We were a bunch of trolls posting the nastiest shit we could, chasing everyone off that we could.
But how
fun it was. Maybe our edgelord habits and exclusivity were childish, but there was a real sense of community there. I felt it on all the boards I used to post at. A gathering of like-minded individuals discussing common interests. Good luck finding that on social media, especially where you're likely to be called problematic just for making a joke.
Haven't watched the video yet, but internet communities generally aren't as enjoyable as they once were. The internet as a whole has a lot of things stacked against it now, like how every search engine is ruled by sponsorship, making it nigh impossible to draw up any good results. Even when searching for specific keywords right down to the exact descriptor of a website you visited but foolishly didn't bookmark, Google et al.
still make it a chore to find. YouTube is the same—once a place to find coverage on just about every subject, now the algorithm feeds you whatever garbage was bought and paid for. It's just wholesale suckage now on the dry teat of commerce, where people aren't customers anymore but willing
consumers. F that noise.
People used to have websites with niche content and interesting ideas. Those virtually don't exist anymore.
I know this smacks of old man yells at cloud, but I stand by social media being an utter cesspit where the pursuit of ideas is dead.
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