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this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2025
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I only had access to the internet from 2014 onwards, and during my first few years online, I didn't have much time because I shared a computer with five siblings. I actually spent most of my time watching Naruto episodes on YouTube, in terrible quality and with each episode split into ten videos. internet contracts were far too expensive for my family before 2014. That's probably why I didn't notice any of this. Thank god.
so you got fully online for the first time around 2020? that sounds like a different kind of awful
No, that was around 2016, after Trump was elected. That's when I got my first smartphone. But YouTube wasn't relevant to me, and social media certainly wasn't. I created accounts and had the same attitude then as I do now in that regard. I hated that my posts could be liked and that I immediately noticed how inferior I felt because I had seven likes on my profile picture or something. I thought that was extremely shitty, so I stopped immediately. I chatted a lot with friends on WhatsApp. I think that was definitely what I spent most of my time doing and read manga on my smartphone. Naruto, One Piece, etc. When it comes to politics, I was raised on an extreme hatred of the USA, which gave me an excellent framework for understanding the internet and news. I remember when Obama was elected and I said in class that the USA is generally a horrible country that likes to murder people. My teacher was shocked at the time, she was pretty hyped because Obomba had won.