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It was a hazy Wednesday morning in November 1994. The internet was small, but new, and it was easy to wander into completely unknown territory online. There were still a few centralized hubs of communication, distant predecessors to today’s social media sites, such as the Usenet newsgroups. Usenet, much like any social media, had its own adult-oriented corners, if you knew where to look. And on November 16th, 1994, users who went looking through Usenet’s erotica section would find a new new post containing a Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers fan fiction called Agony in Pink. It was a popular kid’s show at the time, and users who clicked on this fan fiction likely laughed at its lengthy content warning, likely thought, “How could this ever be that bad? Wait…what about needles? What are they doing to her fingernails?!”

It cannot be understated how controversial Agony in Pink was in the 1990s. Today, the idea of a shocking fan fiction may sound quaint, as the bar for “the worst thing ever” is higher and lower than ever; plenty of fan fictions have since outdone Agony‘s depravity, while people online seem to find a new “worst thing ever” every week in Tiktok cringe compilations. A sadomasochist fan fiction may be mundane by today’s standards, but in 1994, Agony in Pink was practically a creepypasta, sending out shockwaves that have since turned it into an urban legend. It even got an entire website banned in Australia.

Today, we’ll be going through one of the most winding rabbit holes the Gonzo Brigadoon has ever seen, telling the story of one of the earliest internet fandom controversies, and debunking some of its infamy. Squeamish readers may want to skip this one, since it tackles a handful of mysterious, hardcore fan fictions that some netizens have called the worst they’ve ever read…but, if you’re comfortable, you’re bound to learn a little more about a decades-old unsolved mystery. If there’s one thing I want people to rely on the Gonzo Brigadoon for, it’s coverage and context about the wildest shit you’ve never heard of.

Part I: The Story Itself

Agony in Pink first debuted on Usenet, an early form of mass online communication that can best compared to Reddit in how most boards (or groups) are displayed, created, and made open to the public by default. There were newsgroups for almost every topic and event, and within them, subgroups; the layers of these newsgroups were designated with a period in the group name, like the slashes in a file location path. For example, there was the “alt” directory for alternative subcultures and topics. Within that was “alt.sex”, a directory for everything to do with sexuality. And then, where our story takes place, was “alt.sex.stories”, a group for sharing erotic literature.

PteraRanger, later the Pink Ranger (source)

It’s easy to understand what happens in Agony in Pink without actually reading it. It is a fan fiction set within the first two seasons of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, the American localization of Kyoryuu Sentai Zyuranger, a monster-of-the-week action series. Generally, only the Japanese footage of monsters, suited actors, and special effects was used in Power Rangers, so the characters’ civilian lives were re-imagined entirely. The pink-suited hero of the team, an ancient princess named Mei, was changed to a trendy American cheerleader named Kimberly Hart. Power Rangers was a show intended for elementary school children, but in 1994, Kimberly was popular enough in online fandom spaces to have a sub-group of adult fans. It was similar to when adults online became obsessed with Elastigirl around the same time as The Incredibles 2‘s theatrical release. At one point, there was even a Usenet subgroup called “alt.sex.fetish.power-rangers.kimberly.tight-spandex” dedicated to images of Kimberly in the Ranger suit. Power Rangers was also at the height of its initial craze, airing its second season ever; with all this in mind, imagine the shock users would have felt if they went into Usenet’s adult fiction section, clicked on a new post, and were subjected to Kimberly being tortured to death by alien monsters.

This post was the first part of a document called Agony in Pink. Its author, “The Dark Ranger”, didn’t put their work out in the open, but they certainly didn’t put it somewhere niche; “alt.sex.stories” was a general group for pornographic texts and literature, and it was not hard to get access to. To once again compare Usenet to Reddit, imagine if you went onto r/eroticliterature and the first new post that day was a torture-snuff fan fiction based on a kid’s show. Dark Ranger’s original first post has been archived in its entirety, but be extremely cautious if you choose to read it. The Dark Ranger knew they were posting in a general group, so they were polite enough to provide a brief general summary of the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers plot, before warning, “The story which you are about to read is a fantasy, and will not be to everybody’s tastes. It is pretty strong and contains graphic violence, sex, and torture, and despite the fact that the bad guys are clearly not realistic (rubber monsters) it may still be upsetting. I’m sure I don’t have to say that, despite that fact that it is a Power Rangers story, it is NOT for kids. If this type of story is not to your tastes, please do not read or download.” Over time, hardcore erotic literature collectors would go on to collect and archive the story’s various incarnations, but everyone else greeted the Dark Ranger with shock and contempt.

