I have a HL2RP-related confession to make.
"Literally me" characters make me cringe because back when I was 13-14 (2013-2014) I became OBSESSED with every single character falling under the sphere of "Literally me". All of them, before there was a word to describe it. Fight club, Drive, Taxi Driver, American Psycho etc. I had a lot of teen angst.
When I first joined Lemonpunch, a good 2\3 of my characters were based on one of these. When the meme started emerging it was like the internet could see inside the brain of teenage me, and I suddenly had a
moment
I have a very painful memory of trying to re-enact the "Huey Lewis and the News" scene with an axe in the D4 basement on some random guy in 2014.
I dressed as Jacket from hotline Miami on 2 separate Halloweens because I couldn't afford the scorpion jacket from drive- I thank GOD I didn't have the money for it at the time. Absolutely shameful