Hey! I don't know you in the slightest, but just saw your pixel art on my feed and had to click.
I felt really connected with your metaphor, and I feel like it describes so well how it is to sort of make friends through these realms. Even in real life as well.
The art and the UI were so coool, my whole reason to click on it, and the writing my reason to read until the end. A pretty lovely last year's review!