I have so many long term friendships from this place, dating back to when I was 15! 13 whole years ago!!! My entire real life is a butterfly effect from making this account. Genuinely changed my life.

My bestie still lives in the apartment below me, she was local and found me on insta from my tumblr. Been inseparable since we were 20. My other great friend was also a local who sent me a message on here when we were 17. 90% of everyone I’m friends with now is through those two, some way.

Alsoooo…entered a new relationship with someone who I met on here, all those years ago. We were just friends and kept contact on other socials for over a decade. Had a big fat teenage ecrush on him back in the day (lol) and used to video chat on tinychat late at night (real ones remember.) Never perused it because he lives 500 miles away but here we are. He is moving to me once he finishes school and we see each other several times a month. I’m actually going there tomorrow for the weekend.

I feel like this place was formative in so many other ways. You all appreciated my hyperinterest in nu metal and late 90s/early 00s internet and mall culture. My confidence to be myself and not gaf has followed me my entire life. I was in the trenches of a pre-nu metal revival world posting to my hearts desire.

I still have the softest of spots for nu metal but theres so much more I love now. I will never forget you all. Maybe one day I’ll tell my family the truth of what the hell I was doing in my room and how I know everybody. ❤️

I’m 26 now. I have a boyfriend of two years. We went to Sick New World in May with my friend who I only met because of this account. It was amazing and I almost cried seeing System.

I work full time in HR and got promoted three months ago. Never ended up graduating college but it all worked out. I have a cat whom I love very much. I live alone right now and friend mentioned above lives in the apt below me.

I’m still a music lover and listen to many genres. I don’t listen to nu metal too much anymore but it still hits when it comes on the rotation. Slipknot’s Iowa and self titled are still my teenage comfort albums. I like funk, soul, disco, experimental, jazz, electronic, death and doom, sludge, latin rock, world music, psychedelic, new age, new wave, the list goes on. I love exploring music rabbit holes similar to when I was on here but with a wide net. In the process of making a rick james v prince beef slideshow for a power point night with my friends lol.

I love funk, soul, death metal, krautrock, doom, world music, experimental, disco and so much more. Most of my friends and boyfriend nowadays are down with all of it but no one is as obsessive about it.

So much nostalgia.

Miss you and thank you all for making my high school years bearable. 

I’ve met some great people here that I’ve been mutuals and friends with for 10 years now. I even met two friends in real life from this account- one of them has been a dear friend for seven years, another lives in the apartment below me now. A lot of my friends stem from those two as well. I’m forever grateful and do not know where my life would be if I never made this account.

Signing off until next time,

Korn

Slipknot

Deftones

Kittie

Coal Chamber

System of a Down

Mudvayne

Soulfly

Dope 

Sepultura

Machine Head

Sevendust

Saliva

Powerman 5000

Drowning Pool

Static-X

Limp Bizkit

Ill Nino

Mushroomhead

Disturbed

Snake River Conspiracy

My Ruin

God Lives Underwater

Korn

Korn

Life is Peachy

Follow the Leader

Issues

Slipknot

Slipknot

Iowa

Kittie

Spit

Oracle

Deftones

Adrenaline

Around the Fur

System of a Down

System of a Down

Toxicity

Mudvayne

L.D.50

Coal Chamber

Coal Chamber

Chamber Music

Dark Days

Static-X

Wisconsin Death Trip

Dope

Felons and Revolutionaries

Sepultura

Roots

Sevendust

Home

Machine Head

Burn My Eyes

God Lives Underwater

Empty

Drain (STH)

Ill be back to look at u when I’m 45

If any of u want to follow me I’m @ o/lddanieller on insta and twitter