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No, we still had responsibilities then. I think the real answer is that we never thought what we had would change, or go away. I think I described it in anoth
by fennecbutt 1y ago
No, we still had responsibilities then.
I think the real answer is that we never thought what we had would change, or go away.
I think I described it in another comment from a wee while ago, but the old Internet was split. It was like there was a giant wall up between the serious business side of the Internet and the fun meme side of the Internet. "Pssssh, nobody is gonna make money from this stuff, that's not the point."
And then the serious business side realised that everything on the other side of the wall was monetisable. And so they broke the wall down, to offer us t-shirts and mugs with our memes on them. And then the denizens of the fun loving side realised that money could indeed be made from memes. And now you have it, the modern Internet where it's all purely about clout, creating an image/brand for yourself, monetising going viral, engagement farming.
It's ironically biblical, in a way.