You could ask King Zembla...

You could ask BC profiler King Zembla, but he burned out and stopped participating (at least under that nick) shortly after this post: ZC: To Search or Not to Search? Posted by The King of Zembla on 2024-March-8 12:00:06, Friday https://boychat.org/messages/1624703.htm Zembla explained in that post that BC posts are currently fully searchable using a search engine and proposed that we put a search box into the BC redesign. He then got very frustrated by the push back he got from other BCers and left in a huff shortly after, though you can be sure that he's still reading BC and using our posts for his "history of boylove" project. You see Jessy, at first glance BC looks like a chat site. "Chat" is in the name after all and it looks like our conversations scroll off the bottom of the page and then after a few weeks or months on the old posts pages, scroll off into the aether. And during the heyday of BC that's pretty much how it worked. Then came improvements to the internet (such Google indexing) which gave researchers the ability to search up old posts. No one comes to BC intending to make a permanent mark on history. We come here to chat. We come here to relate to each other and have real(ish) time conversations. When BCers realized that their conversations were being etched into permanent history, they wisely stopped sharing personal stories, which resulted in a much less enjoyable reading experience. Whereas before you could find post after post by BLs describing their day to day experiences, living life with or without young friends, the new more self aware BC was mostly lifeless, focusing on politics, inter/national news stories and of course anonymously perving on celebrity boys on YouTube. BC had always been a mix of personal posts and impersonal news/YouTube clips, but when the personal posts dried up the site lost a lot of it's charm. The only thing keeping BC alive was the fact that many BCers were infrequent posters who were not aware of the new reality. That largely came to an end thanks to tpka "Marterwithacause" who, against the wishes of almost every other BCer, created a Master Index of BoyChat posts (https://www.boychat.org/mbc/messages/67886.htm). "Sources say that martirwithacause's "Master Index" was a wake up call to most BCers that the age of posts rolling off oldposts into the aether was over. If anyone is interested in learning about the end of BC's era of being a chat site and beginning of the site being used primarily as a permanent searchable record of "our history" search up the username "martirwithacause" and the key word "martirwithacausesticky." It was a tumultuous time and that poster was almost universally despised for the index and other reasons. If any one person could be given credit for killing BC, it was him." -tpka "Tyred's" response to King Zembla https://boychat.org/messages/1624721.htm These days the only personal posts are made by newbies like Veronica or largely by sockpuppet "teen BL" characters that are seeking friendship and more from older BLs. Hard to say which type of post is more painful to watch, the catfishing with the old men falling over themselves to impress a "boy" or the actual newbies who don't know better than to share personal information. Luckily we have supportive BCers like tpka "Tyred" to warn newbies what can happen if the share too much (https://boychat.org/messages/1626780.htm) but as you can see from the reception that post got, there are some very entrenched interests here at BC who hate to see the reality of what BC has become exposed in front of our newests guests.