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This is such an interesting post. I love reading forum chronicled history like this. Super awesome that you took the time to write about it. That era was, like most of us, my peak activeness, and somehow I was sequestered off enough in Screenshot Fakes and wherever else I used to hang out that I missed most of the drama with Macki. That being said, I knew he was still a forum nuisance at the time. Being also a child at the time, glad I never got dragged into any real shizzle...

Sal's will die when we are all dead, and our fond memories are truly forgotten by anyone who cared to hear about them. We will live on for decades still.

I might have missed the forum glory days (I lurked for 4 years starting 2009) but I still feel so lucky to have even experienced what I did of the forums from 2013-2015, and it was enough to make miss them dearly once 2016 came around and a lot of the friends I’d made here started falling off one by one. I’m thankful we still have a discord, the cc and a bunch of familiar names still around from then, especially how you say all the other fansites have died completely, and is why I don’t think I’ll ever leave for another clan

Very late to the party but oh man, I appreciate reading your perspective on Macki, because that's very different to how I remember those days, especially being on the inside. I mean, being at the ripe ole age of 10, I don't remember much detail at all, aside from that pure unadulterated happiness around fiiiiinally being accepted and respected (ugh, I know) by my peers. To me, we were just this tight-knit group of friends that I really enjoyed interacting with, and that was pretty much it. The bullying, god, I absolutely 100% believe it, but I genuinely cannot remember a single moment of it, which is pretty fudgeed up because that means it must've been so normal to shell out. That's not even the worst of it. Many don't know this, but on his ohiirthar forum, there was an exclusive sub-forum for porn. And thus began my wordly introduction to it. A GIRL. AT AGE TEN. I would interact with Macki's groupies WITHIN those topics and they were totally fine with it. WTF??? I can't remember much, but I can still picture frames from that first video with crystal clear precision. What's even scarier is that I probably would've done anything they'd asked me to, wouldn't give it a second thought, and wouldn't tell anyone else. Kids are so god damn impressionable, and the internet is the perfect melting pot for everything to go wrong. This is a very good case study for future (and current) parents. Don't talk to strange Macedonian men with a cult following of tweens and a dancing fox avatar do drugs, kids!