Here's a story from 2012 I have been a fan of Silent Hill since around 2010 when I watched the first movie with my mom. I fell in love with the series and eventually discovered the website silenthill.wikia.com. I made an account with the username LisaGarlandNurse and got involved with the small community on there at the time. I was like 11 years old and I loved to lie. When I made my account, I googled "scene girl" and scrolled until I stumbled across some random girl's blog. I saved some pictures of her before making one my profile picture and going by the name Laurie. I was obsessed with Rob Zombie's Halloween movies at the time. Wikia (which is now Fandom) sites used to have chat rooms that you could join and talk to other members of the site. Over the span of a few months, I was very active in the Silent Hill chat room. My memories of that time now are pretty faint, but I can still picture me in my room late at night talking to strangers. One memory that sticks out is when a member walked me through Silent Hill 1 and helped me beat the game, all through a chat room. I remember the first time I played Silent Hill 1 was after I got home from auditioning for 6th grade band, which my grandma forced me into. I was eating subway while playing. I could not get past the first part of the game because I was not smart enough lmfao. I was a child! I used up all my ammo as soon as I got it and died over and over. I don't remember what led to it, but one day a stranger stayed in the chat room with me for hours and walked me through everything I needed to do to get the best ending. Whoever that person is, I hope they are doing well. They made an impact on my life! Anyways... Everything else that happened in those chat rooms was problematic. I lied, manipulated, stirred the pot, and just bullied other members. I was a nuisance! Most of the people on there were in their late teens to probably their 30s. I lied and said I was 19... I wish I had the chat logs. I can only imagine what kind of situations 11 year old me was stirring up. I've recently tried to find all of the public posts and blogs from the time, but I don't think they exist anymore. I haven't tried searching the internet archive though, so maybe there's something there. I don't know. There's nothing on my profile now. All I have are these screenshots that I took back in (I think) 2019 when I was looking back on the situation. These are things other members were saying at the time. I was being messy in the chat rooms and I would make blog posts talking shit about other members. I don't know what the hell was wrong with me lmfao. At some point I made another account where I was myself. I don't think I was as mean on that account as I was as "Laurie", but I don't remember. That is the account I used when that person walked me through SH1. I was honest about my age though, and they were strict about the rules. I was 11 and you had to be 13 to have an account. I got banned a few times, I think I kept making accounts after being banned. This is a post letting me know why that account was banned! I also said that I was Laurie's little brother. And then one day, I logged in on my Laurie account and saw this post. I freaked out. I remember making another account, with ANOTHER PICTURE of some random scene girl from google. I joined the chat room and tried to defend Laurie by claiming that I was her sister, Annie, and that Laurie was totally real! These people were grown.. they saw right through my bullshit. They all eventually figured out that every account was actually me, an 11 year old. And then I made this post. And that's the end! I left and didn't come back until I was 18. I updated my profile and wanted to see if any of the people I interacted with were still active, but they weren't. Well, most of them weren't. Last year I combed through as many posts as I could find to see what happened. There was a lot of drama that went down in the years after I left. Most of those people are inactive now. I wonder what they are up to. Do they still love Silent Hill? Do they remember all the drama I caused (at the time of writing this) 13 years ago? Probably not. But it's fun to think about. Thanks for checking this page out! I love telling stories from my past :D If you liked this, check out the page with my Roblox messages from 2009 to 2012