The story is as follows with no hyperbole: Lord Zedd, the main antagonist of Power Rangers‘ second season, is bemoaning how he can’t seem to destroy the Power Rangers once and for all. He begins listening in on Earth’s radio broadcasts, and discovers the concept of torture from an NPR discussion hosted by Amnesty International. Zedd hadn’t previously thought of torture due to his alien high tolerance to pain. He sends his henchmen down to Earth to steal copies of various literature that would assist in torture, including medical textbooks, and documents from “the CIA, KGB, and other agencies“. Zedd turns this pile of literature into a monster named Tortura, a multicoloured, rubbery humanoid with human-like hands.

Lord Zedd’s taunt, from Agony in Pink – The Special Edition

Zedd’s henchmen soon kidnap Kimberly from her school’s locker room and teleport her into Zedd’s lair. She is taken into Tortura’s torture chamber lab and restrained; the use of a cat-o-nine-tails ensues. The other Rangers and their mentor, Zordon, are able to figure out Zedd has kidnapped Kimberly and is detaining her, but while they try to find a way to Tortura’s lab, they get further glimpses of the torture, all of which involves needles or unpleasant sensory experiences. Eventually, Kimberly is disfigured to death, and her body is teleported into the Rangers’ central command, to which their wacky robot sidekick shouts, “Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi, Kimberly’s been tortured to death!

Zordon suggests having to find a replacement for the Pink Ranger, which makes all of the Rangers furious, and some of the Rangers even quit their duty on the spot. Zedd begins to declare victory because, by making the surviving Rangers quit, he has officially gotten rid of the Power Rangers once and for all. The end.

Within a month, the Dark Ranger was already seeing waves of messages: one half people asking for their own copies of the stories, and the other half reeling with disgust. As time stretched on, some users in Power Rangers fan circles even refused to believe it was real. The Power Rangers fandom had more than its share of urban legends back in the day, such as the alleged short film “Scorpion Rain”, which also revolved around descriptions of a rare piece of media too good to be true. Fan discussions about Agony were said to often conclude with users assuming it was just a sick hoax. However, the complete text could be found online for free or requested via email if one knew where to look. The fan fiction had been given a limited release at the Dark Ranger’s request, as they prefaced their stories with disclaimers warning others not to send it to unwilling readers nor post it where minors could find it.

The Dark Ranger took on a sort of meme status within the Power Rangers fandom as a depraved boogeyman. One multi-user joke roleplay featured a character based on the Dark Ranger, along with numerous pop culture references from 1996. Meanwhile, a user was cyberbullied by someone pretending to be the Dark Ranger who emailed them portions of the fan fiction, vowing that they’d do these acts both to Kimberly’s actress and to the bullying target. A college student even painted a scene from Agony in Pink, although all traces of this painting seem to be lost to time. The story was certainly leaving a variety of impressions on other users.

Elsewhere during this time, the Dark Ranger released a “special edition” of Agony in Pink, cleaning up the formatting and refining its writing style. That same year, they released Agony in Pink 2: A New Ending, which served as a fleshed-out (pun intended) remake of the original story, which Dark Ranger compared to Evil Dead and its remake-sequel Evil Dead 2. In 1998, their second-last fan fiction, Agony in Yellow, took place within Power Rangers Turbo and involved the torment of Ashley Hammond, the Yellow Turbo Ranger. Agony in Pink had two alternate versions and a sequel, but the original 1994 document was what lived on as shock material.

Fear and loathing on Usenet boards would not be the peak of Agony in Pink‘s infamy. In February 2000, Electronic Frontiers Australia board member Danny Yee submitted a 1998 repost of Agony in Pink to the Australian government for rating consideration. It was reviewed, and in response, the Australian Broadcasting Authority instituted blocks of the deja.com Usenet archives for the alt.sex newsgroup and its derivative groups. These blocks were done through national internet service providers, meaning individual consumers could not access large portions of deja.com on their home computers. Yee later explained he submitted Agony along with other pornographic internet uploads, such as excerpts from the novel Eat Me by Linda Jaivin, just to measure the ABA’s threshold for pornographic content. This ban was eventually scaled back, but Agony in Pink still stands as the one time a fan fiction was deemed so graphic that an entire country’s government tried to bar access to it.

