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A Look Into Old BZP


Well, moderately old.  I've had some of this screenshots on my computers since 2014ish.  Names and avatars of the most controversial ones have been blacked out and don't ask for the originals unless you're also offering a lot of money.  

Let's start with a lighter one:

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There was a weird feature that let people link their Twitter (at that time not known as X) to their status updates and this led to some strange updates (I have another saved that it absolutely NSFBZP).  

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Something you had to be there for, checking BZP one last time before bed and seeing some serious drama starting or rule breaking happening, and then checking in the morning and (if you're lucky) being able to see what led to someone being banned (that's if the posts/blog entries weren't deleted overnight).  But for the record, this status update wasn't deleted (probably because it's evidence for law enforcement) so I'm not re-uploading deleted content. 

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On a happier note, I used to keep track of my posts and views but it includes other old info too.  This is from August 2016 apparently.

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I got on the front page once!

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Finally, one of the few good (?) things about the updates going away is it got rid of a lot of evidence of when I was not okay.  

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I saved the rest of what I wrote, but since no one reacted to it at the time, it's probably for the best I not share it (but seriously that was a rough time for me).  

Kinda wish I had saved more of old BZP but whatever, today is tomorrow's history.  

-JAG

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Edelgard

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I see me in the first one! 

Kinda wish I had screenshots of BZP from through the years, but alas. 

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JAG18

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3 hours ago, kawaii kitty said:

don't you want us to celebrate your birthday?

I mean, my birthday is still on my profile now.  A long time ago, I read some online privacy advice that you shouldn't have your birthday and birth year publicly available ( don't remember why though).  Either way, I removed my birth year from my profile after they became available to view by non-members, but that screenshot was obviously taken before that.  

It's probably silly considering how much of my info is online and how little effort I've made to keep my various online profiles hard to trace, but I think the ideal of privacy still matters.  

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kawaii kitty

Posted

same! peolpe don't take online privacy seriously enough nowadays, and data selling is at a all time high.

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Makuta Luroka

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On 3/27/2026 at 1:47 PM, kawaii kitty said:

same! peolpe don't take online privacy seriously enough nowadays, and data selling is at a all time high.

I think its moreso that it feels like a moot point when there is materially very little you can actually do to control your online information in the face of a multi-billion dollar data brokering industry

 

as a side note, seeing "Alola form Pahrak" fills me with glee and nostalgia for the best pokemon generation

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