I would show you my 12 year old profile (with some real classic comments including a best of explanation of quantum physics, and a bunch of spoof lyrics of songs, short stories, debates, awarded essays, epicly stupid jokes) except it became un-viewable when they banned me for mocking someone’s plan to solve housing shortages by vandalizing houses.
Well, a person does control which websites they're a part of. Maybe "pride" here means they enjoy speaking up about it (a good definition of pride I'd say), like I enjoy saying I was at Burning Man 2006 but I'm a little ashamed of saying I missed the final lightsaber battle. The thing they controlled was navigating to be in a certain moment of history.