>>33516856
On one hand, some of it is very cool.
Like I remember being obsessed with Japanese music in the 00s, but it was essentially impossible to find online as a casual fan. Even the few bands I knew of it was impossible to find anything beyond a few Real Player clips.
These days I can easily do a deep dive on any music Japanese genre and download the entire discography of any group or artist.
I know that (25 year old) kids to day love to argue about how social media and dating apps are to blame for everything bad, but we still dated online 20+ years ago via shit like Myspace or MSN Messenger and ICQ. I know married couples who met through the early days of WoW. I'm sure some future 40 year old married couple has met on Discord or Fortnite or whatever the meta is these days.
What I'm not a fan of is streaming and streaming culture, and also how quick everyone is to pull out their phones when anything happens. Concerts are fuckin lame now no one moshes or dances it's just zombies standing around staring at the concert through their phone screen recording everything for no one in particular. Girls don't flash their tits anymore too because of that, and having sex in public is almost practically impossible.
I'm also very lucky I grew up and got out of high school and even college before everyone started recoding each other all the time like if two people get into an argument or some kid is being teased or someone's having a nervous breakdown or whatever of course everyone is going to film it from 15 different angles.
This AI shit is going to lead us nowhere good as well, already it's making everyday life worse and starting to eliminate jobs while doing nothing really equally good in return.
I miss the 90s and early 00s, the late 00s onwards especially the 2010s I don't care for at all in terms of culture (but even now seem better than our current year). But at the same time I'm extremely grateful I got to experience those years
