The Zoomerverse

    Online there is a underground meth community that has been on Ring Central and Zoom for years before the pandemic made Zoom famous. We were already there. 

    When I was first introduced to this community, I didn't log in frequently at all. That progressed just like my  addiction to meth progressed. I got more and more with time.

When I was still in Fort Lauderdale, when I stayed at the storage facility, I started to become a regular user. Logging in for a few hours everyday. This was when Tweak Twack Zack became a Prime. The head of the Primes was a person who went by the name Optimus Prime. I became friends with him. He lived in Sweden though. But he owned the room that I was mostly in, ELITE. I eventually became a host for the room. Sometimes when I would log on I would host or cohost. Making sure that everything ran smoothly. Making sure that people had a safe environment. Making sure the chat of the room was monitored for any hateful language. 

    My name became known across the other rooms as well. I eventually became a cohost also for Twack City, 212, and Hellfire, three other pnp Zoom rooms like ELITE.   

    But then when I was in Philly, I could only log in whenever I was at my home base with Dirty Jersey. Or when I would go visit with people I met from Zoom that I hooked up with. When I would go to the bathhouse or over to a hook ups place to do drugs and have sex, people started to recognize my outside of the Zoom rooms and in real life within the gay meth world.

    When I was running ELITE though in Fort Lauderdale, ELITE became the four walls and a roof for me when I needed a home. The friends that I made on Zoom became my friends on Zoom for the next three years that I spent on Zoom. This community we made was there for me when I didn't have a community to call my own. I have the young homeless gay guys of Wilton Manors and Fort Lauderdale, sure, but they weren't always there when I needed them. I could count on the Zoomers 24 hours a day 7 days a week. 

    One thing that I personally didn't get down with was the sexual acts on Zoom that occurred. Each room was around for two purposes, a place to do drug's, and a place to participate in sexual acts of cam with other guys doing the same thing. I was still in the mindset that I was undesirable and I was extremally shy sexually in comparison to the other guys online. 

    I became a loud voice on Zoom, always getting high, always typing in the chat, sometimes to the annoyance of other individuals, like Optimus Prime. But I was just being myself. I advocated for Zoom to be a place where you can be high and you do you as long as its safe and non hateful. We all deal with enough hate and dangerous stuff in the meth community in the real world. Zoom should be a place for all people in the community to feel it is a safe space.

    Throughout the  5 years I spent as part of this Zoom meth world, A lot of things happened to me online that changed me for the rest of my life. I ended up becoming part of a cult online for two years called The Primes. I spent hours talking someone down from trying to kill themselves on cam. I started a organization called The Litty Committee that consisted of 25 of the best people I came across paths on Zoom, people who stood out to me as kind and helpful for the community. We raised money to help people in the community who needed help and talked with people who were having problems in life.

    The Zoomerverse is a place that I found to be a good form of harm reduction for people in active use of meth. Somewhere we can unite with other users and form a community for those in need of one.