💻 This Is HUGE: The Day a Boy Mocked Avenue (and My Entire Identity)

Let me take you back to a time of custom screen names, blinking nudges, and emotional warfare disguised as MSN Messenger statuses. It was the golden age of ✨ passive-aggressive typing ✨ — and I, dear reader, was right in the middle of a boyband-based scandal.

It all started when I accidentally talked to the popular girl’s boyfriend. We’re talking low-level, “maybe I said hi in the corridor” type stuff. But somehow, that spiralled into him adding me on MSN — and making not one, but TWO fatal mistakes:

• He said “High School Musical is shit.”
• He said “so is the Avenue.”

I’m sorry??

Did this boy just casually disrespect both cinematic musical excellence AND my cousin’s actual band in the same breath?! Also — it’s not “the” Avenue. It’s just Avenue, you laminated Weetabix.

💬 MSN Re-Enactment (ft. Daisy Carter, Raging Icon)

~x.Daisy.RageMode.x~: he said WHAT now
PrincessAsten💖: he literally said “HSM is shit and so is THE Avenue”
~x.Daisy.RageMode.x~: ok first of all — it’s Avenue. not a Tesco Express.
~x.Daisy.RageMode.x~: second of all — HE’S shit. end of.
PrincessAsten💖: omg i can’t
~x.Daisy.RageMode.x~: no worries babe. i’ve added him to my personal enemies list and hexed his iPod shuffle.

👑 What the Popular Girl Said

The next day, I got a one-word message from her:

HUGE.

No context. No punctuation. No remorse. Just full-on Year 9 drama energy.
Like I’d caused an international incident by… defending Avenue and loving a Zac Efron-led musical masterpiece.

🎶 What I Learned

People mock joy when they don’t understand it.
But here’s what they didn’t realise:

• High School Musical is cinema.
• Avenue had talent, bops, and my full support.
• And I had taste. He had opinions no one asked for.

Would I go back and change anything?

Only to block him faster and maybe slap him with a copy of HSM: The Concert Experience on DVD.

💬 Daisy’s Corner

“He said ‘the Avenue’? That’s it. I’m staging a full-scale musical retaliation. We open with ‘Bet On It’, end with a harmony from ‘Last Goodbye’, and in between? I monologue about why beige boys with cheap opinions should be banned from the internet.”

Also: thank god he didn’t know about Basil Brush. Because if he’d come for my fox, I’d have had to burn MSN to the ground.