hey! hello!
i guess today i'm gonna be talking about the fact that i feel really left out here.
honestly? i have literally seen nobody under 20 on this website because everyone joined back in like... 2005, or something.
i am 16 - i've been here on a handful of accounts, my first one being roughly in 2013/2014 or so
i've just. felt really out of place here? as if i'm just in a community that'll never really welcome me. i feel as if everyone is constantly looking down at me ?

i feel like everyone just thinks i'm stupid and naive... of course, everyone i've spoken to seems nice, but do they just do that to everyone? i'm scared that i will never find someone roughly the age i am... of course, there's probably other people like me, but none of them seem to visit the forums much at all. they'll poke their heads into the "new players" forum every now and then, but not many other places.
i often feel a little bad about going into the forums and talking to the older places (read: literally everyone). i'm an entirely different creature than they are - different tastes, different humor, different lifestyle and ways of talking to others.

i saw a topic in the forum earlier today. it was titled something roughly being "anyone else my age?" i was surprised. surely this person could be something other than the 20-something age bracket dominating this website!
alas, they turned out to be like, 21. literally everyone in the forum was like, "yeah im 20! yeah im 27! yeah!"
i turned away...

i am sorry if this sounds... like edgy teenage whining. chances are, it totally is (given i'm an edgy teenager)
i am hoping some day i can pull a handful of my own friends into this website, maybe inject it with some fresh blood... i don't want to be the only person here under like, 21

i'm very sorry you had to read this - and sorry if i might've offended you as well (if you are a 20-something)
i just really wanted to get this off my chest because it's been really wearing me down... i'm so sorry...

edit/addendum:i mean.. hell, there's literally huge 18+ marapets clubs? what even.. goes on in them.... why u gotta do this