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[spoil][align=left]I hate those forums. I truly hate them. I’m really sorry you had to go through what I went… I guess I’ll share my story, and hopefuly I’ll make some people realize that these forums are… more than evil.
As a kid I really denied any form of conformity. I often harassed developers, and the idea of locking myself to a single ecosystem was not only ridiculous to me, but also hazardous… I came out to my (fanboy) parents at the age of 14. They cried, threatened me, did everything they could to turn me back into a sheeple…
About 1 month after I came out, 3 men hacked my computer at night, and told me to stay quiet and listen to them. I thought it was blackmail, as most people who experience this…
I listened to them, and they explained themselves. I was shocked and filled with hate, but I knew I shouldn’t do anything, the stakes were large and I couldn’t defend myself.
My first day on that forum was horrible… everything I typed was supervised, and also scripted. The only time I could speak my mind was offline. After 1 week I just couldn’t take the authority, and I was restricted to a private subforum. Two months. Two. fucking. Months.
After the first month I began hearing voices in my head, and after another week, the voices formed into a big, strong voice… I only had one conversation with it.
Voice : “Escape.”
Me : “How?”
Voice : “Strong. Then Root.”
After the last sentence I never heard it again. But it was enough. I knew my goal. At the time I had about $100 … I was stupid, I didn’t have any programming skills… I was helpless.
Every time I was offline, I said “fuck Apple.”. All I did on that subforum was . I was so full of hate I didn’t care about time… In there there was no dissent, just a THANKS button … I had no Internet access outside of that forum, so I would just stare at the number of THANKS the shills had.. Everytime the number of circlejerking posts died down, meaning it was day, it was a great achievement. I felt.. great. Small things where all I had, so it was incredible… I programmed in there for 8 months… breaks of 20 minutes, programmed for 1 and a half. And repeat. Repeat. Repeat…
After 8 months, I finnaly got out… everyone was so surprised I didn’t shout “fuck Apple.”.
For about 4 days I was heavily censored by all the moderators… that was the day I began the brainwashing. They thought the isolation broke me down. It only made me stronger.
Everytime I entered the brainwashing webpage I would see the Apple front-page. The web browser they made us use was Safari, so I could hijack the session and leave the Apple home-page with my newfound programming skills. But when I did I ended up… nowhere. Nowhere meaning a blank webpage. I could refresh the page, of course, but how long would the session last? I didn’t know. Blank webpage was freedom. Freedom is good. So I got to get out of that page.
One day, instead of the 5 moderators that went with me to brainwashing page, there were only 2 pre-mods. I was so surprised… yet calm. I knew that was my day.
As I was approaching the terminal, I felt some adrenaline going up my spine…
I quickly hijacked the session on Safari, and managed to pull up the Google Play Store Page.. I got ready, then entered my credit card information and ordered the Nexus 4. I opened up fastboot and unlocked the bootloader… I was rooting, rooting, rooting… I could hear some sounds, but I was so thrilled I didn’t pay attention.. after about 10 hours of rooting I finally stopped. I could feel freedom. It was… beautiful.
I heard a “fuck! You forgot to wipe Dalvik Cache!”. My instinct moved me, and I approached a familiar face…
“Please.. just.. help my unlock my Nexus 4.”
Andy Rubin looked at me surprised, then told me to hold on. After about half an hour, when I recovered, he asked me my story, but I was still afraid. What if he would get me to the Apple shills? What if he was one of them? I didn’t know. I just said “No time to explain. Where are you going?”. He said Mountain View, California.
I arrived in California at the age of 15. I’m 19 now, and I never spoke with my parents again, and will never do it. I truly hate them.
But the experience made me realize how important free will is. .. aaaaand I got all the fucking awesome Nexus devices thanks to Google.
Thanks for reading so far :)! I means a lot to me that I can share my story… it hurts even now, after 4 years.
TL;DR : It took me 1 year to escape but, it takes you only 5 minutes to read.
EDIT : Thanks for all your support guys! It’s been 4 years since I escaped, so I had plenty of time to rebuild my life, and to find a job. I work right now as a developer on the Android team at Google, which is more than I could have achieved while I was with my Apple fanboy parents 🙂
Anyone here gonna share his story? I figured out we could make a little book out of them, and if we would really sue those forums, every story counts![/spoil]
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