Part II: Profiling the Ranger

The Dark Ranger only put their name on six stories. It is hard to pin down who they were by interests, because all of their fan fictions were based on the most popular western media of the time, mainly Power Rangers, Star Wars, and The X-Files. DR teased a seventh story, “Sarah’s Last Assignment”, based on the Melrose Place spin-off Models Inc., but the story was never posted online. DR had one original story called “Holly’s Home Invasion” that they initially released in three parts, but re-uploads of the story after 1999 compiled it into a single document. There is a different, longer “Holly’s Home Invasion” by a user named Andromeda, but these stories are related in title alone; DR’s Holly is a young woman harangued by a roving pack of sadistic lesbians, while Andromeda’s Holly is a middle-aged woman living out part of the author’s own traumatic home invasion experience.

It must be said that while the Dark Ranger’s writing was sadistic, they weren’t writing like this solely to upset others. They were edgy, but with their own internal logic. One of the Dark Ranger’s rare non-fan fiction public posts came in February 1995 when they commented on the criminal investigation into Jake Baker, a Michigan university student, who was arrested after creating at least one torture/snuff fan fiction with a female character based on and named after a woman in his Japanese language class. It was one of the earliest cases of internet free speech being challenged in America, and the Dark Ranger weighed in on the situation. DR concluded, “If [Baker] actually made direct threats to the woman or made actual plans to carry out an attack, then he’s going to jail, where he belongs. If not, he will eventually end up before a judge who has actually read the Constitution and Baker will be set free.

Some may see their take as being too on-the-fence, but this was written during a time where internet privacy and free speech were both highly contested, no matter the situation. If today’s memes about taking a police officer’s gun or assassinating various political figures were posted during the mid-1990s, they would have been fully investigated by the FBI. The internet was much smaller during this time, which also contributed to Agony‘s infamy. In the modern era, you can find plenty of fetish forums and erotic literature websites on the surface web that allow users to share almost anything, so long as it does not constitute a legitimate threat; but back then, users had to find each other and then communicate through email, or find the closest adult-oriented posting venue and hope for the best. Some idiot posting a fan fiction involving a real person would today be seen as bad taste, or a defamation case at most, but in the 1990s it would be a potential criminal case by default.

The Dark Ranger also seemed to have some scruples. Not long after the release of Agony in Pink‘s special edition, an alt.sex.stories user named Jazz411 begged DR to write a similar story about Red Striker Beetleborg from Big Bad Beetleborgs. In the original series, Juukou B-Fighter, the Beetleborgs were young adults, but they were children in the re-shot American footage. This user was asking for a scenario as grim as Agony in Pink involving a character who was, both in fiction and in portrayal, a 10-year-old girl. The Dark Ranger never acknowledged Jazz411, while a separate user named Bob Blechinger basically told them to go piss up a rope.

Additionally, the Dark Ranger made frequent public statements begging people to be responsible with copies of the story. In the previously mentioned 1996 cyberbullying incident, the person impersonating the Dark Ranger had been telling his target that he wanted to also harm the actress of Kimberly Hart. Meanwhile, the Dark Ranger prefaced Agony in Pink 2 with the following disclaimer:

I wish to stress very strongly that the story is NOT about the actresses who play Kimberly and Katherine (Amy Jo Johnson and Catherine Sutherland, respectively.) It is about the FICTIONAL CHARACTERS they play on a TV show.  It was very disturbing to me to hear "Agony in Pink" referred to as "the Amy Jo Johnson Torture Story" on a few forums when the story was always about a fictional character.  If you don't think you can separate fantasy from reality, you should stop reading now.

The Dark Ranger made it clear that they were not that user’s harasser, nor anyone else’s Dark Ranger boogeyman; moreover, they weren’t writing these stories to harass the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers actresses. They also didn’t want Agony in Pink subjected to anyone who didn’t consent to read about needle torture:

Do not e-mail the story to anybody, since it could be just a kid looking for "The Power Rangers Sex Story." If you repost it, repost it ONLY in an appropriate adults-only forum. If you repost it, repost it COMPLETE, with all introductions and warnings, and make sure you acknowledge my authorship and include my anonymous copyright.
This is your last chance - if you read on, you can't say I didn't warn you.

