I'm a Pretty Big Deal On the Internet

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It’s 2000: a fifteen-year-old runs a semi-popular personal website made with greymatter, builds a 6000-member live journal community, and codes a teen music site that nets VIP press passes and band interviews. Early tooling includes IRC xdcc for music and archive.org snapshots; later experiments include early Justin TV life-casting. Concrete outcomes: keylogger to bypass parental controls, sponsorships and press access, an eventual Reddit ban after doxing — names, numbers, tools, and whether things worked.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:54Warped Tour
3. 7:59Live Journal
4. 10:44Grunge Brushes

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