https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-05-03-the-best-is-over/
Newgrounds was creative and transgressive; YouTube was goofy and unrehearsed; early Facebook was a fun way to connect with people you knew and forge bonds of common interest with people you didn’t. Showing “Badger Badger” to my aunt on her bulky, beige desktop computer shouldn’t be a fond childhood memory, but it is.
The online world is hyper-optimized, relentlessly commercialized, algorithmically dead-eyed: the MrBeastification of everything.
also: dead internet theory.