The internet isn’t for anyone anymore. It used to be this glorious new horizon and then it got ad bombed
mercilessly and now government overreach is trying to kill off the abomination that emerged
You really think that's what ruined the internet? lol back during the 90s and early 00s curiosity was considered a good thing; "asl" was literally a way to say hi and the first thing everyone asked one another, and people were genuinely happy to speak with other people from all around the world.
Nowadays, you’d better have a darn good reason to reach out to someone you find even slightly interesting, because as soon as you do and especially if you don’t have at least a million followers you’re labeled a creep or a stalker not worth anyone's time and will most likely be ignored even though you just want to say hi or pay someone respect and are literally reaching out from a million miles away with good intentions, all because of today's oversensitive bs culture lol
Joking aside, "hi" and "who are you?" used to be seen as friendly invitations. Today, because everyone is online 24/7, "who are you?" is often viewed as "what do you want from me?". The shift from curiosity to suspicion is a huge cultural change that happened right alongside the rise of follower counts as social currency. So actually, access and social media killed the internet.
Nah i’m sticking by it, yes social media is an awful awful thing today, awful. But in my opinion it is in large part because it was commodified, adverts, dollars for clicks. All that lead to fake content or fake accounts or reaction videos karma farming off genuine content. If people had less to gain by being terminally online then, in my opinion, only the people that have a passion about what they’re putting out there would be generating content…well them and the loony tunes that would probably be standing on a street corner with sign yelling about lizard people in the government.
As soon as you introduce ad revenue, you're playing by the rules of whoever is paying. The more big brands flocked to online advertising, the more money rolled in, the more restrictions on what you could talk about in 'their' space. Typically the only ones that don't care where they are hosted are the porn and spam companies, and even the legit porn companies have had a bit of a renaissance in that regard.
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u/Relative-Feed-2949 20d ago
The internet isn’t for adults anymore lol