I 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.

I 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.