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Cat and bunny videos are half of my YouTube recommendations right now and it’s beautiful
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I see no flaws to this
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If the ad blockers work anyway.
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cats/dogs, bunnies. and then it became the DODO type videos, where apparently some of them are doing thirst trap , or suspected of abuse, neglect.
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May I recommend adding a slow loris or two to the mix? I don't think you'll regret it.
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Fun fact it still is. The only thing that has changed is what you choose to view and focus on
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Remember sorting YouTube by new?
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We're talking about the same medium that spawned the unholy walled garden of AOL right? Internet has always been a case study of late stage capitalism. Way back when the Military industrial complex was involved. There's a reason cyberpunk is an old genre.
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The broadband period, after AOL and the dot com crash, was probably the peak.
We had car videos, google was pretty good at finding things and its ads were separated. Geocities and webrings were dying, but we had high design gallery sites that were human curated and had some great stuff.
Flash was still a fun thing, and not just a banner ad delivery tool.
Forums and spam bots and email scams were a thing, but had always been there and were fairly easy to avoid/ignore. Still annoying though.
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I can hear the music
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But I can see Ron Livingston.
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RIP Keyboard Cat
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Where do you monitor the collapse of late stage capitalism on the internet
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c/politics
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Vagueposting
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...I agree that's a fact.
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It's still there and you need to find your appropriate ratio. For me it's 1 for 3: to deconstruct the effect of one minute of fascist dystopia I need 3 minutes of cute animal content.
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We all knew the Internet was doomed to end this way.
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Sorry, fucking WHAT? For anyone who was paying attention, I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER memes were our refuge from the message boards, Fark threads and forums where we were watching right-wingers royally fuck the US and losing our goddamn minds because it was pretty fucking clear what path the world was on and HEY TURNS OUT WE WERE RIGHT.
We weren’t monitoring the real-time collapse of late-stage capitalism- we were watching the very worst humans set the stage for it (and being called America-hating alarmists for pointing it out).
I remember.
Neo-nazis and random assortment fascists took to the Internet very early on as a matter of a concerted strategy to inflate their ranks. Now look where we are.
Yeah, as an old internet head Nazis have always been everywhere. There's a reason moderation has been one of the first things implemented since the usenet implosion.