rekt

by Alex Gonzalez

I took off my glasses and hooked them into my hoodie. The people’s faces blurred, and I liked that. I always took off my glasses when I was a kid because it made me feel invisible. Like if I couldn’t see them, they couldn’t see me, couldn’t know what I was feeling.

I hated being vulnerable in public. I hated working through the same platitudes over and over again. I wanted to scream and lash out and break things, but nobody let you anymore. The only safe space to be weird was online.

4chan forums, the YNC, disturbing Reddit threads, WorldStar, Best Gore, Creepypastas, cryptid myths, SCP wikis, stories about the dark web and red rooms, normal porn for normal people, 112Dirtbag, the guy that shot himself for Björk, and more.

god this sounds like my early teenage years when I was just bored and looking up shit