I was watching someone play the Final Fantasy 4 Free Enterprise randomizer and when he got to Zeromus the skin for that seed was a Furby. At first it gave me a chuckle but then it got the brain whirling on the topic of migrating from social network to social network.
Back in the mid-late 2000s I was on MySpace and was part of a community called Final Fantasy Fanatics. It was the largest Final Fantasy group on there except there was about 80ish of us that basically hijacked the thing and went off topic all the time to confuse/annoy random people who actually wanted to talk about the games until they caught on, in which we would politely ask them to shut the fuck up and talk about Final Fantasy XII. It was chaos, it was beautiful.
One day there was a shitpost, like a truly beautiful shitpost it made no sense at the time. It was a picture of a furby in a microwave with the caption "Is that a furby in your microwave or are you just happy to see me?". Kinda cute really.
Of course we all know what happened to MySpace. A bunch of our core group migrated to a private chat on Facebook. Lost a few people but that's the theme of these types of moves. However our dumb little meme continued. Every few months someone would just say it and we'd have a little chuckle.
After all that shit that happened in late 2016 I became more dissatisfied with Facebook. Early 2018 I had enough and decided it was time to migrate again. At around this same time one of the members of that chat became openly transphobic and it bothered me for both common sense reasons and also a 'hey why does this feel personal' level. I since lost contact with everyone from that group but you know what? As it turns out the memories remain. Dumb injokes, late night conversations, online shenanigans. All of those come flooding back whenever I see this silly little fad toy. All because of a single shitpost.
So as I set up to migrate again knowing full well I'll lose contact with dozens upon dozens of people yet again, I know that as long as my mind allows it I will be able to hold onto the fond memories from that portion of my life. Even when something ends it still makes up a part of who you are.
Here's to a new beginning friends, and hopefully the next ending will be a good ways off yet. <3