the fact that on somethingawful you could pay 10 bucks to change someone else's picture/forum title thing is such a perfect encapsulation of "how the internet was like back then and never will be again". there is no posting company alive today that would ever dream of allowing a feature like this today; this is at the end of the day definitely a good thing; but also it is really fuckin funny to think about
i love to think about my beloved elder millennial communist friend who was in the forum trenches trying to convince ppl communism was good back in the day. one time he made some liberal guy so mad the guy paid 10 dollars to change my friend's profile to This