A collective phase?

Looking for fellow diary bloggers, I found that there's actually a substantial community of Y2K style bloggers. 

But I don't know if I can take them seriously at all. Why? 

Their blogs have mostly been running since August-ish 2026. Most of them have only a few articles on them. They are full of cute aesthetics, look mostly similar or the same, and even their articles feel a bit performative. 

AND SO MANY HAVE THEIR SOCIALS LISTED IN THEIR BIOS AND SHIT.

Like girl, if you're gonna blog, first, be consistent, and second, the LAST thing you wanna do is be on TikTok and fucking flaunt it in your bio!

Because that just says something about you: that you've been doing it for show. For the trend. You're not actually interested in blogging, or in nostalgia (in fact half of you were too young to have been sort of conscious during the 2000s), you're romanticizing the old internet while doing very little to actually inhabit it.

I do have social media. I have Facebook and Instagram. Yes. But first: you will not find me there, unless it's under my pseudonym, and those accounts are basically sockpuppets. My profiles have my real self but... my real identity is something I purposely keep under wraps here, for good reason. I'm never listing my socials on here, unless perhaps it's something low-stakes I can stay anonymous on (was actually thinking about putting my jigsawplanet URL here! for fellow puzzle enjoyers...). I'm absolutely never revealing my face, only my shadow. This is how we used to do it back in the day.

Meanwhile you're out there posting influencer-like pictures on a Blogger blog that almost doesn't look like one anymore because like all those people on Neocities that make a super cutesy aesthetic site and abandon it within a year tops, you don't understand the point of the old Internet.

We were anonymous. We were talking about our lives without revealing too much. We posted pictures but hardly ourselves. Mom would always tell me to use a pseudonym. Now it's almost weird to do so. 

Influencers did not exist. There were a few net personalities, but that was it. No obviously TikTok-esque pictures or videos. Some posted their art but for the most part we did this on deviantART (RIP, knew the best days of this website!) or Newgrounds. 

Most of us bloggers were out there... blogging.

I just can't take some Y2K TikTok trend girl who is so obviously following a trend and not actually immersing herself seriously. 

It's all for show.

That said.

If you prove yourself to be truly in the move...

...then you'll have my respects.

Really.