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What happened to internet culture?
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this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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Maybe it's simply the growth of the Internet that diluted the culture. In its early days, most people with Internet access and time/the inclination to shitpost were mostly young, had certain other things in common such as language, a certain amount of wealth, access to commodities, etc. You also had to have a certain degree of innate curiosity and tech literacy to find platforms and engage with them. That's reflected in the content posted.
Nowadays you have everyone and their grandma online. Platforms are aggressively finding you and even opening accounts unprompted for you (I'm looking at you, Meta). So the type of content is reflected too.
Humm... WTF?!
Threads was "preseeded" with accounts by anyone who was on instagram. Its how threads suddenly had a 100 million users when it released.
Ugh, disgusting. I hate that company.