Hi guys. I am glaciation_trilogy, coming at you from somewhere in the middle of the desert.

Like many of you I have spent a lot of time online from a young age, maybe 4 or 5. Unfortunately as things go about a decade ago most anything that was enjoyable online ceased to be and I found myself ...

i'm gonna say something that i don't see pointed out in these discussions
even the golden age of the internet paved for the gradual worsening of it
netflix selling dvds in the 90s allowed for it to become the streaming megacompany it became today
the battle over "piracy" led to entertainment ...

I know this is probably the wrong place to be saying this, but a lot of the content people make about these aesthetics is pretty ridiculous. Most of it tends to group together loosely related things under a pretty bad rationale (it probably doesn't help that most of this stuff seems to be made by ...

Daniele63 wrote: Mon Nov 17, 2025 12:28 pm

Yes I knew that, it's crazy how much TouHou had influence on early internet memes.

TF2, anime, and Touhou, the structural supports that hold up much of internet culture (or at least did at one point)

At the risk of getting too close to violating the same rule, I don't think that people stating a simple fact (that the internet and the quality of posts/content made on it, even by humans, have degraded, and that new technology has largely lost its luster for people) has that much to do with trends ...