It feels right saying goodbye to ATRL in this day (23/05/2022) since it's the 11th anniversary of Born This Way, an album that truly made a difference in my life among others.

 

I'm very grateful for all the 5 years that I've spent in this forum post, I opened my account at a period of my life where I was young, didn't have a job and way too much free time in my hands. I discovered a lot of music with the help of you guys, had a lot of Last.fm accounts, a lot of downloaded music in my archaic iTunes that I still use to this day to play my local music on my laptop, made the transition to streaming with you guys, cried to a lot of music and loneliness of dealing with finding love as a gay guy, expressed my gayness through stan expressions and phagly gifs when I don't act that way or have gay friends to act that way in real life, spent time online with a lot of amazing people from all over the world, trained my english, expressed my love for pop music that later on evolved to R&B and alternative music as well, and just made my days funnier with the threads and messiness all around.

 

Since I'm banned from the Lady GaGa base, the place that last resembled the iconique Stand Your Ground, and since there's no SYG left, and I feel like I'm past the days where I used to spend hours checking replies and finding funny gifs to express the right amount of messiness that I wanted, I say goodbye. It was truly wonderful, I have great memories, all the CDs I bought because of ATRL, all VMAs, Grammys, that I watched with you guys, all the album releases, all the pop emergency threads, I remember how much fun the Random Thoughts and Stand Your Ground threads used to be, how we were part of a family and shared a lot of sh*t about us etc. Remember when we used to have so much fun in Random Thoughts, @Nemo @Ryan BTE? I don't remember anyone else's username from those days, only you guys but I'm sure some are still here. I really can't afford wasting my time in here like I used to back in the day and I'm saying this in the best way, as nicely as possible, don't want to "shade" anyone, I know there's a lot of people putting their time to make this very important community alive, this is a place to make people's lives nicer through music and pop culture especially LGBTQ folks.

 

About Born This Way, I also cried a lot with this album, it was exactly what my 16 year old gay self that felt really alone and misunderstood needed. I rarely listen the album nowadays, but when I do, it paints a picture in my mind of those teenage years that I'm truly grateful. Not to mention that time was all about IM and forums and no social media, it was nice to be a teen in those times.

 

I'm moving on, thanks for everything!

Goodbye legend  

 

I'll streaming GaGa's dark bops in your honor! 

 

Oh wtf you got base banned? 

 

Bye Missy! I’ll always remember you as Miss DoubleDutchess. 

of course because of some gagadaily leftovers got you banned from the base. 

 

i truly used to love atrl because we get to post about our opinion and of course under the rules. 

 

but thanks to some bully people in our base want some people to get banned. 

 

they think they can ban people if enough people dont like someone. 

 

i dont wanna name them and give them free promo but it is what it is. 

 

you getting banned was unfair and you didnt deserved this. 

 

thank you atrl mods for turning here another ggd and threadban some members because some monsters asked for it.

 

its all just ruining member’s experience and you will just keep lose members with this.

 

anyways, good bye legend, i love you, and i respect your opinions all the time. 

 

you were ALWAYS posting under the rules and it was just some members want everything and everyone to act like how they want you to be.

 

wish you best luck in your life, and never forget, 

 

TALENT ALWAYS WINS. 

@postsus sucks but you will be missed. Take care of yourself.   

Who is gonna praise Lover now?

Goodbye idk about you but you stanning Lover in the base made me appreciate it more for what it was hope You do good in life and i'm streaming scheisse and government hooker in your honor

Your posts were harmless, you didn't deserve to be banned from the base. 

Deuces.

 

A little bit too dramatic of a goodbye tho