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We "web people" thought age would never matter, because anybody could be a cow on the internet. Turns out that even cows eventually feel old. Also, with every
by toyg 5y ago
We "web people" thought age would never matter, because anybody could be a cow on the internet. Turns out that even cows eventually feel old.
Also, with every passing year there are fewer and fewer differences between "internet people" and "regular people", because more and more "normies" spend more and more time online. That means social groups have been restructured along lines that mirror IRL ones - including age thresholds.
- BlueTemplar 5y agoYeah, this reminded me learning of the concept of "Eternal September"... but a decade+ after it happened, and as one of Eternal September's generation. And indeed also that exponential growth where the previous comminities are quickly rendered irrelevant happens slower and slower, since at some point you start to ran out of non-connected people and only the generational shift remains.
- shrimp_emoji 5y agoI feel like there was something so novel and cool about "digital culture" and being on the Internet that it lured me into assuming some kind of exceptionalism. Like, "ha, this is all somehow too different from anything that came before to ever enter the dustbin of history". Surprisingly, that was wrong. There are people who enjoyed WoW and doge that are now dead, and the ones still alive are getting older. It's so weird how stuff that happens despite everything.