WhirlingBlack

I swear I felt my heart breaking when I read about this site's time to be buried. While I haven't been active here for years now, so freaking many of you will always have a special place in my heart. While I must admit that I have forgotten so many names, I still remember all IRL meetings, good ol' MSN and Skype chats and all the amusing drama. I have lost so many nights of sleeping when I have had much nicer time chatting with you all, or browsing threads. Even after years I still automatically click the bookmark of this site at least once a month, and it always makes me smile to see so many familiar names. I have gained so many IRL and online, even Facebook friends, even got my first relationship out of this site. 😅

As I said, I have pretty shitty memory so I don't remember names, but I'd like to think that everyone who matters to me, and has helped me with problems and even growing up, you know who you are. I love you all so goddamn much, and I sincerely hope we will stay in contact at least once in a while. And if we happen to come across each other  IRL, let's smile and remember all of the lovely happenings we have had all these years. 

... Okay, a short shoutout to: @WhirlingBlack, @Karma’s Hat(wtf happened to Disposable duuuuude), @Ro plz, @Jigsaw9, @Biopanda, Val, @CAT5, @paradoxal, pretsy and Craig. There's more of you, but here's a start. 

See you all ❤️

(DAMMIT, I never hit the 1k msgs that I have been meaning to do for years. I guess time runs out for everything unless it's my grandma, she's a tough lady.)

You need to add your four numbers as well for the discord name!

You need to add your four numbers as well for the discord name!

Made this topic so we could share our social media in one spot.
 
You can find me on Instagram @saracura__ or discord platymelon#1731

Haha, yeah, that was quite a wild ride. Also when it turned out that Kisaki was an abuser and pedo… thanks to MH I lost all the respect I had left for him, lol. 
 
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RIP Mh. Took me a while to write something…
 
I know I didn't post much at the end, because I took a break from the internet and especially social media. I don't know if people really recognize me, since I am here only sporadically, despite being signed since a long time. I admit, I like lurking more than actually talking to other people. I still took part in some discussions and being the weird introvert that I am, I usually regretted voicing my stupid opinions afterwards. In the end I didn't delete any posts though, because I feel that's part of forum culture, owning up to the bullshit you say, even if it's cringe and letting it stay on the internet. Some disputes and lovely banter here was funny though and it fills me with a strange fuzzy feeling to know that i have been part of some fandom drama. It's like being part of an old folk tale, you know? Now I wonder how much of the drama will be even remembered in 10 years…
 
Honestly, a year ago or so I believed MH would stay for much longer, since the forum managed to outlive most other de-centralized communities and websites. Seems I was wrong and it comes to an end sooner than I thought. I know there's a new community on discourse, but I have to admit, I don't like social media sites and centralized web hubs and places. I think discourse is a better alternative than having nothing, but MH's UI was miles better. MH also feels so much more personal… I cannot explain it. I just don't really feel the same thing when I go online on sites like reddit, facebook, etc. Everything's quite dull and surface level, particularly on FB.  VK fandom communities on other sites are also rather meh…
 
Anyway, before I start writing bullshit, I just want to thank all the people who kept the site alive for more than a decade. I discovered a lot of great bands and music here, some of the discussions were entertaining to read. Hope you are all doing fine, despite the train wreck of a year we had.

M-H will disband at 2021/01/01 due to losing confidence of visual kei since the same date, and their alter-ego band "JROCK ONE" will commence activities

they will still search for visual-kei news in the future but will not post anywhere in the near future

PS1: M-H people are talented enough to find news, and thus visual kei no longer needs them anymore
PS2: that mod, psychonnect_rozen, and vk stan twitter/reddit/facebook groups should be happy for this news
PS3: hope that this thread will not be deleted or edited by that mod, who is not willing to delete other threads upon his request

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Sorry I wrote a fucking novel ;V
 

Ey my nigga. J yet because MH is closing, don’t think I ain’t forget about you giving me a warning because of “white supremacy”
 
@CAT5
 
I will always laugh at this. 
 
But Ive had the pleasure of talking to a lot of you guys over the years. Some of which I’ve reconnected with since Fukkatsu such as @WhirlingBlackand @EzraEroguro.  I remember talking to @Biopanda , Val, and some other folk in the Skype chat till the wee hours of the morning. I remember having the biggest crush on @allisapp for awhile. Meeting @Zeus’s soft spoken and cool ass last year will always be one of my highlights. I remember cracking up at @Jigsaw9’s puns.
 
