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Travis Scott's 2010 Blogspot Page Is a Portrait of the Artist as a Young, Awkward Teen

We have all been the kid who just has to tell the world about how much they love R2-D2.

Travis Scott is the originator of the "vibe curator" vocation that various practitioners have taken deeply to their designer-fitted hearts. He's a give-no-fucks firebrand on stage, despite that recklessness often leading to accidents. Given this current upper echelon status, it's tough to believe that Travis was once a precocious young'un like you and I, sharing his interests with the freedom that's granted by having less than 10 daily clicks on your Blogspot blog. The intrepid sleuths at Reddit have dug up what is believed to be said blog, dating back to 2009 and 2010. The not-yet LaFlame was around 18 or 19 years old then and his youthful fervor is expressed with a wonderful lack of self-consciousness.

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Though posts about fashion dominated the blog later on, Travis found time to remember his roots as a nerd. In particular, he seemed to have an obsession with robots and technology, as evidenced by entire posts dedicated to Star Wars and Daft Punk, who he cited as "inspiration on my music and beat creations even if its no where near there style." This would explain why Travis now uses Autotune to sound as much like a machine as he can. This is where it all began, with one young man's mission to not just love R2-D2, but to truly be R2-D2.

His love for circuitry and shoes reaches its logical conclusion in this post, presented below without comment:

You may think that he just mistyped "orgasm," but no, he meant "organism," as in "artificial organism." Travis Scott is the future of robotics.

In other corners of the Diary of Jacques Webster, we find that he gushed about Passion Pit's "Sleepyhead" much like literally every other person in 2010, having found it on Kanye West's own freewheeling blog. There are also pics of young Travis at his Bob-omb stamped laptop, presumably hard at work on figuring out how to replace his veins with wires. This all just just goes to show that no matter how geeky your origins, you can achieve great things. Mewtwo said that, more or less. I leave you with this piece of poorly-formatted motivational blogging.

Phil's own old Blogspots have been thankfully lost to the Blog Hole. He's on Twitter.