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Post by UnderAlexSkin on Sept 9, 2021 14:54:16 GMT
Yo guys! Well, I've got into a deep nostalgic mood recently, so gotta wondering what is your best memory or life story which somehow connects with Avril =) Lemme begin... xD It was June 22, 2008 - the day with the longest daylight during the whole year lol. It was evening already, but the Sun was still up as well. I was in a cafe with friends and we were watching the Euro-2008 QuaterFinal match Spain Vs Italy (actually I was in a sports bar, but don't tell my Mum about it ). We all supported Italy that day, but they lost by Penalties Serie cause Spanish goalie Iker Casillas was in his hell career period. The interesting thing is that tournament was aired not only on the sport TV channels here in Ukraine but also on Enter Music - the best alternative music channel in my life - they've got TV rights to show the tourney (unfortunately the channel was shut down back in 2012). So, where is Avril here you probably wanna ask? Well, right after the first half of the game during the break I admitted an extraordinary girl in the form of the Italian national football team of Francesco Totti player on it. She was standing alone in another corner of a bar. And guess what? Of course, I've decided to approach her, like why not? And exactly at this moment Avril's music video for When You're Gone started to play on the main TV screen. It was motivated me to move to her even faster somehow. And to the accompaniment of WYG we met each other. That was an epic way, the way through which I've met my first love.
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Post by UnderAlexSkin on Sept 9, 2021 15:00:37 GMT
By the way, she was a die hard Avril fan back those days =)
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Post by BogoGog24 on Sept 9, 2021 16:09:47 GMT
Aww that’s a sweet story!
I don’t have much to share like that, but I do have such fond memories of when I first discovered Avril and listened to Let Go every day after school. First discovering BA and how active the old forum was. GL was the first era I got to follow in real time as it happened. And of course seeing her live on the AL and HAW tours, those were the best nights of my whole life!
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Post by BogoGog24 on Sept 9, 2021 16:17:51 GMT
I guess one thing I have that is mildly related to Avril without directly involving her is I remember I went on a school trip to London my senior year of high school (I guess what some might call college?) and on the way home I listened to GL!
I also used to do a lot of projects revolving around Avril for school. Like a music class I was taking, we had to do a video project on our favorite artist so of course mine included Avril. I wrote an essay about her for an English class on our role models, I think it was. Years ago in elementary school we had to do journal entries and I wrote one about how to dress like her. A project in my broadcast media class where we had to portray a celebrity and interview each other as that person, so I dressed like Avril and pretended to be her and it was awkward as hell 😄 I did a project for a math class I’ve mentioned here before about proving whether or not she plagiarized GF. With my recent courses for my Bachelor’s degree that I just completed I once did a communications plan for how ALF could do better with their fundraising campaigns and the last one I just did was a change management plan for how she could refresh Abbey Dawn. Oh I thought of another one - marketing class I took for university made us analyze a brand so I did mine on AD as well. I guess you could say Avril gave me lots of inspiration over the years for school projects!
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Post by MyHappySk8er on Sept 9, 2021 18:01:27 GMT
At the beginning of January, I started making alt accounts for video games and the usernames are obvious Avril references like "Sk8erGirl," "Sk8erChick," "Sk8erBabe," etc. Whenever I join a match or a guild, I type "Hi! I'm Avril!" and I'd also recite Avril lyrics. I use an obvious female voice disguise and some people call me out on it or call me a kid. I got some funny stories: - I was making a good play in a video game, and this female player said, "Go Avril!"
- I got online in my guild and someone said, "Morning Avril."
- Someone was asking how many I've catfished with my username. LOL.
- Someone posted on my profile: "I'm a big fan of your music."
- In this one match I kept making fun of my team because they were so bad. I kept asking, "What the hell are you guys doing?!" I also said, "Wow you guys are so bad." Remember that this is all in a really shitty female voice disguise. They kicked me out, calling me a "Crazy, man-hating misandrist." ROFL.
