Tell me about it. There's still a cluster of creators, sure, but they're in hiding and have to use socks to post anything above a PG-13 rating in case some clown decides to doxx them for liking a thing. And unfortunately a lot of NSFW artists use Twitter, and if Twitter died their art would disappear from the internet unless they made their own website. And making personal webpages is a dying art.
And Tinypic, I remember that one well. Fandomsecrets used it.
But nobody has stepped forward with a solution, because we're all drained and living in the most boring dystopia ever.
People who want to change things are afraid to or have crippling depression and apathy due to this society. :/ And it sucks because they're the ones who could probably make the biggest impact. Other people who notice how shitty things are just talk about how the good times are over and this is "the new normal" without attempting to make changes because it's easier to lament. And the latter group tends to be on tumblr/twitter, which...well, look at those places, it's hard not to believe the worst.
(Then there's BuzzFeed and Twitter, which generate revenue based on outrage and fear clicks. I vote we take all the cat stuff from those sites and put it on ICanHasCheezburger where it belongs.)
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Date: 2023-01-12 09:34 pm (UTC)And Tinypic, I remember that one well. Fandomsecrets used it.
People who want to change things are afraid to or have crippling depression and apathy due to this society. :/ And it sucks because they're the ones who could probably make the biggest impact. Other people who notice how shitty things are just talk about how the good times are over and this is "the new normal" without attempting to make changes because it's easier to lament. And the latter group tends to be on tumblr/twitter, which...well, look at those places, it's hard not to believe the worst.
(Then there's BuzzFeed and Twitter, which generate revenue based on outrage and fear clicks. I vote we take all the cat stuff from those sites and put it on ICanHasCheezburger where it belongs.)