I feel like I saw people saying this back in 2007 (with different terminology, ofc). Kids just like in-jokes and being ironic. It’s not ruining the Internet, big business is what’s ruining the Internet.
Back in 2007 Jagex ruined the Internet by adding the EOC update to Runescape
Right. When we were all laughing at the people who would have genuine reactions to things people would say to them on the internet because “the internet is serious business lmao,” that was totally fine and a different thing. It’s those damn zoomers that fucked it all up. Right.
The internet is suffering from commodification not irony. on top of all the ads people are happy to commodify themselves as if they don’t put in enough time doing that at work already
I say a lot of people get posters madness.
They get so addicted to the dopamine feedback of upvotes and follower counts and occasionally actual money that they abandon themselves in hopes of becoming exactly the person that will get them the most dopamine feedback.
Everyone that participates in social media suffers from it to a small degree but there is a threshold upon which it can turn you into a p-noid zombie, which is typically right around the fame threshold.
The only way back is for your entire profile and sometimes career to come crashing down around you.
I agree with this post with 4 layers of ironic sarcasm.
Yep, not a single post of irony on the Internet before zoomers.
