remember how when on icq you could have liek 100+ views an hour/day/month and not make a public post on the forums about how you were being creeped?

That was back in the day when men were actually men, and women were women. Chats were a lot more fun.
Remember Yahoo chat where you could make your own room, with any topic. Lots of interesting stuff then, but the vanilla religions came in and spoiled all the fun. Trying to save humanity or something.
Everything still went sideways, just in different ways, they didn't stop anything.