This comment section is the first time I've seen the word, and it's been multiple times.

Looks like it originated from this 5 year old reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndmemes/comments/lnmvge/weirdos_oc_revised_edition/

I think more than one of them were like this! I just ripped a bunch of old DVDs to my Jellyfin server, and for some movies, I had to first run it in VLC to double-check that I was ripping the right track, which meant navigating through that nonsense... I remember doing it with multiple HP discs.

This takes me back.

This reminds me of the fake animals that people buy in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" for appearances.

Yeah "You mean like my idol??"

Public chatrooms were everywhere too. It was just the default, anywhere you went. AOL, yahoo games, random websites for no reason.

Even as late as Starcraft 2 (so 2010-), you'd open the game and immediately be dropped into a giant public chatroom on the home screen with everyone else currently playing.

Surely it's happened. A lot of dudes with perfectly good hair are anxious about balding.

Make it so.

That's amazing. It doesn't seem crazy these days to meet your spouse online, but I know y'all must have gotten some funny reactions telling people back then.

That's just hard to fathom for me. Wow.

Please tell me that people aren't clicking ads...