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[recollecters]

Welcome to Retrospec™, the last social media network you will ever need. You are one of the few selected to test this exciting new platform based on our cutting-edge algorithms. Less than two hundred invitations have gone out, and membership is not currently open to the public. However, we hope you will come to see how useful Retrospec™ is, given time. We have for your use a variety of features such as text, voice, video, and image posts. We encourage you to explore our many options. Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. As a reminder, everything besides uploading a profile picture and information was locked until this post. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently. Oddly, profile pictures still cannot be swapped out at this time, so hopefully you took a good one. This post is an overflow from the original post here. Feel free to either carry over threads from there or create entirely new ones.

Comments

[swordere]

( original top level here, new tag-ins are super welcome )

( for caroline )

[swordere]

"lol remember that stupid marketing trick for that app that never caught on"

...or something like that.

[oceanicbutterfly]

"petition to bring back retrospec so we can finally escape tumblr dot hell"

[swordere]

We will look at the burning remains of other social media sites, shake our heads, and say "retrospec™ was the real hero we deserved"

[oceanicbutterfly]

1 like = 1 prayer for retrospec to rise again

[swordere]

I can't wait for Retrospec 2.0, which will surely take off unlike its sadly doomed predecessor.

( for alicia )

[swordere]

I'm only using it for a little while. You can't exactly blame me for being curious about what's going on, right?

I'm not planning to keep using it. I don't really like social media that much anyway.

[rosettareflected]

I'm the same way - I'm very curious about what this represents and why I'm part of it. But I'll keep using it, because perhaps I'll get an answer to those questions in the process. I'm not terribly interested in social media a whole lot myself, but there's no time like the present, right? When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

[swordere]

And if the answer turns out to simply be "the software glitched and we didn't fix it"? Will you still use it?

[rosettareflected]

Then maybe I'll be attached to it by then. Or I'll just abandon it and switch back to Twitter. I don't know, I haven't really thought about it yet.

[swordere]

Maybe if it starts getting more use.

...I feel a little bad. I have a twitter and barely even use it. Even if it's not my thing, it's a little sad, an account just gathering up dust.

( for rachel )

[swordere]

I think we can all agree it's strange.

If several people have said as much, it's probably for a good reason. You should probably listen. As weird as this is, I don't think it's anything to worry about.

( for rachel )

[clear_eyes]

Maybe. It'd certainly be comforting.

... I hope we didn't just jinx anything, though.

[swordere]

It's still only an app. There's only so much it can possibly do.

But if I did jinx it and it turns out this was the sign of some huge conspiracy, you're free to blame me for it. I'm giving you permission.

[clear_eyes]

Heh. I'll hold you to it if it comes to that.

But I really really hope it doesn't.

[swordere]

This isn't some kind of... I don't know, conspiracy thriller. So I doubt it'll ever come to that.

( for honoka )

[swordere]

On the one hand, it seems a little underwhelming for him to be just the classic type of alien, instead of something super demonic looking.

On the other hand, now I'm imagining a bug-eyed gray alien ruling over hell and laughing maniacally and that's a good mental image.

👽 😈 👽 😈 👽

[korekara]

does he have a cape
i feel like he should have a cape???
and maybe like a little gold crown too
bc he's prince

[swordere]

Hail Alien Satan.

[completely not minding her own business by charging in at the sight of this while scrolling around]

[strongestheart]

HEY

THAT COULD TOTALLY BE THAT THING THAT OTHER GUY HAD A PICTURE OF EARLIER.

[Is she completely serious or not... oh dear.]

[korekara]

i love the little jewels on his crown they're a perfect finishing touch
do you think his cape has a retrospec logo on the back
since aliens did it and everything

( for karkat )

[swordere]

Right, that's so ridiculous. What's it even doing, pulling our names from other places on our phones? What kind of app just forces that on people?
I would't mind the option to go without my last name.

[Mostly because her whole name is a pun and she doesn't like to advertise that, thanks.]

You know what, on second thought? I'm changing my score.
☆☆☆☆☆

[alienates]

Does this thing even have a review feature?

[swordere]

No. It just makes me feel better.

[alienates]

In that case
☆☆☆☆☆

Hm. You're right.
I do feel better.