Livejournal days

I was thinking about Livejournal and how much I miss those old days of that being the popular site to use. I still have my old LJ which I created back in 2003, the last update says 2018 which is when I wrote down something about an ex bf and thinking I was gonna use it to blog but I never did 'cause I felt like I wanted to close that chapter of blogging idk. but I was thinking about how many years I wrote in that thing and all of the drama that went down back then lol. it sounds so funny now but back then there was some drama that happened between me and other old friends on there. honestly kind of a lot of drama if I can be real. most of the drama was so stupid too... people getting mad that other people "stole their layout codes" and copied their design. I had a friend that got flack for that all of the time and thinking about that now has me cringing. I have met friends from Livejournal. this girl I still am friends with on social media, I went to her birthday. my then bf drove me over to see her and hang out with her on her birthday. I went to her first baby shower and took my sister and met up with my best friend from 3rd grade and brought her too. crazy. I remember this one drama that happened between me, this one girl I was friends with and her guy friend who I was friends with who liked me. got into this whole drama filled situation where I bid on a bunch of her clothes she was selling on eBay because at the time of bidding my mom said it was cool and she'd buy them for me if I won the bids... turns out money issues occurred and we weren't able to pay for them. the girl and her bf got so mad at me for not coming thru to pay she cut me out of friendship lol I am not kidding. I get it like it wasted her time but it was an honest unfortunate event that she, my friend I would think would have been more understanding over. nah. she was rude to me and stopped being friends with me. 

then drama happened between me and her guy friend that had a crush on me. he called me and he would tell me he loves me and he'd shit on my then bf about how he treats me etc. then there was this outfit I wanted super badly online and he said he'd buy it for me if I took pics in it. so he actually bought it & I took pics and then some nude ones (keep in my I am underage) so I sent him the pictures and I guess after I told him to stop telling me he loves me all the time he turned on me and sent my ex friend my naked pictures. that girl then turned around and sent them to people all over Myspace. I had others come out and tell me she sent them to her. she did this shit out of "revenge" (her words) because of what her creepy friend said about me. he clearly shit talked me cuz I told him to stop talking to me 'cause he couldn't get his feelings in check and I was sick of it. so thinking back now, this girl was distributing illegal images of a minor. she ended up writing a rude snarky blog post about me and my other friend and other Liveournal girls she had problems with.  but it just had me thinking bout all of the stupid shit that went down on LJ. there were obviously good times like I miss the feelings of posting on there and interacting with the friends and idk same shit but different times and people.

there was also this other huge thing that went on in the Livejournal community which is cringe now to think but people would require "salutes" basically a pic of you holding a paper that had your username written on paper to prove you were real. then would you be granted access to their daily life updates (lol fucking lame). but there was this one girl who was so popular on LJ and over on Myspace that she was the most faked person online. meaning she had the most of people stealing her photos and making fake accounts on social websites pretending to be her. (thousands) all of the LJ girls wanted to be her/be friends with her (think Regina George lol). I even was jealous and was on the train to try and be her friend and have her like me. it actually worked cuz I was brief internet friends with her for a few years til the drama with that ex friend happened and the both of them cut me off as friends and even mocked and made fun of my online back and forth. ended up back being friends with the popular girl and she even sent me a Hooters shirt I still have some where and have worn like maybe once or twice in the last few years but we fell out not due to drama but growing up and moving on. it was just such a weird time sometimes the Livejournal days feels like a dream. lol I think stealing pictures back then was more common than today. Like I even had "fakers" stealing my pics and making fake Myspace accounts and social media site accounts. I think it was so much more popular then than now because everyone has access to camera phones now. before it was just digital cameras but now it's smartphones so everyone is able to take their own photos. such a weird but fun time and I miss it, even the drama lol.

oh and another thing that was super toxic on Livejournal was the communities!! I remember I would always try and join them. they would basically rate your looks and answers to their lame questions. like they would literally tell you what they don't like about your looks and make fun of your answers to the surveys. I remember they said this one girl's teeth were "wretched". like how horrible is that?? that's the only part I don't miss 'cause that's awful. I'd try and join them for validation that I was pretty.  I got into most of them. some I didn't ''cause my foundation didn't match my tan... really..