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+<!doctype html>
+<html lang="en">
+  <head>
+    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
+    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
+    <title>About – picsmics4</title>
+    <meta
+      name="description"
+      content="The story behind picsmics4 and the legendary Reptilia comment thread."
+    />
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" />
+  </head>
+  <body>
+    <nav class="navbar">
+      <a
+        href="https://youtu.be/lW7vWfRI5oI?si=Sefj320BsIkgOKk0"
+        class="nav-logo"
+        >picsmics4</a
+      >
+      <div class="nav-links">
+        <a href="index.html" class="nav-link">Comments</a>
+        <a href="about.html" class="nav-link active">About</a>
+      </div>
+    </nav>
+    <div class="container">
+      <header class="hero">
+        <h1>About This Archive</h1>
+      </header>
+      <section class="about-content">
+        <h2>The Story</h2>
+        <p>
+          On Jan 2, 2008, a YouTube user named
+          <strong>DrazenXLive</strong> uploaded a video of themselves playing
+          <em>Reptilia</em> by The Strokes on Rock Band. It gained a few views,
+          but was otherwise just a gaming video in the early age of YouTube.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          Then <strong>picsmics4</strong> started commenting. And never stopped.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+          For over 15 years, picsmics4 returned to this one video, leaving
+          comments that evolved into an unintentional diary, from documenting
+          high school whimsy, adulthood, hardships, and everything in between.
+          The thread, the optimism of picsmics4, and the wholesome reception
+          from the internet community has been selected to be preserved on this
+          site.
+        </p>
+
+        <h2>This Archive</h2>
+        <p>
+          I watched
+          <a
+            href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDVOaAKaMfg"
+            target="_blank"
+            rel="noopener"
+            >a video by ShaiiValle</a
+          >
+          and was inspired to make this site overnight, in an era where much of
+          our shared digital history is quietly disappearing. The world is
+          currently a mess, but it is the small things like this that let us go
+          on with our days.
+        </p>
+
+        <p>
+          This site preserves every comment from the video, and comments from
+          before <strong>January 1, 2026</strong> (at 6 minutes and 7 seconds)
+          are frozen exactly as they were for authenticity. Newer comments are
+          added periodically but the original archive remains untouched.
+        </p>
+
+        <h2>Links</h2>
+        <ul>
+          <li>
+            <a
+              href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW7vWfRI5oI"
+              target="_blank"
+              rel="noopener"
+              >The Original Video</a
+            >
+          </li>
+          <li>
+            <a
+              href="https://github.com/DereC4/picsmics4"
+              target="_blank"
+              rel="noopener"
+              >GitHub Repository</a
+            >
+          </li>
+        </ul>
+      </section>
+    </div>
+  </body>
+</html>