#i only recently learned that skeppy and bbh haven't known each other forever

[kayethedragon]

i've been consuming dsmp content + ccs for about 4 months now. apparently its heyday was only two years ago. i feel like an archaeologist unearthing an increasingly cursed mythology with more twists than the story of jamestown. repeat cases of ccs writing their own fanfiction or reading fanfiction about them. cc relationships portrayed and treated as if they've known each other for decades when it fact it was less than 5 years. multiple instances of ccs who don't currently publicly interact but used to be close and mysteriously stopped. a disproportionate number of professedly straight men shipping themselves as if they were fans. utterly nonsensical phrases banned from twitch chats. and it doesn't stop there. the breaches of containment are unlike anything i've ever seen. several documented cases of mainstream celebrities reaching across the veil, unprompted, to engage these ccs. an overwhelming feeling that this entire fandom and anyone associated with it is public internet enemy #1. a genre of music on spotify??? every week i stumble across evidence of some historical thing that would send any previous fandom i've ever encountered into incoherent hysterics for the rest of time, and here they are nothing more than passing faded landmarks. there is more ooc lore than one man could ever hope to learn. i thank god i am past the age of obsessing over interests or this alternate dimension would surely swallow me whole. as it is, i will claim a perch from a safe distance to make further observations as it continues its strange evolution.