I had hoped the internet would enable formally disparate subcultures to get a slightly better "critical mass". You do see this in places... But the net effect

I had hoped the internet would enable formally disparate subcultures to get a slightly better "critical mass". You do see this in places... But the net effect is that the outreach allows the "big media" to increase their footprint, and that footprint quashes innumerable nascent subcultures from forming, just from sheer greed in consuming your attention. Boredom also used to fuel imagination.