I'm trying to think if there was something before *NSYNC but they got popular right around 1999/2000 and I remembered my senior year listening to their music and finding yahoo groups/communities for them when I got my computer.

I may not have been apart of any drama here, but on twitter, I was verbally attacked/harrassed by a few people via email and PMs on ff.net and LJ but I shut them down right quick.