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We miss chronological feeds. We miss forming community through internet friends and groupchats. We miss being fans and spending our lives obsessing over our faves. In an attempt to bring these things back to the surface, we're spending more time on open forums and less time with algorithms. So...... neocities blogs (brittany's here & sameera's here) and discord and perfectly imperfect. And more than anything, we're trying to spend time reminiscing about these days of early spirit and community. Maybe if we talk about it enough, it'll work its way back into existence. There's a reason why everyone misses it so much.
- Brittany & Sameera
Oct 1, 2024
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We made a blog with all the things we love, and what we've created together as best friends. Slowly working out the functionality, but we aim to create something reflective of our insides and what we grew up on (the early internet). These interests led us to one another.
- Brittany & Sameera
Oct 1, 2024
Putting sites into the Wayback Machine and seeing them in their original form. Hope we figure out time travel next.
- Brittany & Sameera
Oct 1, 2024
Have been thinking recently about how thoroughly Tumblr's value and uniqueness was destroyed by Yahoo (and ultimately, Automattic, its current/also WordPress owner).
Back in the day, there was a group of four music industry friends all living in Manhattan who would play a game called "Music War!" when they had been out all night sloshing around Max Fish and other LES dives -- you'd stumble to someone's apartment (everyone lived in the same East Village 'hood) and they'd play you a track they thought you'd never heard before, essentially "stump the experts." This drinking game moved to Tumblr as Music War! and thus begat a really cool site -- post single tracks of music you love, explain why, pass the baton to the next person.
Membership in this little rotating musical book club came and went but basically pivoted around three key players (Mize, Witz and CB) who were there at the creation. I joined later, after the gang had all scattered from NYC and a "Meet Me in the Bathroom"-era scenester DJ had also been part of their mix for a year.
Occasionally one of these posts would strike gold among the Tumblr cognoscenti (I linked to Leslie Gore's "You Don't Own Me" and the LGBTQ community lit it up for a minute) but for the most part it was just a lovely little online extension/expression of our slumming-it-Saturdays game.
I miss the old Tumblr. 💔 I also miss the gang. Music War! was the virtual bar where we met for drinks and a listen.
Feb 20, 2024
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Oct 1, 2024
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We've been reaching out to people to interview on The Internet Is Dead Podcast via cold emails. It feels like opening up a world when we connect with one new individual who we never would've met in person. The Internet has created something so significant and life-changing in the sense that most humans who you find online are available to you if you just ask for them. You never realize the impact that one friendship has until suddenly you do.
Interviews include Current Joys, William Craver, Summer Mckeen, Nicole Rafiee, Lauren Brodauf, Marcus Maddox, lotsofhands, TAGBOW, Sugar Pine 7 (forthcoming), Hotline TNT (forthcoming), Horse Jumper of Love (forthcoming).
- Brittany & Sameera
Oct 1, 2024
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First question we ask is What's The Worst Thing You've Done To A Woman? Usually, some guy says he respected her too much. Then we say: Do You Believe In Karma? If they weren't hooked in before, now they are. In for the kill... Could I Get A Video Of You Meowing?
Compilation video coming soon.
- Brittany & Sameera
Oct 1, 2024