Lel what up yo. Bastions of weirdness and strangeness still exist, they're more hidden and occulted, same as anything. Before, they were hidden by nature of being on the web, now they're hidden inside the web in small strange corners of color and madness. Much has changed, yet much has stayed the same.
What I find most fascinating about the web actually is how much it has cast light on within humanity, our connected behavior, how we tend to change, what tends to change us, the nearly chemical reactions that occur when ideas hit the ground from more out there places. It's really a fucking dream if you want to study humanity in any capacity.
I do sometimes wonder what made us sell our small awesome places for things like myspace and from there facebook and whatnot. Looking back, it almost seemed like an unshakable direction, inevitable nearly. I resisted facebook for many years before finally joining, but by then, it had killed a lot of communities. I was on VF for some time, actually, and it kinda took the opposite angle. A large umbrella full of smaller tight knit communities called cults. I really liked that model, as it encouraged all that weirdness and also took advantage of some of the cataloging that the larger sites offer. But such is life, past is past, and we can only move forward.
What I find most fascinating about the web actually is how much it has cast light on within humanity, our connected behavior, how we tend to change, what tends to change us, the nearly chemical reactions that occur when ideas hit the ground from more out there places. It's really a fucking dream if you want to study humanity in any capacity.
I do sometimes wonder what made us sell our small awesome places for things like myspace and from there facebook and whatnot. Looking back, it almost seemed like an unshakable direction, inevitable nearly. I resisted facebook for many years before finally joining, but by then, it had killed a lot of communities. I was on VF for some time, actually, and it kinda took the opposite angle. A large umbrella full of smaller tight knit communities called cults. I really liked that model, as it encouraged all that weirdness and also took advantage of some of the cataloging that the larger sites offer. But such is life, past is past, and we can only move forward.