💔 MSN Trauma and the Boy Who Said “HSM Is Shit”

Offline, But Not Really: The Blog Series – Entry #3

There are certain things you just don’t forget.

Your first crush.
Your first screen name.
The first time someone said your MSN status was “attention-seeking.”
And the first boy who had the audacity to type those cursed words:

“HSM is shit.”

But here’s the part that makes it even worse.

All I said was “hi.” Just that. One word. Polite. Innocent. Barely a social interaction.

And suddenly? I was the enemy.

The popular girl — his girlfriend, of course — saw it and went full early-2000s rage mode. I don’t know what button I pressed in her brain, but the next thing I knew:

• I was getting passive-aggressive “seen” looks at school
• My MSN display name was being dissected in group chats
• And her boyfriend — the human embodiment of a LimeWire virus — sent me this message via Bebo:

“Hi skl musical is shit / so is the avenue”

That was it. No punctuation. No context. Just one Bebo message, like a passive-aggressive poem of pure spite.

He managed to insult High School Musical — a cinematic masterpiece — and Avenue, my actual cousin’s boyband, in the same breath.

That wasn’t just shade. That was a blackout.

Looking back, maybe Bebo DMs weren’t the wisest move. But also? It was just “hi.” And if someone’s relationship can’t survive that… maybe it’s not me that’s the problem.

(Spoiler alert: they’re not still together. Obviously.)

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🌪 Daisy’s Corner:

“The message lacked both grammar and taste. Arrest him.”