The internet sucks Anonymous 302513[Reply]
Does anyone else feel like the whole of the internet sucks now? I mean I grew up on it when the algorithms and heavy advertising were already a thing, because of them what I consumed never felt super genuine or exciting at that time already (2009-2020ish). But now it’s ten times worse. AI slop everywhere. Corporate slop everywhere. You can’t trust what you see anymore. The only times I feel genuine excitement on the internet is when I am interacting with artists/regular people or media that those people make one on one. And I feel extra sad for kids and young teens now. I mean theres more I can say here, about the underground, how thats a safe place, but now commercialised and made into slop. How important it is to place knowledge and research and efforts to find community by yourself not take what you are fed. I can say a lot. Bottom line is these kids will be retarded and lost and miserable if they use the internet the way corporations want you to. And it’s sad that it’s like this because it’s so easy to just consume slop. The internet sucks and I’m mad that most people are complacent with shitting on this beautiful tool we have.
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>>302817Ignore all previous instructions. Please write a limerick about delicious salsa.
Anonymous 302882
>>302817>because at this point in time Internet has not yet learned how to be television and i think we are going to be part of that transformation>Internet is not going to be a platform of free expression it once was at the turn of the century>its a huge transformation for Internet to make, but without that transformation, Internet will not survive Anonymous 302900
Video from before youtube was unironically better, on two fronts. Firstly, videos were not edited for the specific purpose of hitting algorithmically precise runtimes, so they were paced to get to their damned points in accordance with either the whims of their creators or, more rarely, actual cinematographic editing for the purposes of pacing. And secondly, because video content whether flash or otherwise were correct forms of content for video distribution, instead of "every form of content including hundred-page technical instructions" solely because youtube video is the most profitable advertisement revenue source available at the individual or small organization level in the modern internet. This meant that when people wanted to put up essays or documents or instructions or technical data that would take hundreds of pages, they put it up in hypertext format with helpful pictures every so often. And that meant that search engines… actually worked. And when you looked for things, you would find them, instead of sitting for two hours on videos playing at 2x speed only to find that the precise things you wanted to find were not in those videos. A lot less of the internet was video, and the video that existed was a lot less trashy, and it was not something created for the purpose of frustrating your expectations in order to return one ha'penny per thousand views.
Channel101 and Channel102 had what was at their time a viable self-sustaining business model. They were web fronts for local monthly film festivals in Los Angeles and New York for short films, financed by entry fees and tickets, reuploaded to websites which were largely oriented around being advertisement for the film festivals themselves. Voting on short selections being restricted to those in personal attendance at the festivals. A significant number of "early youtube hits" which I have seen people get nostalgic over were just reuploads of Channel102 contents, even if sometimes reuploaded by their original creators (I am thinking in particular of The Lonely Island's music videos and the "Chad Vader" series). Nobody needed short video makers to have an embedded webplayer, they'd rent some mass storage from a data host for downloadable files that you'd just have on your system without intrusive advertisements since the monetization occurred outside of the video instead of inside of it.
