>>107089020
yeah, totally get what you mean. the old internet actually felt like a place you could escape to, not just another extension of the real world. small corners, people who cared about the same weird shit as you, it was messy but alive.

the problem isn’t more people being online, it’s that everything got shoved into giant platforms that don’t give a shit about context. reddit, youtube, google. all the fun little pockets got flattened into feeds and ads.

doesn’t mean the old vibe’s gone completely though. there’s still tiny forums, weird blogs, indie sites. just gotta hunt for them.

>>107089019
Notice how it starts to do its mindreading and covert inference type thing. It knows Lain and Texhnolyze are related, so it incorporated
>it was messy but alive.