You have got to be kidding me.
I wrote a whole dark fedi version of the "Welcome to the Internet" screed. I saved it. I can't find it. I put it in the same text file I save everything else. It's not there. I emailed it to myself as a separate text file. It's not there. I used a terminal command for words that you could be found in that rant like "fediverse" and "nigger" and "skater", it's not there. It's not anywhere.
I know I did it all. I remember writing it. I remember saving it. I remember where I saved it. I also screenshot the whole thing so I had an image of the rant for easy copypasta. This is not the first time something like this has happened.
Did the whole thing in all its forms sprout legs and walk away? Did all that I thought happen, not happen? Are my memories broken? Do I have undiagnosed Alzheimer's? Do I have undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenia?
What is happening to my brain? What is wrong with me? Am I hallucinating all you guys, too? Am I hallucinating all the music I listen to or the videos I watch or the memes I save, too? Did I ever post on the fediverse at all? Have I ever been online? Were all my childhood memories manufactured by some psychotic neurosurgeons?