Man so many memories to bring up...and I’m starting to tear up. 
 
Even the not so great times here I’ll cherish to en extent. @blackdoll you are a trip. But passionate. @nekkichi, even after the back and fourth me and you have had, I’ve come to warm up to your persona. @LestatI apologize for lashing out at you the way I did back in the day. You were cool to chat with on regular basis. And I hope you’re well. 
 
Rest of you, I enjoyed the convos and and music we’ve shared! I’ve become more privy to hella bands and stuck around this scene much longer than I intended to because of this place. I can’t wait to eventually chat with you guys more in our new home! 
 
Mods/admins:
Thanks for holding shit down! I’ve watched Batsu and Fukkatsu fold into itself due to lack of proper leadership. Things weren’t always perfect here either but y’all put your best foot forward when it was time to and shit got better. It’s sad that MH is ending but this is honestly the best way it could go out. A lot of that is due to you guys. Idk how many of y’all are transferring over but just in case some of y’all don’t, your services were greatly appreciated!
 
 

My first contacts with the forum were through googling lyrics I think. From then on I met some really nice people, who became a big part of my life and who would motivate me in the things I did and still do. The forum became part of my everyday life as Tainted World, the short-lived Toasted Waffles period and in the end as Monochrome Heaven. Gonna be weird not coming here every day to lurk and to make an occasional post somewhere.
Thanks for everything and see you at JRO.

I would just like to say "Azaeroe" and leave it at that for a laugh, but there's more I wanna say.
 
I was here for just over two years and they were a wonderful two years. Until my WiFi mishaps, I actually managed to log in every single day! Usually when I join a new site I get bored of it quickly but not here. I spoke to some awesome people (and some not so awesome, but they made me laugh), learnt a lot and got many new interests. I'm on my phone outside a closed shop that fsr still has its WiFi going and my hands are cold so I'll keep this short and sweet but it really was an amazing experience being here. Thank you all! ❤️

I've been here for 10 years, at first just a bit of lurking here and there and when the chat feature came I've always been there each single day to have a chat with everyone and to cheer people up as I've been known as the positive fairy who cheers everyone up

 
I've got to know quite some people here who I'm still in touch with^^ (after I came back after 5 years).
 
I think the most memorable thing was:
That thing with Akane (Para:noir/D.I.D) where everyone went nuts for some specific comment about religions or something. I remember @Karma’s Hat used to had it in the signature >,<
 
My duties which I did for the staff team back in the days. Also the end of the year staff music reviews was really nice organized and fun to do 
 
Honestly I've always been quite a introvert person but thanks to you all I've become a more open person both online and irl  
 
I hope to stay in touch with everyone!
I do have a few people of MH on my social media accounts, feel free to follow and message me so we can stay in touch!
IG: Linh_desu
TWT: @Linhdesu

Goodbye MH, you'll be never forgotten!
ありがとう!

- April Fool's News Threads
 
- Reading people's reactions when BABOO crashed into the scene with some bonafide baby-diaper-ageplay-kei goodness which they've now removed from youtube (crying), but you can remind yourself by checking out 3:05 here
 
- A certain Italian Lady sharing her ghost stories and j-rocker related dreams
 
- The never-ending search for Maria Cross' movies and kisaki nudes
 
 
I haven't met as many people as some of the European folks, one time @WhirlingBlack and I *almost* went for drinks, I hope I can go to your club some day. I had the pleasure of hanging out with @monkeybanana4 at a couple of concerts and watching a hilarious shitty movie with @ghost  
 
I've made some really good memories here and hope to continue having laughs with some of you. I can't wait for teenage intellectuals and spiritual gurus to keep targeting whichever platforms we move onto 🙏
 

 
 
 

MH truly has been a special place for a lot of us. I vividly remember the chatbox era and how it was almost like a society on its own with various people filling different roles and social structures and friendships forming and failing due to drama or other things. So much time was invested not just chatting but also just reading and enjoying the conversations. Most of the personalities I remember well from the forum come from this era.
 
Gotten a lot of good and lasting friendships through this forum and I will be forever be grateful to MH for it.
 
