bennybergs13OG 2001
Member since December 2001
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eZabel Legacy
A self-proclaimed Bergen County nomad who moved so often she lost count, Jenny Bergman burst onto eZabel in December 2001 with the kind of unfiltered energy that made you feel like she'd been there all along. Her very first comment introduced the world to her alter ego, "Ms. Moistowelette" — a name born from a BBQ rib dinner at Chili's and the surprisingly poetic description on the back of a wet napkin. That was Jenny in a nutshell: she could turn the most mundane thing into a whole bit, delivered in ALL CAPS with enough "blahhhhhh"s to fill a page. She arrived knowing only g.f.s.rocks (Giacomo), but within weeks she'd woven herself into conversations with magnum, tpham, thefunkyfresh, and nine9star, holding her own in the kind of sprawling comment threads that defined early eZabel.
If there was one thing Jenny wanted you to know about her, it was that she loved No Doubt with the intensity of a thousand suns. She traveled to Lowell, Massachusetts armed with an orange to symbolize Tragic Kingdom, got the entire crowd chanting "TAKE THE ORANGE" until Gwen Stefani grabbed it, and then somehow talked her way onto the stage where she stayed for the entire performance of "Spiderwebs," slapping her butt on the drum riser like she belonged there. Days later she showed up on TRL and they recognized her. She tried to recruit iwz into hosting her No Doubt photo collection on the site, and she made sure everyone knew their new album was "so 80's with the keyboards and stuff" — said with absolute approval. Beyond No Doubt, her tastes ran gloriously eclectic: Neil Diamond concerts, Weezer's Blue Album, Save Ferris covers, Beach Boys nostalgia, and a firm belief that the Goonies was an action film (a take that drew immediate fire from thefunkyfresh and tpham). She was a Yankees loyalist who delighted in tormenting Mets fans, a snowboarder who could only ride heel edge and proudly called herself a "falling leaf expert," and a retail warrior enduring Hollister's midnight-to-7:30 AM overnight shifts at Garden State Plaza, where every hanger had to be spaced perfectly and every tag tucked in while teenage coworkers flirted with the managers.
Beneath the all-caps rants and goofy humor, Jenny's journals revealed someone wrestling with real questions at seventeen. She wrote openly about dropping out of high school — not out of laziness, she insisted, but because she couldn't stand being around people who didn't challenge her. She faked a car accident and showed up to college on crutches just to get a shot at making up a missed test, then had to hobble around campus for two weeks to keep up the ruse. She pondered her mixed Korean, German, and Swedish heritage in a beautifully honest journal entry about feeling "more Korean when I'm with Americans and more American when I'm with Koreans," and how she got genuinely giddy whenever she spotted other mixed people in the wild. She wondered aloud who she'd marry someday, what career could possibly contain all her ambitions — restaurant owner, chef, fashion designer, pilot, couch potato — and whether anyone ever really gets to enjoy "the little things of this short life." She connected with skaorsk8 over mutual friends from the North Jersey party circuit, swapped retail horror stories with tpham (who got fired from the Gap in three days), and debated relationship philosophies with rocksupastar. She showed up to eZabel events including the legendary Manhunt games, proving she wasn't just an internet personality but someone who wanted to be part of the real thing.
eZabel Personality Type: ENFP — "The Moistowelette." Jenny was a blazing comet across eZabel's early sky — 256 comments packed almost entirely into one furious year, journals that swung from existential career dread to closet envy to punk music manifestos, and a stage-crashing concert story that would be unbelievable if she hadn't told it with such breathless, unmistakable sincerity. She typed like she talked: fast, loud, and with her whole heart.