving around this one day.

[@MtchndraLrd]

I literally had the same ambitions when I was 13 years old. We had an end of year project (we could pick any topic of our choice) and I was so obsessed with Porter Robinson's Shelter (and other fandom AMVs) and decided to make my own animated short film. I spent a year sketching "concept art" and used flashcards for "storyboards" but ultimately I was lowkey copying the short and I had no idea what I was doing. So 2 days before the presentation for this final project, having nothing presentable I just scrapt everything and grinded making as many random animation clips as possible (now looking at them they're as bad as you would think when having no animation experience and a time crunch). I compiled these animations, slapped some electronic vibe music, and hoped for the best. I was put last to present but it actually turned out well and my classmates and parents were pretty impressed and proud? Like when I was walking down my friends gave me the biggest embrace and my parents afterwards kept showing off those animations to everybody in any occasion. I look back at that fondly and ay I currently am an animation student who makes short films heh it comes full circle

[@str3brry]

the big idea for a school project but having absolutely no idea what you’re doing so scraping it like 2 days before it’s due is so real

[@elizamae9581]

this is so embarrassing to admit but I was apart of a roblox hamilton theater group where we would "perform" the entire musical for an audience of like 5 other people and all you would do is spam lyrics. i remember i was arguing with a mod and then i got removed from my role of "eliza" and i was so devastated and i was blocked from coming back to the group too. i remember i would join back on my other account and just cry and then troll people. i was like 11 or 12 during this time and i felt like such an outcast and rebel LMAO

[@iMajoraGaming]

these comments are the definition of Cringe But Free i have never felt freer than here, soaking in the waters of ages past this post reminds me of a game that used to be on facebook called YoVille and i would go to the hospital and sit in a corner and post þhit like "*sletz wrests n pours solphoruc ancid into it* depresion" LMAO i'd wear all black, and talk about My Chemical Romance (whom i, to this day, have never heard a song of) like i was a fan and ask people to date me then if they said no i'd sit in the corner of their house writing the same þhit i'd write in the hospital "*cryeng* i cant do this nymore *stebs maiself w/a needol, injecing POYSON*"

[@dorodoo3075]

This is the bravest thing you've ever posted

[@tart-miano]

that Bass Pro Shop hat tho, Izzy is cosplaying a Tennesseean on their way to the almighty memphis pyramid, a holy ground for people of whom fish fear and women love

[@SakiMcGee]

When I was like 18, a friend and I decided to try to create our own game studio, and we posted ads on some random proboards we were in asking people to join. There were the usual cringy idealistic points: looking for people with much higher skillsets than we could offer in return, specifying that no one would be paid, assuring that we'd work together to make the best game ever... yeah. And then we got relentlessly mocked for it lmao

[@queenkagura9746]

the boundless confidence of a 13 year old on an anonymous forum. i understand. i spoke just like this. im reminded of the time i had an absolute Breakdown over equestria girls cause i was so upset the ponies were becoming human dbghsdhj if i can find my internet monologue about it i may reply here. i am also in constant mourning over my childhood webkinz forum, but i do have a bajillion screenshots i took at the time backed up.

[@fusetunes]

are you talking about webkinz insider? that was my number one forum as a kid too. i wrote so many awful original stories on there that i typed straight into the forum instead of saving elsewhere that are now lost to time

[@thepeculiarmaple]

The equestria girl movie WAS just wrong. It just, it just was. We wanted HUMANS, not....not weirdly colored people like that 😢 It's a shame tbh

[@thepeculiarmaple]

Also...Webkinz forum?!! I didn't know that existed :0

[@deadisntAlice]

This level of cringe is too real and I was DEFINITELY not like this as a child. I SWEAR

[@sharalinn2639]

Sideeye

[@alt.s453]

@@sharalinn2639 why does this 'translate' to how

[@Eaten_squid_cake]

@ville__shut your mouth

[@adeadarcadia]

🧐

[@sharalinn2639]

@@alt.s453 it does?? :0 woah!

