Hey, this may be kind of a stupid question, but is the group of "things[overwatch character]says" still a thing/still active? I used to follow most of you guys but your blog is the only one i follow who's updated even remotely recently, haha. Also, if you guys are still a thing, are you an official group? How would someone join if they wanted to? Thanks in advance
Out Of Character:
Do not worry, friend, this is not a stupid question. Tbh I ask this myself sometimes.
I used to be in a big ol' discord server with all of the other blogs, and we would talk about the game and updates and fun stuff we were posting. There were some really nice people there (there were also a couple of nuts but don't tell them I said that), and I'd like to think I got along well with them. Tracer and Junkrat were always the nicest to me.
We were never really an "official" group, but we were pretty well organized, and there was a clear hierarchy in the discord. There were a few times when the people in charge would try to enforce the (rather arbitrary) rules anytime someone (usually me) said or did something that didn't exactly fit the character they were playing. As you can imagine this happened often.
As for now, I'd like to say that we're all good friends who still talk and play Overwatch together...
But we're not.
A while back, after a series of members began shutting down their blogs, the discord server just kind of... dissapeared. There was no more hierarchy, no more arbitrary rules, no more anything. Did they kick me out, did they delete the server, I never found out.
The people I had been talking to for over a year just up and vanished. And we really haven't spoken since.
I've tried to keep up with this blog, it hasn't always been easy. I'm in college now, and honestly I haven't even been playing Overwatch for a long time. I've kinda lost all interest.
I really can't say for certain which blogs are down and which ones are still active, I kinda haven't interacted with any of them for a while. At this point if you want to join, you can probably just make your own blog and unofficially join.
I'm glad you still have interest in this blog and our little community type thingy. It's nice to know someone appreciated it.
:)
In Character:
PEaMnut Butte R
sorry to hijack your post, pal! disclaimer warning: this is more emotional than anything i’ve posted on this blog ever. woo! hi. my name is jem. i made thingsjunkratsays on a whim when i was 14, and i was absolutely ecstatic to be part of what was then a small group of under ten people memeing it up with overwatch characters. we grew pretty quickly! this blog and several others reached 2000 followers in under a year. things happened, and we got bigger: 10 members, then 20, then 30 people, all making jokes together as a community. and we were all really really good friends. these were the first people online i can truly say i cared about. i was on discord every single day with them, for hours at a time! these guys were better friends to me than most of the people i knew irl. for a freshman just entering high school, this was quite possibly the greatest thing i’d ever experienced. holy shit! a bunch of funny, kind people who like overwatch and wanna be my friend! for a year, the thingsoverwatchsays community was an enormous part of my life. and then, i posted this without any warning, and left the discord server and the friends i had dedicated countless hours of my life to. as you can guess, it wasn’t the best received decision. and that’s...fair. it was poorly thought out in every way, and despite the fact that i hadn’t meant harm to anyonei cared about (so much! i cannot stress to you how much i loved these guys!) i hurt a lot of people by just...leaving them in the dust. i don’t know what happened to the discord server. i imagine that was the catalyst that probably dissolved it. i was fifteen, and had latched onto the idea that to be successful in life i had to get rid of all my online friends. was that stupid? yeah. of course it was. was what followed--someone releasing private information about me when i wasn’t there to defend myself--stupid too? yeah. it’s been two years since that happened, and i’m really only in contact with two members anymore--they’re still some of my closest friends. i don’t know if we’d ever really be able to get back together as an entire group anymore, much less create content like we used to. i don’t know how i’d even find most of them again. this is a real bummer of a post, but hey! it’s not all bad. overwatch two is coming out, and maybe someone will be able to pull this off better than we ever did. heroes never die, but we were regular people--most of us young teens. i made some awful decisions, but i loved the friends i made there, and i loved the things we did. thank you to those reading this, and those who have stuck around after three long years.
