In the vast digital wasteland, two bootleg Reddit clones—Revospring and Fragsturztaube—are locked in a bitter rivalry for bootleg forum supremacy. But hate is just love with a broken CAPTCHA.

Revospring: "You're such a joke, Fragsturztaube. Your comment threads break faster than a Windows XP startup."

Fragsturztaube: "Oh please, Revospring, at least my users don't get malware just by clicking 'Next Page.'"

For years, these two budget forum websites fought for scraps of internet traffic, throwing shade in the form of broken CSS, stolen memes, and suspiciously familiar UI designs. They called each other every name in the HTML handbook—Revospring called Fragsturztaube "a glorified MySpace with daddy issues," while Fragsturztaube called Revospring "the reason ad blockers were invented."

But one fateful DDoS attack changed everything.

Both sites went down at the same time, their servers stuck together in some sketchy Eastern European data center. Forced to share the same overcrowded server rack, their code started to mingle. Revospring’s edgy dark mode accidentally bled into Fragsturztaube’s wholesome cat forum. Fragsturztaube’s bizarre German error messages started showing up on Revospring’s front page.

Revospring: "What the hell is 'Fehler 502: Verbotene Liebe?!'"

Fragsturztaube: "It means... Forbidden Love."

In the eerie silence of a website outage, they realized something: maybe they were too similar. Both glitchy, both unloved by mainstream users, both desperate for relevance. A rivalry born from jealousy... or was it longing?

When the servers rebooted, Revospring found a secret message hidden in Fragsturztaube’s source code.

“I hate you. I hate your stupid logo. I hate your infinite scroll. I hate your smug 404 page. I hate how you make me feel things in my metadata.”

Revospring replied by inserting a rogue ASCII heart into Fragsturztaube’s homepage footer.

And thus began a forbidden digital romance, a tale of two cursed forums who couldn't live with each other, but couldn’t 500-error apart. Their mods despised it, their users were confused, but somewhere deep in the server logs, love was cached forever.

The End.