[@atomicpitou]

Oh gosh i totally had so many “projects” like this as a kid too, the main one i remember being basically a crash bandicoot clone 3D platformer and i had binders of notes and sketches for it. i remember your video about the dragon MMO reddit post where you said these sorts of passion projects that never end up happening are a genuine form of art, and i agree. i wish i could be as earnest and confident about my ideas now as when i was like, 12 years old lol!

[@fitzii_00]

Your look today is so fire

[@auggiemain]

Congrats on second comment

[@_-_o-o_-_]

Bass Pro-core

[@davidofthenorth6531]

I love the bass fisher hat!

[@To4sty_bunz]

On god

[@clin02]

THATS WHAT I WAS THINKINGGG

[@carsfan1995]

When I was 12 I tried to make a script for my own version of Cars 2. This was in 2007 so Cars had only been around for a year at that point. I never got very far and I clearly didn’t know what an actual film script was. I also tried to make storyboards, but that was also given up quickly because I didn’t know or was too scared to try and draw cars. I remember the plot I had in my head, which was under the presumption that Paul Newman would live past 2008 to reprise his role as Doc Hudson. He technically did thanks to archival recordings, but I had no control over that. Anyways, my 11-12 year old child plot was a very girl-power-esque plot and weirdness. Chick Hicks teams up with Frank and they kidnap Sally and basically hold her hostage while McQueen, Doc, and Mater go to rescue her. They meet a guy at the dump that basically acts as that place’s guardian. I remembered I named him Trevor Rodriguez, had a speech impediment where he couldn’t say things with a “v” or “r” without his engine uncontrollably revving. He helps him out because he had his own lost love named Vanessa. Chick tells McQueen to get him the Dinoco sponsorship, give up racing, and trade places at being on the Brave Little Toaster-esque chopping block. McQueen agrees, Doc, Mater, and Sally return to Radiator Springs and they get the entire town (of twelve) to do another rescue mission of “rush him and grab him.” Somehow it goes wrong because of betrayal from the Delinquent Road Hazards where one of them named Wingo is a cousin of Chick because… Chicken Wing…. So Sally is forced into being one of the Dinoco showgirls, Doc his trainer, and I don’t remember everyone else. Either way, Chick was about to have Lightning killed a la that Worthless scene from the Brave Little Toaster, but before Lightning could get crushed Sally pushes him out of the way. They all get out of there with Lightning and friends taking her back to Radiator Springs. She recovers because temporary Disney Death, but is kidnapped again by Chick and the DRH via the Dinoco helicopter (somehow it can hold six cars?). Lightning and Trevor try to catch and rescue her but the helicopter is too far gone. Trevor keeps moving along because I was obsessed with Mulan at the time and imagined Trevor using Mushu’s lines. Time skip later and McQueen is up against a mysterious new racer at the Piston Cup and the reveal being that the racer was Sally. They reunite, make up, and become a racing couple or something along those lines. Again, I was an 11-12 year old child who really didn’t like boys excepts for the ones in fiction and was believing princess hate once I started middle school. Then in fall 2008 I learned an actual Cars 2 was being made and I was happy and later discarded the attempted scripts I wrote. In 2011, I finally made a fanfiction.net account and started writing a fic based on Cars 2. This was also very much my 16-year-old self wanting make Sally a more prominent character than she was in the sequel. The main idea being she was the younger sister of the American spy that got captured and killed and that she was also The King/Strip Weathers’ daughter… because blue color. Chick Hicks goes to the villains in Cars 2 for help in making Lightning lose races by kidnapping Sally. They tell him no because that kind of thing is beneath them until Professor Z takes a closer look at her photo and agrees feeling as though Sally might be related to the American spy they killed. Mater gives Sally his black box because it has recordings of his adventures with the spies from the year previously. The villains do the kidnapping job by having decorators visit Radiator Springs to help with creating a girls-only party (I was 16 and still not entirely fond of boys) and then have a tow truck named Ivan and two lemons basically check every woman with a tattoo there until they found Sally and knock her out. Chick taunts Lightning, Lightning freaks out and tells Mater to call the spies for help. Meanwhile professor Z cuts a piece of Sally’s metal with the plan to check it for dna to see if he’s correct. Sally manages to escape from her cell by using the dustiness to blind the camera and parked beneath its position. A lemon comes in to check and Sally takes opportunity to escape. Mater and the spies make it to the building to rescue her and split up. They rescue her, but lose the bad guys and return the race. I had other ideas for that fic, but I only wrote up to five chapters and they were deleted from fanfiction.net because one chapter had a copyrighted song. They chapters would still be on my old computer… but it’s been forever. I would’ve wanted to make that fic a trilogy. The last Cars fic I ever tried to write was when I was 21 in 2017. I was not a child, but I was filled with hype about Cars 3 and made a Cars 2 dark au based on this one Disney anthology fic where the villains won. Specifically, the one based on Frollo. Long story short, Lightning blows up because Sarge never switched his fuel last minute, Mater and everyone in the pit crew blew up because he didn’t know the bomb was on him, and Finn and Holley got crushed to death by the clock gears. In my dark AU fic, the main villain in Cars 2 caught a glimpse of Sally, thought she was too attractive to be killed and had her lured out before Mater could show up to warn about a bomb that was actually on him. He has her kidnapped, chained, and locked in a soundproof basement in his home… and you can put the pieces together. I actually kind of forgot about this fic until October 2023 when someone used my dark unfinished one shot as inspiration for one of the prompt for k*nktober. I actually had my jaw dropped because I didn’t think anyone remembered or that it would inspire someone. Since then, it’s just been living rent free and built upon the tragedy of Sally as a… nonconsenting pet via discord. So yeah, that’s my cars fanfiction stories. I love Cars and the fandom is niche enough that I don’t have to worry about terrible people. It also helps that all the characters are adults. Children exist in this world, but they are not the focus or have a prominence. So… yay.

