Too many normies. Way, way too many normies.
I’ve been browsing since the days of Dialup, on fucking 56k. America Online, NetZero, Juno, and so on. I remember when people back then, people who’d been around since the 2400 baud era, thought that we were the invaders. Apparently, we ruined Usenet with our stupid, uninformed opinions.
Now, I recognize the truth. Us late 90s dialup users were downright erudite scholars and nerds compared to the next wave of stupidity that would smother the internet with the rise of broadband and wireless and user-friendly web apps. Now, everyone and their grandmother walks into a Verizon Store and then walks out with hundreds of dollars of hardware, and they spend all day tapping their thumbs on their stupid phones over their data plan. Tapping stupid shit into Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube comments, and all these other monopolistic, centralized platforms.
It’s the great garbage patch of the internet, and you have Zuckerberg, Dorsey, and Alphabet to thank for most of it. People think it’s so amazing. User-generated content. So wonderful. You’ve got millions of these tepid, crappy videos with no cameraman, with selfie-shakeycam and a single, unedited cut of some dumbshit walking through his house and mumbling about politics and random, irrelevant snippets of home life.
Look at my dog, look at my cat, look at my aunt and her big gut fat!
Nobody with an attention span longer than two nanoseconds gives one single fuck. Unfortunately, we are a dying breed.
People wonder why our political sphere lacks sanity, muttering dumpster fire this, worst timeline that. Well, how is it even possible? How is it even possible to have sane politics when people constantly and voluntarily bombard themselves with so much bullshit?
Discussion forums and imageboards are the last bastions of the old internet. Social media is a lost cause. I warned people over a decade ago. These fuckers invade your privacy - or rather, you turn around and willingly present your asses to them like a baboon - and they turn around and give you this wonderful experience of being constantly bombarded by other users’ useless trivia about their own lives. Meanwhile, they’re profiling you. Figuring out what you like and what you dislike. Selling your information to advertisers and letting government agencies scrape all of it so that they can compile dossiers on everyone. I told people this shit over a decade ago, back when LiveJournal and MySpace were still a thing, and Tumblr and Twitter were still new. They acted like I was crazy, or paranoid, or something. They were addicted to the dopamine hit of the like, the retweet, the reblog. They couldn’t even vaguely comprehend what was happening to them.
Social media is a Skinner Box. Press the lever, receive the cheese. You’re not an agent. You’re an object. And yet, people were lured into this shit, and they thought it was just fine and dandy to use your real name online instead of a pseudonym, when there are fucking crazies everywhere. Social media with your real name and real photos and descriptions of your daily events is an open fucking invitation to be stalked.
And yet, these dildos still do it, making excuses like, “It’s just like face-to-face social contact. What’s wrong with you? Are you anti-social? I need this.”
These platforms are jam-packed with sub-90-IQ extroverts presenting their herniated sphincters and their trifling, trivial little lives to the whole goddamn planet. It makes me want to puke.
The only hope for the internet is if we evict all these normies from it, and the only way that can be done is if the big social media monopolies suddenly find their business model impossible to sustain. We have to destroy Facebook, destroy Twitter, destroy Reddit, and destroy YouTube. All of them have to go. Now. We can do it if we push for more online privacy. Privacy is antithetical to the way targeted ads work. Go peer-to-peer, go encrypted, go blockchain, use adblockers and script-blockers and cookie-blockers judiciously. Force these giant, stupid platforms and their mouth-breathing users out of business.
I’ve been browsing since the days of Dialup, on fucking 56k. America Online, NetZero, Juno, and so on. I remember when people back then, people who’d been around since the 2400 baud era, thought that we were the invaders. Apparently, we ruined Usenet with our stupid, uninformed opinions.
Now, I recognize the truth. Us late 90s dialup users were downright erudite scholars and nerds compared to the next wave of stupidity that would smother the internet with the rise of broadband and wireless and user-friendly web apps. Now, everyone and their grandmother walks into a Verizon Store and then walks out with hundreds of dollars of hardware, and they spend all day tapping their thumbs on their stupid phones over their data plan. Tapping stupid shit into Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube comments, and all these other monopolistic, centralized platforms.
It’s the great garbage patch of the internet, and you have Zuckerberg, Dorsey, and Alphabet to thank for most of it. People think it’s so amazing. User-generated content. So wonderful. You’ve got millions of these tepid, crappy videos with no cameraman, with selfie-shakeycam and a single, unedited cut of some dumbshit walking through his house and mumbling about politics and random, irrelevant snippets of home life.
Look at my dog, look at my cat, look at my aunt and her big gut fat!
Nobody with an attention span longer than two nanoseconds gives one single fuck. Unfortunately, we are a dying breed.
People wonder why our political sphere lacks sanity, muttering dumpster fire this, worst timeline that. Well, how is it even possible? How is it even possible to have sane politics when people constantly and voluntarily bombard themselves with so much bullshit?
Discussion forums and imageboards are the last bastions of the old internet. Social media is a lost cause. I warned people over a decade ago. These fuckers invade your privacy - or rather, you turn around and willingly present your asses to them like a baboon - and they turn around and give you this wonderful experience of being constantly bombarded by other users’ useless trivia about their own lives. Meanwhile, they’re profiling you. Figuring out what you like and what you dislike. Selling your information to advertisers and letting government agencies scrape all of it so that they can compile dossiers on everyone. I told people this shit over a decade ago, back when LiveJournal and MySpace were still a thing, and Tumblr and Twitter were still new. They acted like I was crazy, or paranoid, or something. They were addicted to the dopamine hit of the like, the retweet, the reblog. They couldn’t even vaguely comprehend what was happening to them.
Social media is a Skinner Box. Press the lever, receive the cheese. You’re not an agent. You’re an object. And yet, people were lured into this shit, and they thought it was just fine and dandy to use your real name online instead of a pseudonym, when there are fucking crazies everywhere. Social media with your real name and real photos and descriptions of your daily events is an open fucking invitation to be stalked.
And yet, these dildos still do it, making excuses like, “It’s just like face-to-face social contact. What’s wrong with you? Are you anti-social? I need this.”
These platforms are jam-packed with sub-90-IQ extroverts presenting their herniated sphincters and their trifling, trivial little lives to the whole goddamn planet. It makes me want to puke.
The only hope for the internet is if we evict all these normies from it, and the only way that can be done is if the big social media monopolies suddenly find their business model impossible to sustain. We have to destroy Facebook, destroy Twitter, destroy Reddit, and destroy YouTube. All of them have to go. Now. We can do it if we push for more online privacy. Privacy is antithetical to the way targeted ads work. Go peer-to-peer, go encrypted, go blockchain, use adblockers and script-blockers and cookie-blockers judiciously. Force these giant, stupid platforms and their mouth-breathing users out of business.
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