the internet was awesome for like … twenty years. thirty if you count the era where people mostly communicated through newsgroups and such. it feels like the enshittification was so sudden…
To me, the Internet died a little before 2012. Some may say 2009, others say 2007. But I say it started to die since 2012, it’s just been a steady process and now we’ve been seeing the rapidness catch up within the past 9 years.
It’s not a guess anymore as to how many corps, companies and zealot individuals want to take control of the internet for their own gain.
The Mayans predicted the end of the world in 2012. Really, it was the end of the expected simulation that we’re all living in. Now that we’re past that year, stacks are overflowing and the simulation is encountering unexpected results outside the boundaries of the programmers’ intents. That’s why everything is fucked.
It’s been going to shit since like, 2015? I think that’s about when ad blockers became a necessity to just read any website on the internet. Maybe a few years before that.
Consequently, I believe the adpocalypse on Youtube, roughly around 2015, is when things started getting really bad. It was made public that basically anything on the internet that uses an algorithm to deliver content could be gamed so that the lowest effort content could be seen in the same places as the good content, which only incentivized people to start making low effort content en masse. The low effort content eventually needed its own repository because it was becoming the dominant form of media on the internet. Now we have Tik Tok, Youtube Shorts, and Facebook Squirts.
the internet was awesome for like … twenty years. thirty if you count the era where people mostly communicated through newsgroups and such. it feels like the enshittification was so sudden…
To me, the Internet died a little before 2012. Some may say 2009, others say 2007. But I say it started to die since 2012, it’s just been a steady process and now we’ve been seeing the rapidness catch up within the past 9 years.
It’s not a guess anymore as to how many corps, companies and zealot individuals want to take control of the internet for their own gain.
2012 does indeed still feel like a major inflection point.
The Mayans predicted the end of the world in 2012. Really, it was the end of the expected simulation that we’re all living in. Now that we’re past that year, stacks are overflowing and the simulation is encountering unexpected results outside the boundaries of the programmers’ intents. That’s why everything is fucked.
About 50% /s
It’s been going to shit since like, 2015? I think that’s about when ad blockers became a necessity to just read any website on the internet. Maybe a few years before that.
Consequently, I believe the adpocalypse on Youtube, roughly around 2015, is when things started getting really bad. It was made public that basically anything on the internet that uses an algorithm to deliver content could be gamed so that the lowest effort content could be seen in the same places as the good content, which only incentivized people to start making low effort content en masse. The low effort content eventually needed its own repository because it was becoming the dominant form of media on the internet. Now we have Tik Tok, Youtube Shorts, and Facebook Squirts.
Looking back now there were some signs but boy that escalated quickly