[@gracelily7191]

The forum I posted on as a kid has sadly been shut down and is completely inaccessible anymore :( It's so sad to have such a big part of my childhood forevever gone. My family used to only have like 5GB of internet a month or something insane like that and I coveted every moment I got to spend posting, role-playing and writing stories. Because I couldn't go online all the time I used to print out entire forum threads and read them that way instead 😅

[@chickennuggetpaw]

When I was pretty young (8-10 years old I think?) I would go into random articles written on websites like Spruce Pets and stuff about whether cats or dogs were “better” and would argue in the comment section with other 8-10 year olds that went there for the same reason. I would also go through each point the article listed and meticulously disprove why it was wrong. I loved cats so much I couldn’t stand the fact that anyone considered dogs better and would argue like my life depended on it on these random articles’ comment sections 💀

[@mojaslatt]

🤣🤣🤣😭😭

[@meanberryy]

I was never in this fandom, but I do remember having a burning hatred for when something strictly overpowered showed up in a fandom I enjoyed.

[@harusaurus]

omg i felt this video in my core. i too had delusions of grandeur as a kid 😭 i was maybe 11-12 and thought i was gonna draw a whole manga series and become a famous artist. i literally sketched one page and got bored and abandoned the whole project forever. i also thought i was this amazing anime artist and as soon as my mom allowed me to make a deviantart account i started putting art up there and listing it as prints to sell. never sold anything lmao

[@theletterkei]

the pastel colors and the bass pro shop hat is just *chefs kiss* you are a visionary

[@bgs7529]

This is the sweetest video you've ever done and brought back horrible memories of a child being online unsupervised at the same time. ❤️

[@Eudaimonia7564]

Your sense of style made me explore and improve my sense of style and now I feel so much better about my clothing choices lol my self-confidence gags. Thanks queen! Your looks are always stunning

[@_-insertname-_]

based actually, prev is just jealous

[@dreaming-]

NOT cringe . you should be proud

[@ThyFloorestFloor]

​@@RegioVlogsMtyWhat is more cringe, to accept and find comfort and joy in your clothing choices, or to be hatin' others for being happy?

