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getallemeralds · 1 year

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2009 on youtube was a wild west. anybody remember youtube streams? not, like, Youtube Gaming, i mean youtube used to have an official built-in version of rabb.it/hyperbeam/etc. like you could just.. browse rooms and join them and chat with people while playing videos

that was how i met my longest-running rp group. there was a whole group of, like, gimmick accounts of "i'm This Character and i'm going to comment on videos in-character! also we have a stream room where everybody hangs out :3" and my long-time friend ran one of those for Ninten. and i made an oc and made her a youtube account (which i dont think i have access to anymore, agh) and joined the stream and would rp with everybody

and i met. so many people through that. and also it was a whole nest of drama which ended in me being losing contact with basically everybody from that era except for One Person i have friended on discord and dont talk to because we're chronically awkward and i was a walking disaster when i was 13

(wait oh my god they were ALSO part of Contact. their character made it into both fic attempts, even. i dont think we're tumblr mutuals anymore since we remade though ahaheh ;;)

um. anyway. the whole.. origin.. of KL was that whenever somebody was inappropriate in chat or played a Bad Video or changed the background to Something NSFW (because anybody in the stream could upload an image url to change the page background!!) my response would be

IMMAKUROUSU: you DARE bring [thing] into my lair?! you must DIE

so when the group splintered and my corner of the squad made our own stream room, eventually it got named Kurousu's Lair

..anyway, this was where the rp that i fanfic-ified into Contact happened. in a youtube stream chat. one of the IAms was a big Homeworld fan and was doing a villain arc with his guy who was like, the leader of the Hiigaran Empire and friends with Ninten before he got possessed or something, and so he set up a rp where earth got sieged by the hiigarans and a handful of survivors banded together to try and stop Jaraci before humanity was completely wiped out

and so that guy, who also roleplayed the other main protag Elohim, uploaded a video that was his character's theme song and it had a bunch of Homeworld concept art and space photos and stuff and gave us the annotation link so we could put funny speech bubbles on it of ellis yelling and being very normal about everything

all of that is long gone now. the only bits of that era that remain are me telling stories like this, some ocs, some accounts, and that video.

(i remember this specific image being, like, contextualized as them maybe stealing one of the hiigaran ships? and ellis yelling at elohim over it. my memory is basically gone past that though, and the annotations have been wiped for a decade by now.)

#leo chirps #ica.txt #long post #oops! ica sad hours.#forever nostalgic for an era of the internet that is completely gone. hrk.#that's.. why im the way i am ig?#that's why i'm so adamant about backing stuff up even if i yell and complain about it sometimes #because like. all record of it is gone besides what i was able to tear out of my notebooks.#and everything i found on my old usb.#and theres so so so much still missing.#plus i had a really bad falling out with Literally Everyone (especially Elohim's rper) so like.#it's not like i can go up to them and talk about it again.#it's a miracle the one person i Do still have contact (heh) with put up with me after i burnt that bridge lmao

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