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I made this place as an outlet for my creative endeavors, away from the claws of mainstream Internetia.
Not only is it harder than ever to show your worth in the middle of an ever increasing crowd, the platforms themselves restrict and exploit you instead of helping you grow. For example, on Twitter, you have a surprisingly little amount of customization. Just the profile picture, a short bio (with a pinned post) and a banner image. Ah, you want more out of the platform? You gotta pay for Twitter Gold++ to get a checkmark...
Don't get me started on practically all platforms using dark patterns to do shady things like shoving your posts into an AI machine or disturbing privacy violations. And the ones that respect your privacy more, are empty!
They also don't keep the integrity of your files. Most of your multimedia uploads are compressed into pixeldeath or get some kind of "improvement", like the automatic AI translation in YouTube (that is on by default, without a toggle to turn it off for all videos). Compressing multimedia content while keeping it at an acceptable of fidelity to the original is possible with extremely fast software like ffmpeg. I wonder if the pennies saved by enforcing such a big amount of compression is even worth the decline in quality in the long run.

A place like Neocities also gives the author creative control. You won't get demonetized that easily here. And don't get me started on how helpful it is to the internet's culture, everything feels more alive and welcoming in these corners of the web.

This website embraces standing on the shoulders of giants. It was thanks to the generosity of people like Petrapixel, Morhetz, and Tetofruits that creating this website was even possible.

This website uses the Archery Black Oblique font for the logo, IBM Plex Sans for the rest of the text and the Gruvbox color scheme for the website's looks.

The current and first iteration of the site, The Fruit Store, is the result of imagining what would happen if Sailor Venus ran a cursed fruit store (the fruits talk, don't ask if it's her imagination or, you know, schizophrenia, or just normal magic shenanigans). Also, what happened to the Lemon Teto IS COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY CONFIDENTIAL. Her mistake will live on for eternity as this website background.
What if she got turned into... Juice? Yes! Juice!

Those are my reasons for creating this site. A combination of finding it fun to do, with the added benefits of being part of something larger, alongside a harder to censor presence online (might come in handy thanks to recent news), all while airing my thoughts out for the world to see. There is also the whole "this works as part of portfolio" angle, everything is valuable after all, you gotta find the person that finds this valuable. Just don't get creeped out by this!
Or do you want to end like Lemon Teto? Will you be my new lemon?
If life gives you lemons, you gotta turn them into a background for a website.