[@GreyMcBeal]

I am so happy for you, that’s amazing!

[@Falcarious]

12:53 It might just be a gaming thing, but I've always called that a Minimod, that kind of stuff is abundantly common on Garry's Mod and Rust servers.

[@kali9399]

Everyone had a socially present online phase. We were loud, we were annoying, and we were just kids.

[@nonreligionist]

Not cringe. At least, not bad cringe. You had loads of creativity and ambition. That's awesome

[@KingOfMilfgaard]

Damn, your 100% dragon roblox story just reminded me of when I was in sixth grade and had this huge ambitious project for a minecraft server that would be like an mmo where people could pick a faction, and then they'd gain access to that faction city, all the factions would be based off the elements and the cities would reflect this (The air faction city would be floating on a bunch of clouds, the earth city would on a mountain, the fire city inside a volcano, etc.) and the factions would have elected leaders and would declare wars on one another with siege events. It was SO ambitious, way too ambitious, I had absolutely zero experience and there was no way that was ever getting made, but damn if the idea didnt grab me. I even drew concept art of the different cities. Childhood man.

[@bellaluna9228]

I’d so play this

[@demetriam2408]

I tried making a horror map in Minecraft with zero knowledge of how those work so I had no mods or anything and did it in PE. I did actually get incredibly far into making it and figured out how to "code" things using command blocks and Redstone. I also did this for some sort of community map. I got really far into both of those, it's actually pretty incredible. If only I had that energy in figuring out how to make an actual functioning game now.

[@KingOfMilfgaard]

@@demetriam2408 I used to do something similar. id make little mini adventure maps for me and my friends using command blocks in our realms and we'd have a little fun game night where we'd drink and go through it. Shit was fun man

[@JamesLawner]

To quote Peter Dinklage from an old SNL skit, “You know what’s on my Tumblr? Regret”, and that pretty much sums up not only my Tumblr experience, but also my experience on other social networks.

[@jefferyjones8399]

I am so glad nothing from when I was 13 is easily accessible anymore lol

[@ScottCreley]

Same

[@Swedishtrex]

Same I wish I could get rid of the memories as well, but I'll take what I can get

[@aeddiefarmer]

Same. I used to make cranky comments and start arguments on...leoslyrics which I'm certain no longer exists 😅

[@demetriam2408]

I'm glad it is, I love looking back at all that silly stuff. Memories

[@meganclow6959]

I was on a punk girl diy forum when I was in middle school and omg I was so cringe 😩 I remember going back to look at posts in highschool and I went to reply to a ridiculous post and realized it wAS MEEEE lol

[@dontworryabtitlol]

Lol the alicorn hate reminds me of how Homestuck fans were about blood colors and fan trolls. I gave my troll oc seafoam green blood and someone gave me sh*t for it being "too neon" or whatever. Like sir we're all just making Microsoft paint drawings of fictional characters. No need to be rude.

[@McBehrer]

especially because there's no grounds for it, as your fan troll is canon anyway

[@charliesmart3008]

As a tween I was a member of an Invader Zim fan forum with a site-wide project to animate one of the unfinished episodes. I desperately wanted to be part of the art crew and/or a moderator. Therefore I did the logical thing and made a 9-minute-long animation using MS Paint and Windows Movie Maker. It gets worse; this video also included my OC (voiced by yours truly) singing a cover of 'To Build A Home' by The Cinematic Orchestra, aka THE stereotypical 2010's sad indie song to set an inspirational Facebook video to. Point being, Izzy, I feel your pain acutely.

[@mrooneyfox]

My cringe posting was done around 2004 - 2007 so I'm happy (and also strangely sad) to say that most of those boards have been lost to time.

