Just your average user

That’s 1972

29 years before AVEN was started online,

and 47 years before the present.

And that’s only the date that Manifesto was written, so asexuals as members of a community must have existed at least some time before that.

This artwork was nothing more than a depiction of a fursona with top surgery scars not wearing a shirt. Not at all sexual, or against the rules of the group. The whole tagline of the place is "treat this place like a chaotic group chat", which people do.

The person who left said comment and banned them was identified as the creator of the community, who is the @ in the image comment. The user in question was later unbanned and added back to the group.

I was ready to brush this off as a very strange mishap, since nautilus said they were on a plane when this whole ban debaucle took place. But, when I checked my notifications just now,

Can you see me making a 😬 face while typing this? Cause I am. I don't think the "check pinned post" was a part of the title before, so I can only assume it kinda... Imploded a little while I wasn't looking.

It started with someone listing "places with uncanny energy," like gas stations on a road trip, empty movie theaters, etc.

Then someone reblogged it and said those are called "liminal spaces," defining liminal as in-between, neither one thing nor another.

Tomorrow (July 4th, 2026) is the 10 year anniversary of the-crepes-of-wrath's comment, which:

Predates the 2020 spike in interest by four years

Predates the original backrooms post, and the the creation of r/liminalspaces by three years

Predates the earliest mention that KnowYourMeme attributes to Twitter by two years

I'm pretty sure this is the moment the term "liminal spaces" was attached to this sort of imagery, and it's TEN YEARS OLD TOMORROW!