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my opinion on the new internet is that it depends on where you look. the mainstream stuff sucks ass now & maybe some of them even always sucked: youtube, twitter, spotify, etc. but you can still find neat obscure sites and forums if you know where to look for them, like this forum or neocities or ...

So I actually have mixed feelings on the current internet and tech landscape.
Like... alot of the mainstream is bad. It's optimized to keep you on as long as possible to sites/platforms; something I'm trying to break away from with mixed success. Alot of these platforms are also designed more for ...

the more cancerous parts of internet culture


i agree, however there is only ONE thing i don’t miss about the old web at all (and pardon my french): the casual use of words like “cancer”, “autistic”, “retarded”, and racial slurs among users to describe things they don’t like. that language can ...

i like, unironically have a major phobia of AI generated imagery... its the only thing i actually need tagged yet its so rampant on the internet. i dont like it. everything about ai "art" scares me, and ai videos mess me up even more. ugh

Please credits the two artists of these illustrations, posting them without mentioning the artists' names is not really cool :yellow_frown:
Great design btw, isn't the second one is from Mimikitty49, the artist who did Archive-tan ?

Edit :
I can't find who is the original artist of the first ...

One of these translucent Casio F-91W's (which I own in real life)
https://www.casio.com/content/dam/casio/product-info/locales/us/en/timepiece/product/watch/F/F9/F91/F-91WS-2/assets/F-91WS-2.png.transform/main-visual-sp/image.png
or this one
https://www.citywatches.ie/cdn/shop/files/LRW-200HS-2EV ...

I would. A cafe with glossy surfaces, vibrant colours and maybe even mini aquariums/fish tanks would be so beautiful.