[@Sophie_Cleverly]

I'm a children's author and the realisation that these are from 2015 and that you were a kid when my books first came out has broken my brain lol. What even is time

[@maanodessers]

I remember when I was like 12, I had an idea for an FPS game that was basically a total ripoff of Half-Life 1, the story and setting were pretty much identical. I remember making two pieces of really crappy "concept art". I was totally convinced that I was gonna make that idea into a real game and that it was going to be a massive hit and the next indie sensation! Then I realized that I had no damn clue how to make a game, so I abandoned that idea pretty quickly... This wasn't even the first time I had one of these grand ideas for games that I would tell all of my friends at school about that never turned into anything because I was a stupid kid that didn't know how to make a game, so your "Roblox Dragon MMO idea" story definitely feels familiar to me.

[@serpentarius1194]

Funnily enough my formative "cringe teenager on the forums" period was on Flight Rising, so it was pretty amusing to see you mention it. I was 15-16 at the time and joined a roleplay that ended up spanning over 200 pages, and I'm still really good friends with (and also dated for a while) the person hosting it. No regrets at all because I really treasure my friend and I'm glad we met and got close like we did, but man I have a hard time reading those posts without clicking away. The OOC thread we had was even worse but my friend deleted it after a few years (I think particularly because it was so cringe-inducing to read). I also had a period of time where I was overly invested in drama (yes, FR-related drama) and had to input my opinion on everything, which naturally lead to me being flamed more than once because I was a dumb teenager. SO glad I learnt my lesson then and moved on lmao.

[@mangojelly23]

i remember that when i was in 5th grade i was obsessed with the pokemon smoochum for no goddamn reason and i wanted to write/draw a manga spin off based on them, i remember i started it on the back of one of my notebooks, i write like 3 or 4 chapters; my plan was to send it to nintendo so that they can hire me to design pokemons 😂 i already saw myself traveling to japan and being nintendo's youngest employee 😂😂😂

[@stephennelson9212]

go easy on the emotes buddy

[@aeddiefarmer]

Wow I never knew Smoochum had fans! There's a pokemon for everyone I guess. :)

[@mangojelly23]

@@aeddiefarmer looking back it's so funny because out of nowhere i got obsessed and after i gave up my little manga my obsession died as well hahahha

[@ethanchaotic]

you were one of the most eloquent and articulate 13 year olds I've ever seen I couldn't even type that well if I tried back when I was 13 LMFAO

[@shiruotakuno28]

I didn't have an internet footprint until I was 16 and I'm STILL regretful of what I posted back then... I cannot imagine the bravery it takes for a person to show their own cringy past for the whole world to see. I salute you.

[@metal2likeclown]

oh, to have the confidence of a middle school kid... this was very cute though! it's actually pretty fun to see where your passions began and how it makes sense that they evolved into what you're doing now! plus, it's very validating. I'm willing to bet most of us who watch your videos were a little bit of "that guy" :P

[@qualityghost]

When I was like 10 I used to go on the MovieStarPlanet forums all the time. I convinced myself that I was super popular and everyone liked me, to the point where I came up with names for my fanbase and haters. Threads along the lines of "your birthday decides what [blank] you are" were super popular back then so I remember making one for my ocs, most of which I made up on the spot because I didn't have 12 ocs, with no further elaboration. Some people played along but everyone made it clear they had no idea what I was talking about

[@fiishgirl]

in 13 y/o you’s defense i would’ve EATEN UP that dragon game as a kid

[@imjustaboredperson9116]

me too 💔

[@binarycode404]

18:30 I KNEW IT! Hearing about the deities and clans of your dragon MMO sounded familiar I actually play flight rising currently- it’s still being frequently updated and stuff, it’s pretty fun :)

[@asc23channel]

You were quite constructive, smart and ahead of your time (self) for a 13 yr old!! And that “no clue how, but I’ll simply do it”-approach can still be seen today, even with incredibly large projects! Fun video as always! Best wishes ❤

[@leafisactuallyaplantyk]

Oh no :( God I'm remembering my "quirky" era in middle school, when I would post memes on Facebook about how much reggaeton sucks (I live in Central America and it was starting to get popular then) and how I "injected rock into my veins" instead ☠️

