Me and my middle school friends would listen to music on a site called Grooveshark. We had usernames like Metalhead656 or JayIsUndead. We listened to and shared with one another artists like Tokio Hotel, Attack Attack, Black Veil Brides, Asking Alexandria, and System Of A Down. In the summer of 2015, the site closed down suddenly due to massive copyright infringement. We lost our music libraries and the founder of Grooveshark, Josh Greenberg, was found dead in his bed by his girlfriend immediately after its closure. There was no sign of foul play or suicide, and his autopsy failed to determine a cause of death. He was 28 years old. We moved onto Spotify.
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2014
Death Note
Blood Lad
Sword Art Online
Sword Art Online II
Attack on Titan
Soul Eater
Terror In Resonance
High School DxD
High School DxD New
High School Of The Dead
The Future Diary
Another
Danganronpa: The Animation
Eden of the East
Eden of the East Movie I
Elfen Lied
2015
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
Deadman Wonderland
Code Geass R1
Code Geass R2
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Toradora
Date A Live
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
The Pet Girl of Sakurasau
Kokoro Connect
Heavens Lost Property
Blood-C
Blood-c The Lost Dark
Mysterious Girlfriend X
Tokyo Ghoul
Tokyo Ghoul Root A
Plastic Memories
Golden Boy
High School DxD BorN
Haganai
Haganai Next
Love, Chunibyo, and other Delusions
Mayo Chiki
Love, Chunibyo: Heartthrob
The Familiar of Zero
The Familiar of Zero Season 2
The Disappearance of Yuki Nagato
Beyond The Boundary
My Little Monster
The World God Only Knows
Noragami
Black Lagoon
Neon Genesis Evangelion
The End of Evangelion
Ghost in the Shell
Prison School
Beck
Nana
Saekano
B Gata H Kei
Monster Musume
Gyo
Akame Ga Kill
Dan Machi
Shakugan No Shana
2016
Evangelion 2.0
Evangelion 3.0
Bakuman
Kill La Kill
Yamada-run and the Seven Witches
Kaze no Stigma
Nisekoi
Ano Natsu de Matteru
True Tears
Sankarea
Glaasslip
Durarara!!
Durararaa!!X2
K
The Seven Deadly Sins
Seraph of The End
Seraph of The End S2
Kiznaiver
The Hentai Prince and the Stony Cat
Kotoura-san
Fruits Basket
Ao Haru Ride
Re:Zero
Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou
Yona of the Dawn
Snow White with the Red Hair
Snow White with the Red Hair 2nd Season
Say “I Love You”
2017
Lovely Complex
Cowboy Bebop
His and Her Circumstances
Kaichou wa Maid-sama!
Ajin
Ajin Season 2
Bokura Ga Ita
Special A
Nogizaka Haruka No Himitsu
Nogizaka Haruka No Himitsu: Finale
Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu
Kuzu No Honkai
Claymore
Golden Time
Grisaia no Kajitsu
Kino’s Journey
Paradise Kiss
Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom
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I created a Twitter account in 2017 during my high school Social Studies class. Our teacher required the whole class to make profiles so we could “keep up on current events”. My friend Jayson joked that his username would be @psychokillerdrugdealer. I do not remember what my username was. It was a place where I witnessed a lot of ugly and confusing things. It was also a place where I could follow and interact with artists I liked at the time, like Sam Ray from Teen Suicide, Yung Lean, and George Clanton. It is the place where I watched the rise of MAGA and QANON. It is the place where I found out my community college was indefinitely closing due to Covid 19, and a place where I watched police brutalize protesters during the George Floyd protests. It is also the place where I witnessed the genocide of the Palestinians in real time, and videos of dismembered men, women, and children became normalized. I watched it be bought out and zombified, oozing slop becaming a bloated, rotting corpse of its former self, unusable. I deleted the app off my phone two months ago.
