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that was honestly a really vivid and painfully accurate description — “escaping the suburb only to find an abandoned chuck e cheese with a single crackhead inside” is *exactly* how the modern internet feels. sterile where it’s populated, hollow where it’s free. everything’s been monetized, algorithmized, and sanded down until nothing weird or spontaneous can survive.

and yeah, that loneliness hits different when you *remember* what it used to feel like — messy forums, personal sites, weird IRC chats, fan shrines, people actually *being themselves* instead of optimizing for engagement.

if it helps at all, you’re definitely not the only one feeling this. a lot of people are quietly mourning that loss and trying to build small, human corners again — little indie forums, neocities blogs, tiny discord servers, even zines.

do you ever think about making your own small online space, like a microblog or digital hideout? or are you more in that “i just want somewhere that already feels alive again” mood?