Reciprocal shoutout to@Karma’s Hat, we started out on quite bad terms in the early days but became good friends over time, now we have met a lot of times and have a blast every time.
 
I've met a lot of our members IRL and I've almost never had a bad experience. Shoutouts to @Biopanda, @hyura, @Takadanobabaalien, @Jigsaw9, @Seiji, @Tokage, @allisapp , @digi,@spockittyand ALL of you I've talked to or interacted with throughout the years here.
 
Some people have come and gone, others are still a part of my life, but I hope you all know you helped form who I am today. 
 
If anyone else want to drop their appreciations for the forum and the people this is the place to do so!

Certified iconic MH moments:
- the entire "k*w*** m*np** and the near death of the download section"-saga
- the entire ebmort saga
- the nigh-on entire community joining hands to dunk on yoshiki whenever he does some new stupid shit
- communally dunking on kisaki whenever he's acting up again
- Dispo's Mcdonaldsposting
- "I SWEAR I'M QUITTING THIS SITE FOR REAL THIS TIME" "nvm i'm back" 
- scandal heaven
- visual kei animorphs edits
- that brief period when the mh premium account joke was funny
- "it's out x"
- the pokemonposter / yohimbe defender saga
 
If you weren't here to witness at least 4 of these you have not been into VK long enough. please remember this.
 
Certified uniconic MH moments:
- that period when MH simultaneously turned into both Jordan Peterson Heaven & Redditwitter at once

FUCK IT, DOUBLE POST.
 
Figured since I'm stuck with my old PC now I might as well do a deep dive in hopes of coming up with some funny images from days of yore. Unfortunately it didn't yield a haul as big as I anticipated...but anyway, here are some things I dug up that I found funny (or that were funny at one point in time).
 
While MH closing got us like...
 

 
...let us think of the good times. Remember when Akane from D.I.D. expressed his religious views, even tho nobody asked?
 

 
But he wasn't the only one to be brilliant on social media. THE HAKKIN were pretty lowkey but they managed this whopper once:
 

 
Remember the MOO album from DEG? Or DOGEMA from the GazettE? Or...
 

(ok I know I'm the only one who still finds doge funny in 2020 idc)
 
Anyway, when it comes down to it, love is the answer. Let that special someone in your life know your true feelings.
 

 

 
...or you can just get to the point.
 

 
Sadly I don't have many screenshots from MH itself, but for some reason I kept this gem by @Tokage:
 

 
Closing off, let's remember that through all the good, bad or strange times it has always just been about the music, maaan. We're just a bunch of people going crazy over some (mostly) random underground fan-exploiting-or-worse weirdos who probably don't even know or suspect we even exist. Opinions are opinions, no need make a big fuss over them, but... I think we can agree that visual kei at its peak has made us all feel a bit of what @Shaolan974 once formulated that has stuck with me to this day:
 

 
Adios once again, MH.

MH truly has been a special place for a lot of us. I vividly remember the chatbox era and how it was almost like a society on its own with various people filling different roles and social structures and friendships forming and failing due to drama or other things. So much time was invested not just chatting but also just reading and enjoying the conversations. Most of the personalities I remember well from the forum come from this era.
 
Gotten a lot of good and lasting friendships through this forum and I will be forever be grateful to MH for it.
 
Reciprocal shoutout to@Karma’s Hat, we started out on quite bad terms in the early days but became good friends over time, now we have met a lot of times and have a blast every time.
 
I've met a lot of our members IRL and I've almost never had a bad experience. Shoutouts to @Biopanda, @hyura, @Takadanobabaalien, @Jigsaw9, @Seiji, @Tokage, @allisapp , @digi,@spockittyand ALL of you I've talked to or interacted with throughout the years here.
 
Some people have come and gone, others are still a part of my life, but I hope you all know you helped form who I am today. 
 
If anyone else want to drop their appreciations for the forum and the people this is the place to do so!

MH truly has been a special place for a lot of us. I vividly remember the chatbox era and how it was almost like a society on its own with various people filling different roles and social structures and friendships forming and failing due to drama or other things. So much time was invested not just chatting but also just reading and enjoying the conversations. Most of the personalities I remember well from the forum come from this era.
 
Gotten a lot of good and lasting friendships through this forum and I will be forever be grateful to MH for it.
 
