SpaceHey is full of teenagers cosplaying as millennials then, huh?

So I joined SpaceHey expecting it to be a place where 30somethings go to hang out, make dumb profiles, and relive the MySpace days. I really wasn't expecting it to be full of teenagers who are essentially cosplaying early 2000s fashion, with their emo fringes and whatever. In retrospect, this is a new fairly niche platform and of course retro stuff was always cool with the kids. I remember being 14, listening to classic rock, and thinking everything must have been better in the eighties. I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. It's just interesting, in a way. It's that thing of being nostalgic for a time you never experienced, romanticising the past, and wishing everything was simpler. I get that. 

I do wonder if life in any way resembles what life was like back then? As a teenager growing up in the 00s. We had what we affectionately and not so affectionately dubbed 'the emo corner '. Where all the goths, and punks, and scene kids would hang out. Just a little corner full of MCR hoodies and black nail polish. I wasn't really in that scene-- I was more of a teenage metalhead. But I guess they didn't mind me there. (Though some people actually really didn't like me there, for some reason and really wanted me to leave). 

People used to come into school with black sweatbands all up their arms. They got banned at some point, allegedly because they were used to hide self-harm. They also banned Yu-Gi-Oh! cards at some point. Basically, they would just ban anything and anything with no clear reasoning. Adjacent to the emo corner, the skaters hung about. They tended to mingle a lot more with the sports kids and the normies. I don't think we really had clearcut definitions of these stereotypes, not like they do in America. It was just how I understood it, I guess. I used to just mingle with whoever, really. I'd move between groups, chat with people until I got bored, then move somewhere else.

I didn't really have too many irl friends on real MySpace back in the day. I spent most of my time back then trawling through the forums, particularly the music forums, and getting into arguments about Metallica. Death Magnetic had just come out and I thought it was awesome. I think the general consensus then was 'Metallica is back!'. It's only recently that people started talking bad about that album, I think. Other than that, I found local bands, followed some bigger ones, faffed about with html widgets (I had no idea what I was doing), and looked for a new sick tune to autoplay on my profile.

It'd be cool to connect with some more jaded millennials on here. Make your presence known, guys.