I miss the era of the internet when the garbage content consisted of terrible Newgrounds games and Geocities pages whose use of CSS should have sent the authors to the Hague
there was a real sense of possibility there
this feels like staring into the abyss
there was a real sense of possibility there
this feels like staring into the abyss
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Meta's great new idea, now that Facebook and Instagram are infected with AI slop, is to also let AI-generated characters made by users appear as actual accounts on the platforms. The last stage of "social" media is millions of bots giving each other thumbs-up reacts.
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Chef’s kiss
But clearly the future is a dildo fvcking a fleshlite - forever
Maybe two of them will accidentally find each other and fall in love, and we'll be in one of the poignant Black Mirror episodes, rather than one of the horrifying ones?
Isn't this like a shitty perpetual money engine where eventually they won't even have real people posting or being advertised to?
Who would keep paying to advertise to bots?
the guys who invented CSS should be in the hague
Now? ugh. Scarcely a day goes by without some silver spoon bell-end forcing some heinously dystopian thing no fucker asked for upon everyone
We've strayed.
We should have never left message boards for social media. Never gotten past Myspace. Never sold out art to streaming services. So bad.
Like what’s the point
Even the metaverse shit made some sense
Then again that was also the era where Penny Arcade was making gross rape jokes so maybe it was never good.
(the guy in the "under construction" gif is shoveling in heaven now)
because, honestly, about half of us were doing exactly that
(mine was the matrix)
I answered the call from a producer at BH90210 and transferred them to PR.
I was really sad I lost my flying toaster cap.
Now there are like 4 websites and they are just slight variations of each other built on the same model.
It never felt like we were being herded into the same interests of 10 billionaires with personality disorders.
it's everything that's right with the world.
How could you target me personally with such precision
Somehow when faced with a pink and purple pony themed website with obnoxious gifs, everyone remembers the lesson better.
and
(God has no taste either, she would have loved my hole fan page and lyrics repository)
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