I had a similar experience with a “proto-VTuber”, except I completely lost any connection to her. However, I do sometimes see “ghosts” to use an industry term (haven’t heard her real voice if it was really a “her” and not just a guy who put way too much effort into trying to catfish someone), but again at the same time in history, a lot of “emo girl” existed, which makes stuff even harder, so I don’t really know who would have been an old “internet friend” of mine.