Most of my old playlists are missing a ton of videos that have been taken down over the years. Worst of all you can't even look up what those videos were called to search them somewhere else.
Controversial opinion: the Internet didn't die, you just got left behind.
Gotta keep up. The edge of culture is always moving and trying to stay put is a guarantee that you'll miss out.
The community of memes is more varied and nuanced than leekspin ever was. There's more lowbrow comedy sure but there's more of all types of content.
If you only see shit you hate online it's your fault. Go find places you enjoy (for me that's lemmy, as an example) and teach your algorithm to stop showing you rage bait by not falling for it.
Tiktok has plenty of problems but if you teach the algorithm that the only reason you're there is absurdism and the bizarre: you'll end up with an absurd and bizarre feed.
For real. Dude is claiming old memes used to be creative while using leek spin as the example.
Yeah but you can only get controlled absurdist bizarre stuff. It's not people recommending things to you, it's an algorithm that's controlled by people with dubious intentions.
Sure you'll see memes and funny stuff, but only the ones that have been approved by an unseen algorithm. So it's the appearance of randomness, but not actually random.
A phrase I read a while back that has pretty dystopian vibes but is pretty useful as a concept is "algorithm domestication". It's more or less what you describe in your comment.
How did deep fried memes become a thing? We really will jump on any bandwagon, won't we?
Influncer didn't exist yet? I think young mind OP just didn't understand that he was market to lol
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