The “Please Don’t Expose My Younger Self“ Thread 😭💀

[addictixn]

Well, since the forums unexpectedly returned after being closed since early 2023, and with so many reunion threads popping up... so thought I’d make one too.

Back then, many of us were still kids (14 and below, perhaps even younger ). Fast forward to June 2026, and most of us are now 17, 18, or older. Time really flew.
So, confession time:

• What’s your biggest guilty pleasure or regret from the old days?

• What’s something you did here that makes you cringe now?

• What’s your biggest “What was I thinking?” moment?

• Any embarrassing phases, weird habits, wrong grammar, or old obsessions?

• Things you would never do again?

• Looking back, what makes you laugh the most about your younger self?

• Is there something you posted that you hope remains buried forever?

No judging. We’re all older now, and everyone has had their own “Please delete my 2015/16/17/18/19 or 2020/21/22 self” era.

It is up to you... consider this a reunion thread, nostalgia thread, confession thread, support group, or group therapy session for former children.

Take whichever theme you want. Share as much or as little as you’d like.

And remember:
“What happened in 2015-2023 stays in 2015-2023.”

...unless somebody finds the archives.

You say you’re really hurting, at least you’re feeling something​

 

[EmeraldKadiri]

Hello addiction, I was a notable member of the brokenlens community and after it shut down my life has fallen into shambles. I have been living on the streets and feeding off of garbage. Seeing that the forums has come back, it has rejuvenated my will to live, and I now have joy in my life.
To answer your questions:

- I guess one of my guilty pleasures was having one of those super tryhardy names with the xSqmething_ or something with that structure. Super glad i didn't go through with it because holy cornball

- I guess the thing that made me cringe the most was definitely the eboy skins I tried wearing to fit in lmao. Crazy that I thought it looked tuff but looking back I'm glad i didn't go through with it.

- Looking back, my biggest "what was I thinking moment" was probably not staying in touch with a lot of the people I met in brokenlens. I made a lot of really great friends and I'm very sad that I lost contact with a lot of them.

- I was really obsessed with the cosmetic perks that came with the emerald rank. I dont know why but i was really into showing it off for some reason.

- I guess the thing that made me laugh the most was definitely all the chaotic times I had with my friends at TSW or MW. Or all the times I forced my friends to play Krazy Kartz and everyone raging. I was very loud back in the day and I'd say whatever came into my mind to that's another thing that I definitely found funny. Its definitely great to reminisce about such times lol.

- For the last question, I genuinely don't have any regrets. I'm glad to have experienced what brokenlens had to offer, and although it was part of such a small part of my life, I will always hold the memories and the friends I made from this experience.

Anyways, that was a little lengthy but yeah have fun reading allat

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[RandomRed_Box]

Well, since the forums unexpectedly returned after being closed since early 2023, and with so many reunion threads popping up... so thought I’d make one too.

Back then, many of us were still kids (14 and below, perhaps even younger ). Fast forward to June 2026, and most of us are now 17, 18, or older. Time really flew.
So, confession time:

• What’s your biggest guilty pleasure or regret from the old days?

• What’s something you did here that makes you cringe now?

• What’s your biggest “What was I thinking?” moment?

• Any embarrassing phases, weird habits, wrong grammar, or old obsessions?

• Things you would never do again?

• Looking back, what makes you laugh the most about your younger self?

• Is there something you posted that you hope remains buried forever?

No judging. We’re all older now, and everyone has had their own “Please delete my 2015/16/17/18/19 or 2020/21/22 self” era.

It is up to you... consider this a reunion thread, nostalgia thread, confession thread, support group, or group therapy session for former children.

Take whichever theme you want. Share as much or as little as you’d like.

And remember:
“What happened in 2015-2023 stays in 2015-2023.”

...unless somebody finds the archives.

You say you’re really hurting, at least you’re feeling something​

-biggest regret is probably not finding some way to stay in touch with my old brlns friends. We didn’t have any contact outside of playing together in Minecraft, so when people started leaving there was no way to find them.

-back then I was really loud (AND I MEAN TYPING IN ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME) and made a lot of crude toilet jokes in the chat, haha. I also had a really dumb, childish username like @TheBossD4ddy.

-biggest “what was I thinking” moment? Probably going around in my first two years of secondary school advertising myself as a “dank meme lord” or something. I’m pretty sure even at 14 years old, everybody thought I needed to touch some grass.

-as mentioned, I went through a dank meme lord phase, thinking it was cool to make references nobody got. I also went through an edgy communist atheist phase AND an edgy right wing TPUSA phase, then when I started going to the gym I became this “sigma male grindset” kinda loser. Ugh. Glad I grew out of that lame stuff.

-while the server was still around, I used to spout random edgy BS to get a rise outta people and pick fights with randoms in chat. Probably because I was an angry, depressed teenager with issues, but that’s definitely something I regret.

-I think my old self was a lot more sociable and made friends a lot easier. That doesn’t really impress me, more of just makes me a little sad because I’m a lot more introverted now.

-I hope my old art that I posted from 2021 never appears again.

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[ArisPlayX]

I remember posting an actual apology note here about four years ago. I still feel embarrassed about it till this day

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[Neuer28]

I was 10-12 when on BRLNS back in 2017-2019, feels like a ton of stuff within those 2 years, I’m writing this in the middle of my U.S hotel room as pre-season has just started

1) Biggest regret:

- Honestly, not living in the moment, we were all young with no responsibility, and would play each day knowing we’d get up and do it all again the next. But there came a time where we DIDN’T do that, and then a time where we COULDN’T do that.


2) Something I did then which was a ‘what was I thinking?’ Now:

Being so soft, I remember getting so angry as a kid when stuff didn’t go my way Come on, I didn’t have that much of a think before you speak mechanism at that age


3) Any embarrassing phases, weird habits, wrong grammar, or old obsessions?

- I was so obsessed with the ban appeals for some ODD reason, who was I to think I had any kind of jurisdiction or judgement I used to think guys who had power here were like gods for some reason or a whole other status, this isn’t North Korea Everyone here’s got their own lives, friends, jobs, progression, development etc


4) Things you would never do again?

This is going to sound like a deathbed confession like ‘I committed 10 felonies’ This had to go in here somewhere and this seems best to, especially now there’s nothing at stake unlike years ago hahaha - but I just gotta say, come on, I was a kid, and it makes me laugh looking back now

- Thought having a YT tag was the peak of status so used my favourite Agario youtuber in 2017 in order to get it - Yeah, nice

- Got banned for using an X-ray texture pack, classic. Nice James I was a little kid who wanted to win

- Massively exploited invisible skins, ended up running away from staff coming to watch on me I was so obsessed with winning that little me would do whatever it takes, such determination


5) Looking back, what makes you laugh the most about your younger self?

How much older I thought I was, but I was still doing the same cringe, the same decisions, and clearly not helping my case at all!! I should’ve just kept quiet hahah


6) Is there something you posted that you hope remains buried forever?

There is a picture of 11 year old me that I thought was SO hard at the time, but I dread to think what it is now to me. I never want to set my eyes on that here. No way.

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