Idk dawg this happened so long ago when I was like 13 and it still makes me feel so guilty. I had a celebrity I liked and idk I wanted to make friends so I dm’d some random person on insta (I dont know if its their sibling bc I realized later how familiar the names were) and I didn’t really expect a reply bc yeah ppl didn’t reply out of the blue and I fell asleep afterwards bc I had school and it was like 2am. I woke up the like a few hours later to see they had replied and blocked me and I felt horrible. I had deleted that account a while back bc I had to focus on school and s*** but I recently got my socials back and I thought about that account and looked it up, turns out it doesn’t exist anymore and i feel like absolute crap and I cant listen to the artist without feeling an immense amount of guilt bc I felt like those fake and obsessive fans to cross a line (even though I had no idea who that person I messaged was, to this day. and I have no way to confirm it) and its been eating me up bc what if that person deleted their socials bc of me?? I genuinely was a stupid kid and I SWEAR that I would never pull s*** like that again. Im not the dumb 13 year old on social media and now I’m a more responsible adult, but this is something that still haunts me to this day. the worst part is I like the artists music so much and if the person I dm’ed turned out to be related to that artist fr then I’d actually be so upset bc there would be no way to apologize. just LOOKING at the artist makes me nauseous w guilt and it reminds me of that account that I messaged and I will actually never know if they deleted social media bc of me.
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