There is almost something admirable about the Dark Ranger’s dedication to keeping their story in the right places. As much as they may have relished in the infamy, they had nothing to do with stoking the hype and chaos around the story. They especially had nothing to do with the fad of daring one’s friends to look up Agony in Pink and start reading it blind. The Ranger was edgy, but they weren’t out to scare anyone on purpose.

The Dark Ranger had taken precautions to cloak their identity during their heyday. During the early internet, a user’s email was closely attached to their Usenet profile, whereas most modern social media allows users to keep their contact information private. DR first posted Agony in Pink via Penet, a remailer service. These are encrypted, anonymous email redirects that can forward and receive messages for a regular email address. These sorts of services were also demonized during the early internet, as Penet in particular was frequently maligned with accusations of aiding and abetting criminal activity, and was forced to shut down after two incidents of someone using Penet’s services to leak Church of Scientology internal documents to alt.religion.scientology. After this shutdown, the Dark Ranger began using the MailAnon remailer, and a vanity email address hosted by Internet Connection Inc. (now known as North Atlantic Networks), which allowed users to keep up to 5 email inboxes per account. These cloaking endeavours largely worked, and the Dark Ranger dropped off the internet before the year 2000, likely missing the whole circus that happened months later in Australia.

As the decades crawled on, people online – both in and outside the Power Rangers fandom – couldn’t fully move past the existence of Agony in Pink. Since 1994, the internet has been host to far more disturbing literature, but most of these stories have since been attached to an author and/or debunked as a “troll” fic, as in, something designed from all angles to be upsetting. For example, a My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fan fiction called “Cupcakes” by Sergeant Sprinkles gained notoriety throughout the early 2010s due to its extreme content involving cartoon horses torturing each other. A year later, a Gravity Falls fan fiction called “Dipper Goes to Taco Bell” by MASTAofTehcitrusFruits features scatological horrors and gore, and then ends with the series’s two young main characters being turned into Taco Bell meat. The authors of these fan fictions, like many other trollfic writers, had intended to make their works thoroughly unenjoyable. Meanwhile, what made Agony in Pink linger in peoples’ minds was how the Dark Ranger intended it as genuine sadomasochist erotica. Nobody knew anything about the person who created it, which added to the terror of its existence; anyone could have written it, and whoever they were, they intended most of the story to be sexy.

Part III: The Ranger Lives

r/powerrangers users speculate on the Dark Ranger’s identity

In June 2014, users on the r/PowerRangers subreddit began to speculate on what happened to the Dark Ranger. The users who remembered Agony in Pink were repulsed, some insisting they shouldn’t dig them out of the past, while a few users remained curious. A day later, Reddit user powless77 made an Ask Me Everything request for the Dark Ranger. This was posted to the IAmA subreddit, a board dedicated to hosting public questions-and-answers panels with people of all jobs, types, and hobbies. This request went out as a beacon, but whatever powless77 wrote in the original post has been lost to time; it likely contained a summary of Agony in Pink, and an r/IAmA moderator may have deemed it too inappropriate for the subreddit.

This beacon did not go unanswered. On October 3rd, 2014, almost twenty years to the date of Agony in Pink‘s original release, the Dark Ranger landed in the Power Rangers subreddit. DR had created a dedicated account for their moniker, once again ensuring their real world privacy. They made a declaration, which some may find frightening but I found intriguing: “I’m comfortable enough to finally let people know I’m still here on the internet.” The Dark Ranger was still online, elsewhere, living a separate civilian life.

Only few users responded to the thread. Some were repulsed, and others didn’t know who the Dark Ranger was until Agony in Pink was mentioned by name. Only one real question was asked in this post: user NyaKatey asked DR how old they were when they originally created their story, and DR replied that they were 15 years old. “I was a tortured soul,” they joked.

Each of the Dark Ranger’s replies garnered downvotes; this negative point score lingers to this day. The Ask Me Everything post cooled, and the Dark Ranger abandoned their account, likely sensing there was nothing else for them in there. Just like they had done almost 15 years earlier, the Dark Ranger faded back into the annals of the internet, leaving only a windswept trail of breadcrumbs to their regular, real life.

