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I don’t spend time on the old site at all these days but I find it very telling that there are breakaway subs for communities you know wouldn’t be into this. I know there’s a solarpunk one as well. I think it’s pretty funny that they seem to all devolve into trying to justify why they’re doing is cool actually rather than, you know, being a wing of their community that is happy to use an extra tool.
I’m still trying to place what I feel about this stuff. There’s something almost cultlike about it. The old folks in my family have started to blast the group chats with the most uninspired “bespoke” generated birthday “drawings” and I don’t know at all how to explain why it seems cheap, why the gesture feels somehow more careless than saying nothing at all.
Fuck that's bleak
Not really. I hardly considered crusty clip art charming, but in comparison, there’s a sincerity to an older relative scrolling to find the perfect pixelated bouquet photo. Older people love “AI”.