Mine is currently at 11.7 MB with an average bloat score of 0.15.

I guess a big one that hasn't been mentioned yet and I think might be still relevant but a lot of Neocities and indie web websites aren't mobile friendly, a lot of people in 3rd world countries are more likely to have access through mobile phones.

This is something I wish would catch on in most of the web revivalist communities I see; not just for the sake of mobile friendliness, but for resolution friendliness in general. It seems sort of weird to me that webpages I see that are specialized in the old school GeoCities style sometimes aren't completely viewable at lower resolutions without the need of a horizontal scrollbar.

Something I do that I never hear anyone recommend is listening to your own essays / papers with TTS. It personally helps me with knowing whether or not I sound too weird from a third person point of view.

I've stuck with id Tech 1 for almost the entirety of my level design experience, but something I loved the hell out of when I was younger was the Cube 2 engine. It's a voxel based engine that let's you slope the voxels and do a bunch of other things, and editing / creating maps in it was doable in-game. I'm pretty sure the most popular games to ever use it were Sauerbraten and Red Eclipse, with AssaultCube being sort of popular.
As for id Tech 1, I've only really done Doom mapping in it. I have yet to release any of the maps I've made, but it's still fun making them.

Most of my style preferences come from my experience fiddling around with Myspace. I'd come up with a really cool theme on there, and then put it on my website.
Even though Myspace was way ahead of my time, I got on a recreation of it in 2019 and started getting into making my page look as cool as I could possibly imagine it being through CSS. The first theme I went for was a mix of SymbOS and Wired Sound (which is the style I'm still using for my 404 page), before eventually putting together a hodgepodge of random assets I found on the internet, with Schism Tracker being a big inspiration for the beveled look I put on everything. Since then, the platform shut down and I've mostly settled with the 90's GUI style that I'm using right now. I've experimented with more detailed and minimalist styles since then, but this is the easiest one for me to stick with on my personal site.
Styling aside, the layout of my site is basically just a copy of Xaser's website. There are probably tons of other websites with the same layout, but his particular website is what got me into it.

I don't have any of my old towers anymore, but I still have two craptops. My favorite is the Intel Inspiron E1408, which runs horribly, gets really hot, and almost always needs to be plugged in, but at least looks cool and can run Debian with the same dotfiles as my daily driver.
I got it for free when I was helping my sister move houses, since she told me she was just going to throw it away if I didn't want it.

Edit: E1405*

FAVORITE DRINKS RANKED :
1. BUTTERSCOTCH SODA (actually exists)
2. CREAM SODA
3. ROOT BEER
4. VANILLA ANYTHING
5. MTN DEW (usually just default, voltage, or something new I've never tried before)
6. water
I drink water the most even though it's the lowest on the list.
I'm still at an age where most coffee is just sort of alright to me and beer tastes disgusting. I like most liquor I've had, but not beer.
I also love blue ICEEs, but I don't know whether or not those are considered as drinks.

I haven't been to Subway since last year (which doesn't really mean anything), but I really liked The Monster with pepperjack cheese and jalapenos on it.

In the most literal sense I can think of, webmasters might as well count as influencers if they happen to be promoting ideas to an audience. However, there's a big enough difference between social media influencers and webmasters who promote ideas that it would be sort of weird for them to share the same label.
I want to say that one of the main motives of being a social media influencer is getting a high score on something, where even if there isn't a lot of monetary gain coming from it, there's still likes, shares, views, etc. to be made.
Most people who run personal sites typically just do stuff for the sake of doing stuff. Even on Neocities, which has some social media functionality built into it, I've only seen a single a few celebratory view count milestone posts made on it, and those weren't even posted on a site that promoted anything.
I guess social media influencers are more on the marketing side of things than personal website "influencers", but idk.

As long as the audio element isn't hidden and/or looped, I think adding music to your homepage can help set the mood of your site. Neocities doesn't allow audio uploads out of the box, but two things you could do are:
1. use a low quality data URI
2. find audio files from other sites and link them onto your own
Note that if you manually edit your site, data URIs can lag your text editor depending on how big they are, which is why I recommend using low quality ones if you have no other choice.

I don't know how late it is to reply here, but I would suggest using a static site generator if you commonly copy and paste elements from one html document to another. Static site generators basically just automate that process for you, but it might not be too necessary depending on how minimalist your site is. Another method I've seen a few others do that I haven't done myself is using Javascript as a substitute for PHP.

I have a single info.json on my backend for things like the title, header, footer, etc. There isn't any scripting at all on the frontend though.
EDIT: I probably should've noted that my whole site generator is written in Python, but I still don't put any Javascript on my frontend.

Alpha Storm is apparently too obscure of a game to have a soundtrack video on YouTube, but I swear that it has a really good soundtrack. It switches back and forth between midi and CD tracks, and I haven't listened to the midis with a better sound card than Sound Blaster 16, but the CD tracks are great.

Super 3D Pig Feeder is top tie

I just want the top-down GTA games to have twin stick controls. As for anything else, I guess the NGPC Metal Slug games would be cool to see done in the same graphical style as the mainline games.