i honestly have such a fascination with the intersection of internet culture and social norms. obviously they’re going to be driven primarily by teenagers since social currency is much more valuable at those ages, but it’s still interesting to have seen most of the evolution of the internet until now. the idea that casual internet use – which used to be almost exclusively for losers and weirdos and nerds – has such a capricious and fickle sense of fashion with an intensity that borders on ethical is funny to me

anyway old comedy skit youtube was great

@rowan what fascinates me are the subset of millenials who go bananas over how zoomers are so crazy and their net culture is pure brain rot nonsense etc when, like... We were all here for amazing horse, right? Badger mushroom? Lobster magnet, anyone? And that's not even going into the curse zone. Goatse and 2g1c are just the tip of the iceberg here...

The, honestly, desperation to appear "normal and respectable" from people who made the internet as they grew is baffling and fascinating