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turn soft and lovely anytime you have a chance
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Pulling up like
Hunter from Spyro 2
November 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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I write weekly album reviews and this week I used Ninajirachi's new record to reflect on my experiences using social media in my youth. I'm very happy with how it turned out!

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Album Review - I Love My Computer
Album Review - Ninajirachi: I Love My Computer
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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People keep saying this
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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I keep getting notifications that I should upgrade from 10 to 11 because it's "safer" 🫠
November 28, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Dude showed the whole bus his knife wound? Also he tried to smoke a cigarette on the bus but his friend wouldn't let him
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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:/
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Something about thanksgiving night really got the girlies actin up
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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non-zero chance that Sydney Sweeney stars in it
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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2/2
I did have friends at school but I still found myself lonely and insecure, as most high schoolers are. Many of my dating experiences started on the internet. There was a Minecraft server I frequented in which my girlfriend and I were crowned “server royalty” and given moderator privileges. I think the admins were all in their 20’s and thought it was amusing to keep us around even though we were far too young to know how to responsibly run any sort of online community. One of my partners was actually pre-transition transmasc, not out at school but role-playing as various male anime protagonists online. Not all of my experiences were so pleasant. At some point I had begun talking to this girl from Alberta who quickly became obsessed with me. She would send me messages every day, begging for me to love her back. Occasionally I would give in, and we would try dating through video calls and messaging apps but it never lasted. This would only enable her stalking behavior further, and the whole cycle would repeat again. One time a pretty girl messaged me and expressed immediate affection. For a few days I was smitten, but when she got frustrated that I wouldn’t sext with her, she suddenly blocked me. I would later find out that she never existed, some unknown actor with ill intentions who had been flirting with multiple kids at my school. I don’t think this version of the internet exists anymore. Everything is way more centralized, and algorithms have taken away the agency of stumbling into a weird corner of the internet and digging around to find more. The places that still feel like this era of the internet are slowly dying, either closing their doors due to a dwindling userbase or being morphed into the AI-ridden engagement factories that seem all too common. Obviously the older eras of the internet were far from perfect. In a lot of ways it was a pretty awful place to grow up in, but it was also equally comforting and inspiring. When I listen to Ninajirachi’s I Love My Computer, I see someone who lived through that same experience. The isolation, the experimentation, the weird relationships and the desire to build something meaningful out of computer parts and creative software. Beneath the house beats and hyperpop influences lies a beating heart full of Nightcore AMVs, Creepypastas, Skype messages and Miniclip flash games. IYKYK.
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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1/2
I built my first computer when I was 15. I had been spending years earlier using a hand-me-down laptop that barely worked, running Minecraft at 12 FPS and attempting to pirate games I couldn’t afford on websites that flooded it with malware. I had a phone with 1GB of storage on it, just enough space to hold a dozen albums that I would play on wired Sony earbuds that only worked if I kept the aux port bent at a certain angle with tape and elastics. I was only able to afford a new computer by working at my step-dad’s landscaping company for the summer, a job I loathed but ultimately came to appreciate when I saw the $1300 sitting in my bank account. It was just enough to build a mid/high range PC, one that wasn’t going to run Witcher 3 on max settings, but at least it would run. I nearly broke it in my attempt to put all the pieces together, and I would find out years later that I didn’t even attach the motherboard properly, but when it finally booted into the Windows 10 desktop I was elated. Being a teenager on the internet in the mid-2010’s was a strange time. Parents and teachers understood the internet in broad strokes, but there was no way I was going to explain to them what “Vaporwave” or “The Nostalgia Critic” were. When my parents saw me watching Youtube, they couldn’t understand why I was so drawn to these scrappy, unprofessional creators shooting videos in their bedroom when I could be watching normal TV. Memes that became funny due to their relationship to the internet were completely impenetrable when they were removed from their context and shown to someone whose relationship to the internet started and ended with posting vacation photos on Facebook. At the same time, the internet wasn’t centralized, so even though I was connected with billions of users I was also hanging out in rather insular communities that often felt more like I was talking to myself than engaging with any sort of friend circle. For me, it was obscure music forums that were populated by middle aged men obsessed with 70’s progressive rock, and Australian Facebook pages that spoke in culturally specific slang I could barely understand. It was an experience I found impossible to share with others, and something I hadn’t even seeked out on purpose. I just stumbled into these spaces and found a strange comfort within them. I felt desperate to contribute something to the internet. I spent a whole summer toying with the free version of Game Maker, building crude versions of Zelda and the real-time strategy games I enjoyed. My favorite activity was to download other creator’s games and tinker with their project files, replacing sprites with things I created for my own amusement. I had a Deviantart full of comic strips based on my Pokemon Emerald Nuzlocke playthroughs, but I didn’t really know how to use Deviantart so no one ever saw them. Inspired by the Let’s Players and game review channels I watched, I even tried to make Youtube videos myself, but quickly realized that no one wanted to hear a socially awkward teenager talk about Super Nintendo games with rudimentary video and audio software. Pretty much everything I mentioned is lost to time. I would often delete things I posted if I found them even the slightest bit embarrassing.
November 27, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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been on hormones 6 years and I still haven't grown a cute little mushroom. fuck whats even the point
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Ever seen a kid not go up a staircase on all fours?? I swear they didn't even bother to make any other animations
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM