Happy Endings: Recovering/Recovered Lolcows -

[Cosmos]

I thought I'd share some uplifting news I learned today.

Starprincess801 was one of my very first, if not the first, lolcows. For those who don't know, she's a "soulbonder," or someone who thinks that fictional characters are real and bonds with them, with over 84 bondees (which she calls her "guardians.") I was amused and charmed by her antics, even if I was kinda worried about her (because she was clearly unwell mentally). Even after she dropped off the radar, I still liked to read her article every now and then.

Anyway, flash forward years later. I decided to look her up again and came across her Tumblr. I am very, very happy to report that she's doing much better now. Like, she seriously might be one of the finest examples of maturing and growing out of lolcowdom that there is. She's gotten help for her mental illnesses (which, as a mentally ill person myself, I can really appreciate), gone to college, lost weight, and focused more on her real life as opposed to staying on the internet all the time. She still believes in that soulbonding stuff, but she's remarkably laid-back and cool about it. I still think it's a load of garbage, but Star isn't hurting anyone nor is she obsessed with it like she used to be so I'm cool with it.

Here are some excerpts from her Tumblr. Again, the transformation is just incredible and I'm so happy to see how far she's come.

Documenting her weight loss:

Spoiler: DAYUM GURL

Talking about her college experiences:

Spoiler: Seriously, how many lolcows have graduated from college?

AND she doesn't take any shit from SJWs or radical feminists! A girl after my own heart

Spoiler: Star telling it like it is

And despite her soulbonding stuff, she's surprisingly sane:

Spoiler: On otherkin

Here she is putting her mental wellbeing before her want for attention:

Spoiler: Brianna Wu, take a fucking note

I've heard that Star lurks the forums, so Star, if you happen to be reading this, know that I am extremely proud of you for getting your act together. This forum is full of threads about people who can't even expend the mental energy to look into themselves and their behavior, let alone fix their problems, and yet you have. Taking responsibility for yourself is never easy, but you have and now look how far you've gotten! I'm rooting for you always!

So anyways, does anyone else have a recovering (or recovered) lolcow story? I'm hoping that there are others out there, I could really use a boost.

 

[lurkermouse]

Not sure if you know already, but there's a similar thread, although there's sadly not much activity.

I particularly like Snapesnogger's story. Her art has also improved.

 

[melty]

That colliding into men thing is bizarre, I never heard of it. Men jump out of my way all the time, others will knock you over and not notice, I figured it was just a confidence/intimidation thing, not everything is a gender issue.

There are a couple of recovered cows in the lolita fashion community. My favorite story, I don't want to dox her but she started out with the typical "I'm brand new but I'm a lolita at heart, I don't need to improve all my outfits are great" attitude, she gave some questionable holier-than-thou mentoring advice to unfortunate girls, and did some lulzy "photoshoots." She also had some extremely vocal and outdated views on homosexuality. I guess she found out people were mocking her and she took a hard look at herself and improved as a lolita and updated some of her right-wing religious views. A couple of years later, there was a "what happened to ___? thread" and she showed up and said all the stuff people had said about her made her look at her life. Apparently she's still around, I'm sad that she doesn't seem to post photos or anything anymore, I wish she'd participate and show off her improvement.

 

[AtroposHeart]

Starprincess has come along way, but when it comes down to it as long as she believes in this otherkin thing she will always be in the recovery stage. It is good that she is not as delusional, but I really can't say she is recovered with her still believing she is an otherkin

 

[Olhelm]

SammyClassicSonicFan. He's gone from an anger-beleaguered brat to a sensible, calm teen. He even has logic in his videos, now.

 

[Frank Rizzo]

SammyClassicSonicFan. He's gone from an anger-beleaguered brat to a sensible, calm teen. He even has logic in his videos, now.

With Mariotehplumber now "retired" from being a lolcow/troll/whatever, it's even better for Sammy, as didn't Sammy "look up" to Mario as his hero, or something like that?

 

[Wilhelm]

this is gonna sound self-centered, but hey. i brought this up in the teamspeak, might as well scribble it all down somewhere.

a while back i used to get banned from so many forums holy shit. i'd sperg out on each and every one of them. had you guys known me back then you'd probably get a kick out of me. alongside my sperging was horrible rping, and sue-ridden oc rosters(multiple forums, including Sonic Turbine). i'd publically lace rp posts with swears in a forum that had a rule against excessive cursing (PKMN.NET forums, Thauxan Rebels i belieeeeve. sorry faryl). i also had some chris-channian projects i'd get my face all over(This one girl I used to rp with over msn. i kept records of our rps to base... something offa it. i can't remember.). i assume i was someone's lolcow. probably was. i doubt any younger internet user would pull shit like that, but i could be wrong.

that was 6 years ago.

nowadays i still like to do projects, but more balanced out stuff. i haven't had a spergout as far as i can remember. i still keep my king of canon x oc crown, but i've gotten a lot of comments on actually well thought out pairings. i'm proud of how far i've come since way back then.

 

[DirkBloodStormKing]

As much as I kind of hate to admit it, I used to be a MAJOR lolcow two-three years ago. It was my first time using the internet to interact with others (and I literally had NO social skills at all (because Autism)) and good fucking GOD I was a little fucking shit. I was like, 16-17 when I was constantly getting into forum drama on FF.Net and arguing with trolls on FF.Net, Deviantart, and tumblr all of which occurred until earlier this year when y'all told me to stop weening/trolling. I'm the type of person that wanted to have the last word whenever I could, trolled people for any reason, and even enabled others who also enabled me to be a little shit (mainly on Deviantart and FF.Net though I almost went full-blown tumblrina a one-two years ago). I even moved accounts twice because I wanted to have a new leaf.

Since joining the Farms, even though I do sperg out and act Autistic as shit on here, I'm pretty damn surprised and honestly somewhat relieved I have yet to get a thread on here. I will admit that recovery from lolcowdom is pretty hard though and chances are, I'm still probably a lolcow, though not as bad as I was though. I'm aware that I am powerleveling, but this is a thread about recovering/recovered lolcows and I know that I was definitely a lolcow a year ago and I'm trying to recover though, despite how rocky the road to recovery is at times.

 

[Olhelm]

used to

 

[DirkBloodStormKing]

Yeah, I fucked up that time. I couldn't tell if that was a joke forum or a serious forum because you know, Autism. I'm pretty terrible with getting jokes to say the least, which probably adds more to my lolcowishness, as much as I hate to admit it. Had I been able to figure out that was a joke thread and not a serious one, I would not have revealed that to y'all. But then again, I'm a dumbass at times.

 

[SuperFilter]

I thought I'd share some uplifting news I learned today.

Starprincess801 was one of my very first, if not the first, lolcows. For those who don't know, she's a "soulbonder," or someone who thinks that fictional characters are real and bonds with them, with over 84 bondees (which she calls her "guardians.") I was amused and charmed by her antics, even if I was kinda worried about her (because she was clearly unwell mentally). Even after she dropped off the radar, I still liked to read her article every now and then.

Anyway, flash forward years later. I decided to look her up again and came across her Tumblr. I am very, very happy to report that she's doing much better now. Like, she seriously might be one of the finest examples of maturing and growing out of lolcowdom that there is. She's gotten help for her mental illnesses (which, as a mentally ill person myself, I can really appreciate), gone to college, lost weight, and focused more on her real life as opposed to staying on the internet all the time. She still believes in that soulbonding stuff, but she's remarkably laid-back and cool about it. I still think it's a load of garbage, but Star isn't hurting anyone nor is she obsessed with it like she used to be so I'm cool with it.

Here are some excerpts from her Tumblr. Again, the transformation is just incredible and I'm so happy to see how far she's come.

Documenting her weight loss:

Spoiler: DAYUM GURL

Talking about her college experiences:

Spoiler: Seriously, how many lolcows have graduated from college?

AND she doesn't take any shit from SJWs or radical feminists! A girl after my own heart

Spoiler: Star telling it like it is

And despite her soulbonding stuff, she's surprisingly sane:

Spoiler: On otherkin

Here she is putting her mental wellbeing before her want for attention:

Spoiler: Brianna Wu, take a fucking note

I've heard that Star lurks the forums, so Star, if you happen to be reading this, know that I am extremely proud of you for getting your act together. This forum is full of threads about people who can't even expend the mental energy to look into themselves and their behavior, let alone fix their problems, and yet you have. Taking responsibility for yourself is never easy, but you have and now look how far you've gotten! I'm rooting for you always!

So anyways, does anyone else have a recovering (or recovered) lolcow story? I'm hoping that there are others out there, I could really use a boost.

Oh, yeah, this is the one girl I was talking about in the First Lolcow thread whose name I couldn't remember.
I'm glad to see she's very noticeably less crazy and more rational. The whole soul-bonding and guardian-licensed-video-game-character-headmates-who-could-talk-to-people-and-whiteknight-through-her thing was pretty nuts back then.

Spoiler

The hormone-fueled spergy teenage ween a-log I was back then would often make plans to find her and fake being a master soul-bonder so I could engage her in "battle" and win, but I never went through with it. I'd rate myself autistic if I could.

I honestly can't think of any other recovered cows than the ones people have already mentioned.

 

[kirua]

As much as I kind of hate to admit it, I used to be a MAJOR lolcow two-three years ago. It was my first time using the internet to interact with others (and I literally had NO social skills at all (because Autism)) and good fucking GOD I was a little fucking shit. I was like, 16-17 when I was constantly getting into forum drama on FF.Net and arguing with trolls on FF.Net, Deviantart, and tumblr all of which occurred until earlier this year when y'all told me to stop weening/trolling. I'm the type of person that wanted to have the last word whenever I could, trolled people for any reason, and even enabled others who also enabled me to be a little shit (mainly on Deviantart and FF.Net though I almost went full-blown tumblrina a one-two years ago). I even moved accounts twice because I wanted to have a new leaf.

Since joining the Farms, even though I do sperg out and act Autistic as shit on here, I'm pretty damn surprised and honestly somewhat relieved I have yet to get a thread on here. I will admit that recovery from lolcowdom is pretty hard though and chances are, I'm still probably a lolcow, though not as bad as I was though. I'm aware that I am powerleveling, but this is a thread about recovering/recovered lolcows and I know that I was definitely a lolcow a year ago and I'm trying to recover though, despite how rocky the road to recovery is at times.

You seem to be a nice person nowadays, just with some spergy tendencies. Personally, I like seeing your posts. They're like a timeline of you slowly bettering yourself.

 

[DirkBloodStormKing]

You seem to be a nice person nowadays, just with some spergy tendencies. Personally, I like seeing your posts. They're like a timeline of you slowly bettering yourself.

Thanks. I was always a sperg though, so it's hard to hide it. Though I still try to hide my sperginess.

 

[AnOminous]

Thanks. I was always a sperg though, so it's hard to hide it. Though I still try to hide my sperginess.

You still need a lot of practice.

ETA: This isn't intended as an insult although it might sound that way.

 

[DirkBloodStormKing]

You still need a lot of practice.

ETA: This isn't intended as an insult although it might sound that way.

I know I need practice.

 

[Anus]

There was a guy named ShadowShrinkee who was participating in a flame war for almost four freaking years on one video (and a couple others, but it was mostly concentrated to one video.) Anyway, a few months ago he admitted he was wrong and apologized. And this time it seems sincere.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I think that if enough time passes in life, progress is sooner or later inevitable for everyone.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

I know I need practice.

Dude, at least you're honest with yourself. That already puts you a step above most lolcows.

 

[Kenneth Erwin Engelhardt]

I think that if enough time passes in life, progress is sooner or later inevitable for everyone.

I think in a lot of cases, it's something you just have to gradually get out of your system.

 

[Super Collie]

I think that if enough time passes in life, progress is sooner or later inevitable for everyone.

Yeah, death seems to be a pretty good inhibitor of lolcow tendencies.