Reclaiming the MySpace Survey Era
Because I was robbed of my youthful silly things I once posted on it in 2008-ish
In my on/off physical health days, I recall copy/pasting a MySpace quiz for fun. Where? With a little link to MySpace, on one of my pen name websites. A website which had been my 16 year old self’s homework assignment, which I left up for boredom. When? I don’t know, age 18? 19? The kind of MySpace you had under a pseudonym to get people saying, “Oh yeah? OK, ______ INSERT FAKE WRITER NAME the person who hates caviar tried caviar on deviled eggs for the first time at that pricy hotel in a selfie. We should hire her for freelance magazine food journalism.” All staged stuff I did to get hired or appear more interesting in as generic of a possibility to please everyone and, in the process, not myself.
What ensued: a middle aged creep and pals who I didn’t want to participate in a weird casting couch scenario twisted this into “she as her pen name interviewed herself, she is so crazy, there’s no way that casting couch scenario proposition could be true! Let’s add on a gazillion things she never did in the process!” and had people repeat all of it. Because such was the way of the world pre-#metoo. For anyone who doubts me, please examine Rose McGowan and others’ testimonials that Harvey Weinstein planted bad news stories about them portraying them as nutcases and worse, in major media, no questions asked. Happened. A. Lot. What happened to Lindsay Lohan and others was prominent and trickled down to all of us young women in that time with how the media and predatory types mistreated us.
For erasing all awkwardness in blogging, I am mentally scrubbing myself clean of all past trauma, big and small, online and offline. I would love to say to some of those creeps, “You don’t own me anymore.” Reality: you never owned me.
For people too young to know what this all is, MySpace surveys were Cosmo style quizzes you and your social media friends filled out. You weren’t expected to place serious answers on them. Everyone did them for fun. My MySpace quiz was used by a predatory man as an example of me being “mentally unwell” and “a pathological liar” by creepy middle aged men who were then in powerful positions and everyone age 25-60 who would listen to them, because I rejected one of them in a horrible work power dynamic situation, for a workplace setup I’m glad I never set foot in. I’m not joking. It was really disturbing. Don’t ask me how people like that sleep at night. I’m 38 now and cannot imagine being that sick of a person to a 21 year old girl.
Shall we begin? 😀 Let’s make MySpace Tom proud. Initiate programming. Bust out the missing punctuation frequently not found amongst anyone who grew up watching anything on the Disney Channel.
Bringing this back would be so cool. Fill this out on your own and rock the 2006 style form of entertainment pre-selfies! 🤗🌈
100% true answers!
1. Last beverage:
Fortnum & Mason tea, purchased in the actual UK, because only peasants drink the one imported to America at Williams-Sonoma. *sarcasm
2. Last phone call:
Politely demanding to know why a local supermarket was out of my fave seltzer. The townsfolk like me must know when it returns to stock.
3. Last song you listened to:
A random track on my iPod I use for screenwriting inspo on a movie I won’t tell you the title of.
4. Last time you cried:
Hysterically? When my cat died this spring.
5. Have you dated someone twice:
No, what a stupid idea! There’s a reason it never worked out the first time,, I advise everyone.
6. Have you ever been cheated on:
No, what happens is people want me to be used as the gal they cheat on people with. Make of that what you will. Never in equality. No free love. I’m the person they want to use. And I always decline.
7. Kissed someone & regretted it:
Yes, yes, yes, yes. Not in a long time. Learned from that.
8. Have you lost someone special:
Plenty, all my animals. My pets are my real children.
9. What are your three favorite colors:
GREEN #1! My childhood ones were pink and purple, so staying true to me, let’s round those out with pink and purple.
10. Met someone who changed you in the past month:
Probably did! Every day is a baby step to becoming the person you are meant to be. Will review in hindsight someday.
11. Kissed anyone on your friends list:
HAHA, I have zero publicly branded, fake-y social media, thank heavens for that, so no.
12. How many kids do you want:
Furry, never human. Unless something surprises me. I awaken like, “Let’s adopt 100+ children like Angelina Jolie.” Anyone doing that has a good heart.
13. Do you want any pets:
Are you kidding? I live on pet lover rainbow glitter mountain.
14. Do you want to change your name:
After years of sexism and more caused me to use “staff” or an assortment of pen names first selected by my parents as a student and later by me, venturing into men’s names because I had to pretend to be a man all the time? Yeah, that gets exhausting. You hope an article source never asks for a phone call outing you as a female voice. All of you folks out there, I guarantee, have read my journalism at one time or another and didn’t think twice about it being a woman’s work. I demand credit for my work now in film, music, merch, and if ever, freelance guest articles. Nicole Russin-McFarland is fine and dandy, thank you. I am Nicole Delarce Russin-McFarland, and I don’t want until the next life to have my vengeance.
15. What did you do for your last birthday:
Nothing but sit, talk, and eat cool food. It was fabulous.
16. What time did you wake up today:
7 am.
17. Name something you CANNOT wait for:
Watching the new horror film Sinners on HBO Max.
