happy 3 years of peanutbuttaz .neocities.org

April 12 2022 was a tuesday and ended up being a snow day for me, at school, in the 9th grade. 3 years later, im a senior soon to be graduating, and it is raining profusely. both of these weather events are uncommon here which could mean nothing.
there was someting oddly ambient of the air that day, i remember. there were these huge icicles on the house next door, which would fall sporadically throughout the day. the foot or so of late snow isulated all sounds and cars were cautiously silent over that thick snow. We dont get snow days, unless it was catastrophic.
with a morning to kill, i randomly decided to make a website. it wasn't actually that random of a descision, though, because as a chronic tumblr user i'd seen those delightful impassioned pleas by poor souls trying to fix the internet or whatever, by making a website on neocities. so on my school chromebook i typed into the searchbar "neocities" without really any idea of what i was getting into. this is very uncharacteristic of me, to randomly get into a new thing for no reason, but it ended up being one of the best descisions of my life (so far).
i chose the url 'peanutbuttaz' because its just the handle i use for most things.

origin of "peanutbuttaz"

sure, why not you're already reading this, why not. lets go back in time to i think 2018 when my friend wanted me to get an account on amino so i could do warrior cats with them (i am succeptible to peer pressure) but i was locked out of the other email i'd had and needed to come up with another one on the spot. and being petulent 5th or 6th graders of course we would bicker about random inconsiquential garbage, me of course taking a strongly pro- peanutbutter stance, them thinking it was kinda gross. really really meaningless .so in the uncreative haze of youth i rolled with that and added a little bit of phunk with that -az at the end. all in all i love peanut buttaz url, its the reason my name, in real life, is peanut now lollllll

back to the point

so i slogged thro the tutorial which ended up taking most of the morning. once the site was up i immediatley told everyone on tumblr which did end up holding me accountable, i feel like if i didnt have familiar eyes on it early it would not have gone that far
and then we had to walk to school. indeed, no amount of snow is too much to prevent our youths from attending the second half of schuul. but the damage had been done, i was antsy with anticipation over the wonderful possiblities set into my lap. that night i looked through other websites and stole a small crop of graphics to adorn the rudimentary field of text.

3 years later

sitting at 309 followers, and juuust about to hit 300,000 views (whatever that means). there hve been numerous themes and pages that were deleted and redone over and over. i've made like kind of friends on here? its so cool and people like check up on it (i see you) its so wonderous im lucky! and more is coming, always always always. i love you ....here's to 3 years more.