Folks, let's be real. This party that's being advertised on the front page isn't the Meloversary.

Stop calling it the Meloversary.

What this party is, is just simply another melo event that 99% of you aren't going to thrown on by the SoCal clique. And those last two words are what's wrong with this site and will forever be wrong with this site. All of you, especially of those in said clique, view that little group of people that live within a stone's throw away from each other as representative of melodramatic. In eight plus years have you not seen that?

Ideally, a "meloversary" should be the celebration of this site and the people who have made the site what it is. Ideally there's a time frame (around when the site was created...aka transforming from one girl's personal blog to an active community based around everyone's journals and the interactions of those journal writers) which is utterly being ignored beyond "we need to have something this year." And ideally, the way the party even plays out is based upon ideas that all of you have given out.

Let's have a show of hands to anyone, not within 20 or so miles of uWink that picked uWink as the location you wanted? How about wanting to hold it in a place that's just a rebranded Gameworks?

All that aside, can any of you really tell me that the "theme" of this event is really going to be the celebration of the site and its users rather than an excuse to have the same 20 or so people who see each other on a frequent basis to get together and well, let's be honest, just be around each other yet again?

I've already been called a Buzzkillington for pointing out the fact that melo should save face and not have anything called a meloversary, yet, no one has acknowledged the fact that I'm not saying no melo parties. We've already established that the SoCal kids have the weekly Big Slice events, bonfires, and random get togethers that have never been considered a meloversary so why does this outting to a grown up Chuck-E-Cheese need to be the meloversary? Are you all strung out on the fact you haven't had one blinding you to the fact no one else is coming?

So fine, cast all the stones you want because i'm being no fun, yet I defy you to show any of us how you're getting anyone else involved? Because it's on the front page and someone MIGHT show up? All my argument is and ever will continue to be is calling what you're doing an all encompassing word we've all agreed to: meloversary. A name. But, the handful of you guys will just get SO angry that I even suggest this or even, now, have to publicly call "you" out for it now.

it's time for that clique in SoCal to stop acting like it's melo, and acknowledge you're just now a small percentage of this site. And to argue otherwise is defining why this site will never be big, because that small handful of people want to ignore everyone else on the site. Making melo what it always will be: small & petty.

So, go ahead, yell at me for being a voice of opposition to a name.
I don't care.

In fact, it'll just prove the point why melo, the users, find me far more in tuned with the site than any of you will ever be.

My secret life...

I can't stop watching this video.