Part of me regrets not staying all of a sudden, as much as I disliked how much that type of shit was granted implicit support/approval on account of who it was coming from and their mental condition. It really doesn’t look like shit stayed together in the long-term. It’s been 4 years and we’ve only moved 3,000 pages since I bailed. That’s like, nothing.
Like, I thought I left much earlier than most people did, but I left about halfway through this thread’s total page count. I don’t think it looks like too many stuck around for too long afterwards - which I doubt is related to me per se, but maybe I could’ve done
something.
Christ, man. This feels like going back home to the town you grew up in and seeing it as a ghost town. Like, I’ve gone on to do a lot of different shit online since back then and I poke back to where I have what’s probably my realest roots, albeit not my actual roots, and it’s got tumbleweed blowing across the goddamn street.
Maybe the collapse of the brony fandom also had something to do with it? Not like it’s nearly as big as it was back when I first started into it in 2013. But the TWT folks never felt
too into MLP to the point where they’d pack up and leave, I think a lot of them barely talked about it anymore already around that time that I had just started popping up here.
Ah well,
this shit happens. Now I can’t stop thinking about it though. It’s fuckin’ mad, man.