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I was too young for myspace when it was popular, and it's been funny to watch the older people around me refer to it with such intense nostalgia. Professors, certain love interests, and even my own mother all carry some level of attachment to it. And I remember being a child who knew that all the cool alternative teens used myspace, but by the time I reached my own emo phase in high school, the platform had come and gone. Tumblr was the hot new microblogging platform when I got into middle school. Despite wanting a tumblr early on, I didn't get one until I was 17, which was right as there was a giant exodus of people leaving it. They left for a variety of understandable reasons (the app is still so broken for those wondering), but in my mind most people left following the porn ban. I, like what now seems like plenty of others, stayed.
I figured I would use the platform as a place to post my stream of consciousness into the void, but I never quite got around to that. Instead, I started a fan blog for my favorite off-broadway musical called Ghost Quartet. It's a niche little show, but one of my absolute favorite pieces of theater to ever exist. It now has almost 700 hundred followers, and I still get plenty of people interacting with what I post about the show. Eventually, I felt a bit trapped with that account because I was craving an outlet to post about things that didn't regard a four person musical about reincarnation. So I started a side blog and themed it after my history studies, seeing as that's what I spend the majority of my time thinking about. Now even that blog has hundreds of followers. And, if I'm being completely honest, I kind of enjoy tumblr now, it's really not as bad as it was even just three years ago. Funnily enough I find myself on the app pretty regularly, but regardless of whether or not it's a better or worse social media site than it was in the 2010s, it still is not what I envisioned it to be as a preteen.
What I'm taking entirely too long to get at here, is that I have an incessant urge to write, about anything and everything that comes to mind, and an even worse urge to type those thoughts out and post them onto a public platform. I think we all know that there is something cathartic about writing out our thoughts and then letting them go, it's something that's innately human, and when I heard about this platform it scratched an itch that's been plaguing me for years. Maybe I'll keep writing things here, maybe this will be my first and last post, but hopefully I'll remember to check back in. I start a lot of things that I don't ever see through, but this platform feels right for some reason.
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