[@str3brry]

i used to act like that too. i though i was SO not like the other girls for listening to like queen and kiss 💀

[@roulewave]

The dragon post reminds me of the one project my bestie and I tried to make a band similar to Gorillaz but with aliens with TVs/Monitors for heads. The band was called "TV Headz" (how original) and they came from outer space to earth with the purpose or making music for earthlings. The project included: the lead singer, the guitarist, the bassist, the drummer, and the keyboardist (sister to the guitarist, now bassist). We planned on being the next big animated/fictional band but that went NOWHERE because we were 12 and 13 and we didn't know how to play any sort of instrument. We brought it back a while ago, the band members are still the same, just matured a little more, character development and one is less shitty than he used to be. Also the keyboardist died, RIP her.... we're probably gonna revive the project and make snippets to have it be "lost media from a lost band".... if we don't get too many comparisons to skibidi toilet, cuz if that happens I'd just be done all-together😭 the dream was real, and it is still real, just different (dare I say better)

[@mrgklnds]

That's a GREAT Bass Pro Shop hat there lol

[@OtakuChan7]

I used to be a part of this MLP forum when I was like 12-13ish and got banned for "spam". They had a really dumb rule that you had to make every one of your posts a specific minimum amount of characters, so I just started ending all my shorter posts with keysmashing to get around it. The mod who banned me knew I was a kid and had me banned until my next birthday (since the forum required you put in your birth date). I was banned like a week after my birthday. So I was effectively banned for a year because of a really poorly implemented spam rule.

[@CNYKnifeNut]

I used to roleplay/troll as a Bush supporter on GNN and Aversion from like 99-02. Im not necessarily happy those sites are gone, as much as i am relieved.

[@CommanderWiggins]

I forgot how on some forums, moderators would scold you for using more than like 3 emoji's per post.

[@Whyamiheredotnet]

We all make those certain posts when we were younger that we will one day regret. It’s just inevitable

[@edstrogen]

dude i totally understand the feeling of wanting to become a mod, when i was 13 i was on this obscure online animation site and aside from the creator popping in to check on the site, there was no moderation at all. So i would email the creator explaining “i think i would be a good fit as a moderator, considering how awful the site is without them” 😭 safe to say i never got a reply back and forgot about it until now, thanks izzy

[@sgtclover]

you are so brave for sharing this

[@Foxstep_le_cat]

The whole project thing reminds me of the several failed fanfiction series that ive tried to write for one of my fandoms, yet for some reason i somehow managed to create an entire wiki for that fandom, with no coding or website administration knowledge, that i still run today 💀

[@warmachine5835]

o7 to you for sharing. This has unearthed my own cringe memories of being a teen/tween on the internet and leaving my digital garbage all over official forums of the time, as well as a friend's forum for cringe RP. We all did it. Reckoning with our cringe is healthy and part of being an adult.

[@reedblack4247]

Honestly bless your bravery for this. My digital footprint didn't really start until I was in my late teens and the thought looking back even a decade makes me want to vomit. I'm so impressed that you were willing to into the abyss that is tweendom.

[@portiabartel]

You are so brave for this. I could barely show my friends my old Gaia Online forum posts, let alone post them for everyone to see on a very popular youtube channel!

[@Ali-kf5bd]

I love this. The teenage cringe is so relatable. We've all done embarrassing, overconfident, hypocritical, unrealistic crap online, and we need to embrace that part of us, lol.

[@rikkuato]

I'm so sad i nuked my old DeviantArt, i missed seeing my "badge collection" i had on my page just to see the stuff i liked and was "proud" enough to put up on my page XD

[@axeystuff]

This video brings me a ton of nostalgia! I was never part of the MLP fandom, but I did spend WAY too much time in online forums (mainly related to retro gaming and YTPs) so all those feelings of creating your own "rules" about the medium, trying to act like a second-hand moderator, seeing site admins as physical GODS, and just all in all showing your teenage insecurities in an online space really bring me back.