Reciprocal shoutout to@Karma’s Hat, we started out on quite bad terms in the early days but became good friends over time, now we have met a lot of times and have a blast every time.
 
I've met a lot of our members IRL and I've almost never had a bad experience. Shoutouts to @Biopanda, @hyura, @Takadanobabaalien, @Jigsaw9, @Seiji, @Tokage, @allisapp , @digi,@spockittyand ALL of you I've talked to or interacted with throughout the years here.
 
Some people have come and gone, others are still a part of my life, but I hope you all know you helped form who I am today. 
 
If anyone else want to drop their appreciations for the forum and the people this is the place to do so!

I was initially just gonna make like a tree and leave, but I figured I can't ghost out on writing something here.
Everything I feel for this forum has been stated above, it's been so long that MH is just such a natural part of my life.
It will definitely feel strange once it's gone.

I have, just like most people been here since the TW days so this has very much been a place I've grown up at online.
I'd like to thank all members and all staff members, and then:
 
Shout out to my main nordic gang:
@Karma’s Hat @WhirlingBlack
gang gang
 
OG lastfm crew:
@Peace Heavy mk II @Senedjem Arithmetica/Laura
Can't believe we've known each other since we were teenagers, thanks for always sticking by my side lmao. 
 
My main peeps:
@cvltic @Chi @Jigsaw9  @saishuu @inartistic @The Moon @emmny
you're all amazing
 
thanks and cya on twitter/discord etc 

MH truly has been a special place for a lot of us. I vividly remember the chatbox era and how it was almost like a society on its own with various people filling different roles and social structures and friendships forming and failing due to drama or other things. So much time was invested not just chatting but also just reading and enjoying the conversations. Most of the personalities I remember well from the forum come from this era.
 
Gotten a lot of good and lasting friendships through this forum and I will be forever be grateful to MH for it.
 
Reciprocal shoutout to@Karma’s Hat, we started out on quite bad terms in the early days but became good friends over time, now we have met a lot of times and have a blast every time.
 
I've met a lot of our members IRL and I've almost never had a bad experience. Shoutouts to @Biopanda, @hyura, @Takadanobabaalien, @Jigsaw9, @Seiji, @Tokage, @allisapp , @digi,@spockittyand ALL of you I've talked to or interacted with throughout the years here.
 
Some people have come and gone, others are still a part of my life, but I hope you all know you helped form who I am today. 
 
If anyone else want to drop their appreciations for the forum and the people this is the place to do so!

MH truly has been a special place for a lot of us. I vividly remember the chatbox era and how it was almost like a society on its own with various people filling different roles and social structures and friendships forming and failing due to drama or other things. So much time was invested not just chatting but also just reading and enjoying the conversations. Most of the personalities I remember well from the forum come from this era.
 
Gotten a lot of good and lasting friendships through this forum and I will be forever be grateful to MH for it.
 
Reciprocal shoutout to@Karma’s Hat, we started out on quite bad terms in the early days but became good friends over time, now we have met a lot of times and have a blast every time.
 
I've met a lot of our members IRL and I've almost never had a bad experience. Shoutouts to @Biopanda, @hyura, @Takadanobabaalien, @Jigsaw9, @Seiji, @Tokage, @allisapp , @digi,@spockittyand ALL of you I've talked to or interacted with throughout the years here.
 
Some people have come and gone, others are still a part of my life, but I hope you all know you helped form who I am today. 
 
If anyone else want to drop their appreciations for the forum and the people this is the place to do so!

MH truly has been a special place for a lot of us. I vividly remember the chatbox era and how it was almost like a society on its own with various people filling different roles and social structures and friendships forming and failing due to drama or other things. So much time was invested not just chatting but also just reading and enjoying the conversations. Most of the personalities I remember well from the forum come from this era.
 
Gotten a lot of good and lasting friendships through this forum and I will be forever be grateful to MH for it.
 
Reciprocal shoutout to@Karma’s Hat, we started out on quite bad terms in the early days but became good friends over time, now we have met a lot of times and have a blast every time.
 
I've met a lot of our members IRL and I've almost never had a bad experience. Shoutouts to @Biopanda, @hyura, @Takadanobabaalien, @Jigsaw9, @Seiji, @Tokage, @allisapp , @digi,@spockittyand ALL of you I've talked to or interacted with throughout the years here.
 
