I dedicated so much of my childhood to this community, and it's incredible to see how many of my thoughts as a kid are documented here

I am especially grateful to have met my best friend, Olivia, (Tornado) here. We met nearly a decade ago and she is practically family now. Showing her around my childhood home was an incredible full-circle moment. She is the most consistent presence in my life, and we talk to each other every day without fail.

Apart from that, my favorite memories are:

Late night calls with Kara on Skype

Talking on Kik for endless hours with Adam, Tess, and Gibran

Turntable.fm parties

Getting tricked into giving away my password to some guy the day after I got promoted to mod. To this day, I still don't know what he did that led me to get demoted, but I'm sure it was awful


Thank you for fostering such a fun community for so many of us chronically online kids, I am truly grateful for all the great people I came across during those years

This is so sweet. You have been a better friend than anyone in my entire life and you are an amazing person and I'm so glad we met and that I got to meet you