About me (and this website)
This is a place where I've been working on since January 2026, which I've been adding stuff about my personal interests, experiences and others. All of those accross those many pages you can find, and you might find even more of them in the future.
Alright. Who are you then?
I'm Sixtimesthursday (also taking by Smartboy, or just Thursday), and I'm really just sticking around with whatever indie website or music theory concept I'm able to find. Also a guy who hates age-verification, and likes old software. Other things include two blogs (this being if you're interested), and I draw stuff online. The chatbox is a bit quiet tho.
Why are you even here?
This is the actual internet the way it's supposed to be. No government IDs, no tracking, no ads, no algorithms, nothing. Just you, a few thousand users and some CSS code. To put it out, you're truly free. Forget about unhealthy and controversial social media, escape the noise and learn some coding: HTML, CSS and maybe a bit of JavaScript. You can express yourself and everything you like to your limits, project each page as you like and how you want it to be. I began looking at the small web by late 2025 (also when I met Tentimesfriday and the Aftersleep webcommunity), and now, I'll just never turn back. This is simply where I am on the internet. Given this, why don't you just go on and make your own website? You can use Neocities or Nekoweb for it.
Why have those three channels on those three small platforms? Stick to YouTube for a higher reach, it's better!!
Chill, chill and chill. To understand why I am on those three platforms (EraCast, BetaCast and VidTape), we need to rewind to April 2nd 2026. I used to run a YouTube channel with 1.42K subscribers, which I had since 2024, and YouTube messaged me via email telling me to link my account to a parent, otherwise (as of that day), it'd be hidden by 30 days, in May 2nd. I already had (and still have) context on Brazil's new age-verification law (enforced in March 17th), and it's something that had been causing a massive drama lately. Why not link it? That's for my own independence's sake. It's that the guardian may not understand what the channel's content is like. What I did was, make one final post, and tell people to archive my content. To put it out, this is a form of digital secession. Initialy I've been to EraCast and VidTape (two YouTube revivals, for 2016 and mid-late 2008 eras respectively). When VidTape was temporarily down for space upgrades (April 12th-13th 2026), I joined BetaCast (mid-2013 YouTube revival). If you don't know, a revival is when a website replicates a specific era of another well known website, like how it looked in the 2000s or the 2010s. I became more active at BetaCast, as EraCast had a server maintenance in mid-late April 2026. There's even the fact that on VidTape, the owner of the platform, Radiatorgaming420, had commented in some of my videos, and also became my second subscriber on the platform. This is the point where it starts feeling like a community.
Ditch this physical clutter and get to streaming, it's more variety!
Well, not so fast. People have realized that streaming services often take out movies or music off the catalog due to licensing disputes, or an expired contract, so you won't have it, even if you actually bought it. If you don't have the disc, you don't own the movie or the song. For example, a 4K BluRay has often a higher quality than the streaming movies, especially after you find out that the quality won't drop in scenes with dark shading. Another point is about music streaming. What they claim to be "high quality" is roughly 320 kbps. Why this compression? they wanna save bandwidth. Now, looking at a CD, the difference is jarring: 1411 kbps. On a vinyl record, the quality is analog, so everything is preserved on it (like the lyrics and the drums). You can also listen to high quality audio on an MP3 player like an iPod, with a playlist that you've ACTUALLY built yourself. So if you have one of those, don't throw it away just yet. You can also treat yourself to those, even when the internet is out of service. There's even a phrase that came from all this: "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy". Just so you have an idea, vinyl record sales have reached 1.2 billion by late 2025, and they're also in demand at the canadian province of Quebec. Now, where to get all this stuff? I'd recommend looking at your local thrift stores, since you'll find physical media there in a larger quantity. You can read my DVD blog article on the advantages and disadvantages on owning physical media, so you can know what are the positives and negatives before you get your collection started.
Okay. Now what's your age?
To make it clear, I'm currently on my early teenage years, as I'm exisitng since late 2012.
Mostly, I don't identify myself with what people say about Gen Alpha, regarding the 2010-2014 group. Mostly what people say it's that they're brainrot iPad kids that watch TikTok, yt shorts and all that stuff. Just so you have an idea, by late 2012, DVDs, phones with home butons and MP3 players were still kicking around, there wasn't apartments everywhere, and cartoons (along with social media) originally weren't made to addict you. If you wanna know, Neocities (the place I'm hosting this website) has existed since mid 2013, although I'd only get in touch with the small web by late 2025.
What's your reason to hate age-verification?
To understand that, let's look at my YouTube channel for a moment. On the email I got, it said:
If you wanna know, this had been on April 2nd 2026. Now, here's why this a catalyst for my identity. If I chose to give them my ID, my data would be stored in a thousand different servers, with the chance of one of them being leaked. Just so you know, even big tech has data leaks, as seen with Discord in October 2025. And if I chose to link my account to a parent, I'd lose the autonomy I had since late 2021, along with my two former channels on other emails that have been terminated since 2024.* The guardian may also not know what the vibe of your content is like, especially if it's something VERY specific. In my case, most of my content had been logo-edits, which I've transferred to an alt account on the same email. For a parent looking at them, they'd see it as weird, and also flag those videos. At this point, you can see that none of those are good ideas. In my case I already had (and still have) context on the drama involving Brazil's age-verification law, and basically global age-verification as a whole. I also knew about the YouTube revival** community, as I was already online on EraCast and VidTape, so those two were the first platforms I've headed to. I've also told people in yt to archive my content (which is something I literally didn't notice up to now). I've also posted my content on BetaCast, and temporarily went on RetroTube within an outage (April 28th to May 1st 2026), and then returned. You can see that whenever one platform is down, I replace one of my channel links with something else. A fact is that the first ever revival I've ever been to was KamTape, which I've recently taken back my presence there. Have in mind that it's four platforms in total: if one of them goes down, there are still three others left. It's like a mini digital time-capsule.
Join the true internet and hang around.
Something that most Neocities users dont't understand is that having a personal website is more than just a "haha lol neocity". It's making a home for yourself on the internet.
As soon as you get into making your own website, you'll realize how pointless social media really is. I made this website in January 2026, later ditched social media and never looked back. Now, this website really became a home for my entire internet presence.
Given that, break free from social media, release your creative freedom, and join the small web.
If you want people to visit your website, go on and put work into it. Put work in, link around and eventually, the guests will arrive.
A thing is that I see a lot of cool websites come and go very fast.
What I'm saying is, do NOT give up. Get to know the power of the true internet and make your own website. Put work into it, put your effort and soul into your website... everything you wanna share with the internet, even if you're hesitant because you think nobody cares or no one's gonna see it.
Put it out there anyway.
Just put it out there, link around, and you'll find your own people.
So please, make your own website and join the revival community. The modern open web can be better than this.
- Smartboy/Thursday.
*Clearing up the timeline: I had my first yt chanel in late 2021, and that had been the longest-lived one. It had 2.7K subscribers when it was terminated in April 2024, for copyright reasons. Then I had a short-lived channel on my mother's email, which lasted until May 2024. Reasons for termination were pretty much the same. Then my father made an alternate email for me, and that had been the second longest-lived channel I had, lasting all the way up to May 2026.
**Notice: For those who don't know anything, a revival is basically a website that replicates a specific era of a well known website (like YouTube, Roblox or MySpace). The layouts vary a lot, ranging from the 2000s to the 2010s. They serve as alternatives to corporate websites, as long as they're currently stable and don't have any drama.