Through the annotations, van Dyck tells a queer reimagining of the coming-of-age story that contends with loss and a never-quite-arriving to adulthood.

In a review for Zyzzyva, Julia Matthews called the book "the ultimate memoir for the Information Age: a series of extraordinarily personal vignettes derived from a data spreadsheet.

"[1] Of People I've Met From the Internet, the novelist John Rechy wrote: "This is an impressive work, modern, relevant, powerfully startling in its effect.

"[8] In 2008 van Dyck founded Los Angeles Road Concerts, a semi-annual series of all-day arts events in which artists of all kinds perform and install works in unused public spaces.

[9][10][11] In 2018 van Dyck collaborated with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Changes, a showing on 20 artists and performers in and around LA's Union Station.