If you are looking for a horror story that proves just how bad the new "iPad kid" is and how much worse it is going to get, this is it.

I was raised in a neighborhood where there was not a single other kid. Nobody was my age, so I was already pretty isolated. My parents gave me an iPad the year it came out (I think I was around 4-6) and since then I was hooked. I got addicted to youtube and would spend entire days watching mindless content. Throughout my entire childhood, I never played any sports, never had any real hobbies, and rarely even went outside. I just stayed inside at a time in my life when I should have been running around with other kids socializing. Youtube and videogames. That was it. There were times when I was interested in picking up a real hobby. I wanted to play basketball at some point. Another time, I got interested in parkour and wanted to do that. Later, I got interested in martial arts. I saw all kinds of videos where I watched people do these things. I wanted to start.

My parents never let me do them. It was too much of a hassle to drive me to a place where I can do something in the real world. It was easier to just leave me with my iPad, being overstimulated in my little room.

I never developed any real social skills. I am horribly myopic and basically blind without my glasses. It feels like my whole childhood went by in just the blink of an eye when I try to remember it, because nothing ever really happened. I was first exposed to porn at 11 and was immediately addicted. This porn addiction stayed with me for years afterward. At the age of 14, I stumbled into various political extremist communities and was radicalized, leading me to espouse their views. I was pulled into all kinds of dark extremism without even knowing it.

When I went into high school, I could not connect with anybody. I couldn't even keep a basic conversation going. I could not make any friends, because I was simply incapable. I could not comprehend the concept of being social or establishing friendships. During my entire 4 years of high school, I made a total of 2 friends. I watched everybody else around me socialize and it would sometimes make me cry, because I did not know how to interact with people and create real connections like everybody else. Whenever I talked to people, they seemed repulsed by me, because I had no understanding of social norms or proper mannerisms. I would unintentionally push everybody away. I felt robbed of my teenage years.

To this day, I feel like I am still dealing with the consequences. I have since kicked the ideology I was brainwashed into believing in by assholes online. My social skills have improved drastically, but I still have other issues that I am working through. I feel like I might be damaged in all kinds of other ways that I am not even aware of yet. It angers me knowing that I could have had a real childhood, real connections, and real experiences. I still resent my parents for being so complacent, leaving me in my room for the internet to raise me and turn me into a cave dwelling freak.

Heyuri! I'm RICH!!!!

I just made 130 $$$

What should I buy?

so we still using this site or is it dead to Heyuri

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Bocchi teh butt!

i miss old mmd videos...(´￢`)

Is gooey here?

I'm a huge sucker for hime cutz (´￢`)

if you were an airline pilot and unhappy with your life would you consider suicide by pilot? (intentionally crashing your plane)

What a beautiful photograph.

About a year back I found a site with funny pokemon cards with user submitted images.
https://www.mypokecard.com/en/Card-Gallery

I've recently looked through more of the pages and found it to be quite strange. I've learned the following:
-This site is old. Not Usenet or Google old, but the earliest submitted entry appears around 2007.
-New entries are still being posted to the site to this day. I've seen entries with dates 2008-2025.
-There's a version of the site in French, Japanese and Polish. Each appears to have a different set of images.
-There doesn't appear to be a lot of coverage of this website on the internet. The only things I've found are a few reddit threads.

Looking through the gallery feels like a time capsule of internet cultural evolution, and even history in general. I'm not going to spoil it much since it's better to see it first-hand. I also don't think it's been raided after all these years, yet there's been constant activity (and someone maintaining server costs) over that time period. This site feels weird. Do you remember using it in the 2010s?

Fair warning if you're visiting the site: the infrastructure appears to be quite fragile. Flipping through the pages for 2 minutes straight throws an SQL error, and I had to wait a minute before continuing.

Here are some of funny images I've found looking through it. Feel free to post anymore that you've found on the site!

i been busy watching japanese movies, which one should i watch? Today I saw One Million Yen Girl