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---PART 2 - COMPLICATIONS---
I downloaded Musical.ly because I heard it was filled with cringe content, and I thought that was funny at the time.
I think I was 19 working night shift and life was getting me down and I wanted a distraction. (24 now.)
Literally the third video the algorithm recommended to me was '[Rose Lalonde] (how to cuss)'.
(I've had a thing for black lipstick since.)

Basically I was dumbstruck when I saw it.
I had read Homestuck recently and to see a cute girl who knows it was unbelievable to me.
(I didn't know anything about Tumblr cause I wasn't much of an internet user.)
In other words, I had encountered my first "e-girl". I wasn't really prepared for that, growing up in rural nowhere.

I watched her videos as they were uploaded for a short while and I enjoyed them a lot.
They felt like an truthful expression of nerdy, spastic joy and I didn't know anybody IRL who was such a nerd.
I honestly feel bad I never messaged her or commented on her posts. That's just how I was used to the internet.
Maybe I could have been a voice for reason, at least compared to the characters she would end up interacting with.