I know not everybody here has been in the fandom since Ye Olden Times, but for those of you that were: this new forum's gotten me reminiscing over older sites the fandom played around on back in the day. Sites like the old BBS that mimicked the Dollars site (still there but quiet) and the chat site that mimicked Izaya's chat room (also still there but dead as a door nail).
I was in high school back then and honestly wasn't really ON Tumblr, so I engaged with the fandom mostly through those sites than anywhere else. I liked that you didn't really need to make an account, so it was stupid easy to put on a nickname and pretend to be other people or establish a name for yourself through reputation alone. I managed a room on that chat site where I played Izaya constantly, without OOC. I would leave the Dollars' site and password on sticky notes in library books like an ARG. That was my primary experience with old fandom thanks to those sites.
I dunno, it just got me feeling nostalgic lmao.
Tbh I got into DRRR way too late compared to most people (late 2019) so I can only guess what the forums like the dollars website or the chatroom may have looked like in their prime but I definitely do get nostalgic to a painful degree about stuff like this, some older videogames specifically. Especially when the fandom is slowly decaying and u can only watch ToT
And also I totally know what you mean.. I miss when drrr was all over the internet ;w;
(The ARG thing is sooo cool)
Idk why it made me have to approve this, I'm sorry about that. I'll try to change the settings so you can just post things here