Me at 11: selling d scim 60k, abby whip 5m, flax 100gp/ea
this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
263 points (96.8% liked)
Microblog Memes
11559 readers
1929 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
RULES:
- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
- Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
- Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
RELATED COMMUNITIES:
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Saammmmeee
Could you please decipher?
They were playing Runescape and trying to trade a dragon scimitar, an abyssal whip, and a lot of flax
eq1?
God this is too on the fucking nose I had almost this exact experience at 11
I used to frequent IRC servers as a child (~age 10-13) and won a contest once that earned me voice (+) status for a week after sniffing out the most pedophiles in a dedicated kids channel. Was easy enough to do by running a /whois (or whatever the command was) on participants to see if they were also in channels like #dadsforboys and reporting them to channel operators (who were probably jerking off to us also).
The fact that this was all perfectly normal to me by that point, and that I was so wholly unfazed by these types that I would sometimes fuck with them, is kind of alarming. I guess I'll just carry that awareness going forward with my own children and keep them off of IRC/Roblox/whatever else might expose them to the vast world of internet cum creeps.
It's worth mentioning that I had a number of IRC girlfriends back then as well, and I suspect at least two of them were adult men pretending to be adolescents. I remember one "girl" in particular was from San Antonio and insisted her 12-year-old ex-boyfriend from Canada (who her dad called "Moose") had already flown down to stay with them once. I guess I was next (not that my mom would have allowed that). However, I didn't realize at the time that she/he was Hispanic, and eventually sent them the comedic "Mexican Americans" song by Cheech Marin in glorious .wav format, to which the recipient became deeply offended and stopped speaking to me entirely.
Might have just saved my life.
That must have felt cool as hell though. Winning the contest.
just explained what “a/s/l” was the other day.
Man, I just picked random shit every time.
18, Female, Florida
What does it mean?
age/sex/location - it was a means of greeting to establish if it was someone you wanted to chat with, not great in hindsight, but a lot of us were kids :P
American Sign Language :) /s
kind of interesting how/why it died out.
What was the L?
location
"Location " iirc
Language
replace msn with discord and its the way some children are living rn
Most people nowadays unfortunately. And it ain't limited with discord - especially while we are in the AI era.
Replace either with AOL chatroom and you have the elder millennials who are now saying the stupid shit in discord.
So, a lot of people think the best way to prevent this is to destroy digital privacy. However, hear me out, much more good could be obtained by simply teaching kids to use...
In the AOL days of the internet my dad thought TV meant a chat room for television and not transvestites. It was funny till I explained it to him, then it was REALLY funny.
I thought I was unique for being on the dw when I was 13. I assumed that I was the youngest in all the chatrooms. But more and more I learn I probably wasn’t even in the lowest quartile age-wise lol
Damn. Thought I was the only one.
the things that never change are only the bad ones
the right answer is "yes, please"
Whaddaya chicken?!?
Strongly "everybody knows shits fucked Up"guy from Berlin coded...
Ifyou know,you know!