- Someone has been leaving increasingly bizarre messages on your guestbook.
- You get a favorite on one of your drawings featuring a character’s death. You go to thank them, but have second thoughts when you see their page consists only of a bloated gallery of faves that are all about that one character dying.
- Just who else is a sock puppet of that BNF?
- Your favorite fansite still hasn’t come back from hiatus. Rumors swirl on the forums of a different site that the webmistress died, the broken banner on her splash page her online epitaph.
- You swear you’ve read this songfic set to My Immortal before, but it’s the most recent submission. You couldn’t have.
- Your computer doesn’t support Japanese characters but that doesn’t stop you from trying to navigate your fandom’s doujin circles. You somehow stumble onto a page dedicated to lovingly-rendered anatomical dissections of every character.
- Your favorite fanfiction is getting progressively weirder and more incoherent with every update. You hope the author is okay.
- You get the feeling you shared this positive fanart of a female character with the wrong crowd.
- There’s a new batch of icons posted on one of your LJ communities! None of them are loading. Everybody else is commenting on them; why are you the only one who can’t see them?
- You make a new friend on a forum, and you exchange AIM handles. After a few days of chatting, she begins to tell you about her experiences in something called “the Astral Plane”.
- This video is taking an eternity to buffer.
- DxHxR citrus, PWP, H/C, NC, CBT, WS, M/M, M/M/M, WAFF ^_^ WIP please R&R!!!
- As you finally turn out the light and close your eyes to go to sleep, you swear you can hear it coming from outside: the dial-up noise.
I think the best part about this is it’s not even really meme-ified, this was LITERALLY what fandom was like.
… What’s gothic about that? This was how it’s like in the 90′s.
Yeah. The dialup noise just meant that the computer had lost connection and was automatically redialing.