baby, i will keep this fire burning


I've been thinking about the tendency of old webpages to just linger around forever or vanish suddenly when a payment is missed1. For a while now, the trend when someone went quiet on their site was "well, see if they have social media and check for last posts", but now that's becoming more of an infeasible project. If someone doesn't update their contacts on the main site, I'm not digging around on the birdsite for someone's forwarding address anymore.

I miss when you had flameouts, though. I guess Elon counts, but I really miss just showing up to a website one day and someone had a full meltdown and pulled the plug and you got some honest messiness out of it, instead of that "posted X days ago" counter ticking up slowly and endlessly. It wasn't the funniest one of these, but I will never forget going to a ROM site one day and the entire thing had just been yanked and replaced with a single sentence that's lived in my head for ~20 years now: "I AM DA FATBOSS"

I like to imagine somewhere in emulator heaven, DA FATBOSS and the Shitman2 are neighbors.

Oh, wait, I remembered a more modern one, it was a former fetish creator having a full meltdown and destroying a decade's worth of her work, deleting her site, and saying she was done being Satan's minion and going full MAGA, it was definitely one of the wildest left-turns I've ever seen from someone who was just 100% on-board with "problematic creations"3.


  1. Mostly because of webcomics. Any time I start going "did someone die?" it's probably because of a webcomic.

  2. please tell me anyone reading this is old enough to remember Nesticle's Shitman

  3. force-femme, it was one of those people


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