hey matt
not to sound weird but i’m genuinely curious, how do you know vondell?
GET READY FOR THE BEST STORY EVER
I was a staff member on a forum called POKEMON TREASURES at age 12. It was a fangame dedicated to recreating the Johto region with two made up adjacent regions and I’m still really in love with most of the ideas we had for it.
Vondell, age 10, joined under a screenname that another user misread as containing the word “Minty” despite having the word “Almighty”. He became known permanently as Minty~Fresh Blaziken.
At one point he was banned for posting too much. Our admin absolutely abhorred him because she was really mean. I played along because I was mean. He made a new account.
Shadolf, the admin, promoted Vondell to admin. He stuck around not doing much as we all laughed. Then he was banned again. I then spoke the greatest words I will ever speak
SORRY TO BE MEAN, BUT YOU REALLY WERE ANNOYING. I GOT SKOOL’D LIKE THIS, WELL NOT AS BAD, AND I WANTED TO PASS ON THE FUN. SO AT THE TIME WHEN YOUR 12 OR SO, SKOOL A 10 YEAR OLD TO HELL!
He came back a few times later and I was a lot nicer to him then but I will never forget the time I skooled a 10 year old Vondell to hell
And then somehow 8 fucking years later we ended up in the same circles on Tumblr by some weird divine miracle. We followed each other at friends until he noticed my Twitter username matched my old PT username. And then he told me who he was
And I have not stopped laughing since
