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Years ago I used to be involved in the research chemical scene. I was constantly ordering and trying new ones and discussing with others.

Then it seemed like the scene started to fell apart after a bunch of the centralized discussion hubs/vendor review sites closed up. For a while it was basically like you had to know groups of people, who in turn knew other groups and you'd order by checking pastebin product lists and sending emails to burner email accounts.

But I fell out a few years after (had to do the rehab circuit for legal reasons), and by the time I got back it had completely changed. You couldn't find new vendors by searching "[chemical name] research chemical vendor". In fact that's basically the fastest way to get robbed. And the central groups where people discussed all this had gotten banned or fell apart.

So for a while I just assumed I had lived through a cool era, but that it was over at that point. But to my surprise, new RCs keep getting added to places like the Psychonaut Wiki and there are occasional stories on normie news about "is this new DEADLY drug going to kill your literal infant child???? find out tonight at 9:00". So that means the scene must still exist, it just changed shape while I was gone.

I'm not asking for any specific sources or anything. But do any of you use RCs? What form has the scene taken? How did you get involved? How would a newcomer discover it today? And which new chemicals have been taking off lately?

Also, RIP 420chan