I also ask if there's any sk8er bois in my area. I didn't wanna forget to put on the female voice disguise, so I decided to keep it on even when I use my main identity/account. I call it the "Sk8erGirl" voice. I even used it for online classes. There was a guy in one of my groups from the semester before, and he asked, "What happened to your voice?" I said, "I don't wanna talk about it." LOL. Another time, I recorded a presentation for the whole class. I was sitting there listening to the recording and I could not stop laughing. I was scared that everyone might notice me laughing through my webcam. LOL. I was on my main account, and someone called me a "tranny" because of my "Sk8erGirl" voice and I got them banned for transphobia. LOL. Now...I recently figured out that I can easily raise my pitch and pass as a woman. I can even moan like one. The only problem is that I can only say basic stuff without "cracking." I'm seriously considering trying to sing Avril's songs with it. My friend says that I'm turning into my troll persona. The best part? Nobody can say or do much without getting cancelled for transphobia. LOL. So...yeah. I managed to turn light trolling into trans stuff. I also listen to Avril while I run. I sexually identify as a Sk8erGirl, btw. XD
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Post by katy on Sept 9, 2021 21:23:40 GMT
I have a couple.
First one is the first time I saw her on the Bonez tour - I was 12 and my mum came with me and I just had the best time waving my little glow stick lmao
Second is TBDTour - my older brother came with me to that on the promise she’d be in hot pants and fishnets like the GF video. She was in a hoody, baggy trousers and trainers, lol
And lastly just being like 11/12 and watching the music channels after school waiting for her videos to come on, I really remember waiting for DTM in particular. It’s my favourite video, and probably my favourite Avril song, cos of that nostalgia. the whole build up to UMS and the release was probably my favourite time being a fan
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Post by UnderAlexSkin on Sept 10, 2021 7:10:11 GMT
I guess one thing I have that is mildly related to Avril without directly involving her is I remember I went on a school trip to London my senior year of high school (I guess what some might call college?) and on the way home I listened to GL! I also used to do a lot of projects revolving around Avril for school. Like a music class I was taking, we had to do a video project on our favorite artist so of course mine included Avril. I wrote an essay about her for an English class on our role models, I think it was. Years ago in elementary school we had to do journal entries and I wrote one about how to dress like her. A project in my broadcast media class where we had to portray a celebrity and interview each other as that person, so I dressed like Avril and pretended to be her and it was awkward as hell 😄 I did a project for a math class I’ve mentioned here before about proving whether or not she plagiarized GF. With my recent courses for my Bachelor’s degree that I just completed I once did a communications plan for how ALF could do better with their fundraising campaigns and the last one I just did was a change management plan for how she could refresh Abbey Dawn. Oh I thought of another one - marketing class I took for university made us analyze a brand so I did mine on AD as well. I guess you could say Avril gave me lots of inspiration over the years for school projects! So, when you say Avril, you mean Andrea, in turn, when you say Avril, you mean Andrea lol P. S. In addition we all know very well who is The Best Damn Podcaster over there 😉
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Post by UnderAlexSkin on Sept 10, 2021 7:12:31 GMT
At the beginning of January, I started making alt accounts for video games and the usernames are obvious Avril references like "Sk8erGirl," "Sk8erChick," "Sk8erBabe," etc. Whenever I join a match or a guild, I type "Hi! I'm Avril!" and I'd also recite Avril lyrics. I use an obvious female voice disguise and some people call me out on it or call me a kid. I got some funny stories: - I was making a good play in a video game, and this female player said, "Go Avril!"Â
- I got online in my guild and someone said, "Morning Avril."
- Someone was asking how many I've catfished with my username. LOL.
- Someone posted on my profile: "I'm a big fan of your music."
- In this one match I kept making fun of my team because they were so bad. I kept asking, "What the hell are you guys doing?!" I also said, "Wow you guys are so bad." Remember that this is all in a really shitty female voice disguise. They kicked me out, calling me a "Crazy, man-hating misandrist." ROFL.