18. Last time you saw your mother:
My parents hate being talked about and photographed for the web, so they will have some Greta Garbo request here of me avoiding conversation with them.
19. Most visited webpage:
My start page is my own brand site, luckypineapplefilms.com!
20. Nicknames:
Nic and another I frequently use for food orders, so I can’t tell you!
21. Relationship status:
I won’t say but to reveal that Americans always think I am married to a Mr. McFarland, and I’m like, “You do know that in places like Portugal and Spain, ohhhhh, the UK, Mexico, et cetera, et cetera, people have multi-surnames right? And your dad’s goes first? My great uncle had 4+ surnames and used different ones for different reasons? His side of the family picks all different surnames like new jeans for each usage…..” Yeah, I am not married to a relative called McFarland. I was born in Illinois. Don’t you know we from Illinois wait until our 70’s to marry first cousins? *sarcasm again because I know some weirdo is going to say “SHE LITERALLY SAID SHE WANTS TO MARRY HER COUSIN AT 70!” 😉
22. Zodiac sign:
Cancer.
23. Male or female:
The one way you know MySpace existed before the trans 2020’s movement. Can imagine this one being uncool to reply to now. Yes, I am a cis woman. she/her
24. Height:
According to IMDb, this Nicole person is 5’7”.
25. Do you have a crush on someone:
No, I am not attracted to you because I once asked you where a bathroom was.
26. Piercings:
Ears.
27. Tattoos:
No, my great aunt convinced me that you get cursed for doing so. I will not be cursed. You people with cool tattoos can be cursed. I won’t. To be fair, I don’t know my great aunt’s policy on other people besides me being cursed. We should call her and ask. 🤣 She sure scared me without any scientific evidence.
28. Strong or Weak:
I definitely work out. For girl standards.
FIRSTS
29. First surgery:
Broke my chin when I was 5.
30. First best friend:
I had a few, not fair to single one out.
31. First sport you joined:
Ummm….????
32. First vacation:
Don’t remember. It may have been I went from Illinois to LA immediately after being born, so that one. Then I lived in Phoenix as a baby.
33. First school:
I was gone half the time with my family being out of town.
34. First pair of trainers:
Unsure.
WHICH IS BETTER
35. Lips or eyes:
Eyes.
36. Hugs or kisses:
Hugs.
37. Shorter or taller:
Taller.
38. Older or younger:
A good date has to be either one. But not so old, you’re giving the person prunes in the morning.
39. Romantic or spontaneous:
Romantic. Romantic music era. OHH!HH!!H!HHHH!? Quiz, you mean– no comment.
40. Sensitive or loud:
Sensitive.
41. Hook-up or relationship:
Relationship.
42. Shy or outgoing:
Too shy to be outgoing, too outgoing to be shy.
HAVE YOU EVER
43. Kissed a stranger:
NO!!!!!!!!!!!! DO NOT!
44. Gotten a speeding ticket:
No.
45. Lost glasses/contacts:
YES!!!!!! My last memory of this was navigating midtown NYC from Rockefeller Center back like Mr. Magoo.
46. Sex on first date:
NO!!!!!!
47. Broken someone's heart:
Yes, in a sort of young, silly person broken hearted situation where the guy I knew as a teenager didn’t tell me he liked me until he was married and had kids.
48. Been arrested:
By who, the fashion police?
49. Have you turned someone down:
Sure, when it’s like a married man 30+ years older you just met, and you’re being cornered in a restaurant booth by this person, you definitely decline. Has happened to me more than once!
50. Fallen for a friend:
Yes.
51. Moved out of town:
Yes, left Illinois as a teenager to go to UT Austin.
BELIEVE IN
52. Miracles:
Yes.
53. Love at first sight:
First sight, no. Chemistry at first meeting.
54. Heaven:
An afterlife.
55. Santa Claus:
No.
56. Kiss on the first date:
Perhaps.
57. Angels:
God, yes. Angels, ehhhh…
58. Yourself:
Yes. I think, therefore I am.
ANSWER TRUTHFULLY
59. Had more than 1 girlfriend/boyfriend at a time:
HAHHA, nooooooo.
60. Been in love with someone you couldn't be with?:
Nope.
61. Ever cheated on somebody:
No.
62. If you could go back in time, how far would you go?:
Why don’t you wait for my remake of The Time Machine and see?
63. Are you afraid of falling in love:
Nope.
64. Was your last relationship a mistake?
Going out with a friend? Not really.
65. Do you miss your last relationship?
No.
66. Who did you last say “i love you” to?
My cats.
67. Have you ever been depressed?
From physical health problems in my 20’s, and not clinical depression, it was “ughhhhhh today sucks” temporary bad day type.
I am not answering more on this eternal quiz.
I’m losing steam and must finish my tea. The Puffins cereal was eaten! All of it! You get the idea.
DISCLAIMER: Nicole did not “interview herself” for this MySpace quiz. End of story. Anyone twisting this as a misrepresentation of so is a creep.