Slowly and then all at once
The strange, sad fate of LiveJournal, vibe shifts and hoarders, BookTok, cross-stitch and the first metaverse
Hi friends. Today is March 25, 2022.
And for the past 15-odd years, I’ve fondly remembered LiveJournal as a sort of mid-aughts proto-Tumblr for would-be poets and OC fangirls.
The blogging platform peaked in the U.S. around 2005, shortly before teenage me stopped using it to trade catty, anonymous insults with my high …
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