Can you think of any heavily rumoured CBB contestants in the media for a particular series who never ended up appearing on the show? From the top of my head I can think of Lil Kim for the 2016 series, and Stormy Daniels for the 2018 series in which she was actually supposed to go in but didn’t for whatever reason, but any others?
My BF went on his 3DS after years of not going on it and we decided to see what his ACNL town looks like. Turns out that his game is still running on one of the very early versions so you can still do this glitch despite them patching it around 9/10 years ago? Pretty cool! Brings back memories to when me and my friends would all do this together online :)
Hi, I don’t really know why i’m making this post to be honest but if you would like to hear a stranger’s rambling 3am thoughts about heartstopper ending then feel free to read on lol! I’m hoping i’m not the only who has had a similar relationship to the franchise :)
For context, I had just turned 18 when series 1 came out. I remember hearing about Heartstopper on tiktok a few days after it came out. I’d never heard of the graphic novel before this, but after seeing lots of videos about it I decided to give it a watch, and like pretty much every other person, I feel completely in love with the series. Growing up attending Catholic school I’d struggled quite a bit with my sexuality. I was pretty much one of the only gay people in my year at school. I really related to both Nick and Charlie in different ways, and like many people, felt a sense of sadness after watching that I never had that sort of experience having a teenage romance at school. After this, I bought all 4 volumes of the novels, rewatched the show many times (including with my mum who also loved it!), and fully immersed myself in the world and community.
This love and obsession pretty much continued through to when season 2 came out, which was a month before i was due to attend university. Whilst not as obsessed as I was with season 1, I still loved the show, and was actively keeping up with what the cast were up to on social media and engaged in the fandom.
Then a year later, rolls around season 3. Due to being extremely busy with university around this time (I did an intense degree at a russell group university, if you’re from UK you’ll understand), I didn’t actually watch the season until about a month after it released. I had also just gotten into a relationship around this time, so I think I was just super caught up in my own life. Still, I did really love Season 3 at the time and found myself still immersed in this world when I had time to be.
However, after this, and i don’t fully know why, I just sort of fell out of love with Heartstopper? I didn’t feel the same fondness towards it that I did prior, I even started to think it was a bit cringe. I had even unfollowed pretty much all the cast on social media (minus kit and joe) as I just didn’t really care anymore. Up until now that the movie has come out, I hadn’t even rewatched any of the seasons. I basically just fully switched off from the show and fandom.
Now that the movie has come and Heartstopper is finished and I am 22 years old now, i’m just feeling a bit weird looking back, almost guilty for completely abandoning my love for the show for a good year and a half. I’m having feelings of that i should’ve cherished and appreciated it more cuz now it’s over. I definitely am feeling a bit sad about it like most other people, and I feel a lot of the love I had for the show coming back, which feels annoying because again, it’s over now. It’s really got me realising how busy I really have been with life over the past years, and how I guess I have grown with the show, but just not realised it. And with my own relationship (which I am still very happy in), it’s nice to think that i’ve had my own heartstopper moment away from any melancholy i felt from the show.
Apologies again if this feels a bit all over the place haha, but just thought it would be interesting to see if there’s anyone else in a similar position to me, who fell in love with the show, fell out of love with it, and is now feeling all a bit strange about it now that it’s ending.