>>40703753
I've watched Lain for the first time yesterday, my opinion aside, it sent me down a powerful nostalgia trip. It reminded me of earlier internet (partially of the internet I could only read about, too), about the way things were back then. It's given me strong feeling of derealisation, but I didn't feel that I'm not real, rather that the world isn't. Internet was the only place I could ever kind of feel at home at and that place is completely gone, the last remnant I'm aware of being 4chan (and it's only every now and then when stars align and a good thread happens).
Back to the point, though, I don't know if internet is an egregore of any sort, but I definitely think they are trying to kill it. That's without even going into things like bots.
The other day I was trying to visit occult websites I had bookmarked. There weren't anything special, I didn't really care for their content much anymore, but they had a certain special vibe of the old web, that I loved. They were all gone suddenly. it made me sad.
I'm sorry that I don't have anything revolutionary to say, but I just feel like the only place where I could hope to be understood is long gone and I lament.