Any time I stop paying close attention to this place for a few months, it's weird. Like, on the one hand I always feel a little bit sad when I realize I haven't seen such-and-such name in my activity feed for a long time, and maybe they're gone from the fandom forever now. I've been watching self-professed "lifers" leave the fandom for my entire life, hahahaha, so I know it happens.
But, without fail, every time this happens another 100 new obikin users have also somehow emerged from absolutely nowhere with 5,000 posts. (And they're all already friends with each other, and no, they don't want to be friends with me, thanks. Sigh. 😅)
I guess it's comforting to know that someday long after I've departed this mortal realm, someone's going to be out there firing up a blog about these two morons and lamenting their existence even when the elders among us are gone.