My current method of digging up old sites is looking up random words on GifCities and clicking whatever intrigues me. That how I found Billy Burrew's Fan Fiction Website.
I'd link it directly, but being a fan fiction website, you can imagine some of the saucier writings on there. It's mostly safe, but I'm already on thin ice with the mods, so I'd rather play it safe. DM me on Discord for the link ig
Mr. Burrew's fan fiction focuses on Nsync and the Backstreet Boys. The members are often depicted as being in homosexual relationships, as Mr. Burrew seems to be gay himself. Which leads us to these woderful gifs:
Some of Billy's "Affiliates" seem to be a bit questionable. Guess he had to make profit SOMEHOW:
This ad is by far my favorite:
What drugs would they be dealing? We'll never know. The link is dead. So are the links on all the other ads.
And what about the actual fanfics? There isn't much to be said. I skimmed through a few. There's a lot of oneshots with a few longer stories. Angst, fluff, smut. It's what you expect. Honestly, they're pretty tame by today's fanfic standards. The craziest they get is a story where the Nsync get X-men powers. Or the one about Nick Carter losing his girlfriend to the 9/11 tragedy. THAT is certainly a time capsule. It must have been written shortly after the tragedy, since the only date I can find on the site is 2001.
I think this site, and the sites linked in the "Other Great Links" section can be an interesting glance into gay culture in the late 90s and early 2000s. Despite being a bi chick myself, I'm not very involved in queer culture. So I'm not really able to make any interesting observations other than saying "It's different." Maybe I'll one day go into straightacting.com, but I think that's better left to a gay guy who knows the homosexual landscape better
Please discuss or share your own findings from the wild wild web
