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I'm still on Second Life, which is a virtual world social platform. It has ~45,000 given active people on it, which is a piss squirt compared to other online platforms like MMOs and MMORPGs. But, nobody I know are into it save for about 5 people at least.
And I still somehow am bothering with Gaia Online which has even less users, from 1,500 ~ 4,400 on a good day and only know 2 friends on there.
Oh man, Second Life! I remember being absolutely wowed by it even though I never made an account. Its heyday was very much before I'd be able or brave enough to use real money in a virtual social game like that. (That wasn't WoW lol)
I always fondly remember the lovable antics of the legendary troll: Esteban Winsmore!
Gaia Online reminds me a lot of Ragnarok, visually. That's cool it's still around! I remember hopping around F2P MMOs like crazy just trying to find something me and my long distance partner could interact together and vibe with. There were a lot of oddball ones that are shockingly still around!
Every so often I go through a phase:
"Second Life was fun. Why did I stop using it?"
Recreate account, log in.
Watch FPS drop to a fraction with a lot of zeroes at the start of it as all the adverts struggle to load.
"Oh, yeah. That was why."
Gaia Online still exists??
I was just thinking about second life the other day when someone brought up meta and its push for the 'metaverse.' I still remember the old pranks of making it rain dildos in someone's area, or enclosing their head in a box.