I had lurked for a long time before I finally created an account in... 2010? 11? But I stopped frequenting a lot of forum/online spaces around 2012, mostly in preparation for college and everything that came with that. I don't remember any of the login info for that old account anymore (one of many accounts I've lost access to over the years), so I ended up going back to mostly occasionally lurking around 2018. And today, I decided to just make a completely new account and start fresh because, well, why not! I've also been generally more active online over the past year or so in general, so figured it was time to stop lurking again lol