Woah. So far, I’ve been super brazen about this whole reddit fiasco; I told myself that if this is how they want to go, then I wish them a painful downfall.

But seeing a community that played such a substantial role in my self-discovery close down forever… It’s hitting me in a way I honestly couldn’t have predicted. This subreddit, along with /r/egg_irl, forced me to confront things that I had pushed down since childhood.

This really feels like the end of an era, as silly as that may sound.