Goodbye, Oppo

"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
11/15/2020 at 18:15 • Filed to: goodbye

*Bump for the evening crowd...got buried under a sea of shitposting*

Thanks to our various other options, this is isn’t a goodbye to you all, but this is a goodbye to Oppo on Kinja.

I’m not saying anything that hasn’t been said, but I want to say it anyways.

I’ve been posting on Oppo since 2013. I was a lurker for a year or so before that, and had been a Jalopnik reader for a couple years before I knew Oppo was a thing. I don’t post or comment as much as I used to, but Oppo is still what I consider my most important social media. I’ve at checked Oppo at least once a day for probably 7 years, except when I was outside cell service. You all are something special compared to other online communities. It’s like being part of a world-spanning family. I even met several of you in person, and wasn’t even murdered. Our little local lower mainland Oppomeets are excellent, the PNW Spring Cruise that COFL organized was just awesome, and I hope there will be more in the future.

Oppositelock is a unique corner of the internet, and the internet will be worse off without it. It has helped launch careers, it’s an amazing source of random facts and excellent writing and pictures, it’s many people’s only social media, and most importantly, it’s civil. Nowhere else on the internet do things remain this civil, it’s amazing. The only thing we have in common is our love of cars. I trust we’ll maintain this wherever we go, but it’s still sad to see this lengthy record of people being excellent to each other on the internet go away.

Anyways I’m gonna cut this short before I ramble too much. I was going to do a huge photodump of my favourite photos of all my cars I’ve had, but that would take way too long, so I’ll leave you with some Oppomeet photos, plus some of the Blazer since you’re basically the only ones who understand why I loved that truck.

I’m on The Hyphen as gmctavish, DriveTribe as gmctavish needs more space, Discord as gmctavish, Instagram as igneous_m, and the Oppositetalk Facebook group with my real name, Garret McTavish.

Hope to see you all on the other side

DISCUSSION (5)

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > gmctavish needs more space
11/15/2020 at 15:10

It’s been great, look forward to many more years of a strong PNW and Vancity Oppo group.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > gmctavish needs more space
11/15/2020 at 15:22

I still think one of my favorite discoveries from real life versus spending my time on Oppo has been learning that no you arent just some GMC brand fanatic. That was always my assumption rather than the more reasonable that is your name idea. Haha, anyways, looking forward to another PNW meet someday and hopefully seeing people ive met briefly there but again. Im sure CoFL will keep organizing as long as we all keep showing up.

gmctavish needs more space > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
11/15/2020 at 15:26

Hah, I still can’t believe how long I went without realizing it looked like my name was GMC Tavish.

Totally! More Oppomeets will happen

Stef Schrader > gmctavish needs more space
11/16/2020 at 03:18

That’s a good Blazer, though. Super clean.

gmctavish needs more space > Stef Schrader
11/16/2020 at 03:22

She was pretty darn clean for $600. I do miss that truck.