User's dramatic return: neither dead nor buried
The dramatic return of a user who threatened to make everyone pay: neither dead nor buried, just waiting for his epic moment
English · Original discussion in Spanish · Published
The art of never quite dying in an online community
The scene repeats itself every so often in the most veteran corners of the internet. A user disappears without warning, the group writes them off, and suddenly, a thread with a grandiose title breaks the routine: "I'm not dead, you shouldn't have buried me." The message comes with comic threats —"ONE BY ONE, YOU WILL ALL PAY"— and a declaration of intent: to emulate the legendary return of Qualicion, another member who, a decade ago, marked a before and after with a now legendary video.
The returning user didn't hold back. He proposed meetups in El Perellonet to settle differences with fists, and the responses ranged from mockery —"you'll come back as a hubcap"— to reminders that we were already well aware of his absence. Some asked if he had been hospitalized; he replied that he was just resting, but with the obsession of making an epic return.
The curious thing about all this is that, beyond the noise, these returns say something about social life in long-running forums. Digital identity, however much it's denied, is missed. And when someone comes back, the community activates its rituals: irony to play things down, memories of old glories and the complicity of those still around. In the end, nobody has really died, but the drama well deserves a thread.
The scene repeats itself every so often in the most veteran corners of the internet. A user disappears without warning, the group writes them off, and suddenly, a thread with a grandiose title breaks the routine: "I'm not dead, you shouldn't have buried me." The message comes with comic threats —"ONE BY ONE, YOU WILL ALL PAY"— and a declaration of intent: to emulate the legendary return of Qualicion, another member who, a decade ago, marked a before and after with a now legendary video.
The returning user didn't hold back. He proposed meetups in El Perellonet to settle differences with fists, and the responses ranged from mockery —"you'll come back as a hubcap"— to reminders that we were already well aware of his absence. Some asked if he had been hospitalized; he replied that he was just resting, but with the obsession of making an epic return.
The curious thing about all this is that, beyond the noise, these returns say something about social life in long-running forums. Digital identity, however much it's denied, is missed. And when someone comes back, the community activates its rituals: irony to play things down, memories of old glories and the complicity of those still around. In the end, nobody has really died, but the drama well deserves a thread.
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