Various visceral reactions to Agony in Pink

Tracking them down would not be easy…nor should it be done. The only clues left to time were the usernames of people who ever interacted publicly with the Dark Ranger, each of them just barely daisy-chained to little bits and pieces of information. Originally, I planned to find DR and do an anonymous interview with them, but the closer I got to their present location, the more I realized I was being a weirdo. Over the decades, people have joked to one degree or another about finding the Dark Ranger and “punishing” them for their literary crimes, but here I was on the opposite side of the scale, scurrying around in search of some person in their 40s who wrote a gross fan fiction once. That’s all Agony in Pink is: gross. It’s a lot less scary when you approach it knowing the author was an edgy 15 year old girl.

I don’t blame the Dark Ranger at all for not wanting her teenage infamy attached to her online presence. To this day, people continue to find Agony in Pink and be repulsed by it; one look into the comments on this deviantART discussion about the story will show you people picking the story apart to pieces, calling “him” a “sick fuck”, and deriding everything wrong with it, like its edginess, pacing, abrupt political commentary, et cetera…but that’s because they all imagined an evil middle-aged man cooking this story up out of the blue. The truth, in my opinion, makes this whole story genuinely funny: the infamous, deeply-disturbing fan fiction that caused an entire government to try censoring it was written by some kid. It’s like the prequel to the controversy around My Immortal: an anonymous teenager flummoxed an entire fandom by posting something shocking, outstandingly so, and then dipped. But you can’t blame either story’s author for not wanting it attached to their normal lives, considering how much vitriol has been thrown at these stories over the years. Internet dramas of the past decade have shown us many times how chronically-online rabble-rousers are not above calling an individual’s real life place of employment to tell their supervisors about the “cringe” or “problematic content” that person posted online. For these reasons, I’m not going to disclose who the Dark Ranger is. She still writes, if you were wondering, but her work is obviously of a more professional calibre now. Moreover, she’s not the “Dark Ranger” anymore; she’s a middle-aged American woman living her own life now. I have my own share of embarrassing garbage I did or posted in my teens, and I can’t imagine what it’d be like having someone dig me up out of the ashes to ask something like, “Hey, do you still thirstpost about Kenji Murasame?”, let alone having been indirectly responsible for the censoring of a Usenet archive. I followed an old, overgrown trail, saw them, and then turned back the way I came.

Part IV: The Aftermath

Looking back at Agony in Pink‘s controversies, it’s slightly reassuring to know the internet has been debating the ethics of posting “extreme” content for a very, very long time. I’ve been calling this the “dead dove bag dilemma”: if you know something repugnant exists behind a barrier, and you know you’ll find it repugnant, who is at fault if you breach the barrier and indeed hate what you find?

Keep in mind that I, like numerous others who tackle this subject matter, am specifically talking about the realm of fictional material. The stakes and mores are vastly different when talking about real life, non-staged exploitation. Someone writing graphic fan fiction about something like The Loud House (which has its own rabid fandom deserving of an article) is gross, but technically not illegal. However, someone showing that fan fiction to a minor and attempting to groom them with it is fully illegal and immoral. Agony in Pink falls into the first of these two scenarios. We can debate the ethics of using teenage fictional characters, but in my opinion, this can be forgiven when considering how its author was close to the Power Rangers’ canon ages. I find it more worrying that a teenager was able to get into alt.sex.stories so easily and get access to works by Marquis de Sade, who the Dark Ranger once mentioned as a source of inspiration.

The last aspect of Agony in Pink to demystify is its use of extreme torture for sexual titillation. I had originally planned to ask the Dark Ranger themselves about the appeal of sadomasochism, but I had to dig so deep to find them that it no longer felt ethical to contact them directly. Instead, I asked a friend with a special interest in sadomasochism if they knew anyone who might like to be interviewed for this article, so they introduced me to their partner, Spree. She was able to answer a few questions, and her answers may help others understand why people may be interested in S&M fantasy.

