The thing I found most surprising is that the name that came up over and over was someone I've never run into called
to put this into terms y'all can relate to:
go to any of these LJ's, and you'll understand why their LJs are so damn popular. And none of them are conceited enough to design a GIF you can post in your LJ stating that you've gone back and read their ENTIRE journal (which
One of the comments in "The Doom Thread" was something like "Reading
Interestingly, of her 730 friends of, the only ones I have in common with her are 3 people on my above list of "people with over 300 friends that 'everybody' reads because they write so well", who may well have friended her out of reciprocity. None of my "non LJ celebrity" friends seem to read her. I guess I'm just surprised that someone can be both so popular AND so reviled AND that I was unaware that anyone cared one way or another.
PS only one of my friends made it into the Doom thread, and he already knows he's there. Like