Just start with the original trilogy next time.

Disagree hard on the uniform thing. The whole point of personal style is to wear what makes YOU feel good, not to avoid looking like other people. If a look gets popular it's because it works for a lot of folks, and that's fine. Calling someone a try-hard just for liking a trend feels like missing the point of fashion entirely.

So what's your full process then?

Yeah, that's the move right there... total control. I learned the hard way too, lost a whole forum archive once. Now I keep local backups on an external drive, plus a cheap cloud storage account as a second copy. It's a pain to set up, but you sleep better.