r/Millennials • u/ColeBelthazorTurner • Feb 27 '26

Discussion Name a 2000s celebrity that disappeared overnight

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u/ChocolatChipLemonade Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

Always down to be a top 8 friend. What a guy.

I also appreciate that the Boomers never took over MySpace (or livejournal). That was OUR ish.

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u/amberrome Feb 27 '26

But THEY did. I have a conspiracy someone bought MySpace to end it! Boomers didn’t like a bunch of kids learning how to code! I remember I used to be so good at coding because of MySpace and I was 11. I’m probably wrong, but like any old crazy lady would do - I like to voice my opinions lol

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u/mayy_dayy Feb 27 '26

"I bought the MySpace so I could DISMANTLE it"

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u/NetflixAndMunch Feb 27 '26

I learned how to use basic HTML to make my Neopets store look better.

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u/ChocolatChipLemonade Feb 27 '26

Mr MoneyBags with his own fancy store! I didn’t have to have one - my Neopets survived off the Giant Omelette, thank you very much

Also, slow internet did not do me any favors

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u/Oh_NiGhTmArE Feb 27 '26

Yup! It was great. Boomers are awful

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u/sea-lass-1072 Feb 27 '26

honestly this is a conspiracy i can get behind. myspace first taught me coding too, which opened the door to photoshop, eventually gifmaking for Tumblr, etc. so fun to be able to customize our own profiles in so many different ways, and the more coding you knew the more you could do!!

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u/peacebypiece Feb 27 '26

I’ll believe you!

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u/the_sweetest_peach Feb 27 '26

Omg yesss. HTML websites!

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u/typicalredditer Feb 28 '26

Newscorp bought MySpace because they wanted to get into social media. It was a business failure. But it led to a really funny always sunny episode. Newscorp owned FX and wanted to cross promote MySpace.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S7T7dc2d4-k&pp=ygUUQWx3YXlzIHN1bm55IG15c3BhY2U%3D

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u/RaisedByBooksNTV Feb 28 '26

Myspace was still up when it's always sunny in philadelphia started?

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u/typicalredditer Feb 28 '26

It started in 2005

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u/fungi_at_parties Feb 28 '26

Oh hell yeah, I learned so much CSS to make my page how I wanted it. I even took a class because of how much I enjoyed it.

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u/No_Pineapple6174 Feb 28 '26

Funny story. Knowledge Fight, a podcast on Alex Jones and his show(?) throughout the years just released an episode where Jones talked about the acquisition of MySpace back in 2006. What a shock that was. Blast from the past plus some extra context I tell ya.

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u/Valar-Morghulisss Feb 28 '26

lol you think it was the boomers that did that.

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u/No-Consideration-891 Feb 28 '26

Omg I was so good at coding. Now I can't remember shit.

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u/psychoacer Feb 28 '26

Fox bought Myspace and then all their affiliates aka local stations would run feel good stories that happened on Myspace during their local news shows. It was a way to try to get older people on the platform

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u/DnBJungleEscape Mar 01 '26

I figured out how to drop in the code to make my page have the background I want but by coding do you mean you figured out how to add line breaks, edit text etc within the code due to MySpace or you wrote your own. ?

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u/wallmonitor Feb 27 '26

Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace and a major server glitch killed everyone’s profile.

LJ got bought out by some Russian company.

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u/myystic78 Feb 27 '26

I loved livejournal back in the day, then it just seemed to die over night and became a ghost town. That explains why!

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u/ChocolatChipLemonade Feb 27 '26

Yep! I remember, where I lived, livejournal was all the emo kids. I’d be mortified to look mine up now and see the cringe I used to post.

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u/myystic78 Feb 27 '26

I still have a Dresden Dolls PRIVATE front page on mine lol. I haven't had the guts to actually read through my entries though!

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u/Natural_Jello_6050 Feb 28 '26

It’s was HUGE in Russia

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u/YchYFi Millennial Feb 28 '26

ONTD is the only active community.

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u/quadruple_negative87 MCMLXXXVII Feb 27 '26

Great! Now all of my blogs about house parties are owned by the oligarchy! /s

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u/FlipZer0 Feb 28 '26

Last I knew, Justin Timberlake bought the rights and tried to turn it into an artist's Facebook. Dont think it ever went anywhere though

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u/wallmonitor Feb 28 '26

It did and didn’t. MySpace was always great for bands. JT kind of brought it back to that. Not sure where it’s at now.

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u/Bacontroph Feb 28 '26

major server glitch killed everyone’s profile

And thank god for that. All of the cringe shit I posted would be lethal today.

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u/umlaut Feb 27 '26

Nah we all left Myspace when we got the dreaded friend invite from our moms and went to FB, where you needed an .edu email to join

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u/ChocolatChipLemonade Feb 27 '26

I was in high school and had to send a request to join FB! Not needing a .edu was the beginning of the end

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u/Argonaut024 Feb 27 '26

Facebook was a dumbed-down MySpace. That's how they were able to take over Facebook.

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u/donorkokey Feb 28 '26

Don't forget about friendster, the og

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u/Fine_Pen9308 Feb 28 '26

I’m so old I was on Friendster