[3] Khalsa said that MLIA sought to "bring to light how much stupid and boring stuff gets posted on the Internet.

"[4] Nathalie Graham wrote in The Stranger in 2019 regarding MyLifeIsAverage, "The site doesn't really work anymore".

When a person would attempt to add a story when not signed in, the page would read: "Our mediocre server was being inundated with submissions, so until it recovers, only registered users can submit.

"[6] Karin Fuller of The Charleston Gazette found a number of MLIA stories to be her favorites.

"[2] The Stranger's Nathalie Graham, a former user of the website, wrote in 2019 about MyLifeIsAverage, "It was formulaic, it was consumable, and it was easily mocked.

The next stage of MLIA comments was that some participants began using year-old submissions to engage in cybersex, causing cruel cyberbullying to take place.

MLIA moderators began prohibiting commenters from using profanity which caused people to use "asterisk workarounds" such as "sh*t" instead of "shit" and to use "fudging" instead of "fucking" which Graham found "really solidified the death of the comments section and the death of the site".

[5] MyLifeIsAverage inspired the website MyLifeIsTwilight (MLIT), which was founded by Christopher McElvogue.

MyLifeIsTwilight allows users to share stories about how Twilight has impacted their lives.