new accounts:

okay so. this was such a jumpscare for me. imagine you spend like four hours straight skimming through comments on an account choob interacted with a handful of times looking for other comments. and you see this

HUH!!!!

first thought i had was, oh, that's a weird coincidence! surely there's no way that our etal is the same person. i don't know much about him but he didn't really seem like a cringe mid 00s deviantart user to me. surely not.

and he doesn't really seem like the photographer type either?? right??

and, the account was deactivated + wasn't archived, so i couldn't find more on it.....

jk. thanks @sterjin for lending a helping hand :) i was formatting the urls in the wrong way to get older results on wayback machine (username.da.com (old) vs. da.com/username (new)), so we found:

this! okay, cool. but still, surely this is not OUR alan eta1yx. surely

never mind LOL. i mean, this is (afaik) the only instance we have of his full name. so it could just be... a very weird coincidence that there are two independently existing eta1yx's named alan who are in the same age group... but i really doubt it lol

so we do have proof of str and etal following the same accounts (i found two instances), but im still cautious to say they actually knew each other bc there are no direct interactions between the two. the accounts they were interacting with were somewhat big, but not very big, so it's not like everyone on da was interacting there.. ultimately, i just think it is a weird coincidence (for now. unless i find more evidence lol)

unlike str, all of his posts/comments that i could find were pretty normal, like this one ^

i'll include another new account i found on this post!

as i was going through all the accounts that favorited choob's art (which took just as long as you think it would lol), i came across lorddeme (posted previously)

(cute icon :3)

which had these comments attached:

which i thought was a little strange, but i figured it was a friend's account.. but i was noticing that the art style was very similar to choobs. and then this!

which confirmed that this def was a previous account of choob's. and also this

which i don't know how i ignored in the first place LOL. i was going through these accounts pretty quickly tbf asdfgh

i'll put other things from this account in the comments section because i feel like i'll run out of room on this post to post everything. but i love this account.. so much of his early art (potentially his first da account :( ) and lots of him talking about early high school life and being cringe and silly.. aww :((

still have to do a deep dive into this account as well.. as well as etal's account too.. mamma mia. much to come!

miscellaneous comments:

okay so. here's a really fun thread from one of his forum posts:

choob directly saying he's gay (again). also i am still thinking about "i'm sorry some guy in africa got lonely" re: hiv/aids 😭😭. just really a gold set of posts

:))) thinking of boston-era strma.... my poor jealous clinging boy </3 (and neglectful evil boyfriend)

his attitudes around sh and suicide always crack my up. there's another instance of this later lol

even more proof that this is his account, not that we needed more lol

choob flirting with another friend :)

another rword

just him being cute :)!

other stuff:

okay. so the discovery with etal's deviantart url made me realize that i could also check strs accounts using the old url formatting.. some of this stuff i think was previously posted elsewhere, but for whatever reason i didn't try to do find it myself previously.. so some of this is probably not new to you, but i'm putting it here if u haven't seen it before :)

old email :) cute. reminiscent of lorddeme lol

interestingly, choob went back to update his account moving post at some point to the one it is now (his n11chts icon used to be a black heart for a while :) cute)

also, i love his old message signatures :) choob will DESTROY you with FACTS and KNOWLEDGE

okay. im going in chronological order of my discoveries for the most part + adding headers for some organization, so sorry if this jumps around a lot. i wish tumblr let u add more pics to a post so this wouldn't be so all over the place...

new accounts:

one of the main strategies i used to find new content was going through the list of people following or followed by str. the first discovery i made was strs myspace account, which i found through looking through jin's myspace account...

https://myspace.com/999q (it won't let me make a pretty link for this)

(also im sorry i won't be censoring jin's last name anymore because i won't in my archive since it is everywhere and y'all probably know it anyway. obv don't do anything with it)

there is nothing interesting on this account (myspace was barely preserved, unfortunately. if anyone knows how to recover stuff, i would really appreciate it!). but i did find something interesting linked on his profile:

there was a page for hurra!! and thankfully it was archived!

don't know why he was lying about his age but he was LOL. (also i don't think south amboy is really a doxx.. he has said this (at least indirectly) on stream)

another instance of str using his last name :(.. + remember the kissing boys incident? even more proof that it was (somewhat) a freudian slip. because his aim would be a direct way for us to find out he was kissing boys lol

this made me sad :( a lot of his friends didn't even care about his gay little comic... :( thinking again about him saying that jin was his only friend..... :((((((

miscellaneous comments:

i found some new stuff looking through forum posts choob made, including this one. which is just silly to me. it's a bummer that he deleted all his journal posts on previous accounts bc he loved to yap ;(

boyfriend :(

more miscellany from choob's forum posts:

:( cute.. choob going on his religious society rants and jin being like :3 liar liar u love me so much!! :( cute

sigh... :( there will be more of this in my next posts but.. makes me so sad. it's so fucked up going thru these old posts knowing he's still in the closet literally twenty years after this... :(

im wondering how much german choob actually knew, or if this was just a bluff :P

choob username lore :).... female form.. ughhhhhh

now, here's a big one. i posted this previously (i think) but it's still........ arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

there's just. so so much. like, from jins bl reading + watching, i always assumed choob would be into it too, but we didn't have direct proof of it.. and then here's str being like yea i love yaoi but there needs to be more graphic porn! "being very gay" .... AUGHHHHH

much in this post!! so he has his friend keep his bl for him.. likely so mommy wouldn't find out :P but also she probably knew about jin, so... but it seems like the stuff he owned was pretty smutty lolol. also i love the implication that he's dropping out of school to pursue a career in table tennis LOL. i guess his real life career of playing video games on the internet sounds just as unattainable though lol

i wonder how much time he spent at hot topic :)

dad lore.. (the journal post is from freakresponse, which, as u can see, is one of his closest da friends + irl).. i love how genuine he's being here :(

i don't think i included this in previous posts since it wasn't relevant, but jin's sister died :( and it's really sweet and sad seeing choob call her his sister too... really emphasizes how close they were :( makes me so sad that his parents weren't supporting him then... ugh (more of this to come later as well!)

"go draw some sexually confused teens" is a great line

"i'm jealous of people, very" + using that jealousy as motivation to win.. :))))) im thinking about kim.. :)) and how weird he can get about monica lately. thinking thinking thinking...

:( he's the baby...

so depressed :(... :))))))) "i dont really want to be alive" ohghhh my beloved little emo boy :( cute. he gets so personal in this person's comments (same person as freakresponse + black-maple-path iirc) so they must have been really close.. :))

there are many instances of this that im leaving out, but he's such a bitch :D hehe. he's barely changed :P

another rword

just him being cute :3

other stuff:

i don't know why i never looked at this closely when i was first going through choob's account, but... this is in his favorites.

the most horrible thing about this is that it literally looks like. j and choob :( when they first met..... ughhhhhhhhhhh....... as if we needed more proof that he was strs type :agony: ....