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What happened to internet culture? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago by Nebraska_Huskers@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I was going down memory lane, I graduated in 96. But Internet culture of the mid 2000s to mid 2015. Seemed like there was always some stand out video or event ranging from chocolate rain video, nyan cat, amazing horse, I like turtles, why does the Internet seem so stale lately? I just realized a lot of this fun stuff stopped around 2014 or became less prevalent the closer we get to events that started dividing us, like gamergate, Trump canidancy in 2015. God this last decade has just sucked and it just keeps getting worse. How did we go to so much hope and promise to where we are now? Even reddit sucks now

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[โ€“] confuser@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Weird al explained it well, the rising culture is less monolithic, the reason he hasn't made more music lately is because his references become comparatively more niche the less monolithic everyone's cultural focus is.