I also ask if there's any sk8er bois in my area. I didn't wanna forget to put on the female voice disguise, so I decided to keep it on even when I use my main identity/account. I call it the "Sk8erGirl" voice. I even used it for online classes. There was a guy in one of my groups from the semester before, and he asked, "What happened to your voice?" I said, "I don't wanna talk about it." LOL. Another time, I recorded a presentation for the whole class. I was sitting there listening to the recording and I could not stop laughing. I was scared that everyone might notice me laughing through my webcam. LOL. I was on my main account, and someone called me a "tranny" because of my "Sk8erGirl" voice and I got them banned for transphobia. LOL. Now...I recently figured out that I can easily raise my pitch and pass as a woman. I can even moan like one.  The only problem is that I can only say basic stuff without "cracking." I'm seriously considering trying to sing Avril's songs with it. My friend says that I'm turning into my troll persona. The best part? Nobody can say or do much without getting cancelled for transphobia. LOL. So...yeah. I managed to turn light trolling into trans stuff. I also listen to Avril while I run. I sexually identify as a Sk8erGirl, btw. XD Well, mate, I just wonder haven't you added yet Ramona as your middle name in ID? xDD
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Post by UnderAlexSkin on Sept 10, 2021 7:19:35 GMT
I have a couple. First one is the first time I saw her on the Bonez tour - I was 12 and my mum came with me and I just had the best time waving my little glow stick lmao Second is TBDTour - my older brother came with me to that on the promise she’d be in hot pants and fishnets like the GF video. She was in a hoody, baggy trousers and trainers, lol And lastly just being like 11/12 and watching the music channels after school waiting for her videos to come on, I really remember waiting for DTM in particular. It’s my favourite video, and probably my favourite Avril song, cos of that nostalgia. the whole build up to UMS and the release was probably my favourite time being a fan Yeah, that unforgettable nostalgia feeling rules the world as well I used to be stucked on Enter Music TV channel after school classes to catch Avril clips there. I guess a lot of us have their favourite music channel cause of such a waiting, cause Internet wasn't the main source back those times and for example MTV was still a real great thing. Good times were... =) P. S. Poor your brother's expectations on that TBDTour day, Katy
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Post by biggerwow on Sept 10, 2021 7:51:58 GMT
I'm not sure if I have any but here's a few moments of my life with Avril somehow tied to them.
-ride back from Grad Night, I listened to GL on the way back. Gave an earbud to my friend who also liked Avril and didn't know it was out. I guess this is my best memory tied to Avril. My most fond maybe.
-same friend but my dumbass didn't give my extra ticket to her and I regret not seeing Avril with her for the first time ever together. I plan to take her with me next time tho.
-same friend lol she's really the only person I know irl that likes Avril. We were in college and I was telling her about the interview Avril did with Seacreast and how I didn't get the HK joke being about p*ssy until I went to the bathroom 😂 TMI? I came back laughing and told her.
-went shopping for my other friend's costume and heard Alice on the street walking to JC Penny where Crush was played soon after. It was so random, I guess someone lived in the building upstairs or something. And in the store well that was a coincidence.
-when I started getting to know her I played TBDT tour with my cousin in the room.
-I asked another cousin to put GF on my ipod and she was not impressed. That has always stuck out to me as my first experience of people not liking her or maybe she just didn't like GF.
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Post by UnderAlexSkin on Sept 10, 2021 8:10:39 GMT
Wanna say, that literally every my friend knows who Avril is (not in the last turn cause of me xD). The interesting thing is that everyone loves or hates her, don't know any of my friend who is neutral to her. Few times I even stated to some of my friends that I hate you for hating Avril (ofc it was mainly as a joke, but still...). So, at least all of them know about her existence as well lol
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Post by biggerwow on Sept 10, 2021 15:57:09 GMT
Wanna say, that literally every my friend knows who Avril is (not in the last turn cause of me xD). The interesting thing is that everyone loves or hates her, don't know any of my friend who is neutral to her. Few times I even stated to some of my friends that I hate you for hating Avril (ofc it was mainly as a joke, but still...). So, at least all of them know about her existence as well lol I actually never encountered anyone who hates her like they do online. Most knew her and listened to her but have since not been impressed by anything she's done. And most of it has to do with her attitude/image or outgrowing her. Oh another moment is last year we rented and Airbnb to hang out because of quarantine and we danced GF on the game. I sucked pretty badly but it's a nice memory that I have with my girlfriends.
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