le ebil capitalism but unironically. social media destroyed forums and algorithmic content delivery systems destroyed social media. the only forums that remain are pre-reddit or niche and autistic enough that they keep the forum up out of spite, and even then 90% of conversation happens on discord. the need to cater to sponsors and investors killed basically every website that needs payment (all of them). companies dont want to be associated with porn or nazis. tumblr died overnight because their investor board made them ban porn. twitter is bleeding money because companies dont want to buy adspace there. also seo and listicle websites killed search engines so you cant really have forums anymore, theres no way to search for it anymore. soon with ai fake websites will become so dogshit people will internalize that information outside of the big 5 website is completely unreliable. people will beg for cable tv style siloing, approved ai-free webring with real content. > why didnt this happen earlier because before 2005 there just wasnt enough people online to give a shit about the internet. "online news" were unreliable by default, online forums were fringe and youtube was for amateurs only. internet and irl were completely separate things. then smartphones started to appear and you had to have an online presence. now paper media is dead or dying, people only trust youtubers for news and reviews and poltical events and twitter is the most reliable way of keeping up with what the us prez is saying. there's no real difference between online and offline in 2024. what people say online probably means more than what people say or do irl.
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