It’s fucking broken, isn’t it?
Amazon – full of Chinese tat
Google – prioritising fucking Reddit threads as sources of information
Facebook – overrun with AI images of mutants and bots in the comments, people’s feeds no longer relevant to them, just what Faecesbook thinks you’ll like, and is now the social network for grannies and aunties.
Twitter and its hordes of bots, vast numbers of blowhards trading snark and little else, celebrities with millions of fake followers bought and paid for.
Then there’s YouTube, drenched in advertising, even if the creators try to opt out, evr more censorious on controversial topics. Content farming, encroachment of corporate channels over unique characters, and the biggest channels are simply bland lowest common denominator shit. Thumbnails that all look he same, usually some beard 20/30-something cunt with his eyes popping and jaw slack
There’s your local news site, usually owned by Reach, named CunthamptonLive or similar, almost unnavigable due to the pop ups and chum boxes.
‘Are you aged/born between and have a mortgage?… You’ll never guess what Dave Benson Phillips looks like now!
Then there are the click hole sites owned by publishing companies and faceless media conglomerates, all giving the same opinion to get their parent company ESG investment, staffed by thick SJW types shilling for whatever passes as entertainment at the moment, championing the bravery of the ‘content’ for promoting the views of the establishment and gaslighting audiences, lazily describing critics as ‘far-right’, ‘trolls’, bigots’ etc., and blaming the audience when the propaganda is watched by nobody, even themselves.
When i first had regular access to the internet in the early noughties, you could look up anything and say anything and talk to anybody about almost anything. YouTube came along and was bursting with eccentrics. Now it’s lost a lot of the ‘You’ and become ‘Us’.
Google, Amazon and Facebook have helped sanitise it and with AI, killing any human creativity still left.
This is now the only site I really use with any regularity. Twitter is a bore fest and entirely childish, with it’s clamour for clout and followers.
As or the modern trend of Influencers, What do they even influence? Their thralls and simps into buying nonsense. They’re shills.
I wouldn’t mind returning the internet to the days of Internet forums and Chocolate Rain.
This 2020 version is fucking boring.
Nominated by: Cuntamus Prime