internet culture

PHOTO: An interview of a woman who lives in a small cubical of an Internet cafe. Ya'll like to ague too much on here. It's easy when its anon. So tell me. Tell me about a lived experience that deeply effected your belief system...

Hello ALL, What cancelled sitcom best describes your life? I don't know if it describes my life but my favorite sitcom of all time is 3rd Rock from the Sun. If you are interested in checking out one of the original fan sites, it has been internet archived...

I'm thinking about the latest crop of internet/media addicts, so mostly the under-21. I noticed that for many of them, you're never just a fan of something, no, you're member of the fandom. The social aspect seems even more important than the subject matter, which itself becomes mostly a social...

Hey everyone! I have been diving deep into various internet subcultures lately, and I am curious to get your perspectives on how these online communities have evolved over the years. Back in the early 2000s, forums and niche communities felt like secret corners of the internet where people...

YouTube on a smart TV is no doubt the best example on why Google's new algorithm blows chunks. To clarify I only looked up DOOM running on an ATM to show someone and viewed one video from Crowbcat about Dead Rising. For some time my home page was filled with content about books+literature...

A thread for the weird and somewhat insular culture YouTube had developed before it's become a weird alternative to TV and before anyone expected to make any money out of it. Here are a few to kick off. First, a video that seems like a nice coda to the entire thing: A few others classics...

Welcome to this weird thread concept I've come up with where the goal is to share websites found across The Personal Web. I'd say the goal is to shine a light / send some love to individuals who, being on this more authentic, small side of the Internet, maybe haven't gotten it and you feel they...

The End of History and Neon Genesis Evangelion 1. Life's a Beach and You're Here Dude I believe we're living in the End of History. Though it's difficult, and maybe even impossible, to pin down when it exactly happened—it could still be happening, it might always be...

Before the concept of Unix, there was Multics, prompted by the theory that the future of computing would be a utility. I am convinced that the modern internet if preempted by local mainframes or remote BBSes would be better for it. Instead of unmoddable multiplayer games in the present day...

Posting on a certain profile post reminded me of this article from The Free Press , since it says everything I ant to about the stupid habit people have of getting righteously angry and taking matters into their on hands over something they heard on the Internet. (The original article has...

The modern internet is a hell realm. It is populated by evil wizards, and Demons. Hell in Buddhism is both a state of mind, as well as a literal reality. These two facts aren't held to be mutually exclusive. Buddhism has a general concept of six basic realms of existence...

"Where Muhly moves through the world of Carnegie Hall and the English National Opera, Daniel Lopatin exists in a totally different milieu of modern music: the experimental electronic underground of Brooklyn squat gigs and vinyl/cassette-only micro-labels. Yet these two talents are responding to...

Here's my take: Since it gets lumped in as just another 'aesthetic', I feel like people have forgotten that Vaporwave was fabricated to a pretty high degree. A lot of these other 'aesthetics' involve simply cataloguing actual works from the era of interest and spreading them around unchanged...

This is something I've been meaning to write about for a while. That is what we're living through right now, the conditions, environment, whatever you want to call it - is something I don't think we've ever seen before. A while ago, I had this thought while at work: "How many people actually are...

Post the Changes You're Noticing on the Normie Web! TikTok I've never had a tiktok account, but I like this guy's style and the video is what encouraged me to make this post. Originally I was going to make a whole post about tiktok alone, but I realized I was basically just agreeing with...

First and foremost I think y'all can guess what to expect from this thread from the title. When it comes to the internet I think one of the more universal aspects is being exposed to unusual forms of pornographic content one way or the other. Even in mostly "safe" social media platforms like...

How much can you determine about a stranger on the internet based on their typing style alone? Forget the actual semantic content of a post, I'm just talking about style here - grammar, punctuation, structure, word choice, formatting, etc. - the semi-conscious choices people make when choosing...

Years of Discovery: I'm going to make a small thread about this particular aesthetic, unseen by many; misunderstood by most. It is no vaporwave, and it surely doesn't have the popularity of it either. Popularized by a particular European rapper Yajubin and then carried off to its ultimate form...

I saw a video from Rhett and Link recently and I think it encapsulates a lot of what the old internet was about so perfectly, the song just makes it seem so massive. A lot of the websites in the video don't even exist now or are ghost towns, but I find it funny how back then twitter was just...