Rose: What do you find appealing about sadomasochism?
Spree: This isn't the case for everyone, but I really like how creative and almost artistic scenes of torture can get. What's most common among sadists is the special rush of adrenaline you get when reading or watching SM stuff. It really is sort of a thrill ride...you want to see how far someone is willing to go in giving or taking pain. It's not always physical pain either. A lot of people do get off on psychological and emotional pain, but those are more destructive if done badly [in my opinion]. This isn't to say this is the only thing that gets sadomasochists off...some even just get a *non*-sexual thrill from it. I guess it gives you a stronger pleasure boost than other acts, sort of like having a preference for ass over tits lol.
I don't like the idea of watching real SM that might involve people who don't want to be there, however...but at the same time, I know it can work as harm prevention for folks who really want to see that genuine pain reaction but want to maintain their impulse control. For example, one of my exes was really into collecting movies like The Taming Of Rebecca because the more genuine a reaction, the more of a thrill he got. But the idea of personally going out and inflicting pain on others really horrified him. I saw someone else describe this pretty well as "Ideally, fantasy, fiction, and consent would be enough, but for some of us, it's not, and if you're going to do ethically dubious things at all, it's always less destructive to observe old pain than create new pain." [source] 

R: Have you ever considered engaging in consensual sadism in real life?
S: For sure yea, but of course a lot of stuff in Agony In Pink would be dangerous to do in real life. Any sensible Dom and sub will agree in advance on what's okay to do vs. what's not when in their fantasy space. I really love feeling sharp sensations, but my partner and I have a general rule against breaking the skin (mostly because he doesn't want to seriously hurt me lol) You need to have crystal clear communication, mutual trust and boundaries with your partner if you want to do SM sensibly.

R: Who would you say consumes sadomasochist material the most: pain-givers or pain-receivers?
S: It's a pretty even split at least from what I've seen. Pain-givers like to see a masochist's reactions, and pain-receivers often put themselves in the torturee's place. One thing I've noticed is people who have gone through intense trauma using similar situations in fiction to get that same sort of rush from semi consensual experiences.

R: Is that ever seen as a retraumatization risk?
S: Oh definitely lol. But like I said before, it can be a form of harm reduction. Sometimes I've projected through the submissive in an SM story similar to abuse I've experienced in the past. But that's always a very private and intimate thing. It helps me remove my abuser from my memories of the situation and instead imagine a f/o [fictional other] or a comfort character as the Dom figure. I know it's not good for me if I do it too much, but it has helped me get that same old rush without actually engaging in dangerous relationships again.

R: How would you describe the appeal of watching a loved one (consensually) take/give pain? 
S: There's a very unique sort of intimacy in it. It's exciting to see someone you love laugh from a joke you told, or be moved by a story you tell them, and it's the same in seeing them react to pain. It's also intimate to see *them* Dom you...the look in their eyes when they *know* you're completely at their mercy is such a unique thrill. He could crush me like a bug right now...but he chooses not to! 

Spree’s insight made me realize once and for all that Agony in Pink was just a fan fiction. It was one I was glad I hadn’t read as a youth, especially not before my senses were steeled by the newer “worst ever” things posted online…but, still, just a fan fiction. I came away from this realizing sadomasochist fiction is just another venue of media not intended for everyone, like slasher movies, or dense technical textbooks. It’s useful or enjoyable to someone, just not myself.

Some people are still afraid of Agony to this day. I know its contents might be visceral and upsetting, but again, it’s just a fan fiction. It was written by a 10th grader, and intended for a demographic that most people don’t usually identify with. The fact that users still discuss the story and link others to it is a testament to how truly shocking Agony in Pink was during the 1990s – and also a sign that its creepypasta-like mythos should be retired already.

It’s also a sign that the best response to users posting unsettling but non-illegal content is just to not look at it. If it’s something particularly offensive, don’t give it power; just block and/or report and move on. I’ve previously made comparisons to the “dead dove, do not eat” visual gag from Arrested Development, but seeking out extreme content that you know you’re going to hate is like going to Burger King, ordering a Whopper, and then being mad that you ate something from Burger King. You looked for a location and went in, good sir; I don’t know what you expected.

On a lighter note, Agony in Pink proves that anyone can make a difference on the internet, for better or for worse. One doesn’t need their name attached to their online presence to make a difference, either. The cloak of anonymity is a valuable privilege that we should all consider taking up while on the internet. As well, the next time you visit an older relative, consider they too could be somewhere on the internet – either as a prolific Wikipedia editor, or as an infamous smut writer. You never know.

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