Once upon a time, there was a website called Twitter. It was a fun enough place on the late internet, and the API was simple enough that there were endless apps to tie-in with your account. Favstar and Vine! A silly app called "Shindan" emerged that allowed you to create stupid "diagnoses" by entering your name. Mystical predictions, horoscopes, "Which Attack on Titan Character Are You?" quizzes proliferated.

Back in 2015, I was trying to be META. So I made a few stupid Shindans, and then forgot about it. In 2017, when the internet accelerated its social rot cycle forever, I reacted and combined META with EDGY. I would have done things differently today. Nevertheless, the Shindans survive, and they are a testament to a time when engagement modes were freezing out and a social scene that once belonged to legitimate enthusiasts devolved into politics and stratified degeneracy.

It's notable that the "Anitwitter Handle" Shindan contains nothing original in it. I did zero creation. The names and pieces of handles were taken from real users as I crawled profiles I would rather have stayed away from for hours. Notice that at the time of writing (2025), names like these are missing. Everyone likes to say that "Twitter died because X Y Z", "it's such a shitty and dead place now", etc, but actually the people who left were the ones named things like "AssRitual69", and good fucking riddance.