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There is no Internet, apart from the technical meaning. Internet culture is just culture, Internet celebrities are just celebrities. The author sees the Inter

There is no Internet, apart from the technical meaning. Internet culture is just culture, Internet celebrities are just celebrities. The author sees the Internet as a place where you can walk in, hang around, and hear about most things that are happening. But replace "Internet" with "Philippines" or any other space which many people share, and it's clearly not possible. Internet may have started out as a space where people "go", where the culture was distinct, and so on. But as it became more integrated into people's lives, it stopped being a space, and became a mode of life, just like photography is a mode of art, or "homesteading" is a mode of living. You can't possibly hear about everything happening in a mode because once it becomes accessible, it escapes its delimited roots, it's available for anyone in any society, anywhere. The Internet stopped being a box a long time ago, and the author didn't notice.

Bakary 4y ago
Your point is striking, as it had never occurred to me to think of it like this. Perhaps to steelman the initial argument: there are things going on the Internet whose importance is greatly magnified or outright fabricated by it. There is such a thing as touching grass so to speak. The medium is the message. There are large swathes of internet activity you could just drop and nothing at all would happen.