I really don't understand what is it with these shitheads and latching onto old media that they clearly don't respect; give them a time machine and they'll shoot their pozzed load all over the past like a new coming of the plaque. Always make sure to give tourists a swift kick from the gatekeeping boot.
That's what upsets me what with all the sudden yaoi art of 1x1x1x1, Shedletsky (Telamon), Builderman, c00lkidd, etc. They got turned into gay icons with minors who probably didn't even know the existence of Personal Servers on Roblox. These people
spit in the face of the legacy of what old Roblox was and used it for their lousy fanfics, lame moodboards, and shipping wars. It genuinely upsets me as an old player myself seeing these people who are probably no less younger than 13-17 treating a relic of history like this.
I'm sounding like an autist right now but what else can you do when you see something you remember and favored for so long be turned into something like this? How else can I feel knowing that people are gonna start thinking of the yaoi fanfics and the Tumblr users when they think of these legacy characters and people?
Are there even any modern Roblox games that's actually respectful to old Roblox characters that isn't trying to sprinkle some qurkiness into them (an exception is Telamon since well, he always was a quirky sort of person. But in the way that felt genuine and not well... forced, if that make sense)? I would very much like to know.
Only real OGs remember calling him "Telamon". Fucking posers. I'm pretty sure around the time his account exchanged names with the "Shedletsky" alt-account he wore a Dominus anyway. Prior to the name change, the alt account looked a bit like the "Toothy Deer" but with different hats on and some t-shirt with a lightning bolt?
He also wore a chicken suit avatar at one point, too.
They're all over shit like Neocities too. I don't get it either but these people don't seem to understand that one of the really good parts about the old internet is that THEY DIDN'T EXIST IN IT. They love to RP as old web "revivalists" while flooding their "revivalist" space with pozzed shit like protogens, tranny flags, neo-pronouns and more.
God, I deplore those sort of people, too. Acting like they know anything about the old internet and the way it was "ran". They wouldn't survive a 2000s/early 2010s imageboard whatsoever. I bet most of them just think of "Frutiger Aero", random LOL humor and MS paint art when they think of the old internet.
I like to call it the "Vivziepop Aesthetic", as in, "Not understanding the point of a certain piece of media/work/history and what made them so effective and well known/respected and only using them for a modern, progressive interpretation rather than preserving the originality of a specific piece/medium/history that others adored."
In short, "We turned this EVIL, PROBLEMATIC BIGOTIC thing into something more PROGRESSIVE AND QUEER FRIENDLY!"
Or, my
favorite part, "It's just to make myself feel more quirky, dude!".