Some people have come and gone, others are still a part of my life, but I hope you all know you helped form who I am today. 
 
If anyone else want to drop their appreciations for the forum and the people this is the place to do so!

MH truly has been a special place for a lot of us. I vividly remember the chatbox era and how it was almost like a society on its own with various people filling different roles and social structures and friendships forming and failing due to drama or other things. So much time was invested not just chatting but also just reading and enjoying the conversations. Most of the personalities I remember well from the forum come from this era.
 
Gotten a lot of good and lasting friendships through this forum and I will be forever be grateful to MH for it.
 
Reciprocal shoutout to@Karma’s Hat, we started out on quite bad terms in the early days but became good friends over time, now we have met a lot of times and have a blast every time.
 
I've met a lot of our members IRL and I've almost never had a bad experience. Shoutouts to @Biopanda, @hyura, @Takadanobabaalien, @Jigsaw9, @Seiji, @Tokage, @allisapp , @digi,@spockittyand ALL of you I've talked to or interacted with throughout the years here.
 
Some people have come and gone, others are still a part of my life, but I hope you all know you helped form who I am today. 
 
If anyone else want to drop their appreciations for the forum and the people this is the place to do so!

It's a been a long ride. I've been on here for 11 years, close to 12. Everything has to come to an end and I honestly can't say where I would be without this place. Without any hesitation I can say that Monochrome Heaven, or Tainted World as it was when I first joined, changed my life. I'm genuinely curious how that makes people like Zess and Ito feel that they've had such a significant impact on a person's life just by making this place and running for all these years. The current trajectory on which my life is on was set by all the friendships I've made in this place over the years, and through everything I went through this place was a constant companion. Zess, Bear/Sumostig, Junna, Shizu, Whirlingblack especially have been significant to me and I'm grateful. Who knows how deep I'd be in normiedom without these people influencing my taste in the way they did. If it wasn't Christmas with the family I wasn't as tipsy as I was, I'd probably have a whole lot more to say about this than I do now. Me and Whirlingblack started really hanging out proper in the beginning of 2017 when I decided to just bail Finland. I stayed at his place for some time and I don't remember what we did together, but what I do know for sure is that it was the kind of debauchery what we would we doing together and independently to this day. Shizu is another person that by his existence has assured me I'm first of all not entirely alone in world with my tastes and interests. 
 
But it wasn't just the few people that one stuck around with all these years that made the place, but also all the characters that've come and gone over the years. There is so much stuff to dig out of the annals of monochrome heaven and tainted world that in my case it'd be a book. 
 
What the new people on here don't know, is that this place had a tremendously active chat back in the days that was integrated into the website. Almost every was there at one point, and during its heydays absolutely nothing was going on my life, so I was there almost every minute or every single day.  In my country you have to take dancing lessons for the prom for like six months, and in 2012 when I went through that thing most of that time I'd be giving live status updates throughout the whole experience. Before and after I'd be sitting in Mcdonald's drinking coffee and it became a running joke that I was always online, always people watching in Mcdonald's. Probably some of my best memories from the board are from the chat years. Shoutout to everyone who was there to experience it
 
So much stuff has happened on this board that new people have no idea, because so much has been lost to chat logs, private messages and purges over the years. The forum as it stands rn is only a tiny fraction of all that had taken place. 
 
I'm too drunk right now to remember any of this stuff, but it means so much to me and I'll cherish all of these memories forever. Here is some of people I've met irl over the years from here in a random order 
 
wb, marcus, jigsaw, shizu, saltofstones, allisapp, panda, pretsy, hyura, slsr, stylelover, 237q, gaz, tokage and many, many others I've met for a minute or two during gigs. 
 
I proofread none of this
 
Those who don't have me anywhere can follow me either on here https://twitter.com/SoderlundAleksi or just add me on fb Aleksi Söderlund
 
Everyone who I've shared this place with. 
 
I love you all. Good bye and thanks for the memories, all those i've laughed or fought with. 

It might shock you to learn that Mexico is firmly located on the North American continent. 

This post served its purpose so I will let it expire.

Didn't you know?
 
Saying your opinion is trolling. Unless you're saying dimlim is the second coming of christ. Then you may state your opinion. Anyway, beware of this new rule cuz I'mma have to start giving out warnings and bans around here
 
(Lets has my family hostage. send help)