>be me, 8th grade
>going to anime conventions with my weirdo friends
>some 13-year-old in full Hetalia cosplay is screaming DESUDESUDESUDESU
>she tells me about 4chan
>go home, open laptop
Fast forward 12 years.
>somehow on the front lines of a global information war led by the President against a millennia-old death cult for the permanent fate of the entire world with every named and unnamed 3-letter agency involved and false flag attacks and nukes and secret coded messages and assassination attempts and missile launches and space weapons and classified intel and supercomputers and bioweapons with a bunch of hackers typing in green text like some kind of epic cyberpunk thriller
Life comes at you fast.